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Groundhog Day 1st Birthday { Children's Birthdays }
This was a fun cake for a boy's first birthday who was born on Groundhog Day. This is a perfect example of what makes creating custom cakes so fun and special - you won't find this design in a catalog or ready made. We work with our customers to create a special cake personalized for the guest of honor. (Sorry for the photo quality - this was taken with a camera phone but didn't want to miss documenting this cake)

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Forty-one charities were in contact with the Charity Commission because of issues arising during this year's general election campaign, the regulator has said.
In an overview of charities' campaigning and political activity during the most recent election period, which ran from 18 April to 8 June, the commission said that 28 out of the 41 cases it dealt with arose from concerns raised by members of the public or the regulator proactively identifying concerns from media reports.
A further 13 charities contacted the commission to seek advice.
In comparison, 39 charities were in touch with the commission during the 2015 general election.
The majority of the charities the commission dealt with during the most recent election had incomes exceeding £1m a year, the regulator said, and the 41 cases included concerns relating to all the major political parties.
The Charity Commission's guidance on political activity says that charities must stress their political independence and campaigning should be undertaken only in furtherance of a charity's charitable purposes.
A number of charities also expressed concerns about the impact of the lobbying act on their ability to campaign during the most recent election, specifically its spending limits on joint campaigning and registration with the Electoral Commission.
Among the charities contacted by the regulator during the 2017 election was the right-wing think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, in relation to allegedly partisan publications.
The IEA was issued with formal regulatory advice about two publications, one suggesting Conservative manifesto policy proposals and another criticising the Labour manifesto.
Another two cases highlighted by the commission in its report today is Unity Group Wales, which was displaying Labour Party posters in its high-street centre in Swansea, and the National Council of Hindu Temples, which issued an email to members suggesting support for the Conservative Party.
Unity Group Wales immediately removed the posters when contacted by the commission and made a statement expressing its political neutrality and independence.
The National Council of Hindu Temples initially denied its email was partisan and the commission said it considered an official warning until the charity decided to send a second email saying it was politically neutral.
David Holdsworth, chief operating officer of the Charity Commission, said: "Charities have a strong and proud tradition of campaigning and being at the forefront of social policy. Many charities can and did find practical, valid ways to engage in beneficiary-focused and effective campaigning and political activity in the run-up to this general election.
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Manor Lodge Features
Manor Lodge is a luxurious 6 bedroom holiday home suitable for up to 12 guests. It features a heated indoor swimming pool, sauna and gym as well as a large garden and outdoor patio area. Set amongst fields and country lanes in rural Norfolk the property is only 2 miles away from the nearest beach. Stunning views can be seen all around.
Inside Manor Lodge
There's plenty of room for everyone to be together in the large and comfortable lounge, or seated in the dining room. The bedrooms comprise of 3 double rooms with king size beds (2 of which are ensuite) and 3 twin rooms. View the floorplan.
The holiday home features a 20ft x 8 ft heated indoor swimming pool and a sauna and gym. The pool and gym facilities make Manor Lodge a great year round destination to have relax and have fun. The entire property is available to you for the duration of your stay, including unlimited use of the pool, gym and sauna.
Other things to note
The home features wooden stairs with gaps (can be viewed in hallway photos), please take this into consideration if you are bringing small children.
There is a pond at the end of the garden, young children must be supervised when playing outside.
Indoor heated swimming pool
Featuring a 2.7m x 6.8m heated indoor swimming pool.
The gym includes a bench and free weights (1kg – 20kg), a rowing machine, cycling machine, pull up bar, steps, yoga mat and swiss ball.
Private Parking
Plenty of parking available on the properties driveway.
Manor Lodge is set amongst fields and idyllic country lanes. It's rural location is home to spectacular views and great walks as well as being only 2 miles away from the nearest beach. Please note there is no public transport accessible within walking distance.
Exact location information is provided after a booking is confirmed.
Book online using the calendar below
Click on the day you would like your holiday to start from on the calendar, then from the drop down menu choose how many days you would like to stay for and follow the instructions to complete the booking.
Please note, a £500 damage deposit is required when booking this property, this is returned to you within 1 week of your departure providing no damage has been incurred.
When booking you are required to pay a 20% deposit. The full balance is then payable 4 weeks prior to your stay.
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Bright & Spacious 3 Bedder
This large 3 bedroom apartment boasts a north facing aspect from the living room, balcony and two of the three bedrooms (two with built in wardrobes)
* A full main bathroom
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* A good sized modern kitchen with electric cooking
* Internal laundry off the kitchen
* Single lock up garage quietly situated at the rear of the block
Located approximately halfway between the main road and the beach means you are close to transport, shopping centres, the beach cafe strip and surf.
Available mid January 2019 for a 12+ month lease
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Apart from unstable economic conditions
lack of skillful learning is one of the major causes. A child's educational base is firmed at a very young age, most likely his early years of schooling. This is the best time for children to polish their hidden talents and skills. But Alas! Our education system does not support any skillful learning, rather than, they focus on cramming their course text books. This not only suppresses a child's talent but also makes him hate education, that is why a lot of children runaway from primary schools. The education system needs to take a look at their curriculum and make sure activity-based learning along with skillful learning is introduced.
A child who is blessed with a talent naturally just need a few hours of hard work to turn a diamond from a rough into a masterpiece! But for that, we need to revise our education system from the base grounds. Special classes should be arranged for students who show interest in extra co-curricular activities. Skills like performing arts, music, sports, painting, recycling, stitching, knitting, and pottery should be included.
Schools should organize exhibitions to depict their talent and promote the crafts. This will generate revenue and will let students gain confidence in them and realize the worth of their talent. Not every student is born to be good at studies, some are born to be artists and parents as well as teachers need to understand this and creativity needs freedom! Let your child choose what are going to be his skills when he grows up along with education so that we can give better generation and grow a sustainable country where every person has at least one skill to make his living! Skills never get old or out of fashion, they always remain useful.
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Shopping local is something that has actually become trendy over the last few years. It's popular because people have realized how beneficial it is to their communities to make their purchases at locally owned businesses. People love to shop at small boutiques and eat at locally owned restaurants. But have you ever stopped to consider how much a large purchase like a car could help your own neighborhood? If a small purchase helps some, a large one goes much, much further. Buying a car in your own community has a reach that is hard to even fathom.
You may have never thought about it, but your local Honda Mission Valley dealership is locally owned, like most dealerships around the country. The people employed there are locals; they're your neighbors and friends. Their kids go to local schools and they make purchases like groceries and other goods from right in your neighborhood. They put the money they make right back in to your community because they live there too. When you buy from Tipton Honda, you're putting a huge amount of money directly into your local economy.
There are very few ways to make such a reaching impact on your community with just one purchase. There's also another big benefit to buying local: the dealership is close by. When you get a new car, you usually take a few trips to the dealership before you decide to buy it. Then, when you do make a purchase, you usually have to take the car back to the dealer for routine maintenance for the first years you have it, in order to honor the car's warranty. You'll save yourself lots of time and money by buying a car from a dealership close to your home.


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By Justin Rodriguez
Section 9 Football Insider
The rough mornings have become a little easier for Pine Bush junior Chauncey Smith. However, he often still finds himself lying in bed with tears welling up in his eyes.
The loss of his older brother, Roland, is still painful. It is still fresh. The Pine Bush community was left reeling when Roland LaShain Smith III died on January 30th of this year after collapsing during a pick-up basketball game with friends at Crispell Middle School.
Roland Smith, a former Pine Bush football and basketball player, was good looking, popular and outgoing. He was only 20 when he died.
"I think about my brother every single day," Chauncey Smith said after participating in the Hudson Valley 7-on-7 Shootout at Warwick High School on Saturday. "I used to cry every day, but now I'm not crying as much. It is like a piece of me is gone. It's crazy."
(Chauncey Smith with his brother, Roland)
There are certainly bad days, but Chauncey Smith is using the tragedy as an inspiration. Through it all, Smith has illustrated toughness and grace, always trying to flash his signature smile to keep his family and friends at ease.
"Chauncey hasn't talked about losing his brother too much," Pine Bush coach Jim Wright said. "I let the kids disclose things in their personal lives on their own and it is a process. Chauncey is a real positive kid and he works hard. I give him a lot of credit because I don't know if anyone knows what he is experiencing unless you went through it. I think football is an outlet for him."
Chauncey and Roland Smith shared a love and passion for sports. It served as a bond for the brothers throughout their lives and Chauncey is dedicating the rest of his career to Roland. Chauncey will wear a T-shirt that reads "In Loving Memory of Roland Smith" under his gear and before the season will have the same tattoo inscribed on one of his arms.
This could be a breakout season for Smith, who missed most of last year with a dislocated elbow. He is a speedy runner and will be featured in Pine Bush's Wing-T attack. Now healthy, Smith is also expected to make plays in the secondary for last year's Section 9 Class AA runner-ups.
"Chauncey is going to be a huge asset for us," Wright said. "He was performing well for us last year before he got hurt. Chauncey brings a lot to the table and has a lot of potential. He can be a game changer; he is one of those types of athletes. We are real excited about him on both sides of the ball."
Smith was at a Pine Bush basketball game when he heard that his brother collapsed at nearby Crispell Middle School. Chauncey Smith said that he was told that Roland was "unconscious." However, when he arrived to the hospital, Chauncey learned that his brother had passed away.
According to Chauncey Smith, his brother was healthy, but had an enlarged heart. Roland Smith, a 2015 Pine Bush graduate, is described by his friends and family as a gracious and generous young man who always had your back. He enjoyed making people laugh and spending time with his girlfriend and other loved ones.
He was competitive, especially when it came to a two-on-two basketball game with his three brothers. A student at SUNY Orange, he also liked to go fishing, play Ping-Pong, and sing and dance. Football will provide an outlet for his younger brother Chauncey.
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The Hudson Valley Shootout marked one of the first times that he was on the field since his brother passed. He said football was a good diversion and thanked his teammates for their support since Roland's passing.
"Anything Chauncey needs on or off the field, we are there for him," Pine Bush linebacker Frank Wise said. "We are his brothers. The team is trying to help him focus on football and he is doing a good job."
Added Pine Bush quarterback Haakon Meland: "Chauncey knows we got him at all times."
This could very well be an emotional season for Smith. The memories of his brother still flood his mind throughout the day. There is still sadness, but he takes some solace in the fact that Roland is still with him.
Chauncey especially felt his presence on the sunny football field on Saturday and he tells you that Roland will always watch over him.
"He is my motivation now," Chauncey Smith said. "I'm trying to make it big for my brother. I want to be a big-time football player because I know that will make him proud."
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Last autumn I attended a class (Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents) presented by the Fox Valley chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness during which one of the presenters, Doug Bisbee, MDiv, MAC, LPC, spoke about the "temporal squeeze" in reference to anxiety (future oriented) and depression (past oriented) and the pressure (squeeze) that either places on a person's mental well-being.
Allotting too much space to the past or the future doesn't give enough space for the person to be in the present, which is the only place any person ever exists.
Any person, including medical interpreters, can feel the effects of the squeeze from time to time or more regularly. The squeeze takes its toll and can contribute to professional burnout.
How often do we contribute to our own burnout by living in the past?
Why didn't that patient just take his medicine?
Why did that doctor do x-y-z?
Interpreting at this hospital was so much better under the old administration.
How often do we contribute to our own burnout by living in the future?
I wonder if the patient will take his medicine.
I wonder if the new physician is going to know how to work with interpreters.
I wonder how the changes in hospital administration will impact my job security.
In the meantime, you're getting pummeled by the here and now. And the "here and now" is a constantly changing roller coaster.
You go to an appointment for a routine 4-year-old physical that results in a call to child protective services.
You expected to have 3 appointments in the morning and 4 more get added to your schedule.
Your manager messages you about an end-of-day team meeting that just got scheduled.
And what was it that the doctor just said???
It's exhausting. Getting through the day requires skills that go beyond language conversion and memory recall. It's not an environment that suits everyone. Even those who started out thriving early on in their career end up enduring, and then say "enough."
There are many factors that contribute to the burnout of medical interpreters. Putting yourself in a temporal squeeze is one of them.
I'm not advocating for forgetting the past or ignoring the future, but rather to keep it all in perspective. Take on what you can handle. You can only be in one place at a time and one time at a time. Give yourself enough "now" space.
Is your temporal squeeze getting too tight?
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Bhakti Kirtan CDs: LIZA LILINTAHL
Liza Lilintahl is a bhakti yogi, singer and international recording artist whose singing has been described as healing, angelic and nectar for the soul. She has had the privilege to study with Jai Uttal among other kirtan wallas; shared kirtans and sang in yoga classes, yoga centers and festivals around Europe, and more recently in Asia where she has found home in Bali.
Liza is found regularly singing in yoga classes at The Yoga Barn, one of the most visited and prestigious yoga centers in the world. She has sang in top international teacher's classes like Janet Stone, Noah Maze and Bridget Woods Kramer and led kirtans in the best and most exciting yoga trainings and retreats happening in Bali.
All in this World LIVE at Alchemy: https://youtu.be/at9G6_hH0aw
Ganesha Sharanam LIVE at Bliss Beat Festival: https://youtu.be/OkxEdahxcx0
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Into The Light
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Liza's second album: "A journey of ambient, meditative, soothing sounds carried by devotional sanskrit and english mantras sang by Liza's ethereal angelical voice, created to induce deep states of relaxation, surrender and healing. A magical journey into the heart of devotion perfect for slow yoga practices, ambient healing sounds, meditation and prayer. Recorded in the magical island of Bali, and produced by Robert Weber, musical director of world acclaimed Yoga and Music Bali Spirit Festival"
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1. Je Ma
2. Gayatri
3. Asatoma
4. Into the Light
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Liza's first album: "A soulful blend of devotional kirtan infused with a unique modern flavour."
The Bhakti Family sharing on this album are:
Liza Lilintahl: vocals, harmonium • Camilo Tirado: programming, tabla, cajon and other percussion • Thyagi Das: arrangements and acoustic guitar • Francesco Corallini: drum kit • Deicola Neves: bass • Alex Teymour Housego: bansuri • Francesca Ter-berg: cello • Ewan Bleach: saxo • Antarma • male vocals
Track Listing
1. Oh Goddess!
2. Ganesha
3. All in this World
4. Krishna Love
5. Om Namo Bhagavate
6. Om Namah Shivaya
7. Om Namo Lakshmi
8. Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu (featuring Antarma)
9. Krishna Love Lullaby (live London February 2010)
लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु
"May All The Beings In All The Worlds Be Happy and at PEACE"
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we had the opportunity to visit Puerto Rico again and plays some amazing shows. Santurce Es Ley fest invited us over to their main stage for an unforgettable night of art & music. we also played El Local in Santurce where the great SUPA KID took some beautiful pictures of the event. check them out below!
we also got featured in a commercial for Medalla`s 'Lo Que Somos' campaign! the footage was shot at Santurce Es Ley 6 Festival by Mario Estrada.
the energy of this island is incomparable. the people here are the real deal.
a very special thanks to everyone that made this possible. this trip will always remain in our hearts <3


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Pretty Thanksgiving Table Decor/
I was provided samples by Oriental Trading Company in exchange for my honest review on their products. All ideas and opinions found in this post are my own. This post contains affiliate links, which means I will receive a small commission if you choose to make a purchase. These commissions help keep my content free and help keep my website running, so thank you!
Have you ever found a gorgeous table setting online or in a magazine and thought, "That's what I want my Thanksgiving table to look like!"
So, you start following the links to find out what you need to recreate the look, then holy sticker shock! $200 just for flatware for four?!! Too rich for my blood, especially when our Thanksgiving table will be seating 18 people!
I'm a "make things pretty for not a lot of cash" kinda gal, and I'm happy to tell ya that you can absolutely have pretty Thanksgiving table decor without breaking the bank!
Here are my suggestions for setting a beautiful Thanksgiving table that won't cost a fortune.
Florals and Ambience
When I think about what really stands out in a beautiful tablescape, it's typically pretty florals and candle-lit ambiance.
The florals in this Thanksgiving table set-up are pretty, right?
Would you believe that I got ALL of the fresh flowers...at the grocery store...for only $20.00?!!
Amazing, right? If you were going to purchase pre-made arrangements from a florist, you would easily spend at least $50-$75 per arrangement!
The bonus is, you're going to be going to the grocery store for the food, anyway. You can get the food and the florals all in one stop!
Here's another tip: The flowers don't all have to be real! I wanted some pussy willows and dahlias for the arrangements but the grocery store didn't have any. BUT, Michaels did, and they were 80% off! Score!
I'm not much on artificial flowers unless they really look like the real deal, but if you do a good job strategically placing faux flowers in with real ones, it's really hard to tell that they aren't all real!
I'll bet you're scrolling back to get a closer look at my floral arrangements to find the fake ones now, aren't ya? ;)
Their goodies are both amazing and affordable!
When I was looking for a pretty, classy way to showcase the florals, I came across some gold geometric terrariums on the OT website.
They are absolutely stunning, and look beautiful with flowers tucked inside! They are sold in sets of two and are so very pretty in person!
You'll be wanting to use them as home decor when your Thanksgiving dinner is over, so money well spent, if ya ask me!
When I was browsing the Oriental Trading site, I came across these gold-flecked votive holders, which complement the gold terrariums perfectly! The best part? You get a dozen of them for only $15!!! These can soooo easily transition into Chrismas decor, too...double duty decorating!
Paper is Pretty!
Being stuck in the kitchen washing dishes is definitely not how I want to spend my Thanksgiving, how about you?
Enter paper plates and plastic flatware!
I gotta tell ya, if you haven't noticed, the paper plate game is rockin' right now! There are some absolutely gorgeous selections available, so you can set a pretty Thanksgiving table with very little clean-up to follow! Now THAT is what I call fabulous!!! :)
Via Blossom shared these modern chic geometric plates on their instagram page, and I instantly fell in love!
Non-traditional colors are the trend this year, so I chose these plates for our Thanksgiving celebration. Doesn't that gold foil and marble just make you swoon?!!
And that gold flatware? I'll just tell ya that it doesn't cost $200. ;)
Use it and lose it for several dollars. How do ya like the sound of that?!!
Personalize with Printables
Printables are fantastic because they're pretty, they're personalizable, and they're inexpensive!
If you're not familiar with how printables work, they are customized PDF files that you pay one price for, and can then print as many times as you'd like.
So, in our case, I'd pay one flat rate for a menu PDF file, and then I could print 18 of them for that price, as opposed to having to pay a "per piece" price if I had them printed for me.
It's typically a substantial savings if you don't mind printing and cutting yourself.
Both these printable menus and printable place cards are available in the shop, and can be customized just for you. They are the perfect match for the rest of our pretty Thanksgiving table decor, don't you think?
So there you have it...my best tips for creating a pretty Thanksgiving tablescape without paying a fortune.
I think the only other thing I'd say is not to be afraid to look around your house and repurpose things that you already have. See those gold pumpkins on the table? They were leftover from Halloween, they just got repurposed for a new holiday. :)
Be sure to share pictures of your tablescapes on social media and tag me @jentbydesign so I can see!
Oriental Trading: Gold geometric terrariums, gold-flecked votive holders, acrylic frames for menus, gold flatware
Via Blossom: Blush and gold hexagon plates, marbled hexagon plates
Target: Gold pumpkins, marbled hexagon coasters
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The Samsung Galaxy S – An Android-filled Smartphone
Press release • Feb 24, 2011 17:24 GMT
When Android smartphones are concerned, there have been a number of handsets that are synonymous to this genre of smartphone. These handsets are the HTC Desire, the Google Nexus S, and the LG Optimus One. Samsung has also created a smartphone that is jam packed with modern features. This is the Samsung Galaxy S.
This handset comes with one of the earlier Android operating systems the 2.1 OS Éclair. Most of the new handsets are pre-installed with a more up to date version the 2.2 OS Froyo. You do not have to worry about this. You can easily update the OS of this handset to the latest 2.2 version. This will allow you to enjoy faster web browsing, better web fidelity, and smoother multi-tasking. This will make the S version even better.
If you love installing apps on your phone, this smartphone is for you. It will give you quick access to the Android Market. Here, you can choose from a variety of apps. There are literally thousands to choose from. You can choose to download mobile tools. You can install apps that are all about entertainment. You can download eBooks. You can get widgets that customize the Samsung Galaxy S even more. Of course, you can download an assortment of games. There is so many things you can do with these apps.
With all the power this smartphone's software has to offer, you may be thinking that its battery will not last as long as you expect. If this is what you think, think again. Not only does its OS allow smoother multi-tasking and faster web browsing, it is also highly energy efficient. This simply means that you will enjoy its features for hours upon hours.
Of course, an Android handset will never be complete without access to an assortment of Google tools. This is exactly what the phone has to offer. It will give you quick access to Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, YouTube, and GTalk. You will never have to wait till you get to your computer or laptop to enjoy these features. With the Samsung Galaxy S, you get a smartphone filled with Android features.
The Samsung Galaxy S will be available in its upgraded version the Samsung Galaxy S2 soon this 2011.
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The Doctor Told Me My Worth or my Weight?
"You're _____ lb." That's it.
Excuse me, no I'm not. I'm not ____ lb. I'm Sarah. I'm a 22-year-old student who is passionate about encouraging others and building friendships. I love movies and laughing at funny tv shows. I love the smell of coffee shops. I'm not ticklish on my feet for some reason. I'm passionate, driven, a dreamer. I'm a daughter of the King!! I'm loved. The Creator of the world died for me. He loves me unconditionally REGARDLESS of my weight. His Word says, "Man looks at the external but God looks at the heart".
It rolls through my brain.
Make it stop.
Child of THE KING LB.
There are NO LB IN HEAVEN.
So, whether you know your weight or not or have been told you are _____lb, know that you are NOT your weight.


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Come out for Shelbyville's biggest cook-off yet of the season! Shelby County will be hosting country-wide KCBF's BBQ cook-off event!
Come browse through delicious food, drink, and crafting tables.
Featured at the event will be a Karaoke Contest! All Shelby County singers, come show off your talents and battle for the $500 grand prize! Sign up here: http://www.bigbluebarbeque.com/karaoke-contest


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- When: Saturday, May 15th at 8 PM
Where: Church of St. Luke in the Fields (located at 487 Hudson Street), New York City
Admission: $12 at the door, $10 for students
Nicolo Vicentino (1511-1576) was a priest, composer, and music theorist who claimed that with proper support and encouragement he might revive the fabled secrets of ancient Greek music. Written for an a cappella vocal quartet, the piece was composed in the enharmonic genus, a secular Latin motet that sets a prose text in honor of Vicentino's patron, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (for whom Palestrina worked as well). Also on the program are works by Ge Ganru, Rami Seo, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, and Johhny Reinhard. The concert debuts the Terpstra synthesizer, along with amplified cello scordatura, Korean Gayageums, and a multitude of homemade instruments.
Musica prisca caput tenebris modo sustulit altis,
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Facta rua, Hyppolite, excelsium super aethera mittat.
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New York Regional Case Study
A. New York Northwest, LCO #2236
B. Queens Northeast, LCO #2240
On February 22 and 23, 2000, Board staff visited the New York Regional Census Center (RCC) and the New York Northwest and Queens Northeast local census offices (LCOs). The RCC visit lasted about three hours, and each LCO visit lasted one to three hours, which covered a briefing, tour and question and answer period.
The New York RCC is located in a federal government building in southern Manhattan. The 9th floor office includes sufficient space for the staff. Staff observed separate office areas for all divisions: recruiting, geography, partnership, automation, and payroll. Areas for a receptionist, top management, and assistants were also adequate.
In order to insure that pay is distributed accurately and on time, the RCC had recently added extra pay facilitator positions. Computers and office space had been provided for up to seven clerks to work full time on payroll support. In some divisions, such as Geography (which produces maps for enumerators), two or more work shifts are being employed.
Monitoring Board staff were briefed by the senior officials of the Census Bureau's New York Region, including the Regional Director, RCC Manager, Recruiting Manager, Partnership Manager, Geography Coordinator, and Automation Coordinator. Additional regional staff also participated.
New York Region Enumeration Strategies
Most households in the New York Region are designated as mailout/mailback. That is, they will receive (and are asked to return) a census questionnaire via the U.S. Postal Service. Ot her housing units in the region will be enumerated by update/leave or urban update/enumerate. During update/leave, enumerators update the Bureau address list while delivering questionnaires to households in rural areas. Respondents are asked to complete the forms and return them by mail. Urban update/enumerate is employed in certain targeted areas, and involves updating address lists and the simultaneous enumeration of households.
The New York RCC administers 39 LCOs centered around the New York City metropolitan area. Twenty-two LCOs are in New York City, while six are just north of the City and 11 are located in New Jersey.
According to the New York Regional Director, the region is unique in a few important respects. It leads the nation in population concentration and multi-unit dwellings. It also contains the largest number of urban HTE areas. The Regional Director emphasized New York City's unparalleled diversity, including representatives of virtually every language and culture from around the world.
The New York region has one significant advantage over others: it covers the smallest geographic area (only 309 square miles). This allows regional or partnership staff to make relatively quick visits to and from many of the region's LCOs.
Due to the New York region's small size, it elected to distribute Partnership Specialist responsibilities by race or ethnicity across the region, rather than assign one specialist to each LCO. The Regional Director noted limitations to this approach: race and ethnic groups far outnumber the 50 Partnership Specialists in the region. The region does not have sufficient personnel to cover each of the languages and cultures represented in New York City. However, the Regional Director indicated that assigning Partnership Specialists by race or ethnic focus allows the New York RCC to cover a broader range of races and ethnicities than individual LCO assignments.
Resources may be strained in some key areas, due to the complexity of the partnership workload. For example, managers at New York Northwest reported poor coordination with the partnership staff (see page 14).
According to the Regional Director, developing partnerships with government and various private sector entities has been the greatest task facing the New York RCC. This is the first census in which the Census Bureau has actively sought such a broad range of partners, and the workload has been heavier than expected.
The Board agrees that partnership with local leaders is invaluable to a successful census. Outside partners, particularly community-based organizations, are best able to motivate residents to participate in the census. Time spent developing local partnerships is therefore a necessary investment, particularly in hard-to-enumerate areas.
The Regional Director noted some partnerships, such as those with the State and City of New York, initially required considerable attention from the RCC, and now function effectively as an independent partner. Other examples cited require more "handholding" from the RCC. With approximately 3,000 partnerships, the RCC cannot work closely with them all.
According to the Regional Director, partnership and outreach efforts had consumed a significant amount of top management resources. He also stated the time demands of meeting with political leaders and oversight groups (including the Monitoring Board) had been significant.
Recruiting and Staffing
At the time of interview, the New York Region had exceeded its overall employee recruiting goal of 70 percent. As of March 1, 2000, the nationwide goal was 70 percent of the total applicants needed. By February 25, the New York region had recruited 90 percent of applicants needed.
New York Region Hiring Goals
New Jersey
New York State
New York City
The Bureau tracks the pass/fail rates for the employment test administered to applicants for enumerator positions. At the time of interview, 86 percent or 120,573 of 140,399 applicants tested had passed. No LCO reported less than a 75 percent passing rate.
The Bureau does not have a policy of contacting applicants after they have taken the test. Regional staff reported complaints from applicants who were not notified of failing the test, and responded with a regional policy. The region sent letters to all applicants who had not passed, informed them of their status, and encouraged them to re-take the test (which may be re-taken indefinitely).
At the time of interview, recruiting was largely successful across the region, with some pockets of concern. Of the region's 39 offices, 28 were ahead of their recruiting goals, and 11 lagged behind. The region had employed the Bureau's standard measures to escalate recruiting efforts where necessary.
Recruiting materials are generated at the RCC as well as the LCOs and by headquarter-contracted printing locations.
Congressional and Presidential Monitoring Board staff met with the management of the New York Northwest local census office (LCO) for approximately two hours during the morning of February 23, 2000. The LCO manager, assistant managers for administration, field operations, and recruiting were present, as well as the office's automation technician. Also present were the New York Assistant Regional Census Manager (ARCM), and the Regional Technician responsible for the office. The Census Monitoring Board liaison was in attendance.
New York Northwest is responsible for enumerating the historic neighborhood of Harlem. The almost wholly-minority area includes African, African American, Caribbean, Mexican and Puerto Rican households. The 1990 population was 308,453, living in 154,588 housing units. Mistrust of government, linguistic and cultural isolation, and socioeconomic conditions contribute to the area's hard-to-enumerate designation. The office also faces operational challenges: apparently poor coordination with partnership staff, slow delivery of supplies, and inadequate physical facilities.
Despite these challenges, the dedicated staff had surpassed recruiting goals. At the time of interview, recruiting a sizable pool of job applicants was the major operational focus of LCOs nationwide. Census Bureau records as of February 24, 2000, show New York Northwest at 105 percent of the recruiting goal, with 4,825 qualified applicants.
Opened in October 1999, this office arguably has one of the most difficult assignments among the Census Bureau's 520 LCOs. Harlem is actually split into two distinct communities: West and East Harlem, or Black Harlem and El Barrio, respectively. West Harlem's population includes African American, African and Caribbean households. There is a small but growing French African population. El Barrio, which used to be almost entirely Puerto Rican, is now also home to a rapidly-growing Mexican community, which LCO staff have identified as particularly hard-to-count. The large Spanish-speaking population creates a demand for in-language recruiting and promotional materials. It also requires a substantial number of Spanish-fluent enumerators.
Hard-To-Enumerate Planning
Census and survey coverage is generally lower than average in Black and Latino neighborhoods in dense urban areas, which puts Harlem at risk for extreme undercounts in Census 2000. Most of the census tracts in the area have been identified as hard-to-enumerate (HTE) by the Bureau's demographers, using data from the 1990 Census.
In addition, the management team - consisting wholly of Harlem residents - demonstrated detailed knowledge of different aspects of the community. Staff combined local knowledge with the Bureau's Planning Database (PDB) to develop special enumeration plans for HTE tracts. These HTE action plans, referred to as "Hot Tracts," were provided to the Regional Census Center (RCC) two weeks prior to interview.
LCO staff cited blitz and pair enumeration among the strategies planned for Hot Tracts. Monitoring Board staff requested copies of the plan, which would provide greater detail of the Bureau's efforts to improve enumeration in areas at risk of extreme undercounts, and were refused by the Monitoring Board liaison.
The ability of New York Northwest's staff to meet enumeration challenges may be impaired by poor working conditions. On the day of interview, the office had no running water. This was the third such occasion since the October opening. Management reported one previous interruption of service had lasted nine days. During these occasions, the office staff (about 40 employees at the time of interview) was forced to solicit nearby businesses for use of the facilities.
Management's greatest physical concern is the building's elevator, which had not worked since the LCO opening. The office space is located on the third floor, and is not accessible to persons with disabilities. This also inhibits deliveries of supplies for the office or field staff. (For example, delivery of several hundred pounds of desks and chairs was delayed due to inaccessibility. LCOs also receive a large volume of various forms for administration and enumeration.)
Other space concerns include leaking plumbing, rodents, fire code violations, inadequate trash pickup and no window treatments (staff had taped paper over windows to reduce glare on computer monitors).
The ARCM ended further discussion of facilities, although LCO staff and the Regional Technician indicated there were additional problems in this area. Senior regional staff later assured the Monitoring Board they were aware of the facilities problems in New York Northwest, and were working closely with the General Services Administration (which procured space for all LCOs) to remedy all problems. Regional staff cited extreme difficulty obtaining a lease for suitable space in this LCO area. Reportedly, exhaustive efforts to obtain space, including soliciting aid from Congressional Representatives in the area, produced no suitable facilities.
This visit did not provide sufficient information for a full evaluation of the cause, effect and remedy of the facilities problems in New York Northwest, nor does the Monitoring Board have resources to perform such an evaluation. Nevertheless, these problems - and their impact on the staff - are clearly cause for concern.
Recruiting and Staffing
Despite the challenges described above, recruiting has been successful. According to Bureau records, New York Northwest had reached 105 percent of its goal for qualified job applicants as of February 24, 2000. Management reports word-of-mouth and community "blitzing" (handing out fliers at community events) have been effective recruiting tactics, and the local churches have been prominent recruiting partners. However, staff reports that the strongest incentive for many Harlem residents is the substantial pay: $19.50 an hour.
From January 1, 1998 through February 22, 2000, 2236 had 7,672 job applicants. A majority were Black and Latino women. As of February 22, 100 applicants were working and 29 had been offered a position (hiring enumerators for non-response follow-up, the most labor-intensive operation, was scheduled to begin three weeks after the interview, on March 13). The applicant file listed 4,451 total persons available, with the remainder ineligible or under review.
Although mail response will determine precise staffing levels and composition, New York Northwest anticipates hiring approximately 800 - 1,000 enumerators. The crew leader-to-enumerator ratio will be 1:20. Management estimated needing approximately 350 Spanish-fluent enumerators. Staff anticipated potential problems in hiring enough enumerators in linguistically and culturally isolated Mexican neighborhoods. In particular, recruiters cited difficulty in receiving necessary identification from recent immigrants.
The LCO established 24 testing centers. Five were identified with the help of the partnership specialist. One center, located on East 14th Street, was established exclusively for the Mexican community: testing of Mexican applicants, conducted by Mexican local partners (the Latino Advisory Committee).
English Proficiency Test
Although the enumerator test can be administered in Spanish, Spanish applicants must also pass an English proficiency test, since training is conducted in English. Staff reported the English-proficiency test did not appear prohibitive: out of 74 tests administered in the prior week, 70 were passed.
However, anticipating that they may need some flexibility in this area, there is a contingency plan to employ the Spanish-language training materials in use in Puerto Rico, conduct training in Spanish, and waive the English requirement, if necessary.
Monitoring Board staff requested a breakdown of the applicant file by language ability. Although the Bureau tracks this information, the RCC declined to provide it to the Board.
Pre-Appointment Management System and Automated Decennial Administrative Management System (PAMS/ADAMs)
Management reported considerable frustration with the PAMS/ADAMS system and the recently installed PAMS/ADAMS Data Entry (PADE) software. There was some concern that the new data-entry software required additional time and auditing by clerks, and that efficiency was actually reduced. However, New York Northwest management has prioritized timely payment, and had received no complaints for late payment.
There was also concern about the ability to hire experienced employees at the appropriate pay scale. Specifically, the Assistant Manager for Field Operations wished to hire a woman, who had performed exceptionally as a lister during address listing, as a crew leader. Accepting the position, the woman received her first paycheck at the enumerator wage. Upon investigation, it was confirmed that PAMS/ADAMS would not permit an experienced employee to be hired at a higher rate - they must be hired at their previous wage. Bringing this to the attention of Bureau headquarters, the RCC and the LCO were told to hire people at the lower pay rate, and increase it the following week. Both the LCO staff and the ARCM indicated this was an insufficient measure.
One partnership specialist has been assigned to coordinate with New York Northwest since the October 1999 opening. Another specialist was recently hired at the prompting of the Latino Advisory Committee, to work primarily with the Mexican community. Staff suggest the partnership specialist position would be more effective if it answered directly to the LCO, rather than the RCC.
LCO staff reported coordination with the partnership specialist had been poor. The specialist had little or no input in recruiting efforts, Hot Tract planning, QAC and Be Counted site placement, or community outreach in this particular LCO.
Office staff reported conducting their own outreach with local churches, and meeting frequently with the Latino Advisory Committee and the Harlem Complete Count Committee (CCC). Partnership activities include mini-awareness days and church events. The Latino Advisory Committee meets weekly at the LCO.
Questionnaire Assistance Centers (QACs) and Be Counted Sites
LCO staff have selected 45 QAC sites, expanded from an original 25. Partnership specialist and local partners did not have input in site selection. Additional Be Counted sites had not been determined at the time of interview, although Be Counted forms had been delivered to the LCO.
Materials and Training
Management reported frustration in obtaining materials of any kind: office supplies, promotional materials, enumeration and in-language forms. In addition to the physical space difficulties noted above, all staff reported consistent shortages and delays in receiving materials, with the exception of maps.
Enumeration and administration training manuals, although lengthy, were cited as effective reference materials. There was concern that the PAMS/ADAMS manuals contain some misleading or superfluous instruction in some areas.
In addition, the ARCM described "just in time" training sessions: detailed training or "refresher" courses, conducted by area managers, dealing with imminent operations. Management agreed these were valuable sessions.
Congressional and Presidential Monitoring Board staff met with the management of the Queens Northeast local census office (LCO) for approximately one hour during the afternoon of February 23, 2000. The LCO manager, assistant managers of administration, field operations, and recruiting were present, as well as the office's special places enumeration coordinator. Also present were the Deputy Regional Director, an Assistant Regional Census Manager, an Area Manager, and the Census Monitoring Board liaison.
Queens Northeast is responsible for enumerating a largely white population, with a substantial Asian community. The 1990 population was 308,453, living in 154,588 housing units.
The LCO staff reported no problems, and had surpassed recruiting goals at the time of interview. The only major concern discussed was the area's tightly-knit Korean and Chinese communities, which would be at risk for major undercounts without sufficient in-language materials, local enumerators, and partnership with community leaders. The office reported actively pursuing all these goals with considerable success. However, the Deputy Regional Director indicated that the enumeration of these hard-to-count communities represents a significant challenge.
Queens Northeast officially opened its doors on October 29, 1999. The office facilities were a sharp contrast from New York Northwest. The office was clean, well-lit and spacious. There were no complaints from the staff regarding the facilities. Each department had plenty of space to operate.
Recruiting and Staffing
Recruitment seems to have been successful up to the time of interview. Staff reported high recruitment numbers, reaching close to 70 percent of the needed 9,000-person applicant pool. At peak operations, Queens Northeast expects to have 85 staff members in its office.
Fourteen recruiting assistants are responsible for hiring 800 to 1000 enumerators. This staffing level is based on an assumed mail response of 52 percent (anticipated from the 1990 rate). The LCO estimated reaching 80 percent of the recruitment goal by March 1. Staff attributed recruiting successes to pre-testing exercises conducted in Korean, Chinese and Greek, although the actual tests were only conducted in Spanish and English. The LCO found that a sufficient number of applicants were Asian-language fluent and English proficient. The bulk of the first round of non-response follow-up (NRFU) hiring will be done by mid-April, and NRFU will begin April 27.
Management reported the main problem encountered in recruitment has been the lack of proper identification credentials from applicants. Most of the time applicants simply forgot to bring them and had to return another day. In some cases, applicants did not have the proper identification.
The pay scale for this LCO is at the high end; clerks will be paid from $14.00 to $21.50, enumerators will be paid $18.80/hour, and crew leaders will be paid $20.00/hour.
Hard-To-Enumerate Planning
The Planning Database (PDB), using 1990 Census data and response rates to identify hard-to-enumerate (HTE) areas, was supplemented with local knowledge to develop an HTE Action Plan.
The largest minority populations in the area are Chinese, Korean and Hindu Indians. The LCO goal is to recruit 30 people per census tract. According to the PDB (and confirmed by office staff), Queens Northeast has HTE neighborhoods in only two zip codes, each with concentrations of Korean and Chinese residents.
Office staff reported preparing an action plan to enumerate HTE areas, and submitting it to the Regional Census Center. Monitoring Board staff requested copies of the plan, which would provide greater detail of the Bureau's efforts to improve enumeration in areas at risk of extreme undercounts, and were refused by the Monitoring Board liaison.
Pre-Appointment Management System and Automated Decennial Administrative Management System (PAMS/ADAMS)
Queens Northeast reported no problems with PAMS/ADAMS, or the recently-installed user interface, PAMS/ADAMS Data Entry (PADE).
Two partnership specialists have been actively coordinating with the office since the October 1999 opening. Staff reported a partnership specialist would generally be in the office for at least a short time on any given day.
Given the demographics of Queens Northeast, the LCO has formed an invaluable partnership with the 80-member Queens Area Asian American Coalition. The Coalition has developed an outreach plan for the Korean, Chinese and Hindu communities. Management reported the Coalition scheduling an all-day Census Awareness Conference at the Flushing Library, which will target these communities.
The Korean Task Force, a member of the Queens CCC, has also been very helpful, working closely with the Korean Partnership Specialist. Both organizations worked together to place a full-page ad in the Mandarin Chinese newspaper alerting its readership of the Advance Letter and the opportunity to request an in-language census form should it be needed.
Questionnaire Assistance Centers (QACs) and Be Counted Sites
Bureau records indicate 25 Questionnaire Assistance Centers (QACs) located in the Queens Northeast LCO area. The QAC sites were placed in neighborhoods meeting the following criteria: identification as HTE; identification of language barriers among residents; and a high proportion of low-income families. The QACs were intended to be staffed by paid employees and volunteers, although the volunteer pool had not been determined at the time of interview. In addition, staff reported 25 partnership organizations submitted input on site selections.
Promotional and outreach materials were translated and distributed by the Queens Area Asian American Coalition and the Korean Task Force.
Staff expected delivery of Be Counted forms on February 25, and had received the displays already. Management indicated that the employee manuals were very helpful and that the field manuals were easy to sift through. Staff also indicated no problems securing the necessary resource materials.


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HPC Containers with Singularity
P. Souza, G.M. Kurtzer, C. Gomez-Martin and P.M. Cruz e Silva
Event name: Third EAGE Workshop on High Performance Computing for Upstream
Session: Containers and Clouds
Publication date: 01 October 2017
Organisations: EAGE
Language: English
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The new container technology Singularity focuses on the compute portability, this work covers the creation of portable containers using multiple resources, and showing how simple is to deploy a complex MPI+CUDA+Infiniband seismic application across multiple supercomputers with only a regular user account.
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The £10 million redevelopment of the Clyde riverfront will take a leap forward this week with city planners due to recommend permission for pavilions housing bars, restaurants and cafes.
The joint city council/ private sector plan aims to create a new leisure quarter adjacent to the city's International Financial Services District.
Permission for the 32,000sq ft Broomielaw development is expected to be granted at a meeting of the planning application committee at Glasgow City Council tomorrow.
The plans are expected to create up to 150 new jobs and complement the longer-term development aspirations in the area, including the creation of the Fastlink bus service between the city centre, the SECC and the new Riverside Transport Museum at Glasgow Harbour.
Capella Developments, which is behind the project, is looking to build four two-storey pavilion structures with restaurant and pub units and shopping. Seating areas at ground and first floor levels would also be created.
In a report to the planning committee, it said: "The proposed development is being seen by the applicant and the city council as a new food-and-drink visitor destination which will form the final phase in the revitalisation of Broomielaw Quay."
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Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency
Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency
Parti pour la Responsabilisation, la Compétence et la Transparence
|Party Leader
|Michael Nicula[1]
|Michael Nicula
|October 1, 2010
November 5, 2012 (registered)[2]
|July 31, 2016
|1,000+[citation needed] (May 20, 2011)
|Participatory democracy
Democratic socialism
Left-wing Nationalism
Canadian Republicanism
|Political position
|Centre-left to left-wing
|International affiliation
|E2D International
The Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency (French: Parti pour la Responsabilisation, la Compétence et la Transparence, abbreviated as PACT), formerly the Online Party of Canada (French: Parti Canadien en ligne, abbreviated as OPC), was a Canadian website and was a federally registered political party founded in October 2010. The party was founded by Michael Nicula of Toronto.[3][4] The party was deregistered by Elections Canada on July 31, 2016.[5]
Founding and governing principles[edit]
The Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency was a non-partisan political party founded on the principles of participatory e-democracy where members voted directly on specific issues via the party website and, in return, party officials (candidates) must support the majority position on every issue, regardless of their personal position.
To ensure accountability, all PACT representatives wrote up their own Promissory Letter of Resignation before being eligible to run for office. Any PACT representative who votes against the will of the majority could be asked to resign.[6][7][8][9][10]
Political platform[edit]
The Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency did not have a set agenda. The political platform was a compilation of issue positions from the OPC website, voted from members and grouped by issue category, e.g., economic, healthcare, environment, etc. The key aspect of the platform is the importance given to certain categories; however, particular issues and respective positions are determined solely based on members' votes.[11][12]
Unlike most recognized political parties, all eligible voters in Canada, including members of other federal political parties, are allowed and strongly encouraged to become members of PACT in order to cast votes and comment on issues. In this sense, PACT is more like to a virtual House of Commons of Canada, representing all political stripes, rather than a traditional political party.
To ensure that each voting citizen only casts a single vote on each issue, only members' votes count toward the official party position and members are only authenticated once a signed paper form, recognized by Elections Canada, is submitted to the PACT.[13] Through this process, every PACT member and their respective electoral district as voting citizens is verifiable through the National Register of Electors,[14] similar to the voter identification process followed by Elections Canada during Federal Elections.
Election results[edit]
|# of votes
|% vote
|% vote in contested ridings
|2015 general election
|1 [15]
|0.00% [16]
|Candidate's Name
|2012 by-election
|Michael Nicula
|2013 by-election
|Toronto Centre
|Michael Nicula
|2015 general election
|Spadina—Fort York
|Michael Nicula
|5/6 [17]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Registered Political Parties and Parties Eligible for Registration#Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency". Elections Canada. October 20, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e Elections Canada List of Registered Political Parties. Accessed October 30, 2015
- ^ Abma, Derek. "Political party based on the web: Plans online polls to make decisions", Postmedia News. Reprinted in Windsor Star, October 23, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ "Un Torontois souhaite créer un nouveau parti fédéral", Le Journal de Québec. October 3, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#libert
- ^ "OPC Governing Principles". Online Party of Canada. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ "Marni Soupcoff: What we can learn from the Online Party of Canada". National Post. Oct 25, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ "The Libertas Post Interview – Michael Nicula, founder of the Online Party of Canada". Libertas Post. Dec 14, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ^ "Inside Canada's political parties: The Online Party of Canada". Digital Journal. Nov 1, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ^ "The Online Party of Canada — further analysis". The Blog of Walker. October 28, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ^ "OPC Political Platform". Online Party of Canada. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ "Commies, pirates, and potheads: The small political parties convene to explain the big picture behind this election". NOW Magazine. Apr 25, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ "OPC Membership Form" (PDF). Online Party of Canada. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ "Description of the National Register of Electors". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/lst&document=index&lang=e Elections Canada, List of Confirmed Candidates. Accessed October 20, 2015
- ^ http://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts.aspx?lang=e Elections Canada Electoral District, 2015. Accessed October 20, 2015.
- ^ http://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts.aspx?lang=e Elections Canada, Spadina-Fort York 2015 results. Accessed October 20, 2015.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency on Facebook
- Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency - Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups - Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries
- Online Party of Canada – Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups – Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries


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Jeremy Zullow is a Data Science Fellow at Climate Central, producing digital content, research, and data insights to support programs across the organization. He obtained his B.A. at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and has certificates in Spanish and Technology and Society.
His senior thesis investigated the relationship between economic forces and recent declines in annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, in order to disentangle the impacts of economic changes from impacts of federal policy interventions. At Princeton, Zullow worked to build broader resources and community for social entrepreneurship, including directing a TEDx University conference around that theme. He has emphasized data-driven planning and delivering measurable impact assessments for social entrepreneurship projects he has worked on.


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10 Ideas for Staying in Touch
June 9, 2017
Today is National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day. Yesterday was National Best Friend Day, and tomorrow is National Iced Tea Day.
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Yep, there's a day for just about everything, but that also means there's a marketing and client outreach opportunity just about every day.
Set a plan and a budget for reaching out to your sphere and new prospects each year, then peruse National Day Calendar for national days, week, and months of observance for marketing fodder. Here are 10 ideas for client outreach that go beyond the usual holidays as we enter the second half of 2017.
- June 22: Bring a box of chocolate éclair to a local office (full of employees who buy houses) on National Chocolate Éclair Day and leave a stack of business cards.
- June 27: Send sunglasses donning your logo on National Sunglasses Day to your buyers and sellers (because their future's so bright).
- July 19: Throw a client appreciation cookout for National Hotdog Day.
- Aug. 1-7: Email tips on decluttering and home organization to your past clients during National Simplify Your Life Week.
- Second Saturday in August: Send tips to your sellers for a successful garage sale on National Garage Sale Day, or organize a neighborhood garage sale yourself.
- Sept. 29: Treat your past clients to a cup of coffee on National Coffee Day, or cover their coffee with a gift card to a local coffee shop.
- October: Sponsor a local animal shelter or host a fundraising event for Adopt a Shelter Dog Month.
- Oct. 31: Besides being Hallowing, Oct. 31 is also National Caramel Apple Day. Invite your sphere to pick up free caramel apples at your office, or deliver them to their homes.
- Nov. 7-13: Offer to write Santa letters to your clients' children for Dear Santa Letter Week.
- Dec. 20: Host a get together for National Sangria Day at a local restaurant that serves this drink. Toast to the holidays and the year ahead.
—Erica Christoffer, REALTOR® Magazine
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The NVC Academy is an online company whose goals are to support as many people as possible, across the world, to learn and deepen their NVC consciousness. We go to great efforts to keep the cost of our courses and products as low as possible while providing a broad range of choices in consideration of our worldwide constituency.
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With each request for a change of any kind, we go from an automated to a manual system, thus increasing our internal financial and time expenses.
For instance, in addition to lack of financial resources or currency exchange challenges, we regularly receive other requests for discounts, scholarships or a different payment plan because a person:
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- Wants only to listen to the recordings
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So, it continues to be a dilemma for us - how to live in our NVC consciousness, support the worldwide community of NVC enthusiasts, and maintain our long term (and immediate) sustainability so we can continue to support our beloved community (and all the individuals within it) for years to come.
We mourn that, as a result of this complex balancing process, we have not found a way to fully attend to global income disparities and still attend to our own needs, and that this regularly means that people from some regions in the world are unable to have access to the resources we provide.
We are so grateful to our greater NVC community who, together with us, find ways to support our worldwide NVC community. Our great hope is that, working together, all people who want it will have access to NVC trainings, regardless of their incomes or geographic location. This gives us more peace knowing that many of us are working towards this goal.
We hope that in reading this you have a greater understanding of the many needs we grapple with on a daily basis, and what drives our decisions. We are equally hopeful that you will find choice among the many offered courses, products and prices that will support your learning, joy and fun.
Our request of you is to fully consider the needs we have outlined here before asking us to make exceptions. You can request a scholarship to attend our programs here: Scholarship Request.With respect,
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My wife is a professor at a local university. She recently shared a video with me about cognitive thinking that struck a nerve. The speaker was an authority on behavioral research — I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but he had me spellbound for the length of the video. In essence, his viewpoint is that we control the outcome of a situation by determining how we choose to view it. For instance, at a time in his career when he had pulled together the funding for a major research project, this therapist was dumbfounded to discover that his dream assignment was anything but enjoyable. In between the hiring and paperwork and griping colleagues, his vision had become a considerable burden.
But instead of succumbing to what had become a monumental problem, he chose to view it through a different prism. Instead of being head researcher or cognitive therapist or whatever other title might have been most appropriate, he instead labeled himself as simply "Problem Solver."
By identifying the true nature of his tasks every day, this researcher admitted to himself that like it or not, problem solving was his number one priority.
Well, this morning at cross country practice I had to admit that I was no longer a coach. Rather than being annoyed by bureaucracy, or petty sniping from opponents, detail junkies, turf-warriors more intent on protecting their piece of the action than behaving like nice people, and even the myriad strange excuses from my runners that began to completely bum me out, I fell back into problem solving mode. This morning, I was not Head Cross Country Coach. I was Head Therapist. Chief Listener. Grand High Poobah Problem Solver.
I'm really not a grown-up. I get to write and coach for a living, which is basically the adult version of playing in a sandbox all day long. Not many people tell me what to do — although my wife kicks my ass on a daily basis. Choosing to admit there are problems in need of solving — and that I am the one who must address them — is part and parcel of leadership. And of course, the "R" word: responsibility.
Of course, there are the problems better left undisturbed, knowing they must solve themselves. Those are harder to deal with, because I just want to fix them and make things right rather than ride out the politics and intrigue that make them untouchable.
Most people think being a writer is all about creativity. But in actuality, all writing is is a series of problems in need of a solution: what topic to write about? What's the first chapter? The first sentence? The first word? It's a process that continues on every page of the book as lines and words are added and erased and woven into a story. Whether the words are pretty or simply utilitarian does not matter. All of those decisions are about one thing: making people turn the pages. At the end of the book, problem solving is forgotten. All that remains is the story.
So it is with this cross country season, my thirteenth. All the problem solving that has my head about to explode will be forgotten when all is said and done. The athletes and their races will be all I remember, written forever on meet results and databases that will allow me to look back years from now to remember a competition, the workouts defining that week of training, the smell of the breeze, the color of a hundred singlets running stride for stride, and a day when suffering and surpassing personal limits are gloriously intertwined.
On that day, I will not remember being a problem solver, but I will always remember the story.