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La Fiesta de la Tirana
Intro and History
Festive dancers paint the cold desert sky in blue, red, glitter and gold. The low thuds of marching bass drums crash against cymbals and snares – as sticatto horns wail the romantic melodies of vintage boleros, ballads and waltzes. Where the songs and dances of one group ends, another begins – a sensory mosaic of sound, color and movement. The energy is high, the central plaza packed with hundreds upon hundreds of religious dancers – offering their blood, sweat and tears in the cold crisp air of the arid desert night. On the eve of July 16, there are over 250,000 attendees, pilgrims who have made the long journey to the small desert town of La Tirana, Chile. Why have they come? Why do they dance day and night, for 10 days on end? What drives this powerful and profound sacrifice each year en el Norte Grande de Chile?
They come to pray, to give thanks, to entregar, offer their pasos/steps to la Virgencita del Carmen, patron saint of Chile. She protects Chile as a country, and is more specifically the guardian of the armed forces, the navy, the police. Believers throughout the region make peticiones to la chinita, and are obliged to complete their promises of multiple years of dancing to show their devotion and thanks. Families and sociedades of dancers have carried on this vibrant tradition for generations, with the earliest modern groups forming in the mid 19th century.
But this tradition has even deeper roots in the land, in the footsteps of Inca and Aymara travelers of this dry and expansive landscape. For centuries, these sandy hills served more as a crossroads, a place of transit for the llama caravans led by indigenous migrant peoples who traveled from the Andes to the coast in a constant motion. To support the journey through this harsh and extreme environment, travelers began recording and expressing their visual culture through ongoing geoglyphs – monolithic, geometric and anthropomorphic figures that remain on the hills to this day.
This energy of pilgrimage was embedded ever deeper after a fateful cuento took place at this site. La Fiesta de La Tirana finds its origin in this popular myth; a story of love, betrayal and death. The oral tradition tells of a fierce indigenous princess, Huillac Ñusta, known throughout the region for her unrelenting defense of her people and land, killing and enslaving any Europeans or Christian Indians that crossed her path. Her nickname, La Tirana – the tyrant – gives this small town its name. The story describes how she ultimately falls in love with one of her prisoners of war – a European (Portuguese or Spanish) man named Vasco de Almeida. In order to marry, she must convert to Christianity, and therefore betray her commitment to her own religion, and her people. As with many popular legends, there are many different interpretations and versions of a similar series of events, but each story agrees that Huillac Ñusta was baptized by Almeida, and at that very moment Ñusta's warriors fired a sea of arrows upon them, killing them both in an embrace of impossible love. Whether Ñusta herself gave the orders, or her people decided to carry out the attack on their own is one of many sites of debate within the oral history. Nonetheless, on the site of their murder was erected a cross and when another missionary priest Antonio Rendón traveled to this site in the mid 18th century, he decided to erect a church to commemorate and mark it as a sacred site – a site of pilgrimage. Huillac Ñusta then becomes baptized and canonized in her afterlife as La Virgencita del Carmen, an apparition of the Catholic Virgin Mary. This is a story we find throughout the Americas, one that is rooted in founding colonial mythologies of mestizaje and Christianization of Latino America.
La Fiesta Today
Today, the fiesta represents a complex and interlocking system of cultures and histories - each layer emerging in different moments of the 10-day popular fiesta. Chinos, Morenos, Indios, Gitanos – this year over 220 different religious dance associations arrived to offer their songs and bailes. The number of pilgrims and dancers continues to grow each year, especially since the founding of the mining boom in the early 20th century. La Fiesta de La Tirana in many ways would not exist without the mining industry that surrounds it.
The bailes themselves are organized in an elegant and cooperative spirit. Caporales (head dancers) from each group are represented in a larger association of dancers, deciding beforehand the spatial and temporal flow of the fiestas. Practices of mutual respect and asking permission of elders is a fundamental ethic that guides the organizing and energetic principles of the fiesta.
A fiesta of such magnitude - with 250,000 attendees in a small town of 1,500 - requires a great deal of organization, commitment and temporary infrastructure. Thus the fiesta creates its own community-based systems of healthcare, commerce, and housing to name a few. Security, law enforcement, and transportation sectors from surrounding areas know to stay close to La Tirana during these 10 special days each year. Furthermore, juridically each year the town of La Tirana has a mandatory dry law, with alcohol checkpoints at each entrance, to avoid public drunkeness and recklessness that would otherwise compromise the religious intent of the fiesta, and is also a public safety concern. Notably this also has an historical precedent in that the fiesta was known for many years as a site of religious abandon, prone to extreme alcohol abuse, widespread unofficial gambling, and sexual promiscuity. The dry law was passed sometime in the mid 20th century to bring the fiesta back to its Christian intentions, though this remains a contested and heavily policed space during the fiesta. More investigation into this transition would most likely yield some very interesting dynamics of the fiesta.
Bailes Religiosas
Of the bailes religiosas, the baile de las Diabladas are the most popular and iconic of the fiesta, even though they are a more recent introduction to the celebration, arriving first in 1957 by way of Bolivia's Fiesta de Oruro. The diablos represent sin, all the bad of humanity, all our pecados, therefore to dance the devil is to work out these demons, to turn them over to the virgin, to be forgiven and shown mercy by her grace. Of course there is also a deep history of the diablos as a racialized and gendered performance within the Catholic church.
The Osos and other tricksters play between the danzas, as border crossers, the playful figures interact more with the children and also cross over between groups of bailerines. Free agent diablos also play this role, holding the space for other groups and not belonging to any particular group themselves.
As an outsider to these traditions one notices the racialized dynamics of each baile religiosa. Chinos, Morenos, Indios, Diablos with dread locks, these are the racial others of a white supremacist Eurocentric paradigm of mestizaje. Further questions here are: how do these performance interact with regional racial/ethnic identities? Of the dancers? Of spectators and other pilgrims? With structures and cultures of racialization at large? For example, do chinos identify with the Chinese rail workers from which this dance comes? Do morenos identify as the racial slaves of the mines?
The grupos indios are a particularly noteworthy cultural performance. They are the complex result of US cultural imperialism and the mining industry in the area. As the primary entertainment for miners in the 1950s became American Westerns with Cowboys vs. Indians, local dancers began to identify more with the representation of Indians than cowboys, and adopted the dress and dances of the Native North American Nations they met on screen. Coopting Lone Ranger and John Wayne movies, these dancers found an outlet for being Indian in public through an alternative indigeneity. They wear headdresses, moccasins and bear tomahawks to this day, being one of the few dance traditions that does not use horns in their ensemble. Instead, los Indios or Pieles Rojos (Redskins) dance to the bare sound of tribal drums. The complexities and contradictions of these danzas also merit further research, especially in light of ongoing debates regarding cultural appropriation and power.
A note on governance
The "order" of many of these dances come from indigenous worldviews, namely Aymara and Inca cosmovisiones. Governance comes from a deeper, grander authority, that is, Nature, the Creator. Therefore, the church and the dancers are in a dialogical struggle for meaning making at this fiesta. Further research is needed to understand the role of the church as a governing authority in the fiesta vis-à-vis the sociedades/cofradías of dancers and caporales. Also, how recognized are the indigenous roots of the organizing principles and the steps of these danzas? For example, organizing in the duality of male/female to represent the harmony masculine/feminine? Are there third, fourth or other genders represented in these bailes? Organizing by age from eldest to youngest, the geometry of the bailes themselves, how are these taught or passed down in relation to their indigenous roots?


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I live in the D.C. Metro area, one of the most bustling geographies in the country. On any given drive through the city I'll pass by long-time businesses that I've frequented for years closing their doors, as well as new businesses hosting a grand opening. Nearby I'll see road construction underway or even new commercial or residential buildings popping up within walking distance. In a community where things often change, I'm constantly reminded how critical site selection is for businesses, particularly in growing communities like mine. I'd argue that it's one of the single most important factors determining if a business remains open or closed.
For retail locations—apparel, telecommunications, banks, groceries, etc.—it's all about location location location. Before opening a storefront, many retailers rely on site selection analytics to help them determine the best location for a store. Typically, site selection analytics helps these retailers identify areas in close proximity to a business's ideal customer base, but it also takes into account other factors that could affect a business's performance, such as average local income, average age, new construction, local competition and more.
Site selection analytics is critical to understanding whether a location is the right one, but few realize that the data gathered through site selection has the power to do more than just advise the planning process. It's what site selection analytics tells you about customers that I think is the untapped opportunity retailers should really get excited about.
By understanding a potential store location and its surrounding area, this information, if utilized, provides you with a better sense of how to market to customers surrounding your store. Would your target demographic likely stop for a coffee on their way to see you, or visit the local gym at the end of their day? What route would they most likely take to get to your store? Are there billboards along the way? Equipped with insight like this, retailers have a huge opportunity to identify potentially lucrative customer segments and refine its marketing tactics and delivery methods accordingly.
Imagine you own a local office supply store. Your target demographic is largely comprised of working professionals, college students and parents of school age children. Luckily, you've found a space centrally located between one of the larger office complexes in town and the local community college. Despite what you've identified as the ideal proximity to your target demographic, business is slow and few customers drop in on a daily basis.
The data and insights used for selecting the proper location can have powerful marketing benefits. When you take a second look at your site data – demographic data and overlaying that with movement patterns – you can uncover insights about your customers' daily habits beyond just that they go to school or they go to work. You learn that many frequent local coffee shops either to pick up a caffeine booster in the morning, or to study in the afternoon. Often they head to the gym in the evening to burn off a little steam. And after the gym, they may take a nearby service road to get to their neighborhood, avoiding any rush hour traffic.
Once you begin to better understand the customer outside your store location, their movements and preferences, you can better understand the most appropriate opportunities to market to them. You begin to send them mobile alerts when they enter the coffee shop a few blocks away, offering 10% off supplies in the next hour. You place fliers on the gym's message board offering free printing for students with a college ID for a limited time. You sponsor an advertisement on the service road's billboard that every traveler can see on their way home. You place location-based ads on the popular social media sites in your area offering incentives on back-to-school supplies.
Business begins to pick up, and soon, you become a local favorite among professionals, parents and students alike.
Site selection analytics is so much more than picking a proper location. It's an opportunity to leverage data and analytics to uncover insight about an entire ecosystem and the people that live in it. As I drive through my community, and I see new businesses opening their doors, I'm hopeful they will take advantage of the wealth of information at their fingertips, and become a local staple for everyone in our ecosystem.
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the movie that set the standard for comic-based blockbusters, starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel. Most of the time, he's mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent. But whenever disaster strikes, one quick change transforms him into a high-flying superhero. Which happens a lot with snoopy colleague Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and evil megalomaniac Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) around. Thanks to pioneering special effects, bullet-speed direction and super casting (which made Reeve a household name and Marlon Brando a record-breaker), you'll really believe a man can fly!


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The blaring of a train whistle and a gush of wind sweep the girl awake. She has been dreaming of oceans with flying fish. She has never seen vast bodies of water but they coalesce in her imagination from overheard snippets of conversation. She never talks to fellow travelers on La Bestia. She has learned it is best to stay apart, to seem tougher than she is.
"Riders on The Beast risk a great deal—robbery and assault by gangs who control the train tops, or the loss of life or limb in a fall. Only a fraction of the immigrants who start the journey in Central America will traverse Mexico completely unscathed—and all this before … entering the United States and facing the considerable U.S. border security apparatus designed to track, detain, and deport them." – The Atlantic
Ensconced by tinkling forks and snatches of laughter, I raise my wine glass to toast your release from the Eloy Detention Facility. But the tiny ocean of red waves crashing against the sides of my glass belie the tight ball of raw nerves and clenched muscles I've become. When I dropped you off at the Greyhound bus station this morning—to travel to your sponsor's home in another state over twenty hours away—you hugged me hard and told me not to worry, reminding me you had survived more treacherous journeys than this.
The girl sleeps when the locomotive stops. When the beast lurches forward, she hugs its hulking mass as if it were her mother, who she fights to keep alive in her receding memory. For months, or has it been years?, she's been hopping trains, holding on tight, searching for the sea as a means to stay awake. Time has become an anachronism, survival having replaced it as the only useful metronome.
On January 19, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound Bus going from Orlando to Miami, Florida. Agents demanded proof of citizenship from every passenger. One woman, who could not provide proper identification, was taken off the bus and into custody. Days later, frantic family members learned that she had been placed in deportation proceedings. A concerned passenger video-taped the encounter and posted it on Twitter.
My cellphone rings. It's Rosie. I push away from the white linen tabletop, rush out the heavy restaurant doors. "What is it?" my panic courses through miles of electromagnetic waves. "It's her, she just called me, Border Patrol stopped her bus. They're asking everyone for I.D. She's scared. What do I tell her?" The universe folds into itself like a piece of origami, my insides pulled outside, my outsides sucked inside. "Tell her to show them the xerox-copied piece of paper they gave her at Eloy—the one with the faded mugshot and smudged fingerprint." Rosie hesitates, "Do you think that'll be enough?" I plead, "It's gotta be, that's the only form of I.D. she has. Tell her to tell them that she has a lawyer and to call me immediately if they have problems with her paper." Silence, then, "Okay, I'll tell her."
There are moments on the train when the girl wants to cackle like a witch or howl like a coyote. Like when tourists, standing below, motion for her and other riders to pose so that they can take pictures with their fancy phones. How strange, she thinks, but forces a crooked smile anyway. Perhaps they'll take her picture back to the United States so that people there can see what people like her will do for a sliver of a chance at life.
"Ms.____'s PTSD is severe. However, she may not look to an observer like she is suffering from PTSD. Factors in her personality serve to camouflage her anxiety, fright, and isolated sense of herself in a dangerous world … she puts powerfully troubling feelings aside so that feelings of anxiety, rage, or terror do not interfere with competent task performance or cogent speech. She can be aware of this division herself when she says, 'I know I look calm, but inside I am shaking all over.'" – Expert Witness Report of Licensed Psychologist after clinical exam of young female asylum applicant persecuted in her country of origin.
I remain outside under starry skies half wanting half dreading the inevitable ring. When it comes I jump and Rosie's words tumble out, "She's shaken up, but she's alright. She says they took five people off the bus who never got back on again. When they got to her she showed them the paper and told them she had a lawyer. They looked at it for awhile but then they moved on …" What Rosie and I are both wondering, but don't say out-loud because we don't want to tempt the fates, is whether more checkpoints loom ahead.
As La Bestia snakes around bottomless valleys and climbs up towering mountains, the girl thinks she glimpses snatches of shimmering blue. Nothing more than mirages she tells herself. But then the glistening grows larger until it swallows everything but the narrow strip of land where the tracks run parallel to it. I have come to the edge of the world, she thinks. A person near her shouts, "el océano!," and the roar of frothy water rushing towards the shoreline fills her ears.
Immigration officers may, without a warrant, "within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States…board and search for aliens in any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railcar, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle." Immigration and Nationality Act §287(a)(3); see also Code of Federal Regulations at 8 C.F.R. §287(a)(3); 8 C.F.R. §287(a)(1)(defining "reasonable distance" as 100 air miles from any border).
I weighed the options. Request that your case be moved out of Eloy immigration court to the court nearest your sponsor requiring you to find another attorney who would take your case pro bono. Or, ask that your case be transferred to Tucson where I could continue representing you but forcing you to travel back and forth by bus (because you lack I.D. for air travel) and alone (because your sponsor can't take the time off work to drive you). You chose the latter option, which I endorsed. I called the Eloy ICE attorney on-duty to ask if he'd stipulate to a motion for change of venue to Tucson. After bantering with him (flirting not being beneath me), he said he couldn't agree to anything but wouldn't oppose my request either. I thanked him, perhaps too profusely, and filed my motion that same day. It didn't occur to me that the judge's decision on my motion wasn't the only obstacle that stood in our way.
The girl is unable to turn her gaze away from the water's shimmering aquamarines, interrupted only by rocky cliffs thundering into the sea, striated canyons, and leafless spiny plants with branches that look like arms twisting in impossible directions. She takes in the landscape because even now, even after all she's been through, beauty still comforts her.
American officials have put pressure on the Mexican government to tighten its borders and create a migrant dragnet hundreds of miles south of the United States border. In response, Mexican authorities have stepped up immigration enforcement by increasingly searching trains and buses for Central American refugees. They often deport refugees back to their countries of origin despite their pleas to seek asylum in Mexico.
I do not sleep that night, one hand curled around my phone. When dawn begins to blush into my bedroom, my palm vibrates and I squint at the screen. It reads: "Estoy aquí. Estoy a salvo."—"I am here. I am safe." I roll over and fall into a sea of tumultuous dreams.
Before the sun drops behind the Sea of Cortez, the girl sees something cause a splash in the distance. She peers into the gathering dusk and sees giant fish—could they be dolphins?—leaping and arcing in and out of the waves. She suspends the image, saving it to invoke like an incantation over wounds and hopes that criss-cross time and space, binding her future to her past.
"Upon due consideration of the Motion for Change of Venue and non-opposition by the opposing party … it is HEREBY ORDERED; that venue is changed to Immigration Court at TUCSON, Az. in order to permit the respondent to defend himself/herself …" – Order from U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Eloy Immigration Court.
After receiving the order transferring venue, I receive a second order from the Tucson Immigration Court setting a calendaring hearing in six weeks to determine your final trail date and at which you must be present. I pick up the phone to call you so we can begin planning your next harrowing trip.
Shefali Desai is a child of the Sonoran Desert, daughter of Indian immigrants, mother of sons, lover of the earth, and a fighter/writer/lawyer. She has been a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, Arizona Supreme Court law clerk, and VONA fellow. Her book-length manuscript was selected by Lidia Yuknavitch as a finalist in the 2016 Kore Press Memoir Competition, and her work has been published widely including in Ms. Magazine, the UCLA Women's Law Journal, Kartika Review, and the anthology This Bridge We Call Home.
Shefali currently is co-authoring a legal paper on federal and state regulatory power over so-called sanctuary cities, litigating an asylum case, and finalizing a hybrid memoir. Her six-part series for Corporeal Clamor titled "ASYLUM" is a blended legal/personal/lyric essay that layers the law with lived experience. Shefali lives in the painted hills of Tucson with her partner and two sons.


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Living Fearlessly in the New Year
As our students returned from Impact Weekend last month, I spent some time reflecting on all of the amazing God moments from the weekend. The Lord is moving in powerful ways in our Student Ministry and in our church and I am praying for God to provide us with the strength we need to live fearlessly in the New Year.
Our theme for Impact Weekend was 'Fearless'. One of the key verses we reminded our students of was 2 Timothy 1:6-7, which states: "For this I reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God,…for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." As Christ-followers, we have been given the best gift of all: salvation and eternal life! God, because of His great love for us, sent His son Jesus Christ to take on our sins so that we could
take on His righteousness by entering a relationship with Him. Paul is reminding Timothy (and us) that our gift of salvation is not meant to be kept to ourselves, but to be shared with others. Living fearlessly means we will strive to share the love of Christ to the people God places in our lives. While we do not know what this year will bring, we can be sure that God is with us no matter what we will go through. Living fearlessly requires that we trust God, listen to God, and obey God. There will be times this year where it will be difficult to trust, listen, and obey God. Perhaps you are going through such a time right now. If so, remember Paul's words to Timothy. Fear does not come from God. God gives us a spirit of love, power, and self-control. All of these things are demonstrated perfectly in the life of Jesus, in whom we trust. Let's make 2018 a year of living fearlessly for Jesus because of who He is and what He has done for us.


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Facing May deadline, carmakers invite action on conflict minerals
Facing May deadline, carmakers invite action on conflict minerals
At the AIAG Corporate Responsibility Summit, where automakers and suppliers are meeting near Detroit this week, I joined with other members of the global auto industry to launch an awareness campaign designed to accelerate action on conflict minerals, identified in a new survey (PDF) as the most significant issue facing the industry this year.
Thousands of companies face a May 31 deadline to file a Conflict Minerals Report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required by law, and many more who do business with them will be asked to report up the supply chain. With that in mind, the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) created the conflict minerals campaign microsite, our latest tool to engage new and existing audiences by simplifying this complex issue.
The when, why and how of industry action
At AIAG, where I lead our corporate responsibility program, we started working on conflict minerals with our more than 1,000 member companies more than three years ago, when the Dodd-Frank Act was passed and set reporting requirements in motion.
By April 2011, AIAG and six of our largest members — Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan and Toyota — issued a call to action to thousands of suppliers, encouraging them to join industry efforts and find common solutions to the conflict minerals issue. Our aim, then and now, is to do whatever we can as an industry to ensure that global vehicle production does not support armed conflict in central Africa, where the conflict minerals tin, tantalum, gold and tungsten often are mined.
The new campaign microsite illustrates how the use of conflict minerals benefits warlords and harms people in central Africa; how conflict minerals end up in vehicles and other consumer products; what action the auto industry has taken on the issue; and how companies can engage with AIAG on conflict minerals and meet the reporting deadline. We then guide people to resources, created by AIAG and our member companies, on the need to get started on conflict minerals reporting and complete the process including FAQs (PDF) and a checklist (PDF), a case study (PDF) on the approach several automakers and suppliers are taking, and two reporting tools we endorse: the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative's Conflict Minerals Reporting Template and the iPoint Conflict Minerals Platform.
The importance of accelerating action on conflict minerals is confirmed by AIAG's new Global Automotive Corporate Responsibility Survey (PDF). Nearly half of companies polled have a policy on conflict minerals reporting — yet only half of those companies with a policy said they will meet the SEC deadline, as required by law. The online survey (conducted in March) of more than 550 professionals working on corporate responsibility (CR) in automotive, manufacturing and other industries in 40 countries also revealed that AIAG member companies are more likely to have a conflict minerals policy, and more likely to meet the reporting deadline.
Survey: Energy efficiency, working conditions and reporting important too
Overall, more than seven in 10 survey respondents said CR is a significant priority at their companies, including issues related to business ethics, energy use and conservation, environmental emissions, reporting and supply chain transparency. The survey also found that:
Reducing energy use and waste are the most important environmental goals
- More than 70 percent of survey respondents said it was most important to meet reduction goals for energy use and waste, followed by water use, air emissions and greenhouse gas emissions.
- With that said, more than a third of the companies surveyed already have met their reduction goals in energy use and waste, while more than 70 percent of companies surveyed have sufficient data to benchmark operations in these areas.
Practices are in place to ensure responsible working conditions
- Nearly 80 percent of companies surveyed have a policy or expectations for responsible working conditions.
- If mandated, more than half of the companies (57 percent) surveyed can demonstrate that their supply chain does not include the use of forced or trafficked labor.
The benefits of CR reporting are recognized, but the practice can be more common and rigorous
Only 30 percent of companies produce a CR report, and 8 percent plan to do so — less than the sum of those that don't produce a report (19 percent) or don't know if their company produces a report (43 percent). Of those who do report, only 23 percent use the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework. Most (67 percent) don't know if the GRI Framework is used.
The survey confirms that the global automotive industry is focused on significant corporate responsibility issues. But it also reinforces the need to work together and intensify our efforts in other areas, such as conflict minerals reporting.
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text: (Picture: AFP) RELATED ARTICLES BlackBerry's KEYone with physical buttons now in SA BlackBerry's latest with full keypad hits SA next week BlackBerry's new keypad phone: The company's latest suicidal move? Toronto - BlackBerry shares soared on Thursday after record software revenue helped earnings beat analysts' estimates, reassuring investors that the former smartphone maker is succeeding in a pivot away from hardware and will hit growth targets this fiscal year. The second-quarter results suggest a disappointing performance in the first quarter that sent the stock plummeting was an exception rather than the rule in CEO John Chen's attempts to build a growing, profitable software company. BlackBerry shares gained as much as 9.8% in early trading in New York.From phones to software Chen has spent the last several years winding down the company's phone business and replacing it with software through acquisitions. Now, investors want to see organic growth. BlackBerry had 3 300 enterprise customer orders in the quarter, up about 10% from the previous period. Gross margins jumped sequentially too, to 76% from 67%.All that puts BlackBerry on track to hit Chen's estimate of 10% to 15% software revenue growth by March, a goal the company reaffirmed on Thursday. The company scored another win last week when it signed a deal with auto-parts supplier Delphi Automotive to provide the operating system for self-driving car technology Delphi will be offering in 2019.READ: BlackBerry's KEYone with physical buttons now in SABlackBerry also said on Thursday it has signed its first deal to license its special version of the Android smartphone operating system. Finding ways to make money off of BlackBerry's smartphone expertise is another key plank in Chen's strategy.Total sales, excluding some items, were $249m in the fiscal second quarter, the company said, beating the average analyst forecast of $220.8m. Software and services revenue rose 26%.The positive results will shore up BlackBerry's position that it will soon be able to produce profits on a quarterly basis, something analysts had expressed scepticism about. In the second quarter, BlackBerry reported earnings of 5 cents a share, compared with the average analyst projection that the company would break even.SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE UPDATE: Get Fin24's top morning business news and opinions in your inbox. Read Fin24's top stories trending on Twitter: Fin24's top stories Read more about: blackberry | companies | tech | smartphone share:


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Clive Efford has led a delegation of London MPs on a visit to see the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask for radical and imaginative measures to help tackle youth crime, anti-social behaviour and knife crime.
Clive organised the delegation so that MPs could stress upon the Home Secretary that the problem could not be solved by the police and the government on their own and that more legislation was not the answer. There was a need to engage with communities and with young people.
There was a call for more investment in youth facilities and activities for young people which should be available at times when problems with young people occur. Clive argued that local authorities should provide scrutiny and support but that the resources should go to local community groups and voluntary organisations who were far better able to respond to young people's needs.
Clive co-ordinated the arrangements for the meeting with the Home Secretary in response to the growing concern in London about young people and violent crime, particularly the use of knives. Clive says, "The government cannot solve this problem by passing more and more laws. We must take tough action against people found with weapons, but the public must be involved, particularly young people, if we are going to stop young people getting into these situations in the first place."
Clive who used to be a youth worker in the 70s and early 80s explained to Jacqui Smith that young people are the ones most at risk from the trouble makers and they are the ones most determined to deal with this problem. Parents want the trouble makers to be dealt with so that their children can go out without the fear of being attacked. Clive wants young people to be given the confidence to give intelligence to the police to allow them to target their time and resources at the problems.
"We have just celebrated the 20th anniversary of Crimestoppers and they have a site – Shadow CS – for young people to call and give information and get advice." explained Clive. "We need to make people more aware that they can give information through Shadow CS and be confident that they will not be identified. We can do this through the sites young people visit on the web, programmes they watch and places they go like the cinema and sports centres. It's the fear of being identified as an informer that allows the minority that commit crimes to evade the police, we must give the decent majority of young people the means to act. There is a link to Shadow CS on my website http://www.cliveefford.org.uk"
Clive is also calling for the money from dormant bank accounts that the government has said will be used to provide youth services to be targeted through local communities rather than given to local authorities. He says, "I constantly meet local people who want to do something in their local areas, but lack the means to do so. I want to be able to say to people, 'how can I help you tackle the problems that exist on your doorstep?'."
During August it is planned to hold creative workshops in partnership with radio stations Kiss and Galaxy to generate key messages through street poetry, rap, vox pops and art and use of websites such as MySpace.


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Monday, 10 June 2013
Mono Brown
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Nutcrafters - Monochromatic
Seems A Little Sketchy - Sketch 41
QKR Stampede - Ribbons and Bows
I have used papers from paper pads by Authentique for this card. The ribbon is from American Crafts. The image is from Nutcrafters Designs and has been coloured using copic markers in the E range - forgot to note which ones I'd used so I'd be guessing here! The matting is with a brown textured cardstock from a paper pad by Kaisercraft.
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Suze you did marvelous with the browns, I love this card and that image is adorable... awesome card!!! hugsReplyDelete
Cute card! Love the brown tones and the cute image! Thanks for sharing with us at Seems a Little Sketchy!ReplyDelete
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TACTICS are always important when negotiating a salary for a new job, a pay rise, or a bonus. Playing for high stakes, investment bankers have settled on their technique. The trick, according to numbers from salary benchmarking site Emolument.com? Look unhappy. In fact, look furious. If nobody knows how much their colleagues have been paid, then it is hard to know whether your bonus is good or not. If you look pleased, then the boss knows they don't need to pay you more next time. But if you are visibly distressed, then they might have to cough up a bit more to keep you next year. Emolument's data show BNP Paribas' staff are best at playing this game – just 15 per cent reported they are happy with their bonuses, while 58 per cent said they are paid too little. By contrast Morgan Stanley's bankers are more upbeat, with 47 per cent saying they are happy with their bonuses. Perhaps they got such a big raise they couldn't hide their delight? Meanwhile JP Morgan staff play their cards close to their chests, with 40 per cent claiming to be unsure how to feel. Senior staff are better at this than new workers – 49 per cent of managing directors say they are unhappy, versus 42 per cent of associates. "Lack of pay transparency fosters paranoia and misconceptions," said a distinctly downbeat Thomas Drewry, Emolument.com's chief executive.
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The NSWindowDelegate protocol defines the methods that a delegate of NSWindow should implement. All methods in this protocol are optional.
By implementing these methods, the delegate may respond to window resizing, moving, exposing, minimizing, and a number of other window events.
- 57 events
- event concludeDragOperation(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS)
- event customWindowsToEnterFullScreenForWindow(win as NSWindowMBS) as NSWindowMBS()
- event customWindowsToExitFullScreenForWindow(win as NSWindowMBS) as NSWindowMBS()
- event didDecodeRestorableState(win as NSWindowMBS, state as NSCoderMBS)
- event draggingEnded(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS)
- event draggingEntered(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS) as Integer
- event draggingExited(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS)
- event draggingUpdated(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS) as Integer
- event encodeRestorableStateWithCoder(win as NSWindowMBS, coder as NSCoderMBS)
- event performDragOperation(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS) as boolean
- event prepareForDragOperation(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS) as boolean
- event restoreStateWithCoder(win as NSWindowMBS, coder as NSCoderMBS)
- event shouldDragDocumentWithEvent(win as NSWindowMBS, evnt as NSEventMBS, dragImageLocation as NSPointMBS, pasteboard as Variant) as boolean
- event shouldPopUpDocumentPathMenu(win as NSWindowMBS, menu as NSMenuMBS) as boolean
- event startCustomAnimationToEnterFullScreenWithDuration(win as NSWindowMBS, duration as Double)
- event startCustomAnimationToExitFullScreenWithDuration(win as NSWindowMBS, duration as Double)
- event updateDraggingItemsForDrag(sender as NSDraggingInfoMBS)
- event wantsPeriodicDraggingUpdates as boolean
- event willEncodeRestorableState(win as NSWindowMBS, state as NSCoderMBS)
- event willPositionSheet(win as NSWindowMBS, sheet as NSWindowMBS, rect as NSRectMBS) as NSRectMBS
- event willResizeForVersionBrowser(win as NSWindowMBS, maxPreferredFrameSize as NSSizeMBS, maxAllowedFrameSize as NSSizeMBS) as NSSizeMBS
- event willUseFullScreenContentSize(win as NSWindowMBS, proposedSize as NSSizeMBS) as NSSizeMBS
- event willUseFullScreenPresentationOptions(win as NSWindowMBS, proposedOptions as Integer) as Integer
- event windowDidBecomeKey(notification as NSNotificationMBS)
- event windowDidBecomeMain(notification as NSNotificationMBS)
- event windowDidChangeScreen(notification as NSNotificationMBS)
- event windowDidChangeScreenProfile(notification as NSNotificationMBS)
- event windowDidDeminiaturize(notification as NSNotificationMBS)
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Many men suffer from gynecomastia, a condition where the males chest becomes puffy and bloated, resembling women's breasts. The man's nipples can also be very sensitive, almost painful and will frequently have a cone like shape as well. Typically the condition is thought of in connection with overweight men, however gynecomastia can strike any male. As you can imagine it is a very embarrassing condition that can sorely affect a man's self confidence. Fortunately there are ways to combat gynecomastia and below you'll find three cures for gynecomastia.
1. The most extreme method of getting rid of gynecomastia is through cosmetic surgery. Unfortunately it's also the first way that most men think of. Plastic surgeons are capable of removing gynecomastia although the success rate is not as high as some would like. In addition, it is an expensive procedure and will cost between $4000 and $10,000 depending on a variety of factors. The degree of gynecomastia, the city you live in and of course the doctor you use will all have an effect on the cost of gynecomastia surgery. If you're considering gynecomastia surgery don't let the cost make you choose a cheaper and less experienced doctor. It is a difficult procedure and you want to have the most experienced surgeon possible. Poor surgery can result in scarring, asymmetry of the chest and even further surgeries so please choose carefully if you decide to use surgery to rid yourself of gynecomastia.
2. A second method of removing gynecomastia is through hormonal therapy. Typically the anti-estrogen drug Nolvadex, also known as Nolva, is prescribed by the doctor to lower the level of estrogen in the males body. It is the excess estrogen that often will lead to gynecomastia and by ridding the body of estrogen we can sometimes shrink the existing gynecomastia. Reports from men that have gone this route report varying degrees of success and finding a doctor to prescribe it for you could be difficult as the medical profession is not nearly as accepting of Nolvadex as a cure for gynecomastia as the athletic community is. If you frequent gyms it's quite likely you already know or have heard stories of men who started getting gynecomastia and quickly reversed it with Nolvadex. Keep in mind that this cure works best for gynecomastia that has just developed, but some have reported that Nolvadex can alleviate gynecomastia that has been present for years.
3. Your third, and possibly best, option is to combat the gynecomastia with diet and exercise. While there can be some glandular swelling, for most gynecomastia is simply an accumulation of fat in the chest area. By controlling diet and increasing exercise you can easily rid yourself of excess fat deposits and shrink the size of your man boobs. If you look at before and after photos of those who took on a diet and training regimine you'll often notice that one effect is the disappearance of any gynecomastia. This is really the best and safest route to removing gynecomastia and for preventing it's recurrence. It's cheaper than surgery and also safer and it's safer than manipulating your hormones as well. And not only will you get rid of your gynecomastia, but you'll improve your health and body overall, giving yourself more energy and a sexy new look.
Learn other ways of treating gynecomastia and helpful gynecomastia cures by visiting the authors website.
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Everyone is invited to enjoy the apple harvest and the gift of being together. You can meet us at church at 9 a.m. to carpool to the orchard (transportation will be provided) or you can drive to Afton Apple Orchard (which opens at 10 a.m.). There are activities for every age. Enjoy time in the countryside, play on a straw mountain, walk through the corn maze, spend time with the friendly critters at the petting zoo, pick apples, and spend some time with the friendly critters from our church community. We would love to have you join us! After lunch we will return to First Covenant.
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How much do you spend on your website doc? Between hosting and design it is more than likely thousands of dollars over the lifespan of your site. The truth is that this is a small price to pay considering it is the first point of contact for nearly every patient that ends up in your office. The importance of a professional and well written page cannot be overstated. As a matter of fact, research shows that over 90% of people research their doctors online before making an appointment.
Chances are that you meticulously researched the design and functionality of your site; making sure the SEO was maximized, the content was placed appropriately, and a strong call to action was present. Hopefully, you also use it as a place to provide true value for potential patients and community members. Wow, that sounds like a lot of hard work!
So after all this time, energy, and money; do you have any idea how are people interacting with your website!?!?!
Lets face it, user testing seems expensive and cumbersome (and in the past it was). However, just last week I discovered Peek UserTesting which is a completely free service that you should use immediately. To use it you simply enter your email/website address and within a few hours you are emailed a link of a 5 minute video of a random person visiting your website and interacting with its content.
Here is a personal example. I used the service just last week and discovered that one of my links was "dead". So everyone who had previously clicked this certain link was taken to the wrong page. Oops. Given that fact that my website receives hundreds of views per day this is very important!
In short, people are interacting with your website each and every day. Many people are making healthcare decisions based upon their findings. Using a free service like Peek will give you a ton of insight on how you can clarify your message and improve your website; ultimately serving more people and better representing our wonderful profession.
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Raise your voice
How many people do you know that always has to make their voice heard? The ones who are not always right, but definitely the loudest?
This is why there exists the common advice that you should listen more than you talk.
But I want to suggest some advice for the introverts — the ones who sit back and watch judgmentally while supposed "idiots" dominate the conversation — RAISE YOUR VOICE.
Yes, we've been taught to embrace good listening skills, but if all we do is listen and don't speak, those "idiots" will dominate the conversation.
Change doesn't happen when you're listening. Change happens when you participate.
Actually let me rephrase that.
Change in your mind only happens when you're listening.
Change in the world only happens when you're speaking.


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Ingredients - Dumpling Filling
20-25 dried chestnuts - soak with 1/2 tsp alkaline water with some water for 15 minutes. Blanch with boiling water for 15 minutes then boil for 15 minutes. Drain and set aside
50 gm dried prawns - rinsed and drained
12 salted egg yolks, stir fried for a minute - halved
2 tbsp each of oil, chopped garlic and sliced shallots [I used 6 shallots]
500-600 gm fatty pork belly - cut into 20-25 big pieces
Marinade for Meat
2 tbsp each of Chinese 5 spice powder, sugar, oyster sauce and dark soy sauce
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp pepper
1 1/2 tsp salt
- Marinate pork pieces with seasoning for several hours in the fridge.
- Heat oil and fry chopped garlic and shallots until aromatic and brown.
- Add in marinated pork belly and dried mushrooms. Stir fry for 5 minutes until all the ingredients are well coated with seasoning. Add in dried prawns and chestnuts. Stir to mix well. Dish up and set aside.
2 tbsp each of oil, chopped garlic and sliced shallots [I used 6 shallots]
1 tbsp 5 spice powder, dark soy sauce and salt
1 tsp pepper
- Heat up oil, saute chopped garlic and sliced shallots until golden and crispy.
- Add in the rice and seasoning. Off heat. Stir fry to mix well the seasoning and rice. Turn on the fire and fry for 3-4 minutes or until the rice is well mixed with the seasoning.
- Dish up and leave aside.
- Using 2 pieces of bamboo leaves to fold into a cone. Scoop some rice into the cone [I used about 1 tablespoon], place 1 piece pork belly, chestnuts, salted egg yolk and mushroom. Cover with about 1 - 1 1/2 tbsp rice [depending on the size of chang you wish to make].
- Press the rice firm, cover it with the extended ends of bamboo leaves and form into a pyramid [chang] shape. Tie and secure it with the hemp string.
- Finish doing the same for the rest of ingredients. Trim the edges of the bamboo leaves and excess strings.
- Place the changs in a big pot. Pour water enough to cover them. Bring to boil and cook for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until the rice dumplings are cooked. Add more boiling water should the to water is reduced below the changs.
- Remove from water and hang dumplings to dry before storing them or serve warm.Notes: Not necessary to bring water to boil before adding dumplings to cook. Should you have any remaining ingredients without bamboo leaves to wrap - just place all the ingredients [rice and meat] in a can, steam for 40-45 minutes to cook.


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Out Youth is excited to announce that we will be participating in a day of service, on Saturday, April 28, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Hill Country Ride for AIDS.
For the last eighteen years, Out Youth has been a beneficiary of the Hill Country Ride for AIDS (HCRA), and this year we are helping with the lunch pit stop at the race. It's very important to Out Youth that we have youth representation, and we would love for your youth AND your family to be present for this important day of service.
This is not only a chance to participate in this volunteer opportunity, but also a chance to cheer on riders, work as a team, create memories, make friends, and have fun.
The Hill Country Ride for AIDS seeks to provide financial support to nine beneficiary agencies (including Out Youth) through a fun and imaginative annual cycling event open to a broad range of participants and promotes awareness, education, community, and volunteerism.
The ride takes place at Krause Springs, but the location for the lunch pit stop is St. Luke's Episcopal Church - Cypress Mill (263 Spur 962, Cypress Mill, TX 78663).
Volunteers will need to ride with Out Youth or meet us at the pit stop.
We hope that your youth will be able to join us for this magical day!
STEP 1 - Register Online
If you need assistance registering your youth or family members, please call or text Kathryn Gonzales at 512-910-5172.
STEP 2 - Complete ONE copy of the HCRA 2018 MEDICAL & TRAVEL CONSENT FORM for each person under 18 who will be volunteering at the pit stop
You can complete this form on paper and return to Kathryn Gonzales at Out Youth, or fill out the form and e-sign it online at:


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A while ago I had the pleasure of photographing an old friend's wedding at the beautiful Morning Glory Inn. It was a gorgeous November night and Lori looked simply stunning. Lori and I met on our first day at Chatham College. Her husband is a member of the National Guard, as is mine, so when they got engaged, I was excited to be a part of their engagement photos. I wasn't expecting to photograph the wedding as well, since I had never done one, but I'm so glad I did. Congratulations to Lori and Chris! Love you both and I wish you both all the best!
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Wide Area Network, or WAN, is a geographically distributed network composed of local area networks (LANs) joined into a single large network using services provided by common carriers. Wide area networks (WANS) are commonly implemented in enterprise networking environments in which company offices are in different cities, states, or countries or on different continents.
WAN technologies were previously limited to expensive leased lines such as T1 lines, slow packet-switching services such as X.25, cheap but low-bandwidth solutions such as modems, and dial-up Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) connections, but this has changed considerably in recent years. Frame relay services provide high-speed packet-switching services that offer more bandwidth than X.25, and virtual private networks (VPNs) created using Internet Protocol (IP) tunneling technologies enable companies to securely connect branch offices by using the Internet as a backbone service. Intranets and extranets provide remote and mobile users with access to company resources and applications and provide connectivity with business partners and resellers. Wireless networking technologies allow roaming users to access network resources by using cell-based technologies. Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services provide T1 speeds at much lower costs than dedicated T1 circuits. These and other new technologies continue to evolve and proliferate, allowing enterprise network administrators to implement and administer a highly diverse range of WAN solutions.


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Scotland should be fintech frontrunner/
Former US Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volcker addressed an international banking conference in the wake of the global financial crisis telling the audience that "the most important financial innovation that I have seen the past 20 years is the automatic teller machine, that really helps people and prevents visits to the bank and it is a real convenience."
Financial technology like ATMs and personal identification numbers (PINs) are classic examples of what is now better known as fintech and while Scotland played a significant role in the development of the ATM and the PIN, our current report card on fintech is arguably "could do better"; a talented child with lots of potential who finds it difficult to concentrate on the job in hand and has fallen behind his or her classmates.
Having spent the last week speaking to many of those more in the know than me, the picture painted across the board is one a nascent industry that finds it difficult to collaborate and identify the key opportunities and challenges, never mind put in place a coherent strategy and action plan.
One industry insider suggests this is no surprise when you consider that banking and financial services players - who are taking the lead on fintech in Scotland along with the Scottish Government and its enterprise agencies, industry associations like Scottish Financial Enterprise and professional services firms like Deloitte - are components of one of the least collaborative sectors in the UK.
In the oil and gas sector, to give something of a crude example (excuse the pun), it is not unusual to see BP and Shell launch operational partnerships to further their own business strategies but you could hardly imagine RBS and Lloyds doing something similar.
Yet it is the banks in Scotland, now mainly run from power bases in London, who are key constituents of the working groups designing fintech strategy north of the border along with asset managers like Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management. It's easy to see the conflict here for the financial sector and government alike as it's generally accepted that advances in fintech and automation will lead to significant job losses in back office functions.
Turkeys voting for Christmas and banks helping to further a nation's fintech agenda anyone? To use a Game of Thrones analogy, they know winter is coming and, like the next series of the cult HBO series, it's a horror show where cannibalism by largely unknown forces is fairly certain to be rife and is most certainly going to be bloody.
Rather than being devoured by flesh-eating zombies, a more drawn-out decline will come from disruptive startups populated by coders and developers displaying human characteristics - very probably dressed in jeans and t-shirts drinking soy lattes and snacking on avocados - armed with killer algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Scotland is home to some promising early stage and high growth fintech ventures - startups like cash flow forecasting app, Float, data analytics specialist, Aquila Insight, peer-to-peer SME lender, LendingCrowd and global fintech success stories like FNZ, a London-headquartered wealth management specialist that employs hundreds of people at Tanfield in Edinburgh. But as government chiefs readily admit in private, we lack critical mass and the glass is definitely half empty rather than half full.
To give them some credit (last pun I promise), RBS get brownie points for launching a new fintech hub at Gogarburn in February. While for many a fintech hub sitting in the headquarters of a high street bank is always going to be something of a contradiction, it's also reasonable to say we need to stack as many building blocks as possible in our tech ecosystem to give fintech the best chance to flourish.
To improve our next report card, we need to attract people and organisations to Scotland who have been there and done it in fintech, like a challenger bank or an accelerator like London-based Level39, get more of our startups roped into steering groups that are currently conspicuous by their absence and spend more time thinking about what our niche in fintech could be. As we continue to build an enabling ecosystem, the chances also improve of us producing a fintech startup that scales up and would in itself help to move us forward from the back of the class.


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Here's a random thought that popped into my head after my much beloved Manchester United crashed out in such un-dramatic fashion from the Champions League (Oh…I wish a plague upon the house of Robben). Now, football is a game of strategy which involves playing the opposition, putting your best combination while striking the right balance between strike and defense and at the same time changing strategy half way through the game based on requirements, injuries and what not.
PS: For those of you who thought," hey, just like cricket…"I might be generous enough to give the same to test cricket…not the IPL. IPL is just people going nuts while swinging the bat ever so wildly. Do not be confused by the word 'strategy' in 'Strategic Time-out'…it's just a way to get more advertisements in.
PPS: If you still want to argue, come back to me when EA make a game called 'Cricket Manager'. We have 'Football Manager'. So there… (Sticks tongue out at them cricket fans)
Now, instead of getting all these dim-witted managers who could barely play football themselves, and are just looking to prolong their long anonymity into the football world, why not get some of these hotshot MBA types to be managers? If we are as good as we claim, we ought to look at everything from a strategic point of view and be able to put out the best team. Get some of these hotshot Harvard types and see if they are worth their salt….in fact, get those 'class topper' types to see whether they can actually make use of their infinite wisdom (cough cough ….puke) with which they would arrogantly sell their soul to some consulting firm to make long winding 200 page reports that could easily be explained in 3 pages. (You consultants do that….and you know it). In fact, here is an experiment, why can't some of the Indian Football clubs hire the top MBA grads (very tempted to say 'From Great Lakes Institute of Management', but that would be too much) and see if these guys can not only win, but also create a brand for football in India? It's a plan…a business plan….hey! Technically, this is my first business plan while at MBA. Nice! I have learnt well….


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Osoite: Högklint Visby
At Högklint - Gotlands highest cliff, the view is spectacular. People come here for the amazing panorama view, but not everyone have the guts to try the 50 meters rappel.
Rapell (also called abseiling) is a rope technique used to get down a cliff. We use harness and belay device to get down the climbing rope. You don´t need any previous climbing skills. First we practice to get you warm, to finally rappel all the way down to the shore - 50 meters below. It´s a thrill you´ll remember - we promise.
The nature reserve, five kilometers south of Visby, attracts many visitors - specially in the summer. It´s easy to get here, either by bicycle, car or on foot.
- Trained and experienced instructors.
- All necessary safety equipment.
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It was Jungian analyst D. Stephenson Bond, in his 1993 book Living Myth, who first used the phrase 'falling out of myth' to describe what happens to us when we cannot live by the dominant myth of our culture – in other words, when the ways of life that previous generations pursued, when the values they espoused and beliefs they held, become intolerable to us. In every generation there are people who fall out of the dominant cultural myth, but today it seems that there are more than ever before. And that's because our cultural myth is dying.
A cultural myth is alive and thriving when it offers up a way of life which inspires us, nourishes us, and satisfies our need for meaning. But when the heart bleeds out of our cultural myth and it grows arid and lifeless, we in turn become alienated and rootless. Our lives are lived outside of any meaningful context; they become storyless, curiously plotless – because it is myth that provides the meaning by which we structure our lives. Myth is many things, but above all, myth is meaning. If we fall out of myth, we fall out of meaning. We are trying to find a path back out of the dark woods, but when we set off on the journey originally, the stores were all out of breadcrumbs. There's no trail to follow which will take us home. There is no home.
As we all know, the dominant myth in Western culture has for a good few centuries now been founded on the premise that humans are superior to 'nature' (and, as a not-unrelated by-product, that men are superior to women). Progress and growth, and a constant striving for personal achievement and supremacy (we are told) are what a meaningful life is all about. But if we cast aside the veil and look around us today with clear and wide-open eyes, it's not a thriving, vibrant civilisation that we'll see, but rather the consequences of a long slow slide into cultural decay. That cultural paralysis has been caused by the death of the prevailing myth on which our culture was founded: a myth which has not only led our own species into worldwide social and political turmoil, but has led us to inflict a series of environmental catastrophes on the rest of the planet. None of this is likely to end well.
So the dominant cultural myth is dying. What happens next?
What needs to happens next, of course, is the transformation of the dying cultural myth into something a little more … functional. But that doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen by popular acclaim. Usually, cultural myths begin to be transformed by individuals who fall out of the prevailing myth, and who begin to live in a new one of their own making. Because, as Jung suggested, when the declining myths of earlier generations begin to fade, the mythmaking process resides in individuals. The birth of a personal myth in the imagination of a single individual, or a group of individuals, may lead to the rebirth of new myths in the imagination of the culture.
It's the mythical misfits, then, who kickstart the transformation of the world, and who begin to imagine more sustainable and meaningful ways of living. Sustainable, because the strongest, most enduring and most satisfying cultural myths are those that spring out of a functional and harmonious relationship to the environment in which its people live. The myths that call on people to live balanced lives, taking no more than they need, respecting the land and the nonhuman others we share it with, are the myths that will lead a culture not only to survive, but to thrive. Most indigenous mythologies do this. Our own native mythologies do this, as I discussed in a recent blog post for Immanence, a new journal of myth and folklore, entitled 'Archetypes and the Ecological Imagination'. And when we live in a myth that doesn't spring directly out of our own heads, but which is an act of co-creation, a myth which comes out of that imaginal space between us and the land – only then can psyche truly be in balance with nature.
Today's mythical misfits know this. Today's mythical misfits are rejecting a culture which values neither intuition nor imagination, which values neither the land nor its nonhuman inhabitants. They're deserting the crumbling institutions, and creating communities of their own which celebrate life rather than destroying it. When the great blazing bonfire of a culture goes out, what remains are a few individual flames. It's when those individual flames come together that we can kindle a new fire. Mythical misfits of the world, it's time to unite!
If you're interested in exploring these aspects of mythology and psychology in more detail, you might enjoy my online course, The Mythic Imagination, which you can enroll in at any time.
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Bean and Pie launches Kickstarter campaign
Wed., Nov. 28, 2018, 1:16 p.m.
A North Idaho pie company has launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hope of raising $20,000 toward securing a storefront in Coeur d'Alene.
The 30-day campaign kicked off Wednesday.
Proprietors Katy and Ethan Bean specialize in farm-to-table pie.
The couple are working on obtaining bank financing, but need helping coming up with a down payment for the loan as well as money to buy commercial kitchen equipment.
The Beans started Bean and Pie in summer 2017 out of their home kitchen. In 2018, they sold pies at the Kootenai County Farmers Market and Kendall Yards Night Market.
Now, they are hoping to open a neighborhood pie shop, or – according to their Kickstarter page, a "gathering place, where you can enjoy good company over a slice of pie and a cup of coffee, or pick-up a pie to enjoy with family and friends."
They would like to open in 2019.
They strive to use as many local and organic ingredients as they can in their fruit, cream and savory pies, which include gluten-free and vegan options. Flavors change seasonally.
The Beans don't use fillers or preservatives; they thicken pies with flour or cornstarch.
Pies are made in small batches. Production capabilities are limited.
"Having our own pie-bakery, with more space and commercial baking equipment, will allow us to expand our business and continue serving our community delicious pies that can be enjoyed with family and friends," according to the Bean and Pie Kickstarter page.
The all-or-nothing campaign ends Dec. 28. The Beans need to be fully funded by then in order to receive any money. Pledges can be made in increments of $5 or more.
At the $20 level, givers get a sticker and an apple pie-scented candle. Those who pledge $30 also receive a Bean and Pie T-shirt. And those who give $50 get a whole 10-inch pie, plus a slice of pie or a handpie, and a sticker.
For $250, supporters are invited to the launch party and take home a pie, sticker, candle and T-shirt. And for a pledge of $1,500 or more, supporters get a pie-making party for six and a 10-inch pie every month for a year, plus a slice of pie with coffee, a T-shirt and a sticker.
For more information, contact the Beans via their website at beanandpie.com or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Finding Our Purpose (and Happiness) Through Giving
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." – Eleanor Roosevelt
I've written before about the many benefits of giving, both for the beneficiaries and the giver. The feeling of happiness we experience when we volunteer. The sense of purpose and a connection to "something bigger" than ourselves when we contribute to a cause or help others in need. There is medical evidence that giving creates chemical changes in the brain which activate the brain's reward center, resulting in higher levels of energy and overall feeling of happiness.
I want to share another article written by Alice Walton, Forbes contributor and Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience PhD, that supports these findings. The article talks about recent studies which provide more evidence that giving has real, tangible benefits to our overall health. It also contains links to other studies that have shown that living a life of purpose promotes overall well-being and happiness. The data suggests that purpose in life is associated with better memory and overall cognition as we get older. Here's the link to the article, entitled "The Science of Giving Back". Enjoy!


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NRA won't allow guns at its own upcoming event
- by Jacquelyn Byrd
- in IT&Software
- — May 3, 2018
The Associated Press issued a correction on Monday after reporting that the National Rifle Association was banning guns at its annual meeting during Vice President Mike Pence's speech.
President Donald Trump, who agrees with the gun group, boasted that an armed teacher could have "shot the hell out of" the Parkland gunman. This is noted clearly at the top of the sign that purportedly points to NRA "hypocrisy": "Hall A3 is under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Secret Service during the Leadership forum".
The problem? It is not the NRA banning guns, it's the Secret Service, and they are doing so only during the appearances of Secret Service protectees. Other prohibited items include toy guns, selfie sticks and knives, according to the notice the NRA posted.
This will be the fourth year in a row that Trump has addressed the NRA.
"It's an honor to have Vice President Pence address our members in Dallas", Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, said in a statement. "NRA faces backlash for banning guns at NRA convention", a headline from The Hill said.
Pence is speaking at the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum at noon Friday at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Arena. In other words: the event is a giant gun free zone - the very kind of zones @NRA wants to eliminate b/c they lie and say that they are targets for shooters.
'It's ironic that they feelthey need to ban guns to protect themselves.'
Russian fighter jet made unprofessional intercept American aircraft P-8
Zach Harrell said, according to CNN . "And there's a safe way to do it, which basically means avoiding a collision". That interaction was met with similar criticisms from American officials, and similar rebukes from the Russians.
Fred Guttenberg, father of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg, who died in the Parkland attack, decried the gun rights group's stance at this week's Dallas event. They've announced that guns will be banned at an upcoming convention because Vice President Mike Pence will be in attendance. "Am I missing something?"
Alex Wind, a Marjory Stoneman pupil and a founding member of the By no means Once more motion, responded to experiences that the president additionally will communicate on the NRA assembly.
March For Our Lives strategist and MSD grad Matt Deitsch, whose siblings Ryan and Samantha are survivors of the shooting, chimed in as well.
"Y$3 ou're telling me to make the VP safe there aren't any weapons around but when it comes to children they want guns everywhere? Can someone explain this to me?"
Trump is also expected to appear at the event.
Teens who survived the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people were killed, are wondering why the NRA fiercely resists extending the same safety considerations to other areas to safeguard children.


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Eiffel Tower in Black and White
Eiffel Tower in Black and White
The glorious Eiffel Tower and all its grandeur.
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Their last show of the tour was in Hong Kong on the 21st and 22nd, and that wrapped up 24 performances in 6 cities with over 1,120,000 fans. Fans from all over the world came to see Big Bang, which started off with "Heaven". There were various performances such as solo stages and unit stages, and they performed hits such as "Last Farewell", Lies", "BAE BAE", and more.
Big Bang said, "This is our largest-scale performance in Hong Kong, and it's our first time performing outside. Thanks to everyone for being with us here. Let's enjoy our 10th-anniversary concert."
With this, Big Bang will be pausing group activities as the members will be heading off to the�military starting with T.O.P. However, YG Entertainment�has promised to fill in the gap with solo activities.


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Echinacea... and its many uses.
What a gorgeous plant!
Echinacea is a plant that has deep roots in the practice of medicine. The native Americans. used Echinacea for more illnesses than any other plant. The root was used externally for the healing of wounds, burns, abscesses, and insect bites; internally for infections, toothaches, joint pains and venomous bites.
Echinacea was introduced into U.S. medical practice in 1887 and was used to treat conditions ranging from colds to infections, and was known as a powerful "blood purifier". Echinacea was included in the National Formulary of the US and remained there until 1950 (when it was replaced by new MODERN miracles called pharmaceutical drugs).
Today, Echinacea is still one of the most used herbals amongst naturopathic doctors. Echinacea is considered non-toxic, so it is a relatively safe plant to use internally or externally. It has also been deemed safe for use in pregnancy and during lactation!
I have seen that Echinacea is useful for conditions such as the common cold, the flu, respiratory infections, urinary infections, or serious infections like strep, staph or even MRSA. I have used it externally as an antiseptic and it has been useful for the healing of wounds, burns, abscesses, and insect bites!
You can use the entire plant, the flower to the roots, to make a medicinal preparation. You can make echinacea into teas which can be used as a medicinal beverage or used as a wash or for skin irritations or infections, or as a vaginal rinse for yeast infections or vaginitis. You can find liquid extracts, which are my favorite form to use, at most health food stores. Liquid herbal extracts can easily be used internally or externally. You can find alcohol extracts or alcohol free extracts for the kiddos too!
This is a great medicinal herb for you know and have in your own home "FARMACY".


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The Buffalo Sabres are giving fans a chance to bid on their game-worn jerseys from last season's Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Buffalo Sabres will be auctioning autographed game-worn jerseys from the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The online auction will consist of 23 game-worn and autographed Sabres home jerseys in the old black and red colors, each one worn by a Sabres player during last year's Stanley Cup Playoffs when the team advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals.
The auction will begin on Wednesday, October 4 at 6 p.m., concluding Monday, October 9 at 8 p.m. Fans can access the auction by logging on to www.sabres.com, or through the auction section on www.nhl.com.
All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Buffalo Sabres Foundation, a non-profit foundation that is committed to enhancing the quality of life of everyone throughout Western New York and Southern Ontario. In the process, the foundation strives to assist worthwhile organizations that make this region a better place to live and work. The primary focus of the foundation is to assist youth hockey initiatives, non-profit organizations and groups that provide vital services to those in need.
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Poetry Alight 16
Hello! I will be attending a poetry event called Poetry Alight on the 1st December! Please come along. Tuesday 1st December 2015 : A Christmas extravaganza starring Jo Bell as our headliner, and a host of special guests, including Staffordshire Young Poet Laureate Matilda Houston- Brown, at the King's Head PH ,21 Bird St, Lichfield, […]Continue reading →


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As we move into a new school year, I have issued a challenge to our students. Each One, Reach One… As our students are going through their normal day at school, I have challenged them to find one non-friend and build a relationship with them with the intention of bringing them to church and leading them to Christ. Hopefully we will see and hear a buzz coming from the students as we share weekly about what has happened on this front. Please pray that our students are open to God's direction and that they have the courage and willingness to follow as He shows them the individual that He is pointing them to.
Each One Reach One – by Sid Ware


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Feeling sluggish? Don't worry our friend, you are not alone. It is a Monday after all. Worse, it is still three days before sweldo.
We do have something to distract you with until that awesome day comes: the most attention-grabbing headlines from the weekend that was. Geeks, LOTR fans, and Kia Sorento non-fans, assemble!
1) AN IDEA WE'RE NOT SURE IS TOTALLY BENEFICIAL TO LIFE AS WE KNOW IT: Japanese Hobbyists Build A Working Transformer
Japanese hobbyists Kenji Ishida and Wataru Yoshizaki have built a real-life Transformer. Called the J-deite Quarter (weird name, right?) the robot can walk and can transform into a sports car that can drive around autonomously. It stands at four feet tall, with its moral orientation (is it an Autobot or Decepticon?) still unknown.
Video via Project J-deite
Read more about it here.
2) AIRPLANE SHENANIGANS (WITH HOBBITS!): Air New Zealand's Hobbit Safety Video
An air travel company has just made the coolest airplane safety video ever—not just there's a lot of competition out there. While most of us would sleep through the safety procedure briefing that we encounter during flights, here's one that we watched the whole way through because of cameos from Lord of the Rings icons.
Video via Air New Zealand
Read more about it here.
3) A KIA SORENTO UPDATE: Ginebra Dominant Again In 32-point blowout against Kia


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Leg injury compensation claims
The following article covers what you need to know about making a leg injury compensation claim.
Quick answers
Assessing the severity of the injury
What are the chances of success?
When personal injury solicitors talk about leg injuries they are referring to an injury to any part of the upper leg or thigh, lower leg or shin, knee, ankle or foot.
Leg injuries are fairly common, with the Department of Health England's statistics revealing that 68,805 people were treated for injuries to the lower leg and knee between 2002-2003. Many leg injuries require hospital treatment including operations and physiotherapy.
The most common types of leg injury are sprains and strains, cuts and bruises, dislocation, and ruptures to tendons or muscles. More serious injuries such as compound fractures or injuries requiring amputation are less common but have serious life changing consequences for those affected.
Quittance's panel of solicitors have assisted in claiming leg injury compensation for people hurt in:
- car accidents
- motorcycle accidents
- cycling accidents (25% of cycle accident claims involve a leg injury)
- slips trips and falls in public places and at work
- cases of medical negligence.
Assessing the severity of a leg injury
It is often difficult to assess the severity of a leg injury and the affect it may have on a claimant in the future.
In most cases a claimant will be required to undergo a medical examination in order to assess the injury and recommend any further treatment that may be necessary.
This is a quick and simple examination carried out at no cost to the claimant at a local medical centre.
I have a strong claim - why won't a solicitor take it on?
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Do I have a claim for a leg injury?
To claim compensation, the accident that resulted in the leg injury will need to have:
- happened in the last three years
- resulted from the act or omission of another party
- caused the injury
The injury lawyer must prove that the defendant can be held legally accountable for the accident and your injuries resulted from the accident. It may not be clear who is responsible for the accident. If you are not certain who caused the accident you may still be able to make a claim.
Calculate my leg injury compensation
An award or settlement cannot reverse history, but it should have a positive impact on your present circumstances and future recovery.
Personal injury compensation guidelines are recommended by the Judicial College (formerly the Judicial Studies Board). An amount is recommended with respect to the extent of a given injury. Compensation is laid out in the form of maximums and minimums awarded for each injury.
Technically these guidelines are not law yet both insurance companies and Courts will refer to them when calculating settlement offers and compensation awards. Our Compensation Claims Report will look at the factors affecting your likely compensation by referring to these guidelines.
The Courts understand that there can be life-altering consequences to a leg injury. General and special damages can be awarded for:
- loss of earnings while you are unable to work
- loss of earnings if you are not able to work
- expected future medical care costs and any which you have already incurred
- travel costs and other expenses arising from the injury
- damage to personal possessions
- general pain and suffering including loss of amenity
Relatively minor injuries such as sprains and strains can still cause huge distress and disruption for those affected. General damages awards of up to £7,000 are not uncommon.
Injuries to the femur can warrant higher rewards of between £7,000 and £10,000 - depending on the level of pain, complication and recovery time.
If the injury is more serious preventing or compromising the person's mobility or ability to walk, awards of up to £21,000 are common.
Awards for more severe mobility compromising injuries such as those caused by serious and multiple fractures can earn settlements of up to £100,000. If the injury results in an amputation JSB Guidelines allow for awards of up to £193,000.
For more information on specific leg injury compensation levels get a free compensation claim report.
Sometimes an accident may exacerbate an existing injury . A claim may also be possible under these conditions.
Expenses (e.g. travel for doctors' appointments), medical treatment costs and loss of earnings may also be included in a claim, and are called special damages.
What are the chances of success?
It needs to be proven, on the balance of probabilities, that the accident or circumstances in question resulted in your injuries, and subsequently that this was the result of an act or negligence by the party being held responsible.
Where the defendant has accepted that they are responsible for the claim the likelihood of your claim succeeding is very high.
On the other hand, if liability is only partly accepted or contested reaching a positive outcome can be more of a challenge.
Whether liability is acknowledged or not, doing everything you can to help your case is strongly recommended. A course of action may be recommended by your lawyer. These are some of the steps you can take:
- report the accident to a suitable person or authority
- record the details of the accident where possible
- gather names and addresses or contact details of witnesses
- take photographs of the scene of the accident
Even where considerable time has passed, doing what you can to help you case is worth considering.
How does No Win, No Fee work for leg injury compensation claims?
No Win, No Fee agreements, technically referred to as Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs), comprise the foundation of most claims.
The Conditional Fee Agreement lays out the terms between you and the injury lawyer. The agreement details the work your solicitor will deliver and, most significantly, a percentage success fee that will be taken from your award when your claim is successful.
With a Quittance solicitor, you are able to focus on your rest and recovery, with the knowledge that there will be nothing to pay if your claim is unsuccessful and you will never be out of pocket.
Accidents at work - Claiming compensation from your employer
Every year, 600,000* employees are injured in accidents at work. If you have suffered an injury or illness at work, you may able to claim compensation.
Find out if you can claim leg injury compensation from your employer: Read more about work accident claims
*Source: 2016/17 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report
Road traffic accident claims
Every year almost 200,000* people are injured on Britain's roads. If you have been injured in a road accident that was not your fault, you can claim compensation.
Find out more about claiming leg injury compensation for a road accident: Read more about road accident claims
*Source: Official Department of Transport statistics (gov.uk)
How can Quittance help?
Our highly experienced solicitors have an excellent track record of winning injury claims and will fight for the best possible compensation settlement for you.
If you have any questions, or would like to start a No Win No Fee claim, call FREE on 0800 488 0618 or click here to arrange a callback.
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