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When you first meet someone you like, meeting them on a date can be all fun and games at the start however that is also the time when you have to judge if you and your Sugar Daddy are compatible enough to start a sugar relationship that will last long. Finding a compatible Sugar Daddy can be hard and Sugar Babies are often cautious, either because they have just got out of a bad relationship or are new to sugar dating. Whatever the reason, first dates are the most crucial ones for a Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby; it is when you decide if you have to let that person go or focus on addressing any issues that need to be sorted out.To know if your Sugar Daddy or Sugar Baby is the right match for you, you'll have to gather information and this how you should do it within the first three dates.
First Date
When you are on a first date really focus on who you are as a person and communicate that to the person sitting next to you. This is your chance to give him or her an idea of your personality. List down three or four things you want to know about your Sugar Daddy and ask when you are with him. If a Sugar Baby and Sugar Daddy won't communicate from the start, there is no way they'd be able to know each other.
As a Sugar Baby, you can ask the Sugar Daddy how he likes to unwind in his free time. Does he hang out with his friends or does his idea of relaxing involve coming straight back home and have dinner with a special someone? Whatever his answer, see if that resonates with you and if it is something drastically different, he might not be the one for you.
Second Date
On second dates, learn as much as you can about him or her. Focus on the other person, concentrate on listening and get to know their likes, dislikes, and interests. If their interests are common to yours, tell them you have that in common. Men like it when women offer feedback and solutions. Find out what he wants from a Sugar Baby and a sugar relationship? Will you be able to provide him with what he just described?
Third Date
Congrats! You've made it to the third date and it is time to get a bit personal. You can ask about their career and family, even past relationships and what they learned from them. However, when a Sugar Daddy discusses these things, a Sugar Baby should keep this discussion brief and positive. If a Sugar Baby shares her past relationships she should tell him that it was all for her own good and how she is in a better position now. Also, share your views on what both of you think contributes to making a relationship last longer.


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Tournament of Champions Winners
Winners of the couples' Tournament of Champions were crowned in December, ending a year-long golf competition at Bernardo Heights Country Club. The competition consists of monthly tournaments where the top three finishers in two flights accumulate points each month. Those who win at least 10 points over the course of the year are eligible to compete in the year-end tournament. Of the 33 couples who were eligible to participate in the final championship match, 27 played.
In a format where the better score of the two partners was counted on each hole, four couples were tied after 18 holes with net scores of 61. Ron and Sharon Oliver of Rancho Bernardo won the play-off for the championship. The prize for winning the most points during the year in the monthly tournaments was won by Ken and Carol Packer of Rancho Bernardo, who amassed a total of 57 points.

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Cactuar Island is an island in Final Fantasy VIII located south of Esthar and just east of the Kashkabald Desert. It can be accessed by the Ragnarok.
The only enemies fought on the island are Cactuars and the elusive Jumbo Cactuar. Cactuars yield a lot of AP and have only little HP, making the island a good place to get AP fast. Cactuars offer little EXP, making this is a good area for low-level players. However, the Cactuars have very high Evasion, and will flee from battles.
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The Cactuar Island is located off the south-eastern shore of the Kashkabald Desert.
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The Jumbo Cactuar is not a random encounter, but appears and disappears from sight on the world map. To initiate the fight the player must walk up to it before it vanishes again. Defeating Jumbo Cactuar nets the Cactuar Guardian Force.
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- Cactuar x1
- Cactuar x2
- Cactuar x3
- Cactuar x4
- Jumbo Cactuar (Boss)
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- Cactuar Island is similar to Cactus Island in Final Fantasy VII.
- Due to a zoning error, walking across the Kashkabald Desert and staying at the edge of the land is counted as being on Cactuar Island; this allows for continuous Cactuar encounters when a mobile Balamb Garden is available, rather than when the player acquires an airship as was intended. However, it's not possible to encounter the Jumbo Cactuar this way.


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Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry VH1 Divas Duet
Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry VH1 Divas Duet
Teaming up to toast the armed forces, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj took the stage alongside one another at the VH1 Divas Salute the Troops taping in Miramar, California on Friday night (December 3).
With the TV special put on by the USO at the MCAS Miramar, the two music superstars got all dolled up as they cheerfully sang out in hopes of boosting morale while soldiers spend the holiday season away from their loved ones.
The show is pre-taped while set to be televised on Sunday, December 5 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on VH1, with other performers including Jennifer Nettles, Keri Hilson and Kathy Griffin.
Col. Frank Richie, Commanding Officer of MCAS Miramar, said of the festivities, "Next to MCAS Miramar's much celebrated annual air show, this VH1 Divas USO concert is our biggest and most anticipated event of the year. Hosting events like this helps boost troop morale and unites military families, which is critical to our mission. We thank both VH1 and the USO for bringing this event to our doorstep."


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Printing or cursive? Board games or card games? Painting or
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Wondering who all these Parenting Roundabouters are? Here's a list of everybody who's participated in a Parenting Roundabout episode, with links to where you can find out more about them and check out their work.
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Barbie Outfits and Accessories
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Hart County
There are 3 US Post Offices in Hart County serving a total of 22,862 residents equating to 7,621 residents per post office. It's estimated that approximately 36,490 packages are handled across the 3 county post offices annually. Hart County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,213. The county seat is Hartwell. Hart County was created December 7, 1853 and named for Nancy Hart. Of Georgia's 159 counties, Hart County is the only one named after a woman. Lake Hartwell is also named for her. Letters to Miss Celie in the movie The Color Purple (film) by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker, are addressed to \"Hartwell County, Georgia\" suggesting that the movie is set either in Hartwell or Hart County."


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In contrast to these big things, I noticed that my to-do lists rewarded small tasks. Checking that "done" box feels good, and if you spend your days on bite-size activities you get to check that box a lot. Yet at the same time, the list was never complete. At best, I felt like a super-productive machine back in those days; at worst, I felt like… well, a machine.
For the past few years I've had a daily morning ritual: write down the things I accomplished yesterday, journal-format, and then write down the things I want to accomplish today. Every Monday I write down the things I want to get done that week and each Friday I recap my successes and failures.
The problem is I'm always focused on lots of things and not one important thing at a time; this often means multitasking and the inevitable Friday recap where I see all the different tasks where I fell short.
It feels like a good time to experiment with something new; something with a heavier emphasis on one big thing at a time to make sure I'm having the most impact possible on my work and on my self.
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Arts Marketers -- you know the news: mobile is the future and the future is here. Data is necessary to navigate that space, and a recent research report by Jack Loechner breaking down the recent white paper by MobileFirstWorld offers some excellent data on mobile behaviors and strategies to improve on the current national rate of cart abandonment: 78%.
Here is some startling data that might convince you that mobile is here. Over 30% of the human populations has a smartphone. And once in a user's hand, he checks it over 150 times per day.
"In 2015, that averaged 2 hours and 8 minutes each day browsing and interacting with mobile phone apps, and that number will just continue to grow." If 37% of retail websites are viewed on mobile but 78% of those customer's abandon their carts -- what is a marketing / sales department to do?
Here is a quick summary with arts applications outlined for immediate use:
1. In-App Messaging: AMT Lab doesn't support building a custom app as they are expensive to create and maintain for the average arts organization. BUT apps can deliver results in the right circumstances. Retention of an app is only 13% unless the app provides in-app messages, particularly those that are event based. Even with high-performing app behaviors, they only have a 47% retention rate. But 47% is better than 13% and conversion in the right demographic is important. Thus, a savvy arts manager must balance the financial opportunity of reversing cart abandonment on mobile via event-based, in-app messages to the actual cost of the app.
2. Push notifications: If you are in an app then encourage and reward customers for turning on push notifications. Reminding them of events, reduced prices, and other incentive moves to converting an abandoned cart are demonstrably successful.
3. SMS text messaging: Customers like to receive text messages. Text messages have a 98% open rate, 29% response rate with 47% of that group converting.
If customers are checking their phones 150 times or more per day, let's hope they begin converting as patrons and donors for the arts.


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Bob Dylan Releases "Like A Rolling Stone" Interactive Music Video
Official video coincides with huge box-set release
A classic rock song goes high-tech. After 48 years, Bob Dylan finally made an official music video for his song "Like a Rolling Stone." And how.
The perfect combination of old and new, Dylan's video for the 1965 song features an interactive virtual television with 16 channels of people lip syncing to the song on their various shows—and the viewer can actually flip through the different channels and watch them. Watch Drew Carey sing it on The Price Is Right, or the hosts of Pawn Stars, or a couple on a fake rom-com movie channel, or vintage footage of Bob Dylan himself. It makes for a different video every time, and if you're not careful, you can get completely addicted replaying the song over and over again. Vania Heymann, the video's director, told Mashable (who first shared the video), "I'm using the medium of television to look back right at us — you're flipping yourself to death with switching channels."
And the video isn't "done" yet. Interlude, the video company behind the concept, promises that channels will continue to be added.
The interactive music video for "Like a Rolling Stone" actually hails the arrival of another project: a huge box-set compilation called The Complete Album Collection Vol. 1, containing a total of 41 albums (including 6 live recordings) plus two CDs worth of rarities. Looks like Dylan fans have a lot to be happy about these days.
You can watch the video on Bob Dylan's website. But don't lose track of time. You have been warned.
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Used Sigma 70-300 APO available for sale
I have a used Sigma 70-300 APO available for sale. The lens has usage marks on it but absolutely no damages. I've used it extensively & it has definitely been one of my prized possessions till date. You can view pictures shot using this lens here. I've had great results using it. See the lens reviews here.I haven't decided upon a price yet, I bought it for 11K new around 4 years ago. I'll ask around the market what an ideal selling price would be. Interested buyers can send me a message from my website.The reason I'm selling it is because I have got myself another telephoto.


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We are a Human Resources Consulting firm located in Tokyo.
Our services in English
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Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks is the creator of Tae Bo Fitness®, a revolutionary total body fitness system that has helped millions of people around the world get in shape and feel great! Billy continues to earn acclaim through his extraordinary achievements as a world Karate Champion, actor, author, motivator, philanthropist and humanitarian. He travels all over the globe, teaching Tae Bo and conducting Tae Bo Certifications courses.
Billy is an eighth-degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do but he also gained Black Belts in five other forms of Martial Arts, eventually becoming a Grand Master, but he didn't stop there. He became a seven-time world Karate Champion, captained the U.S. Karate team, won 36 Gold Medals in International competitions and earned admission to the Karate Hall Of Fame. Not only did he achieve his goals as a Martial Artist but Billy went on to train in boxing and became a Golden Gloves Champion and the Tri-state Golden Gloves Champion of Champions.
Living in California, Billy and Tae Bo Fitness® was very popular among celebrities. He became a fitness expert and personal trainer to many movie stars, television actors and celebrity athletes as well. Everyone reaped the benefits of Tae Bo Fitness® and Billy's Boot Camp™, helping them to stay in top physical shape.
Currently, Billy is the co-host of the hit TV series "Celebrity Sweat", which reveals how celebrities and athletes balance good nutrition and fitness, so as to enjoy a healthful life. The series motivates and inspires both young and old to make fitness a dedicated part of their lives.
Billy Blanks has been around for three generations. He is the Godfather of Fitness and continues to inspire men and women to bring fitness into their lives. He is more motivated than ever to make a difference in people's lives.
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Gina & Dahrio
Gina Grant is one of the leading Education Specialists for Zumba, the world's largest branded dance-fitness company with more than 15 million fans in 200,000 locations across more than 180 countries. Certified in Group Fitness by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) and the American Council on Exercise (ACE), Gina trains fitness experts and dancers around the world to become Zumba® instructors.
After joining the company in 2006, Gina quickly became a leading authority on the program's methodology and instruction. In addition to starring in and co-hosting a collection of top-selling Zumba DVDs, including the new "Zumba® Incredible ResultsTM", Gina is featured in the company's video games which have sold more than 9 million copies and are considered the No. 2 selling video game franchise of all time in the dance-fitness space.
A professional dancer and choreographer by training, Grant has more than 15 years of dance and fitness experience. She is a master of various genres—including tap, jazz, hip-hop, Hawaiian, Tahitian and musical theatre—and a former dancer/choreographer for the NBA's Sacramento Kings and Portland Trail Blazers. She put her dance background to good use to co-create the Zumba® Kids program (formerly known as Zumbatomic®), a unique fitness program that adapts the Zumba philosophy to the physiology and abilities of young children.
Dahrio Wonder is a San Francisco Bay Area native who fits no mold, initiates a change of mind, and continuously steps outside the box with any project he works on. His mission to inspire people around the world drives his passion for dance and making music.
Having already worked with some of the industry's top recording artists as a professional dancer and choreographer, has performed and worked with Britney Spears, Madonna, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Adrian Marcel, R&B great An'gela Winbush, Zumba® Fitness, Puerto Rican superstar Wisin and the late salsa legend Celia Cruz.
In 2012, Wonder joined the Gina & Tanya Zumba® Fitness tour as the featured music artist, entertaining crowds in cities throughout the US and Canada. In 2013 Dahrio teamed up with Zumba® Fitness creator Beto Perez to write and perform, "Came Here to Party" for Zumba's instructor conferences, conventions and concert tours. Since their collaboration Dahrio has written, co-produced and performed "Zona Wonder", "Sexy Ladies", "Get Up", "Give it To Me" and many other records that can be heard on Zumba® Fitness ZIN volumes and in Zumba® classes all around the world.
Teaming up with Gina Grant in 2014, Wonder and Grant created the Zumba® Fitness session, #HIPHOPTURNUP gaining highly acclaimed reviews at Zumba® Fitness Instructor Conventions, as well as Zumba® ZIN Academies around the world.
Kelly Bullard, Zumba Education Specialist
Kelly is an International fitness educator and a Zumba® Education Specialist (ZES) since 2009. She holds degrees in Exercise and Sports Science (Health and Physical Education) and a Master's degree in Sport Administration. Her passion, enthusiasm, and experience is for fitness/ dance for people of all ages. Kelly specializes in many of the Zumba Fitness programs and has presented in over 36 countries. She is in several Zumba DVD's, including being featured in the Aqua Zumba Vol. 6. Kelly holds a variety of certifications in many areas of fitness, and is a continuing education provider for AEA, AAAI/ISMA, AFAA & ACE.
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Dance- Stretch-Relax and Learn
Lynn Blakeley has been a Group Fitness Instructor for 18 years and was in the original class of Zumba® Jammers. Lynn enjoyed creating choreographing and working with fellow ZIN members as a ZJ from 2010-2017, and was a ZINCON 2018 Presenter along with ZJ Rita Cohen of their original session, Vocal Flow.
Currently, Lynn is a VeraFlow® Master for the United States, giving instructor trainings and demo classes. This dance, stretch, relax program originated in the U.K., created by former ZES Naomi di Fabio, and leaves people feeling refreshed and peaceful.
Being part of the very first Fitness Team many years back at The Arnold, Lynn has loved seeing this event grow, and is deeply honored to present a new workshop "Stretch by VeraFlow" for the Fitness & Yoga at The Arnold this year!
Tricia has been an AFAA certified instructor since her college years and has background in nursing but discovered Zumba fitness, and the rest was history! She was immediately granted the rights to launch a "Studio Zumba" one of 3 in the world and use the Zumba name through the permission Alberto Perlman, CEO of Zumba Fitness . Beto Perez, creator of Zumba, in which he visited her studio twice In Steubenville and knew of her abilities, and was invited to audition at the Zumba home office in Florida for Zes (Zumba Education Specialist / master trainer of Pa ) in 2010. She was in discussions with Perlaman about her idea to create another program to help Zumba instructors. (This became the Zumba Jammer program ) then called "choreo coach " in which she ultimately decided that it was the best fit for her in Zumba rather than ZES. She traveled all over the U.S with sold out jam sessions for 3
years (presented at the Zumba convention twice, next door to Beto Perez in 2012) In order to stay close to home by her family and new baby,
She decided to focus on her own fitness format, Bellydancing Body Fitness (BDBF) in which has since then expanded to include 6 subformats. She has presented BDBF at several international fitness conventions. And now hosts BDBF trainings in order to help women live the most phenomenal life at any age
Raj Donald – Kangoo Jumps® International Trainer
Raj has been formally teaching Group X and Fitness Coaching since 2005. Through his experience in the US Marine Corps, Sports and Distance Running, he has discovered that fitness has always been an important part of his life. Raj is an AFAA Certified Group Fitness and Indoor Cycling (Spinning) Instructor. He is an International Kangoo Jumps Trainer in the KJ licensed programs Kangoo Power, Kangoo Boot Camp, Kangoo Dance, and Kangoo Kick n' Punch. He instructs Sports Conditioning Running Clinics, RealRyder Indoor Cycling classes, Indoor Cycling Instructor Group Fitness Classes, Indo-Row Rowing and TRX Classes.
"I love this fitness world I'm in! I love training in general! Whether it's business/professional courses, adjunct-faculty in the collegiate setting, or teaching Group Exercise Classes, the classroom is the best place on earth. Having fun with people while helping them reach their fitness goals thrills me to no end!"
Sofia Rodriguez
My name is Sofia Rodriguez and I am a Fitness & Health Expert near Washington DC. In addition to having experience presenting at other expos (including NBC4/Telemundo), I have been the Go-To Expert on many TV morning shows and been featured in several magazines and online publications such as Forbes & Huffington Post. I have a Masters from the University of Virginia in Clinical Exercise Physiology and have worked with cardiac, cancer, diabetic, and injury rehab patients in the past. I am a Certified Personal Trainer ranked among top trainers in the country with many years of experience training various populations for weight loss, muscle gain, and overall health. Also, I am a published fitness writer, a fitness model and specialize in bodybuilding and nutrition. I am bilingual, speaking fluent Spanish and English.
Jill Roth, AS,BS
Jill Roth, AS, BS, is a certified Essentrics® instructor, Function-First Pain-Free Movement Specialist, American Council on Exercise group fitness instructor, Registered Dental Hygienist and public speaker. Jill motivates her clients to regain full mobility through balanced movement.
Julie Wilkes, Owner Seven Studios, Yoga at The Arnold Chair
As a heart disease survivor, Julie believes she was given a second chance at life for a reason. She finds that that when she is sharing the inspiration behind her second chance with others, she is living into her life purpose.
Julie is the North American Wellness Lead for Accenture, a Global Fortune 500 Company, CEO and Owner of Seven Studios (a yoga and fitness studio), published author of The 7 Life Miracles, a Life Coach, a motivational speaker and an entrepreneur, owning several companies, including: aromatherapy product lines, an online life coaching series and a public speaking academy.
Follow Julie on Instagram to get inspired each day!
Phil Weeden, Creator, Xtreme Hip Hop with Phil
Phil Weeden is a certified personal trainer, former bodybuilder & fitness enthusiast. He originally got into fitness to transform his body and discovered a passion for helping others reach their goals. He is currently the owner of Naturally Gifted Fitness Center (the largest privately owned gym in Cleveland Heights Ohio). He is the creator/ founder of the hit cardio step class Xtreme Hip Hop w/ Phil & the calorie killer cardio class Xtreme Burn. Phil guarantees if you try one of his classes, you won't leave the same. Do what millions of people have already done & Show Out!
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Mistress Lexxi makes Roger submit
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Roger things he is worthy to serve his beautiful black Mistress. But I will teach him to take my big black strap-on deep inside him.
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No matter how we look at it, racism hurts us all. In this country, racism stems from slavery and its aftermath. While slavery has been abolished here for many years, the pain, the shame, and the blame of it haven't. The feelings linger, and we don't know what to do with them except inflict them on each other and ourselves—at times.
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People of both races—black and white—have tried talking about these feelings among themselves and with people of another race, but these discussions too often still lead to even more unresolved feelings and increased frustration and hostility.
The fact of the matter is there are no intellectual words that can express the pain of slavery, and there is no apology that can take that pain away. As awful as it was, nothing can change the fact that slavery is a part of our history. The question now is what do we do today?
While we all need to know about this part of our history, we ultimately have only two choices about how we react to it—to forgive the past and live in love today or not to forgive the past and live in hate today. There is nothing really in between.
Forgiveness is the key to peace and ultimately to love—forgiveness of each other, ourselves and the world we live in.
If we continue to debate racism in intellectual terms, we will never resolve it. It's like debating religion or politics—it's too subjective, and everyone has an opinion about it that they believe is right.
But if we look at racism in a spiritual sense, through the eyes of Christ, there is no debate. There is no excuse or reason for hating and mistreating each other, no matter how justified the hate and mistreatment seems—ever.
Each of us, in our hearts, knows what is right in how we treat each other. Consequently, each of us has the power to overcome racism by doing unto others as we would have them do unto us.


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Plano, Texas' home sales saw an 11 percent surge from last month. About 3,933 houses were sold, December of 2015, which is 5 percent higher than last year's sales. New Home listing in Plano increased by 20 percent, with 225 newly built homes for the month. Homes listed under contract in totaled to 210 properties in the area, an increase of 5 percent from the previous month. The houses sold this year is around 3, 949 making the current listing under contract year-to-date increase by a percent compared to last year's output. Average selling price of homes were approximate $320, 718, causing an 8 percent increase from the previous month. Overall, home sales price reached around $338, 473 which is an 8 percent high to last year.
Buyers in Plano received about 98 percent of their original price. Buyers received 99 percent of their listed price which is a percent higher than the previous year. Properties stayed about 27 days in the market before they are sold, which is a 14 percent decline from last year. Inventory of available homes in Plano climbed 3 percent this month, with 376 available homes. This month, in Plano, properties took 36 days before they are sold, which is a 6 percent decrease; although overall, the supply of houses climbed by 5 percent this month.
The North Texas Real Estate Information System designated MLS Area 20, as the Multiple Listing Service Access number for Plano. The DFW-Dallas-Plano-Irving and Fort Worth has 13 counties and 2 major metropolitan regions and spans over 9,000 square miles of land. The Dallas Forth-Worth metroplex's Gross Metropolitan Product is the sixth largest in the United States and the tenth in the world. The Dallas Forth-Worth area is Texas' most populous metropolitan. It is the fourth in the United States and ranks as tenth in the Americas.


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Invites original photo-entries depicting festive spirit of UAE
Top three contestants to win cutting edge Fujifilm cameras
Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, announced today, the launch of the region's first Instagram exhibition and competition, as part of its activities to celebrate the 41st National Day in the UAE.
Uniquely powered by social media, the competition is open to all instagram users who can submit original photos depicting the festive spirit in the UAE. Entries can be submitted on Twitter or Instagram using Hashtag: #ENBDNationalDay, from now until December 8, 2012.
Forty one entries, celebrating 41 years of the UAE, will be selected for participation in a two-week exhibition, beginning December 16, 2012, at the Emirates NBD headquarters, in Deira. The competition will be evaluated by a panel, which includes judges selected by Fujifilm Middle East and an Emirates NBD representative, and the top three winners will be awarded cutting-edge Fujifilm cameras.
"As the leading local financial services provider in the UAE offering pioneering services, Emirates NBD is honoured to launch the first ever Instagram exhibition and competition in the region, to celebrate the 41st UAE National Day," said Saif Al Mansoori, Deputy Head – Group Marketing and Branding, Emirates NBD. "Showcasing the festive spirit in the country through social media platforms, this exhibition is truly representative of the youthful population of the UAE, that is both tech-savvy, while at the same time retaining its deep-rooted culture and tradition."
A free photo-sharing program and social network launched in October 2010, Instagram enables users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and share with other Instagram users as well as on a variety of social networking services. Distributed via the iTunes App Store and Google Play, Instagram is supported on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and Android camera phones 2.2 (Froyo) or higher, and currently has over 100 million registered users.


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A backstory that literally nobody asked for
Alex and I first met in the 4th grade. Heckin handsome.
There were some awkward teenager years in there.
Shout-out to Alex's date
Then college. Georgia Tech.
Alex studied Finance to have a successful career.
And I study Industrial Engineering because my sister told me to.
Careers before PupWalkr
After college, Alex and I got an apartment together in Buckhead. Two young guys with high paying jobs — where else were we supposed to live.
He worked as a Suntrust Investment Banker, and I started as a data analyst+business dev+operations+warehouse manual laborer combo.
Shout-out to bread
This was a busy time for us both. Get home at 2am. Pass out. Back in the office by 8. Those of you that work a salaried job know what I'm talking about.
Working for money to buy the stuff we didn't need.
No time for anything outside of work.
So right around here is when we got the greyhounds who later became the inspirations for PupWalkr.
Why we got them:
[*Standing in the adoption house*]
Alex: "So should we get one?"
Me: "I'm thinking two."
Alex: "Two??"
Me: "Yeah man. How much harder could taking care of a 2nd dog be?"
Turns out, way hard.
Quitting our jobs
I lasted 18 months at that company. And because it was my first real job, it's hard for me to say how bad it really was there. But either way, I had quit and started working on PW.
3 months later, Alex joined. I only had to beg him a little.
We converted our fancy Buckhead apartment into an office, and were off.
May 2015.
What we've done so far
3 years of PW later, and the company still lives on.
32,000 walks done. 200 Walkrs hired. Still working non-stop.
(meaning mostly Alex)
In our time at PupWalkr…
We've pitched at startup events:
Read articles about us:
Spoke on the radio:
And took our dogs on TV:
They only peed twice in the studio.
Our lives now
Today, I manage the provider side. Finding them, training them, and posting their pictures online without permission.
Alex finds all you lovely people that want the service. Including the 24/7 email and phone support.
So this is who we are
Two friends from elementary school, a development team, 2 advisors, 1 marketing pro, Alyssa the Customer Success Manager to help us survive emails, and an incredible team of Walkrs that braves Atlanta's traffic every day.
We all work like mad to bring you the absolute best in us.
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Who are you mad at right now? Do you find it hard to forgive those who have hurt or disappointed you? Are you sometimes overwhelmed with frustration or bitterness? Have you turned to the Bible for text on forgiveness?
Or do you need forgiveness? Maybe you have been disrespectful or unkind and you're wondering how to ask for forgiveness.
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The 'bombo', or drum, is closely linked to Portuguese traditional festivities, frequently sided by melodic instruments such as bagpipes and 'concertinas', and even 'gigantones', that enliven their performances.
Nonetheless, there are several characteristics on the construction and playing of this percussion instrument in Amarante that sets it apart from other regions of the country where it is also prevalent. In this region, due to the vigor and the energy employed in drum performances, they were traditionally played by men and regarded as a masculine instrument; however, in more recent times there has been a growing number of mixed and even exclusively feminine percussion groups.
Amarante has nowadays several of these groups (usually formed by relatives or close friends that learn to play from older members) and this fact makes it possible the much celebrated 'drum face-offs', one of the local June Fest's high moments.
Amarante will hold in 2017 the third Bombo's National Congress, gathering several experts on the subject. Also in a near future it is expected that an exhaustive registry will begin, of Amarante's existing percussion groups and its repertoire.


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Alead of the Curve with Pandora?
Wow, it's rare that i'm ahead of the curve on neat techno bits....but in this case, it's true!
I've been using and raving about Pandora for about a year now, and just over the weekend, the cool kids wrote about what could arguably be the niftiest music learning and discovery application ever.
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The first passwords were created in the 1960s for MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System. These passwords were first used by students in the program who were required to access the system as individual entities.
Each student user created a password; however, the program's leaders soon learned that this method of storage did not work once they discovered that one user who wanted more time on the computer simply printed out the passwords from the machine and logged in as a different user than him or herself.
This was a problem because each user was only granted so much time on the computer per week under their identity. Program leaders quickly found that this manner of storing passwords was not practical for protecting information or keeping others from accessing other student's profiles. A more secure method was needed, they theorized, even on the first computer ever used. This also was likely the first recorded data breach anywhere in the world.


text: Smallable is happy to present to you Borny, a Korean brand of baby design products. Borny takes pleasure in adding a touch of comfort to the lives of your little ones with their range of pushchair cushions, blankets and mattresses, which are as thick as they are comfortable. On top of this, they're even adapted to all pushchair models. For its design, Borny carefully chooses their fabrics, or simply makes them itself. Each product is made in Korea, verified by experts and are inspected at least twice during the fabrication process. Borny offers comfort and style, all while keeping your baby safe!


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As Glenna McReynolds's conclusion to her – gee, what's the name of the trilogy anyway? – well, the conclusion to her trilogy, Prince of Time is a missed opportunity. It's like an overdose of Mad Max clichés minus Tina Turner's big hair and a choir of scraggly kids screeching "We don't need another hero-ohhhh…" Needless to say, it's not fun.
Our hero Morgan ab Kynan is the charming thief who falls into a wyrmhole and is thought to be dead in The Chalice and the Blade. I did a melodramatic "No…" when Morgan fell into the hole, because I like Morgan. But in Prince of Time, Morgan is alive, but no longer in 12th century Wales but the 10,012th century. No, that's not a typo – Morgan has traveled 10,000 years into the future. And Ms McReynolds depict the future in a most typical, boring scenario of deserted wastelands and polluted atmospheres and other unimaginative scenarios I've seen before a zillion times in anything from Mad Max to Terminator. Fine, I don't mind such familiar settings, but at the same time, the author doesn't actually succeed in creating a cohesive picture of that time and how the people function either.
And what happened to Morgan? The story starts with him already leading a gang of thieves to crash some sort of temple to steal a treasure. Little does he know, he is marked by the worshippers of Death as the Prince of Time, the messiah of some sort that they have been waiting for so long. The priestess Avallyn, especially, has been waiting for him all her life so that he will marry her and they will – uhm, do what exactly? Let me check again… ah yes, defeat some great evil and make the world a better place again, or something like that.
It's sad, isn't it? Be it 1100 or 10,100, women seems to spend their live waiting for that Mr Right to give their lives meanings.
Anyway, Morgan just wants to get drunk and whore around and hopefully, die an early death. He's not happy, and I don't blame him. But Avallyn is persistent. No matter how many times he pushes her away, she will keep clinging to his heels. She's tenacious – she has found her destiny and she will never let go!
That's the problem I have with this story. Morgan and Avallyn have no chemistry, all they do is bicker or spat or he making her miserable, but Avallyn insists that he's the one because he kisses her and she knows – he's the one. How sad. Then, when the story requires them to have save-the-world-sex (now that's an orgasm for a noble cause), they're professing undying love and Morgan undergoes a makeover in personality from drunkard sloppy joe to superhero. How did that happen?
The main characters are blander than bland, the great evil thing is done in an unspectacular manner, and the whole futuristic setting is just blah. It could've been grand, you know. Morgan could have been one of those cheeky, roguish reluctant noble heroes. But what do I get instead? The drunkard and the doormat.


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Now that you have all rushed out to pick up your copies of Quilting Arts gifts, I can show you all the ornaments that I made that did not fit in the magazine.
These were so fun to make. I made 19 while I was designing them to be used with the article, I kept getting more ideas I wanted to try. The nice thing about this project is that even the really simple designs like the square, star and heart look nice. You don't have to be a skilled painter to make a fancy looking ornament.
I think these can go beyond holiday decorations and be ornaments to hang on the wall year round. But they do look awfully pretty on the tree reflecting the colored lights.
These ones have little doors that are folded open.
Some of you may be worried about sewing metal on your sewing machine, but I can assure you, this is easier on your sewing machine than sewing through a couple layers of denim jeans material. This is pewter craft metal, it is very soft. These are cut with an x-acto knife and decorative craft scissors made for paper.
If you want to make these you can find the directions in the 2007 Quilting Arts Gifts issue. There will also be a segment on Quilting Arts TV in the 3rd or 4th seasons episodes demonstrating them.
I am working on a new batch of Fiesta Ornaments for Open Studios. The painting takes a long time (especially when talking to people) so I am getting a few ready ahead of time.
The sewing and embossing is much faster, so I want to have plenty of ornaments ready to do the final metal work.
These ones are ready for quilting, trimming and edge stitching.
These are now ready to have the pewter metal stitched to them.
During open studios I sewed the metal on several ornaments, I have been slowly finishing the rest up.This heart ornament is the one I made for the Quilting Arts TV segment. So there will be a pattern and directions on the website when ever the episode is released.
These are 3 1/2 inches square.
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Holidays to Jamaica, by luxury 5* all-inclusive Couples Resorts
Holidays to Jamaica – much more than just a beach holiday.
When you picture all-inclusive holidays to Jamaica at a Couples Resort, chances are you will think of palm trees along a pristine white beach, with the Caribbean Sea lapping gently at the shore as you sip an ice cold cocktail on your lounger. It's a wonderful image, but it's also just part of the Jamaican experience, because this remarkable island also has so much more to offer.
Jamaica is the fifth largest island country in the Caribbean, with a wealth of treats to be discovered within its 4000 square miles. So once you have relaxed away your stresses and strains on the beach for a couple of days, make sure you find some time to explore. Here are five must see attractions that authentic holidays to Jamaica will be truly complete without:
1. Dunns River Falls – a spectacular 600 ft waterfall that creates wonderful swimming pools and natural whirlpools as it drops to the sea.
2. Port Royal – the old pirate capital that half sank in a massive earthquake. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, you can explore it both above and blow the water.
3. Nine Mile – the birthplace and early childhood home of the legendary reggae genius Bob Marley.
4. Fern Gully – a welcome oasis of cool away from the heat, Fern Gully boasts over 500 species of fern including some real giants.
5. The Blue Mountains – at the heart of Jamaica, these spectacular mountains are well worth booking a jeep safari to see.
Of course, with Couples all inclusive resorts, lots of trips and excursions such as the Dunns River Falls are included in the package, making your luxury included holidays to Jamaica with us even better value. So don't just lie on the beach, experience the real Jamaica in all inclusive luxury with Couples Resorts.


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The Lahore gate, main entrance of Red fort
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At many places we will find such cement made boards giving brief about monuments
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Door design represents the Mughal creativity
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The Red Fort was originally referred to as "Qila-i-Mubarak" (the blessed fort). The layout of the Red Fort was organised to retain and integrate. The Red Fort showcases the very high level of art form and ornamental work. The art work in the Fort is a synthesis of Persian, European and Indian art which resulted in the development of unique Shahjahani style which is very rich in form, expression and colour. Red Fort, Delhi is one of the important building complexes of India which encapsulates a long period of Indian history and its arts. Its significance has transcended time and space. It is relevant as a symbol of architectural brilliance and power. Even before its notification as a monument of national importance in the year 1913, efforts were made to preserve and conserve the Red Fort, for posterity


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Ben Elwes' practice uses digital and analogue still photography, HD video and mixed media. Elwes is interested in certain stories and patterns that life produces inspired by his own observations. These situations can develop to be the basis of a new idea that he dedicates himself to for months or even years. Although themes can appear localised or personal, they often involve issues that are collectively shared.
A significant theme that underlies Elwes' work is events that identify and denote change: in a world of flux important moments pass quickly and are soon superseded by others. Elwes' work is concerned with such situations, whether a closing chain store, a political event, a social group or just a transient advertising campaign.
A recurring theme is the consumer environment as a backdrop to our lives, where we are the audience. News, advertising and marketing campaigns are channelled to command our collective attention through the media. Powers we cannot quantify impact and permeate our lives on a daily basis, influencing our psychology, judgement and values, in both the private and public space. This appears to be the price we pay for living in an intense consumer driven environment or Capitalist society in the 21st Century.
Elwes uses types of consumer related material for his work; cars, retail displays, TV transmissions and discarded polystyrene packaging have all been subject matter for his work.
Elwes' work has been exhibited at national and international venues including the National Portrait Gallery and The Photographers' Gallery in London, Gothenburg in Sweden and with Fetart in Arles and Paris. He presently divides his time between Europe and México. In México his work has been exhibited in government institutions and private galleries including Centro Cultural Manuel Gómez Morín Santiago de Querétaro and Fifi Projects, México City.CV download available as PDF


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Estonian Ministry Flourishes as MIWC Associate Returns to Teach
MIWC's Serhiy Bilokin returned to Tallinn, Estonia in December and said he "was met with warm and family-style greetings."
He held a seminar on the very first day of his trip, targeting a wide range of musicians, from beginners to music ministry leaders. The 18-20 seminar attendees included among them interested students and a Tallinn pastor.
For several hours, Bilokin taught Biblical principles for music in the church using MIWC Associate James Janzen's material, which Bilokin has translated several times in his ministry work.
For this seminar, Bilokin focused on the spiritual life of the Old Testament's David, stressing David's creative personality through examples and lessons.
On the next day, Bilokin met with each student individually, listened to them talk about their spiritual backgrounds and heard prayer concerns. This gave him insight into how MIWC may be able to better help their ministry in Estonia.
While Estonia's ministry is currently flourishing, Bilokin feels now is the time for Estonians to prepare the next generation, training students to serve with them and offering assistance to churches that still do not have a music ministry.
One student in particular, who has just earned a Bachelor's degree in choir conducting and music education, aims to do just that. This student, Igor Orekhov, feels God calling him to several eastern Estonian cities where churches with great potential still need a great deal of help: Narva, Narva-Jõesuu and Kohtla-Jarve.
With assistance from the head of the Russian-speaking Baptist churches in Estonia, plans are in the works to send Orekhov to minister in this area as early as the beginning of summer.
Raising up nationals to lead and train their fellow citizens in scripturally-sound worship is what MIWC does. Again and again, MIWC sees God working to make this happen.


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This project is simple enough to be enjoyed by a novice clayer, yet fun and innovative enough for those who already have some experience. As always, the skills learned following this tutorial can be used for many various projects in the future.
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Last week, we commented on Sopra Steria's new win with UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI – see Sopra Steria awarded new UKVI contract). We have, also, recently been briefed on Sopra Steria's new UK Government strategy, devised by Adrian Fieldhouse, MD UK Government sector. The latest contract win is strategically important; it is Adrian's first opportunity to validate his strategy to the business, to the market and to other stakeholders.
In this latest analysis in UKHotViewsExtra from TechMarketView's Chief Analyst, Georgina O'Toole, we outline Sopra Steria's newly launched Government strategy, how the new UKVI contract win aligns with its new principles of engagement within the sector, and why the disruptive nature of Sopra Steria's approach with UKVI is starting to grab wider attention.
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Tonight, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm in Highsmith 221 the design firm that's revamping the campus website is taking suggestions from students. Questions they are asking us to think about include:
- What's good about the current site?
- What are some improvements you'd like to see?
- Who are the audiences we want to reach?
- What kind of information about UNC Asheville is most important?
- What technologies or Web 2.0 applications might we include?
There are other talks scheduled all day for Faculty, Staff, Alumni, Community, and even an "everyone" session from 4-5 in the Whitman Room in the library
The current front page doesn't fill in any other pages yet, or finalize the design, but initial reactions to the progress so far have been chiefly positive. There's even a blog covering the progress of the redesign.
Capstrat is the name of the firm. Their index.html might make you dizzy, so I suggest hitting their website reel if you're interested in their previous design choices. Many of their clients are companies that are based in the Research Tirangle Park. I think if we try to get anything across to them it should be that UNC Asheville is very different from the business-suit hotspot of the south east.


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A better alternative to testing our Sitecore work.
An overview of using custom Solr commands to extend Sitecore's integration with Solr to solve a real world example with replication.
I started contemplating this after reading the article "After a First Date, Would Your B2B Website Get A Second?" by Laura Ramos, Principal B2B Analyst at Forrester. As a companion blog piece to the recent Forrester report, "B2B Websites Still Fail Our Customer Engagement Test," she highlights that buyers and B2B Websites are just not finding the right match. In her article, she leverages common analogies between "first date" tips and B2B marketing best practices. This led me to take the same approach by looking at Reddit to see if I could find some additional "first date" synergies that would round this out to a "top ten" best practices list.
Calling out the 'why' instead of the 'what' can be a refreshing way to look at potential partnerships. I originally sent this as an email to a company I wanted to talk with. I hope you find this as helpful as they did.
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The Philippine Italian Association is happy to participate to the Foreign Language Summit 2017 (FLS 2017), the first conference on foreign language education organized by the UP Department of Linguistics and the UP Department of European Languages.
The PIA will take part in the second Round Table entitled CULTURAL OFFICES AND RESEARCH CENTERS, On October 19, from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
This summit aims to gather foreign language teachers and students, as well as language education and linguistics researchers from all over the country to discuss various research and share their experiences in the field of foreign language teaching and learning.


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New Town Primary School has a named SENCO who has undertaken the new government SENCO qualification.
The SENCO ensures that the New Town Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Policy works within the guidelines and inclusion policies of the Code of Practice (2014), the Local Education Authority and other policies current within the school.
Here it is the belief that all children have an equal right to a full and rounded education which will enable them to achieve their full potential. We use our best endeavours to secure special educational provision for pupils for whom this is required, that is 'additional to and different from' that provided within the differentiated curriculum to better respond to the four areas of need identified in the new Code of Practice (September 2014).
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Will Advertising Dollars Return to TV?
With Changing Marketing Tactics, Networks Are Having a Harder Time Predicting Their Future
The television-advertising market suffered a brutal spring and summer, as national marketers reduced their spending. Now, as the new fall season nears, media executives are betting that ad dollars will return. Ad executives aren't so sure.
On Madison Avenue, the talk is that marketing tactics have changed. Decades-old practices of committing ad budgets months in advance are increasingly being discarded. Instead advertisers are taking advantage of new automated ad-buying technologies and the flexibility of social media and online video outlets to decide on ad buys shortly before they want them to run.
"Everywhere we turn there is a new place to spend money in a real time way," said Bill McOwen, an ad buyer at Palisades MediaGroup.
This shift is hurting traditional television, which has long commanded the lion's share of ad budgets, much of which is committed in the spring as far as a year ahead. The "upfront" TV ad sales market for future ad commitments was weaker this year, which most TV executives attributed to marketers holding back money to be committed in television through the "scatter" market for ads bought close to airdate.
Fall Business Preview
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But ad executives say some of that money may end up being shifted to digital outlets instead. Mr. McOwen, for instance, recently shifted ad money for a marketer that was earmarked to go into TV but instead ended up buying online video ads.
"Some of the money is coming back but it's not necessarily all going to the TV networks," said John Muszynski, chief investment officer at Spark, an ad-buying firm owned by Publicis Groupe .
For marketers, the advantage of holding back cash is that they can adapt more quickly to changes in the marketplace. Marketers can "look at data on a regular basis such as sales or consumer sentiment and adjust their spending on a short-term basis," said Rino Scanzoni, chief investment officer of media buyer GroupM.
That shift, Mr. Scanzoni said, could benefit digital because "digital implementation is basically done in real time."
The result of the shift is that TV networks are having a harder time predicting their revenues. "It is creating havoc" with media companies' ability to forecast, said John Janedis, an analyst at Jefferies LLC. "Media companies are saying 'historically speaking this is how it's been' but it's different now and we are not in historical times."
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"Just heard someone use the word 'Brextension' and think I finally lost the will to live."
IN the midst of all yesterday's hysteria about ruling out a no-deal Brexit, this tweet conveyed more than just passing frustration. It conjured up the despair and punch-drunk detachment felt by (perhaps) a majority of voters as politicians fail to do the one thing they're paid to do – take important, strategic decisions responsibly on behalf of the British people.
But losing the will to live in the face of Brexit raises some big questions too – especially in Remain-voting Scotland.
How can half of all Scots look the Brexit debacle in the face and conclude that staying in the UK is a safer bet than independence? When people shrug and say,"I wish they would just get on with it" are they really thinking – if we must have our economy and society torn to pieces can you do it quickly please? Do folk have such a profound belief in the (deeply) hidden skills of the elite running Britain? Has the sedating spirit of "Keep Calm and Carry On" jumped from fridge magnets into people's souls? Has chronic passivity engendered by centuries of safe seats and first-past-the-post voting turned voters into disengaged consumers who won't run for the fire exit even when an actual blaze is crackling all around?
In short, why aren't Scots queuing up to leave the Union right now?
After all, Brexit has shone a floodlight on the incompetence, bad faith, double standards, greed, self-interest and acts of crass stupidity of both main parties at Westminster. Yet this hasn't prompted a headlong desire amongst swithering No voters to launch the lifeboats and leave UK waters – at least according to most opinion polls.
That's strange.
Over the past three years, we've had the opposite of Project Fear with prominent Unionists arguing that Brexit will break up the UK. It started with David Cameron during the campaign itself, and in 2017 Tony Blair weighed in, claiming the case for Scottish independence was "much more credible" since the Brexit vote.
We've also witnessed an important change towards an iScotland by the EU itself. In 2014, leading players suggested a breakaway Scotland would be frozen out of Europe. By 2017 that had changed. Even the Spanish foreign minister could state that his government would not veto any application from an independent Scotland. Indeed, sources expect a bidding war to break out between the EU and rival trading bloc EFTA for the valuable prize of Scottish membership. It just hasn't happened yet.
It's also clear now that Donald Trump isn't riding to the rescue of Brexiting Britain or the beleaguered Theresa May. American commentators believed that US endorsement of Brexit would act as a game-changer, putting the UK on the front foot in EU negotiations and encouraging other countries to make bilateral trade deals. A "special relationship" between May and Trump might have alienated Scots, but would certainly have boosted prospects of heady post-Brexit prosperity. That illusion is now as dead as May's deal. So why do the polls suggest many Scots voters are sticking with the Union, through thick and thin?
Firstly, the two referendums and the issues they tackle are very different. The indyref touched on primal issues of national identity, something people don't quickly change their minds about. Brexit, by comparison, has been a less emotional and more technical discussion – north of the Border at least. So maybe Brexit chaos doesn't automatically translate into changed emotional feelings about national identity amongst Scottish voters.
There's another thing. Nicola Sturgeon recently observed: "Scots are generally used to living with and being quite comfortable with multiple identities. We are Scottish, British and European. This idea that you have to pick one over the other is something I don't think many people (here) really lose sleep over. But these days in the United Kingdom, it is all about picking one over the other."
Perhaps the perception of a binary choice about national identity over Brexit has fuelled the flames of that debate in England, while "mutliglot" Scots don't believe they really have to choose between their Scottish and British identities – yet. And since "Britishness" has partly been forged through opposition to hostile, "foreign" continental ways, the apparent intransigence of the EU may have bolstered feelings of "Britishness" among Scotland's Leave voters.
Second, is the perceived problem of Scots negotiators dealing with the self-interested, dismissive, stubborn and hostile Westminster establishment that's been unmasked by Brexit.
The idea of trying to negotiate an independence deal with that multi-headed hydra probably fills some Scots with despair. And whilst calamitous polls putting the Tories ahead at UK level make Yessers certain the British political system is hopelessly broken, swithering No voters may see a different message altogether – that the Tory stranglehold over English public opinion is almost indestructible and will make negotiating independence a gey tough job. It will, but it's a job that can be done. Still, who is opening up and tackling these fears? Currently no-one.
Third, there's an issue over priorities. The SNP's policy of trying to stop a hard Brexit and win a People's Vote for the whole UK suggests a pecking order in which Britain's fate comes first and Scotland's second. I understand why that's happened – being harnessed (even short term) to a failing UK economy with a "hard" border isn't the ideal start for a new state. Soon, though, it won't matter if the new-born Scotland faces the frostiest conditions. Once the Scottish Government is certain the UK is beyond saving itself – and that will happen any day – its priorities must change. Occasional independence name-checks are not enough. We need a new independence strategy for these new circumstances.
NOT least because the current default is indy lite – the softy, softly strategy promoted for two and a half years by Alex Salmond. He suggested Scotland and England would be fellow EU members, share a common currency, a royal family and access to the BBC.
Independence now means England and Scotland will have different trading relationships, different currencies and different loyalties.
It'll take more than a partial rethink on currency to make hesitant voters get their heids round such a different scenario. Of course, there's a strong case for this realistic "hard" Scotexit from the UK – it just isn't being made right now.
And that's the main reason the polls are sticky.
Constant exposure to Ukip's "Land of Hope and Glory" narrative has helped normalise it (aided by the BBC and most big newspapers). We have all glimpsed their promised land, had to hear their obsessions, consider their small but awkward grains of truth and learn their red lines. The case for a no-deal Brexit has been articulated regularly and unapologetically and been taken seriously by critics. Compare and contrast the case for Scottish independence.
What exactly is it now?
What is the dream?
What is its strength?
Someone must strategise, popularise, describe and normalise Scotland's alternative future outside the UK – and if that isn't Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, it must be a reinvigorated Yes movement.
With uncertainty all around, the undecided are understandably frightened about taking a new direction that's advocated only occasionally and half-heartedly without a clear destination, game-plan and strong, confident leadership. The important thing right now is not overcoming every difficulty facing indyref2 in a oner – it is creating momentum, so that all Scots are actively considering the case for constitutional change. That doesn't need a date. Or even 60% in the polls. It needs a destination and a vision. Now.
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The Argyle Community Association continues to liaise with the city regarding the future of the Argyle Community Complex. The facility will feature a community centre, an indoor pool and twin gymnasiums. The location is intended for the city property of East Lions Park at the North-East corner.
Funding for this project has been included in the 2015 budget noted on pages 35 & 165. The original START date was to be 2018, however, according to this February 5th LFP news-clip below, it looks like the FINISH date will now be 2018……hope we all get new swimming suits next Christmas.
* A new $16.8-million recreation centre with a pool and gym for east London was accelerated by two years with work to start in 2016, completed by 2018. It will be located at East Lions Park, on Wavell St.
This long awaited Community Complex will be most welcomed by the 55,000 residents of the Greater Argyle neighbourhood, (London's largest), because it will knit the community together as people of all ages participate in healthy living activities year round.
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Getting a community complex built in Argyle was no easy task. After a major annexation in 1961 citizens in Central East London watched in envy as recreational facilities sprang up all over the city. In the year 2000 a tiny group of locals led by Donna Taylor formed a committee to try and have a community centre built or located somewhere in Central East London. The little committee grew to about twelve people, it even included city staff along with councillors Armstrong and Caranci. A name for the group was chosen, a constitution and by-laws were written. The membership (@ $5.00 each) grew to a respectable number. Many long and arduous meetings seemed to hold out hope we would finally get our community centre when the city purchased the old White Rose store on Dundas St. East. Alas, at the last minute, the deal fell apart. The East London Community Centre morphed into the East London Resource Centre.
Years passed but the dream remained. Argyle residents longed for a community/recreational facility they could enjoy. By then the immense benefits of community centres had been well documented in many studies.
In 2008 less than a handful of residents formed the Argyle Community Association. Our Board of Directors consisted of four people, our entire membership. However, this tiny group had big dreams.
The first order of business was to resurrect the Community Complex idea. The need for such a facility in Central East London had become urgent and certainly overdue. Though the association promoted other issues, such as infrastructure, construction of an Argyle Community Complex always remained front & center.
Momentum for the idea grew and finally the city called several public input meetings led by Donna Baxter a clever and determined city staffer. All the while our ( now one) Councillor Bill Armstrong continued to lobby city hall and staff for our cause.
Meanwhile the Argyle Community Association increased its membership to more than 1,500 people becoming London's largest community group.
Argyle consists of 27,000 residents and Greater Argyle has 55,000, London's biggest neighbourhood.
At this point the ACA is suggesting that input from the community be sought by the city to obtain views and ideas as to what is actually required and desired in our dream facility.
There will surely be hurdles to overcome such as listening to people who have concerns about the local impact a community complex will have.
But we're a resilient lot out here, just a hard working community simply striving to receive its fair share of good things enjoyed by the rest of London's citizens.
Nick Sauter
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Former Mayor Rosemary Stasek, known locally as an exemplary public servant, died Thursday morning in Afghanistan at age 46. A memorial service has been scheduled for noon on Oct. 23 at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.
Stasek moved to Kabul in 2006 and founded the nonprofit "...a little help," which sought to empower women through education.
A close friend of Stasek's in Mountain View, Dennis Fischette, said that Stasek went into cardiac arrest in a German clinic in Kabul, where she was being treated for multiple sclerosis, an illness which was causing her health to decline.
"It's a real tragic loss," said Kevin Duggan, city manager. "She was really someone devoted to the Mountain View community. It is unfortunate that at such a young age this occurred, but more importantly she won't be in the world now to do her good work. It is just a very tragic and sad thing."
Flags will fly at half mast at city buildings through Tuesday in memory of Stasek. Those who knew her can record their thoughts and memories about Stasek in a book in the city clerk's office on the third floor of City Hall.
Stasek spent eight years on the City Council -- from 1996 to 2004. She prioritized making the city a more inclusive place and was instrumental in obtaining benefits for domestic partners of city employees. Former members of the city's Youth Advisory Group remember her as someone who listened to the group's concerns.
Though it never passed, Stasek worked hard on an ordinance to preserve the city's historic buildings. She was also an advocate for open space and parks. "Trees in Mountain View have had no greater friend than Rosemary Stasek," Duggan once said.
Stasek had been visiting Afghanistan off and on since a visit in 2002 with a group of young Afghans from the Bay Area. She supported a unique beauty school in Afghanistan that was the only place many women could gather. She began writing a book about the school that was never published.
Stasek found her work in Afghanistan meaningful enough that she did it in the face of significant obstacles. In a public talk on Sept. 11 of last year, Stasek told Mountain View residents that she often felt that her life was in danger there and would sometimes find the tires on her car, likely the only one in the country driven by a woman, slashed. She once told a magazine reporter that she faced intimidating verbal comments from men an average of six times a day.
"The irony is being in Kabul with everything going on there, and it's her health that gets her," said a shocked council member Mike Kasperzak, who served on the council for six years with Stasek.
The Voice summarized Stasek's eight years on the City Council when she retired in 2004.
MSNBC produced a TV news segment about Stasek's work in Afghanistan, available here.
More can be found about Stasek's work in Afghanistan on her Web site: www.stasek.com/alittlehelp


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EU provides humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine
The European Commission has announced today €24 million in humanitarian assistance to address the needs of conflict-affected people in eastern Ukraine.
The funding comes as the European Commission and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are organising a high-level conference in Brussels to raise awareness about the humanitarian consequences of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
"Four years of conflict have put a tremendous strain on the civilian population in eastern Ukraine. We cannot overlook that there's a humanitarian crisis at the European Union's doorstep – On the occasion, Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides said. "Supporting all those in need, wherever they are, is a priority for the EU. Our new aid package will provide essential assistance such as food, healthcare and education for children."
The new EU funding will help address the basic needs of the most vulnerable populations along the contact line including in the non-government controlled areas. It will help those who fled the conflict areas to neighbouring countries. The EU, together with its Member States, is the biggest donor of humanitarian aid, early recovery and development assistance to Ukraine. With today's announcement, the EU has now provided over €677 million since the beginning of the conflict in 2014.


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In case you still thought stock prices were advancing on improving economic growth, take a gander at this puppy. The grey line is the Fed's securities holdings. You know – all the Treasuries (and MBS) the Fed is buying from Wall Street with freshly printed money. The black line is the S&P 500. Quite a correlation wouldn't you say? The question that savvy investors should be asking themselves is, "What happens when the Fed stops buying bonds in June?" It could be an unpleasant summer for the unprepared.
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Citi Open 2019 has come and gone. By all estimates, especially those from Owner Mark Ein, this Citi Open was more successful than any other over its 51-year history. To read any one of the stories Down The Tee wrote during the tournament, please click here.
Here are the draws:
Women's singles draw is here
Women's qualifications draw is here
Women's doubles draw is here
Men's singles draw is here
Men's qualification draw is here
Men's doubles draw is here
Tennis News by Jane Voigt at TheSportsHaven.com
Please click on this link: French Open Wrap-up: Nadal Wins 12th, Barty Wins First Grand Slam
Ashleigh Barty and Marketa Vondrousova Reach Women's Singles Final at Roland Garros
Roland Garros Starts Sunday, May 26 … Djokovic and Nadal Anchor the Men's Singles Draw
Thiem Downs Federer at Indian Wells To Win His First Masters 1000
Photos from 2019 BNP Paribas Open.
Memorable Moments On Court, 2018
Naomi Osaka shocks Serena Williams in U.S. Open final, amid controversy. Osaka apologizes for winning. Williams tells her to be proud.
Bertens and Djokovic Triumph at Western & Southern Open
Tennis News by Jane Voigt at TheSportsHaven.com
Grading Wimbledon:
Who Went to the Top of the 2018 Class?
July 17, 2018.
French Open Recap: Nadal Wins 11th Title, Halep Wins 1st Grand Slam & More.
June 11, 2018.
King of Clay: Rafael Nadal Expected to Win Record 11th French Open Title
May 22, 2018
All-American Sweep Marks Last Miami Open for Key Biscayne
April 3, 2018
Transcending Tennis: Roger Federer Ascends to No. 1, Again
February 20, 2018
Roger Federer: Tennis's Miracle at the Australian Open and Beyond.
January 29, 2018
Tennis Thoughts: Can The Big Four Bounce Back? December 1, 2017
By Jane Voigt
December 1, 2017 — Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had spectacular seasons. They each won two Grand Slams; and, they ended the year ranked one and two respectively for the eighth time in their careers. However, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray skirted almost half the season due to injuries. Can they pick up where they left off and help lift the Big Four to its acquired status? If not, will we see the Golden Era of Men's Tennis come to a close?
Jana Novotna: Smooth and Graceful on Court; Dead at 49. November 22, 2017
By Jane Voigt
November 23, 2017 — Jana Novotna's grace and brilliance in doubles won her the Wimbledon Singles Championship in 1998. But five years earlier, she had come within two games of that same title, losing her direction and the match only to create one of the most enduring moments in sport during the 1990s: She cried on the shoulder of The Duchess of Kent, during the awards ceremony. Novotna died three days ago of cancer. She was 49.
WTA Triumph: Women's Tennis Won Big in 2017. November 10, 2017
By Jane Voigt
November 10, 2017 - You may have watched more men's tennis matches in 2017 just because it was so darn hard to find women's matches on television or through any other electronic means. However, when compared, nothing surpassed the drama, athleticism or heartwarming comebacks witnessed on the WTA Tour this year. Photo credits Leslie Billman tennisclix.com.
Singapore's WTA Finals Drenched with Drama, Missed by Millions. October 30, 2017
By Jane Voigt
October 30, 2017 — Caroline Wozniacki (right) won her biggest title at the WTA Finals in Singapore, October 29, defeating Venus Williams, whom she had never beaten in 7 attempts. Too bad thousands and perhaps millions of tennis fans couldn't see it. That tragedy rests directly on the shoulders of the WTA. Photo credit Karla Kinne tennisclix.com.
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Roger Federer Proves Himself Twice at Shanghai Masters. October 16, 2017
Billie Jean King's Enduring Contribution: Tolerance. October 3, 2017
King's Court: Billie Jean's Battle of the Sexes Continues. September 20, 2017
Breakthroughs, Normalcy, and Resurrections at the 2017 U.S. Open. Sept. 12, 2017
Here it Comes Again The Big Brash U. S. Open. August 24, 2017
The Future of Tennis You Might Not Want to See. August 16, 2017
Birthday Boy: Roger Federer Still Leads the Pack at 36 Years Old. August 10, 2017
Does Novak Djokovic Deserve Criticism for Taking Rest of Year Off? July 27, 2017
Roger Federer Soared, But Did Wimbledon? July 17, 2017
Bernard Tomic's Latest Transgression Spells Trouble for the Tennis Star. July 8, 2017
McEnroe Is Still Out of Touch. June 28, 2017
ATP Ascension: ATP's Top Spot Up For Grabs at Wimbledon. June 23, 2017
Faces of Tennis Familiar and Fresh after 2017 French Open. June 13, 2017
Novak Djokovic Experiencing Breath of Fresh Air with Andre Agassi. June 1, 2017
Roland Garros Gusto: 2017 French Open Preview. May 24, 2017
Sharapova Stunned by French Tennis Federation. Wild Card Denied. May 17, 2017
Why Is It so Hard to Watch Women's Matches? May 10, 2017
Comeback Trail: Tennis's Top Players Exercising Spirited Rejuvenation. May 3, 2017
Sharapova Wins First Match Back, Stays Neutral in Suspension Debate. April 27, 2017


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Tulips is set in a hand cast satin finished bronze bezel adorned with perfectly matched carnelian, brass and yellow jade beads hung on a unique and rare vintage brass chain. The bezel is approximately 1 x 2 inches. Total drop length to the center of the image is 9 1/2 inches with a 2" extension.


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Do With Me What U Will
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Jessica's debut album We Need To Talk was released in 2009, but the following year Jessica fractured her spine and pelvis falling from a first-floor hotel window. Do With Me What U Will is Jessica's first new album after her long recovery. Inspired by her treatment in hospital, Jessica also spent the last years studying to become a nurse, and now works in a Melbourne hospital.
The album was recorded with longtime collaborator Geoffrey O'Connor (Crayon Fields, Summer Flake, Sarah Mary Chadwick) and features production on key tracks from Travis Cook of Collarbones and Melbourne electronic auteur Darcy Baylis. A classically trained cellist, Jessica moves seamlessly between hi-sheen pop and dark, string-driven confessionals.
"The songs are about girlhood, mental illness and desire, mostly at the same time," Jessica says.
Do With Me What U Will is a vivid account of the progression from fiery pubescent longing ('Fun Factory', 'Oliver') through adolescent anxiety/self loathing ('Look So Good Feel So Bad', 'Fairest Of Them All') and emotional numbness ('Xanax Baby'), before discovering the possibility of an identity driven by desire rather than low self opinion ('Rock Candy').


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Increase access and ease of use.
Increasing ease of use and accessibility would be ideal. Going to a .gov website to discover that you have to not only use a certain browser, but that that browser can only be found on one operating system is a horrible waste. .gov websites built according to web standards would be a huge help towards accessibility as well.
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Liste des compositions
Musique lyrique
Musique de chambre
Musique symphonique
Musique concertante
Sheet music for Jose Pablo Garcia Moncayo
- 2 Symphonies
- Sinfonietta
- La Mulata de Córdoba - Opera
- Huapango for Orchestra
- Homenaje a Cervantes - For Two Oboes & Strings
- Cumbres for Orchestra
- Huepayan - Symphonic Dance
- Chamber Music
- Piano Pieces
- Songs
Pablo Moncayo Studied Composition Under Candelario Huízar and Carlos Chavez. He
studied Piano with Eduardo Hernández, and was a member of the Mexican group of
The Four, together with Daniel Ayala Pérez, Salvador Contreras Sánchez and
Blas Galindo Dimas. In 1932 he joined the Percussion section of the Mexican
State Symphony Orchestra.
In 1944 he was appointed artistic director of the National Symphony Orchestra
of Mexico City, which he conducted from 1949 to 1952.
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sam, 2011-01-01 22:36
haupango inspired mag seven
I just heard haupango by moncayo on PBS Great performances tonight. I immediately felt that it was taken from the magnificant seven theme, until i compared the dates. it seems elmer got his inspiration from Mr Moncayo's Haupango written 19 years earlier. Without any info from me, (i replayed on TIVO) my wife popped out with "reminds me of the mag seven.
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mer, 2011-01-12 20:35
I, too, heard the "Huapango" played on PBS Great Performances; I saved my DVR recording and have listened to it a number of times since. What an exciting composition and how well-played. Each time I listen to it I am very much reminded of the "Magnificent Seven." It seems highly unlikely, to me without doing a critical exegesis of the materials, that the two could share so many similarities without cross-polinization having occurred. Further, I was struck by the fact that the LA ensemble was playing this music for their audiences--my comment to my wife was that this was not the kind of music we are likely to hear from the Chicago, New York, Boston, etc. groups for which I am most thankful to LA for doing.
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The ICO blog brings you all the latest news from the world of cinemas and film festivals, including opportunities, best practice guides, festival reports, opinions and interviews. To sign up to receive regular updates on the blog, click here. If you'd like to pitch a piece for our blog, email email@example.com.
May 2018
Cannes 2018: Jonny's blog
Posted on May 18, 2018
Slow-burning psychological dramas, Wages of Fear -esque thrillers and a story of a young boy surviving in poverty with his family in Lebanon are amongst the cinematic highlights seen by our Senior Film Programmer Jonny Courtney at Cannes Film Festival this year.
What I learned from Developing Your Film Festival '18
Posted on May 10, 2018
This year our Developing Your Film Festival course took place during the 23rd edition of Vilnius International Film Festival in Lithunia. CINECITY - The Brighton Film Festival's Film Events Coordinator Kate Wood reports why the course is a must for any organiser who wishes to take their festival to the next level.
Introducing 'live cinema' - and why it should be on your radar this year
Posted on May 4, 2018
For the first time, Sheffield Doc/Fest is hosting the Live Cinema Summit, two full days on 'live cinema', with a plethora of live cinema events throughout the six-day festival. As the festival announces its full programme, Lisa Brook, Director of Live Cinema UK and Doc/Fest's events consultant, addresses the importance of 'liveness' to the cinema sector.