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Have you ever had something that you really, really wanted fall unexpectedly into your lap?
Did you think it was a coincidence?
Have you ever noticed that, that seems to happen to some people, all the time?
Is that a coincidence?
Let's find out:
The Law of Attraction
You might have heard of this before, it is quoted often, but if you are like me (who just recently learned what it really is about) you never completely grasped its power.
85 % of all communication is your body language
The Law of Attraction states that whatever you "ask the universe for, with passion, will be given" if you ask enough.
The reason for this is that when you can visualize something and can see it in your life you start to send out those signals with your body language, the way you talk, the way you act and the opportunities you see and react to.
Before long you will get an idea, be presented with an opportunity or in some other fashion get what you "asked for".
Take action at once on inspiration
This is the second step of the process. When you get an opportunity or an idea that will move you towards your goals, you need to take action at once. If you wait your chances of success will quickly diminish.
The longer you wait the less a chance you have. Because of this, if you learn to react quickly when inspiration strikes you will succeed a lot more often.
You can ask for anything
This truly works for anything. I have heard dozens of stories about people visualizing and asking for a parking space at the entrance of a crowded mall. For some reason they always seem to get a spot right next to the door.
It works for business:
You ask for a particular result and all of a sudden inspiration strikes and you get the idea that changes everything. If you act at once you can make it reality and succeed.
I met my wife by using this law:
When I was 14 years old I decided I wanted a girlfriend, I had very little luck with women, mostly because of my confidence.
But one day I decided, "Next Tuesday I will have a girlfriend!"
I told my friends, but they just laughed and asked, how are you going to accomplish that. I had no idea how; I just knew that I would find a great girl.
Next Monday I had a baseball game and my friend, another player on the team, had brought a friend. An extremely attractive girl, way out of my league. We started talking though and really hit it off.
We went on a date the next day and today she is my wife!
You should have seen the look of surprise on my friends faces when they met her.
Don't be afraid to ask
The worst thing that can happen if you ask is that you don't get it. The best, is that you do. Don't be afraid to try it out.
Remember it can take a couple of months before inspiration strikes, depending on what you ask, but if you really want it enough, it is worth the wait.
This technique has worked for thousands of individuals for hundreds of years.
Visualize what you want, feel yourself in possession of it, feel the sense of fulfillment, of happiness and take action as soon as inspiration strikes.
This was a guest post by Daniel M. Wood a well-known speaker and writer on Personal Development, Sales Technique and Motivation. Visit his blog Lookingtobusiness.com and download your copy of his free e-book, Double Your Income.
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Hey I just wanted to say I'm in a very similar situation with these schools. I realize John Marshall and Northern are wayyy lower in the rankings than Depaul/Kent/Loyola but is there really that much of a difference in employment options? I guess I'm just wondering because I'm strongly considering Northern for obvious financial reasons, and if there isn't a huge difference, I wouldn't want to be an extra 150k in debt. I don't have any helpful info to add really but I just wanted to say you're not alone!! And good luck with your cycle!
The poster who just told you to give up made a pretty arrogant and ignorant statement, IMHO. If you're not looking for big law, realize the law degree will not be the ticket to instant wealth for you but it's something you want to pursue then go do it.
The OP did say that, eventually, she wanted to hang her own shingle, but only after working for a few years in the private sector. Which means she'll need to find a job, and unless you are a top dog at either of those schools, it's going to be tough. Even at K/L/D, you have to be up there in your class, but not quite as high.

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Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city and the reputed site where Jesus cured a man blind from birth, according to the Gospel of John.
The pool was fed by the now famous Hezekiah's Tunnel and is "a much grander affair" than archeologists previously believed, with three tiers of stone stairs allowing easy access to the water, said Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, which reported the find Monday.
"Scholars have said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit" to illustrate a point, said New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth of the Princeton Theological Seminary. "Now we have found the Pool of Siloam ... exactly where John said it was."
A gospel that was thought to be "pure theology is now shown to be grounded in history," he said.
Religious law required ancient Jews to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem at least once a year, said archeologist Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa, who excavated the pool. "Jesus was just another pilgrim coming to Jerusalem," he said. "It would be natural to find him there."
The newly discovered pool is less than 200 yards from another Pool of Siloam, this one a reconstruction built between AD 400 and 460 by the Empress Eudocia of Byzantium, who oversaw the rebuilding of several biblical sites.
The site of yet another Pool of Siloam, which predated the version reputedly visited by Jesus, is still unknown.
That first pool was constructed in the 8th century BC by Judean King Hezekiah, who foresaw the likelihood that the Assyrians would lay siege to Jerusalem and knew a safe water supply would be required to survive the attack.
He ordered workers to build a 1,750-foot-long tunnel under the ridge where the City of David was located. The tunnel connected Gihon Spring in the adjacent Kidron Valley to the side of Jerusalem less vulnerable to an attack.
The first Pool of Siloam was the reservoir holding the water brought into the city. It was presumably destroyed in 586 BC when Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar razed the city.
The pool of Jesus' time was built early in the 1st century BC and was destroyed by the future Roman Emperor Titus about AD 70.
The pool was discovered by a repair team excavating a damaged sewer line last fall under the supervision of Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority. As soon as Shukron saw two steps uncovered, he stopped the work and called in Reich, who was excavating at the Gihon Spring.
When they saw the steps, Shukron said, "we were 100% sure it was the Siloam Pool."
With winter approaching, the two men had to hurry their excavation so the sewer could be repaired before the rainy season.
As they began digging they uncovered three groups of five stairs each separated by narrow landings. The pool was about 225 feet long, and they unearthed steps on three sides.
They do not yet know how wide and how deep the pool was because they have not finished the excavation. The fourth side lies under a lush garden -- filled with figs, pomegranates, cabbages and other fruits -- behind a Greek Orthodox Church, and the team has not yet received permission to cut a trench through the garden.
"We need to know how big it is," Charlesworth said. "This may be the most significant and largest miqveh [ritual bath] ever found."
The excavators have been able to date the pool fairly precisely because of two fortunate occurrences that implanted unique artifacts in the pool area.
When ancient workmen were plastering the steps before facing them with stones, they either accidentally or deliberately buried four coins in the plaster. All four are coins of Alexander Jannaeus, a Jewish king who ruled Jerusalem from 103 to 76 BC. That provides the earliest date at which the pool could have been constructed.
Similarly, in the soil in one corner of the pool, they found about a dozen coins dating from the period of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome, which lasted from AD 66 to 70. That indicates the pool had begun to be filled in by that time.
Because the pool sits at one of the lowest spots in Jerusalem, rains flowing down the valley deposited mud into it each winter. It was no longer being cleaned out, so the pool quickly filled with dirt and disappeared, Shanks said.
The story of Jesus and the blind man, as told in John, is well known. Jesus was fleeing the Temple to escape either the priests or an angry crowd when he encountered the man. His disciples asked Jesus who had sinned, the man or his parents, to cause him to be born blind.
Jesus said that neither had sinned, but that the man had been born blind so that God's work might be revealed in him. With that, he spat in the dust to make mud, which he rubbed in the man's eyes before telling him to wash it off in the Pool of Siloam. When the man did so, he was able to see.


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*orange dye
Step 1: Set up your dying area.
-Ideally this will happen in your bathroom or kitchen. In this Brooklyn apartment, that is not meant to be due to those areas being tiny, restricted and with bad lighting. If you also find yourself with a less-than-ideal space, you can easily improvise an adequate area for dying the shirt:
-Set up a well covered table with an aluminum pan large enough for both holding the dye and catching the drips.
-Next, string up a makeshift clothesline across a doorway. It should be the right height for the shirt bottom to be just above the pan so it can drip into it.
When you're done with this step, your shirt will look like this.
Step 3: Wet the dying area by dipping shirt into warm water till just below the top safety pins.
Because the dye will dry to a lighter color, you may want to repeat this a couple of times so the shirt looks as bright as possible. When you're satisfied with the color, let it hang over the tray for 15-20 minutes so that some of the excess dye can drip off into the dying pan.
Step 5: Change out the dye in the pan to the orange and repeat step 4. This time only dipping the shirt up to the bottom two safety pins. Again, dip a number of times to have a brighter colored orange.
Step 6: Let the shirt hang for a little while before rinsing so that the dyes will be less likely to seep into othre areas. Thorough rinse the shirt until the water coming off of it runs clear.
Step 7: When you're all finished remove the safety pins and let dry.
Hope this is a good solution for someone who waited to till the last minute to pull something together.
Be safe in this hurricane, East Coast friends! And Happy Halloween!
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As Labor Day weekend approaches, I reflect on the era when the Monday after Labor Day meant the opening of the SAE Off-Highway Show in Milwaukee. The first time I attended an SAE Off-Highway Show was in 1981, during my first year as an editor. I worked for a different magazine then, Power Transmission Design, and that trip left quite an impression. A new chief editor had just been appointed to PTD, and after becoming acclimated to her new position, she realized that no editor had yet been assigned to cover the Off-Highway Show. So the week just before the show, I was instructed to arrange travel arrangements to attend.
The show was doing pretty well then, so there wasn't a hotel room to be had in downtown Milwaukee. This meant I'd have to rent a car and stay on the outskirts of town somewhere. No problem. After many attempts, I finally landed a room — at the 40 Winks Motel.
I arrived at the 40 Winks, then drove downtown the next morning to attend an editor's breakfast and press conference. About ten of us were seated at a table, and most of these guys obviously knew each other. Now keep in mind, I only 27 at the time, and had only been an editor for a few months. Prior to that, I didn't know the difference between a font and a sidebar, so I felt a little intimidated and apprehensive. But I don't remember doing or saying anything to embarrass myself.
Eventually, the conversation drifted to where each person was staying. One guy made some remarks about his room at the Hyatt. The man to his left was staying at the Marc Plaza. A couple others were at the Pfister. Each man took his turn, moving clockwise around the table. I remember thinking (or maybe it was a silent prayer), "Please let the conversation switch to something else before it's my turn. I don't want to say I'm at the 40 Winks." Fortunately, the topic of conversation did change before it was my "turn," so I was off the hook.
I had a pleasant stay at the 40 Winks and have even gone back a couple times. It seemed like a ma-and-pa operation at the time, and has gone through at least one expansion — so they must be doing something right. Unfortunately, I don't have many business trips to Milwaukee any more; the last one was probably 10 years ago. I remember seeing a sign at the 40 Winks about rooms with water beds. So the last I stayed at the 40 Winks, I requested a room with a water bed. The bed was comfortable enough, but I couldn't help but think what must've gone on in that room after seeing the giant mirror mounted onto the ceiling!


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The last time that director Tom Tykwer and Tom Hanks collaborated the result was 2012's Cloud Atlas, one of the most ambitious and under-appreciated films of the last few years. So it is with great pleasure that we learn today that the two men are getting set to reunite on another project.
According to Deadline's sources, Hanks and Tykwer are now set to adapt A Hologram For The King, based on the novel by Dave Eggers. As you probably could have predicted, the plan is to have Tykwer direct the movie and take care of the screenplay with Hanks starring. The story follows a down-on-his-luck businessman who decides to leave America and try to find better fortune in Saudi Arabia, hoping to "stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and do something memorable." The project doesn't have a studio or financing attached yet, but wheels are in motion to fix that issue.
Hanks is currently on Broadway, starring in the Nora Ephron play Lucky Guy, but he actually still has major big screen plans in the second half of 2013. In October we will see him become Captain Phillips, the new film from director Paul Greengrass that tells the true story about how a ship captain helped save a number of lives when his vessell was hijacked by Somali pirates. Then in December he will be channeling Walt Disney when he becomes the studio founder in Saving Mr. Banks, the historical drama about how Disney worked to convince author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to let him create a film adaptation of Mary Poppins.


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Moreover, the ivory tower concept of giving away the source to sell the consulting seems to work for very few groups, if any (I can think of one, mySQL AB). As it is unlikely that there will be millions of linux clusters out there, the MySQL model of leveraging the needs of a huge installed user base will not work here. Most of us who are betting their families well being and livelihood on this, would like to be able to earn a living from this. There is nothing wrong with asking for money for the value you provide. Most of the consumers of the OSS stuff do so for varied reasons. One of the larger components is the "Free as in beer"* approach to cost containment. The control is nice, but as I see it, control is not what is driving the adoption of Linux based systems. Its TCO. If it costs you $2500 for that RHAT install, it doesn't cost you per client connecting to it. This immediately puts it at a (tremendous) cost advantage over any MSFT based solution. Add to this that this is a real market, with several competing vendors with mostly overlapping offerings. Hence there is real competition. Prices are held in check (to a degree). (* I know, I know, not too much free beer out there ...) MSFT has (at last check) the wrong licensing model for their software for clusters. They would need to change it in order to make it sensible from a financial perspective, to deploy such clusters. As this is a tiny market compared to their major market, I think that the needed changes will not happen. I could be wrong (and I think the MSFT HPC folks read this stuff in stealth mode, so feel free to correct me on/offline). </tangent> >Per use revenue is >a nice way of getting around the "bootleg copy" problem. Who cares if you >copy it, if every time it runs, you have to hit a license server and pay >your little micropayment. In fact, bootlegs are great... they cost the >originator of the software nothing. It's the whole compatibility, >configuration managment thing that is a big problem (all those components >have to be compatible with all the other components, etc.). > > The per use view presumes you are using a consumable resource in some sense, and then attaching a value to it. It reminds me of the innumerable requests for registration going on now, coupled with the "would you like to view this article? only 1.95$USD right now..." I see linked from various news sites. Of course, apart from electrical power, it is hard to understand what resource you are consuming when this occurs. I suspect that consumer backlash against this will likely halt this march. I do see a subscription model becoming far more likely, whereby for a fixed (continuous) fee, you get access to content (much like a magazine, but software content in this case). I think people generally would be more accepting of this model than a micropayment per click. >MS, for all of their faults, doesn't have stupid people working for it. If >they could find a better way to "sell" software (or, more properly, the >added value provided by the software/content/what-have-you) that doesn't >rely on copyright (which everyone admits is poorly suited to such things), >they'd love it. > > Winston Churchill had something to say about this being the worst possible model, apart from the others. Of course the context was different, but generally the idea is correct. Software companies have a model that forces continuous "innovation" in order to maintain an upgrade cycle, and therefore get revenues flowing "continuously". The problem for them is convincing you to upgrade. Why upgrade if it works well enough? So they need to even out their revenue, get it more predictable, and break the upgrade cycle. Oddly, by breaking the upgrade cycle, you can spend more time fixing stuff, and less time inventing new broken stuff. Similar to what OSS gives you (to a degree). The important part (for business types) is that your revenue is now much more predictable. Now do something interesting (which I have not seen done yet by MSFT, though I expect in in short order). Change the acquisition model to that of a subscription. So instead of paying $500 for an install with a free set of patches, pay $50 to acquire the base + $100/year of subscription. Roll the next "versions" out in phases, with inter-function dependencies rather than entire version dependencies. The software becomes the platform. Talk about lock-in. There will be no upgrade cycle to contend with. Changes can be made quite modular. New features better tested and rolled in in an evolutionary manner. Brand new functionality could be created into different subscription paths. Copying and "pirating" would be encouraged (you need that subscription after all) as each machine would require its own subscription to function. Rough guess, but I would bet on something much like this emerging. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615


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Handling Handplants
Learn how to do an Andrecht with living legend JP Walker.
With so many varieties of handplants, every snowboarder should have at least one in their satchel of stunts. Andrechts are probably the best plants to learn first. Like all inverts, they are more about finesse and timing than brute strength. That said, riders of smaller statures or less-than-impressive bicep circumferences have no excuses for not learning how to put a hand down. It's not that hard and will make you feel infinitely cooler. Read the words, study the sequence, and plant hands this winter. —L.G.
1. Handplants are easiest to learn on a quarterpipe because you can come at the lip flat-based, as opposed to a pipe where you're bound to be on an edge. So find a well-built quarter and get to work.
2. Come at the quarter with enough speed to do a small backside air. As you approach the lip, start transferring your weight onto your back foot, and as you leave the lip pop a little and put your hand down where your board just left the snow.
3. As you leave the lip, pop and look down into the tranny while you're planting your hand. If you're looking at the deck, you'll probably end up flopping onto it, so concentrate on staring down the transition.
4. Keep your knees tucked up to your chest while you're inverted and go for a grab. Melon is probably the easiest. Getting a good grab will make it a lot easier to bring your handplant back into the quarterpipe.
5. Stay compact until your board is back on the snow. Stomp it square on both feet and ride away. Hike back up and do it all day every day you go riding, because the handplant can take a lifetime to perfect.
"The mistake people make is they lunge forward and reach out for the deck or the coping. You want to do a kind of reverse cartwheel and put your hand down right where you took off or as close to your tail as possible."
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The Avenue Theater, which for years has run on on a play-by-play basis, has announced its first real "season" in some time, and it's highlighted by a remount of last summer's award-winning glam-rock musical, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
The John Cameron Mitchell musical, which won a 2010 Denver Post Ovation Award for best actor in a musical, again will star Nick Sugar and Amanda Earls.
The musical will run May 5-28 in repertory with "Breach," an original musical by Michael Domitrovich and the Arvada Center's resident musical director, David Nehls, who also happens to be the "Hedwig" bandleader.
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Red Lion Hotels Announces Two New Franchises in Northern California
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 3, 2010 // PRNewswire // -- Red Lion Hotels Corporation (NYSE: RLH) franchise development team announced that it has signed franchise license agreements with two owners of Northern California hotels.
The first property will be a Red Lion Inn, located in Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento. The hotel was originally built as a Fairfield Inn by Marriott. This 111-room limited service hotel is expected to open as a Red Lion Inn in January 2011.
The second property will be the Red Lion Hotel Oakland International Airport. This property is an independent full service airport hotel with 189 rooms, and is expected to be converted to a Red Lion in early 2011.
"We are pleased to welcome these properties to the Red Lion system," said Jon E. Eliassen, Interim President & CEO of Red Lion Hotels Corporation. "Historically, Red Lion has been a very strong brand in California, and these hotels strengthen our footprint and brand presence in the state. The franchise team has continued to identify quality properties in markets where Red Lion is interested in having a presence and we are in active discussions with other property owners."
The RLH franchising team is targeting limited and full-service hotels in 11 Western States and British Columbia for conversion to the Red Lion Hotels brand.
"Red Lion Hotels offers a great option for owners who are looking for a brand with extraordinary value and support services," said Rich Carlson, Red Lion Hotels Corporation Vice President of Lodging Development. "We're excited about the reception we've received since we began marketing the Red Lion brand more aggressively to hotel owners."
About Red Lion Hotels Corporation:
Red Lion Hotels Corporation is a hospitality and leisure Company primarily engaged in the ownership, operation and franchising of midscale full, select and limited service hotels under its Red Lion® brand. As of June 30, 2010, the RLH hotel network was comprised of 43 hotels located in eight states and one Canadian province, with 8,383 rooms and 419,987 square feet of meeting space. The Company also owns and operates an entertainment and event ticket distribution business. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.redlion.com.
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"Live fair, one product at a time"
"Live fair, one product at a time'" was World Fair Trade Day 2018 theme and celebration message to the global consumers.
In the communities around our centres like Jaipur, Agra, Saharanpur & in Sambhal, Lectures were held on "Live Fair: Make a Difference" for the artisans & producers along with creating Human Chain and spreading the message of Fair Trade. Testimonies were shared by producers & artisans about the benefits of being a part of Fair Trade.
For the artisan community's children in Jaipur and Sambhal & for youth in Agra, Fair Trade Festival was organized with lots activities & fun.
At our office, Staff with "Live fair, one product at a time" placard photographs were clicked, also to spread Fair Trade awareness, Fair Trade Principles placards were put up at different corners of the office, these principals will be reminded staff about fair trade practises.
A short video of Mr. Rajesh Kumar, C. E. O. was taken & promoted through Asha's Facebook page giving message on celebration of the World Fait Trade Day.
All these activities with photos were promoted through Asha Handicrafts as well WFTO's Facebook page.
17th Jul 2018
Greetings to you from Asha !
Greetings to you from 'Asha'!
Today as we celebrate 43 years of God's faithfulness, I thank God for adding yet another year to 'Asha Handicrafts Association.' It is a time to express my gratitude to you for sharing our belief and being an integral part of our journey so far.
I am filled with hope, joy and optimism as we go ahead as an organization fulfilling our mission to diffuse the love of God in word and deed to all.
I pray that God's richest blessing will be with us and all those who have helped us grow and see this beautiful day. May the work that we do and the way that we do it, bring hope, love and encouragement to all those we serve.
Again, I thank you for joining 'Asha Handicrafts' and for your continuous generous support .Our association means a lot to us, and as we venture into another year, I am confident that he who began a good work in us will carry it on to completion.
With Best Wishes
Rajesh Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
Few messages from our long serving colleagues
"First of all, I would like to thank my God for his hand upon Asha as an organization. It is through God's leading, that we as an organization has sustained thus far. Thank God for l=placing each of us here as a family, so that God's name be glorified. We would like to thank God for our Board Members, our CEO, Mr Rajesh Kumar for his leading, we as staff, our buyers & suppliers. Asha as an organization has been a blessing to many. We pray that God's leading be present throughout Asha's journey till the end."
- Carmaline Raj, Manager - Purchases
(42 years with Asha)
"Wishing Asha Handicraft on achieving much in the 43 years of its existence. May Asha continue to spread the love of Christ to all we come in contact with, in both word & deed."
- Paul Raj, Manager - Logistics
(36 years with Asha)
"May the Lord continue His Blessing on Asha as he has been doing right from the time of its inception. May He continue to remind us of the Vision & Mission and help us follow what we have promised. Wishing my dear company, which has been like my second home, a very Happy Birthday and many prosperous years ahead."
- Leo D'Souza, Manager - Exports
(28 years with Asha)
"Wishing Asha Handicrafts Association a Happy 43rd Birthday, You (Asha) have been a true example of the love of God for many of your stakeholders, the work you do speaks of the difference you make to so many lives of artisans in rural villages, durability, reliability and trust that's what you are to your clients. It is indeed great to be a part of you, may the work that you do to bring change to a world in need continue forever."
- Christopher Raphael, Manager IT & Inventory
(25 years with Asha)
25th Sep 2018
Asha in Hindi means "Hope", an appropriate word to reflect our mission. Asha was born out of hope and prayer in 1975 and started its marketing operation to bring hope to craft workshops and family groups all over India by choosing the best of their products to sell to markets in the west. The Late Mrs. Iscah Andrews was the driving force behind the formation of Asha Handicrafts Association. She had a dream that Indian handicrafts could be used to bring self-help and respect to artisan communities, but it wasn't until she met George Hoffman of TearFund that she was able to realize it. George Hoffman was a businessman who had been looking at the same problem from the outside, seeing third world handicrafts as a means of freeing local communities from the burdens of poverty; ignorance and exploitation of middle-men. They recognized that modern marketing methods could bring these products to the West, where they would realize a fair price. Asha adopted this model from TearFund and thus began its operations. Mrs Andrews served Asha for 10 years up to 1985, leaving the reigns in the capable hands of Late Mr Nemani David Livingston, Business Director.
On 22nd November 1987, Mr. Livingston appointed Mr. Lucas Caldeira as a Business Development Manager at Asha. With his marketing experience, extensive travel, product development and various business strategies Asha's business began to grow. In 1995, Mr. Lucas Caldeira ventured into Fair Trade and Asha become a member of IFAT (now WFTO) at the conference held in USA. This membership opened up new relationships with many buyers. During the same year, Mr. Lucas Caldeira took on the responsibility of guiding Asha as its new CEO and began planning Asha's future in a fresh way. With the growing popularity of Fair Trade, Asha raised the bar for itself and was Certified Guaranteed Fair Trade member in 2013.
Asha's mission to Preserve, Protect & Promote Indian Handicrafts & the Indian Handicraft industry is supported by Fair Trade & vice versa. As of today, Asha works with artisans from all over India who produce area specific handicrafts.
Our Welfare Workers, at key craft centres, work for Artisan Welfare & Community development as their primary role, while also working as Asha's Business Representatives to our producers. They regularly visit the producer's workshops to monitor their compliance with the 10 Principles of Fair Trade and to follow up on current orders, as well as, new product developments. Adhering to the 10 Principles of Fair Trade have helped our producers and artisans grow sustainably, have greatly improved their standard of living and have spread happiness in their communities. This life changing impact is why we at Asha support Fair Trade.
In these lines, the WFTO has begun the process of establishing a Fair Trade Charter, which will be formally launched on the 25th of September'18. As of now, over 40 fair trade organizations from all over the world have recognized this charter. Asha Handicrafts Association is proud to be among these organizations and recognize the Fair Trade Charter.
01st Jan 1970
Mumbai Marathon 2019
Asha Handicrafts Association has been participating in the Mumbai Marathon since its inception. Through this platform, Asha Handicrafts association has been able to better spread the message of Fair Trade.
This year, 23 staff from Asha Handicrafts Association participated in the Dream Run. The Dream Run is a non-timed run, meant to promote social cause. As such, many organizations participate in the Dream Run to promote their organizations message. Promoting Fair Trade in the presence of many bigger & more visible organizations appeared to be a daunting task for our runners. Our runners, however, made their presence felt with bright placards depicting Fair Trade held high and shouting chants for Fair Trade. The voice of Fair Trade was definitely heard at the marathon.
30th Jan 2019
workshop on Linking Handicrafts with Tourism
Our CEO Mr Rajesh Kumar was invited to speak and share his experience at a 2 day workshop on "Linking Handicrafts with Tourism; Challenges and Opportunities for Marketing Handicrafts to Boost Local Economic Development", organized by the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) (DCH), Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, New Delhi at Amity University's campus, Noida. He used this opportunity to share Asha's mission of uplifting Indian Artisans and to share information on the rich heritage of India's handicrafts. His presentation also highlighted the salient features of Fair Trade and how businesses can thrive, while still being fair & transparent with its stakeholders. He went into detail how Fair Traded handicrafts create sustainable employment for Indian artisans, helping them to work with dignity & pride, as well as empowering Indian women to start small businesses selling the handicrafts they create.
08th Mar 2019
Womens Day 2019
Womens Day 2019 - WFTO Event
08 March 2019
There are so many reasons to celebrate gender equality on Women's Day, 8 March 2018! One good reason is that more and more women in Fair Trade are taking leadership roles in their organisations. A recent study of 110 WFTO members revealed that 51% of board positions are held by women, 52% of CEOs are women and 54% of top management roles are held by women. Visit our Women's Day page for stories and videos of women in Fair Trade who are leading the way to gender equality.
Carmaline Raj
Our purchase manager, has been working with Asha Handicrafts Association for nearly 43 years, something that she is proud of. Carmaline has been influential in contributing to Asha's success and unique work culture. Carmaline firmly believes that the core of Asha's culture is taking ownership of the task assigned. Carmaline has grown in Asha from a young fresh mind to a seasoned manager of the purchase department. She has overcome challenges she has faced by asking the right questions and going in depth to understand & overcome the problem. For Carmaline, success is understanding what her buyers want and doing her best to give it to them.
Carmaline is a working mother and also makes time for her family. The key, she says, is making time for both work & home while focusing on what's in front of you. Carmaline's advice to young women is to do what you love & do it well. Be focused and take ownership of your work. But most importantly, make a commitment to God, to do your job with all your heart.
Carmaline prays that Asha's mission & good work continues to succeed and dreams of a day when all artisans will have access to Fair Trade.
Mariamma Mathew
Lovingly known as Usha to our staff, is responsible for managing all the documentation required to ship our artisan's handicrafts to our buyers. Usha has given 35 years in service of Asha's mission and is proud to have positively impacted so many artisans. Usha attributes her long tenure to Asha's unique "family" work culture. According to Usha, the practice of entrusting staff to do their job independently and without unnecessary pressure is what makes Asha a great place to work. As the manager of export documentation logistics & freight, Usha deals with a lot of government officials to get the required authorizations for Asha Handicrafts Association's shipments. Her solution to get these authorizations on time is persistent, yet polite, follow ups with concerned people. She is overjoyed every time she can get Asha exporters' incentives from the Indian government.
Usha loves to stay up to date on current affairs and enjoys watching news and debates on TV. Her day is not complete till she reads the daily newspaper. Her work with Asha has enabled her to lead a good life and is the reason why she could have her own home. Her "secret to success" for young women is to work honestly with a calm mind.
Usha has seen most of her dreams come true at Asha and hopes Asha continues to help more & more artisans achieve their dreams. After 35 years of faithful service, Usha now looks forward to a quite relaxing retirement.
Patricia Lewis
Asha Handicrafts Associations' Finance Manager. Patricia has been working with Asha for over 16 years and has experienced & achieved a lot during her tenure. According to Patricia, her long tenure is simply because she loves coming to work. The positive and welcoming atmosphere at Asha makes it the best place to work for her. Patricia recalls how happy & empowered she felt when she was given the responsibility of the Finance department. It was an opportunity to prove herself that she would not let pass.
Being the forward thinking woman she is today Patricia always has her eye on Asha's future business and stays abreast of the dynamic financial situations our clients and suppliers face. She believes working together as a team and improving co-operation would help Asha, our suppliers and our buyers achieve better results. Patricia's counsel to young women would be to develop a habit of learning and take complete responsibility of the task at hand.
Patricia enjoys a balanced life through efficient time management, making time for her work life & her personal life. When she is not working with financial figures and data, Patricia enjoys listening to slow Hindi music. Patricia has worked hard for her family and dreams of one day seeing her children pursue and achieve their own dreams.
Our Artisans
AMAR BAGH He is 30 years old and enjoys his work with one of our producer groups. Amar was originally from a small village called Balai Nager in the Nodiya district of West Bengal where he was born & brought up along with his 4 sisters and 7 brothers. He initially had the opportunity to study and has studied till the 7th standard. He belonged to a poor family where his eldest brother was the one who earned & provided for the family. When his brother fell sick & wasn't able to work anymore, Amar was forced to leave school and not study any further.
Things got more difficult as he & his siblings grew older. One of his brothers ran away from home & fled to Jaipur never to be heard of again. His eldest brother fell sick again and this time, sadly, he did not recover. Amar still misses him, even today. As with all things, Amar's dark days came to an end. Today, all of his siblings are happily married and have different jobs. Amar has been living in Jaipur for the last 6 years since he found work with Asha Handicrafts. His employment with us has literally changed his life. At the producer group, he learnt the craft of making beautiful silver handicrafts and he did it in 6 months. So impressive are his skills that he has started his own production unit, where he teaches artisans to make different jewelry. He hopes his unit continues to flourish and that more artisans come to work with him.
MUNNI Works with a producer group at Saharanpur. Munni was born in to a poor family in Roorkee, a city in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand. Needless to say, her childhood was not easy. Her father was a daily wage worker and couldn't afford sufficient food for his family, let alone afford to send Munni to school.
She finally got married, moved to her husband's home at Saharanpur and had 4 children. She thought that the difficult days were behind her, but sadly, in a span of a few years, the poverty & hardship she left behind, had once again found her & her family. Her husband also made a living as a daily wage worker & couldn't find work like before. Their future looked dire, but Munni decided not to give up & do her best to support her family.
She was fortunate to get a job with one of the local handicraft manufacturers & learnt how to polish wood. She was thankful for the new income, but still couldn't support her family. When she heard of Asha Handicrafts & the benefits we offered our artisans, Munni knew she had to at least try to get a job with us. Recognising the quality of her work, our producer group, immediately offered Munni a job, which she graciously accepted.
She has been working with our producer group for the last 10 years as a wood polisher, specialising in antique / vintage finishing. Munni couldn't be happier now that she can easily take care of her family's needs!
CHOTELAL SHARMA A Father, a Friend, a Master Craftsman,an Artist.
Your delicate & beautiful stone work, your legacy in the city of Agra will carry on through your son.
The world will surely miss your presence.
We at Asha Handicrafts will mourn your loss, but will never forget you.
Our thoughts& prayers go out to the Sharma family.
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfil the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
RITA MAOURYA Works at one of Asha Handicrafts' producer groups at Mumbai. She has been working with this group for a long time. In fact, neither she nor the group owner can remember exactly when the Rita became a part of their"family", but pegs it at a minimum of 6 years. She has always just been there and will continue to be there.
Rita was born & bought up in Mumbai, which when compared to other cities in India, is one of the more expensive cities to live in. Things being as they were, her father ensured that she could study at least up to junior college. By this time it was getting difficult to manage their household and her parents began looking for a suitable match for Rita. Soon Rita was married to her husband Pradeep, who was a Tailor Cutting Master working with this producer group. During the span of a few years, they had a daughter and a son and were as happy as could be. When their daughter began school it became difficult to make ends meet with only her husband's salary. Fortunately for them Rita was excellent with a sewing machine &our producer group was hiring.
Rita now does various types of stitching for the various garments, scarfs, etc. with the precision & accuracy of a seasoned professional tailor. She is proud that she can contribute to her family's income and send her children to school. Her children are now studying in the 5th and the 1st standard. She is a proud mother & is grateful to Asha Handicrafts for her job, her children's education and hopes to get good orders in the future.
SUSHILA YADAV Was born and brought up in Mumbai. She used to be a sweet homemaker, taking care of her small family. This all changed when her husband, one day, just packed up and left her & their children. After her husband deserted her, she took up odd jobs, which she could do herself, to feed her children.
In 2007, Sushila was at her wits end trying to keep her family & home afloat. She was ready to give up when she heard of a job at one of Asha Handicrafts' producer groups at Mumbai. When she met the group in-charge, she knew that finally her troubles were over and immediately started working with him. Since Sushila had completed her high school and was quite knowledgeable, she was given the additional responsibility of maintaining records of production and raw material along with her regular crafting work.
Sushila is employed as a full time employee and is paid a salary which enables her to take care of her dependent parents as well as her children. Sushila was also fortunate to be included in a government scheme for subsidized housing, which made her eligible for a housing loan. She also didn't have to worry anymore about her children's education. Her older daughters are studying in municipal schools and with support from Asha Handicrafts. Sushila has now enrolled her youngest daughter in an English medium school which has made her very happy.
In her own heartfelt words, Sushila expressed how thankful she was for the support she received. "Only with the support and encouragement I received from Mr. Ram Prasad & the good orders we receive from Asha, I was able to pay for my house which is otherwise nearly impossible for women like me, who are living without a husband. I am thankful that good people still exist in the world
LALJI JANGID Rajasthan, in India, is famous for its distinct culture, art forms, and handicrafts. It is here, in Jodhpur city, that Lalji Jangid's Jangid Handicrafts is based. Lalji Jangid has been a part of this trade for over twenty five years now.
Lalji's father migrated to India from Pakisthan in search of livelihood Lalji was born in India. He had to struggle in the initial days and could not pursue his schooling since his father had to move from place to place where the work was found.
He specializes in the making of handicrafts that are generally bought for home décor such as mango wood cabinets with different finished and ornamented with brass, iron, and aluminum. Lalji learnt his craft from his father; however, as his father's work was mostly traditional, Lalji had to improvise. Although the items he makes are decorative, Lalji explains that many of them are also utilitarian; he makes candle stands, photo frames, and boxes. His workshop employs just three artisans and he hires more based on orders.
When Lalji had started off he faced a number of problems. He got very few orders and struggled to find new markets. He used to supply to film studios of in Mumbai small furnitures used for film sets. On one such trip stumbled across a sign board that read Asha Handicrafts. He spoke to the security staff and only came back the next day after he was sufficiently prepared.
He found working with Asha very different: "We (the suppliers) are patients and Asha is our doctor." He feels he is treated very differently; other buyers simply ignore the difficulties faced by artisans. As an artisan, he feels that it was hard for him to negotiate with such buyers.
Lalji has started to implement Fair Trade practices and feels that with increased capacity he will be able to pass on benefits to his artisans. In the last two years, Lalji has seen his business volume with Asha increase. Now, he can concentrate on settling down and starting a family. With a market assured, he can focus on the quality of his wares.
Lalji has benefitted from capacity building programs conducted by Asha Handicrafts where he learned about quality control and product development.
SUMAN Warli are an aboriginal people residing mainly in the western part of India; Warlis decorate their dwellings and surroundings with their distinctive style of paintings.
Suman Sonthalia of Akruti Arts Creations is a designer who has combined various folk art forms, such as, Warli and Dokra, with wood and pottery to create popular products. Suman started with just two artisans and a dream. In 2006 she began to work with Asha Handicrafts and her turn over reached USD 10,000.
Today , Suman supports 30 artisans of whom 4 are on salary while the others work on piece rates. She also employs 15 girls of whom 5 work from their home. As the work continued Suman adopted other styles and crafts such as Madhubhani paintings and Kalamkari in addition to her trademark Warli style. This has lead to a seven fold increase of Suman's business with Asha Handicrafts in just a span of four years.
Besides getting regular work she is also happy with Asha Handicrafts for other benefits which she received through Fair trade such as training through workshops, product development, business counseling and advance payment against all the orders.
Suman has good entrepreneur skills which have helped her to not only develop products that are decorative but also utilitarian and serving the needs of the consumers. Her goal is to keep these crafts alive through constant innovation and employing crafts in creating utility items.
Through Asha handicrafts, Suman has not only been empowered for fair trade and business entrepreneurship but also seeks to follow example of Asha Handicrafts in supporting socially and economically underprivileged women, by giving them work, advance payments and educational assistance for her artisan's children.
FARZANA KHATTON Has been working with Asha Handicrafts' producer group at Delhi since 2006. In 1999, when Farzana came to Delhi to visit a relative, from her home town Safipur in Uttar Pradesh, little did she know that she would meet her future husband whom she promptly married & with whom she has 2 daughters. Farzana was as happy as could be. But dark times were lurking just around the corner for her. A few years after the birth of her second daughter, Farzana lost her husband & was all alone with her 2 daughters. It was difficult for Farzana to take care of her family's needs. She soon began searching for work. In her search, someone asked her to seek our Asha Handicrafts' producer group. Seeing her desperation, she was offered a job at the group. Because her daughters were too young to be left alone at home, she was given the opportunity to make jewellery at home.
As her daughters grew up, she was able to take on more responsibility & soon was made a supervisor of the women artisans. Things were better for Farzana, but it was still difficult to provide a good education to her daughters.
In 2011-12 Farzana met our welfare worker, on one of his regular visits to the producer group's workshop. Our welfare worker soon heard about Farzana's plight & how she recognized the importance of a good education for her daughters. This led to education assistance from Asha Handicrafts, for her daughters. She is now happy knowing that her family's future is secure and is extremely grateful for all the help she has received.


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Simply Business Skills is an employability skills training company. We teach the transferrable skills that employers identify as essential, but generally lacking in new graduate hires. These generic "employability skills" are required to perform well in any job, but are rarely formally taught at school, college or university.
IMPORTANT NOTE - We are not expecting designers to produce 10 icons in their initial concepts. This is too much work! 2 or 3 should be enough for us to decide who to ask to work it up to the full 10
Buyers are individual people looking to upgrade their employability skills before entering (or returning to work), or schools and universities looking to supplement their offering to students by adding these "real world" courses. The main target market is Indians.
We are seeking 10 icons, one for each of the following workshops.
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Arizona Lottery official Karen Bach said, "What we do know is these are not Quick Pick tickets. They are individually selected numbers on a play slip or, in this case, multiple play slips." She said that this is a rare situation, but that it's legitimate.
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"We can't speculate," Bach said. "We do not know who has those tickets in their possession. Until we have them we have no way of knowing."
QuikTrip will pull in $30,000 as part of its share of the earnings once all of the tickets are claimed.


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Exactly Right-On Article About Gardening
I just read this great article at Daily Kos Blog about gardening. I think another thing that gardening gives a person is a connection to all other gardeners. As I read the lines it was as if I was writing it too.
Gardening pushes me out of slumps, soothes me from too much stimulation and makes me feel needed and alive - and that is just a few things I have found!
Enjoy the article at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/08/1004662/-I-Planted-a-Recession-Garden-for-the-Veggies,-it-Fed-my-Soul-Instead?via=siderec


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Glossary of Energy Terms
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DAY-AHEAD MARKET - The forward market for energy and ancillary services to be supplied during the settlement period of a particular trading day that is conducted by the ISO, the PX, and other Scheduling Coordinators. This market closes with the ISO's acceptance of the final day-ahead schedule.
DAY-AHEAD SCHEDULE - Day-ahead Schedule A schedule prepared by a Scheduling Coordinator or the ISO before the beginning of a trading day. This schedule indicates the levels of generation and demand scheduled for each settlement period of that trading day.
DAYLIGHTING --The use of sunlight to supplement or replace electric lighting.
DAYLIGHTING CONTROL - A control system that varies the light output of an electric lighting system in response to variations in available daylight.
DEEP MINING Extraction of coal or minerals at depths greater than 1,000 feet. Coal usually is deep-mined at not more than 1,500 feet.
DEGREE DAY - A unit, based upon temperature difference and time, used in estimating fuel consumption and specifying nominal annual heating load of a building. When the mean temperature is less than 65 degrees Fahrenheit the heating degree days are equal to the total number of hours that temperature is less than 65 degrees Fahrenheit for an entire year.
DEINTEGRATION - (See disaggregation)
DELTA - A difference in temperature. Often used in the context of the difference between the design indoor temperature and the outdoor temperature.
DEMAND - The rate at which energy is delivered to loads and scheduling points by generation, transmission or distribution facilities.
DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT -- Also known as "DSM," these programs consist of the planning, implementing, and monitoring activities of electric utilities that are designed to encourage consumers to change their level and pattern of electricity usage.
DEMAND (Utility) The level at which electricity or natural gas is delivered to users at a given point in time. Electric demand is expressed in kilowatts.
DEMAND BID - Demand Bid A bid into the PX indicating a quantity of energy or an ancillary service that an eligible customer is willing to purchase and, if relevant, the maximum price that the customer is willing to pay.
DEMAND BILLING The electric capacity requirement for which a large user pays. It may be based on the customer's peak demand during the contract year, on a previous maximum or on an agreed minimum. Measured in kilowatts.
DEMAND CHARGE The sum to be paid by a large electricity consumer for its peak usage level.
DEMAND RESPONSE - Providing wholesale and retail electricity customers with the ability to choose to respond to time-based prices and other incentives by reducing or shifting electricity use, particularly during peak demand periods, so that changes in customer demand become a viable option for addressing pricing, system operations and reliability, infrastructure planning, operation and deferral, and other issues. (Source: Dan Delurey, U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee).
DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT (DSM) The methods used to manage energy demand including energy efficiency, load management, fuel substitution and load building. See LOAD MANAGEMENT.
DEMONSTRATION - The application and integration of a new product or service into an existing or new system. Most commonly, demonstration involves the construction and operation of a new electric technology interconnected with the electric utility system to demonstrate how it interacts with the system. This includes the impacts the technology may have on the system and the impacts that the larger utility system might have on the functioning of the technology.
DENSITY - The mass of a unit volume of a substance.
(U.S.) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (US DOE) -- The federal department established by the Department of Energy Organization Act to consolidate the major federal energy functions into one cabinet-level department that would formulate a comprehensive, balanced national energy policy. DOE's main headquarters are in Washington, D.C.
DEPENDABLE CAPACITY The system's ability to carry the electric power for the time interval and period specified. Dependable capacity is determined by such factors as capability, operating power factor and portion of the load the station is to supply.
DEPLETABLE ENERGY SOURCES -- 1) electricity purchased from a public utility 2) energy obtained from burning coal, oil, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gases. [See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302]
DEREGULATION - The elimination of regulation from a previously regulated industry or sector of an industry.
DERIVATIVES - A specialized security or contract that has no intrinsic overall value, but whose value is based on an underlying security or factor as an index. A generic term that, in the energy field, may include options, futures, forwards, etc.
DIESEL OIL - Fuel for diesel engines obtained from the distillation of petroleum. It is composed chiefly of aliphatic hydrocarbons. Its volatility is similar to that of gas oil. Its efficiency is measured by cetane number.
DIFFUSE RADIATION - Solar radiation, scattered by water vapor, dust and other particles as it passes through the atmosphere, so that it appears to come from the entire sky. Diffuse radiation is higher on hazy or overcast days than on clear days.
DIGITAL FAULT RECORDER - A device installed in a substation that records the waveform resulting from a fault on a transmission line, such as a fault caused by a break in the line. (Source: Bonneville Power Administration)
DIRECT ACCESS - The ability of a retail customer to purchase commodity electricity directly from the wholesale market rather than through a local distribution utility. (See also Retail Competition)
DIRECT CURRENT (DC) - Electricity that flows continuously in the same direction.
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION - Production of electricity from an energy source without transferring the energy to a working fluid or steam. For example, photovoltaic cells transform light directly into electricity. Direct conversion systems have no moving parts and usually produce direct current.
DIRECT EXPANSION - (refrigeration) - Any system that, in operation between an environment where heat is absorbed (heat source), and an environment into which unwanted heat is directed (heat sink) at two different temperatures, is able to absorb heat from the heat source at the lower temperature and reject heat to the heat sink at the higher temperature. The cooling effect is obtained directly from a fluid called a refrigerant that absorbs heat at a low temperature and pressure, and transfers heat at a higher temperature and higher pressure.
DIRECT RADIATION - Radiation that has traveled a straight path from the sun, as opposed to diffuse radiation.
DIRECT SOLAR GAIN - Solar energy collected from the sun (as heat) in a building through windows, walls, skylights, etc.
DIRECTLY CONDITIONED SPACE -- See conditioned space, directly.
DISAGGREGATION - The functional separation of the vertically integrated utility into smaller, individually owned business units (i.e., generation, dispatch/control, transmission, distribution). The terms "deintegration," "disintegration" and "delamination" are sometimes used to mean the same thing. (See also "Divestiture.")
DISPATCH - The operating control of an integrated electric system to: Assign generation to specific generating plants and other sources of supply to effect the most reliable and economical supply as the total of the significant area loads rises or falls. Control operations and maintenance of high-voltage lines, substations and equipment, including administration of safety procedures. Operate the interconnection. Schedule energy transactions with other interconnected electric utilities.
DISSOLVED GAS - Natural gas that can be developed for commercial use, and which is found mixed with oil in naturally occurring underground formations.
DISTRIBUTION - The delivery of electricity to the retail customer's home or business through low voltage distribution lines.
DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES - Small-scale power generation technologies (typically in the range of 3 to 10,000 kilowatts) located close to where electricity is used (for example, a home or business) to provide an alternative to or an enhancement of the traditional electric power system.
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION - A distributed generation system involves small amounts of generation located on a utility's distribution system for the purpose of meeting local (substation level) peak loads and/or displacing the need to build additional (or upgrade) local distribution lines.
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (Electric utility) - The substations, transformers and lines that convey electricity from high-power transmission lines to ultimate consumers. See GRID.
DISTRIBUTION UTILITY (Disco) - The regulated electric utility entity that constructs and maintains the distribution wires connecting the transmission grid to the final customer. The Disco can also perform other services such as aggregating customers, purchasing power supply and transmission services for customers, billing customers and reimbursing suppliers, and offering other regulated or non-regulated energy services to retail customers. The "wires" and "customer service" functions provided by a distribution utility could be split so that two totally separate entities are used to supply these two types of distribution services.
DIVESTITURE - The stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling (spinning-off) or in some other way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function. Most commonly associated with spinning-off generation assets so they are no longer owned by the shareholders that own the transmission and distribution assets. (See also "Disaggregation.")
DOSE - The amount of ionizing radiation energy absorbed per unit mass of irradiated material at a specific location, such as a part of a human body.
DOUBLE GLAZING - Windows having two sheets of glass with an airspace between.
DOWNSTREAM - A term used in the petroleum industry referring to the refining, transportation and marketing side of the business.
DRY BULB TEMPERATURE - A measure of the sensible temperature of air.
DRY HOLE - A drilled well that does not yield gas and/or oil quantities or condition to support commercial production; also applied to gas that has been produced and from which liquid components have been removed.
DRY STEAM - The conventional type of geothermal energy used for electricity production in California. Dry steam captured at the earth's surface is used to run electric turbines. The principal dry steam resource area is the Geysers in Northern California; one of only two known areas in the world for dry steam - the other being Larderello, Italy.
DUAL-DUCT SYSTEM - A central plant heating , ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC ) system that produces conditioned air at two temperatures and humidity levels. The air is then supplied through two independent duct systems to the points of usage where mixing occurs.
DUAL-FUEL or BI-FUEL VEHICLE refers to a vehicle capable of operating on two different fuels, in distinct fueling systems, such as compressed natural gas and gasoline.
DUAL-PANED (double-glazed) - Two panes of glass or other transparent material, separated by a space.
DUCT - A passageway made of sheet metal or other suitable material used for conveying air or other gas at relatively low pressures.
DUMP - Excess hydropower that cannot be stored or conserved. Also know as SPILL ENERGY.


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Western Michigan University's Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary health services is an undergraduate program that provides entry to a number of roles in health care. As such we have developed a number of options for students. For complete information and details about the program, refer to the
student handbook.
- B.S. in interdisciplinary health services - basic bachelor degree program
- B.S. in interdisciplinary health services—pre-physician assistant track
The programs listed below allow students the opportunity to complete some graduate courses while finishing their Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary health services.
- B.S. in interdisciplinary health services—occupational therapy track - a 4+1undergraduate/graduate combined program (master's degree)
- B.S. in interdisciplinary health services - orientation and mobility for adults or vision rehabilitation therapy accelerated master's program
- B.S. in interdisciplinary health services - audiology accelerated doctoral degree program
Each of these paths or tracks has a set of courses grouped into four areas:
- The pre-professional sequence and general education requirements embraces a broad spectrum of natural, behavioral and social sciences as well as arts and humanities, providing students with the knowledge necessary to understand the determinants of health and social wellness.
- The professional core provides for a more in-depth study of the organization and delivery of health and human services, systems administration and health policy. Classes in ethical and legal issues, as well as those in the Institute of Medicine core competencies, introduce students to their professional responsibilities.
Health professionals increasingly use sophisticated information and communication technologies; therefore, students will receive instruction in accessing medical information, managing information systems and in research methodologies and statistical data processing.
Also, current topics in health and human services, such as safety practices, multiculturalism, disability and rural health care will be addressed through a seminar series.
- Advanced study in an area of concentration or academic minor will complement these broad-based abilities. Some concentrations and minors will prepare students for candidacy in professional graduate programs. Others will enable students to enter administrative positions in a variety of public and private agency and institutional settings and prepare them for candidacy in graduate certificate program. Students who elect a concentration will do so in consultation with the advisor. A concentration will be designed to fit the student's individual learning objectives. It must consist of a minimum of 14 credits, at least nine of which must be from 3000 to 5000 level of coursework.
- Capstone Experience which is a required internship in the United States or abroad. Note: Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary health services-occupational therapy track students complete clinical placement in place of the capstone experience.
In addition to WMU's main campus in Kalamazoo, MI., the Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary health services is offered as a bachelor's completion program in an online format. The bachelor's completion program is also offered in a hybrid format (partially online, partially on campus) at our MetroDetroit and Grand Rapids/Muskegon regional locations. While the requirements are the same, courses at WMU regional locations are tailored toward adult non-traditional students, featuring evening and weekend classes. Check course listings or visit the Extended University Programs website for more information.


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CLEVELAND, TN -- Earlier this week, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga's Cleveland (TN) branch fired three employees who were involved with leaving two nooses at its facility.
Calvin Thompson, a Cleveland Y employee of six years, told WTVC-TV NewsChannel 9 that he found the first noose a few weeks ago and alerted Cleveland Y management after he felt threatened. On Halloween evening, he found the second noose.
Thompson, who is black, felt threatened, he told the television station.
Lee McChesney, executive director of the Cleveland Y, told the TV station that a lifeguard admitted to creating both nooses with pool rope as a Halloween decoration and has since apologized to Thompson. Amidst further investigation, media attention and a visit from the Bradley County NAACP, the Y fired the lifeguard responsible for the nooses and two other employees who knew about them.
The NAACP told the television station that it is pleased with the Y's decision to fire the employees involved. The organization will work with the Y on sensitivity and diversity training.
The Y of Metropolitan Chattanooga could not immediately be reached for comment.
According to its Web site, the Y of Metropolitan Chattanooga serves more than 37,000 members each year.


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We have just come from two back to back typhoons. One being worse than the other, although both very bad for those in their ferocious paths. Here in my corner the city, rains pounded the pavement outside my window and obscured my view of the buildings further away. The water was coming down at a crazy slant and the wind was a thing unleashed, whipping what little trees we have in a wild frenzy.
But I was just side-swiped by these typhoons' tails and trains, sitting dry in my flat and watching the world get soaked from outside my window. The worst of it are those who are hit head on…that means floods, landslides, and all manner of misfortune related to these. And when one storm follows another, even a weaker storm, it means that the floods don't have time to abate before being stirred up again. Not good.
What is good though is how quickly everyone comes together for drives to help those affected by these natural calamities. It is heartening to know, despite what cynics may say, that people still help each other out, that simple kindness is not going out of style, and that we humans really do care something for each other.
On rainy mornings I take comfort in that. And in this.
Baked Oatmeal
(slightly adapted from Baked Oatmeal in Super Natural Every Day by Heidi Swanson)
- 2 cups oats
- 1/3 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped
- 1/3 cup dark muscovado sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 scant teaspoon cinnamon
- Scant 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 2 cups milk
- 1 large egg
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 ripe bananas, sliced into about 1 cm pieces
- 1 1/2 cup blueberries
– Mix together oats, half the walnuts, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl whisk together the milk, egg, half the butter, and vanilla.
– Arrange the banana slices on the bottom of a well-buttered 8-inch square baking dish. Sprinkle 2/3 for the blueberries on top. Pour the oat mixture evenly over the fruit and pour the milk carefully over that. Make sure the oats are evenly coated in and around by the milk. Shake the dish a bit and gently tap on the counter to make sure the milk has reached through all the oats. Top with the remaining blueberries and walnuts.
– Bake in a pre-heated 375F oven for 35-45 minutes or until set and golden brown. When done, remove from the oven and let this cool for a bit. Brush with the remaining melted butter and serve. If you want it a bit sweeter you can add a bit more sugar, maple syrup, or honey to your serving.
This is another wonderful recipe from Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day. Let me tell you, I am simply enamored of this book. It is just bursting at the seams with good things. This particular good thing is heaven warm out of the oven on a gloomy rain-drenched morning, especially if you have mountain of work to get through. It is filling and fortifying and delicious to boot. Also, it will easily keep you full until lunch. I have to add that while this is lovely served fresh and warm, I also love it straight from the fridge the next day. Cold and stodgy (in a good way!), and creamy in a way it can only get when chilled. And for a morning when I need extra fortification I'll top a slice with a dollop of Greek yogurt, a sprinkling of homemade granola, and a drizzle of honey. The granola may seem redundant but it actually provides a fantastic contrast of textures.
The weather is better now, albeit a bit moody – you have sunny mornings that are washed away by rainy afternoons or vice versa. No matter what the weather though, I am grateful for life's silver linings. Whether it be lending a hand (and doing some spring cleaning while at it) or burying my spoon into this 🙂


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