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Bringing a combined 37 years of experience to The Center, we are grateful for the contributions of Tim Wyman, Matthew Chope and Amanda Toia. While we wanted to give them a little recognition as they reach their Centerversaries, we also wanted to know what the anniversaries meant to them.
Fifteen years ago now Managing Partner Tim Wyman joined our team. He not only brings leadership to The Center, but he keeps our team laughing. When we asked him about hitting the 15 year mark, he called it a wonderful milestone:
Joining The Center in 1999 was clearly the best professional decision I have made. I am very grateful and thankful for what we have collectively built here at The Center for the benefit of clients and the great team that serves them. My work is extremely rewarding and important in my life and it is a true pleasure and privileged to be a member of The Center!
Center partner Matthew Chope joined Center for Financial Planning, Inc. in 1996. Of his 18 years with The Center he says:
"It's been like a dream career for the most part. The only thing better than these choices, as I look back, was the staff that found a home here over that time and the clients that gave us an opportunity to serve them. I feel lucky and privileged each and every day."
And 4 years ago, Client Service Manager Amanda Toia joined our team. Now that we have her, we can't imagine how we ever managed without her!
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Consumer Alerts: Soccer
Soccer Expert Wanted
Tim Twellman is a retired American soccer player, longtime youth soccer coach, and the the father of three elite soccer players, including former New England Revolution striker Taylor Twellman.
Since 1985, he has run Twellman Soccer [8], which includes camps, trainings and clinics. In 2007, he became the head coach of the Villa Duchesne High School in St. Louis.
For more on Tim Twellman, click here. [9]
Youth soccer shoes (also called "cleats" or, in Britian, "football boots") are specifically designed for use on a soccer field and can be changed depending on conditions. Cleat types include molded cleats, detachable cleats, indoor soccer shoes and turf shoes. Read more [10]
For a listing of soccer resources, including links to soccer websites, click here. [11]

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Conventional wisdom is to innovate via lower-cost, feature-poor technologies that meet the needs of a small group of early adopting, underserved customers, and to decide on one strategic ""discipline"" or ""generic strategy."" But big-bang disruptions upend the conventional wisdom. Larry Downes and Paul Nunes write in the March 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review, ""The classic 'rules' of business don't apply to them [big-bang disruptions]."" In this interactive HBR webinar, Downes and Nunes share insights from their HBR article. They explain what big-bang disruptions are, how they are different, why they are so devastating, and how to survive them.
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In this workshop Kerri Verna (@beachyogagirl) invites us to explore and approach the process to learning handstands in a playful manner. We will be focusing on core and arm strength in a fun and interactive way. We will be on our hands balancing learning to be a kid again. Kerri's handstand drills will get your heart pumping and her tips for success will change the way you may be approaching your handstand practice. Please bring pencil and notebook to this workshop. All levels are welcome to attend this workshop.
This class will cost $50. If you sign up for this work shop as well as and the Master Class on Friday and the ProWheel Workshop on Saturday - you can sign up for all three at a discount for the Full Weekend with Kerri Verna!
The workshop will be held at Yoga Six (2227 North Prospect Avenue). Space is limited - reserve your spot today.
About Kerri Verna (@beachyogagirl) -
Kerri Verna believes that everyone has the power to change his or her life. She has made it her life's mission to share that possibility with the world. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and Facebook, Kerri leads monthly yoga challenges that inspire thousands of people of all ages, all over the world to practice yoga each month. From handstand photos taken at sunrise on the beach to packed classes and workshop all over the world, Kerri is powerful messenger of the power of the path of yoga. Based in Lake Worth, FL her training includes a background in many forms of fitness including Tai Chi, Yoga, Stand-up Paddle-board Yoga, Pilates, Indoor Cycle, Kickboxing, and Personal Training as well as over 15 years of teaching experience. Kerri Verna is also the co-founder of the Yoga Pro Wheel – a innovative fitness tool she invented to help increase strength and flexibility. As an entrepreneur, wife, mother of two young boys, inspirational speaker, and photographer her life represents the full integration of everything that she loves and encourages others to achieve.


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*Paint Love's projects at Camp Peace this summer were sponsored by See Beautiful through their generous Milestone Grant!
What a crazy and incredible month, June has been for Paint Love! In the midst of our fundraising for our #SavePaintLove campaign, we have been working with one of our partners, Women's Resource Center every week!
We've been working with their summer camp, Camp Peace, for the second year and have loved every minute of it!
The mission of Camp PEACE is to bring children exposed to domestic violence together for a summer of activities that facilitate Peace Education, Action, Compassion, and Empathy. Based on principles of Peace Education and Cognitively-Based Compassion Training, Camp PEACE will help children learn alternatives to violence while promoting tolerance, impartiality, affection, self-compassion and compassion for others.
Here are some of our projects and favorite stories from the month.
Week 1: We kicked off the summer with our very own Julie McKevitt leading this class! As soon as we walked in, kids automatically remembered Julie from Paint Love's last summer with Camp Peace. We decided to work on a collaborative mural using paints, quilling paper & a photo of Atlanta! Our amazing artist, Rebecca Carmen, designed this amazing mural for us, and divided it for each child to have a canvas. Each child painted and decorated a square tile canvas that would come together to create a mural of Atlanta's skyline!
Week 2: On the second week, we had just launched our #portraitORforfeit challenge online, and this definitely inspired our next project. I led this project by doing funky paper portraits! A lot of the kids choose to use bold colors with pink eyes and purple hair, while some created more traditional portrait pieces. With this project, we did some reflective writing as well. Since we were creating portraits of ourselves, we did short summaries on how we can create peace. Some chose to talk about how they can create peace for others while others discussed how they find peace within.
Week 3: We took the phrase, "Kindness Rocks!" into a very literal sense with this week's project. Artist, Kathlene Linehan, led her first session with Paint Love by leading a project focusing on kindness. We gathered tons of river rocks and gave each child a few to paint. The kids could either make them to show kindness to others or as a reminder to be kind to themselves.
I was so impressed by what these kids made!
One little boy created a rock to look like a bug. I asked him why he wanted to make a bug, and he said because he had a friend who really loved bugs! So he was going to make it and give it to him as an act of kindness. He worked diligently, painting the bug, and even hot gluing his own pennies to act as the bug's eyes! It was so cool to see how many kids made little sweet reminders like this to give to their friends or family.
This week was also super fun for me because we had a big group of volunteers from Georgia State come to help out! By this week, the kids totally remember us and are so excited when Paint Love shows up. In fact, one 8-year-old boy told me "I was really good at my job", talk about a confidence boost!!
Week 4: Our last week in June, we had more GSU students join us and a brand new artist, Lauren Phillips. Lauren has been an elementary art school teacher for years, so we knew she would come with an exciting project! She came with a simple idea of making paper sculptures, just using paper, scissors, and glue. But as soon as Lauren showed the kids all the various ways one could use the paper, these kids' imaginations went to work! They created everything from a greenhouse to a football stadium to a birdhouse!
This was another fun week for me to see the kids really dive into their work. One boy was being a bit of a distraction and was not participating when one of the GSU volunteers pulled him aside and began working with him. They started talking and all of a sudden he began making a giant roller coaster! He was so proud of his work, he kept coming back to check on it to make sure it was still standing.
As I was leaving, one of the younger groups started waving goodbye. They have trouble remembering my name so they just call me Paint Love because I'm always wearing my bright red Paint Love shirt when I go. One of the girls finally remembered my name and gave me a big hug! She asked, "You're coming back next week right?" I said, "Yes! And we will be making something super fun!" She squeezed me as tight as she could and said: "I LOVE YOU PAINT LOVE!"
This month has been crazy between fundraising and multiple summer events, but moments like that always give me that extra push! I love seeing these kids faces light up when we show up with a wagon full of art supplies. I've had so much fun working with everyone at Camp Peace and inviting new people, like our volunteers from GSU, and our two new artists to the Paint Love community! We love what we do, and love it, even more, when we get to share it with new people! So thank you all for helping us create moments like these in serving our community. We are so very grateful.
Thank you to See Beautiful for making our work this summer with Camp PEACE possible!! Paint Love couldn't function without the generous support of our community sponsors like See Beautiful.


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Leading building services components supplier Brymec is offering an exclusive online discount of 20 per cent for new customers opening an account at the HVAC R show.
The show, which takes place at the Excel Centre, London between January 23 and 25, will offer Brymec a brilliant opportunity to show of its powerful yet simple-to-use website.
Packed with a host of features, the intuitive, highly-responsive site – www.brymec.com – saves customers' time, money and hassle by making it easier for them to find and purchase the right products, and reference technical information. Customers can also streamline their processes by creating quotes, favourite lists setting up approval chains that mirror their procurement practices and tracking orders from inception to sign-off.
The state-of-the-art site, which is designed to work seamlessly across all devices, allows customers to view tailored pricing and receive bespoke offers. It also incorporates a powerful search engine that filters product categories, brands and dimensions.
Images are included with product descriptions to help with quick identification and selection, and Brymec has included the ability to create lists to save time with repeat orders as well as to generate tender quotes.
Powerful account management features also allow customers to search orders, invoices and proof of delivery; pay invoices online, and set up a purchasing structure and teams in specific account areas. This means they can delegate authority to team members to raise requisitions and/or place orders.


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Niger: Overview of corruption and anti-corruption
We are looking for some guidance on engaging in Niger, from a donor perspective. We are working in the country already and are now readjusting/developing new some measures, and would like to include more targeted, specific anticorruption elements.
- Overview of corruption in Niger
- Corruption in police and security forces
- Governance structures and anti-corruption efforts in Niger
- References
In a context of political instability and weak institutions, most international governance indicators point to systemic levels of corruption permeating all levels of society in Niger, although in practice, firms and citizens report significant less experience of corruption than other countries in the region. Corruption takes many forms, ranging from petty and bureaucratic corruption to grand and political corruption. Lack of training and resources and petty corruption affecting the police and security forces are important areas of concerns, undermining domestic stability in a context of volatile security.
The Issoufou government is largely credited to be committed to address widespread corruption challenges as a priority. New anticorruption institutions have been set up, a dedicated telephone hotline has been created to report allegations of corruption and the 2010 constitutions provides for the declaration of personal assets by government officials and greater transparency in natural resource management. However, the credibility of this commitment has recently come under question by recent developments, including the purchase of a luxurious government jet and persistent allegations of corruption against high-ranking government ministers.
Author(s): Marie Chêne, email@example.com
Reviewed by: Roberto Kukutschka, email@example.com
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Is it right to eat dessert at breakfast? Mary Street Bakery's head chef Courtney Gibb is forever pushing the breakfast boundaries and turning the boring ol' hour of eggs on toast and bircher on its head. Our ensemble had the air of a decadent evening meal but was happily consumed with coffee before the clock struck 10am.
A luxe way to start the weekend with favourite friends Ai-Ling of Food Endeavours of the Blue Apocalypse, Custard & Co's hustler Caitlyn (also of Mixed Dozen) and Stacey Clark Stylist. We spent the hours talking shiny new diaries, pop up dining adventures with Custard & Co that will soon fill up our calendars and all the wonders that inspire us about embracing the clean slate that is the new year. Fuelled by salted caramel, candied bacon and caffeine we went on our merry way clutching our Custard & Co Family Xmas ciders.
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Onam – The festival of Equality and Peace !
Onam, the most important secular regional festival of Kerala was celebrated at GSFS with great enthusiasm and energy. The traditional "Athappookkalam" or floral carpet was laid by the faculty and Students. In the morning assembly, information on the history of the festival and its relevance in the present day world was shared by Ms Palak Khandelwal and Ms Sneha Ramesh.
The sumptuous Onam feast which is the highlight of the festival was shared by the GSFS Family and the day marked yet another day of festivity and joy irrespective of cultural and religious differences.
Hairstyle and Mehndi Competition
The Hairstyle and Mehndi Competition for the 3 Months Batch helped the Students to explore their skill enhancement learnt through the Beauty Therapy sessions.
The Hairstyles varied from Triple waterfall Braid, to Side Swept French Bun and Roll Pony Fish Tail. The competition indeed was pleasing to the eye and was a great success.
Mehndi application, the traditional Art form of adorning the arms of the lady beauty was put to test at the Mehndi Competition. The creative skills of the Students coupled with the training in the different Mehndi design forms were a splendid sight at the Event.
HairStyle Competition Results:
1 Position – Ms. Sneha Sarda
2 Position – Ms. Ashwarya Dagaria
Mehndi Competition Results:
1 Position – Ms. Anusha Runwal
2 Position – Ms. Rajshree Jain & Ms. Shraddha Jain
3 Position – Ms. Preeti Pagadinnimath & Ms. Priyanka Rathi
Nilgiris … The Habitat!
|Dr. Tarun Chabra
The Flora and Fauna of Nilgiris was introduced and enlightened at the workshop on the Indigenous tribes of Nilgiris. Dr. Tarun Chabra, the versatile resource person explained the history, geography, food habits and the details of the inhabitants of Nilgiris.
The pictorial representation with the explanation and the audio of the natural habitat and the inimitable characteristics made the session a unique presentation of its kind.
For the students, the session added hue to the awareness on the scenic beauty and the uphill tranquil life of Nilgiris.
Independence Day Celebrations!
|The 3 Months Batch Students with the Chief guest, Mr. Balachandran & The Dean, Mrs. Neetha Nataraj
|The 9 Months Batch Students with the Chief guest, Mr. Balachandran & The Dean, Mrs. Neetha Nataraj
|GSFS Family with the Chief guest, Mr. Balachandran
On the 69 year of Indian Independence, GSFS celebrated the memory of the freedom that was achieved with long struggle and sacrifice. We remembered the patriotic martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the Country.
|Flag Hoisting
|Chief guest, Mr. Balachandran & The Dean, Mrs. Neetha Nataraj
|Chief guest, Mr. Balachandran
The National Flag was hoisted by the Chief Guest of the event, Mr. G. Balachandran. As the tri colour flag spread its folds in the air, the National Anthem was sung by the GSFS family. This was followed by the formal gathering which was presided over by Ms Neetha Nataraj, Dean, GSFS.
The 3 Months Batch Students hosted the Event.
|The 3 Months Batch Students
|Ms. Sri Vaishnavi
|Ms. Shifali Agarwal
|Ms. Anam Raja
Ms Sri Vaishnavi welcomed the audience and introduced the Chief Guest . Ms Shifali Agarwal spoke about "The relevance of Independence Day in 2015". The Chief Guest in his speech urged the Students to understand the meaning of freedom and to free themselves from the bondage of lethargy and laziness. The patriotic song "Sare Jahan se Acha " and the dance performances on patriotic songs added hue to the event. The event concluded with the expression of gratitude by Ms Anam Raja.
Time Management – the Skill mastered!
Time management, an important aspect in Self management, was mastered well at the workshop on Time Management. The 3 day workshop was facilitated by Mr. G Balachandran , the well known Corporate Trainer.
The knowledge packed session was intertwined with activities and competitions. It was a splendid learning experience with a difference which made a difference to the students.
The Dancing GSFS!
|The 9 Months Batch Students
GSFS danced to the forms of Cha Cha Cha, Jive, Salsa, Merengue and Salsa during the Ball room dance training session which was held for 6 days. The 9 Months Batch as well as the 3 Months Batch Students participated with great rigor and enthusiasm. The outsourced trainers helped the students to master the dance forms which added on to the disposition, confidence level and skill of the Students.
|The 3 Months Batch Students
The Ball room Dance Competition which followed the training exhibited the skill and the mastery of the art that the students gained through the Training session.
The Results of the Competition held;
9 Months Batch:
Cha Cha Cha
1 Position – Ms. Jyoti Baid & Ms. Nikita Agarwal
2 Position – Ms. Taniya Agrawal & Ms. Neha Mundhra
3 Position – Ms. Pooja Jain & Ms. Ahilya Subhash Markad
1 Position – Ms. Jyoti Baid & Ms. Nikita Agarwal
2 Position – Ms. Vidhi Vora & Ms. Nikita Mangal
3 Position – Ms. Taniya Agrawal & Ms. Jeevitha
1 Position – Ms. Jyoti Baid & Ms. Nikita Agarwal
2 Position – Ms. Neha Mundhra & Ms. Shreeni Sai
3 Position – Ms. Anushree Kataruka & Ms. Sonali Jain
3 Months Batch:
1 Position – Ms. Kanika Madan & Ms. Mansi Bhassin
2 Position – Ms. Nitya Jain & Ms. Rajshree Jain
3 Position – Ms. Shraddha Jain & Ms. Vishakha Mittal
1 Position – Ms. Shifali Agarwal & Ms. Preeti Pagadinnimath
2 Position – Ms. Kanika Madan & Ms. Mansi Bhassin
3 Position – Ms. Nitya Jain & Ms. Rajshree Jain
Good Shepherd Finishing School – Geared up for 2015-2016!
Reporting and Orientation Programme of the 9 Months Batch and the 3 Months Batch for the year 2015-2016.
The 9 Months programme session and the first session of the 3 Months Programme for the year 2015-2016 commenced on 29 July, 2015 and 6 August, 2015 respectively.
The course period of the 9 Months Programme is from 29 July,2015 to 29 April,2016 and the course period for the 3 Months Programme is from 6 August,2015 to 6 November,2015. The second session of the 3 Months Programme for the year is scheduled to be from 15 January, 2016 to 15 April, 2016.
|From the left Vice President -GSFS, President - GSFS, Principal - GSFS, Dean - GSFS & Senior Vice Principal - GSIS
The reporting of the Students was followed by Orientation for the Parents .The Orientation Programme for the Parents of the 9 Months Batch Students was chaired by the President of GSFS, Dr.P.C. Thomas. The welcome address was delivered by Mrs. Elsamma Thomas, the Principal of GSFS and the Orientation Programme was conducted by Mrs. Neetha Nataraj, Dean, GSFS. The Senior Vice Principal- Administration, Brigadier Suresh Kumar addressed the audience. The Session was followed by an open forum where the parents shared their concerns and queries. The Vice President of GSFS, Mrs. Julie Pradeesh was also present at the Orientation.
|The Orientation Programme conducted by Mrs. Neetha Nataraj, Dean, GSFS
The Orientation Programme and Induction to the Course for the Students of both the batches was conducted by Mrs. Neetha Nataraj, Dean, GSFS
|The Parents of the 3 Months Batch Students
|From the left The Dean - GSFS, Principal - GSFS & Senior Vice Principal - GSIS
The Orientation Programme for the parents of the 3 Months Batch was chaired by Mrs. Elsamma Thomas, the Principal, and the Orientation was conducted by Mrs. Neetha Nataraj, Dean, GSFS. The Senior Vice Principal- Administration, Brigadier Suresh Kumar addressed the gathering. The open forum clarified the queries of the Parents and the session adjourned with Tea.
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With more electric vehicles (EVs) becoming available, which cars are still eligible for a $7,500 tax credit? Continue reading >>>
Green Updates
CarGurus' Top LA Auto Show Cars for Every Lifestyle
We had a blast out west at the Los Angeles Auto Show's press days last week, and we found plenty of vehicles–both electric and gas-powered–to fit a wide range of lifestyles. Continue reading >>>
Consumers Not Ready for EVs, CarGurus Survey Finds
With established automakers like Mercedes-Benz and newcomers like Byton announcing electric vehicles (EVs) at this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, CarGurus conducted a survey to learn more about consumers' thoughts and experiences with EVs. Continue reading >>>
The used electric cars going UP in value
Wouldn't it would be great if you could buy a used car, run it for 12 months and 10,000 miles and then sell it on for a profit? Research by car valuation specialists cap hpi suggests that this can indeed be a reality – but only if you opt for an electric vehicle (EV).
Take Your Pick: 10 Diverse Family Cars for £10,000
Car-buyers have never had so much choice. To prove as much we've taken a £10,000 budget and picked 10 examples from CarGurus that despite looking like a diverse bunch would all make great family cars. Question is, which one takes your fancy? Continue reading >>>
How Green Is Your Car's Interior?
Going green in our cars means more than just getting better fuel economy. As early as 1998, Chrysler aimed to use recycled materials for the fabric roof liner of the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Fast forward to the 2010s and the list of automakers using recycled materials has grown.
Since 2014, The BMW i3 has used natural fibers along with recycled plastics and aluminum. The 2015 Nissan Leaf incorporated 25 percent recycled materials, including steel for the body.
Ford stands out when it comes to using recycled materials; in addition to using recycled materials in the wire frame and under the hood, Ford incorporates recycled materials in tactile components of a car's interior, such as seat cushions and fabric. In 2011, Ford began using soy foam for its seat cushions. Shortly after, the automaker incorporated Repreve fabric, made of recycled water bottles, in the 2012 Ford Focus Electric.
Ford isn't just focusing its recycling efforts on one or two models. Instead, its efforts span multiple models, from trucks to compact vehicles.
It's turned its attention to another interior component, with some inspiration from bees. Continue reading >>>
Should the United States Go Gas-Free?
Like it or not, we are moving toward a future of gas-free automobiles.
We discuss the topic often, but two recent developments suggest that the end of the fossil-fuel era could happen sooner than we once thought.
Volvo now plans for all of its vehicles to be either electric or hybrid starting in 2019, and France has said it will ban all gas and diesel vehicles within the next 20 years. Should the U.S. follow suit? Continue reading >>>
The State of Electric Vehicles: Is It Time to Buy?
Tesla launched its Roadster a few years earlier, but for all intents and purposes, the United States' age of electric vehicles (EVs) began with the Nissan Leaf in 2011. The market for electric vehicles has come a long way in 10 years, and now shoppers can buy an EV from any number of companies, from the Kia Soul EV to the BMW i3, and from a Tesla Model X to the Chevrolet Bolt. Continue reading >>>
The 2017 North American International Auto Show: An Odyssey Worth Traversing
When the 2017 Pacifica was unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last year, Chrysler restarted its minivan team's engine and started down the road toward family-moving domination. The advanced dual-monitor rear-seat entertainment system. The built-in Ridgid vacuum cleaner. The hybrid drivetrain. With the Dodge Caravan crumbling, the Pacifica managed to surge past the competition, and this morning was awarded the North American Utility Vehicle of the Year.
When It Makes Sense to Drive Instead of Fly
The holidays bring many things: festive decorations, various holiday foods, crackling fireplaces, and general merriment and cheer. Oh, and travel. Lots and lots of travel. Looking at expensive plane tickets during this time of year, it's pretty clear the air-travel industry is aware of this, and who are they to pass up the chance to leverage a little supply and demand? Airlines may love it, but at times, the juxtaposition of Thanksgiving and Christmas–just 30 days this year–can put plenty of strain on even the fattest wallets. In some cases, it can make you wonder whether it's more affordable to drive instead of fly. Continue reading >>>


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Apsley's Tom Porter has no luck with Red Cardinal in Melbourne Cup
BORN and bred at Apsley, Tom Porter had a stake in Red Cardinal in yesterday's Melbourne Cup, with the horse finishing a lowly 23rd out of 24 horses in the biggest race of the year.
Red Cardinal also ran in last year's race, just missing out on the prize money after finishing in 11th.
Unfortunately, the horse only finished ahead of The Cliffsofmoher, who failed to finish the race.
Red Cardinal came last in the 2018 Melbourne Cup. Follow our live coverage here https://t.co/7z6t88cSAfpic.twitter.com/2oSVOG2fDz— The Age (@theage) November 6, 2018
Mr Porter said after having no luck with previous horses, he had enjoyed having some success with the seven-year-old gelding.
"Some mates I went to school with and play golf with in Adelaide got together and thought we would race some horses," he said.
"We have a syndicate and we couldn't get a country winner or anything.
"The executive said let's get something different, and I got in touch with Australian Bloodstock to see what they could do.
"We nearly got a share in Big Duke but we were a bit too slow. We sharpened up our emails and then Red Cardinal came along and we thought we were onto one.
"He came third in the Ebor, a big race in England, and the rest is history. He won the Belmont Gold Cup in New York about June last year."
Mr Porter's syndicate has a five per cent stake.
"Last year they paid $110,000 for 10th and nothing for 11th, so we missed out," Mr Porter said.
Despite the horse being suited to the wet track and also having an experienced jockey in Damien Oliver, the distance and quality of the race proved too difficult.
That $4 million feeling 👌— Eurosport Australia (@EurosportAUS) November 6, 2018
Congratulations Cross Counter and Kerrin McEvoy
The 2018 Melbourne Cup Winner!!!
READ - https://t.co/2rq0ML7sxopic.twitter.com/imHOhXzJ01
Darren Weir trains the horse in Warrnambool.
"We didn't have huge expectations," Mr Porter said.
Although many would dream of having a runner in the Melbourne Cup, there's one race in particular Mr Porter is holding out to have an entry in.
"I would love a horse to get into the Apsley Cup in my hometown race," he said.
"I would love a runner in the Apsley Cup but I haven't been able to get one in yet. I've been close before. That would be the dream for me, but maybe not for the syndicate."
Horsham jockey Dean Yendall rode on Tuesday in three races.
He finished second on Darren Weir-trained Steel Prince in race four.
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Creative Scotland accused of falling below standard and 'damaging' the confidence of cultural organisations
Creative Scotland has fallen "well below the standard that is expected from a non-departmental public body" and has "damaged" the confidence of cultural bodies in the country.
These are some of the criticisms levelled at CS by a cross-party culture committee, which has set out serious concerns about the arts body's funding round this January.
In a strongly worded 12-page letter to its chief executive Janet Archer, the committee specifically criticises the decision-making process on funding for touring theatre and dance companies.
The committee took evidence from Archer and Ben Thomson, former interim chair, on February 22 as part of its parliamentary inquiry into regular funding for 2018-21. It also received more than 50 written responses from arts bodies.
Committee convener Joan McAlpine said: "It is clear to us that the confidence of a significant element of the cultural sector in Creative Scotland's regular funding process has been badly damaged.
"In particular we felt that the handling of the process in relation to touring theatre and dance companies fell well below the standard that is expected from a non-departmental public body."
The letter sets out a number of issues about the governance and administration of the recent regular funding round that have been raised in the evidence received.
One of the issues is how concerns were communicated to the CS board about the factual accuracy of assessment reports to bodies applying for funds.
On this matter, the letter says that "Creative Scotland's evidence appears to be inconsistent with written evidence received by the committee".
CS had previously committed to reviewing its internal communications and the committee says this should now be completed as a matter of urgency.
On the matter of creating a new fund for touring companies, the committee says: "Creative Scotland should have made a decision about touring companies' eligibility for regular funding before applications were opened and communicated its decision clearly to the sector.
"The failure to do so has meant that artists and organisations have committed staff and financial resources unnecessarily to complete regular funding applications.
"This approach has hampered the sector's trust in Creative Scotland and added to ongoing uncertainty for the sector at a time when the funding pressures on the sector are already high."
The committee adds that it is "disappointed that the strategic issues identified by Creative Scotland were not recognised at an earlier stage so that they could be addressed before applications for regular funding were opened."
Responding, Creative Scotland chair Robert Wilson said he recognised "that there needs to be full trust and confidence in our organisation".
"We take all feedback very seriously and we have commissioned an independent review of the last regular funding round, which, in turn, will help shape a broader review of our overall approach to funding for the future. We are also conducting an organisational review, which will look at Creative Scotland's culture and working practices, values, structure and operations," he said.
Wilson also added that the organisation continues to "support excellent creative work across all parts of Scotland and internationally through all our routes to funding".
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Rolling Sport - Lucas and KG fly SA flag in California
Lucas Sithole, world ranked no.2 had an excellent start at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters quad final in California, winning the first set, 6-0 against the world no.1 David Wagner, from the USA. The defending champion Wagner came back strong and took the second set, 6-2. Sithole could not get the upper hand and lost 0-6, 6-2, and 6-2 to Wagner.
Top seeds Yui Kamiji, from Japan and Jordanne Whiley, from Great Britain, faced third seeds Sabine Ellerbrock from Germany and Kgothatso Montjane from South Africa, in the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters women's final. Kamiji and Whiley clinched the title by winning, 6-4, and 6-1.
"We would like to congratulate both Lucas Sithole and K.G. Montjane for their superb performances at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters and the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters. Thank you for flying our flag high," said WTSA PR Manager, Bianca Morkel.
Natalie humbled by MBE Award
Retired paralympian, Natalie du Toit, has joined singer, Adele and actor, Rowan Atkinson, who starred in the popular series, Mr Bean, as a recipient of the honourary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Du Toit, who has won 13 gold medals and two silvers in swimming competitions, was handed the award by the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, for her contribution to paralympic sports. Du Toit said she was honoured.
"I am completely humbled. It is unbelievable and it will sink in after a few days. The award does not change my responsibility to society I just have to continue to be the best that I can be."
Prince Edward and Princess Sophie were visiting South Africa as part of The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation and its local chapter, The President's Award for Youth Empowerment Trust.
The award program is open to young people aged between 14 and 24. There are more than 15 000 young people in South Africa actively participating in the award program in all provinces.
The program focuses on individual challenge and development. With guidance from adult award leaders, every young person is encouraged to reflect upon his or her interests, abilities and ambitions, and set challenges in the four different sections, says Martin Scholtz, Chief Executive of the President's Award for Youth Empowerment.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Overheard Conversations
I know I've dedicated this blog to creativity, and perhaps overheard conversations don't seem to fit the category, but where do you think the inspiration for a lot of fiction comes from? To a writer, everything is fair game.
Walking in the Woods
I'm walking briskly through the redwood forest on a beautiful summer morning. Ahead I spot two women, dressed in baggy jeans and sweatshirts ambling along the path. Not wanting to slow my stride to stay a respectful distance behind them, I break into a trot and jog on by. As I pass, I hear the apparent end of a conversation.
"…so, I tossed a rump roast and some veggies in the crock. Handful of garlic, too. Tasted real good, but it gave George the diarrhea."
"Mmmm. Aren't those the most beautiful trees ever?"
Definition of Rhetorical Question
A middle aged woman is dressed in a tartan cape that matches the pattern of her doggie's sweater. The doggie, a beagle pup, sits stubbornly on the sidewalk, ignoring the taut leash and her owner's obvious consternation.
The woman steps off the curb and squats in the street, eye level with the pup. She leans forward and earnestly asks, "Why are you acting like this?"
Wish I Were You
Basking in the afterglow of my early morning workout at Curves, I wave goodbye to the desk attendant and step out into a slice of September sun, pausing for a moment of sensate pleasure.
As I head toward my ancient blue Honda, I note another gym-goer pull up in her shiny new silver Explorer. The middle-aged woman climbs laboriously out of her car and grimaces at the world as she beeps the lock gadget. She tugs at and rearranges her matching baby blue Lycra exercise outfit. She reminds me of a pigeon preening.
Although a warm stiff breeze rustles the leaves of crepe myrtle overhead and lifts the edges of my sweaty tee shirt, her well-lacquered hair holds fast to its helmet shape. Determination lines her face as she marches purposefully toward the gym. She nods briskly as she notes my leave-taking, and mumbles, "I wish I were you," as she pushes herself through the door for her thirty minute workout.
Now, I know, in context what she meant was she wished she were finishing her workout, like me. I couldn't help but chuckle at how astounded she would have been to suddenly experience herself as a sixty-three year old lesbian mom/grandmother/writer/therapist/composer/actor that lives alone on a meager income in a large one-room rental with a stuffed raven perched on her computer for a companion.
Ah, the things that fall out of people's mouths.
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It's Sunday. Insert stream of consciousness here. This blog plot exists because I thought 'I'll just start writing and see where my thoughts take me'. It's quite telling, actually, and lets you know what's truly on my mind at the moment.
Well, it's Monday tomorrow.
Every Monday, the same question gets asked in the office. What did you do at the weekend? Almost invariably, my answer is the same.
I mean, it's not strictly true. Yesterday, for example, I got up, washed up, tidied the kitchen a bit, read for a while, did some computer stuff, generally mooched and had a great afternoon with my guild leader running around Hoth getting my first tauntaun mount. Which was enormous fun and is more sociable than you might think given that we were on Skype the whole time.
Today is another day of nothing. But again, that's not true. This morning, I wrote another 2,000 words of Project: Carpark. I've washed up, I've swept up all the bits of rogue cat litter that Yuna decided needed ditching out of the tray and I've just sat down here with a cup of tea to write my blog. When I've done that, I might play Spellforce for a little while.
Why have I done nothing? Because Himself works weekends. He works in retail. It's inevitable. I don't have a circle of friends up here, so I can't 'pop out' and see someone without making plans in advance and it involving driving a reasonable distance. There's only so many times you can look around the same shops (and I'm also the world's worst shopper), so I don't go into town every weekend.
Basically, I'm boring. I am a little hermit crab of sullenness, tucked quietly away in my corner. But you know what? It suits me most of the time. Yeah, occasionally I go through the whole 'OH GOD I'M SO LONELY' phase, but it passes.
Have a couple of weeks off work coming up and Himself is off too. It'll be weird spending Actual Time with him. I'm not entirely sure what we'll talk about and we've been together for eleven years. Wait… eleven? Or twelve? I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANY MORE. I lose track of things when they reach double figures.
Either way, our wedding anniversary (sixth – I know THAT much) is on September 8th. Hard to believe that six years have gone by. I was looking at a couple of our wedding pictures the other day and being amused that the Son was barely up to Himself's chest at the time. Now he's catching up fast. Looking up to talk to your child after thirteen years of looking in a downwards direction was the weirdest experience of my life.
He starts his GCSEs when he goes back to school. That by itself fills me with great anxiety. Over the next two years of his life, his academic future is going to be determined based on the results of a few examinations. Will he do OK? Will he go on to study A levels and go to University? I don't know. I really don't. He has expressed a desire to become an engineer – with a professed interest in robotics and bionics. Will he keep that interest? I don't know either. Over the years, he's wanted to 'grow up to be' a variety of things from a potter, to an actor, to a man who creates bionic limbs.
For the record, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. When I was five and was asked that question in my first days of school, I remember answering that I wanted to be 'an adult'. It made people laugh. I was serious. I still haven't achieved that goal, though.
From the moment the Son was born, worries arrived. When he was born, eight weeks premature, the worry was a physical and very tangible thing. 'Is he still breathing? Is he alright?' Note: poking a sleeping baby to test that it's definitely just sleeping seems like a bizarre thing, but when they start screaming at you in disgust, it's the best sound ever.
I went back to work full time and left him in nursery. I cried buckets that day. I never wanted to leave him, but I had no financial choice. Work it was. I spent the whole day in misery, rushed to collect him and discovered that he'd had a grand day. It reached a phase where if I was told 'he missed you today', I felt smug.
He started school. A whole new swathe of worries. Will he get bullied? Will he behave in class? Well, yes. As it happened, both of these things occurred. The behaviour thing is awesome; the Son constantly gets comments about his good manners and his grown-up attitude. The bullying thing is also oddly awesome. Let me explain.
I was bullied at school and I think it gave me an irrational fear of the same thing happening to him. He went in loaded with the opportunities to be picked on. He's a glasses-wearing redhead who happens to prefer the Indoors to the Outdoors. I worried about how he was being treated at school right up until the day he was doing his cycling proficiency.
Himself regaled the story. They were walking back down from the school. The Son was pushing his bike and still wearing his bike helmet. Note: at the time, he was about eight or nine. The helmet was a Power Rangers one, I think. You know. Like little kids have.
They passed the corner shop and there was a little gang of three kids sat there, one of whom was a known quantity – one of the nastier kids in the school. He led a little snarky call of 'nice bike helmet,' which resulted in sneering derision. I asked the Husband how the Son took it.
'It was great,' says Himself. 'The Son smiled nicely, turned around, fixed this kid with a completely neutral expression and said at least I'm not so fat I can't ride a bike' and carried on walking. The bully's friends turned their derisive laughter onto him instead and by all accounts, this kid never, ever bothered the Son again.
I stopped worrying about that then. But that's OK, because not long after came secondary school and adolescence and a whole bunch of new worries, which still persist. Right now though, the big one is finding myself fearing for his future. Will he be able to get a job? Will he have financial stability? Will he be happy?
That last one is the big one. I live for my son, absolutely and categorically. He is fifteen in February and rapidly reaching that point where I will have to let go of the baby reins as it were. Between me, the Husband, the Ex and his wife, we have done all we can to produce a fully fledged individual, capable of taking that step off the roof of our protection and let his wings help him soar as high as he dares go. I have faith in his common sense and intelligence. But it doesn't mean I'm not scared. What I do know is that the minute he steps off that building, all of us will be on the express elevator to the bottom to deploy the net. Just in case, you understand.
All that I should REALLY be worrying about of course is that his plans to become a bionics/robotics engineer don't result in some sort of Mad Scientist state of affairs.


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Bookmarks: 5 Interesting Articles That May Help You This Week/
September 4th, 2018
Each week, I select a few articles that rise above the fray and hopefully help you on your journey in the CRE world. They pull from one of four "corners:" corporate real estate, technology, management science and anything positive. I welcome your comments on these articles.WeShip? | UPS Launches On-Demand Warehouse and Fulfillment PlatformAs online shoppers become more insistent on fast, free shipping, the pressure is on shippers to store and fulfill orders closer to their ultimate destination. At the same time, available warehouse space has been dropping steadily for years. And for smaller shippers, multiple warehouse contracts, if they can be found, can be too much to afford and manage.Furthermore, even medium to large companies with seasonal spikes in business often struggle to find seasonal space or own space that is underused most of the year.New sharing-economy services seek to solve this problem by matching warehouses and merchants based on the products, order volume, space requirements and delivery needs. www.supplychaindive.com[tweet_box design="box_09" float="none"]WeShip? | New sharing-economy services seek to..(match) warehouses and merchants based on the products, order volume, space requirements and delivery needs.[/tweet_box]
The 14 Most Active VC Investors in US Real Estate Tech
"The US real estate market is booming—and so is the real estate tech industry.
In 2008, businesses in the real estate tech space in the US brought in a total of $41 million across just seven deals, according to the PitchBook Platform. Contrast those numbers with what's happening a decade later: So far in 2018, companies in the category have raised a total of $1.3 billion across 73 deals—and there are still four months left in the year." www.pitchbook.com
[tweet_box design="box_09" float="none"]So far in 2018, companies in the category have raised a total of $1.3 billion across 73 deals—and there are still four months left in the year.[/tweet_box]
8 Ways Generation Z Will Differ From Millennials In The Workplace
"Generation Z is composed of those born between 1995 and 2010, which means that the oldest are about 22 and are just entering the workforce. The media has focused a lot on millennials in recent years, but it's time to turn some of the attention to the millennials' future co-workers. Gen Zers have a lot in common with millennials, but there are also many ways in which the two generations differ." www.forbes.com
Solopreneurs Swear By These Tech Tools To Streamline And Get More Done
"One of the keys to success is to surround yourself with people whose strengths are your weaknesses. You don't have to be great at everything to be a successful entrepreneur, you simply have to recognize the things that aren't your strengths and then find people who possess those skills and work with them to achieve your goals.
This is why freelancers are a great asset to any business. Without the budgets to hire a team in-house it can be tough to achieve the goals you have set for your business. But apps like Upwork allow you to tap into a whole world of skilled freelancers who are ready to work for you." www.forbes.com
San Francisco is Bringing Back Banned Electric Scooters - With Limits
"The scooters are back in town.
Three months after ejecting the networks of shared, sidewalk-cluttering vehicles from the city, officials with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced today the two winners of its e-scooter pilot sweepstakes: Scoot and Skip.
The city chose the companies from a crowded field of 12, which submitted a collective 800 pages in proposals on their operations, safety, and plans to extend the scooter bounty to San Francisco's neighborhoods. Skip and Scoot now have the right to operate at least 625 scooters each in the city—a number that could eventually double. Scooter lovers, mark your calendars: The agency says it will finalize the companies' permits by October 15 at the latest. They'll be good for a year." www.wired.com
Your success blesses others. I wish you a great a hugely impactful week!


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Despite being billed as one of the favourites to challenge for the title this year, Man United have succumbed to two defeats already in their opening four games of the new Premier League campaign.
Brighton outplayed Jose Mourinho's men on August 19th to emerge as 3-2 winners on the south coast before Tottenham secured a 3-0 win at Old Trafford a week later.
However, Man United did manage to head into the international break on a high after beating Burnley at Turf Moor on Sunday, which has eased the pressure on their Portuguese coach slightly.
There have been widespread reports suggesting Mourinho is on borrowed time in the hot seat at the club and according to Saunders the manager is to blame for his poor signings in the transfer market.
As per The Daily Star, he told said: "They are really (in crisis). For a club like Manchester United and I've said this before – they've spent £711m since Alex Ferguson left. Van Gaal spent £250m, Moyes spent £70m, Mourinho's spent £311m.
"And arguably they haven't got one player who would get in Liverpool's team. (David) De Gea maybe, Paul Pogba maybe, but that's not really good is it?
"And it was the other way around not so long ago where Liverpool didn't have any players that would get in Man United's team."
When the players return to club duty it will be up to Mourinho to prepare them for a crunch game against Watford at Vicarage Road on September 15th, which might have supporters feeling nervous already.
Lose or draw and Man United face falling even further behind their title rivals, but picking up three points against a Watford side with a 100% record so far will be no easy feat.
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In choosing to join NSETC for years 12 and 13 students are starting out on an exciting new stage in their education within a specialised STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) and business environment.
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Students meet every morning for registration with their tutor, with an extended period for personal, social, health and citizenship education. Groups are vertical and this means that students will have some year 10, 11, 12 and year 13 students in their tutor group.
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Spyder 8 in 1 Multi Tool with LED. 6 LEDs provide powerful light to illuminate small working spaces or for everyday use. 4 Phillips head and 4 flat had screwdrivers of varying sizes that fold out of the handle with an extra heavy duty locking mechanism. Magnetic steel alloy heads. Heavy duty handle and screwdriver stems. Handy clip to attach to pocket or toolbelt. Requires 3 AAA batteries (not included).
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At this site we maintain a list of the 5000 Largest Known Primes which is updated hourly. This list is the most important databases at The Prime Pages: a collection of research, records and results all about prime numbers. This page summarizes our information about one of these primes.
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Description:U(19361, 1, 4620) + U(19361, 1, 4619)
Verification status (*):PRP
Official Comment:Lehmer number
Unofficial Comments:This prime has 1 user comment below.
Proof-code(s): (*):x25 : Water, Broadhurst, Primo, OpenPFGW
Decimal Digits:19802 (log10 is 19801.319455806)
Rank (*):65554 (digit rank is 1)
Entrance Rank (*):61603
Currently on list? (*):short
Submitted:5/26/2016 18:42:03 CDT
Last modified:5/26/2016 18:50:27 CDT
Database id:121700
Status Flags:Verify, TrialDiv
Score (*):34.5554 (normalized score 0)
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David Broadhurst writes
(26 May 2016):
Williams-Lenstra proof, with 4116-digit helper
primV(19361,1,2310) proved by ECPP, here
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machineUsing: Xeon (pool) 4c+4c 3.5GHz
notesCommand: /home/caldwell/clientpool/1/pfgw64 -tc -q"lucasU(19361,1,4620)+lucasU(19361,1,4619)" 2>&1PFGW Version 188.8.131.52BIT.20130722.x86_Dev [GWNUM 27.11]Primality testing lucasU(19361,1,4620)+lucasU(19361,1,4619) [N-1/N+1, Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfridge]Running N-1 test using base 23Running N+1 test using discriminant 31, base 1+sqrt(31)Calling N+1 BLS with factored part 1.27% and helper 0.29% (4.11% proof) lucasU(19361,1,4620)+lucasU(19361,1,4619) is Fermat and Lucas PRP! (32.0955s+0.0027s)[Elapsed time: 32.00 seconds]
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KLHCI Announces Family Doctor Appreciation Week June 4 – 8, 2018
City of Kawartha Lakes, May 31, 2018: Kawartha Lakes Health Care Initiative (KLHCI) is asking the community to help celebrate the ninth annual Family Doctor Appreciation Week, being held June 4 – 8, 2018. The week will honour the many wonderful family doctors practicing in the City of Kawartha Lakes. Family doctors are essential to the health and vitality of our community and we hope that all citizens will take the time to extend their gratitude for the day-to-day and lifelong commitments that these doctors make.
Local businesses are encouraged to show their support throughout the week by displaying words of thanks and encouragement to family doctors on their organization's signage. Simple acknowledgement of the week, such as "Family Doctor Appreciation Week, June 4 - 8" or other special words of thanks such as "Thank You to our Family Doctors" are some suggestions being offered by KLHCI. We also encourage all City of Kawartha Lakes citizens to show their support by thanking their family doctor for the professional health care that they provide.
KLHCI will be sending letters of appreciation to all family doctors. KLHCI has recognized two family doctors with gift certificates for a weekend get-away for two at any Ontario Inns and Spa.
KLHCI thanks all of the children who participated in the poster and letter writing contest. The winners of the poster contest are Olivia from Omemee and McRae from Bobcaygeon Public School, with Honourable Mention going to Liv from Bobcaygeon Public School. The winner of the letter writing contest is Adaline from Bobcaygeon Public School. Many of the thank you letters have been recorded and will be aired on 91.9 BOB FM each morning during Family Doctor Appreciation Week. A special thank you to 91.9 BOB FM for their support of the children's contest.
KLHCI is a non-profit, charitable organization whose mandate is to recruit and retain family doctors for the City of Kawartha Lakes. Anyone wishing to be part of this community effort is invited to contact Cindy Snider, Recruitment and Retention Coordinator at 705-328-6098 or email@example.com, or visit the KLHCI website at www.kawarthalakesdoctors.org.


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Trump's Tax Cuts Just Put $55B Back Into Shareholders' PocketsTop companies repatriated $300 billion, using some for buybacks.
- Companies brought $300 billion in cash back to the U.S. in the first quarter of 2018, according to the Federal Reserve.
- Top companies used $55 billion of that repatriated money to buy back stocks, resulting in a boost for shareholders.
- The influx of cash is a result of tax incentives in President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
A new report from the Federal Reserve has revealed that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has resulted in a huge uptick in companies moving money previously held overseas back to the U.S., which has in turn translated into an enormous increase in the value of share buybacks — when a company purchases its own shares off the open market — in the first quarter of 2018.
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All told, companies repatriated some $300 billion of the approximately $1 trillion held overseas in the first three months of 2018, more than six times the last quarter of 2017, to take advantage of the new lower corporate tax rate and the new system for taxing profits earned overseas. And, based on the actions of the 15 firms with the most cash stored overseas in that same period, they're spending a lot of that money on buying back shares.
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What Is a Stock Buyback and Why Do Companies Buy Their Own Shares?
Share buybacks are a popular way for profitable companies to return cash to their shareholders — the people who actually own the company. The benefits are simple: When a company uses cash to purchase its own shares on the open market, they're boosting the value of the stock through basic supply and demand.
They increase the demand by putting in all the necessary purchase orders, which will naturally increase the price. What's more, in taking control of those shares, they also decrease the total supply of shares available to the public market, thereby also increasing share price.
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And finally, with fewer shares, the quarterly figures on how much profit the company earned per share of stock — also called earnings per share, one of the key figures that investors and analysts look at — look better due to there being fewer shares to spread out over the same earnings.
The more traditional method of returning cash to shareholders has been to offer or increase the company's dividend, basically paying the cash directly to shareholders. Although this is more direct, those dividends are taxable, whereas the returns from a share buyback aren't taxable until the person holding the shares sells them and has to pay capital gains taxes.
What Does This Big Buyback Increase Mean for Investors?
The short-term effect for investors should be generally very positive. In fact, looking back to the start of 2018, the huge increase in share buybacks could be part of the explanation for the roaring start to the year for the stock markets.
The long-term effects are harder to gauge. The most efficient way to reward shareholders is never entirely clear. It's possible that reinvesting the same money into a company's core business would generate higher earnings and better returns, but it's also just as possible that such efforts would fall short and won't create as much value as buybacks or dividends would have.
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For now, however, one of the major goals of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — promoting the repatriation of the enormous pile of cash that many companies had left sitting overseas to avoid taxes — would appear to have been accomplished.
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text: Dana Group Chairman and Managing Director, Dr Birbal Singh Dana just announced Dana Group's latest project in India : Dana Hotel Project: A Four Star Hotel Project in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. "This Rs 100 crore Dana Hotel project will span across 10,000 square meters, with 200 luxury suites, and 4 ballrooms. The property location is very strategic and the view is splendid; Dana Hotel project is situated in Jagatpura, just near the New Jaipur International Airport", says Dr Dana. This project is Dana Group's second investment project in India in the past year. After speaking to the Marketing Team of Dana Group, we learn that Dana Group is very actively pursing interests in India. "Dana Group has been actively looking for investment opportunities in India and once a good opportunity comes at a good price, we would be happy to participate in the same", says Ankur, Marketing Manager of Dana Group.


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Tracey, from Dripping Springs Chocolate Company will be sampling their chocolates from 12 noon to 5 PM. What better stocking stuffer than a delicious chocolate bar or afternoon snack while you taste our award winning wines?
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When I got back to the states from this last trip, I accidentally ended up deleting all of my photos from the trip after a brief scare that someone had cloned my phone. There's a couple left, taken by others or sent in text messages and retrieved from the great and unknowable cloud.
There's none of the library vending machine in the city center of Wuchang, framing my traveling companion's shock of bleached hair with the spines of novels tinted by blue glass. Chinese ideographic script does much better at lossless textual data compression than any alphabet, it seems the length of books in Chinese can be much shorter and uniform, leading to those without major graphical element to be stored in a regularized array much as snacks might be elsewhere. There's others that I'd write here, but there's a curious privacy to what I'm holding in my mind that I can't put anywhere else. Sound and vision. Smell. Touch. Uncanny conceptual feelings.
It's not as though I was taking all of these shots to prove anything. I keep thinking about the way that I saw tourists at the Bayon and Ta Prohm in Ankor, taking selfies with the strangler-figs and great stone faces of devaraja. We'd decided to explore the temples in largely chronological order, beginning with the outer rim of Roulous and the northern outpost of Banteay Srei, then worked our way inwards towards the capital, watching the arrival of Mahayana and Thereveda and the possibility of relief drown out the chaotic representationalism of heathenry.
It was good out in rose-tint Banteay Srei, though the off duty cops following us around certainly made me uneasy. It was built by Yajnavaraha and Vishnukumara, viziers of Rajendravarman II, far off Northeast from the main drag of the capital's urban core. The Gopura contained smaller models of themselves. It felt as though you could reconstruct the whole system from a single stone. It was not in conflict with itself, for the totality of things could not be in conflict with the totality of things. The Tao is the Tao, nothing more or less. It seemed to contain a system of the world in miniature, an autopoesis where the trimurti might let the world play out as justice would see fit, time and time again. There was no teleology except perhaps cycle itself. Though the architecture was eroded by brutal entropy, such concepts did not figure into the vocabulary expressed in the carvings, though perhaps this might just be my lack of understanding of the nature of the worship of Shiva.
We were less enchanted and enchanting as we got closer to the core of Ankor Thom and Ankor Wat—the temple that became a city. Upon arriving at Ankor Wat, we entered from the east, walking from our motorcycles across the moats and beginning the slow-perusal of the reliefs, pausing on demon-king Ravana, on the Asura and Deva churning the ocean of milk, on Agni atop a rhinoceros, of trampled captives and many heavens and hells. It was odd, the story was there, but the magic was gone, and I felt I might as well just pick some good translations of the epics and take them in leisurely beneath a tree and explore text on my own terms, rather than looking at the integration of these stories in visual form by a state both foreign and disengaged. It was apparent that the imperial carvers were attempting to meet all the criteria, rather than live through the narratives as they etched them. The art was precise, but exhausted. Then the tour busses came into view, dropping their complements of hungry vacationers. The main action of tourism appeared an attempt to prove that you'd been there, rather than the exploration of the system. It was looking for authentication, for validation, rather than exploration. Go climb the central tower, with steps high for someone of my height, which must have been nigh-insurmountable for a 12th century Khmer, and prove you climbed it with a GPOY. The place felt not as though it was made with exploration in mind, rather a set of finite rituals one must participate in to obtain eternal reward. With modern media, this has become oddly easier to authenticate. Back in the day, you could just say you'd visited Goethe and harassed him about Werther even though his career wasn't over. Now you'd take a selfie with the man and no words need be exchanged as your followers would assume your conversation was privileged information, unfit for broadcast.
The term for the temple reconstruction strategy used in the Ankor Archaeological Park is Anastylosis, where each of the obtained elements of a given structure are located, arrayed, numbered, and then a reconstruction is attempted with as little additional material as possible. Its like a lego set with no instructions, possibly mixed with other lego sets. I keep feeling like this is the thing that's been encouraged by the world, this sense that the whole point of the matter is the autopsy of your works, the retrospective of an artist, the legacy of a politician, or closer possibly in the FOMO generated by your posts. One documents to prove, not to know. The mentality of the mass of humanity that visits these temples does not seem to be a loving curiosity for what these bones might have been like when they were alive, with bodies of wood and cloth and humanity around them, rather a sense of keeping score, Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples...
The best traveller I know, one Benjamin Joeng who I crossed my first border beside, never takes photos on his journeys. He just tells stories about them, with the variance of voice instead of text. There's plenty of places I've now been that were first only principalities of rumor from his and others' conversation that I've now visited. A year ago I'd only left the Bay Area a handful of times. Now I've been to eight countries not my own, ten if you count the regionalisms of these United States. There was information in those zones that could not be compressed, for how can one ensure a lack of loss without making the zone anew, through the same circumstances of production?
The only way to learn any of it is to be a pilgrim, and even then that learning was simply the shaping of the self to conform and adapt to these foreign environments. Memories of the roads approaching, then the witnessing of the zone—stinking of 囍 smokes, sweat, and gasoline. Stared at the decapitated bodies of dead-and-remembered gods and eroded Naga balustrades while in heatstroke. Tried to let the eleven year old post-card vendor down easy. A scribble on my map. Something worth remembering, maybe just apophenia of baroque decoration, reconstructing the reconstruction in my mind. It's hard to know. The key, though, it seems that in the navigation of the world, one must simply live and learn by reading the signs and facing the future as though it is yours to face, not embracing the hubris of assumed predestination as though all of this was a test for a leering authority who will judge you from a far off vantage. Perhaps this is the process by which your heart may stay light enough to avoid the teeth of Ammit. At least, I think it might be how one obtains the mead of poetry. I look forward to finding out.


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One of the places in Sri Lanka where numerous species of birds are present throughout the year would be Yala National Park. Most of the birds seen here are indigenous birds while migrating birds drop by as well.
The Sri Lankan Junglefowl
This class of bird is much like the red junglefowl. It is also called the Ceylon Junglefowl. The bird wears a feather coating of shades of bright yellow on the upper body, gradually darkening into orange and then a dark blue at the tail. It is also the national bird of Sri Lanka.
The Indian Peafowl
This is undeniably one of the most gorgeous birds in Yala. The male bird holds an astonishing tail in countless hues of blue. These beautiful feathered creatures are quite commonly seen when on bird watching tours.
White-bellied Sea Eagle
Also known as the white-breasted eagle, this takes after the Sanford's Sea Eagle of Solomon Islands when it comes to looks. Fish is this bird's main diet. Its call is like the loud honking of a goose.
Bird watching in Sri Lanka
If you wish to embark on a bird watching adventure during your stay in Sri Lanka, there are plenty of tour agents offering great packages. Also, properties belonging to major hotel chains such as those under Minor Hotels chain may offer excursions to Yala park as well.
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Non-Profit Hero for Hire (Trademark!)
Sorry there was no RPG Friday last week. My mind is pretty focused on this Captain America thing and the potential implications of it. Comics have have had, currently have, and will have a massive impact on society. They have influenced history for well over 70 years. Look at Beetle Bailey, Bloom Country and Spiderman/Teen Titans (addressing drug issues in the 70s). Or, hell . . . Watchmen!
Saying that comics influence society kind of goes without saying, especially in our current Age of the Geek. Comics are now in the mainstream taking over movies, video games, television, novels and children's bedspreads. Alas, most comics with a wide reach don't really address real world issues, many for fear of losing readers and plummeting sales. But when done properly, comics can successfully confront the difficult past, the turbulent present and the unknown future.
An African American Captain America dealing with real world issues is pretty much blowing my mind. But at the same time, I guess I should stay calm to actually discuss what Sam is facing. Let me start by saying, I think Nick Spencer is doing a fantastic job from the one issue I have read but, I won't lie, my heart sank a bit to not see the book being written by an African American.
First, let me give brief bit comic history for context as to how far we've come. Marvel, and comics in general, have had a serious problem with diversity and stereotyping, and we can't shy away from that history (the whole those-that-ignore-history bit). Let's look at the origins of Sam Wilson, the man that would be Captain America. The first mainstream African American Superhero appeared in 1969 on an island, leading natives against the Red Skull and the Nazi's who enslaved them. Flash forward a couple of years when his history is revealed and he was (wait for it) . . . a pimp. And then there's Luke Cage (can't wait to see the Netflix TV series Jessica Jones and then Cage!); he was also (yes, you guessed it) . . . a criminal. I know, you're saying, Chris, it was just a Red Skull hoax with the cosmic cube, trying to break up Sam and Steve! The new 2014 series told us so! While Marvel may have retconned it, it is still part of the character's history and highlights who they were and possibly how far they have come. It also demonstrates how far Marvel has come in its depiction of heroes of color.
What issues are Cap dealing with, you ask? Being a black man in America. Even in the comic, it is noted that Roger's Captain America always tried to stay above it all, being a symbol for everyone and making the hard choices rarely. Like when he stood against the Superhuman Registration Act (very similar to the Mutant Registration act from a decade before), where heroes were forced to register their secret identity and powers with the US government or go to a superhero human prison in the Negative Zone (another dimension that is really hard to access unless you're Reed Richards). He stood against it because it went against the the freedom of the individual and the principles that America was built upon.
Wilson's Captain America is a man born in fire, a minority in modern day America, and constantly struggling with that. There is a common (true) saying that being a black man in America is having to be twice as good to be treated a third as well. Every decision is second guessed and the world continually thinks you are not smart enough, strong enough or worthy of a title you've received or a person you are with. That story is underwritten in the very bones of having Sam take over the mantel; it is the stigma of being black in America. While Nick, does not say that specifically, it is what I read into the story, as a black man living the experience.
But what Nick does discuss is the fact that being Captain America (fighting supervillians, being an Avenger, and enjoying the occasional parade to cheering crowds) is not enough anymore. Our world is in trouble, with constant conflict, and the people are suffering. Usually those that don't have a voice suffer the most and are powerless to change any of the social constructs. If they speak out, they are called terrorists, placed on watch lists and harassed (or worse) by the police . No matter how peaceful the Black Lives Matter movement is, their intentions and actions will always be questioned.
The rise of social media has changed how information is communicated, how quickly people have access to it and how easily it can be polluted to manipulate the masses (cough, cough . . . Fox News).
It was refreshing to see a mainstream comic refer (lightly to keep it accessible, but it is a start) to politics, police brutality, inequality, and the fact a hero, a true hero, can't stand to the side and watch, but has to choose a side. To make a true difference is to get into it, get your hands dirty and strike to make change. That spoke to me on every level. It is why I joined the army. I wanted to defend my country, to try to change things and make the world a better place. I may have gotten a bit misty because of this comic.
Predictably, the comic did not shy away from what would happen when someone tries to do that. Unlike in the polished movie versions, his actions are not met with cheers and a happy ending. He is met with criticism and division. And is only the start of the story.
The influence of comics is apparent when "news" media attacks it with no real knowledge, but with plenty of fear and saber rattling. As most people know, Cap has always stood with the people but perhaps not on such a dedicated basis. It was nice to see the comic explore that the only way to properly be able to act according to conscience is to be free of any ties (S.H.I.E.L.D., overlords, etc.). But by doing so, the hero loses the money that he's been accustomed to receiving. From a writer's stand point, that is excellent. It provides conflict for the story, a nod toward economic problems, and brings the focus to being street level and having to think outside of the box to accomplish the mission.
Cap goes back to the historical center of black life, the church, to ask for assistance so he can go to Arizona and deal with an armed white supremacist group aggressively dealing with immigrants crossing into America. How awesome to see a current hot topic in the states on the comics' page! Captain America is more than just a symbol. He is fighting for these people who only want to be part of our country, to try to live the American Dream of a better life.
This is all in a comic. All in a comic that my 10-year-old self would have picked up in Kroger or Target. Or in a comic shop. And now pre-teens of all colors get to see a black man as more than a sidekick in TV show, a background extra in movie with no lines, or my current least favorite--a prisoner in jail whose black mother placed them there for mysterious reasons. (Yeah. I'm looking at you, Broadchurch and Quantico.)
See him as the hero, fighting for his ideals and making America . . . nay . . . the world a better place.
Long. Live. Captain. America. (Non-Profit Hero for Hire, until crowd funding kicks in!)


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Before the start of the King of the Ring pay-per-view broadcast on June 28, 1998, Ross was unaware that The Undertaker would launch Mick Foley off the top of the Hell in a Cell (an enclosed 16-foot tall steel cage covering the ring). He was also unaware that he would deliver his most iconic call, pro wrestling's equivalent to Al Michaels' screaming out, "Do you believe in miracles?" during the 1980 U.S. Hockey team's upset of the Soviet Union, or Russ Hodges' call after the Giants beat the Dodgers in their 1951 playoff, "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"
The match began with Foley, one of wrestling's most unlikely success stories — a chubby Long Island masochist missing half his ear who went from journeyman to main event player — and the 7-foot tall Undertaker (a real-life redheaded Texan named Mark Calaway, but according to the storyline, an undead soul impervious to pain) atop the roof of the Cell pummeling one another with fists and a steel folding chair. Foley soon made his way near the edge, teetering like a wino. From his ringside seat, Ross assumed Foley was simply teasing the unthinkable. Of course, he's not going to come tumbling off the cell, he thought. My God, he can't survive that. But suddenly Foley was in flight, plummeting approximately 22 feet before crashing through the Spanish announcer's table. The crowd gasped. Jim Ross opened his mouth.
"GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! THEY'VE KILLED HIM," he howled. Ross then paused as the camera lingered over the carnage. "AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!" With one sound bite, Ross, pro wrestling's Vin Scully, its John Madden in a cowboy hat, turned a spectacle into an event.


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Annual report season is nearly upon us, so now is the time to take a meaningful and easy step toward walking the inclusion talk—make your annual report an accessible document.
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Website accessibility audits: three common fails
Here at Media Access Australia we do a lot of work around auditing websites for conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. That may not sound exciting, but it's important work for establishing exactly what areas of a website are responsible for stopping people with disabilities from accessing it.
In carrying out audits we're often surprised at how basic some of the accessibility mistakes are—and that's a good thing. That's because for many websites improving accessible won't be expensive, complex or time consuming.
In light of this, we've put together the three most common mistakes we find, which also have the bonus of being relatively easy to fix.
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Scranton in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Munsee Indian Village
Erected 1916 by Pennsylvania Historical Commission in co-operation with the Lackawanna Institute of History and Science.
Location. 41° 25.189′ N, 75° 39.927′ W. Marker is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County. Marker is on Providence Road 0.2 miles north of Olive Street. The marker is now affixed an exterior wall on the street side of Memorial Stadium. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 801 Providence Road, Scranton PA 18508, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Lackawanna River Watershed History (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Electric City (approx. ¼ mile away); Capoose (approx. Miners and Laborers Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away); Pine Brook War Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away); Terence V. Powderly (approx. half a mile away); 2 LT Carol Ann Drazba, RN (approx. half a mile away); The Tripp House (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Scranton.
More about this marker. The present day location of the apple tree would among the industrial buildings on the east side of Providence Road.
Categories. • Native Americans •
More. Search the internet for Munsee Indian Village.
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