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J. Robert Wood is a radio broadcast management consultant with more than 40 years experience in programming, operations, management, large-scale project development, network expansion, government lobbying and fund-raising. Born in Teulon, Manitoba, Wood began his career as an on-air deejay at CKSA in Lloydminster before moving to CKOM Saskatoon, CKY in Winnipeg and CHLO in St. Thomas. Following a successful tenure as program director of CHLO, he moved to CHUM in 1968 where he served as Program Director of CHUM, National Program Director of CHUM Group stations across Canada, and Manager of CHUM and CHUM-FM in Toronto.
"Bob Wood came to CHUM in 1968. Over the next ten years or so, he, and maybe the greatest radio staff ever put together, created magic on 1050 CHUM! Bob was imaginative, creative and a great leader", said former CHUM Chairman Jim Waters. "His winning the Allan Waters Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award is Iong overdue!"
Wood left CHUM in the mid-1980s to apply for a Toronto radio license; he went on to pursue broadcast management consulting, fund-raising and government lobbying activities. From 2000 to 2010, he helped launch the Aboriginal Voices Radio network (AVR), for which he raised more than $15 million.
"I feel very honoured to be selected for this Award and am grateful to accept it on behalf of the many talented men and women at CHUM whose hard work, dedication and creative brilliance enabled us to create one of broadcasting's great radio stations," said Wood.
Wood was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in May of 1978 by RPM Magazine. The former radio editor of Billboard Magazine, Claude Hall, ranked Wood as number 12 on his list of the 15 best Top 40 program directors in North America in 2012. In choosing Wood, Hall said, "Robert Wood was Canadian radio."
An innovator and entrepreneur, Wood initiated a number of projects in the early days of Canadian content regulations to help promote the development of Canadian music, including the Maple Leaf Music Network (10 stations across Canada agreeing to play the consensus choice of three new Canadian records per week), the CHUM Free Ad Plan (providing free commercials for newly released songs by Canadian artists) and the CHUM Report (a weekly report he wrote which was distributed to radio and record companies to help promote new up-and-coming Canadian music and improve the relationship between radio and record people at the time.)
Wood has served on various industry committees including CAPAC, the CAB and the United Way's media unit and has played a pivotal role in the launch of FACTOR (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record.) He has helped many broadcasters over the years, including the launch and advancement of the careers of many young broadcasters and has helped more senior broadcasters survive the difficulties visited upon them due to ill health.More
Kevin Crull, President, Bell Media introduced Canada to CraveTV, the company's next-generation subscription on-demand video streaming service launching Thursday, Dec. 11. Costing about as much as a latte, CraveTV brings simplicity, ubiquity, accessibility, and premium content to Canadian TV lovers at an unbeatable value.
With a singular focus on delivering the best TV content of yesterday and today, CraveTV is designed to complement Canada's current TV offerings as an additive service featuring exclusive, premium programming, all at an affordable price.
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Once the clock strikes midnight on Nov. 28, we can officially wrap the turkey in tin foil and break out the Christmas music without judgment.
In this holiday playlist, there's a little mix of Bing Crosby, 'N Sync and Sufjan Stevens to remind us that Christmas music isn't only songs from the 1950s.
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TORONTO, ON – (October 30, 2014) – Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce John Cassaday as the 2015 inductee to the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. Cassaday will be honoured at the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards gala on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto.
John Cassaday has enjoyed a decorated career in the broadcast industry for 25 years. As the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Corus Entertainment Inc., he has piloted the company to a leadership position in radio, specialty television and content creation in Canada. Corus' diverse portfolio of assets encompass more than 20 television properties including YTV, TELETOON, W Network, CMT and HBO Canada; Nelvana, one of the world's leading producers of animated programming and related products; Kids Can Press, Canada's largest children's publisher; ToonBoom, an Emmy® award-winning animation software company; and 39 radio stations in eight out of the top 10 Canadian markets.
"John Cassaday is a true trailblazer in the broadcast industry," said Neill Dixon, President of Canadian Music Week. "From television to radio, he has influenced several generations of industry professionals and advanced Canada's media landscape. He is fully deserving of his place in the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame."
Cassaday's foresight and strategic agility have driven exceptional growth and success. Under his leadership, Corus has vitalized Canada's media and entertainment industry, through the acquisition, development and delivery of great Canadian content, as well as the investment of millions of dollars in original Canadian productions. Through Corus' talent initiatives, it has encouraged and recognized some of Canada's best emerging artists. Embracing the digital sphere, Corus was the first Canadian broadcaster to feature an iPhone streaming application and the first to offer Apple iTunes integration through its radio station websites. The company's headquarters, Corus Quay, has gained recognition as one of the most technologically advanced media and broadcast centres in the world.
Before the launch of Corus, Cassaday was President of CTV Television Network. Under his leadership, CTV invested heavily in news with new talent, the opening of additional news bureaus and an innovative new set design. This resulted in strong ratings increases driven by audience growth in news and special event programming, which included the successful carriage of two Olympic Games. Cassaday also held senior management positions at Campbell Soup Company in Canada and the U.K. where he became well known for his marketing acumen.
John Cassaday is a Member of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. His commitment to Canadian broadcasting has been recognized with the Gold Ribbon Award for Broadcast Excellence, a top honour by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. He was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends in 2006 and received the Gold Medal from the Association of Canadian Advertisers in 2004. During his tenure, Corus has been honoured for its excellence in investor relations, its corporate culture and its commitment to diversity. Notable recognition includes Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, as well as one of Canada's Top 100 Canadian Brands.
Under Cassaday's leadership, Corus has also supported educational institutions across Canada including establishing the Chair in Women in Management at Ivey School of Business, Western University, and the Chair in Communications Strategy at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
A strong believer in giving back to the community, Cassaday has been instrumental in raising awareness and funds for numerous charitable causes, through corporate fundraising initiatives as well as his own personal commitments. In addition to championing Corus' corporate giving strategy, Corus Feeds Kids, he served as Chair of the United Way campaign for Metro Toronto in 1995, and has also co-chaired successful fundraising campaigns for St. Michael's Hospital Foundation and Rotman School of Management.
Cassaday sits on the Board of Directors of Manulife Financial, Sysco Corporation and Irving Oil Limited. He is a member and Director of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Masonite International Corporation, J. M. Schneider Corporation, Canadian Airlines and Loblaw Companies Limited and on the Advisory Boards of Nestle Canada and IBM Canada. John was the Chair of the Dean's Advisory Board of the Rotman School of Management and Chair of the Board of St. Michaels Hospital from 2004 to 2006.
John holds an M.B.A. (Dean's List) from the Rotman School of Management, and was honoured in 1998 as their most Distinguished Alumni. He has a Bachelors Degree from the University of Western Ontario.
To attend the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards or for additional details, visit the Canadian Music Week website: www.cmw.net.
About Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country's music, media and entertainment industries. Combining three information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation's largest new music festival, CMW spans a ten-day period from May 1 to May 10, 2015 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel and over 60 downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit www.cmw.net.
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TORONTO, ON – (October 28, 2014) – Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce Don Shafer as the 2015 inductee to the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. An innovator and veteran of the industry for more than five decades, Shafer will be honoured for his achievements and longstanding career in broadcasting with the Allan Waters Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award. The induction ceremony will take place during the Canadian Radio Music Awards luncheon being presented by Bell Media, on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
"I am both humbled and honoured to be the recipient of this award and be in the company of so many good friends, mentors and colleagues," said Shafer.
A broadcaster, entrepreneur and community activist, Don Shafer has dedicated more than 50 years to the broadcasting industry, earning respect and recognition for his strategic ability to turn around radio stations, revive their image, restore their profitability and make a difference in their local communities. Working both on and off the air, he has collaborated with many of Canada's best broadcasters developing legendary brands such as CHOM FM, CHUM FM, The Fox, Rock 101, SUN FM and Q107.
"Don spent some great years with us at CHUM and is highly respected throughout the Canadian broadcast industry," said former CHUM Chairman Jim Waters. "Shafe is a most deserving recipient of the Allan Waters Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award."
Shafer has been at the helm of various broadcasting properties including the TorStar Media Group where he helped create Toronto Star TV – a direct response TV enterprise – and developed the company's television production facilities to extend the Toronto Star newspaper brand into television. He was one of the primary drivers of the successful transition of Standard/Astral/Bell Media's radio and television properties in the BC interior. A true visionary, Shafer was a proponent and one of the early supporters of webcasting and programming over the Internet.
Under contract with the Jim Pattison Broadcasting Group in Winnipeg, Shafer assisted with the acquisition of QX104 and FAB 94 before engaging in his latest project "Roundhouse Radio". As President and CEO of the station, along with his team and an independent B.C. ownership group, Shafer will be launching a new "urban" talk radio station in Vancouver in early 2015.
Don is an active member in the broadcasting community and has served on a number of boards and committees including the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Radio Marketing Bureau, Television Marketing Bureau, the Small Market Independent Television Group, the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters and FACTOR and is a past President of the Ontario Association of Broadcasters.
Don is a community activist and a strong supporter of local community organizations. He has served on the boards of Variety Club International in Vancouver and Toronto, The Canadian Culinary Championships and the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation. He is presently working with PFLAG and Qmunity Vancouver, the Canadian Red Cross, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and the BC Chiefs of Police Association.
To attend the Canadian Radio Music Awards or for additional details, visit the Canadian Music Week website: www.cmw.net.
About Bell Media Radio
Bell Media Radio is Canada's top ranked radio broadcaster, with 106 licensed radio stations in 54 markets across Canada, including Virgin Radio, Canada's #1 ranked contemporary hit radio network, along with top brands TSN, CHUM FM, and QMFM. Recognizing the diversity of each market it serves, Bell Media Radio has a strong reputation for providing exemplary service to these communities and is a leader in innovative programming. In addition to music, news, weather, and sports, listeners also tune-in for information on local politics, events, entertainment, and other community issues. Across Canada, Bell Media Radio is the largest radio provider and is ranked first in people reached and hours tuned.
About Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country's music, media and entertainment industries. Combining three information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation's largest new music festival, CMW spans a ten-day period from May 1 to May 10, 2015 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel and over 60 downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit www.cmw.net.
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BOKRA: Making Jersey stylish one wall at a time/
You may have caught sight of Ben Robertson (or BOKRA as he's artistically known) scaling the side of a building or two as he brings to life some of St Helier's less-loved areas. As a graffiti artist he caught our attention through his involvement with the Skipton Art Series, redefining the way the local community interacts with art. I caught up with Ben at his studio to talk murals, the Island and why art is suddenly finding itself in the most unexpected places.Read More

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Famous Twenty on his Waay Up
ALTHOUGH he is related to one of reggae's most revered vocalists, deejay Famous Twenty is banking on his own talent to make the breakthrough.
Based in Orlando, Florida, Famous Twenty is in Jamaica promoting his latest single, Waay Up, produced by Ajanie Errol Williams on the Black Coffin riddim.
"Music has always been a huge part of me while growing up, but I really got started professionally in 2008 when I recorded the song Dagga Wok," Famous Twenty said in a recent interview.
Born Cary O'Connor, his mother is Georgia Ellis, daughter of rocksteady icon Alton Ellis. That makes him cousin to comedian/actors Owen 'Blakka' Ellis, Noel 'Rozah Roze' Ellis, Ian 'Ity' Ellis and singer Christopher Ellis.
O'Connor, 32, says he does not rely on his grandfather's fame.
"If I don't tell people that I am related to Alton Ellis, no one really knows, and I prefer it to be that way. I want to make music from my own talent," he said.
Like Alton Ellis, Famous Twenty was raised in Trench Town. His father, Courtney O'Connor, played cricket for Boys' Town
and Jamaica.
While he also played cricket, music won out. Chatty Mouth, Bad Without a Doubt, Swag Tun Up and Let's Have a Party (with singer Malica) are some of Famous Twenty's previous songs.
— Kevin Jackson
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Come to Your Senses
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
– Albert Einstein
As we juggle our mulitple and competing demands each day, our senses get dulled.
Smell the fragrance of the flowers (lilacs are my favorite), of fresh cut grass, of a wood burning fire. Hear the symphony of the birds at dawn, the hearty laughter of children playing, the rhythm of rain tapping the roof. Taste the sweetness of a fresh picked tomotoes, the fun of bubble gum or pop rocks. Re-engage and reignite your senses – see, hear, touch, smell and taste it all.
And while you're at it, discover a few more senses like wonder, delight and the most important one – a sense of humor – a gift to yourself and others all in one.
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place." – Mark Twain


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What is it?
Bitcoin is a new currency that was developed in2009 by an unidentified person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are made without anymiddle males— significance, no banks! There are notransaction fees and no need to give your genuine name. More merchants are starting to accept them: You can buy web hosting services, pizza or perhaps manicures.
Is it truly Anonymous for Lawndale residents?
Though each bitcoin transaction is tape-recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never everrevealed— only their wallet IDs. While that keeps bitcoin users' deals personal, it likewise lets them purchase or sell anything without easily tracing it back to them. That's why it has actually ended up being the currency of option for people online purchasingdrugs or other illegal activities.
Compared with Brexit, Bitexit seems a breeze. On August 1st, without much agonizing or awkward settlements, a group of Bitcoin activists and business owners managed to produce a 2nd variation of the crypto-currency. It instantly gained a following: as The Financial expert went to press, a unit of "Bitcoin Money" had a cost of $460 and tokens worth $7.6 bn were incirculation (although that is still much smaller sized than Bitcoin classic, which stood at about $2,700 and nearly $45bn).
This "fork", as such occasions are called, came earlier than anticipated. However it is how experts had anticipated a two-year-old conflict over the future of Bitcoin to end. At the heart of this "civil war" was the concern of the best ways to increase the capability of the system, which can handle just up to 7 deals per second. The brand-new variation is able to process more than 50 per second, but otherwise works much like the original one. [google-map location="Lawndale CA"]
Will Bitcoin Money be more than just another "altcoin", as the many existing clones of the crypto-currency are called? It is backed by Chinese"miners", companies that provide the computing power to verify payments and mint new digital coins. They have actually been unhappy with how the initial system has been handled by its designers— and made some additional technical tweaks to guarantee that the brand-new Bitcoin makes it through. The followers of the two variations will now fight over which can declare to be the " genuine"Bitcoin
Perpetuity High Prices in Lawndale California
The cost of bitcoin has smashed through $5,000 to an all-time high.
The cryptocurrency increased by more than 8% to $5,243 having actually begun the year at $966. Bitcoin has soared by more than 750% in the past year and deserves 4 times as much as an ounce of gold.
But the cost has actually been unpredictable. The digital currency plunged below $3,000 in mid-September after the Chinese authorities announced a crackdown.Beijing ordered cryptocurrency exchanges to stop trading and obstruct brand-new registrations, due to worries that increasing varieties of customers pilinginto the bitcoin market might trigger widerfinancial issues.
The primary trader at for Lawndale California, said:"The returns are genuinely impressive, specifically giventhe current restriction on bitcoin trading in China, wheredemand had actually previously accounted for a minimum of 10% of all global volumes."
The Russian president called today for guideline of cryptocurrencies, stating their use "bears major dangers" such as money laundering, tax evasion and funding for terrorism. But he likewise cautioned againstimposing "too many barriers," which appears to have actually offered bitcoin a increase.
Regardless of warnings over a bubble, bitcoinis acquiring in approval. Last month, a Londonproperty developer, The Collective, said it would permit its renters to pay their deposits in bitcoin and accept lease payments in the cryptocurrency by the end of the year.
History of Bitcoin
A man called Satoshi Nakamoto posted a term paper to an obscure cryptography listservdescribing his style for a brand-new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list's veterans had actually become aware of him, and what little details could be gleaned was murky and contradictory. In an online profile, he said he resided inJapan. His e-mail address was from a freeGerman service. Google searches for his name showed upno appropriate details; it wasclearly a pseudonym. However while Nakamoto himself mayhave been a puzzle, his creation splita issue that had actually puzzledcryptographers for decades. The idea of digital money—convenient and untraceable, freed from the oversight of federal governments and banks— hadbeen a hot topic given that the birth of the Internet. Cypherpunks, the 1990s movement of libertarian cryptographers, devoted themselves to theproject. Yet every effort to produce virtual cash had actually foundered, especially in Lawndale CA. Ecash, an anonymous systemlaunched in the early 1990s by cryptographer David Chaum,failed in part because itdepended on the existing infrastructures ofgovernment and credit card business. Other proposals followed— bit gold, RPOW, b-money—but none got off the ground.


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President Buhari Approves Reduction In JAMB, NECO And Basic Exam Fees
FEC Approves Price Slash For NECO, JAMB Exam Registration
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has during its meeting on Wednesday, approved the reduction in the exam fees for JAMB and NECO.
The slash in examination registration fees for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Examination Council and the Basic Education Certificate was disclosed by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu at the end of the FEC meeting.
According to him, the JAMB fee for the UTME will reduce from N5,000 to N3,500, the Senior Secondary School fee charge by NECO will reduce from N11,350 to N9,850 and the Basic Education certificate by NECO will reduce from N5,500 to N4,000.
The new fee regime would however be effective as from January, 2019 according to the education minister.
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Dr Chris Yuan
Faculty Post-Thesis Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow in History
Chris Yuan is a young researcher who holds a MA degree in movie marketing and management and receives his PhD in history from the University of Queensland in March 2017. His interdisciplinary background has focused on modern Chinese and Taiwanese history, war and soldiers, overseas Chinese studies, Asian popular culture, documentary and film. Chris is also an experienced marketing specialist who has worked in publishing and non-governmental organisations. Chris is competent in writing proposals, making marketing plans and organising business events.
- 2017: PhD Candidate in History (The University of Queensland, Australia)
- 2007: MA in Sound and Image Studies in Management (Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan)
- 2002: BA in Mass Communication (University of Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan)
Research Interests
Modern Chinese History, Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Film and Popular Culture, Overseas Chinese Studies
Scholarships and Awards
- People's Choice, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, 2015
- Academic Excellence, Tainan National University of the Arts, 2004
- First Place in Class, Husan Chuang University, 2002
- Outstanding Student Scholarship of Dapeng Cultural and Educational Foundation, 1999-2001


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Funding to help young people clear Invisible legal hurdles on the Border
Victorian Attorney-General Martin Pakula announced $200,000 funding over two years for a Hume Riverina Community Legal Service (HRCLS) integrated justice partnership on 1 June 2018. This funding will be used to continue the Invisible Hurdles project, involving the Wodonga Flexible Learning Centre, the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service (AWAHS) and Wangaratta-based NESAY, into the 2018-19 financial year.
HRCLS principal lawyer Sarah Rodgers welcomed the additional funding and thanked the State Government for acknowledging the importance of integrated justice partnerships, particularly those helping young people experiencing family violence.
"We're excited about continuing this important work with our partners into the future," Ms Rodgers said. "We know young people will not walk into a lawyer's office off the street, so being on-site with services who they trust has been crucial for the success of the project."
"Making a difference for people affected by family violence is a key priority for our service. Young people affected by family violence often have numerous other legal problems, so providing a friendly, accessible, wrap-around service is critical," she said. "The sooner young people get legal help, the higher the chance of a positive outcome."
The Victorian Legal Service Board Grants Program funded the Invisible Hurdles project from December 2015 to May 2018. This latest funding has been provided by the Department of Justice and Regulation. Ms Rodgers said the Invisible Hurdles Project Stage 1 final report and evaluation was in the process of being produced, and is expected to be launched in October. Without pre-empting the findings, Ms Rodgers said the health justice partnership had made an impact at various levels.
"We're proud of how the Invisible Hurdles Project has helped young people understand their legal rights and solved their legal problems," she said. "Along with our legal assistance, this has been achieved through staff at each service understanding how we work, identifying legal problems, being willing to refer young people and trusting us to act in their best care."
Local lawyer repays community with help for people in need of legal assistance
A strong social conscience drawn out of the caring community he grew up in has driven a local man to volunteer to help locals needing legal advice for a range of issues. In his spare time, Maurice Blackburn lawyer Kip Frawley volunteers at the Hume Riverina Community Legal Service (HRCLS) as part of a roster to give free legal advice at the fortnightly evening clinic.
With Volunteer Week being recognised nationally, Kip reflected on his willingness to volunteer, and how his effort has helped double the amount the number of appointments now available at the HRCLS evening clinic every second Tuesday.
Wangaratta-based HRCLS lawyer Deb Fisher said the strong volunteer culture in Wangaratta was helping make a difference for people needing legal assistance. "The evening clinic allows people from outside Wangaratta or those who can't make daytime appointments, to access free legal advice outside work hours," Ms Fisher said. "Thanks to the ongoing commitment of a growing number of volunteers, we have capacity to see six more clients than we would otherwise. We are grateful for their help and value their contribution."
Born and raised in Wangaratta, Kip grew up with four siblings in a close family unit, and the values and ethos of his mother and father, GPs Jenny Murray and Gavin Frawley, had a lasting impact on how their son views the world and his place in it.
"They led by example. My parents are very community minded. Mum ran the school fete for years, and they got involved in the soccer and footy clubs when we started playing," Kip said. "So the desire to 'give back to the community' was instilled at an early age."
Once he'd settled on law as a career, Kip moved to Canberra to study at ANU. The lifestyle and environment enhanced his social justice conscience where he learnt and developed a particular interest in indigenous law and issues. For his last semester, Kip headed to Vienna after catching the travel bug during a visit to Indonesia.
"A highlight was a subject in mediation resolution with a large Austrian law firm, which had a partnership with the University of Vienna," he said. "It was a great chance for me to see some of the world while finishing off study."
On his return, Kip's experience with social justice issues started while completing his Practical Legal Training in Darwin working at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency. Then after a short stint as a paralegal in the firm's Melbourne office and his admission as legal practitioner, Kip joined Maurice Blackburn back in his home town just over 12 months ago.
"I've always been interested in social justice, and the no-win, no-fee arrangement Maurice Blackburn offers facilitates access to justice for people who might not otherwise be able to obtain it," he said. "Growing up in the country, I always wanted to return to a regional area, so coming home was a perfect fit."
Kip represents people in WorkCover and TAC claims to help people get compensation and medical treatment. "This idea of equality before the law – while it sounds good in theory – it's not something we always see in practice. So for me it's about fighting for that and sticking up for people in vulnerable situations," he said.
Volunteering allows Kip the opportunity to help people as a way of repaying a community that gave him plenty when he was young. Before heading to Darwin, he approached HRCLS about volunteering in the hope he could one day take up a role, and last year reconnected with the service.
"Volunteer work is something I've always done, whether that is in the legal, community or sporting space and this is one small way that I can use my training to help people doing it tough," he said. "I get exposure to different areas of law and it reminds me of why I got into law in the first place. I'd encourage other lawyers if they have the time to get involved at HRCLS, because community legal centres' resources are thin and you can help people who need it the most."
Anyone interested in volunteering with the Hume Riverina Community Legal Service can visit the Volunteer page.
Volunteering brings sense of personal satisfaction
About Wendy Couzens – Wangaratta evening clinic volunteer
How long have you been a lawyer? Almost 5 years.
What is the name of your firm? Morgan Couzens Legal.
What attracted you to becoming a lawyer? I had worked as a law clerk for several years, and decided that I would enjoy working as a solicitor. I continued working as a clerk whilst undertaking university studies.
Why did you decide to volunteer with HRCLS? I really enjoy helping clients in a practical sense by talking the client through the legal options available and also pointing out the practical reality of what those options mean for the client's situation. Whilst working in private practice, the clients that I help are those who already know that they need a lawyer and can afford to pay for a lawyer. Volunteering with HRCLS I can assist people who sometimes aren't certain what type of help they need and those who, for various reasons, cannot afford to pay a lawyer to act for them.
What benefits do you get from volunteering as a lawyer? A sense of personal satisfaction and the knowledge that I am helping people in my local community with an expertise that many people don't have.
Why would you encourage other lawyers to volunteer? Assisting people outside your usual client group shows you what issues are relevant to other people in your community and what opportunities might be out there to give back. Finding solutions to unusual problems helps to develop lateral thinking skills.
How has volunteering helped you in your day-to-day role? Volunteering broadens my perspective to include issues that people outside my normal client group are facing. My firm writes an online blog which focuses on issues related to employment law and when I write for that blog, I often draw on questions that are asked of me both in private practice and as a volunteer.
Anyone interested in volunteering with the Hume Riverina Community Legal Service can visit the Volunteer page.
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Fear Landscape/
Among the recent book-trilogy-made-blockbuster-movie phenomenon, the Divergent series actually has some thought-provoking insights into FEAR. Allow me to briefly set up the story and then look for some biblical insight into the same topic.
Divergent is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic version of Chicago. The population is divided among 5 factions based on personality type and skill set. As the main character of the story, 16-year-old Tris (short for Beatrice) leaves the faction in which she was raised and chooses to become an initiate into the Dauntless faction - a group that prides itself on courage and serves as the city's law-enforcement. They are the guardians of the city's population. The final stage of Dauntless Initiation demands that each individual face his or her own unique "fear landscape," which is a virtual reality construction of a series of scenarios based on the individual's deepest fears. One of Tris's instructors (and eventually boyfriend...surprise, surprise...we have a love story in a young adult novel) is a young man known to fellow Dauntless members simply as "Four." As the story unfolds, Tris discovers the origin of his nickname. He has only four major fears. He only had to face four of them in his fear landscape. But what's remarkable is that Tris also sees first-hand that each of these fears are still extremely real for "Four." One is a fear of heights. Another is claustrophobia. He shares with Tris that the fear never completely goes away. The secret is learning to channel the forces that are stronger than fear. And that's how one overcomes even the deepest of fears.
The newly emancipated Israelites didn't need a virtual reality program connected to the sub-conscious self to conjure up a fear landscape. They had theirs literally right in front of them. It was described by a group of spies that were sent into the Promised Land of Canaan and came back with a message vividly painting a collective fear landscape (Numbers 13-14). Fortified cities. Advanced weapons. Large populations. Rough and mountainous terrain. Even warriors of non-natural size. And with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, this nation of "God's people" was anything but dauntless. They cowered to the daunting what-if-scenarios of doom aroused by the fear-mongerers. So God waited for a generation that would understand that genuine faith demands stepping out, even if those steps expose oneself to a degree of risk.
FAITH demands exposure to risk. To follow Jesus was a risk of status (for a Pharisee like Nicodemus or Saul of Tarsus), of wealth (for Zaccheus), of health and safety (for all the apostles). These are men with real fears of what they might lose, but their actions were governed by forces stronger than fear.
And beyond just the concept of faith, you cannot LOVE without risk. If you consider all the what-if-scenarios, how many of our daily actions could contain some element of fear?
To enter into a marriage covenant is to open yourself up to vulnerability to a spouse.
To bring children into the world risks not only the life of a mother but also entails financial risk, risk of "happiness," and maybe even risk of heartbreak when that child's actions disappoint you.
The holidays are coming up. To travel to see family is a tremendous risk. Getting in a moving vehicle is the most dangerous action most of us take in a given day.
To interact with the homeless or those in poverty is a risk, right? What if this individual is violent toward me? And we don't want to go anywhere near the inner cities to engage the "dangerous" population, do we?
The reality is that ANY INTERACTION with others holds some degree of danger...of risk.
But the main point we are making is this: Fear is present. Risk is reality. But we still do these things. We interact with people, we enter into marriage, we have children, we drive vehicles, we get on airplanes. We may even jump in a river to save some one who's drowning or run into a building on fire if someone is still in there. Why? The answer is because of LOVE. Love is the force that is stronger than fear. Love shouts louder than the fear-mongerers. Love does not play the what-if game. Instead it bears all things. It believes all things. It hopes all things. It endures all things. And love does not seek its own, including placing its own safety near the top of its priorities. If Jesus had personal safety near the top of his list, there would have been no cross. If He had been afraid of risk, then we would not have the scene of love in triumph over fear at Calvary.
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear..." (1 John 4:18)
To His Glory,
Caleb Cochran
Preaching & Outreach Minister
Rockville, MD


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Stacey Smith from Vivid Legal shares her advice on trademarking your assets. Stacey is our go-to professional for all legal-related questions and we wouldn't be where we are without her! She has shared her top tips and tricks for a smart, successful and stress-free business.
Your brand is the most important asset of your business. It's your handshake, your first impression to your audience, so it needs to speak to your audience in their language. trong brand must be unique, distinctive and apable of trademark registration. When you have a registered trademark you have the right to prevent anyone else from using the same or similar word or image in relation to the same or similar goods or services throughout Australia, regardless of where you operate your business! Without trademark registration, your rights to stop competitors copying you is limited to those areas where you have a reputation. Given the size of Australia, this could mean that you have a direct competitor, calling themselves a confusingly similar name in another state and you may not have the right to stop them.
Imagine the impact to your business if your customers bought from your competitor, mistakenly believing they were you, because they looked so similar to yo that your customers did not know the difference.
nother clever tactic to build strength into your business brand is my mantra – 'be consistent and be everywhere'. Build a theme or a story into your branding and continue to reproduce that story throughout your business. Develop a clever and protectable name for more than just your business - you can brand your events, products, workshops. Develop a tagline or mantra to tell your audience what you stand for. And by flooding the marketing in a strategic way, you build reputation in your brand.
The more people recognise your brand, the stronger your rights in your brand and your business!
omething else to always bear in mind is that using a similar name or image as another person anywhere in the world is dangerous and can have a significant impact on your business. With social media and international e-commerce, there is the real risk of customer confusion if your trademarks are similar to someone else's trademarks - even if they are in another country.
You could find yourself being sued for misleading and deceptive conduct or passing off even if your competitor has no trade mark rights in Australia. Also, if your competitor has a similar brand and does something immoral, illegal or unethical, this behaviour can easily have a flow-on effect to your brand if your customers cannot tell the different between you and your competitor.
The moral of the story - always get advice on the availability of your preferred brand before you commit to it financially or, even more importantly, emotionally! Often there are steps that can be taken to 'fix' or at least improve a weak brand, but there are definitely cases where the risk is just too high and you need to start again. This is not a step you want to take after you have spent money, time and effort building your brand and reputation only to have to start again.
At Vivid Legal we work closely with brand developers and designers to ensure that brand protection is available and implemented to give you the greatest chance of well-learned success!
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Hand-painted doughnut stands are the new craze and have everyone talking, "All You Need is Love and Maybe and Doughnut." Your wedding, birthday party, baby shower or bridal shower won't be complete without these hand painted wooden doughnut holders. Each doughnut stand is hand painted and top coated with a non- toxic paint in the following colors: Gold, Silver, Black, White, Rose Gold, Blue Pink, Navy Blue, Gray and Cranberry Wine Color. Each doughnut stand comes with a 5″ wooden base and top. Each dowel rod is 1/4″ thick and has 12″ of useable doughnut space. Not each doughnut is created equal and measures in different thickness' therefore each stand will hold approximately 8-10 doughnuts depending on where you purchase your donuts from. Upon receiving your donut holder, please insert the provided dowel into the hole in the middle of your stand. When you're done using it as a donut stand, it serves a dual purpose by removing the dowel rod and setting your favorite pillar candlestick on top of it. Please choose your style of donut stand from the first picture and your color choice from the second picture. To choose multiple colors and heights, please add each stand with color to your cart separately.
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Stop feeling bored, lost + unfocused...
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You don't have to fall victim to the typical inactive, boring, unhealthy retirement lifestyle anymore...
Let me tell you about Mary who just turned 62.
She sadly became widowed 3 years ago now, and was having a hard time finding her new identity as the new "single Mary."
And when I met her she felt completely lost.
She was struggling to rebuild a whole new social life. When her husband was alive she was always the shy one who relied on her husband to be the "life of the party" guy, so all of her friends were naturally "their friends" as a couple and they of course shared various life activities.
After her husband passed, Mary didn't know who she was anymore…
She didn't know where to even begin to meet new people, and even after 3 years, had no idea how to fully make the transition into her new life.
Then she slowly, with baby steps, found her way…
We walked through my 5 Rings of Retirement framework and worked on specific tools to help her create the life she wanted.
By following a simple daily system and by using the right tools + a series of 1:1 coaching sessions, Mary was able to adopt a whole new lifestyle using and she has come such a long way in a such a short period:
- She overcame her shyness and socializes frequently with new friends
- She moved to a new neighborhood by the water, which she's always loved
- She kayaks regularly
- She joined a travel club
- Attends weekly Zumba classes
- Takes daily walks around the neighborhood
- Goes on camping trips
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- Enjoys a part-time job
She's now all set up for a more social, active and healthy lifestyle for when she's ready to fully retire…
That's why I created the 12-week program: Rewire My Retirement...
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My support will be personalized to fit your goals.
Here are the areas that I can provide the most support:
- Retirement lifestyle assessment + 5 Rings of Retirement Framework: growth, community, giving back, health, finance
- Helping you get unstuck: digging deep so we can uncover where you are vs. where you want to be and how to get there
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- Avoiding procrastination, excuses and distractions
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- Why senior divorce, or grey divorce they call it, has doubled since the 90s because ppl are just being trained to be passive and to settle for surviving instead of thriving, in their lives, and
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Blendz Balance and Enliven Organic Raw Cacao and Cinnamon Verum 500g
Blendz Balance and Enliven Organic Raw Cacao and Cinnamon Verum 500g
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High quality, health promoting ingredients like those found in our Blendz range - should be on everyones list of things to have in their diet. In our NEWEST PRODUCT... Balance and Enliven we give you a combination of Organic True Cinnamon Verum with Organic True Raw Cacao. We add the B vitamins and protein by also blending them with the Inactive Dried Nutritional Yeast and sweeten it with Organic Steva Leaf.
Here's why: Cinnamon is a popular spice with a long history of use in both Eastern and Western cultures as both food and medicine. With a beautiful aroma, it warms and stimulates the digestive system. It is said to assist the body breakdown fats during digestion and is used to boost brain activity, regulate blood sugar levels and lower blood pressure. Rich in antioxidants and with anti-inflammatory benefits, Cinnamon is said to help with many common ailments, some of which are: Stomach and gut conditions (including gas, bloating, cramps, diarrhoea and nausea), yeast infections, PMS, relief of cold and flu symptoms (catarrhal congestion).
Research suggests it provides anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-parasitic properties. Cacao (pronounced ka-kow) beans are the seeds of an Amazonian fruiting tree and source of all chocolate and cocoa products. Considered a 'raw' food with all heat-sensitive vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants (the highest ORAC of all natural foods) remaining intact, thereby maximising digestion and absorption.
It is a great source of beta-carotene (Vit A), amino acids, omega 3 EFA, calcium, zinc, iron, copper, sulphur, potassium and is a wonderful source of stress relieving, muscle relaxing magnesium, which also stimulates our DHEA - our youth hormone.
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To discover more about Cinnamon read our blog post titled "The Spices To Life".
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Approx 12-14 oz, 5" tall x 2.5 Width x 2.5" Depth. Thick, slight green tint Antique Glass - Square candle holder - Poppy Design. 4 distinct colors (Red, Orange, Yellow & Purple) of poppies are hand painted on antique glass and has been reconditioned and upcycled.
It can can be used on a regular basis to enjoy as living art in motion. It is signed by American Artist Penny Firehorse.
The candle holder is 100% hand-painted using quality acrylic enamel paints and is cured resulting in a scratch-resistant, high-gloss finish with clear sealant coating.
Please hand wash only to preserve heirloom quality.
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Can Phil go without food for an entire day? That'swhat Bam wants to find out. Like it or not, Phil's going on a atarvation diet. For 24 hours. Bam has instilled his family, friends, and heck, the whole town with one simple message: "Don't Feed Phil." And to celebrate his father's fast, Bam hosts a Turbonegro concert in his living room.
Worth seeing:
Viva La Bam: "Family Reunion" (Season 1, Episode 3)
Viva La Bam: "Phil's Hell Day/Bam's Skate Park" (Season 1, Episode 1)
Bam Margera, Phil Margera, April Margera, Don Vito, Ryan Dunn, Raab Himself, Brandon DiCamillo, Rake Yohn and more…
Daniel Lioneye – The King of Rock'n'roll
CKY – Disengage The Symulator
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Green Motion Orlando
After booking a Nissan Altima for what I thought was a great deal of $110, I read a long series of negative reviews on this Green Motion location. Fortunately, after returning the vehicle this morning I have only positive feedback. We waited no more than 5 to 10 minutes for the van to arrive at the airport and about 15 minutes max to get waited on at the off-site rental location due to 3 groups in front of us. The manager even jumped in to become a third attendant to move the line along faster. The office was clean and the staff helpful. They even offered the four of us complimentary drinks while we waited the 2 minutes to bring the car up. If you can get one, bring your own SunPass, Florida does not use the EZPass System prevalent throughout the Northeast and Midwest US. Regarding the return experience, the office was crowd with a steady line of returns at 5 am on a Saturday and we just missed two shuttles as we pulled into the location which resulted in about a 15 minute wait for the next one. This delay was minor compared to the wait at the Orlando Airport so be sure to give yourself at least 2 hours during peak travel times. All in all I was very pleased with Green Motion and would not hesitate to try them again in the future.
Absolute Worst
So after arriving in Orlando and spending two hours at the wrong rental agency (courtesy of the front desk clerk of Green Motion) we were sent back to the airport to spend another 45 minutes waiting on a driver to acknowledge our presence (we were next to the van) we were finally driven around the airport 3 times for no reason... Upon returning the vehicle we arrived to find the driver asleep in the office, after a loud and repeated knocking (Eddy) proceeded to yell at us, ask what my problem was, all while moving at about the speed of smell. This company's employees are not only rude, they are unconcerned with customer care and satisfactory customer service. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY, THEY ARE AWFUL!!!
Bad experience
We were paid in full prior to arrival thru 3rd party Car Rental 8 but at the counter charged additional $115 forced to buy insurance even though we had our own. Rude women behind counter, hard to understand. What car rental agency has no maps? You are on your own with no help. Womens bathroom is terrible, dark and scary, the floor is crumbling away. Finding the shuttle pick up area hard because Green Motions name is not posted.
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This place is a big SCAM!!!! Shady and rude. They play games. DO NOT USE THEM OR RENTALCARS.COM. My husband got there and was told that the car had NOT been paid for. When he got back to hotel and asked me, I called them and told them I had already paid for it. They stated that you can't use debit cards only major credit cards so we were charged for that plus we HAD to get their insurance since we were paying with a debit card. Needless to say we were charged double. PLEASE ALWAYS READ THE REVIEWS BEFORE YOU SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE. If I could have given zeros I would have!!!!!!!!!!
Green Motion - - took my green $ and ran
They took my money . . . gave away my rental even though I told them I was going to be late and it was pre-paid and blamed Argus Car (booking agent) . . then after I third partied them into the call they changed their reason (that Argus cancelled it) and then said it was because I was late....they had no more cars to give us and I had $400 less to spend on my vacation as I had to rent another car...two days later for more money. ALL THE BAD REVIEWS ABOUT GREEN MOTION ARE RIGHT...THEY ARE CROOKS...ESPECIALLY AT GREEN MOTION IN ORLANDO. SLIMY CROOKS


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ALL-CANADA SHOW: Jan. 10 to 13, Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. The All-Canada Show features fishing and hunting destinations represented by 150 lodge owners and outfitters from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The event, highlighting well-known presenters from television, includes free seminars, maps and travel guides. Hours are 5 to 9 p.m. Jan. 10; 3 to 9 p.m. Jan. 11; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 12; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 13. Cost: $12 for adults, free for people age 17 and younger, with discounts online. Information: AllCanada.com, 630-584-6300.
QUEEN OF HEARTS DRAWING NIGHTS: Thursdays until Aug. 15, Elburn American Legion Post 630, 112 N. Main St., Elburn. Bar opens at 4:30 p.m. Information: email@example.com, 630-365-6530.
ST. CHARLES INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: 9 a.m. to noon Fridays, Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, 307 Cedar Ave., St. Charles. It's held every Friday from November through April, featuring fresh harvested and locally grown produce, bread, meat, eggs, artisan cheese, garden art and other edibles. Reach Baker Hall off Cedar Avenue entrance. Information: bakermemorialchurch.org.
LAUREN GUNDERSON'S "SILENT SKY" PRESENTED BY STEEL BEAM THEATRE: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 11 to Feb. 3, 111 W. Main St., downtown St. Charles. The true story is about Henrietta Leavitt, who begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, but isn't allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women "computers," charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in "girl hours" and has no time for the women's probing theories. Cost: $22 to $28. Information: steelbeamtheatre.org.
ART SHOWS' RECEPTION CELEBRATING 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF WATER STREET STUDIOS: 6 to 9 p.m., 160 S. Water St., Batavia. Exhibits feature the artwork of 30 current resident artists and instructors, working in a wide variety of media, scale and disciplines. The reception will offer appetizers from Gaetano's and a cash bar. The gallery will accept donations for the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry and Clothes Closet during its second Friday gallery opening receptions; a needs list is at bataviafoodpantry.org. Exhibits run to Feb. 2, open from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday to Sunday. Cost: Free admission, with a $5 donation encouraged. Information: waterstreetstudios.org, 630-761-9977.
YESSONGS SALUTE TO YES IS PART OF ARCADA LINEUP: 8 p.m., Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles. Next up will be Motown Reflections at 8 p.m. Jan. 12, with the dance floor hopping; The Windy City Elvis Birthday Bash featuring Joe "Elvis" Tirrito and Radney Pennington, 5 p.m. Jan. 13; The Moody Blues and Wings founding member Denny Laine and The Moody Wing Band, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17; and Carla Cooke in a tribute to her legendary father, Sam Cooke, 8 p.m. Jan. 18. Information: arcadalive.com.
TWO BROTHERS ARTISAN SPIRITS DISTILLERY TOURS: 7 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Saturdays, Two Brothers Roundhouse, 205 N. Broadway (Route 25), Aurora. No reservations are taken, but check in at host stand. Cost: Free. Information: 630-264-2739, twobrothersbrewing.
GENEVA COMMONS ICE SKATING: daily, 602 Commons Drive, Geneva. Ice skating and skate rental fees apply, with hours from 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Jan. 13. Information: shopgenevacommons.com.
COMEDY NIGHT WITH VITO ZATTO AS PART OF CLUB ARCADA LINEUP: 9 p.m., Club Arcada, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles. The show is preceded by The Flat Cats at 9 p.m. Jan. 11. Information: arcadalive.com.
ANDREW DIEHL & THE NIGHTMEN: 10 p.m., The House Pub, 16 S. Riverside Drive, St. Charles. Cost: No cover. Information: thehousepub.com.
AURORA 88S ROLLER DERBY TEAM INFORMATION NIGHT AND SCRIM: 7:30 p.m., Aurora Skate Center, 34W113 Montgomery Road, Aurora. Through its Sidekick training program, the team is recruiting adult skaters and referees, plus volunteers. A Red versus Black fundraiser bout begins at 5 p.m. Jan. 19, with free admission. Information: aurora88s.com, firstname.lastname@example.com.
PIANIST ANI GOGOVA: 2 p.m., St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave. The library's Sunday Concert series will present international concert pianist Ani Gogova, winner of a top music competition in her native Bulgaria. She holds a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She has been living in Chicago since 2003, when she was appointed to the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, becoming the youngest professor, at the time, to join the music conservatory faculty. Cost: Free. Information: scpld.org, 630-584-0076.
HABITAT WORKDAY: 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays and 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays, Fermilab Natural Areas, off Kirk Road and Pine Street, Batavia. Participants learn about ecology and the environment. No experience is required, but dress for the weather and outdoor work. In the winter, volunteers process native seed mixes and remove invasive woody plants. All tools and safety equipment are provided. Simply show photo ID to security guard at entrance and meet in Lederman Science Center parking lot. Rain, heavy snow or hazardous weather will cancel event. Information: fermilabnaturalareas.org.
WINTER HEALTH WITH ESSENTIAL OILS: 6:30 p.m., Heritage Prairie Farm, 2N308 Brundige Road, Elburn. The focus is on essential oils and supplements. Information: heritageprairiefarm.com.
STORIES FOR KIDS: 10:30 a.m., Creek Bend Nature Center at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve, 37W700 Dean St., St. Charles. The program is presented by the St. Charles Public Library in partnership with the Forest Preserve District of Kane County. No registration is required. Information: scpld.org
AUTHOR JONATHAN EIG OF "ALI: A LIFE" AT BOOKS BETWEEN BITES: noon, Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. Until now, Muhammad Ali has never been the subject of a complete, unauthorized biography. Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America's master storytellers, had unique access to Ali's inner circle, conducted more than 500 interviews, and uncovered thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files. Guests are welcome to bring their lunch or purchase food at the library's Chapters Coffeehouse & Café; one can call 630-406-8005 to arrange pickup. Cost: Free. Information: booksbetweenbites.com.
TRIVIA NIGHT BENEFIT BY BATAVIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 7 to 9 p.m., Pal Joey's restaurant and bar, 2030 Main St., Batavia. Three-member teams will compete in general, Illinois and Batavia history rounds. Cost: $100 per team. Information: bataviahistoricalsociety.org.
ELVIS – TRIBUTE ARTIST SPECTACULAR "BIRTHDAY EDITION": 8 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. It stars Shawn Klush, Ryan Pelton and Cody Ray Slaughter with Chicago's own Rick Saucedo and the Blackwood Quartet. Cost: $29.50 to $60. Information: paramountaurora.com.
FERMILAB ART GALLERY EXHIBIT: through Feb. 27, Wilson Hall off Kirk Road and Pine Street, Batavia. The show features work by Jane Barthès in "An Alternative Molecular Universe" (jbarthes.com). A gallery talk is offered at noon Jan. 30. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; sign in at the Wilson Hall atrium reception desk. Cost: Free. Information: events.fnal.gov/art-gallery.
STILL NOT FRIDAY STAND-UP COMEDY SHOWCASE: 8 p.m. every Thursday, Two Brothers Roundhouse, 205 N. Broadway, Aurora. Doors open at 7 p.m. The full food and drink menu is available in the showroom. Cost: Show admission free. Information: twobrothersbrewing.com/events.
OPEN MIC NIGHTS AT FLAGSTONE CRAFTS: 9 p.m. Thursdays, 101 W. State St., Geneva. It runs until 1 a.m. Cost: Free. Information: flagstonecrafts.com.
LIVE MUSIC: 8:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, ROX City Grill at Hotel Baker, 100 W. Main St., St. Charles. Information: roxcitygrill.com, 630-845-5800.
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: 8 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. Gospel titans infuse jazz and blues influences. Cost: $30 to $50. Information: paramountaurora.com.
THE CROSS-OVER MUSICAL ENSEMBLE WELL-STRUNG: 7:30 p.m., Batavia Fine Arts Centre, 1399 W. Wilson St., Batavia. The all-male string quartet returns with music from the newest album, "Popssicle." The classical musicians and vocalists put their own spin on the music of Mozart, Vivaldi, Rihanna, Adele and many others from the pop and classical realms. Cost: $26 to $39. Information: bataviafineartscentre.org.
"I AM KING – THE MICHAEL JACKSON EXPERIENCE": 8 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. It stars Michael Firestone and a cast of Broadway and Las Vegas dancers. Cost: $37 to $57. Information: paramountaurora.com.
"SWAN LAKE" PRESENTED BY NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE OF ODESSA: 3 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. Cost: $35 to $65. Information: paramountaurora.com.
ART CLASSES OFFERED BY WATER STREET STUDIOS: beginning on various dates, 160 S. Water St., Batavia. Basics and Beyond Glass Bead making is offered Jan. 22. Information: waterstreetstudios.org, 630-761-9977.
ANNUAL EQUUS FILM FESTIVAL: 6 p.m., Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles. The award event highlights creative efforts of those in indie film, music and advertising, who artistically pay homage to the horse through media. EQUUS travels with the WINNIE Award winners and other films around the country and in the United Kingdom throughout the year. This event's feature film will be "A Pony and His Boy: The Story of Berry and Josh." Directed by Julianne Neal, it shows the power of a pony and the effect that he has had on one small boy with Down syndrome. It was filmed in Illinois and North and South Carolina. A 30-minute meet and greet precedes the films, with stars and filmmaker. Information: arcadalive.com, equusfilmfestival.net.
STORYTELLER WILLIAM PACK ON P.T. BARNUM FOR SUNDAYS ON STAGE: 2 p.m., Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. Years before he revolutionized the circus, Barnum was the most famous man in the world. Pack reveals his amazing life through storytelling and recreations of historical sideshow performances. Registration is required for the adult program. Information: bataviapubliclibrary.org.
ART OPENING RECEPTION FOR "BECOMING – TRANSFORMATIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN ART": 5 to 6:30 p.m., Schingoethe Center in Hill Welcome Center at Aurora University, 1315 Prairie St., Aurora. The show runs to April 26. The Schingoethe Contemporary Collection exhibit includes works by some of the nation's important American Indian artists. The entry's gallery space will show "Stitches of the Soul/Las Puntadas del Almas – Story Quilts" from the National Museum of Mexican Art. Rebecca Head Trautmann of the National Museum of the American Indian will lecture at 6:45 p.m. after the reception. She also is project curator for the National Native American Veterans Memorial opening in 2020; a lecture on the memorial is planned at noon Feb. 1. Cost: Free. Information: aurora.edu/museum.


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GRTC has released newly updated timetables that reflect the changes coming to the bus system on June 24th. Now, with those public timetables, you can get a real feel for how clockface timing works. Gone are the days of buses coming at unpredictable, irregular intervals! For example: The new #5 (PDF) stops at Cary & Robinson on the hour, 15 minutes past the hour, 30 past, and 45 past. It does this all day long, from 5:00 AM to 6:45 PM (when it switches over to evening hours). This easy-to-remember, easy-to-predict scheduling should make it straightforward for folks, in this particular example, to close out their tabs and catch the bus home. Of course, clockface timing also makes it easier to plan trips to the bank, the grocery story, a medical appointment—wherever you need to go.
Also, while you've got that route map pulled up, GRTC has cleverly included the Pulse on these maps and where you can make connections with it. The #5, for example, connects with the Pulse at the Government Center station. Useful stuff!
The folks at TransitCenter have a fairly technically yet really interesting post up about how to understand the nationwide drop in transit ridership over the past couple of years. One of the key predictors of increased ridership is an increase in the amount of bus service provided by a transit agency. This makes a lot of sense: Provide more bus service and more folks will ride the bus.
StreetsBlog looks at a temporary, pop-up bus lane in Boston and how it dramatically reduced commute times for folks using only traffic cones. Temporary bus lanes are so, so cheap and an easy way to experiment with improving our transit network at basically no cost. After we get past June 24th and kick the tires on our entirely new transit network, we should begin thinking about which segments of which routes would benefit from something like this. Unrelated but important: Note that the champion for the pop-up bus lane in Boston is a City Councilperson who rides the bus to work.
Here are two articles about experiments with providing fare-free public transportation. The first details an effort to get University of Washington to fully cover the cost of unlimited transit passes for faculty and staff. The second has the details on a single line in Grand Rapids Michigan going fare-free (and getting extended service hours) due to support from the local healthcare industry. Fascinating!
If you'd like to support RVA Rapid Transit's work to bring a truly regional transit system to Richmond, consider making a tax-deductible donation.


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Under their partnership, Hyundai will set up fuel cell power generation system, while EWP, an affiliate of state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., will maintain the hydrogen-powered system and sell electricity generated from the plant. The hydrogen gas will be supplied by Deokyang, it added.
"The pilot project itself is significant for us as we will be able to supply domestically developed generators to the market that is dominated by foreign technologies," the company said in a statement.
Hyundai will deploy dozens of power modules used for its fuel cell electric vehicle Nexo to start operation of the 1-MW plant. It is scheduled to start operations in the second half and will be capable of producing 8,000 MWph per year, the company explained.
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Posted Wednesday, September 7, 2011 02:28 PM
A suggestion for us old "F", remember we may not have the eyesight we did in High School. Please make the NAME TAG print large! ( For those of us who may be to vain to wear our glasses.) Otherwise, it maybe get close and upfront personal.
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Posted Wednesday, September 7, 2011 08:22 PM
Great idea, but a good excuse to get up close and personal.
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Posted Wednesday, September 7, 2011 09:14 PM
I guess you meant fogie by F? (Sorry, I had to be funny.....) Getting up close and personal is OK, too. Some people may still not be able to see them especially after a few glasses of wine! Now, will we still be able to remember names even with the tags? On second thought, we can save that for the 60th.........
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This 2008 interview is part one of a series of ten-minute conversations which took place between artists who have little in common with each other except their place in the alphabet. Here, James Turrell and Cy Twombly interview Rachel Tweddell.
JT: Let's start by talking about Dollar Drop – you climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and dropped a dollar off the top, and advertised this as an event, which people could attend.
RT: Yes, it was an almost invisible artwork. I wanted to make a work which was more a train of thought than anything else. It did actually physically happen – I mean, I did drop a dollar and people could have come to the top of the Empire State Building at 9am to watch, although as far as I know, nobody did. And it was important to actually do it, because in the real, concrete world something did actually happen to that dollar, though of course I will never know what. It may have landed in someone's hand, it may have fallen in a puddle, who knows. But something definitely happened to it. So I set a narrative in motion. And every time someone gets to know about this work, they will also only be able imagine the outcome, so it's as if there are as many possible outcomes as there are people who know about the piece. It's a kind of limitless work in that way. But it required minimal materials - no effort, no cost. Well, it cost one dollar. As a work it very nearly didn't exist.
CT: It's a very hands-off piece of work. You literally let something go. Is the piece analogous to the general idea of making work, showing it to people and having no control over its future?
RT: It was a set of possibilities. I mean, the work really takes place when people find out about it, and start wondering about it themselves, but I won't actually know what kind of outcomes they visualise. So yes, the piece does hold these two ideas up alongside each other – the unknown fate of the dollar, the reception of the piece – they sit in parallel in the work. It can be pared down in this way, but I think, as an act, dropping the dollar had just enough theatre or grandeur to hold its own as an actual spectacle, and not just be this kind of absent musing. I think that's important. Since the twin towers fell, the Empire State Building has become New York's tallest building again so, even though it was a very slight gesture, the drop did have its own kind of drama or vividness.
JT: It seems similar in tone to another piece you made, also in New York, with the inscription on the city post office.
RT: I made those works months apart but I think I was trying out similar things in both pieces. The main post office in New York is huge, and it has a really long sentence carved into its façade – NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT SHALL STAY THESE COURIERS FROM THE SWIFT COMPLETION OF THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS. It's two blocks wide. It almost looks as if the building had to be the size it is just to accommodate the sentence. I loved this sentence so much and I wanted to work with it somehow, do something more with it than just tell people it was there, which would have been the alternative. The work I made was sent by post to a group of people. Each person received a letter saying that on a certain day, I had made a rubbing of the whole inscription, which I then cut up and sent, one letter at a time, to people on my mailing list. There are 103 letters in the inscription, so I said that the length of the mailing list was dictated by the length of the sentence. And in each envelope was a huge rubbing of one letter.
CT: But are we to think you actually climbed up the building and made the rubbing?
RT: Well, I don't know what people thought, but I doubt anyone believed I had really done that. Of course, they can if they like. That would be great. But I wasn't really pretending that I had climbed the building. There are many other fictions in the letter. I didn't climb the building, I didn't make a rubbing of the sentence, and I didn't send out 103 letters. I wasn't actually in New York when the letters were posted. What I did was take the sentence and supplant it somewhere else, in this case divide it amongst all sorts of different people in different places who, in many cases, didn't know each other and whose only connection was that they were on my mailing list. And then they became a sentence. In their minds, with their letter, if they all thought about the other people (which they kind of had to, in order to think about the piece) they spelt out the sentence. And there was the implied possibility, even if it remained unrealised, that these people could one day physically come together with their letters, and they would be able to write out the sentence, actual size, in a different place.
JT: So using the process described in the sentence, the delivery of mail, you literally transported the sentence.
RT: Yes – well, not literally, as everyone got an O. There are 13 Os in the sentence, and no more than 13 people on the list knew each other, so that was fine. So long as people can imagine the other people receiving all the other letters, the work is done.
CT: I got an O!
JT: So did I!
CT: So the work exists in the minds of this disparate group of people. But the physical elements to the piece seem crucial. For a start, unlike most sentences, this one was originally carved in stone on a huge, clumsy building. And when you unfold the rubbing, there seems to be a strange perceptual shift; the actual size of the O strikes me as being huge – much bigger than you would expect.
RT: It's true that the work is ultimately an idea, or a visualisation on the part of a certain group of people – it's weightless in that way, but it's set against this heavy claim I make, that I scaled this huge building, overcame physical obstacles and so on, with something of the heroism that is contained in the sentence itself. I think this balance of concrete realities and flyaway ideas runs right through the piece and reveals itself at all sorts of different stages within it. In the absense of first-hand experience, you rely on imaginative projection to cover distances. So from the ground, or in a photo of the building, the letter O looks tiny, and by being close up to the real size of it you stop having to visualise it, or mentally account for the distance between you and it. You are sort of in two places at once. And, of course, I did send the letters by post. The postal system in the first place has to do with covering huge distances with solid objects, and the leap of faith that is part of using the system – believing that this thing came from that place, that this thing will soon be in that house, across that ocean. I mean, it's a practical, straight-forward system, but there's actually a lot of faith and imagination involved in sending post.
JT: It strikes me there are a lot of ideas going on in the work, but its physical form is very spare – it's just a letter in the post and a big O.
RT: That's something I'm trying to do in my work generally - be concise. I wanted to do that with the Dollar Drop too.
CT: Let's talk about one more work – I think it's your most recent piece. Green Steeple as Centre. It's a different piece to the other two we've discussed, in that it's a hand-tinted photograph, a more conventional art object, but has a sense of mystery which is familiar from the other work. Who is this boy in a mask?
RT: I don't know who he is either. I found this photograph. And I agree, it seems to say 'Mystery!' as he's wearing a mask and there seems to be a set of clues around him. I suppose all old photographs are mysterious, but this one is mysterious in a very engaging way. The boy is holding a big bunch of balloons, and on the wall in his room there is a Paul Klee poster. It's a black and white photograph but it has a lot to do with colour. Klee was an artist who was really about colour, he taught colour at the Bauhaus. And balloons, well, they are really just about communicating a colour, aren't they. What can you say about a balloon, until it pops, except that it's a red one or a yellow one? And then I realised that if I traced the Klee piece, found out what colours it contained and compared the tones of grey in the photo, I would be able to establish the colours of the balloons.
JT: So you were able to find out, with a degree of accuracy, something that was actually quite arbitrary.
RT: Yes, the task had a pointlessness to it. That was part of the impulse to do it. I mean, the colours of those particular balloons were not important, and the position of the balloons at that moment is of no historical significance. It's not something you would ever need to remember or record. If I could find the boy in the photo, or the person who took the photo, they wouldn't be able to tell me what the colours of the balloons had been at that moment. But there is record of the Klee painting, it was considered worth recording, it's a culturally significant set of shapes and colours. The photo puts the two things on a level plane. Although, interestingly, that Klee is now missing- it was stolen in the 80s – so it was impossible to really see the colours at first hand.
CT: And from the photograph, I don't think it's possible to read the title of the work, is it?
RT: No, it isn't. I really tried. More mystery. Luckily for me, Paul Klee was extremely organised. He made almost 10000 works in his life and he catalogued every single one. So I eventually found a reproduction - but it was in black and white! By then I had the title, though, so I was able to find it on the web. By that time, of course, I had come a long way from the original colours – even from screen to screen the colours looked totally different. So the task I set myself is full of gaps and vagueness and approximation. There is a huge amount of distance between the original Klee and the reproduction I found, between the balloons and the poster, between us and the boy. Everything is missing, really, or unknown – even down to the boy wearing a mask. But the work ignores this - it's saying we have information, this is what we know, here we are. It brings the scene back into the here and now.
JT: It seems that at the centre of most of your works there is something elusive, something that we can think about but never really know. Is this intentional?
RT: It has happened unintentionally. I certainly don't set out to make work which does this, but it's true, it's a big thing. With most art, I think it's interesting to think about where the work can be located, where it really does its turn. With my work, it's not quite in the object before your eyes, it's not quite in your mind's eye, or in the anecdote that surrounds it - it's somewhere in the mid-distance between all three. The best way I can explain it is when you are playing with the focus on a camera, and you focus on something far away, and then on something close up, and then a fly comes along and for a split second the lens focuses on that. But you missed it because you were thinking about something else. That's where the work is.


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A Brief Review of the Preparatory Art Mediation Workshops for Dhaka Art Summit 2018
by Dr. Rachel Mader, Head of the Competence Centre for Art and Design in Public Space, HSLU in Lucerne, Switzerland
Most, if not all of the participants of the workshop on art mediation in Dhaka were hearing this term for the first time. Their persistent questioning of what exactly the term art mediation meant, was therefore not only an expression of a deep interest in the subject, but proved to be a fruitful start to discussing how art mediation could be practiced in a context like the Dhaka Art Summit.
The point of departure for our workshop wasn't to explain or clarify what art mediation is, or should be - although we obviously intended to initiate a couple of discussions on what it could be. Our discussions were primarily based around insights into practical experiences on a variety of chosen tools already existing, tested and adopted during our first workshop on art mediation, implemented during the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016. The intention of the tools developed were not to teach people about art, or specific art works, but to enable and foster each individual's perspective. This approach was not obvious to the participants at first, and took some time to communicate, but when we were concerned with trying to situate our attitude, which obviously is nurtured by a critique on traditional formats of art mediation (e.g. guided tours), the participants began to get more of an idea of what should (and could) be mediated.
The participants came from very different professional backgrounds, which composed a multi-vocal set of ideas, and nourished the debate and activities in a most fruitful way. With a total of 25 participants, the group was rather big, but this made the discussions lively and every once in a while, a little bit wild. The enthusiasm about the idea of offering the Summit's visitors the possibility of engaging with the exhibited works in a more direct and individual way was overwhelming. Quite a few of the participants formulated proposals on how they could adopt art mediation strategies within their professional contexts. It was this kind of engagement, not at all limited to performing as an art mediator during the art summit, but re-appropriating the exchange for all different kinds of activities, which was an inspiring experience and an aspect of our time in Dhaka that I will include in future initiatives on art mediation.
This series of workshops was collaboratively organised by Lena Eriksson (Lucerne), Ruxmini Choudhury (Dhaka), Rachel Mader (Lucerne).


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The Harry Potter vibe returned to Year 4 on Monday when the children experienced the first of three workshops on creative writing. The Sorting Hat made an appearance in the starter activity and it certainly got the creative juices going. Children threw in nouns and adjectives to be sorted and, after a quick spell and flick of wands, they retrieved three and began to write a short story, using the words for inspiration. A buzz of excitement filled the room which very soon became a hive of activity.
The main activity was centred on creating and developing character descriptions. This included the explanation and practise of advanced writing techniques. The children were also encouraged to use their senses to visualise and record their ideas on a template before writing a short paragraph describing a day in the life of their chosen character.
Several children shared their wonderful work with the rest of the class.Previous


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Fairfax County Public Schools is currently taking comments through this weekend until June 18th at firstname.lastname@example.com on their planned sexual education (AKA "Family Life" education) program. When you hear some of the things included, you will probably be provoked to contact them immediately.
Here are just a few of the messages that are included in the over 80 hours of planned sexual education for each student from kindergarten to 12th grade:
- A video for 4th graders on sexual violence prevention includes the theme of a father raping his daughter. (Emotional and Social Health, Lesson 3)
- Lessons on transgenderism beginning in Grade 7 (Emotional and Social Health Lesson 1)
- One lesson for 8th graders includes 18 mentions of the phrase, "anal sex." (Human Growth and Development, Lesson 2)
- Students are taught they might be "assigned" the wrong sex at birth and they can "transition...to living and presenting themselves as the gender that matches their gender identity." (Grade 10, Human Growth and Development, Lesson 5)
- You can learn more about the lessons at http://parentandchild.org/
In addition to FCPS's "Family Life" education materials going well beyond what is required by state guidelines, these materials clearly go well beyond what is appropriate for school children to be exposed to by persons other than their parents at home.
Many of the planned sexual education materials can be deeply harmful to children who are not yet prepared to appropriately internalize certain concepts such as rape, incest, and 'gender fluidity'. Not to mention, these messages may be fundamentally opposed to the truth about sexuality and gender, and to the values you wish to instill in your child.
If you live in Fairfax County, tell FCPS today that parents know best about when their child is ready to learn about these highly sensitive topics. Email them today with your objections.


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How Do You Balance Self-Care and Your Business?
In the aftermath of the death of my beloved companion dog Sophie, I have had to pay much closer attention to self-care. I have been tired and distracted by grief. I couldn't concentrate enough to work very much for the first three weeks after she died. Even reading was a challenge as my mind and body were processing her absence. The last time I lost a major figure in my life was 27 years ago when my father died with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). After his funeral I went back to work and managed the roller coaster of grief by pushing the painful feelings away.
This time I know that I must let the feelings come and stay until they are resolved. I have lived a lifetime of over-riding my needs and feelings. No more; because refusing to accept painful feelings of grief, sadness, and fear has kept me stuck! If I'm going to have a powerful feeling, I'm going to be present to it so that it can move through and out. The time for staying stuck is over!
This process takes time, fortitude, and faith. It also demands that I attend to what I need - be it more sleep, solitude, time with friends, a dog on my lap, easy reading, or a movie to make me laugh or cry - while finding the balance of self-care and business.
I am aware that I could fall into the pit of despair and wallow there for longer than necessary. So I've begun to rebuild daily habits now that my day is no longer scheduled around walking my dog 3 times a day. And I'm slowly slipping back into work mode with much more curiosity about how to craft my days and my work so that I work and get my personal needs met.
I am intending that my days of being driven by my relentless Task Master and Critic are over. Honestly, that part of me needs another job!
Already this feels better. What I'm creating from this perspective feels more fitting and sustainable for me.
How do you balance self-care and your business?
Do you take time for sleep, exercise, relaxation, feeling where you are?
Do you race through each day taking care of the millions of things that an entrepreneur has to do?
What is your best self-care practice?
Please share. I would truly like to know.