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Thanks so much for sharing this with us. As our friends, Bob and Carol Collins, are with you, we are even more blessed to get a taste of what they are experiencing.
Our hosts in Romania are my dear old friends, Ghiorghi and Christina Cazacu, native Romanians who immigrated to the United States in 1990, found the Lord in 1992, and whom the Lord sent back to Romania as missionaries in 2000. They have a fruitful and multi-faceted ministry, not of the least of which is raising six beautiful children whom they have adopted since they returned to Romania.
Today, after we drove across the border from Romania to Moldova, we stopped to visit four Christian widows whom Ghiorghi frequently serves. Several have been believers for six decades, having remained faithful under the persecution of Christians during the communist era. We delivered food to them in their little houses, assessed some pressing needs, and heard some inspiring testimonies.
As we continued toward Moldova's capital, Chisinau, we stopped at Cornesti Children's Tuberculosis Sanitarium, a place I've visited four times during previous trips. There are currently 94 children—from very poor families—staying there for anywhere from three to six months as they recover from TB. The hospital is an old concrete building that on its front columns still bears the communist emblem of a hammer and sickle.
We brought the children a rare treat—box loads of bananas and oranges. In past years, Heaven's Family has helped with new shoes and clothing (and we will help with more before the year is over). Cornesti is a state-run institution, but it is very underfunded. There is no running water or functional well. (Moldova is Eastern Europe's poorest nation, and almost half of its elected parliament members are communist party members.) Because Ghiorghi and Christina have served the children there for years, they have gained lots of favor from the staff to freely preach the gospel.
As they sun was setting today, we met with a small group of pastors and evangelists, all from a very poor village that they have reached with the gospel, to evaluate a potential agricultural project that will help them become self-sufficient, serve the poor, and keep their own children from having to move to other countries to find work. Work-related emigration of its young people is robbing this nation of its sons and daughters and fueling the sex trafficking industry, as Moldova struggles to overcome a legacy of decades of godless communism. — David
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Reading is associated with books, but reading is also reading about life. This blog is dedicated to all kinds of reading that the book of life offers...and compels us all to think, analyse and share.
I burned down the bridges of the last evening
To van Gogh
|I burned down the bridges of the last evening, hurling them
Down into the mysteries of the night, running hurriedly
To embrace the reddish light of the new dawn. Still the new dawn
Asked me the way backward into the last night. Confident, with no strings
Attached, I argued back, 'what is gone is gone'. The Dawn, cool, calm
And callous, replied I have the habit of keep coming back. Past is
My half-brother, and not my foe. The way backward is the way forward
And only those who build, and not burn, find a place under my sun.
Stuck, I have taken up the job of rebuilding the bridges
That connect my last night with my last evening.
Kumar Vikram

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Manesar Land Scam
Manesar land scam: CBI court issues non-bailable warrants against realtor
The CBI, on February 2, had filed a chargesheet running into 80,000 pages against 34 persons, including former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Directors of ABW Infrastructure declared absconders
The decision was taken based on several FIRs registered by Economic Offence Wing (EoW) against the directors and managing director of the company.
Manesar land scam: ED attaches Rs 42 crore assets of ABW Infrastructure
Several farmers and land owners are alleged to have been cheated to the tune of about Rs 1,500 crore in the case, in which former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is one of the accused.
Manesar land scam: Government fails to verify claims, buyers move SC
As per the March 12 order, HSIIDC was to verify claims of all homebuyers who had bought properties in projects developed on the land affected by the scam, within two months from the judgement date.
Manesar land scam: Court directs CBI to provide chargesheet documents to accused
The Panchkula CBI court have already granted regular bail to former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others in connection with Manesar land deal case
Manesar land scam: 3,600 claims for plots, flats on government's table
The scam was estimated at Rs 1,500 crore with land being bought from locals at throwaway prices
Manesar land scam: Buyers seek clarity on SC order
One of the petitioners, Naresh Jindal, said the court had directed that members of the applicant could either apply for possession from Huda/HSIIDC
Manesar land sold with govt office seal after SC verdict
The land deals were struck from March 14 onwards, two days after the SC gave its verdict, and happened with the knowledge of the tehsildar, naib tehsildars, registry clerk and two computer operators.
Manesar land scam: HSIIDC to accept buyer, farmer claims
All applicants have to submit their claims at the HSIIDC office in Manesar for verification. "We've asked everyone concerned to submit their claims with us by April 28," said an HSIIDC official
DLF homebuyers protest after SC ruling on Manesar land scam
Nearly 200 homebuyers reached the developer's office in Cyber City around 11 am and demanded that DLF clarify its stand in the case.
Supreme Court's Manesar ruling to affect 5,000 homebuyers
The Manesar land deals happened in 2004 when the Hooda government issued a notification for acquisition of 688 acres but withdrew it later.
5,000 buyers in a fix as CBI files charges against former Haryana CM
Some developers including AWB, Karma, Unitech, RP Estate and Innovative got licence from the department of town and country planning in 2008-09 and launched several residential and commercial projects.


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What is notary public? Notary public is someone who responsible to handle vital documents about real estate loan transaction. Notary public will witness and notarize the process of signature of the documents of the parties that involved. The document that will be notarized commonly includes crucial information for the lenders who give mortgage loans. As a state commission notary, notary public must have best work performance, therefore the National Notary Association requires a tough requirements for those who interested to become notary public.
As a notary public, someone should have high motivation in his work. The purpose of building the motivation is to give a proof of high quality notary public and this will encourage people to give more trust. Furthermore, to perform the best assignment, he must have a good competency and should be able to be a professional, reliable, and accurate manner in completing the signing and notarizing the document he's working on.
Besides managing the task of vital documents, some notary publics are also signed as Signing Agent certified by National Notary Association. These Signing Agents must have adequate knowledge regarding to the loan document signing procedures and Notary Public Laws of their state. This could be a way to approve their competency and professionalism.
Become Notary Public is a tough job but however there is a great deal they get in return. Most of Notary Public earns a good deal of money in every transaction, with the accumulation from the transactions, they may get a satisfying income. Furthermore, someone who becomes a mobile notary public is free to arrange the working hours or schedule. However, either becomes part-time or full-time Loan signing agent, the knowledge about services marketing or services pricing is really important. With the knowledge, higher profit is possible to be in hand. (fallen)


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Significance Redux
Kevin Drum, who should know enough about statistics to know better, has again trotted out the old canard about Democratic Presidents being better for the economy:
As longtime readers know, Democratic administrations routinely deliver better economic performance than Republican administrations. Among other things, they deliver lower inflation, lower unemployment, higher economic growth, better stock market growth, and higher median wage growth. This performance is remarkably robust and consistent...
I thought I had put this thing to bed in 2005:
Several posts lately, notably from Kevin Drum, have purported to show that the American economy prospers more under Democratic Presidents. This conclusion is based on about 50 data points, so we should not expect much significance, but it has been eagerly reported. [...] if Democratic partisans want to use data like these to show that Democratic presidents are somehow better for the economy, they must explain how it is that a Democratic president in the US can help the French and Swedish economies (at least) even more than our own.
Can someone with actual readers please help me slap this thing down?


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07 July 2006
CPP must learn from NPP -Pratt
Kwesi Pratt Jnr., Managing Editor of the Insight and grand ally of the National Democratic Congress, yesterday went to town on elements in his own party who, he claimed, were not doing enough to make the necessary sacrifices that would move the party forward but are rather fighting over symbols. But significantly, Pratt Jnr called on the Convention People's Party leadership to learn from the ruling New Patriotic Party which, he admitted, has shown to Ghanaians a worthy and solid example of how to build and sustain a political party, even under very trying conditions.
The CPP leading member was reacting to the news about the resignation Thursday of Mike Eghan Jnr, National Second-Vice Chairman of the CPP, from the party during a Peace FM current affairs programme."Yes, I've heard about Mike Eghan's resignation, and I feel sad about it…because I know him very well…I've worked with him for several years and I know how committed, efficient and hard-working he is as a CPP leading member…it's very sad," Pratt Jnr lamented."But there are lessons we all need to learn, if we want the CPP to grow…And the NPP is an example for all of us to emulate…look, they were in the wilderness for twenty to thirty years…they never lost hope…they kept themselves together, even in exile…from the days of Nkrumah…from 1992 till 2000…they never wavered…today they are in power, so why can't our own CPP take a cue from that and unite…We can also do it if we stay united, rather than complain and quit or join forces with other people."
Indicating how unity within the ranks of the Nkrumahist family has produced results in the past, the CPP Public Affairs Director cited the Great Alliance political deal in 1996 with the NPP, in which key players led by industrialist Kwabena Darko of the National Independence Party and General Erskine of the People's Heritage Party joined forces to give the CPP the much-needed clout. "When we did that, it worked; and there were signs that the party was growing…but if we all have to throw up our hands in despair, where will the party be in the next few decades? When you have a leadership that will want to fight over slogans and unnecessary things…that is what happens…After the 2000 elections we all made moves to unite the family…Nii Noi Dowuona and the former PNC National Chairman, Mr Amoah and others played a major role in getting the PNC to come on board…and there were still others…until this fight about the cockerel and the 'kube' came up…it's really sad."
Pratt Jnr was, however, still hopeful that the CPP has a future. "Mike Eghan's resignation is painful…it is a painful loss, but it depends on how we in the party would want to look at it…if his going away will shake us up to do the things we ought to do, then it could be a blessing to us…but if we ignore the signals, then that would be too bad…because the trend will continue…but we still have lessons to learn," he confessed.Meanwhile, the Editor-In-Chief of the Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako Jnr, also reacted to the stand taken by Mr. Eghan. Conceding that though he was not reacting directly to what Mr Pratt said, noted; "the NPP, when in opposition, also had some members resigning and joining other parties. It does not therefore make meaning to say people should not resign from a party." He mentioned Mr Pratt's persona, among other factors, as some of the reasons why Mr Eghan was leaving the party, adding that coupled with that was the problem of "too many ideological dinosaurs in the party."
He, however, stated emphatically to The Statesman that he would not resign from the CPP party under any circumstances. He observed that Mr Eghan's move was a reaction to his frustration with the level of incompetence in the leadership of the party, especially in the light of tremendous sacrifices Eghan made financially, morally and otherwise."Kwesi Pratt has a right to his comments, but I believe we should also allow anybody who wants to leave to do so…though I, Baako, won't leave the CPP…" Mr Baako told The Statesman that he agrees with Mr Eghan on the vexed question of leaders not cooperating the way they should, but noted that resigning was not the solution, saying: "The CPP has a huge problem which, if we do not resolve, we cannot move on as a party."
CPP Man Cries Foul
CPP Man Cries Foul
Former Ghanaian-American Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate, turned 2004 CPP Parliamentary Candidate for Nhyiaeso Constituency in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, "Osagyefo" Kwame Appiah Boateng, popularly known by Ghanaian Communities around the World as "Kwame Mayor" and regarded in International Political Circles as a Fearless Crusader of Democracy, Civil Rights and Human Rights, has accused President John Agyekum Kufuor's ruling government *(with the exception of NPP, as a Political Establishment)* of "Intellectual Cowardice and Thievery"; "State Sponsored Injustice" and "State Sponsored Political Persecution amid subtle Political Harassment", after Kufuor's government once again, failed to give him (any) credit for his 2005 (documented) and published news item by Ghana News Agency (GNA) in which the CPP marverick called upon the Nation to honor her heroes and heroines.The Self-Proclaimed "Re-Incarnation of Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah" asked Ghanaians to *(compare)* his story carried by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on (September 1 2005)* and re-published by Ghana Review International (GRI) on September 9, 2005, --- captioned " Immortalise Ghanaian heroes and heroines - Boateng" - with the latest July 1, 2006 story in the Graphic and also, published on Ghanaweb.Com, captioned, "Ghana Honours Her Heroes, Heroines" !!!.
Source:KWAME BOATENG"
06 July 2006
Mike Eghan Quits CPP
The centre of the Convention People's Party (CPP) appears not to be holding any longer, as one of its leading personalities, Mr. Mike Eghan makes an exit from the political grouping of which he is a founding member.
The resignation of this leading figure in the Nkrumaist fraternity was contained in a correspondence addressed to the General Secretary of the party, Prof. Nii Noi Dowuona and dated July 5, 2006."I am with very deep regret resigning my membership in the CPP with immediate effect," he stated in the correspondence which comes at a time some important personalities of the Osagyefo's political grouping have pitched camp with the yet-to-be-registered Obed-led Democratic Freedom Party (DFP).
Mr. Eghan's resignation carried the pain with which this CPP figure took the final leap from the party with which he had been associated from his youthful days. He attributed the reasons for his decision to a dwindled confidence in those at the helm of affairs of the CPP, in which he claimed to have invested a lot in terms of finance and time over the years. He expressed regret that his wish in nurturing a party based on the ideals of the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and to ensure domestication of the national interest, had failed to bear fruits.
"It has been my wish as a longstanding member of the CPP and one who has put a lot at risk since 1992 through the People's Heritage Party (PHP), the People's Convention Party (PCP), the Convention Party (CP) and then to the CPP to work within the party, to develop a political and economic philosophy centred on domesticating our national interest and building national cohesion," he said.A disappointed Mike Eghan recalled his expensive personal interventions and sacrifices he made towards ensuring the survival of the Nkrumaist tradition, which included the legal venture he undertook to restore the CPP name and the cockerel symbol.
"I personally sacrificed a lot and championed and financed the legal battle to get back the name CPP and the Red Cockerel symbol to offer hope to the many well-wishers of the Nkrumaist tradition," he said. Continuing, Mike Eghan noted that the CPP had not responded to the treatment at resuscitating it, a situation he attributed to the leadership of the party.According to him, the current leadership of the party is inflicting "mortal damage to the Osagyefo's party."
The party, he noted, had been torn apart by what he described as an "obsession with ceaseless, unproductive merger negotiations instead of uniting behind ideas and messages that will give hope to the people." This situation, he added, led to the factionalisation of the party, which factions were engaged in competitions among themselves. Mike Eghan did not have kind words for the leaders of the so-called Nkrumaist merger talks as he said, "they are nursing self-centred plans to become flagbearers in the 2008 Presidential elections." Some of the merger talk leaders, he continued, "are busy promoting other parties while pretending to be leading members of the CPP and causing its downfall. I cannot pretend and will not belong to what I can no longer justify."
His displeasure about a correspondence he fired to the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Edmund Delle, about his resignation as the 2nd National Vice Chairman not being acknowledged, found space in his exit letter. "It is worthy to note that as far back as January 2006, I wrote to the National Chairman, Leader and Young Pioneer, Dr. Edmund Delle to announce my resignation as the 2nd National Vice Chairman of the Party.
As of today, Wednesday, 5th July 2006, Dr. Delle or the party has not had the very simple and ordinary courtesy to reply to my letter," he lamented.Mike Eghan appears to be contemplating organizing an alternative political grouping as he mentions in the correspondence that "I will spend my time to work with like-minded people from all parts of the Ghanaian society, activists from the existing parties and others to create a credible alternative that will be competitive in the 2008 elections."
Sounding philosophical, Mike Eghan stated "at this stage in my life besides my spouse, my children, my extended family, and my very close associates, the best that I can do for posterity to judge is to work with other political personalities to build and offer alternative policy choices and a positive, selfless approach to nation-building."Concluding, he stressed "I want to be able to say that I did the best I could to build a party that would offer a strong voice to the poor, the disadvantaged, the workers and others who are struggling to improve the quality of their lives." At his press conference of 9th May 2006, Mike Eghan called for a new movement to energise people who associate with the ideals of the late CPP founder, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
He encouraged also the current leadership of the party to give way to others who would give the party enthusiasm, enhanced credibility and the positive image that could attract the youth and others into its hold. His hope at the time he made the call, was to see to the building of a broad coalition of progressive forces, to compete in the 2008 elections on the foundation of a strong Centre-Left development agenda.
Mike Eghan's hopes have been dashed as spelled out in his resignation letter. The Nkrumaist family which has suffered from destructive factionalisation over the years, seems to have failed in its latest effort at forging a single party to contest the forthcoming 2008 elections, especially with some leading figures in the grouping marching to the yet-to-be registered Democratic Freedom Party of Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah. Political analysts regard the exit of Mike Eghan and others as the final disintegration of the Nkrumaist family.
27 June 2006
New Juaben South CPP asks Delle to step down
Koforidua, June 27, GNA
The New Juaben South constituency branch of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) on Tuesday called on the National Chairman of the party, Dr Edmund Delle, to step because he had declared his intention to contest the Presidential Candidature of the party for the 2008 elections.
A statement signed by its chairman, Mr Ernest Obeng Darfour, said the resignation of Dr Delle would create a level playing field for all contestants for the slot.
It said since Dr Delle's announcement of his intention, "we have observed that other party members who have the same ambition relaxed their campaign effort as they felt there would be no level grounds for the competition."
The statement called on the Central Committee of the party to take up the matter with a view to asking Dr Delle to step down as National Chairman.
22 June 2006
Nkrumaists parties are deficient in organizational ability - Dumor
Accra, June 22, GNA
- Professor Ernest Dumor, a Former Commissioner of the Electoral Commission (EC), on Thursday said Election 2004 revealed the organizational competence of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). "It also exposed organizational deficiencies of the Nkrumaist parties - People's National Convention (PNC) and the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the ineptitude of its leadership," Prof. Dumor stated during a review in Accra of the book; "Voting for Democracy in Ghana: The 2004 Elections in Perspective - Volumes One and Volume Two" in Accra.
The Book is authored by Professor Kwame Boafo-Arthur, Head of Political Science Department of the University of Ghana. Prof. Dumor, who is the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), attributed the CPP's demise to the dynamics of political dismemberment of its structures under the National Liberation Council; the fractious state of Imoro Egala and Dr Hilla Limann's People's National Party (PNP) and the further dislocation the Nkrumaist Tradition suffered under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and its incorporation into NDC.
"The incorporation was nearly complete because the populist inclination of Former President Jerry John Rawlings was close to the socialist views of the CPP remnants."
Prof Samuel N. Woode, Chairman of the Public Services Commission, who chaired the launch, said the adoption of the 1992 Constitution was an affirmation of the nation's stand on democracy and rejection of military rule.
"When in 1992 we adopted the Constitution, we were indeed voting for democracy that we should continue voting for democracy and that in between elections we will respect the democratic imperatives of governance."
Prof. Woode said the Book would increase knowledge about the practice of democracy in Ghana 96 93our knowledge about elections is expanding and we are seeing the ways in which electioneering is being transformed in this country=94.
The book focuses on an overview of the 2004 General Elections, institutional development and democratic consolidation, political leadership and democratic consolidation, political parties and electoral competition in Ghana, and the quest for national reconciliation in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects.
Volume Two focuses on Elections 2004 and politics in Upper West Akim and New Juabeng South Constituencies; the 2004 Elections in four constituencies - Bolgatanga Central; Bongo; Gomoa West and Komend-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem - understanding Ghana's democratic development in the context of the 2004 Elections in Ledzokuku and Ashaiman constituencies and political participation; democratic consolidation and elections in Ghana; and the case of the Akan, Anlo and Keta constituencies in the Volta region.
13 June 2006
CPP Will Unbind Ghana From Its Globalised Dependency
As the world prepares for Ghana�s 50th Independence Anniversary, the achievements of both Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who was voted greatest African of the 20th Century, and the Convention People�s Party (CPP) are undeniable; the sacrifices made by many ordinary Ghanaians to obtain Ghana�s independence on 6th March 1957 are also undeniable; undeniable further are those who lost their lives in the forceful removal of the CPP Government in the 1966 coup by leading members of today�s conservative NPP.
Far from accepting the assertions of the �Nkrumah and his ideas are dead� brigade, Ghanaians are asking for deliverance on the basis of Nkrumah�s ideas and policies rethought in aspects for the 21st Century, setting aside the liberal and conservative pronouncements that �you people are in the past and no longer relevant to the needs of Ghana today�. In their yearning for popular socioeconomic solutions, Ghanaians are further asking �What is the CPP offering today?�, as they look to the party of progressive ideas for social salvation. Many of our youth are asking for more information about the CPP and Nkrumah and searching for an alternative because they understand that the liberal NDC and the conservative NPP governments have failed to advance Ghana on the path of wealth over the last 25 years. The CPP agrees with the 80% of Ghanaians who live on less than $2 a day, that it is time for CPP Government.
21st Century Nkrumaism
The people of Ghana have identified the problems of the CPP as their own problems and they have enumerated them without end in the press, the radio stations, on TV, on the internet and in other fora and media. So we know our problems.
The CPP�s ideology in the 20th Century was socialism; other Nkrumaist parties like the PNC all agree it is now Nkrumaism. The party�s ideology was the basis of the CPP Work and Happiness Program leading to the 7 Year Development Plan. The CPP and the State were the same and Ghana became the CPP and the CPP was Ghana. The 24th February 1966 coup and other international events at the end of the 1980s such as the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and other Eastern European peoples democracies threw Nkrumaists into ideological crisis which the Nkrumaist Political Family led by the CPP has been unable to arouse itself; indeed the Unity Platform documents of the family such as �The New Convention: Platform of the new Convention Peoples� Party is silent on the matter of ideology. The result in our ranks has been a pervasive lack of ideological confidence. Nkrumaists today believe that a multi-party system will provide a more stable democracy for Ghana than a one party system enacted through an act of parliament. Thus, while remaining true to our socialist beliefs, we have redefined our identity as progressives to differentiate ourselves from liberals of the NDC and the conservatives of the NPP. Nevertheless, in the midst of the foundational ideological wobble acute especially between 1979-1992 when some on the Left even amazingly eschewed Marxism, The New Right Washington Consensus championed by first the NDC (1992-2000) and then reformed under the NPP (2000-2008) was professed as the solution to Ghana�s developmental problems: it called simply for getting prices right, reducing the size of government and balancing budgets. This replacement of Ghana�s Nkrumaist development paradigm with IMF and World Bank development programmes at least over the last twenty years is what underpins Ghana�s national crisis.
The unconstitutional Government of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) in the 1980s was first to accept the Washington Consensus and champion the private foreign sector of Ghana�s economy subjecting all other sectors to such foreign private interests and the philosophical document of the NDC leaves no one in doubt about this. In the meantime, the NPP has championed the private indigenous sector termed recently by Nana Akufo Addo as �indigenous capitalism�. Thus between the liberal NDC and the conservative NPP, the private sector whether foreign or indigenous is championed to the detriment of the interests of the popular majority of Ghanaians.
As a result, instead of wealth for all, the liberal-conservative regimes have produced poverty, insecurity and dangerous division especially among the lower majority (ordinary people at the bottom) of society. They have produced corruption, intolerance and repression within the state institutions that administer our society. Over the years resistance to the liberal-conservative status quo has grown. These may signal a clear rejection of this centrist liberal-conservative status quo and a call for substantive progressive change; but such progressive transformation can only be delivered by an Nkrumaist Government that is rooted in the progressive philosophy and ideology of Consciencism.
Nkrumaism has always had a consistent social-political theory for enlarging Ghana�s prosperity. This consciencist social-political theory is a synthesis of capitalism and socialism. In modern terms this can be called progressive economics and is a theoretical synthesis of the Neo-liberal/Keynesian economics[C+I+G+(X-M) =GNP] and Marxian economics M - C {MP, LP}...P...C' - M'. Nkrumaist progressive economics, rejects the moral undercurrent of utility-maximising individualism that underpins both capitalism and socialism and the corresponding privileged class of capital and the privileged class of the party; it prefers emancipatory deliberate development to a moral belief in automatic development by market forces; it emphasises what Ghanaians can make rather what they can buy at the cheapest price to consume; it emphasises the results of our social-political processes in terms of who wins or who loses rather than seeing it all as a game; it emphasises the well-being and security of Ghana and the importance of being self-reliant and productive as opposed to globalised dependency and consumption that upholds the rational self-interest of utility-maximising psychotic individuals and politicians at home or abroad; it perceives business as war rather than a peaceful process because trade is not just a game; it emphasises power and strength including political power rather than morality
Although Nkrumaist progressive economics is a synthesis of both capitalism and socialism, the cold war of the 20th Century led to an overemphasis of socialism over capitalism rather than the categorial conversion of both socialism and capitalism into a new and distinctive social-political theory that is distinctive to Africa�s concrete situation. Thus because of our heritage of Islam, Euro Christianity, Traditional Africa, Imperialism, Colonialism and Socialism, Nkrumaist progressive economics is the best means by which we can build a just society in which the increasing standard of life of the lower majority is the benchmark for everybody.
Such a just society can be achieved only by a rapid transformation of the socioeconomic structure of Ghana. To effect this, it is absolutely necessary that we have a strong, stable, firm and highly organised Nkrumaist Government. This means that Ghanaians must give political power to a progressive CPP to form an Nkrumaist Government to work for the national interest. The actions and practices of the Nkrumaist Government must be based on policies founded on the philosophy and ideology of Consciencism that can essentially be found in three books entitled Consciencism, Neo-colonialism and Africa Must Unite. From these trilogy, we come to understand 21st Century Nkrumaism as (1) love for territorial unity in our case of Ghana first and then of Africa, (2) the progressive development of Ghana through the ideological instrument of progressive economics, which is the synthesis of capitalism and socialism for social-political practice, (3) self-determination of the African Personality expressed in the pursuit of liberty, the use of (4) science and technology in all aspects of life, (5) fair equality expressed in the opportunity of education for all to achieve the highest level attainable, devotion to (6) philosophical Consciencism, which is the synthesis of idealism and materialism, and (7) the pursuit of a just society guided by the Consciencism�s ideological principle, which is the equality of all men and women whether Christian, Moslem or Traditionalist and whether driver, seamstress, president, parliamentarian, judge or kenkey seller.
Within progressive economic analysis Nkrumaists are united in their understanding of Ghana's economy as captured in the Nkrumaist Platform Document signed by the Convention People�s Party, National Reform Party (NRP) and the People�s National Convention (PNC) in the Inter-Party Coordinating Committee (IPCC) Platform document signed on 10th October 2001.
The External Dimension of our Poverty
So we know that Ghana�s economy does not function principally to supply the goods and services that her people need; in other words, Ghana�s economy is not a progressive economy as a result of which it does not produce wealth for her people. Rather, global liberal-conservative forces have organized our national economy to produce and export agricultural and mineral raw materials (C or MP) to Multinational Companies (MNCs) in the developed world at prices dictated by the buyers. At the same time, the global liberal-conservative forces import expensive and/or finished consumer products (C�) and capital products (I) from these same MNCs at prices also dictated by them. Thus, �C +G� which expresses the progressive interest of the lower majority such as popular education, health and employment etc has been abandoned. So the global liberal-conservative economy enjoys a rapid and systematic net transfer of wealth from Ghana and other Third World countries to the detriment of the majority of our people. The dominance of a few commodities in the export bundles [X, C (MP)] and their primary nature like cash crops and minerals, the concentrated destinations and origins of exports and imports [M= C�+I] respectively - are those factors that generate our trade deficits, wide fluctuations in export earnings through the manipulation of their prices to exploitatively low levels. They are also the factors responsible for our perennial balance of payments crises and escalating external debts.
This means simply that the wealth we need to improve the conditions of life for Ghanaians are not available. Therefore living conditions for all but a shrinking liberal-conservative social elite inevitably worsen year after year. This system by which Third World wealth are drained by the businesses of the developed world, is now called globalisation whose fundamental goal is to appropriate the wealth of weaker countries such as Third World countries, maintain political, economic, technological and cultural domination of such countries in order to achieve, among others, foreign markets, sources of cheap raw materials, outlets for capital exports as it used to be before we gained our independence. In his book Towards Colonial Freedom published in 1945, Kwame Nkrumah made this very clear and explained that political democracy, economic democracy and social reconstruction were all necessary if we are to transform our economic system to generate wealth for all Ghanaians. This was why he was removed from office and Ghana since then has not had Government that champions the interests of the majority of Ghanaians.
A tiny portion of the wealth the MNCs siphon out of Ghana comes back as foreign "aid" from "donor" governments and goes to support the budget of the redundant G to enable it perform a stabilization function required for the continued extraction of the wealth of Ghanaians. This foreign "aid" serves as a sop to the collective consciences of the citizens of the developed world and mutes resistance in the exploited periphery to exploitation of the underdeveloped world allowing globalisation to present itself as a benefactor. This is the proverbial mouse that Nkrumah told us about blowing cool air while biting its prey. This stabilisation role includes the prevention of outright rebellion in the Third World countries themselves by blurring the extent of their exploitation, and by so doing prevent them from taking progressive action against it in the resolution of the internal-external competing claims. Obviously, the majority of Ghanaians would prefer to keep the wealth we generate in Ghana and use it for our own development. Thus the overall policy objective of an Nkrumaist Government must be the pursuit of popular wealth. To achieve this, a transformation of our economic system through a national industrialization policy is required.
To sustain this profiteering liberal-conservative system perpetually to our disadvantage, globalisation cultivates and grooms Ghanaians as collaborators, who can be found in politics, business, academia and the civil service amongst others, with whom it shares common material advantages and socio-political interests. As a reward for their collaboration, the families, friends and business associates of those who wield liberal-conservative power are able to feed off the droppings from our transnational exploitation and insulate themselves from the deepening development crises at home. Globalisation then turns around and rationalizes the consistent failure of such countries to achieve development through IMF/WB prescriptions by referring to local corruption and inefficiency for which it is responsible for in the first instance. Similarly, it is able to deflect accountability by hiding behind the elected liberal-conservative representatives of the people while doing all it can to destroy any progressive rise of the masses. In Ghana this is responsible for the numerous parties that should supposedly represent the progressive community.
In this hypocritical symbiosis, globalisation is vehemently hostile to any seriously patriotic and visionary leadership with a clear-cut commitment to the liquidation of underdevelopment such as the type of leadership provided by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Such leadership upsets the imperialist apple-cart and is always destabilized and even overthrown and replaced by liberal-conservative leaders in order to force such Third World countries to accept their assigned roles within globalisation: M - C{MP, LP}...P...C' - M' setup. Thus only a progressive government that champions the popular interest can withstand this.
The Internal Dimension of Our Poverty
Ghana�s unequal position in the global economy is sustained by significant internal inequalities which an analysis of our poverty situation will reveal. The most important of these is that between the wealth and power of the various liberal-conservative elite and the lower majority of impoverished and powerless ordinary Ghanaians. Inequality is not just an idea. It is what millions of Ghanaians suffer � lack of equitable egalitarianism or fair equality. It also finds expression in unemployment, poor health, illiteracy, homelessness, unbearable taxes, unaccountable state officials.
The liberal-conservative system which sustains the status quo is necessarily divisive repressive and predatory and finds its counterpart in the liberal-conservative NDC-NPP parties in Ghana today, whose liberal-conservative leaders joined forces in the PNDC before they split up after the murder of the judges to form their own separate liberal and conservative parties.
Internally, it sustains inequality and injustice for example in the areas of gender inequality, industrial exploitation, in landlord exploitation of tenants or state brutality. The system is also fundamentally divisive. Because of its lack of legitimacy, it can only maintain its grip on power by keeping ordinary Ghanaians divided by exploiting religious, ethnic, gender and other social differences. Ordinary Ghanaians are vulnerable to this tactic, and since they cannot rely on the state, they rally around the banners of such small groupings. The competition for wealth in such circumstances can sometimes be desperate and consequently violent. Tenant farmers from different ethnic groups wage war on each other, unemployed and marginalized youth systematically prey on old people and children in a growing crime wave. Gender violence grows as �powerless� men vent their frustrations on even more �powerless� women. Factory owners threatened by policies that discourage production increasingly resort to force to deny established legal rights of workers and break their ability to protect their legitimate interests. Ghanaians living abroad have to remit huge sums for domestic consumption by family members.
The Way Forward: Wealth and Happiness for all
So Ghana�s economic problems and poverty is not the result of our reliance on agriculture, low propensity to save, high population growth, archaic customs, archaic taboos and traditions, our extended family system, illiteracy and ignorance, geography, sociology and politics. Our poverty is the direct consequence of the liberal-conservative development of the advanced capitalist economies and the extent to which liberals and conservatives both local and international have pursued liberal-conservative policies that have had anti-progressive detrimental effects on the lower majority of Ghanaians. Evidently, African liberals and conservatives at home have failed the popular majority as they implement liberal-conservative IMF sponsored socioeconomic programmes whilst radical intellectuals co-opted into dominant two-party liberal-conservative state systems have been exposed as nothing but liberals and conservatives masquerading as radical progressives. Thus only a progressive Nkrumaist Government will pursue popular wealth to increase the standard of life of the Lower Majority and rebuild confidence in our national ability to live and survive as one people in one nation.
The overall policy objective of an Nkrumaist Government must therefore be the pursuit of popular �Wealth�. With wealth Ghana will take care of all its programmes: our children will be in school; we can provide health care for all our people free at the point of need; we can invest and provide full employment; with wealth Ghana will be able to assert its right to life and happiness; hence it must be possible to sum up in a single sentence what an Nkrumaist Government policy must be: it is to provide wealth and conditions of happiness for every Ghanaian. If we achieve this, and continue to work for the ethnic unity and progress of Ghana, we shall be making a positive contribution to the well-being of the territory Ghana. The liberation of Ghana, from the Liberal (NDC)-Conservative (NPP) Two Party Dominance, to unify and progressively develop it will be an Nkrumaist Government�s central objective. These require the transformation of all our institutions towards the creation of wealth for all. In all areas of our national life we must implement policies that will lead to the creation, management and enjoyment of wealth for all. Thus we must call for papers on all areas of national life from the Ghanaian public that will lead to the creation of wealth for all. The summary of these papers will become the United CPP Nkrumaist Government Manifesto as opposed to the practice whereby liberals and progressives masquerading as progressives sit in some room and write party manifestos that the lower majority of Ghanaians who are mostly illiterate anyway never bother to read. Freedom from poverty and freedom from diverse fear are essential for the attainment of happiness. Happiness, however, would be incomplete without the opportunity for Ghanaians to lead a full cultural and spiritual life as a Christian under the guidance of the Almighty God and Father of all Spirits, as a Moslem under the guidance of the Ever Merciful and Ever Compassionate Allah, as a Traditional African under the guidance of the Ancestors who are Ghosts. An Nkrumaist Government policy principle is that no Ghanaian should be unemployed, be below a predetermined wealth line, will be neglected in old age, or be without help in times of sickness because they do not have cash to buy health care (NDC position) or pay a health insurance premium (NPP position). An Nkrumaist Government policy is that no man shall fear oppression from terrorists and bomb-throwers and its security consequences as in the days of the NPP forbears; that no Ghanaian female shall be anxious that her child shall not be cared for or educated because she lacks the means herself. Nkrumaists today are determined that all Ghanaians shall look forward to ever-increasing social benefits and ever-widening opportunities for the enjoyment of leisure and culture.
But nothing in this world is achieved without wealth. It is our wealth that partly funds the good life in developed countries. Thus the attainment of these vital aims of an Nkrumaist Government must be worked for, by increasing greatly and rapidly the greater wealth of Ghana and seeing to it that this greater wealth remains in Ghana for Ghanaians but fairly distributed among all our people whether busanga, wangara, mande-busanga, grusi, vagala, sisala, mo, kasena (paga), mole-dagbon, walba (wala), nanumba, nankansi and gurense, namnam (nabdon), mamprusi, kusasi, dagomba, dagarte (dagaba), builsa, (kangyaga or kanja), gurma, salfalba (sabulaba), pilapila, kyamba (tehamba, baasari), kokomba, bimoba, guan, yefi, Nchumuru, krachi, nkonya, gonja, cherepong, larte, anum, awutu, efutu, senya, avatime, nyongbo, tafi, akpafu, lolobi, likpe, ewe, ga-dangme, ga, dangme, wassa, sefwi, nzema, kwahu, fante, evalue, denkyira, chokosi, boron (brong) including banda, asen (assin), asante, aowin, akyem, akwamu, akuapem, ahanta, ahafo and agona among others.. This in turn depends upon the production and productivity of all Ghanaians. To attain these ends, an Nkrumaist Government which stands dedicated to the service of Ghanaians, must have a workable plan and be able to put that plan into operation. We the progressives have that plan. To be able to put that plan into operation, we must win political office, which requires that the lower majority of our people must be organised and united to put an Nkrumaist Government into office in Ghana as early as January 2009.
What You Can Do
We call on you as a Ghanaian to serve as a progressive centre of organisation to mobilise the people around you in your kiosks, workplaces, mud houses, huts, urban slums, villages, towns and dilapidated regional capitals and wherever you are so that united as a lower majority we shall produce a better wealthier Ghana tomorrow.
As a centre of organisation you will improve communication within the party and between the party, the general public and the lower majority. It is yourselves as progressive centres of organisation that will be the progressive spokespersons that would articulate the progressive vision of wealth for all, articulate the philosophy of Nkrumaism, articulate our progressive position on government policies, connect with the Pan Africanist and progressive global movements, work for the self-determination, liberation and progressive development of Ghana, work for the ultimate unification of all progressives, mobilise and organise yourself to fight the internal and external liberal-conservative forces opposed to our self-induced development in an optimum zone of a free and united territory. As a progressive centre of organisation, it is your call to duty to be at the forefront of the progressive transformation of Ghana. Unity or no unity in the Nkrumaist political family it must be your aim to win the 2008 elections and help form a progressive government of Ghana by all means necessary in which you will play a vital role. We call on you the majority of Ghanaians to work together with a progressive leadership of visionary leaders drawn from amongst yourselves and reject liberal-conservative intellectuals and political operatives either because they are handsome or because they come from your home town or because they are from your ethnic group (tribe) in order to take Ghana out of pervasive poverty to wealth for all. We therefore call on you all who constitute progressive social forces of patriots and nationalists from all ethnic groups everywhere to join hands with a progressive CPP in a collective progressive effort to confront the liberal-conservative forces responsible for our present predicament of poverty, misery and a hard life. Certainly, as Ghanaians we must organise for a progressive CPP government if we are to transform our poor and deteriorating material conditions. Neither the liberal NDC nor the conservative NPP will �help� us the Lower Majority who live on less than $2 a day to come to power and govern the country in our own popular interests because they want to subject our interests to either private foreign interests (NDC) or private indigenous interests (NPP). You as a progressive will work with other progressive forces to mobilise and harness all resources to meet the popular needs and aspirations of the majority of our people to which we shall subject both the public sector and the private sector (foreign and indigenous).
Thus the new CPP of today offers an alternative progressive vision unlike the liberal NDC and the conservative NPP who are both ardent disciples and apostles of the IMF-World Bank neo-liberal economic policies which have been undemocratically imposed on us the lower majority through policy conditionalities.
In office, our progressive CPP government will lead the accumulation drive to assist all sectors of the economy to increase the rate of capital accumulation, partake in production to enable the market operate effectively by progressively developing our productive forces, create complementary conditions and infrastructure for all sectors of the economy and above all create fair equality for all regardless of income, status, gender and ethnicity, in respect of employment, education, health and social services by delineating a wealth line below which no Ghanaian shall be allowed to live by law as we build a just society in which the increasing standard of life of the Lower Majority becomes the benchmark for everybody. Forward Ever, Backward Never CPP UK & Ireland
11 June 2006
CPP calls for credible alternative to NPP
Accra, June 11, GNA -
The Patriots of the Convention People's Party (CPP) on Saturday called on minority parties to design a credible alternative national development agenda to the policies of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
"Prosperity for all Ghanaians should be the stimulating factor, which should be in sharp contrast to the NPP ideology of focusing on the Private Sector as the engine of growth, against the background of a Property Owning Democracy under which the few get richer and the majority of Ghanaians sink deeper and deeper into hopelessness and poverty.
"Ideologically, we believe that the Private Sector is only a part of the engine of growth, and that, for a poor developing country like Ghana, the state has responsibility to ensure that economic growth is equitable and leads to improvements in the lives of every Ghanaian," the Patriots stated in an agenda paper presented at the official opening of the Lower Manya Krobo Constituency office of the CPP on Saturday. The Agenda, presented by a team of Patriots Members headed by Dr Nii Moi Thompson, Dr Kweku Safo and Nana Owusu Sekyere CPP Eastern Regional Chairman also seeks to ensure that Ghana's private sector serves its social purposes, while government should offer them incentives to become internationally competitive as part of a state strategy to strengthen Ghana's economy against the adverse effects of globalisation.
The Patriots said: "we stand for the building of a society of opportunity, not privilege; of inclusion not exclusion; of mutual respect not intolerance; of shared prosperity not selfish consumption; and above all, of freedom and justice for all.
"Ultimately, we seek as Ghanaians to work together - state sector, private sector and the civic sector to create a society free of exploitation, deprivation and ethnic rivalry," the Patriots stated. They said in keeping with the CPP's tradition of participatory development, on the basis of broad consultations with Ghanaians they would lead a crusade for an enhanced participatory democracy. On how to resolve the problems facing the CPP, the Patriots, which is made up of a group of Nkrumaists, deeply concerned about restoring a people centred approach to development in Ghana, outlined that with good leadership and policies Nkrumaism would bounce back onto the Ghanaian political arena with vim.
The Patriots, who have started the rebuilding of the CPP from grassroots - wards, constituencies and regional offices, would establish or renovate offices that have fallen into disuse.
The CPP Patriots noted: "Once we have rebuilt the structures of the party and put forward credible development path for the people of Ghana, we shall then commence the difficult but not-impossible task of mobilizing public support for our common cause.
"Patriotism is not something abstract. It is real, it won us independence in 1957 and would propel CPP back to power in 2008, it has a tangible impact on the economic, social and political development of a people," the CPP Patriots stated.
Dr Safo debunked the notion that the Patriots was set up to destroy the mother party, CPP, stressing, "we believe that the nationalist platform on which the CPP was built has collapsed and needs to be rebuilt.
"The Patriots are therefore, concerned about the sagging fortunes of the CPP as well as the deteriorating living conditions of Ghanaians...we are determined to do something about it." He called on all patriotic Ghanaians to join and make the CPP a viable party for elections 2008.
He said Ghana has lost its past glory and image through the peddling of drugs, indiscipline and other social vices adding, "the CPP cannot make patriotism fashionable again without first reclaiming the political power that was unfairly taken from us in the 1966 and 1981 Coups.
The office accommodation at Agomanya was official opened by the Patriot team and other CPP officials, including Mr Eric Kwesi Odonkor, Ms. Gladys Wayo, Constituency Assistance Secretary and Women Organiser respective; Mr David Terkper regional Youth Organiser and Nene Agbortey Zanto I, a divisional chief of the area. 11 June 06
02 June 2006
CPP Prepares For Congress
Friday, 02 June 2006
The Convention People's Party is feverishly preparing for its national delegates' congress scheduled for July 15, 2006 at Sunyani. The Congress is to be preceded by a National Executive Council meeting on July 14, 2006.
Sources close to the party say the Central Committee have approved proposals for the holding of the Congress Committee, chaired by Madam Araba- Bentsi- Enchil, First National Vice Chairman. The Congress will focus primarily on the attainment of total Nkrumahist unity.
It is expected that the Congress will endorse the unity pact between the CPP and the People's National Convention and urge the leadership to find ways of bringing such parties as the Great Consolidated Party and the National Reform Party on the board.A separate congress for the election of party officers and a presidential candidate is expected to be held next year.
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I must confess, with less than two weeks to go in the month, I failed my June goal to limit my clothing purchases this month to a dress for BF's sister's wedding. Not only did I exceed the $75 budget that I set for myself (dress=$97 + $18 alterations= $115. $40 over budget!) but I also picked up a pair of sparkly flip flips ($10 at Rite Aid- Bargain!) to wear a the reception when my feet are tired from my kick-butt peep toe pumps! It didn't even dawn on me that I was failing at this goal as I purchased the flip flops- I didn't even think of them as clothes.. but it is what it is…
Speaking of the dress for M's wedding (pictured on the right). It ended up being extremely similar to a black dress I had in my closet (the one on the left). This is just testament that this style of dress really flatters my curvy figure. I think I mentioned that I got a size 6 but needed a 4, I had the dress taken in and it fits great now.
For altering the dress I had two options.
- Option A: The first place I went to wanted to charge me $50+ for the alteration. The dress is lined, and there is a side zipper, so to take a little out of each side and replace the zipper it would be a lot of work.
- Option B: The second place I went to was willing to take it all out of one side (the one without the zipper) , which will cause the sides to be slightly uneven, but would cost less than $20.
I went with Option B and I don't regret it. I think you would be hard pressed to determine which side was taken in. You be the judge.
Back to the original topic of this post… My June Clothing failure. It was 5 days later, when I had just hit the confirm button on Shirt.Woot.com that it hit me, whoops I am buying clothes! I have to say, the $10 tee-shirt purchase was worth it. Who could pass down a visual representation of "turn down the suck, turn up the good"?
Obviously not me :-). I totally beat BF to the punch- he wanted this shirt too, and we have a strict "no matching shirts" policy! Lol… so all in all I went $60 over my clothing budget for the month… not horrible… but I'll be sure to do better next time!


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...nah. It's just the stairs from the lounge door of the man cave. This is another project hubby completed, he is so talented. Anyone want to hire him ;) LOL
I'm thinking of painting the side of the staircase in Monument, which is the same colour as the door. I figure it would look better than the naked pine but I'm not too sure whether Monument would look weird :-/ I'm open to suggestions here.
Here is what the guts of it looked like before he nailed the merbau down. This thing is so damn solid it ain't moving anywhere!!


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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Susan G. Komen walk
their reply was "YAY"
We have walked every year since Paula passed away and every year, the girls are not too thrilled to walk 3.1 miles (Morgan enjoyed it last year!). I think they are getting it!
Just thought I'd share!
These pictures are from the walk in 06 {see how much Faith enjoys this event}. I didn't take many pictures last year and apparently do not have any from 04 or 05. I suppose that means I need to start taking more pictures!
2 comments:
- beckyjomama said...
Poor Faith - could she look any more miserable? I feel for the girls ... or at least I would if she had not been riding the ENTIRE route in a WAGON!!! Just kiddin' Faith - I love you Girlie!
Also, Hattie looks so tiny in that pic!! I was thinking yesterday about how big she is getting and there it is for all to see!!!
I miss ya friend! It looks like I am gonna miss the walk - AGAIN (Dang it!!) because we have to come out for a wedding in November. But I hope to see ya then!
- Laura Blue said...
faith didn't look too excited. lets hope this year is a little better for her. it looks like you have been spending some time with the little girlies lately and having lots of fun. it's nice to see pics of them... they look so big. they are adorable and so lucky to you in their lives. fun times!


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Topshop Showspace #SS15
September 2014
Industrial Warehouse, N1 London
The Brief
With the likes of Cara Delavigne, Jourdan Dun, Alexa Chung & numerous global and British fashion press on the guest list, the star studded Top Shop show space is one of London Fashion Week's most sought after tickets.
So when Top Shop approached us to create a bespoke espresso bar in an incredible industrial King's Cross warehouse, and serve coffee to fashion's elite, we were honored to be involved.
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From the word go we worked seamlessly with the Top Shop team, proposing ways to make the most of our service and take pressure off them. To maximise marketing opportunities, we arranged to wear "Top Shop" boiler suits and served coffee in branded cups.
With the clientele comprising a plethora of VIPs and celebrities, our coffee and service had to be at its very best, without a seconds lapse.
We sourced a fantastic espresso specifically for the show and crewed the bar with three baristas. This way, despite relentless demand for coffee in between shows, we were always ahead of the game.
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An Evening with Alan Eyres and Charlie Parsons
The Documentary Programming Peer Group Executive Committee invites you to a special Peer Group Event
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I am Oren Story of a robot
I went to school and started my day
I have to go to the tower
I got detention and there is where I have to stay
Today this task is going to be dour
I was at the top
I knew that something bad was going to happen
And then rain started to drop
I then heard the thunder clappin'
The lightning started to flash
My 17-year-old body began to thrash.
I ran down to the bottom of the tower
I stood paralyzed in shock
As I was being showered
The world it almost stopped
My heart quaked like as the wind called my name
Oren, Oren, Oren
Over and over and over again
As the thunder clapped
The cord snapped
The tower was falling
And I started calling
I tried to run
but I was to stunned
The last thing I heard was a large thud
I saw blood
I woke up in a hospital room
I saw that I had a robot hand
My entire body was metal
I felt so bad i couldn't even stand
I couldn't settle
There's no way i can live like this
I just sat there shaking my fist
It was hard, hard to live
Because none would give
They thought i would kill them
So i hide myself from them
I hid so none one would scowl,
To stay from everything,even an owl
No one want me around
Or i'll be treated like dog in a pound
I wondered how,
I could go farther than now
With something like this
I don't feel any bliss
I couldn't do anything, with a body of metal
It's hard and cold, i felt unsettled
People laughed, they ran, i wasn't a human
Barley living, i didn't fit in, like a superhuman
My "body" and my mind are always fighting
They disagreed, and don't get me started on writing
Every limb moved on there own, like A.I
I felt corrupted,i felt like i might just die
I had to find someone, someone to help
But how would i do it, i could leave my house
I found a man, a man to help
But he's far, i had to do it myself
All that's in the past
At first i felt like a cast
When i made up the mountain
I was barely sustained
It took months, or did it?
I lost track of time,i didn't know one bit
When i made, it was strange
Same as me, even sililer name
Despite being part man part machine
He move like a marine
I didn't know how
I told him to teach me now
I've learned that i need to accept my new life…
I've learned that nobody will accept my life…
Nobody will accept my choices…
Nore my body…
Oren… the Cyborg
I feel… Better
Not as worried , not as nervous
The children accept me
I accept me, even my family
Oren,Oren the normal boy
Ive gone back to work, gotten my degree
I'm a major in science and technology
My life had turned south... atleast
I thought it did? Now i have friends,
A family, and…


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In the city center of Meizhou, you'll have easy access to Jiaying Bridge. The most famous attractions locally are Meizhou Ye Jianying Memorial. If you're interested in museums and cultural landmarks, it's recommended to visit Fagang Museum, Qiufengjia Exhibition Room, Meixian Jinggong Museum. For those interested in the outdoors, attractions like Fengjia Park, Mingzhu Sports Park, Jiaying Qiaotou Park are excellent options. Upon departure, you can head to popular commercial areas like Overseas Chinese City Commercial Plaza to buy souvenirs or travel accessories.
Average Temperature
• January to March: 17.87°C during the day, 13.43°C at night
• April to June: 27.44°C during the day, 23.39°C at night
• July to September: 31.08°C during the day, 26.58°C at night
• October to December: 22.3°C during the day, 17.1°C at night
Average seasonal Rainfall
• Spring: 100.4 cm
• Summer: 203.67 cm
• Autumn: 161.4 cm
• Winter: 34.87 cm


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Yesterday I visited the brand new Bowtox Boutique Med Spa location in Lakewood Ranch for my cheek filler procedure. I have had cheek filler in Sarasota in the past, but this was my first experience at the office on Lake Osprey drive. It is absolutely beautiful. The waiting room is modern and spotless and the ladies in the office are so sweet and extremely knowledgeable in each of their roles.
You may be wondering what to expect if you've never had injections, so let me give you a little more detail! The injector I worked with yesterday was Aleena Gurskiy, APRN, Nurse Practitioner, and Aesthetic Injector. Aleena is very personable, professional, and she made sure I was at ease and knew what to expect before, during and after the procedure.
Cheek Filler in Sarasota Consult
First, she did a consultation for me by assessing which product to use, where to place it and she made a recommendation for how much I may need. From there she walked me through the procedure, applied the numbing cream to my cheeks and, went to grab the 2 syringes of Restylane Lyft. We decided on one syringe per cheek.
The Procedure
The injection process is fairly quick. Aleena made about 5 to 6 small injections along each cheek, checking multiple times to make sure they were perfectly symmetrical. While the process is slightly uncomfortable, it's nowhere near as painful as lip injections. I would liken the pain level to a pinch that stings for a moment, maybe a 2-3 on the pain level scale.
Before I knew it, we were all done and she cleaned the area and applied Arnica cream to prevent bruising. She gave me an ice pack to help with the swelling and I was good to go! I can't recommend the Bowtox Boutique enough. They are definitely my go-to MedSpa for Cheek Filler in Sarasota.
Check out my awesome before and after! I love the subtle cheek pop that adds a more sculpted look to my face. The aftercare was pretty simple, I was a bit sore yesterday so I took some Aleve and just kept icing my cheeks. Today they are feeling much better. The full swelling will be gone in two weeks!
If you're a Sarasota/Lakewood Ranch local too, I highly recommend giving either of the locations a call for a consult! You can reach the Sarasota location at (941) 360-2869 and the Lakewood Ranch location at (941) 359-2869! Tell them Britt sent you 🙂


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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is due to come into force May 2018, a key component of which is holding businesses accountable for securing personal data.
Therefore, bookkeepers who run payroll and store large amounts of personal data must ensure it is kept secure and GDPR-compliant.
If you're a bookkeeper or use a bookkeeper are you prepared for GDPR?
Running a payroll process involves accessing and storing an individual's personal information, such as information on starters and leavers, changes of address and status as well as normal cyclical information like receiving timesheets, notification of pay rises, bonuses and other increases in pay. So how should bookkeepers dealing with substantial amounts of data prepare for GDPR?


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Instead of buying business homes on your corporations, it is possible to lease office environment place because it is usually a practical solution for your enterprise needs. Though obtaining a seminar room rental Singapore can have a few benefits, it is actually not excellent for each and every enterprise. Within the existing atmosphere, adhering to a massive monetary downturn and recession that engulfed the whole world over the last couple of many years; leasing office room has turned out to get an excellent benefit for just a lot of firms. You can lease business place for many reasons, which incorporates the subsequent listing of rewards:
Save money:
You'll cut costs since you won't be spending on the home finance loan as well as the expenditures that arrive together with owning premises. As a substitute you may utilize the funds which you preserve towards your small business to help make items go along efficiently. In addition, most places of work which can be set up for hire are frequently prepared and well-equipped for occupancy. So, for those who plan to avoid the problem of undergoing the arranging and building phases within your place of work, renting will be the proper strategy to go.
Hassle-Free Maintenance:
It can be much more economical with regards to routine maintenance. You won't must be concerned about any concerns pertaining to the property as individuals will be dealt with the landlord. If one thing breaks or requires to get fixed with your business, an expert servicing company will repair it without charging you as it is really involved inside your regular lease. This facility also includes cleaning or servicing bills, electric powered costs, water bills, mobile phone expenditures and world-wide-web prices. Also, your organization are going to be presented with protection and parking areas. These amenities might be remarkably effective for yourself since it may also help to avoid wasting huge volume of time and funds.
All-Inclusive Amenities:
You'll be able to get state-of-art premises to your business as well as a great deal of facilities. What's more, business office spaces is often personalized to entirely suit your requirements – from size to products and services, small offices to large manufacturing unit place together with other amenities for instance home furniture, electrical devices, telephones, world-wide-web entry and so forth. Leasing also presents meeting, meeting and teaching rooms, a ready or reception area, a kitchen, the cafeteria location and lounge to relax while in the office environment. All these additional facilities can most definitely relieve the complete technique of jogging a business.


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Limerick court hears 'enthusiast' had silencer for shotgun
Newcastle West court was told the man had a valid licence for his shotgun but did not have a licence for a silencer
AN LIMERICK man had a valid licence for his shotgun but did not have a licence for a silencer which he had bought from somebody in Cork, Newcastle West court was told.
Before the court was Michael Murphy, 12 Collins Park, Abbeyfeale, who was fined €250 for possession of a silencer at his address last September 17.
Pleading for his client, solicitor Pat Enright said that gardai searched the address on that date but "that search had nothing to do with Michael Murphy".
""It had to do with a third party living there. Michael Murphy was present when gardai came across the gun-safe and provided the gardai with the key," Mr Enright explained.
The gardai found Mr Murphy's legally held shotgun but it had a silencer attached.
"The silencer had never been used," Mr Enright said.
Inspector Alan Cullen explained that Mr Murphy afterwards began the process of getting a licence for the silencer but took the view it was too much trouble.
"Why would you buy a silencer for a shotgun?" Judge Mary Larkin asked to which Mr Enright replied: "Gun enthusiasts will buy anything going."
For Mr Murphy, it was a hobby, he stressed. And he asked the judge to take into account that this was "enthusiasm" that got carried away.
Judge Larkin imposed a €250 fine.


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If you are a frequent traveller and need to be in touch with your clients and family members on the go, OnePlus brings a handy option for you. The Chinese brand has added OnePlus Roaming feature in the latest update – OxygenOS Open Beta 7. You need not to have a local SIM card, instead go through simple steps (listed below) to enjoy data on your OnePlus handset.
Although OnePlus claims that the OnePlus Roaming will work in "most countries" but availability hasn't been confirmed as of yet, therefore we don't have a list of countries for now. Moreover, the Roaming is limited to data only and you won't be able to make calls.
How to Use OnePlus Roaming
The OnePlus users can access the OnePlus Roaming features by going into Settings -> Wi-Fi & Internet -> OnePlus Roaming. Users will have to buy a package for the region they are in. As mentioned earlier, OnePlus hasn't shared the official list of the countries and regions supporting this handy feature (at least at the time of writing these lines).
If you feel handicapped with making calls, the option of using IM apps like WhatsApp are there to have a remedy for you. The setup is also pretty simple, just buy the package and start using data then and there.
Only for OnePlus 6?
Here comes the real con for the OnePlus Roaming option as the feature is OnePlus 6 specific (as of now) and only available in OxygenOS Beta 7. However, it is said to arrive on the OnePlus 6T in the next few weeks. We still don't know whether OnePlus 3/3T and OnePlus 5/5T will get the feature.
To get OxygenOS beta, users have to flash a separate ROM. Refer to this page for instructions on how to flash the ROM. If you already have a beta ROM flashed on your OnePlus phone, all you need to do is check for a system update from Settings.
Other than OnePlus Roaming, the beta update adds a Video Enhancer that configures colors for an improved viewing experience. There are also other smaller features like app drawer configuration that lets you choose a preferred SIM card for contacts and groups.


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At a New Brooklyn Gallery, The Paperweight is Anything But Obsolete
If there's anyone who knows from paperweights, it's New York gallerists Patrick Parrish and Zoe Fisher. The two began working together when Fisher — who at the time was helming her own fledgling gallery — began working for Parrish at his Tribeca space, which not only sells vintage examples of those sculptural objects but also boasts a well-documented obsession with Carl Aubock (perhaps king of all paperweight-makers). So it makes sense that when Fisher and Parrish finally decided to go into business together, they would choose the paperweight as their first canvas.


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Parking + provides parking equipment (1+1) or (-1 +2)levels from ground. This enables efficient use of space,provides aesthetic appearance.
- Stage Concept Only
- Industry Electronics / Instrumentation
- Location Hyderabad, AP, India
- Currency USD
Company Summary
Parking+ provides multiple car parking equipment for different levels. This provides efficient use of space where more number of cars can be parked instead of conventional single car. Our major concern is focused on residential buildings, Villas and multi-storey buildings. These can also be used at shopping malls which reduces maintenance costs, electricity costs and all costs involving manual labor.
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M.Tech Scholar from IIT-Madras (Transportation Engineering). Road and Traffic Engineering.


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Ricky Miller the favourite as Port Vale look for Tom Pope strike partners
Port Vale coach Lee Nogan has backed Ricky Miller as the club look for support for top scorer Tom Pope.
Pope was a stand alone top-scorer last season and one of the priorities for this season was for a player to share the goalscoring duties. To that end, Louis Dodds, Miller, Idris Kanu, Scott Quigley and Ben Whitfield have all been brought in over the summer months.
Miller made an excellent impression on his home debut with a superb goal from a free-kick but since then he has dropped out of contention for a starting place – probably due to a interrupted pre-season campaign. However, none of the other contenders have stepped up and Miller impressed when coming on as a substitute in the last two games.
Vale's coaching staff are keen to stress that Miller, who has played the majority of his career in the non-league is still learning and coach Lee Nogan told the media: "He can finish, we know that. So, it is just a case of him getting his partnership with Tom Pope, if he gets the chance, learning from Tom and hopefully banging in a few goals.
"When we has come on in the last two games he has looked like how he did in the first game.
"Like any forward, you need confidence and I think he has lacked a little bit of confidence with his performances after the first game.
"He has gone from a real high to being a bit low, but he seems to be back to his normal self and bubbly."
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The main issue regarding Miller would appear to be his ability to last the while ninety minutes if handed a start. Another option for Vale could be loan striker Scott Quigley, who scored for the reserves in midweek, but the Blackpool forward is seen as more of a like-for-like replacement for Pope rather than as a partner.


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It seems every year that I outdo myself. I try to plan an amazing culinary experiences for my beautiful Angel and myself. The first such experience was a poolside dinner at Bartollota, an amazing seafood restaurant at the Wynn in Las Vegas. That was an amazing dinner, the highlight of which was the whole branzino that had been flown in from Italy within the past day. I did not think that I could arrange a better experience. A couple of years later, I arranged for a dinner at Picasso, a restaurant in the Bellagio, another casino in Las Vegas. We had a table right next to the famous dancing fountains, which provided the entertainment as we enjoyed an amazing, multi-course meal. I did not think that I could arrange for an experience that could top that meal. But I did.
Clare asked me to make arrangements for our babymoon, a weekend where we could just enjoy ourselves in advance of the birth of our baby boy. Although little Baby Bolek is not due until April, I have been working on making our little baby a gourmand, by preparing tasty dishes for Clare and by going out for great dinners. I also wanted to have a truly special weekend. So, what did I do? I booked us a weekend at the Inn at Little Washington. And, of course, I made reservations for a meal at the restaurant.
The initial offering from the Chef was a duo of pork belly and a play on chips and dip. The pork belly was served with an apple jelly. The pork belly was cooked perfectly, with a crunchy outside that gave way to tender sweet meat. The play on chips and dip was a homemade potato chip "stuffed" with a chive sour cream and topped with some caviar. It was an interesting play on the traditional chips and dip and, as expected, very delicious.
The next offering from the Chef was a White Bean Soup with Virginia ham. It was served with a shooter and was accompanied by a chive "puff." (Of course, it was not described to us that way.) The soup was amazing. I was particularly taken by the texture of the white bean soup, which was infused with the smokey and sweet taste of the ham.
My First Course: The Lemon-Line Lobster Largesse: Chilled Maine Lobster with Caramelized Endive and Citrus-Sake Gelée. Three words in this dish initially caught my attention ... "Chilled Maine Lobster." Clare and I spent a week last June in Bar Harbor, Maine. During our vacation, we had the opportunity to take a trip aboard a working lobster boat. That experience provided me with a new appreciation of the work that goes into catching lobsters. Six months later, Chef O'Connell provided me with a new appreciation of how one could enjoy that very special ingredient. The lobster was perfectly cooked, with each bite bursting with sweetness. This dish brought back memories of every lobster dish that I enjoyed during my stay in Bar Harbor. As I finished the dish, three other words helped to create new memories ... "citrus-sake gelée." The flavors of the gelée or jelly complemented the lobster perfectly.
Clare's First Course: Beet Trinity: Three Iterations of the Garden's Beet Harvest with Caromont Farm Chevre, Beet Sorbet and Orange Essence. As we sat at our table, Clare admitted, "I don't like beets." This dish, however, completely changed her view of the much-maligned root vegetable. For me, the most interesting aspect of this dish is the beet sorbet. The combination of beet and sorbet is, quite frankly, genius. The pairing of the beet's with the sweetness of a sorbet is probably the best way to win over even the most skeptical of eaters.
My Second Course: A Marriage of Hot and Cold Foie Gras with Sauternes Gelée and Plum Preserves. I do not ordinarily eat foie gras, because I am conscious of the debate behind the practice of gavage, i.e., force feeding the geese and ducks to increase the size of their livers. However, as some chefs have pointed out, the conditions under which these geese and ducks are raised are far better than the conditions of cows, pigs and chickens on farms. (By the way, that is why I do my best to buy meat from sources where the animals are free to roam and are fed properly.) In any event, I do order foie gras on special occasions. I have to say that this particular "marriage" represents probably the best preparation of foie gras that I have ever experienced. The cold foie gras was very delicious. The pairing of the foie gras with the gelée and preserves were very interesting and delicious. The hot foie gras was also very delicious, even decadent. I purposely took my time to eat the hot foie gras, so that I could enjoy the dish for as long as possible.
Clare's Second Course: Aged Gouda Macaroni and Virginia Ham. You know a dish is going to be very good when the first words out of the diner's mouth are, "I don't want to eat it because it looks so beautiful." Indeed, Clare took a good look at this dish; and, why not, it is a culinary work of art. The components -- cheese, macaroni, ham, frisee, chives and every other ingredient -- are perfectly placed and cooked. I could see my wife's dilemma, although it was short lived. She enjoyed every bit of this course.
My Third Course: Curry Dusted Veal Sweetbreads with Gala Apples, Virginia Country Ham and Pappardelle Pasta. This dish shall remain nameless in Clare's presence, because she does not like sweetbreads. Most people do not eat this ingredient. However, like foie gras, I order this dish on special occasions. And, like the marriage of hot and cold foie gras, I have to say that it is the best preparation of veal sweetbreads that I have ever had. I mean the BEST preparation of sweetbreads. The dusting of curry spice on the outside of the sweetbreads provided a nice flavor to the dish and made its way into every bite of the dish. The reason why I say that this is the best preparation of the dish is because it was cooked perfectly. The outside was seared and crisp, while the inside was juicy and full of flavor. One last note, the pairing of the apple puree with the sweetbreads was very good. I would not have thought of apples and sweetbreads going together, but it worked. The apples provided a sweetness, which completed the spice from the curry and emphasized the sweetness of the sweetbreads. As they say, it was -- hands down -- one of the best dishes that I have enjoyed in 2012, and, perhaps, since I started this blog.
Clare's Third Course: Tortelli of Spinach with Virginia Oyster Mushrooms and Bambino Eggplant Puree. Clare continued to choose the artistic dishes. Every component in this dish was perfectly placed. The chefs did such a great job, because this dish catches your attention and holds onto it. Apart from appearance, the tortelli were perfectly shaped and cooked. The spinach filling, paired with the mushrooms and eggplant created a triumvirate of ingredients that worked perfectly together.
My Final Course: Chateau Latour Blanche, Sauternes, France (2006). For those who know me, they know I love my desserts in liquid form. In this case, I chose a very interesting and tasty drink in the form of of a Sauternes. This particular drink had a double personality ... one one hand, there was a bitterness, such as the bitterness from a Granny Smith apple, but, on the other hand, there was a sweetness that comes from the sugar in the grapes. In the end, this may not have been the best pairing for a dessert, but it is definitely a good sipping digestive.
Clare's Final Course: Grandmother's Warm Local Gala Apple Tart with Buttermilk Ice Cream. Clare's choice for the dessert provided the kitchen with an opportunity to express their congratulations and best wishes for the reason why we were dining at the Inn at Little Washington ... Baby Bolek. And, I cannot express how grateful we were for the kitchen's sentiments. We were also very grateful for the opportunity to taste an amazing dessert (this coming from someone who is not very interested in desserts). The tart was perfectly baked. Each bite provided a taste of some perfectly baked pastry, along with the most delicious apples that I have tasted in some time. This dessert was so good that I almost ate the best wishes and congratulations. (I was hoping that it was fond or something else that was edible.) I did not do that because, by the time we finished the tart, I was too full to continue eating.
After having enjoyed one of the best meals of our lives, we had the additional honor of a brief tour of the kitchen at the Little Inn of Washington. As we walked into the kitchen, we were greeted by the chef, Patrick O'Connell. Chef O'Connell welcomed us into the kitchen and thanked us for dining at the Inn. We were then given a brief tour of the kitchen, which was designed by Chef O'Connell. Both Clare and I were particularly impressed with the center island, which includes the American-made Vulcan stoves and refrigerated compartments.
In the end, I have to admit that the weekend was truly a life-changing event when it comes to my cooking and this blog. Chef O'Connell's focus on technique led me to reflect upon how I have approached my own cooking. I realized that I need to pay much more attention to my techniques if I want to become a better cook, let alone a better chef. I hope that I am able to achieve this goal. Only time will tell ...
In the end, I have to admit that the weekend was truly a life-changing event when it comes to my cooking and this blog. Chef O'Connell's focus on technique led me to reflect upon how I have approached my own cooking. I realized that I need to pay much more attention to my techniques if I want to become a better cook, let alone a better chef. I hope that I am able to achieve this goal. Only time will tell ...


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Raise your hand if you have an old phone in your house somewhere. Raise your hand if you have an old tablet in your house somewhere too. Yep, I am totally guilty of this and surprisingly, according to recent EPA estimates, more than 135 million cell phones are trashed each year. Well, we wanted to share an easy way that you can recycle these old phones and tablets & help others in need at the same time. These old devices that are just sitting around the house can be used to change lives! Please tell me I'm not the only one with random phone cords & electronic parts thrown in a basket…
From December 1st to 31st, take your old phone or tablet into a local T-Mobile store to be recycled. (FYI: You don't have to be a current T-Mobile customer to participate.) All tablets and phones are eligible for the program. The brand and age of phone doesn't matter. Also, there is no limit on how many devices you can take in to be recycled. As part of the #GivingTwogether Phone Drive, T-Mobile will DOUBLE your impact by matching the recycled value of your devices and donating it to Feeding America and Team Rubicon. Even old and broken devices are worth roughly $30 on average, and you can see an estimated value of how much your device in good working condition will be recycled for at https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-
On top of that, T-Mobile is pledging a minimum matching donation of $1,000,000 to be split evenly between the two charities. That's 5,000,000 meals for hungry families and enough to deploy 5,000 veterans to serve disaster-impacted communities! Feeding America is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States with a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 partner food pantries and meal programs that collectively provide food to more than 46 million people across the country. Team Rubicon offers veterans a chance to continue their service by uniting their skills and experience with first responders, medical professionals and technology solutions to rapidly deploy emergency response teams to areas affected by natural disasters.
The#GivingTWOgether Phone Drive is another great initiative from T-Mobile after their #GivingTuesday campaign where customers, employees and fans were in charge of giving away up to $1 million to charity. Earlier this year, T-Mobile raised more than $2.78 million for hurricane recovery with the #HR4HR (Home Runs for Hurricane Recovery) initiative. Rather than letting electronics sit in a drawer, here is a chance to make twice the difference. Head to the local T–Mobile store with all old phones & tablets for a chance to be a part of the #GivingTWOgether campaign. For more information on the T–Mobile #GivingTWOgether Phone Drive, visit http://www.t–mobile.com/
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by T-Mobile on behalf of Momtrends Media. All opinions expressed are my own.


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As most businesses do at some point, one of our team threw the question out of whether our branding was still working for us. As we are a forward thinking
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