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Saturday, February 26, 2011
SHE - Get Picky February Sketch Challenge #5
24 comments:
- sweet craf-tea chick said...
very pretty, kirsty! love the glimmer misting! love the colors, papers, and embellies. super cute pix. thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend! *hugs* steph :)
- February 26, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Gosia S. said...
Beautiful scrap. Sweet foto! Hugs!
- February 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Jaime Lee said...
Good take! Beautiful LO and lovely photos too. Have a wonderful weekend!! Hugz.
- February 26, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Ros said...
What a fabulous LO Kirsty!!! I adore this ... and yes the flowers are beautiful ... nearly as beautiful as Dolce
- February 26, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- aussiescrapper said...
Wow, I just love your stunning entry to Get Picky this fortnight, I love the misting, just gorgeous Kirsty. Melx
- February 26, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- Monique said...
What great LO Kirsty.. and your pictures are so sweet :)!!
- February 26, 2011 at 5:52 PM
- Nikki xx said...
Gorgeous layout and gorgeous photos Kirsty! I love those flowers and the misting on the background too. Thanks so much for sharing it with us :)
- February 26, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Colleen B. said...
Love the background paper, the misting and stamping is gorgeous! Such sweet photo's too! Thank you for visiting my blog and your lovely comment.
- February 26, 2011 at 7:34 PM
- Linda B said...
Darling photos on a beautiful layout... and congratulations on your Stylish Blogger Award.
- February 26, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Alice Wertz said...
love the beautiful spritzed background! gorgeous layout, Kirsty! have a wonderful weekend! =)
- February 26, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- glassgraffitix2 said...
Beautiful LO! Sorry I was having alot of trouble with my post and deleted it without publishing your comment (found out the problem) I love your Blog!
- February 26, 2011 at 9:40 PM
- Emily Leiphart said...
This is the sweetest! I love the spritzed background and the adorable photos! You are so inspirational, Kirsty, being so great at making both cards and layouts.
- February 26, 2011 at 9:48 PM
- koralee said...
I so agree..she is as cute as a button. xoxoxo hugs my friend.
- February 26, 2011 at 11:27 PM
- Mona L. Pendleton said...
Beautiful LO Kirsty and such sweet photos :) Love all the pretty flowers and the misted BG!
- February 27, 2011 at 12:39 AM
- Scrap Savvy said...
Such a cute take on the sketch! Those are such precious photos! She is adorable! Thanks for your kind comments!
- February 27, 2011 at 1:35 AM
- Ira said...
She's one girly girl and your LO is beautiful, that glimmer misting adds a nice shine to your background!
- February 27, 2011 at 4:36 AM
- Stella said...
I love your LO and the most beautiful part of this LO are without any doubt the pictures of your daughter :). Love all the embellishments!
- February 27, 2011 at 5:33 AM
- Linda R. said...
Oh My Goodness this page is beautiful.. I just love looking at your LO.. Your photos of the page also look beautiful.. Hope you are enjoying your weekend...
Hugs, Linda
- February 27, 2011 at 6:57 AM
Thank you so much for a lovely comment on my blog, and now I found your blog and saw a beautiful layout...Love it!
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- February 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM
- Lynette said...
Thank you for the bloggy visit and leaving love. I love your take on the sketch...your misting is soooo beautiful.
- February 27, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Craftylicious said...
such a pretty layout Kirsty! and the pic of your daughter's so cute too!! :) lovely take on the sketch!! :)
- February 27, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Lynnda Hosni said...
Such a beautiful layout Kirsty..your daughter is so cute!!...hugs..xoxo
- February 27, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- Ginny said...
Kirsty, this is a beautiful layout. I love your take on that sketch. Your color combination is wonderful as well as the embellishments. Your handmade background is very pretty and I am going to have to try that myself. The pictures of your cute little girl are awesome with this layout.
- February 28, 2011 at 8:09 AM
- Sylvia said...
What a beautiful page, and your photo's are so cute! Love the colors and spring look, Kirsty!
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As per Chinese Traditional Medicine in case you're alert between 9-11 PM, it is a direct result of stress.
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Remaining wakeful in these hours is likely because of stress. On the off chance that this is in fact the issue, attempt to unwind for in any event thirty minutes before going to bed. Attempt contemplation or yoga or simply unwind without considering much everything else keeping in mind the end goal to nod off less demanding.
In case you're wakeful between these hours, you're experiencing some sort of enthusiastic dissatisfaction. As of now, the gallbladder is the most dynamic organ. Keeping in mind the end goal to determine the issue and nod off, endeavor to acknowledge yourself as you are and rehearse some self-mending mantras.
Awakening now of the night is an aftereffect of an excess of outrage. Chinese Traditional Medicine says that this influences the capacity of the liver, and may likewise be identified with overabundance Yang vitality. To determine the issue, endeavor to think or take a glass of water.
Being wakeful between 3-5 AM implies that an extraordinary compel is attempting to speak with you specifically. A few specialists say this includes a bigger reason, and that the relationship is loaded with bitterness. In this way, you ought to ask increasingly and take in some breathing strategies or resting works out.
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If you are submitting an application to close a travel lane, sidewalk, or street, you also need to submit either a site-specific traffic control plan (TCP) or work space diagram (WSD) with your application. Either document needs to be created using our PBOT BaseMap; plans not created using the BaseMap will be rejected, and you will be directed to resubmit your application.
1. A TCP is a site-specific plan that you have created. This plan should show your work zone and all of the proposed traffic control devices. Use the principles in the PBOT Traffic Control Manual to create this TCP.
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Julie Dollery used to juggle a job at IBM while writing fan fiction online. When she was made redundant, the 50-year-old Sanctuary Lakes resident used it as an opportunity to focus on her writing. She tells Charlene Macaulay about completing her first book, and her love of Wyndham.
What's your connection to Wyndham?
We've been here 11 years in November. This was about the third house in this little estate, so we've seen it grow up around us.
We were up in the Dandenong Ranges … and we were leaving the house before six in the morning and not getting home until six at night because of the travelling in and out of town. We started looking at where next, and the choice we came down to was a 10-square apartment in the Docklands, a mini townhouse in somewhere like Yarraville, or we could have a family home here.
We wanted somewhere that was new, and vibrant, and growing, and multicultural. When we moved here there were cows over the back fence – we miss the cows!
What do you like about Wyndham?
The best thing I could say for Point Cook and Wyndham is, as we've seen it grow, we've seen an active effort to build infrastructure along with the community. We've seen schools go in, libraries go in, new shopping centres go in, roads widened. There's been a clear infrastructure improvement.
How have you found being a full-time writer?
When I became redundant from IBM 12 months ago, my husband and I very much made the decision of, if not now, then when?
I'd had an interest in writing for some years and had been writing informally and publishing online for free. We were financially in the situation where we were able to see how it goes. I've been very, very lucky that my husband has been so supportive. We're partners in this; he contributes about as much to the plot as I do. He's the person I bounce ideas off if I'm stuck.
How did you get into writing?
A friend introduced me to fan fiction online – they're original stories written on the basis of existing characters. When I took my redundancy I really started thinking about what it would take to shift from [fan fiction]. It took me about 12 months to write [Fallen for You] online as a serialised version; it's probably taken me about six months to polish it to where I wanted it to be. It is available now on Amazon worldwide, both on kindle and in paperback.
What's your favourite restaurant or cafe?
We love Rendezvous at Sanctuary Lakes, it's a really nice cross between a family restaurant and a decent bar with a nice menu.
If there was something you could change about this area, what would it be?
The train services continue to be overcrowded. You only have to drive past the parking lots at train stations … they are bursting. The demand is there, it's the supply that's lacking.
I know my husband would take the train in if he thought he could get a seat and sit down and read, or work.


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UPDATE: Aiding Islamic Terrorists Is Our Foreign Policy
"They're not allying with Assad and the Brotherhood to beat ISIS. They're fighting ISIS to protect the Brotherhood and their deal with Iran."
That is the trap: When attacked by two packs of rabid wolves, kill all the wolves, do not favor any from either pack.
Its Islam, Stupid!!! Not IS. Not ISIS. Not Ikhwan. Every God damn slave of Satan on the fertile face of the earth: ISLAM!! Islam alone, without adjectives, qualifiers, superscripts or subscipts. Its Islam Stupid! Its composed of Muslims, Stupid!. Its Islam, Stupid, Muslims regardlest of schismatic sect affiliation.
Islam entails terrorism. The practice of Islam is incomplete and imperfect without terrorism. Get a God blessed clue for Chrissake!!!
"Soon we shall cast terror in the hearts of those who disbelieve." Who said that? What does it mean?
"I will cast terror…"; who said that? What does it mean?
"Allah cast terror"; who said that? What does it mean?
"I have been helped by awe"; who said that? What does it mean?
"I have been made victoious with terror…" ; who said that? What does it mean?
"To strike terror"; who said that? What does it mean?
"To terrify thereby"; who said that? What does it mean?
Muslims are commanded to obey Allah and emulate Moe. How can they obey Allah without striking terror and terrifying? How can they emulate Moe without winning through terrorism?
What is a Muslim but a bleiver? The rest are hypocrites, on the verge of apostasy.
8:1. They ask you (O Muhammad ) about the spoils of war. Say: "The spoils are for Allâh and the Messenger." So fear Allâh and adjust all matters of difference among you, and obey Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad ), if you are believers.
8:2. The believers are only those who, when Allâh is mentioned, feel a fear in their hearts and when His Verses (this Qur'ân) are recited unto them, they (i.e. the Verses) increase their Faith; and they put their trust in their Lord (Alone);
8:3. Who perform As-Salât (IqâmatasSalât) and spend out of that We have provided them.
8:4. It is they who are the believers in truth. For them are grades of dignity with their Lord, and Forgiveness and a generous provision (Paradise).
8:5. As your Lord caused you (O Muhammad ) to go out from your home with the truth, and verily, a party among the believers disliked it;
8:6. Disputing with you concerning the truth after it was made manifest, as if they were being driven to death, while they were looking (at it).
What is the meaning of that? Define spend and go out in this context. Make good use of the concordance to research those phrases.
Its Jihad, Stupid! Allah confirms it! Get a clue!
"They fight in Allâh's Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. "
"nor they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy but is written to their credit as a deed of righteousness. "
What steps might they take to injure or enrage us, steps that Allah will add to their good deeds to weigh against their sins on judgment day???
Traitors! Idiots! Morons! ShitHeads one and all: step down, resign, shut up and let this nation and the world be led by men of wisdom, intelligence and integrity who will eradicate Islam from the face of the earth.
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Hello from Spain: I love Tonner Scarlett. The dress looks awesome. Congratulations on this collection so gorgeous. Keep in touch.ReplyDelete
Ola Marta. Thank you for your compliments. This dress is the Tonner Ana Karenina gown. It comes with a wig which I used on another doll. Thank you once again for leaving a comment. Take care and have a nice day. = ) Feel free to drop a line anytime. = )ReplyDelete
OK, I must not have been doing as well as I thought I was, this Winter. This is such a stunning picture. I'm in awe. :o :)ReplyDelete
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Our client, an 81 year old, former joiner at J.H. Fryer Ltd based on Great Northern Road, Derby, has at last recovered the compensation he so rightly deserves for the asbestos related diseases from which he suffers.
He was admitted to Derby Royal Infirmary in January 2003, suffering from severe shortness of breath. He remained a patient for 3 weeks whilst he underwent various tests, which, worryingly, included tests to see if he had developed lung cancer or mesothelioma. He was ultimately diagnosed with pleural plaques and asbestosis in April 2003.
Our client had been employed by J. H. Fryer from 1962 to 1983 and was exposed to substantial quantities of asbestos dust and fibres when cutting asbestolux sheets to size, to make fire doors and panels which went below window frames being fitted into schools. He described being exposed to clouds of asbestos dust in the workshop on a regular basis, and would return home in the evenings, covered in dust from top to toe.
J H Fryer was no longer trading and extensive enquiries had to be made to identify the relevant employer liability insurers for the period of our client's exposure to asbestos.
Despite several searches via the Association of British Insurers in 2003, 2004 and 2005, no insurance company came forward to confirm that they had insured J H Fryer at the time of the exposure. Eventually, after a convoluted search, we managed to trace the insurer and a legal action was commenced shortly after.
J H Fryer's insurers did not accept that the company had been negligent or in breach of its duty when it exposed our client to asbestos and argued that if he had developed pleural plaques and asbestosis it was caused by alleged exposure to asbestos in other jobs.
Expert evidence from an occupational health and safety consultant proved that our client did not sustain any other exposure to asbestos and medical expert evidence confirmed he had developed pleural plaques and asbestosis as a result of his exposure whilst working for J. H. Fryer Ltd.
The case settled for a five figure sum, two days before trial.
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We have had a great response to the First Aid for Pets talk that our vets are presenting on Wednesday 2nd May at 7pm.
This free client talk is covering the following topics and more:
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Light refreshments will be provided.
We are almost up to our maximum capacity.
If you are interested and haven't already booked your place, please give us a call on: 01869 252077
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We will repeat the talk at a later date if we have a number of people that we are unable to accommodate this time.
Gorgeous Luna visits Bicester Vets
The gorgeous Luna came to see us for her second vaccination today
We would like you all to meet a very special little puppy
This is Bailey, a now three and half month old Cockapoo puppy
Jellybean and Geoff visit Bicester Vets
Aren't they amazing! They are both Continental Giants weighing in at 7kg and 9kg!


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Cherry Blossoms, a photo by Calsidyrose on Flickr.
Back again from warmer climates where they are enjoying their cherry blossoms. It reminded me of the pickled cherry blossoms my Japanese friend brought for me to taste. It was a fun way to enjoy this timeless icon of spring.
It is still a bit early for cherry blossoms to be blooming here in northern California but they aren't too far behind. This week the pear tree blossoms popped- always the official start of the riotous flowers of spring. It made me excited to think of all the edible flowers available to adorn your favorite dishes. In the Chinese materia medica we use many flowers as herbal medicine but this list today is just for fun.
(Just remember- don't eat any flowers that have been sprayed with anything undesirable including chemicals or animal "by-products".)
A good list includes:
Calendula flowers
Dianthus (aka Sweet William)
When in doubt, keep it out (of your mouth that is!) Always consult with an expert in your area.
And if you are still in the throes of winter where you are, never fear spring is near.


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|Exception Handling for Conflict Resolution in Cross-Organizational Workflows
|Publication Type
|Journal Article
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|Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth, Krzysztof Kochut, Z. Luo
Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are being increasingly deployed to deliver ebusiness transactions across organizational boundaries. To ensure a high service quality in such transactions, exception-handling schemes for conflict resolution are needed. The conflicts primarily arise due to failure of a task in workflow execution because of underlying application, or controlling WfMS component failures or insufficient user input. So far, little progress has been reported in addressing conflict resolution in cross-organizational business processes, though its importance has been recognized. In this paper, we identify the exception handling techniques that support conflict resolution in crossorganizational settings. In particular, we propose a novel, 'bundled' exception-handling approach, which supports (1) exception knowledge sharing - sharing exception specifications and handling experiences, (2) coordinated exception handling, and (3) intelligent problem solving - using case based reasoning to reuse exception handing experiences. A prototype of this exception handling mechanism is developed and integrated as a part of the METEOR Workflow Management System. An evaluation of our approach is also presented through some sample workflow applications.
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Zongwei Luo,Amit Sheth, Krys Kochut, and Budak Arpinar, Exception Handling for Conflict Resolution in Cross-Organizational Workflows,technical report, LDIS Lab, Computer Science, University of Georgia, April 10, 2002.
related resource url: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=2T3...


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A few months ago I was asked in an interview which rappers to watch and two of my three answers came from the Blah camp. One of the names I put forward was Bisk, the Swamp Harbour MC who has been steadily releasing solid projects since February this year, when his debut EP dropped. Raw Shit was the name of the release, a perfect title to sum up Bisk's style. Since then he has released a project with Morriarchi called the freemorphine EP, as well as the Figaro3000 EP and now this new album, Don't Piss it Off.
The album is produced entirely by Formz, with his beats providing the perfect stage for Bisk to set up his gritty scenes.
There are stripped down tracks like the opening joint Slippin, with Bisk's lazy drawl seeming to totally fuse with the beat. There are more rugged ones too, like the title track with its big drums and eerie horns, and Big City with the cult leader Lee Scott making an appearance amid dusty breaks and tight drums, with some smooth vocal assistance from Lyza (another one to watch).
There are more features from his label mates, as Salar, Danny Lover and Sleazy all jump on Cult De Sag. Plus Sheffield's finest, Sniff is on hand for Beazy, the album's answer to an anti-love song. That's one of my highlights, as well as the next track Still, with its menacing production, punctuated with glitchy sounds. The whole project is a plus point really. Bisk and Formz seem to have found symmetry in their creativity and that only adds to the strength of the album. Be good to hear how their sound evolves if they keep working together.
You can download Don't Piss It Off from the Blah Bandcamp.


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From the AP and MPR: "Activists and family members of a black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police marched through downtown, blocking trains during the evening rush hour as they chanted some of Thurman Blevins' last words: 'Please don't shoot me! Leave me alone!' Hundreds of people gathered for the protest which started at the Hennepin County Government Center Tuesday evening. They held signs calling for justice for Blevins, who was shot June 23 by Minneapolis officers after they chased him into an alley in north Minneapolis. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman declined Monday to charge the officers involved in the incident — Officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly."
Related: Journalist Tony Webster reports, "On Monday, as it was announced that no charges would be filed against the officers, the [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] published over 2,000 pages of documents relating to their investigation, audio recordings of interviews, and dozens of body camera videos. But the BCA also published copies of the forensic analysis of the three cell phones, in full, and without any apparent redactions. The forensic snapshots included all of the content on the devices, such as photographs and videos stored on the phones, text and chat history, call logs, contact lists, web browser history, and the contents of internal databases used by the devices to connect to various online services."
Also: MPR's story on Webster's discovery noted, "Webster found the forensic analysis of the three phones amid over 2,000 pages of documents, audio recordings and videos used in the BCA's probe. … He didn't publish the sensitive data, and he waited to publish his report until the state took down the information. 'It took them 18 hours to take the data down,' Webster told MPR News."
DFL vs. Painter. In the Strib, Judy Keen says, "Leaders of Minnesota's DFL Party are in a heated feud with U.S. Senate candidate Richard Painter, a former Republican and ethics lawyer in President George W. Bush's White House who is challenging Sen. Tina Smith in the upcoming DFL primary. Party Chair Ken Martin called Painter 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' who refuses to say he is a Democrat. … Painter said that he 'won't swear allegiance to a party' but would caucus with Senate Democrats if he's elected and would vote for Smith if she beats him in the Aug. 14 primary. The DFL, he said in an interview, is 'applying a litmus test instead of talking about issues.'"
Vin. A familiar name surfaces in the New York Times : "Robert Mueller, the special counsel, has referred three investigations into possible illicit foreign lobbying by Washington insiders to federal prosecutors in New York who are already handling the case against President Donald Trump's former lawyer, according to multiple people familiar with the cases. … The cases involve Gregory B. Craig, who served as the White House counsel under President Barack Obama before leaving to work for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; former Representative Vin Weber, Republican of Minnesota, who joined Mercury Public Affairs, a lobbying firm, after leaving Congress; and Tony Podesta, a high-powered Washington lobbyist whose brother, John D. Podesta, was the chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. The three men have not been charged with any crimes … ."
Not on a stick. At City Pages Jay Boller says, "When it comes to joys of Minnesota summers, knocking back cold ones at the Minnesota State Fair ranks pretty damn high. On Tuesday morning, the fair unveiled 27 new, exciting, and eyebrow-raising ways to experience the Great Minnesota Glug-Together. The newbies range from wacky (Lakefront Brewery's Funnel Cake Cream Ale) to fancy (Eastlake Craft Brewery's Kirby Pucker #34, fermented with lactobacillus) to created by former Twins closer Glen Perkins (Surly's Kloser IPA)."
Sorta related. Tim Nelson at MPR reports, "A change in Minnesota law will ban people who have a DWI from taking to the state's trails and waterways on boats, snowmobiles and ATVs while their driving privileges are suspended. That hasn't been the case, as authorities found earlier this year. Alan Geisenkoetter, an 8-year-old Wyoming, Minn., boy was killed when a snowmobile driven by 45-year-old Eric Coleman hit Geisenkoetter and his family's ice fishing shelter in January. Coleman had two previous DWI convictions and was facing another charge. But state law didn't prevent him from driving motorized recreational vehicles like snowmobiles, ATVs and boats."
Speaking of the Fair, Tim Harlow and Janet Moore report, "Metro Transit officials facing a worsening driver shortage abruptly cut bus service Tuesday in a move to stabilize service across the Twin Cities — for now. By canceling 67 trips across 40 routes for the foreseeable future — about 1 percent of the agency's daily operations — Metro Transit can staff the rest of its other runs and dramatically reduce the number of missed trips, said spokesman Howie Padilla. … Metro Transit said no additional cuts to regular service are planned, but the shortage will affect service for the State Fair."


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The Select Board needs your help moving Cornwall toward a decision on what to do with the Lavalley building next to Cornwall Town Hall. Your feedback will shape the article on which you will be asked to vote at Town Meeting on March 5, 2012.
What do you think the Town of Cornwall should do with the Lavalley building?
(Note: Given the failure of prior efforts to raise private or other funding, estimated costs below are assumed to be taxpayer dollars.)
- It's time to put the Lavalley building to rest. Dismantle the structure, sell salvageable components and recycle the remainder. ESTIMATED COST: $15,000 – $25,000
- The Lavalley building is worth saving but not with taxpayer money. Sell/auction the building for whatever amount we can get with the condition that it be removed from the property within six months. ESTIMATED COST: $5,000 – $10,000
- The Lavalley building is part of Cornwall's history and the salvageable portion(s) should be moved to other Town-owned property. ESTIMATED COST: $16,000 – $20,000
- The Lavalley building is a significant part of Cornwall's cultural history and town center. It should be restored to useful service. ESTIMATED COST: $450,000 – $500,000
Please email your response (with further comment if desired) to Sue by December 31 so we can study your responses prior to preparing the warning (in January) for town meeting, which will be held on March 5, 2012.


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£9,495 | Audi A1 2.0 TDI Black Edition 3drgreat condition ,mot'd to 6/20
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one owner , Black, 2 owners, £9,495
This car comes with
18in x 7.5J 5 - Arm Rotor Design Alloy Wheels in Titanium Finish with 225/35 R18 Tyres and Locking Wheel Bolts, Automatic Start - Stop Function, Concert Radio/Single CD Player with MP3 File Compatibility, SD Memory Card Reader, AUX - IN Socket and 6.5in Display Screen - Manually Retractable, DAB Digital Radio Reception, Driver Information System-3.5in Monoch. Display, Electric Front Windows, Mobile Telephone Prep. Bluetooth Interface, Privacy Glass, Privacy Glass, Thatcham Category 1 Alarm, Upholstery - Black Sprint Cloth/Leather, Voice Control of Key Telephone and Radio Functions
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|CO2 emissions
|108 g/km
|Insurance group
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (miles)
|No details available
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (years)
|2 years
|Standard paintwork guarantee
|3 years
Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|56.5 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|78.5 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|68.9 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
|8.2 seconds
|Top speed
|135 mph
|Engine power
|140 bhp
|Engine torque
|236.03 lbs/ft
|1416 mm
|Height inclusive of roof rails
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|3954 mm
|2469 mm
|1906 mm
|Width including mirrors
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|Fuel tank capacity
|45 litres
|Minimum kerb weight
|1190 kg
|Interior features
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|3-Spoke Leather Sports Multi-Fun. Steering Wheel
|18in x 7.5J 5 - Arm Rotor Design Alloy Wheels in Titanium Finish with 225/35 R18 Tyres and Locking Wheel Bolts
|Air Vent Sleeves High Gloss Black
|Automatic Start - Stop Function
|Audi Sound System
|Body Coloured Bumpers
|Black Styling Package
|Electrically - Operated and Heated Door Mirrors
|Cloth Headlining Black
|Heated Windscreen Washer Nozzles
|Concert Radio/Single CD Player with MP3 File Compatibility, SD Memory Card Reader, AUX - IN Socket and 6.5in Display Screen - Manually Retractable
|S Line Roof Spoiler
|Driver Information System-3.5in Monoch. Display
|Driver and Front Passenger Seats with Manual Height, Forwards and Backwards Adjustment
|Electric Front Windows
|Electronic Climate Control 1
|Front Sports Seats
|Heated Rear Windscreen
|LED Interior Light Package
|Leather Handbrake Grip and Sports Gear Knob with Aluminium Trim
|Light and Rain Sensor
|Manually Adjustable Lumbar Support for Front Seats
|Mobile Telephone Prep. Bluetooth Interface
|Privacy Glass
|Split Folding Rear Seats
|Steering Wheel Adjustable for Height and Reach
|Upholstery - Black Sprint Cloth/Leather
|Voice Control of Key Telephone and Radio Functions
|Xenon Plus Headlights
|Anti Lock Brake System (ABS)
|Drivers Airbag
|Electronic Brake - Force Distribution (EBD)
|Electronic Differential Lock (EDL)
|Electronic Stability Programme (ESP)
|Front Fog Lights
|Front Passengers Airbag with De - Activation Switch
|Front Side and Head Airbag System
|Front and Rear Adjustable Head Restraints
|ISOFIX Child Seat Preparation for Front Passenger and Rear Seats
|Power - Assisted Steering
|Remote Central Locking with Two Foldaway Keys
|Thatcham Category 1 Alarm
|Third Brake Light
|Traction Control (ASR)
|Tyre Repair Kit
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The trouble with keeping a blog is that you sometimes have to feed it, and pet food costs money, and money is time, and time is scarce if you don't want to neglect your other time-wasting activities, like working on your novel, which is still a joke but not as much a joke as it was, say, six months ago.
Still, here it is, the little blog, whimpering in the corner with its feed-me eyes and tent-pole ribs. Wasn't pet ownership supposed to be a sunny afternoon pleasure rather than a pulsar of everyday guilt? But indulgence dresses itself up as obligation in the end.
There are upsides to malnourishment. Studies show that rats raised on near-starvation diets will ripen into veritable Methuselahs compared to those plumped up on sugarwater and fatty meats. Even if the little blog isn't, thanks to the Spartan rations, as round and cuddly as it might be, at least it isn't completely debauched.
Anyway, I'm still here. Stick around long enough and you just might get a Scooby Snack.


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Phone: 801-476-0052
Injection hours: 7 AM until 6 PM Monday through Thursday
Office hours: 8 AM until 5:30 PM Monday through Thursday
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Phone: 801-553-1900
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Mon: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Last shot at 5:00 (office closes at 5:00)
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Wed: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Last shot at 5:00 (office closes at 5:00)
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Although the office will close at the same time the last injection is given, there will always be personnel in the office for injection patients to wait the full (required) 30 minutes.
If you are unable make it into the office for your injection during the hours listed above, please call and speak with the receptionist at 801-553-1900. We will do our best to accommodate you!
Also new for this winter, if the weather is bad and you plan on getting an injection on a Tuesday or Thursday evening, please call before you come as we may close early due to safety concerns. We love our patients and employees and do not want anyone out in treacherous conditions when it's not an emergency.


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The Lake Forest College men's soccer team was defeated 4-0 by the University of St. Thomas, the sixth-ranked team in the nation, at home Saturday morning.
The Foresters held the Tommies without a shot for the game's first 28 minutes but had just one of their own during that span. The visitors' first attempt was successful at 28:16 and they fired off nine more shots in final 10 minutes of the half.
St. Thomas doubled its lead at the 58:41 mark and added another score just 48 seconds later. The final goal of the contest was scored in the 63rd minute.
Lake Forest was out-shot 8-3 in the final 45 minutes.
The Foresters are now 3-1-0 this season while St. Thomas improved to 3-0-0.
Lake Forest will be back in action against visiting Benedictine University Sunday afternoon at 1:00.


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A fit and flare style made of a rich and delicate lace. This dress has a V neckline that follows in the back with a V opening. It also an illusion of long sleeves made of lace.
Delivery4 to 6 months
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ColorsWhite or Ivory
Sizes2 to 30
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Jessica Curry is a trailblazing composer whose BAFTA Award-winning pastoral score to the videogame Everybody's Gone to the Rapture in 2015 has cemented her growing reputation in the games world.
Alongside her work as games score creator and co-founder of the internationally renowned indie games company The Chinese Room, she's also a lauded contemporary classical composer.
She loves writing for unusual spaces, and her work has been performed in diverse venues such as The Old Vic Tunnels, Sydney Opera House, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Wellcome Trust, MOMI New York, The Royal Opera House and Durham Cathedral.
For our Sound Chip Symphonies feature in the latest issue of M magazine, we chat to Jessica about her experiences in gaming – an industry with a female workforce of just 19 percent.
She candidly explains that outside the safe harbour of The Chinese Room, which promotes equal opportunities and decent working conditions for all, she's received a mixed reception as a female composer and company founder…
How did you first get into composing for videogames?
It's pretty much the opposite of what I thought I'd end up doing as a composer, actually. My lovely husband, Dan Pinchbeck, was doing his PhD in first person shooters, which I think is the best doctorate ever.
He wanted to explore what happened in a game if you took out all the gameplay and rather than write about it, he decided to make a little experimental game and that became our first game, Dear Esther.
We'd never made a game before, we weren't part of the games industry. He was an academic in general, interactive computer entertainment and this game just became a massive overnight success. All of a sudden we were running a games company overnight. It was bizarre and totally unexpected.
So that's how The Chinese Room started?
Yes! Very quickly afterwards, we got asked to make another game for another company. It was a sequel to Amnesia, and then straight after that came an offer from Sony.
So it's been a whirlwind four years. As a composer, obviously, I was the natural person for Dan to ask to write the music for Dear Esther and it just snowballed from there. I actually found that I really, really enjoyed it. I wasn't a gamer at all. I had no interest or knowledge about the games industry, much to the shock of some of the other people in the industry, who I sometimes feel I haven't earned my stripes, in a way.
But I've done a lot of other things that led to this point. I've done opera and films and installations, concert work, so I feel like I earned my chops but just not within the field of games.
How did you get your brain around the non-linear nature of games music?
Well, for Dear Esther, I literally wrote a film soundtrack that we put into a game. I have no idea about interactivity, how that worked, I just didn't have any frame of reference or knowledge. At the time there wasn't any pressure because it was Dan's experiment.
During Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the second game I worked on, I started my journey into interactivity. I remember thinking, 'how does this all work?' They were my baby steps. Rapture was the first time I would say that I wrote a truly interactive score for a game, rather than my music shoehorned into a game.
On a compositional level, how does that actually work?
It's really complicated, actually. In Rapture, there are four different types of music functioning throughout it.
There's what we called 'unique cues', which work as film cues essentially. No matter how many times you play the game, that piece of music would play under that specific dialogue.
Then we had travelling music, so as you walk around this beautiful world, different music is triggered each time and that music can be broken down. So you could have the full cue, which would be orchestral, or you could just have the piano version of it or harp and strings or voice and piano.
And then there's the procedural music, which is where it gets really exciting for me because I don't get out very much (laughter). This is completely different for each player. So the music is being mixed and processed real-time as the player progresses through the game.
That's something that you can only do in games. It was very structured, so I knew which chords and notes the game should take from from, but it mixes it completely different every time.
Then there was character music – and I think this is why Rapture got so much attention. Each main character has their own musical theme and each of those themes has lyrics that tells the story of that character. I think everything just coalesced to make a really lovely audio experience for the player. I spent three years writing the music, so it was a total labour of love.
Did that world feel natural to you?
Yes, I mean, on a creative level, my husband Dan and I had worked together on lots of different projects for many years. So that felt incredibly comfortable, creatively.
The industry itself, I mean, I'm pretty famous for being very outspoken about the trials and tribulations that we went through with development and I'm fairly critical of the industry as a whole.
It is a brutal place to be, not just for women, although that's pretty tough. I get death and rape threats constantly for being a woman just daring to work in the industry, which I find shocking and very dismaying.
But just generally working conditions, short contracts, the hours expected, crunch, all of these things I think make it an industry with a lot of problems.
Is it changing at all?
Well, we hire very proactively at The Chinese Room. We're just coming up on gender balance within the company, which is almost unheard of within most games companies. The games companies that do have women often hire them in what they call 'softer skills' areas, although they're very important, like producing, writing.
But we have programmers, we have environment artists, we have women working at very, very high technical levels of achievement and that's something we're very passionate about.
So I think there are companies like ours that are trying to change things. I think institutionally, those big publishers still hold the powers. That's also shifting.
What should be done about the industry barriers?
Well, I'm in my mid-40s now. I see the generation of women under me and they're actually really fearless. They aren't interested in pleasing men and being liked and nice and popular. Sometimes I think I've tried so hard not to annoy anybody throughout my career and be the nice woman so no one can have a problem and no one can say, 'women are really difficult to work with'.
Actually this new generation of women are just forging ahead and are not aggressive and they haven't got a problem, but they're just going, 'we have ownership of this place', they're not scared to be part of it.
I'm about to speak at the European Women in Games conference and I think spaces like that where women can meet and network are extremely important.
I've spoken a lot about the fact that I think the industry needs a union. I'm very unpopular basically within the industry (laughter) I'm either loved or hated on the whole, which I've made my peace with. It's been difficult. But it's interesting, I haven't been offered any work since Rapture – because I'm so outspoken about the industry.
What's on the horizon?
Well, it's been an amazing year actually because after the annus horribilis of last year, I thought I just don't want anything to do with the industry.
So I collaborated with the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and wrote a really huge suite of music for Durham Cathedral which premiered this summer.
I've been commissioned to write lots of short choral pieces, too. I'm not doing the day to day running of the The Chinese Room now but they're working on three new projects and I'm going to write the music for all three. I'm really busy on those. So I feel like I've got one foot in and one foot out of the industry really.
Does that suit you?
Yes. It's still a place that I don't feel particularly safe in, in terms of the online abuse that you receive just because of your gender. I find disgusting and very frightening at times.


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If you have a bike and wish to have it registered, please come to one of these two registrations dates and areas.
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Rwanda 1994. An estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days of terror. That's about 8,000 people a day – about 266 9/11 events side by side. Imagine that. Despite the fact that Kofi Annan appologized to the Rwandian survivors for the inaction by the UN. It was not really the fault of the UN at all.. you see, the UN is not a military force. The UN is a community of nations and it's up to these member nations to decide if they are going to commit their troops or not. In 1994 the UN desperatly asked these member nations to commit and none of them were willing to do so. So who's fault is it really? This is proof that resolutions and discussions can only go so far.. At some point your going to need muscle.
Anyway, good news.. A few forces are being developed to prevent such genocides from happening again.
In March of this year, the African Union agreed to set up a force of 15,000 troops, to be ready in 2005, to intervene to prevent genocide or end armed conflicts.
The European Union is also working on a similar idea, coalescing around a UK-French-German plan for a rapid reaction force to move quickly into conflict zones to fill the gap until UN peacekeepers can arrive.


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Harry Potter Coding Club @ Flushing Area
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Explore the world of Harry Potter like never before. Using a tablet and your own wand, learn how to use computer coding to cast spells. No coding experience or knowledge necessary. (Children and Teens)
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"To develop a more politicized violence against women movement, a movement that fights for women of color, requires us to reinvigorate grassroots organizing that can augment the crisis intervention and service models that we are currently deploying. We need this movement because our culture is one that accepts violence against women as inevitable. It is… the ordinariness of it that …needs to be challenged, and can be challenged only by organizing."
This talk was given on April 28, 2000 at a Plenary Panel at the first Color of Violence Conference. The Panel followed a keynote by Angela Davis. The conference was held at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Copyright 2000 Urvashi Vaid
Let's put on the table first some of the realities facing lesbians, bisexual women and transgender women of color, and some of the challenges that we face inside both the GLBT movement and the violence against women movement, as we undertake work on homophobia, and racism, and sexism and class, in all its complexities. Second, I want to raise some of the practical difficulties in broadening the violence against movement to adopt an intersectional politic, and third, I want to talk about the importance of grassroots political organizing in any effort to challenge violence against women of color.
There are indeed data to be found about lesbians, bi, trans women of color. But they are sparse, they are incomplete, and what we know is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a tremendous need for more research and more gathering of information on us. All data about lesbian, bisexual, transgender women are likely to seriously underreport our problems, not only because the service agencies that collect these data are not necessarily plugged into networks of lesbians and of women of color and communities of color, but also, because of the lack of the research that's been done on lesbians of color. One of the reasons for the lack of research is because of the reluctance on the part of many lesbians to access service agencies, to access police and other interventions, a hesitation rooted in years of bad experiences and low expectations among other things. But the information that does exist reveals several truths. There is indeed a continuum of violence in the lives of lesbian, bi and trans women of color. I want to talk to you about three kinds of data, data on our lifetime experiences of violence in the lives of lesbians of color, data on same gender domestic violence among women, and data on hate or bias motivated violence against women, and what they tell us.
Surveys of samples of lesbians that have gathered information about women of color reveal high incidences of lifetime experiences of violence in our lives from childhood to old age directed against us by a wide range of different kinds of people and institutions with which we interact. The 1991 Michigan Lesbian Health Survey of 1,681 women revealed that 43% had experienced sexual assault. Twenty five percent had no health care providers; 12.3% had no insurance.
A 1993 survey of 483 lesbians and bisexual women in San Francisco, of whom 11% were African-American women, 11% Latina, 9% API, reported that 40% of them all had experienced childhood sexual abuse.
Data on the experience of violence in the lives of lesbian, bisexual, transgendered youth, gathered by youth service agencies, are also quite stark. They demonstrate widespread evidence of family violence, and we know the high incidence of suicide attempts, and self inflicted violence. In addition, significant data exists on the incidence of violence and harassment against people who are perceived to be GLBT in schools and high schools. From Massachusetts to the State of Washington there are reports that document that playgrounds, elementary school yards, high school playgrounds are just as hostile places as they were when I was growing up.
What is interesting about this information is the use that the anti-GLBT right wing, especially the part found in the so-called ex-Gay movement, has made of these data. One of the things the right argues is that the high lifetime experiences of violence in the lives of lesbian and bisexual women result in our being lesbians; in other words, that violence has helped produce us as lesbians. Therapy and prayer can change us to not be afraid of men, and to accept our true heterosexuality. You know what's curious about this? The GLBT movement has no counter-narrative. We don't have a theory about what the high levels of violence in the lives of lesbians and bisexual and transgender women mean to us and in our lives. And you know why we don't have a theory? Because the mainstream of the GLBT movement today is not feminist.
In the 1998 report on GLBT domestic violence that was produced by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, about 30 agencies that participated in producing this report documented 2,574 cases of domestic violence involving same gender, same sex couples. 2,500 cases were reported by about 30 agencies. Forty-eight percent of these cases involved women. Three percent involved male to female transgender women and one percent involved female to male transgendered. Overall, 52% of the reported cases of same gender violence against lesbians involved white women, 23% involved Latina, 14% African American, 4% API and less than one percent Native American.
Perhaps most alarming to me was a statistic buried in the report. The New York City GLBT Anti-Violence Project found that 80% of those who reported same sex domestic violence to them reported a history of prior incidence of violence. Violence is not isolated; it is a pattern. It is societally pervasive, and it is in our relationships. And the problem of same gender sexual assault, as many of you know, still remains deeply closeted and under-addressed. Stories tell us this problem is out there, but deep shame and lack of acknowledgment render it invisible.
The final kind of data that I want to put on the table is about hate violence, or violence motivated by bias or prejudice. As recently as 1982 there was very little information, and the problem of anti- GLBT hate crimes was seen as a problem arising out of a victim's behavior, and not from bias of the perpetrator or from social conditions. Indeed, while we've changed some of this perception, the response to Matthew Shepard's death a couple of years ago revealed that victims are still blamed for somehow bringing these attacks on themselves.
The 1999 report on anti-lesbian, gay, transgendered, and bisexual violence, also produced by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), reveals very high incidences of bias crimes. Overall in this country, crimes motivated by prejudice, based on a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation, constitutes the third largest category of hate crimes. And that's according to the FBI statistics, which are drastically low in undercounting a lot of these incidences. What we're talking about with all these statistics are stories that you know well. They're stories of real life women experiencing everything from assault to murder, to robbery, to intimidation, verbal harassment, and physical violence because they are perceived to be, suspected of being, or known to be lesbians, bisexual or transgender women.
So let us reflect for a moment on the GLBT anti-violence movement, and the way that we work on violence. Clearly, the advocates within the GLBT anti-violence movement have, like the women's movement, over relied on strategies that involved law enforcement, police intervention and judicial avenues. And we have a very under-whelming set of options that we've proposed that have to do with education or prevention strategies. Really it has been women and men of color in the queer movement who have challenged the movements uncritical call for increased criminalization as its chief remedy for dealing with hate crimes. And the truth is, that our movement has very answers to the problem of violence beyond remedies that rely on courts. It is clear to me that because homophobia and heterosexism are so entrenched in the cultural systems that we encounter, in addition to legislative and legal remedies, we have got to turn our attention to religion, schools and workplaces as sites for organizing, education and intervention. I don't know exactly what those projects and programs would look like. But the broadening of our work to get to the roots of the problem has to go beyond penalties and Hate Crimes Bills, but has to get into the production of violence in family, in religion, and its nurturance in schools that tolerate violent behavior and hate.
Another problem in the queer movement is that the mainstream of the queer movement operates as if there is a universal lesbian, bisexual or transgendered female experience. The anti-violence agenda in our movement is not defined in very specific reference to the varied experience of violence that women and men of color have, that GLBT immigrants have, that prisoners who are queer might have, or poor people might have. We do not explore the intersectional forms of violence that we face in religious institutions, in the media, etc. The anti-violence movement really doesn't think of itself as having to challenge all the forms of violence we face. We concentrate on addressing violence primarily through providing services rather than through political or neighborhood level mobilization. I hope we can change these tendencies.
A positive development within the GLBT movement that I want to share with you is the development of a left-wing through progressive, multi-racial groups such as the Audre Lorde Project, among others. Part of the reason we have that progressive wing is because of several decades of leadership by progressive lesbians of color such as Barbara Smith, Carmen Vasquez, Deborah Johnson, and many others. The GLBT movement is not a reactionary monolith; there are real institutions, individuals, grassroots organizations, and networks that are really there waiting to be connected into a strong progressive front.
So what does challenging violence against women require? I think it requires the need to overcome homophobia and heterosexism in the women's movement. It requires political organizing to complement the service work that we have so brilliantly created. We can do it in a complementary manner. And any movement needs to deal with women's multiple identities, our racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual, gender, age, economic classes. To do so is difficult. To add an analysis of homophobia and heterosexism to the work of violence against women does make an already difficult task a little bit harder. But it is clearly critical for violence against women organizations to examine how our programs and services affect and impact lesbians, bisexual women and transgender women of color. Unfortunately, the mainstream domestic violence movement's response to same gender violence is still very uneven. Programs serving lesbians in battering situations are still not institutionalized everywhere that services are provided. We can change this.
In getting ready for this talk I talked to friends, primarily dykes, who work in the anti-violence movement, and I was shocked to find that they said that the anti-violence movement was not a friendly place to be out as a lesbian. Why is it that a movement that has been built and strengthened and sustained by leadership of lesbian and bisexual women, many of whom are lesbians of color, perceived to be an unfriendly place for us to be out? I think we need to ask ourselves questions like, why are lesbians who are not in the closet in most part of our lives feeling constrained to be out in their work in the women's movement? Why is that? Why are lesbians deprioritizing our own lives, needs and perspectives?
To develop a more politicized violence against women movement, a movement that fights for women of color, requires us to reinvigorate grassroots organizing that can augment the crisis intervention and service models that we are currently deploying. We need this movement because our culture is one that accepts violence against women as inevitable. It's the kind of tolerance and accommodation to violence, the ordinariness of it that I think needs to be challenged, and can be challenged only by organizing. We need real gutsy advocacy to challenge and nail politicians and religious leaders and schools and colleges, in shopping malls and every other goddamn institution that isn't doing anything about violence against women.
The goal of organizing in part is to educate and raise visibility, in order to change public opinion. I think we ought to think about reviving media zaps, boycotts, or direct actions against sexist corporations. I think we have to think about creating directing action groups like Act Up, that are focused around violence against women, and violence against women of color. I think we have to systematically target, harass, badger, motivate, plead with our mainstream people of color organizations, like conservative immigrant south Asian groups, to be involved in efforts to end violence and abuse that women face in our families. That's the kind of organizing that is being done, and I think needs to be strengthened.
We clearly have to target the political process, to promote additional measures that can help the service providers. How are we going to get more funding? By organizing and pushing. It is not going to just happen on its own, and nothing has happened on its own. It happened because of our organizing.
Audre Lorde wrote 'I know the boundaries of my nation lie within myself'. These are words that every woman of color at this conference can take to heart. This line means a lot to me, and embodies the truth that nations are made up of bodies, that bodies harbor our imaginations and our aspirations, and the boundaries of what is possible are limited only by our imaginations.
There is great promise and hope in Audre's lines. But to fulfill the promise of social change, to transform our nation, we must, as women of color, believe in our power, and really assert it.


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Citizenship by Investment
What Do You Mean by Citizenship?
The status of a person being recognized as a legal member of a sovereign state under the custom or law is defined to be as Citizenship. When a person becomes a citizen of a nation, he/she gets to enjoy the benefits of that particular country.
What is Citizenship by Investment?
Citizenship by Investment, also known as the economic citizenship is the process of offering the citizenship status to an individual when he/she meets certain requirements which include whether that particular individual is willing to invest a considerable amount into the country.
Rights of A Citizen: –
On becoming a citizen of a country through the Citizenship by Investment Program, you get to enjoy certain rights & benefits that a country offers to its citizens. In general, on becoming a citizen through Citizenship by Investment program, you get to avail the following benefits.
- As a citizen of a country, you can retain your citizenship for a lifetime period.
- You get the option to pass on your citizenship to your children in the future.
- You get to enjoy the right to vote, access to education, the opportunity to indulge yourself in politics, healthcare and every other benefit that is defined by the law of your country.
- As a citizen migrated through the Citizenship by Investment program, you need not fulfill any minimum stay requirements which means you get to be a citizen of a country and you need not even visit the place.
- When traveling abroad, you can call your country for assistance & protection in case of any unexpected emergencies and can access any embassy or another ambassadorial establishment.
- You get the right not to be deprived of your nationality which comes under the Article 15 of the UN's Human Rights Declaration.
- As a citizen, you get the right to hold your passport with which you can identify yourself as a citizen of your country.
- Being a citizen of a country, you get the privilege to travel visa-free to the nations with which your country has signed a travel agreement.
Visa-Free Travel
What Does Visa-Free Travel Mean?
Traveling to a foreign country requires an individual to complete Visa procedures which are the standard guidelines every country follows. But Visa-free travel allows you to travel to a foreign country by skipping the everlasting visa formalities. On obtaining citizenship through the Citizenship by Investment Progeam, you can avail this privilege if your country has signed travel agreements with that particular county you are traveling to.
Benefits of A Visa-Free Travel: –
- You can skip the procedures of filling lengthy forms, the process of providing documents such as supporting letters from friends & employers, bank statements, pictures and more.
- Your information can stay confidential with you because there will not arise a need where you have to share your confidential information.
- You can skip the processing time of your visa application by the embassy or any relevant body.
- Unexpected situations may rise any second, bringing in the need for you to travel abroad. A Visa-free travel allows you to get over with situations that are completely unexpected.
- You get to use fast lanes at the border control on your arrival without having to stand at the lengthy border queues.
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A must-attened event about International Schools education to help guide, advise and inform parents organised by South China Morning Post.
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