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This past week, this recipe was on our membership meal plan and I have to tell you that I have received emails, FB messages and texts telling me how awesome this recipe is. Since the response was so amazing, I just had to share with it with all of you.
You can substitute the lamb for beef or turkey, however, I have to highly recommend the lamb. The rich flavor is perfect for the seasoning you're putting into it. Cost varies depending on where you live, but my local grocery store sells grass-fed pre-packaged ground lamb for $6.99 per LBS.
Paleo Garlic Rosemary Balsamic Lamb Burgers
- 1 LBS Ground Lamb
- 2 Garlic Cloves
- 1 tsp Dried Rosemary
- 2 TBS Balsamic
- 2 TBS Coconut Oil (or Olive Oil)
- Salt & Pepper to Taste
Serve this with a side of Sweet Potato Fries and simple spinach salad (as shown)
Grate garlic.
Melt coconut oil.
In a bowl, combine all the ingredients. Using your hands, mix everything together and make 2-3 burger patties.
Turn on your grill, or pan to medium-high heat. Cook on one site for 4 minutes, turn and cook another 3 minutes. (This is for medium-rare).
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The Boy in the Boat
The excellent fiddler Fergal Scahill, who plays with We Banjo 3, decided he'd record a tune a day for the whole of 2017. Last week in Reykjavik, on Day 46 of the project, he played a reel titled The Boy in the Boat, also known as An Buachaill Sa Mbád.
A blues song with the title The Boy in the Boat was recorded in 1930 by George Hannah, who has been honoured for his contribution to "queer music" by The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History. The title of the tune/song is an anatomical allusion with sexual connotations and the lyrics go like this:
Now, did you ever hear the story 'bout that boy in a boat,
Don't wear no shoes or no overcoat.
Broad told me that it happened like this.
He love to dive and also to fish.
He went roaming in that shallow boat.
With his head hardly rising and his eyes hard to cope.
Face is all wrinkled and his breath smells like soap.
Talking about that boy in the boat.


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Rethinking relaunches3 min read . Updated: 19 Nov 2009, 09:34 PM IST
Rethinking relaunches
Rethinking relaunches
A week before the usually reliable and highly placed sources said that the state of Bihar is about to arise awake and take flight, this columnist was in the capital city of Patna. A faint feeling of boredom, or of waiting, pervades everything in most of eastern India. Patna is no exception. At the Patna College, where one was to deliver a talk on Hindi literature, the 1856 heritage building looked like a dishevelled collie asleep in the sun.
In the past, especially under the previous coalition government, scarcely a college in Bihar was left untouched by the sticky fingers of its increasingly corrupt and venal leaders. Apocryphal stories surfaced in the media about how an awesome "education mafia" that sold seats and degrees through dubious private colleges was patronized by powerful ministers and their families. Naxals and Maoists are still a powerful presence, exam papers are still getting "leaked", and the degrees from Bihar universities are still looked at sceptically.
Advertisements, announcing growth and happiness with prominently displayed faces of the miracle-working leaders, are issued in the media by all state governments through the year. They tell us how under the able leadership of So and So ji, public welfare schemes such as NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme), Education for All and Save The Girl child along with empowerment of women have become the big, audacious and hairy goals for the state.
Could a faith in the welfare state, in the essential indestructability of the soul of learning, have survived intact here? Could it be that even during the darkest years the chaotic secretariats, campuses and party offices in Bihar have somehow continued to hold out an invisible beam of sanity to the people, and now under the new chief minister all public welfare measures will suddenly begin to work and make Bihar an exemplary state within the next four years?
Actually all assertive messages in the media that seek to relaunch a backward area as a newly arrived miracle require a serious rethink. Relaunching anything from a flagging product to a failing state in India, mostly turns out to be an exercise in pouring old wine in attractive and expensive new bottles by clever copy writers.
Flights to all state capitals today carry tieless, fast-talking young ad agency reps, summoned to devise a saleable product relaunch. They then congregate to enact an expensive ritual behind closed doors in the best hotel in town, also known as a "presentation". Despite their utter lack of ground knowledge or of the local languages, their presenters deliver hypnotic sermons in English, to an audience of Hindi or Bhojpuri or Maithili-speaking clients in all high seriousness using mysterious abstract terms such as— "brand identity", "brand value", "market share" and "core value", just as the wily Brahmin priests once used terms such as swaha, swadha and namo namah!
The clients, by now happily soporofic after the substantial "working lunch" that must accompany each ritual in India, are usually quite pleased with the linguistically enhanced and flattering image of themselves and so the "relaunch" package is okayed. The success of bagging such contracts hinges on how convincingly the client's goals can be made to "look" like a radical departure from their predecessors, even though substantially they may be no different. And how can they be, given the specific caste calculus and financial compulsions that drive state government formation from Chandigarh to Patna?
Sometimes such expensive exercises work, but mostly they do not because the product is substantially still the same. Remember how the National Democratic Alliance lost out despite its eye-catching "India Shining" campaign? The poor dears, it turns out, could not rectify the desperation that had led to planning the relaunch.
Ditto for the Rajasthan government's campaigns that portrayed the state as a tourists' paradise. The planners, it turned out, had not worked in variables such as angry caste-based clashes between Gujjars, Meenas and Jats, fears of a terror strike and inner party tensions in the copy, plus the usual delays in flights and trains and mauling of women tourists by local louts.
Oonchi dukaan pheeke pakwan (a spectacular shop with tasteless offerings), Boodhi ghodi lal lagaam, Aao logo karo salaam (come and salute to the old mare with a bright new scarlet rein)—these, one would like to point out to both the ad agencies and their clients, are age-old Hindi sayings. They indicate an ancient public resistance to the misplaced vanities and fancies of all rulers and corporates. Those who do not know their vernacular proverbs need seriously to rethink their planned relaunch.
Mrinal Pande likes to take readers behind the reported news in her fortnightly column. She is a writer and freelance journalist in New Delhi. Comments are welcome at email@example.com


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At Grimaldi Law Firm, a firm focusing on estate planning in Florida, we know that there is nothing quite like the grandparent/grandchild relationship. For those of us lucky enough to experience it, it is clear why this relationship is considered to special.
But as with any relationship, things can change when you least expect it.
What happens when, in the case of an extreme emergency, the grandparent needs to become the parent? Or if there is a divorce in the family that affects a grandparent's ability to have visitation with their grandchild.
Believe it or not, these instances are becoming more common with each passing year.
This is particularly an issue you'll want to be aware of if your child has a close relationship with your parents, or if you are a grandparent who wouldn't want something like this to affect your relationship with your grandkids.
On the flipside, you may choose not to have a relationship with your parents, and want the same for your children. It is important to consider that in the that event something happens to you, rules must be put in place so that your child or children are not handed off to their grandparents.
How do we cover all bases so that we can avoid one of these situations?
Organized planning by way of an Estate Plan with Grimaldi Law Firm of course.
Here are a few scenarios to consider when deciding how you'd like to maintain, handle, or protect the grandparent relationship you've established for your family:
Grandparents as guardians
If your child as a close relationship with your parents or in-laws that you are happy with maintaining, put it in writing. Nominating the grandparents as legal guardians of your children in the event that something were to happen to you, will ensure that they will be able to enforce that through the courts. Remember, without this nomination, grandparents are not necessarily entitled to legal rights of their grandchild.
Steering clear of the grandparents
Lots of things happen within families that could lead you to want to put the lid on a potential relationship between your children and your parents. In that event that both you and your partner pass away or become incapacitated, it's likely that the set of grandparents you're trying to steer clear of would become the first option as caregivers by the Court system. This is yet another reason to name legal guardians for your child or children in the event of a tragedy.
If you did choose someone else and wanted to avoid having your parents find out about this we could help you prepare a plan for this as well.
Finally, if you are a grandparent who takes care of your grandchildren on a regular basis, a health care surrogate designation is an important tool so that you would be able to take your grandchild to the doctor or hospital if the parent is traveling or unavailable.
There are so many things to think about as a parent, and so many more to consider when thinking of the best possible future you can create for your child. Let's sit down for a Family Planning Session and create a plan that helps put you at ease knowing that your children will be cared for according to your wishes and desires.
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Super Easy 2-Ingredient Summer Dessert
Easy seems to my theme nowadays! :) .. This dessert was a huge hit with the family. It took me less than 15 minutes to assemble and pop in the freezer yesterday afternoon. They were frozen and ready to eat when our BBQ dinner was done.
Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches
(Yep.. just 2 ingredients)
Cookies, your favorite type (these can be homemade or store bought, I purchased 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies from Costco), you will need 2 cookies for each ice cream sandwich. So buy according to how many sandwiches you want to make
Ice Cream – a half gallon will give you more than enough, choose your favorite ice cream flavor (I used vanilla)
Let the ice cream sit on the counter for about 10 minutes so it is soft enough to scoop out easily..
Put one cookie upside down on a plate
Put a big scoop of ice cream on top...
Put another cookie (face side up) on top...
When assembled put them in the freezer to firm up (I put mine on a try lined with parchment paper).. Serve when they are frozen...
And enjoy!!
A side note: If your kitchen is warm the ice cream can melt quickly.. if you are making a lot of them you might want to put them directly in the freezer after making each one so you don't end up with a creamy mess! :)


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Homily: January 25, 2015
3 EPIPHANY, YEAR B; Rev. Theo Park
Jonah cries out: "In forty days God will destroy the city."
Paul writes to the Corinthians: "The appointed time has grown short
and the present form of this world is passing away."
Jesus in the Marcan account begins his career by preaching:
"The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near."
What is all this about? Why have the framers of the lectionary grouped these readings and what cumulative message do they have for us today?
I say "cumulative" because as we hear them the readings do not stand alone—
not even the gospel, though we give it pride of place—
they pile up, one on another, each informing and giving weight to the others.
So what is going on here? What do you hear?
I hear immediacy. I hear action. I hear that something is going to happen…soon…now;
in fact, something is already happening although we may be unaware of it.
Our job is to discern what that something is and to join ourselves to it.
I hear a call to change, a call to conversion, a call to a completely new way of being.
I hear that God is the principal actor, the initiator, the One who calls—
the One in whom we live and move and have our being—
and that we are those who respond…or don't...to the call.
What do you hear?
And where does it connect with the stuff of your life? With your passion?
What message does it have for you? What meaning?
Individually and as a community of faith?
The message is clear in all the gospels, each in their own way,
that for the Christian, discipleship to Jesus must be the number one priority.
"Sell all you have and give it to the poor," we read later in Mark.
"Follow me and let the dead bury their own dead," we find in Matthew.
It seems harsh at first, certainly extreme. Many of us want to reject such teaching.
I think the key to appropriating this message for ourselves
lies not in thinking of it in terms of sacrifice but in terms of recklessness.
There is an extravagance of commitment in what these four brothers do,
giving all of themselves and all of their lives on the spot to Jesus and his message.
The decision to follow Jesus is a glorious break with convention,
a call not to hold back but to overdo.
It is a summons to absolute trust in the reliability—
and more particularly the abundance—of God.
Which is, according to the author of Mark, where Jesus begins, after all:
he proclaims, and calls his listeners to believe in, the Good News of God.
The God who heals those who have fallen away, whose very nature is forgiveness,
in whose promise of justice is hope.
"Change your ways and put your trust in the goodness of God!"
is the message Jesus preaches.
And then everything he is and does and says throughout the three years of his ministry simply fleshes that statement out.
Who wouldn't respond to that?
Well, lots of people, actually.
Recklessness is not something that comes naturally to most of us,
not in our personal life, not in our corporate life.
We are more cautious, more prudent, ultimately more conservative.
Extravagance of commitment doesn't always sit well with mortgages and job security.
As much as we would like to, in the face of the realities of our world
it is hard to trust God's abundance, probably because we want to define
just what abundance means and we want it on our terms.
Even these same disciples who so eagerly abandon their old ways now
will begin to doubt and question before the gospel ends.
Simon will end up denying Jesus; most of the others flee when things get tough.
Judas—also one of those whom Jesus calls, don't forget—will go so far as to betray him.
God alone remains faithful.
Despite everything we do, God's love is steadfast and sure, overflowing.
Jesus calls us to believe that, demonstrates it
with his very life and death and resurrection.
And then he calls us to act out of that place of belief.
So if we trust in that Good News, where in our lives
do we need to show some recklessness of response?
What needs changing in our settled ways, as individuals, as the Church,
so that we can be more extravagant in our commitment to God and Christ?
You will shortly be interviewing candidates to join you as your next clergy partner.
Were I one of them I would want to ask what your vision is for the future of this place.
How do you articulate your mission and the story of Gethsemane's call to Christ?
Where are you willing to risk, to dare, to be extravagant?
When you get to the part about your response, how would you describe it?
Would it be like the Gospel of Mark: "And immediately we..."?
Or would it be something else?
In my own life I have many passions:
God, Jesus, justice, children, formation, liturgy, community.
They are the stuff of my life; they all give meaning to my life.
They all call out to me on any given day; often they overlap.
But just as often the clamor of their competing demands makes it hard for me
to hear the call to immediacy, the call to action,
the call to respond that comes from God alone.
And in the confusion I stop discerning and turn to other tasks,
things that may seem important but are actually the world's "make work."
So I need to be reminded regularly, to be brought up short by the one call
and the message it brings.
Some time in the relatively recent past I was participating in a small group
we were doing an exercise in just such discernment
and I shared with the group that the call I heard was "to be more outrageous."
There was laughter all around, and maybe a little discomfort:
Theo more outrageous?
But what I meant was that I am not called to play it safe;
I don't believe that any of us are.
Not as Christians, not as the Church.
We are called to risk.
We are called to follow.
We are called to act.
We are not to worry what the world thinks,
we are not to shrink back out of fear of offending or even of being hurt.
We are to trust in God, to whom power belongs;
God, who alone is our rock and our salvation,
from whom comes our hope and in whom we shall not be shaken.
God speaks to us in the silence of our heart, saying
"You are created and called to act with me in my world.
Let your life speak."
When God calls, what do you hear?
How will you answer?


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VIDEOS: Five New Clips from BEAUTIFUL CREATURES Released!
Five new clips from the upcoming film BEAUTIFUL CREATURES have just been release. The film is coming to theaters on Valentine's Day, February 14th. Get a first look below!Beautiful Creatures is written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch.
A supernatural love story set in the South, the film tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.


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Biotechnology R&D Center
Biotechnology R&D Center
On top of R&D for natural and synthetic active materials for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals,
our Biotechnology R&D Center also conducts research on formulation for product upgrades and customer satisfaction.
Natural Substances Research
This section of research separates and purifies useful components from the various natural resources such as animals,
plants, marine life and microorganisms, explores their chemical structure and new bioactivity, and develops vital materials with various effects.
- - Development of materials using safe raw materials
- - Differentiated application of raw materials by applying traditional Korean medical methods and bioconversion technology
- - Optimized manufacturing technology by utilizing various extraction methods
- - Utilizing purification and separation technology
Analysis Application Research
This section of research studies about the separation, structure analysis, quantitative analysis, and physical and
chemical features of natural substances, organic chemicals, and biomaterials.
- - Development of raw material specifications and test methods
- - Determination and analysis of the index components of natural substances
- - Other analysis necessary for clinical study
Fusion Research
This section of research explores the usefulness of functional substances existing in nature, synthesizes new
substances with increased bioactivity through molecular design by Structure-Activity Relationship (SARs),
and develops whiteners, antioxidants, anti-aging agents, and new emollients.
- - Synthesis of new substances using material conversion technology (organic synthesis, bioconversion, and glycomics)
- - Synthesis of skin-whitening agents, antioxidants, anti-aging agents, and new emollients
- - Manufacturing functional polysaccharides through the modification of natural polysaccharides
Formulation Research
SK Bioland develops various formulation solutions in order to provide customers with superior products having high
stability and user convenience.
- - Development of solubilization and stabilization technology to provide convenience in using materials with higher biological activities
- - Development of distinctive formulation using natural materials
- - Provision of guide formulation for the effective application of materials.
New Natural Medicine Research
SK Bioland has been developing new natural medicine for dementia and diabetic complications since 2006.
The effectiveness of new Natural medicine candidate, BL153, for Alzheimer's disease is now under evaluation by clinical study.
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)
SK Bioland has established GMP technology at a global standard and has been developing various APIs that can advance into the international market. Based on this technology, Bioland is playing the role of a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) at the level of the ICH Q7 Guideline.
- - Establishment of raw material management system at an advanced level
- - Approval and introduction of APIs (Development of manufacturing process and optimization)
Bioactivity Mechanism Research
Based on advanced research technology accumulated over years, Bioland studies about the bioactivity mechanism of natural active agents and develops an alternative test method using 3-D artificial skin so as to satisfy global cosmetic R&D requirements.
- - Examination of various effects such as whitening, anti-aging, antioxidant, and atopic dermatitis
- - Development of alternative test method using 3-D artificial skin
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BP Taps Tata, Accenture, Infosys for Transformational IT Program
August 28, 2009 at 4:11 am 1 comment
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), , an IT services, consulting, business solutions and outsourcing firm based in Mumbai, India, has been selected as a strategic IT vendor by BP, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies with operations in more than 100 countries.
Over the last 12 months BP has undertaken a program to consolidate its IT vendors for application development and application maintenance (ADAM) using a rigorous selection process that assessed TCS on capability to deliver innovation, leverage Oil and Gas sector knowledge and reduce cost through a global network delivery model. TCS met these criteria and demonstrated its ability to support BP's agenda of simplification, standardization and corporate efficiency.
Dana Deasy, BP Group CIO, said: "I've been very pleased with the quality of TCS' proposal and to have selected them as one of our strategic ADAM vendors. In awarding TCS our refining, manufacturing and corporate IT maintenance work we look to benefit from their knowledge of the Oil and Gas sector. Additionally, we see opportunities for TCS to help us deliver IT solutions to enable our upstream and trading businesses. This contract will help BP to reduce complexity, standardize processes and lower our overall cost base."
"The engagement with BP underscores our ability to help global corporations become more competitive in the current economic scenario by reducing complexity through optimization of their IT landscape and focus on delivering value through continuous innovation in services," said N. Chandrasekaran, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, TCS. "Our selection as a strategic IT vendor for BP demonstrates our strong domain expertise and highlights the investments we have been making in the technology-led energy sector."
TCS' Energy Vertical serves international and national energy companies across the industry's value chain. It also works with oilfield service companies on solutions that help increase the production and reliability of upstream operations.
Separately, BP announced it has also awarded Accenture a contract to provide information technology application development services. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Accenture will help BP simplify, standardize and consolidate its IT software applications to meet BP's goals of achieving efficiency throughout the organization and to manage IT costs. Under the agreement, Accenture will be BP's strategic service provider for its SAP development work.
Said Deasy: "In awarding Accenture our SAP development work we look forward to taking advantage of their extensive SAP know-how and leveraging their deep understanding of the Oil and Gas industry. This contract will help BP to accelerate the implementation of SAP across the organization and lower our overall cost base."
John Downie, senior executive with Accenture's Energy industry group, said: "We are delighted that BP has selected Accenture as its strategic service provider for SAP development work. Our relationship with BP spans more than 20 years; we look forward to helping BP to further leverage its IT investments, increase operational performance and gain efficiencies."
In yet another announcement about its ADAM program, BP revealed that Infosys Technologies will manage and operate a large portion of its business systems under the terms of a five-year applications outsourcing and support agreement.
Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies, said: "Infosys has a longstanding relationship with BP, delivering consulting and technology services. We are well positioned to use our global sourcing expertise and transformational capabilities in the oil and gas domain to deliver significant improvement in operational efficiencies to BP as a part of this new agreement."
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RMD stands for Required Minimum Distributions. While you may start to withdraw monies from your IRA account upon reaching age 59 ½, you must start receiving RMDs by April 1st of the year following the year you reach age 70 ½.
The RMD changes each year and is determined by dividing the account balance as of December 31st of the previous year by the applicable IRS life expectancy tables. As a general rule, the older you get, the more you must withdraw. Your IRA trustee or administrator can assist with calculating your RMD.
If your IRAs are invested in real estate properties consider your situation as you approach age 70 ½. If your real estate is illiquid and you are facing the requirement of minimum distributions it may be time to sell one or more of the properties.
It is important to note that Roth IRAs are not subject to RMDs during the participant's lifetime. They are, however, subject to RMDs after the owner's death.


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TVT and DMC become TVT Media
- One year after TVT's acquisition of DMC, both companies unite under single name
- TVT Media now delivers 99 channels from Europe's first fully virtualised private broadcast cloud in Amsterdam
- Unified company offers seamlessly integrated end-to-end content services journey to broadcasters and content owners in 50-plus countries
London, 09 August 2018 – TVT, one of the world's fastest growing media companies, has announced that a year after its acquisition of Amsterdam-based DMC (Digital Media Centre) the two entities have become TVT Media. The unified global content services powerhouse will showcase its ground-breaking content services through a single website at www.tvt.media.
The news caps a successful year of integration as TVT Media also announced that it now delivers 99 channels via its pioneering private broadcast cloud. Since acquiring DMC from AMC Networks International just over 12 months ago, TVT has launched a number of critical new services, expanded across the globe, and hired a number of industry-leading figures – all while creating a landmark end-to-end content management, media logistics and distribution offering.
Ian Brotherston, TVT Media's Chief Executive, says: "This has been an eventful year in which we have taken some huge steps and transformed what were two businesses into a unified, dynamic force. We've done this by blending talent, extending already-strong capabilities, adopting the best technologies from each, and building on the experience and expertise both groups brought to the table a year ago."
In the year since the DMC deal, TVT Media's business has not only doubled in size but has seen a series of major milestones that have put the company in the premier league of content services:
- Chosen by ITV, the UK's leading commercial broadcaster, to provide a comprehensive content management platform for local and global markets
- Launched a new Access Services arm under leading global expert and now Senior Vice President of Content Services David Padmore, who formerly held senior positions at Ericsson, RedBee Media and BBC
- Migrated in September all 87 channels it played out to Europe's first fully virtualised, software-defined private broadcast cloud
- Opened a Los Angeles office to provide a local point of contact for major US-based players such as A+E Networks, Discovery and Hulu
- Expanded presence in Asia Pacific, extending operations in Singapore and Japan and appointing a Vice President Sales for South East Asia, former Globecast executive Jason Ho
- Built a powerful end-to-end content services offering that takes clients from media onboarding, to enrichment, versioning and access services, onto channel and asset management, through to linear IP playout and on-demand video delivery
"Linking all the elements of our business together over the past year has put us in a strong and largely unique position to address the full complexities of global content delivery across cultures, languages and regulatory environments – all while overcoming technical hurdles," Brotherston notes. "We have now positioned ourselves to more effectively enrich, localise and publish content, delivering it in 50 countries and 40 languages."
Under its new deal with ITV, which was announced in June, TVT Media manages media logistics, content preparation and access services through a unified platform for content distribution, linking closely with the ITV team and its partners to process more than 35,000 hours of content per year – including volumes being delivered to ITV Global Entertainment customers around the world.
The 99 channels now being delivered via TVT Media's trailblazing full-IP virtualised platform include brands owned by A+E Networks, AMC Networks, FOX Networks Group, Liberty Global and Sony Pictures. Taking virtualisation to the next level, the private broadcast cloud enables broadcasters, studios and other content owners to dramatically accelerate time to market, reduce hardware requirements and maintain full control over their content.
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About TVT Media
TVT Media is the global content services powerhouse. One of the world's fastest growing media services companies, TVT Media brings an exciting new approach to content services with the industry's most complete, end-to-end content management, media logistics and distribution offering.
TVT Media is deploying next-generation IP cloud technologies from its fully-virtualised Amsterdam playout facility and leading-edge media management approaches — enabling it to address the complexities of packaging, versioning, producing access services, managing and delivering content for the dynamic international linear, on-demand and online entertainment market.
Headquartered in London, with operations in Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney – and a dedicated software development centre in Poland – TVT Media is built on an ethos centred on customer excellence and innovation. From A+E Networks and Discovery Communications, to the BBC and Fox Networks Group, to ITV and Sony Pictures, TVT is trusted by the industry's biggest names to enrich and manage tens of thousands of hours of content, serving millions of viewers every day.
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News/Aug 16, 2019
Making steel strong – the inside story
The secret to making steel strong involves controlling a number of critical factors – such as cooling, microstructure and chemical position.
Press release/Jun 05, 2019
Ovako publishes Sustainability Report for 2018
This year's Sustainability Report highlights important progress in Ovako's sustainability efforts, linked to areas such as the company's environmental impact, systematic safety work and ongoing investments for increased competitiveness.
News/May 29, 2019
Nicholas Källsäter new Chief Financial Officer of Ovako
Nicholas Källsäter has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Ovako and will be part of the executive management team. Nicholas, who currently is Head of Group Business Control, has worked at Ovako since 2012. He takes up the new position on June 1, 2019 and succeeds Johan Ryrberg, who has decided to take on new opportunities outside Ovako.
We make more than steel
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Anneli Anhelm
Meet Anneli Anhelm, head of technical customer service and product development, who tried out a number of opportunities before she knew what she wanted to work with.Read more
Viktor Dahlqvist
Viktor Dahlqvist's first task at Ovako resulted in investment of 30 million. He was also still a student, a newcomer to steel, and pretty nervous. He talks about getting a significant role from day one, creating his own agenda, and about his current job as head of section.Read more
Moa Ylvén
Moa works as Head of Safety in Boxholm and is also responsible for operational development. Her job is to manage future safety initiatives and to work with development projects. Moa joined Ovako in the summer of 2014 after rather randomly coming to Hällefors via Ovako's Student Program, which involved her writing her thesis on Ovako. The Student Program was Moa's way in and, since she has been so happy with the company and the company with her, her career path at Ovako has continued both onward and upward.Read more
There is a difference between steel and steel
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Safety as the number one priority
Ovako has chosen to place a particular emphasis on safety to coincide with the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on April 28. Ovako's Safety week forms part of our systematic safety work, and this year it concludes on the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The theme for the week is "Dare to Care – Dare to Act", which is an important part of Ovako's safety culture.
Katarina Hundermark, Head of Sustainability and Safety Ovako Group, shares her thoughts on the importance of safety at Ovako.Read more
Focusing on gender equality
Our co-workers are Ovako's most important asset. For us, it is primarily about finding the right skills for the right role at the right time. The steel industry is traditionally male-dominated, and Ovako works continuously to increase the number of women among its employees. Today on the International Women's Day, Ovako's EVP Group HR, Communication & EHS Phetra Ericsson shares her thoughts on what the industry can do to attract more women.Read more
Eva Friberg
Eva Friberg has worked at Ovako for almost eight years, and is today steel mill manager at Ovako in Smedjebacken. The Managing role was not part of her original plan, but after taking on a temporary managerial post when a colleague was on paternity leave, her interest grew. Before Ovako she studied chemical engineering design with a focus on mineral technology and metallurgy at Luleå University of Technology, so when an opportunity opened up to become a process metallurgist at Ovako it suited Eva very well.Read more
Janne Pirttijoki
Janne Pirttijoki found his place in the steel industry immediately after graduation, and has now been working with steel for over 20 years. The diversity of the sector has given him broad experience in various fields, which he can now draw on as head of the Ovako Imatra business unit.Read more
Helena Erkkilä
Helena Erkkilä manages Ovako's steel mill in Imatra. On her direct, but also convoluted, path here, she has been able to try a lot of different things. She has developed, and has been able to work closely with both production and customers. It is precisely this that she sees as the advantage of Ovako – no two days are alike.Read more


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Periodically, students in English 9 Mini are asked to write their thoughts to a writing prompt, a constraint, or a visual cue. In the span of only five minutes, students are challenged to write and later share with the class their compositions.
Below are two submissions that were inspired by a visual of child hunger, in recognition of Free the Children's We Scare Hunger campaign at McNair:
Thigh gap. A flat stomach. Collar bones. Affected by the image of perfect people, teenagers and young adults begin to worry about their bodies. Society has chosen a mental picture for everyone to look like. Girls all wish to have tall lean figures, a golden-brown tan, long blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes; boys desire to be muscular with defined jaw lines and a blue-ribbon worthy smile. No one will ever be perfect, but why do people aim to be this way? There is a certain level of ambition to be flawless. It is disconsolate to see people starve themselves and hurt their bodies to look like those suffering children in Africa, when in reality, those children would give their left leg to be in our positions. We cry about losing soccer games, and mourn over not receiving the newest iPhone, yet these are not real issues. The biggest problems are happening all around us, and we neglect the hardships others face because we are so concerned about ourselves. Society has made us selfish beings and though people are raised to believe there is something out there–better than what we have now–the amount of damage the world has will be nearly visionary to fix.
– Bionca C.
I am a young child who lives in poverty. I have not eaten for days, and must walk miles to find food and water to stay alive; that is just one of the many struggles I face every minute of my life. I rely on donations that bring food to my friends and me. I don't even have a family. They all died when I was two, and ever since I have had to fend for myself. I have to work to stay alive. When is it really worth it? I want you to think about all that you have: food, a shelter that covers you from rain and cold winter nights, and a family. Then look over at me. I am crumpled inside and out. I don't know how much longer I have to be on this world, but then I think, "Do I really want to be here?" I wish I didn't have to live this way, but will my life ever change before it is too late?
– Madison G.
It is another torturous day. No food, no water, no family. I think to myself, "Please, please end my life right here and right now. I would rather die than go through this." All around me I see children just like myself, bloated and hungry, begging for just a sip of water. I stare down at my body, taking in its unhealthy state of brittle bones and thin, dry skin. In a number of hours, I will be beaten and forgotten in the harvest fields, getting paid two cents per hour. Nobody knows the pain and struggle I endure every single day. It is sad to think that somewhere in the world, people are starving themselves, trying to become skinny. If I had the chance to become like them, with meat on their bones and food in their stomachs, I would not hesitate to trade places. This is not just some temporary phase of poverty and starvation: this is my life.
– Isabela S.


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Bamboo Flooring is Beautiful/
One of the reasons why bamboo flooring is becoming very popular is simply because they're beautiful. They can provide a really great aesthetic touch to any property they are installed in that many people can't help but admire. Their look and feel provides a warm, homey atmosphere much like a carpet in Engadine (or any carpet for that matter) does.
Bamboo flooring (like other types of flooring in Wollondilly) also comes in a wide array of styles, colours and designs for you to choose from - so whatever your taste or wants may be, you can be sure that there will be a bamboo flooring to please you.
With regards to colour, there are generally three categories that are widely available. The natural bamboo for instance has a light blonde, colour while the carbonized bamboo is darker (mainly because of the natural sugars in the bamboo that caramelized during the manufacturing process). There are also stained bamboos, which can come in a variety of stains or colours from light to medium to dark hues. So if you're worried that your bamboo floor will not complement your existing interiors, don't be because like other types of flooring in Sutherland Shire, there is definitely one that will suit it well.


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Shaving With The Grain : Mapping The Facial Hair Growth
Are you aware of shaving with the grain or WTG, ATG, XTG terms related to Shaving World? Shaving community is growing rapidly due to the hygiene and cautious about the one's looks! If you are shaving fanatic then these are the abbreviations you must learn. To Shave with the grain or shave against the grain are the two factors … Read moreShaving With The Grain : Mapping The Facial Hair Growth


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Sometimes I get sucked into cell phone games. I want to say something self-preservatory here like, "I just need something mindless to do after a long day of work." But that would be a lie. The truth is that the people who make these game apps are masterminds, and I am a weak-minded sucker. Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Words with Friends, Draw Something, Tiny Wings, and Flick Golf have all siphoned hours out of my life. Hours I should have spent calling my Mom or writing a letter to Starburst asking them to please stop making the yellow ones. That Jewel song "Foolish Games" may have been prophetic is all I'm saying. Please think of it the next time you are flicking a bird into a pile of green pigs.
My most recent obsession is SimCity. The game is macro; it's big picture. I'm so addicted, I'm actually playing the game right now, as a reward for each paragraph of this blog I finish. That's not a lie; the photo for this blogpost is the result of about 10 hours of pure time waste. If you're a 90s kid I probably don't have to explain SimCity to you. In short, the objective of the game is to build a city from nothing. You make all the choices--where to put the roads, how to address sewage outflow, and whether or not your city will recycle. The game's designers did well; you feel like a very real leader of a very digital city. The decisions you make have a direct impact on the morale of your digital population, and you get immediate feedback on their happiness level. The game tells you to "keep your citizens happy by listening to their needs and providing services" and their needs are easily visible. Anytime a service is needed, the icon for that service shows in red. For example, if your town needs new roads, the road icon becomes red and you spend money to have the roads redone. Instantly, your town's happiness percentage increases. It's entirely artificial, but somehow you feel great…for about 30 seconds, until a guilty awareness of your own simple-mindedness sets in in a very real way.
SimCity isn't the first time I've obsessed on the big picture.
When I was in grad school for counseling, I had a hard time in many of my classes. I had major concerns about the accessibility of psychotherapy to those living in impoverished, under- resourced communities. My mind constantly wandered on how counseling could work better on a larger scale. It annoyed my classmates and worried my professors, but I wanted to be a counselor for the folks who needed it most, rather than the townspeople in that show Big Little Lies. I questioned the infrastructure of how we provide counseling so much that a professor once staged an intervention for me in his office to make sure I wanted to be in the program.
As an educator, my mind continues to wonder on the macro-level quite often. I look at what the research tells us about making our schools better and get impatient about why we can't make better choices for our young people sooner. Methods exist that would unequivocally improve our schools overnight: later school start times, bettering teacher welfare, forced integration, improved school lunch programs, up-to-date facilities, etc. The effectiveness of these methods isn't even debated. If we were playing SimCity, these icons would show in red. Yet, everyday we ignore them and in the process ignore the needs of our young folks.
On a good day, when I indulge myself in this kind of thinking, it makes me put my head down and work harder at doing what I can in my corner of the world. On a bad day, it makes me feel like regardless of what I do, public education is doomed to fail. I get depressed in a way that sometimes feels overwhelming.
Once, while I was playing SimCity, I accidentally got rid of all of my sewage treatment plants. My city's happiness level dropped instantly from a green open-mouthed smiley face (94% happiness) to an orange angry/sad face (55% happiness). I got so angry, I almost threw my phone on the ground out of necessity to hear glass break. Although it was a mistake, I made a choice which deprived my city of a major need. Without adequate infrastructure to channel sewage outflow, things became a mess. From a distance, I saw green sludge shooting out of the base of each building. It was a problem that was going to take money and time to fix. The people living in my city were just going to have to deal with it for a while.
Most folks view education from the same helicopter vantage-point that I view SimCity. I can get close enough to see that people are unhappy; I can see the green sludge and that cars are not following traffic laws. But from an aerial view I can't see anyone's face or real struggle. Arms-length intimacy allows me to hear about my population's discontent yet not feel incriminated for not finding a more immediate solution.
I want the best for the 700+ students under the roof of my school, but in a broader sense I want that for all students. We hear about our kids and the schools that serve them in the news or performance profiles, but most people never get close enough to see their faces. We see their icons showing in red. We know about the green sludge but don't personally feel the direct effects of budget cuts, teacher burnout, out-of-date technology, and crumbling school buildings.
The curse of being in education is knowing how full of potential our young folks are even in adverse circumstances, yet simultaneously watching adult policy makers ignore them in the same way I ignore a red icon in a cell phone game.
I'll always wonder about big picture issues. It's a habit that has affected me for a while; and I'm 33 now, so it might be in my DNA. I hope we come up with better responses to blatant red icons in education. It probably starts with taking a closer look.
Either way, I'm doomed to continue playing mindless cell phone games.


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Afternoon tea with the Green People at the O. Henry
Jeremy Hunter gingerly balances a cup of tea in his palm and slouches in the suede couch in the lobby of the O. Henry Hotel on a recent Sunday afternoon. With dirty blond locks falling to his shoulders he's dressed nattily in a suit jacket and a red, white and blue neckerchief over his bare chest and made up with thick purple eyeliner accented by streaks of gold.
He peers across the low table stocked with three kinds of teas and two stands of light snacks '— dark chocolate truffles, cucumber sandwiches, scones with raspberry jam and butter and the like. His doe eyes dart mischievously as he appraises his fellow band members in the Green People and two other guests. He holds forth in a fake English accent suitable to his frayed but gentlemanly sensibilities.
'"When we do go on tour we're gonna have to put this on our rider '— afternoon tea,'" he says. '"They don't just do this kind of thing automatically, you know.'"
Hannah Bennett, a courtly pianist and friend of the band, giggles at the thought.
Hunter, who also goes by the name Dragonfly In a Coconut Tree, was only moments ago discussing the band's most recent jaunt across North Carolina, on what the singer has called '"a burrito circuit'": the Juggling Gypsy, a hookah bar in Wilmington and a burrito joint in Boone called the Black Cat. He has expressed a hope that by playing with two well-regarded bands, the Valentines and Thunderlip, Green People can '"move up the food chain in Wilmington.'"
The Green People play a style of glam rock that comes across as both reckless and aristocratic, with a healthy dash of utopian good feeling. In live performance, the raspy-voiced Hunter preens with unabashed delight. Josh Wright, AKA Joshy Roxy, plays the impenetrable and somewhat troubled guitarist. His approach explodes with untamed wah-wah, fuzztone and the occasional virtuoso lead. Daryl Keeter, or DK, dispatches bass notes with mathematical precision and his playing occasionally wanders into funk territory. Steve Price, AKA Dirty Kincaid, thrashes his drum set in the best tradition of '70s stadium rock.
The band is in a celebratory mood today. Their second anniversary is coming up on Dec. 3, and they intend to celebrate by playing a show at Solaris with out-of-town guests Thunderlip from Wilmington and Starlyn Garvy from Sophia. Today, they're taking advantage of the elegant accommodations at the O. Henry to have Bennett shoot some publicity photos.
Price, who at 42 has about twice as many years under his belt as the rest of the band, points out that the common thread among the Green People is that they all have some kind of artistic training. At the moment Joshy, a silent enigma hidden behind sunglasses, is sketching in the band's shared notebook.
'"For instance, I have an associate degree in commercial arts, but of course I'm driving a truck for Greensboro Plumbing Supply,'" Dirty says. Likewise, DK is working on a bachelor of arts in computer science at UNCG and Dragonfly is working on a sound engineering degree at GTCC's Larry Gatlin School of Entertainment.
The mention of Gatlin's name prompts Dirty to recall that he once played a version of a song that begins with the line, '"Older women make beautiful lovers,'" '— also covered by the Gatlin Brothers, he believes '— when he was in the Rumour Band.
Other than Dirty's tenure with the Rumour Band and Dragonfly's admission that he honed his talents in the coffeehouse scene of Fayetteville, where his father works as a building inspector and his mother is a health worker, the origins of the Green People remain rather vague.
'"The band has always been around ever since the first person dreamed of music,'" Dragonfly says. '"We're from the dream world. About forty years ago the band came into some turmoil. Our fair Dirty Kincaid fell in love with this young dreamer. He decided to follow her into this world. I don't know why you had to do that, Dirty. We had it pretty good in the dream world without having to hold down day jobs and such.'"
'"I did it for love,'" Dirty replies.
Dragonfly continues: '"We had to keep the band together, so we followed our drummer. We stumbled on Dirty in an alley in Greensboro beating on some trashcans. We were born twenty years after Dirty. He's always worried that people will think we're his sons.'"
Throughout Dragonfly's tales, Dirty tends to nod his head and smile, and sometimes interject a wry crack.
'"The glam solidified when Steve and I were discussing how Brooks & Dunn should do a cover of David Bowie's 'All the Young Dudes,"" Dragonfly says. '"These country dudes are inherently gay.'"
Dirty adds: '"The rumor is that Kenny Chesney is pitching for the same team.'"
The discussion of the homoerotic qualities of country music is interrupted when Heather, the host, returns with a steaming pot of organic passion plum tea. Dragonfly invites her to attend the show at Solaris. She demurs that she'll be in class all day and will have a chemistry lab until 10 p.m.
'"Perfect!'" the singer exclaims.
Later the conversation comes back around to the second anniversary show and Dragonfly turns to the drummer.
'"So Dirty, have you decided if December third will be your coming-out party?'" he asks.
'"I don't know, what about you?'" he parries. '"We already know about you.'"
Dragonfly shrugs and smiles.
'"Keep 'em guessing.'"
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Over the past few years, business has been increasingly carried out through online retailers rather than at brick and mortar stores. As a business owner, you need to jump on to this wave to take full advantage of the internet and to maximize the potential of your company.
The sooner you start selling online, the more successful your company is going to be in today's business climate. However, you are going to need to acquire a few tools before you're ready.
The following are five things you will need to have before beginning to sell products over the web:
A website
The online presence of any company starts with a website. A website should be informative and easy for prospective customers to navigate. It should also be aesthetically appealing. These days, it's probably easier than you think to set up a website if you haven't yet done so. You may be able to create a simple website yourself using tools such as WordPress.
Make sure to understand the basics of business website content to maximize search engine optimization. If you want to sell on your website, it's going to need to include a catalog of your products, so a reliable content management system is non-negotiable.
A secure payment gateway
If you want to sell online, you need to be able to take payments over the internet. This means that secure payment gateway services are necessary for any company looking to sell online.
Companies looking to sell over their websites will need to know how to incorporate their payment gateway into their website design. This task might require you to hire a professional web designer. Alternatively, you may be able to find a payment gateway service provider who will walk you through the process of incorporating payment options into your website.
A shipping method
Selling online will require you to ship the purchased product to the customer. Therefore, a good shipping system is one of the various e-commerce essentials you're going to have to work on when you're developing an online sales system for your company.
You need to shop around to find the most cost effective shipping method for e-commerce. The more expensive shipping is, the more expensive purchases from your company are going to be for online customers. You therefore need to find a shipper capable of safely and quickly delivering product at a decent price.
Accounts with online marketplaces
Generally, it's always a good idea for any company looking to sell online to take advantage of massive online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. These marketplaces can help bring traffic to pages where you're selling your product.
Over time, you may be able to build your brand name and draw traffic directly to your website. However, sites like Amazon are great ways to stop making sales initially before you've managed to build up much of an online presence.
A marketing plan
Marketing products online can be different in numerous ways from marketing products through a brick and mortar store location. Marketing products online involves search engine marketing and attracting online traffic to your site.
If you're a newcomer to online marketing, you may need to contract with a seasoned online marketing professional to start bringing in sales over the Web. Otherwise, you can try some marketing yourself by building up a blog on your website or by experimenting with pay-per-click advertising using search engines.
Start working on making sales online and you may find that your company's profits begin to go up steadily over time as your online presence expands.


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Confession: we have one of the worst backyards in our neighborhood. You are free to feel sorry for my wife. A couple times a week I think, "Gary, you really need to do something here," but I never feel motivated enough to actually get going.
If there is any defense, I struggle to find a day off once a week. Working two jobs (what I've been doing for 18 years as a writer/speaker and now on the teaching team at Second Baptist, Houston), it's not always possible to find a full non-travel day to get refreshed. So, I'm often tired and can think of a dozen other things that need to get done on that one day (or half-day).
Second, I just don't enjoy that kind of thing. Some men live for their yards, with an arsenal of machines and tools and fertilizers and sprays that would make a professional gardener proud. Me? I kind of prefer to be surrounded by books.
Without the will and without the work, you get a backyard that looks like…ours.
There's another place where the absence of will and work wreaks havoc, and that's in marriage. Some of you may be in a relationship that your spouse values about as much as I value our backyard. If your marriage would just "happen," they'd appreciate it and enjoy it. If they already had it, they'd be willing to delight in it. But they lack the will and they lack the work ethic to make the relationship grow. There are other priorities that drive them. Perhaps you're the one who is not making your marriage a priority.
Today's Scripture is an encouraging word in both instances, as it points us to that all-important "double dose of good."
Philippians 2:13 promises us, "It is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure."
The two things we really need to build a successful long-term marriage, the will and the work, are the two things that Paul promises us God will provide (there's actually a third element we'll get to in just a moment).
Marriage changes when we stop doing it alone. When we stop trying to make ourselves feel something, when we stop trying to muster up some kind of hope, and instead go to the one sure Hope we have and pray, "God, please give me the will to make this marriage work, for your good pleasure."
Do you think God will hesitate before answering that prayer? Do you think He might pause and say, "Hmmm. Not sure I'm ready to offer that"?
Not a chance. When we lack the will to build a marriage that gives God pleasure, He will be our most enthusiastic advocate. If you feel one-sided in your marriage, it's easy to lose the will. If you've been unsuccessful in bringing about change, it's natural to lose the will. If you've tried every trick you can think of and your bookshelf is filled with every book on marriage published in the last ten years and you still aren't there, it's natural to just give up.
Have you prayed for God to give you the will? Do you keep praying, living in an attitude of spiritual dependence, or are you trying to make yourself care? "God, I'm tired of trying to care. I need your motivation. I need your will, because mine is gone."
And then we're told God also enables us to work. We all know there is plenty of work involved in building and maintaining a marriage, and it's just human nature that when there is work involved, we can think of a dozen other things to do. I could clip that bush that is growing out our back fence, or I could go for a run. I could take care of that outdoor cabinet with a door that has fallen off its hinge or I could catch up on that news show.
Paul promises us that God will work within us, if we go to Him, if we reverence Him (see v. 12). God enables us to work, a powerful divine force and energy lifting us above our apathy and limitations. God becomes the third partner, the uniting presence, the truest friend of our union.
The third element I hinted at is the joy: "for his good pleasure." Why does God give us the will and the work? It pleases Him. He loves to see us live in unity. He delights in seeing us raise godly children in a God-honoring home. He rejoices when a marriage testifies to the relationship between Christ and the church. He finds great satisfaction in seeing two of His children share loyalty and love. Do you think God is content to have His children grow up in a home where Christ is a stranger, love is something the couple used to feel, and joy is a reality that visits on rare occasions?
So God wants this just as much as you do—in fact, He wants it even more.
I know–prayer seems curious at times; we are tempted to ask, "God, if you want this so much, why not just give it without us having to ask?" But that's the way He works. He wants us to depend on Him on an ongoing basis. It's the whole manna thing, one day at a time. Sacred marriage isn't about shopping once a month at Costco while living in the suburbs (i.e., going to God every now and then to get re-charged), but rather going to the farmer's market on a daily basis to get our vegetables. It needs to become a daily (and for some of you, hourly) experience. Don't ask me why—I'm not the one who set up this world. It's just the way God wishes it.
So, let's go there, shall we? Let's tap into this divine resource. We're not alone in our marriages—not even close! God will give us the will, the work, and even the motivation. We're not meant to live this life alone.
This post is adapted from Gary's new book, A Lifelong Love: What if Marriage is About More Than Just Staying Together, available at Amazon http://tinyurl.com/mksuc37 and Christian Book Distributors: http://tinyurl.com/jwpe45n


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Mariam, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Experience the cutting edge of opera
When:Monday, January 18, 2016
8:00 p.m.
Location:Trinity Church
75 Broadway (at Wall Street)
New York, NY 10006
Tickets:$25 — General admission
$10 — OPERA America members
$5 — Students with valid ID*
OPERA America presents a special one-night-only concert of excerpts from these four new operas, performed with live orchestra and vocalists at historic Trinity Wall Street:
- Beowulf by Hannah Lash (composer/librettist)
- The Invention of Morel by Stewart Copeland (composer) and Jonathan Moore (librettist)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, the Opera by Sheila Silver (composer) and Stephen Kitsakos (librettist)
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Bright Sheng (composer) and David Henry Hwang (librettist)
Excerpts from these works will be performed by NOVUS NY orchestra under the direction of Julian Wachner, with guest conductors Daniela Candillari and Sara Jobin.
The vocalists featured in the program are sopranos Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Maureen McKay, Molly Netter and Vira Slywotzky; mezzo-sopranos Margaret Lattimore and Aleksandra Romano; tenors Thor Arbjornsson, Jonathan Blalock and Vale Rideout; baritones Jesse Blumberg, Ron Loyd and Christopher Magiera; and bass Jonathan Woody.
Not in NYC? The New Opera Showcase will be streamed live at operaamerica.org/Live.
*Students may purchase tickets at the door (credit card only) on a first-come, first-served basis, pending availability. If you would like to purchase tickets in advance, send an e-mail from your school e-mail address to Patricia Kiernan Johnson, director of marketing and communications, at email@example.com.
Hannah Lash (composer and librettist)
In this adaptation of the well-known epic poem, Beowulf is a doctor caring for his elderly mother while suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by a recent war. He discovers that his mother is being abused by the nursing home staff and removes her, determined to care for her himself, though she begs him to help end her life. This piece explores the psychological stresses placed upon someone whose role it is to save lives and take care of others.
The Invention of Morel
Stewart Copeland (composer) and Jonathan Moore (librettist)
Based on Adolfo Bioy Casares' science fiction novel, this work focuses on an escaped fugitive on a strange, isolated island. While exploring his surroundings, the fugitive sees a group of tourists, including a beautiful woman with whom he becomes obsessed. However, something is not quite right in this paradise. He discovers that these eccentric visitors exist in an alternate reality invented by Morel, a mad scientific genius who willingly leads the group to their death.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, the Opera
Sheila Silver (composer) and Stephen Kitsakos (librettist)
Based on the international best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns is an inspiring story of love and triumph of the human spirit. Two women from different generations and walks of life are forced into marriage with the same troubled and cruel man. Enemies at first, they grow to love each other like mother and daughter. This bond gives them the strength to survive and ultimately risk their lives for one another and for a chance to be free.
Dream of the Red Chamber
Bright Sheng (composer) and David Henry Hwang (librettist)
Dream of the Red Chamber, an 18th-century masterpiece of Chinese fiction, is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of members of the Jia clan, whose good fortune rises when one of its daughters becomes an imperial concubine and then declines after her death. The story centers on a love triangle between the protagonist, Bao Yu, and two of his cousins — his future wife Bao Chai and the sickly but beautiful Dai Yu.


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House Judiciary Committee Postpones Media-Ownership and Diversity Hearing
Dan Rather won't be weighing in on media diversity and localism after all, at least not Wednesday.
The House Judiciary Committee postponed a planned hearing on media ownership and diversity, with Rather the highest-profile witness on the list.
The committee gave no reason, although a staffer said it could be rescheduled for as early as next week or, more likely, sometime in early January.
If Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin has his way, by early January, the FCC will be done with the media-ownership review, having voted to loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rules and adopted a host of items he said will help minority and women broadcasters.
He plans to vote those items Dec. 18 unless congressional Democrats -- led by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) -- can block or persuade him to postpone that vote.
Martin and his fellow commissioners are still scheduled to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday.


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Feed the Syrian body and soul with banned buns!
Posted on 31. Jan, 2017 by virtuousbread.
Ka'ak are the third in our series on Banned Buns (click here to read the first and second of our banned bun recipes). They are little, crispy buns shaped like tiny bagels and they used to be on sale all over Syria in coffee shops, bakeries and bars. Sprinkled with sesame seeds and satisfying crunchy, […]


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In 2016, the Montana Department of Justice was chosen as one of twenty recipients in the country of the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Grant and received $2,000,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance. This money will be used to test previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits, strengthen victim services, prevent revictimization, and develop recommendations to help prevent future build up of kits.
This project examines the issue of previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits in Montana. The Montana DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation has surveyed the state's law enforcement community to determine how many of these kits exist in Montana. SAKI is testing the kits and tracking them through the system. It is important to all involved in the project that survivors of sexual assault receive appropriate services.


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Wood Paneled Bathroom
What I love about bathroom design ideas is that every design has a unique star of the show. In the case of this bathroom the star is not the pillars, or the luxurious tub, but rather it is the wood paneling that brings it all together. This is because they do a couple of important things for the space. They help mellow the brightness coming from the big windows and the bright, white coloring, but they also add texture and flavor to the room that actually serves to hold the whole design together. The wood is the first thing I saw when I looked at this design. That should tell you something.