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Thursday, January 29, 2015
A few thoughts about the new EU VAT rules concerning ebooks
This web article describes the UK situation: wordsthatchangetheworld
and also the situation for sellers outside the EU and for self-publishing authors.
For me in Germany, VAT is 19% on ebooks. (Curiously, it's only 7% on regular books). Since the new rules came into force, I'm generally paying 19% more for ebooks I order directly from an US or international publisher or through an international distributor. Since those rates of taxes are different for every EU country, I can't even begin to imagine the administrative nightmare that must mean for international businesses catering to ebook-readers in the EU.
Some publishers have already taken appropriate steps; for example Manifold Press (UK), who closed their online shop completely (much to my chagrin; I loved the personal interaction I received with every Manifold purchase) or Amber Quill Press, who no longer sell ebooks to EU customers from their website store.
Of course, as an EU customer, I can still buy books through distibutors like All Romance Books, Amazon and the like, if at a higher price (for which, just to be clear, I don't blame the distributors themselves!) But what if I preferred to buy directly from the publisher who happens to be based outside the EU? What If I happen to like a particular publisher who in consequence of the new laws stopped to sell directly to EU citizens? One of the benefits of digital purchases is just that, getting access to sources of supply I normally couldn't dream of, confined to what my corner bookstore has on offer. I'd never have discovered m/m in the first place had I waited until I could buy the physical books here in my neck of the woods.
Of course, I can still look for books on the website of my favorite publisher. But in order to buy it, I'll have to take extra steps: click over to a distributor's website, log in there, select the book again...
I don't know about you, but the instant gratification of buying an ebook kind of was my main incentive to start reading ebooks at all, and also to stick to reading them almost exclusively. More steps to take means I've got more time to reconsider my buy. I must admit I've already found myself taking a pass on books I was only casually interested in to begin with by the time I arrived at the distributor's website.
And even if my laziness didn't feature in my decision whether to buy a particular book or not, higher prices in relation to an unchanged reading budget most certainly will. I'm certain the same will apply to many other EU ebook buyers.
However, I think who'll be most under stress as a result of the new situation are self-publishing authors. Some platforms (like Amazon's Kindle store) take care of VAT, pricing ebooks differently according to the respective country's VAT tax. That means a self-published author's book will have different prices depending on buyer's country. Irritatingly enough, but what if said author publishes through a platform that doesn't take care of VAT for him? What are they to do - price their books differently per country? Sell at the same price to all, keep track of every single buyer and calculate the respective correct tax deduction (or risk committing tax fraud if they don't) ?
The implications are numerous and open to speculation. I don't know what the new laws will do to the international ebook market in general. All I know, that newest bureaucrat's guff, only effective for a few days now, irritated ME already, and I'm a mere reader who doesn't have much to be irritated about except for having to cut back on her book buying.
Let's see what comes of it in the long run.
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Well said! I'm an accountant as well as a reader, author and self-publisher - and I'm in the EU like you! - so I've done a lot of research on the VAT topic. You give a very good summary of the impact. I know there are several campaigns at the moment to try and bring in a minimum level on the tax, but it's really sad to hear direct ebookstores have closed their shops :(ReplyDelete
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Berkhamsted got back to winning ways on Saturday with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Micky Hazard's Hadley team.
The Broadwater faithful were glad to see five key players back in the Comrades starting line-up after the midweek defeat to league leaders London Colney.
Berko took an early lead when Max Farrelly spotted Charlie Mann off his line and lobbed the opening goal while the visiting defence hesitated.
A trip on Steve Hawes in the 14th minute was punished with a penalty which Josh Chamberlain converted with aplomb into the corner of the net.
Ex-Watford, Hemel Town and Kings Langley forward Alex Campana then opened his account for Berko with a third goal in the 35th minute, shooting home neatly.
Adam Mead was back in the Berko line-up after shin splints and he had a fine game apart from a back header that fooled the rest of the defence and allowed Ivan Machedo to nip in for his fourth goal of the week.
Berko responded well and hit the bar before the interval, while visiting skipper Tony Sabag fouled Campana and got a yellow card for his troubles with most of the crowd expecting to see the referee produce a red.
Comrades substitute Jude Eboji was unlucky to have a goal disallowed for offside, as he appeared to come from behind a defender to latch on to a pass and net at the Canal End.
In the second half Gustavo Angel Tamayo and Nick Crysanthiou sent shots whistling past the Berko post at the Railway End, while the hosts' best efforts came from Campana and Mannion.
The Comrades thought they should have had a penalty when substitute George Carbery went down in the penalty area but nothing was given, while Tom Carter came on to make his debut after signing from Kings Langley.
Berko stay third in the table but move closer to second placed AFC Dunstable who lost to Hoddesdon Town.
Berko: Tasker; Mead, Weeks, Baldry, Sears, Farrelly, Jowle (Eboji), Hawes, Campana (Carter), Mannion, Chamberlain (Carbery). Subs not used: Canham & Towell.
Elsewhere, Berko's reserves had their best win of the season as they beat Lemsford's first team 5-2.
Ashley Higgins scored a hat-trick and Ross Trevillion bagged a brace to set up a home clash with Bedmond's first team in the next round.
On Saturday Berko are at home to AFC Kempston Rovers in the FA Vase. The visitors are unbeaten in the United Counties League Premier Division and will be the toughest test to date in the Vase for Berko.
If the scores are level after extra-time there will be a midweek replay, but otherwise Berko have two consecutive free midweeks.
In the Suburban League Berko go to North Greenford United Reserves on Saturday.

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Congratulations to first-author Rob Stefanelli, from Heather Castleden's HEC Lab, on his publication that examines Canadian and Australian researchers' perspectives on promising practices for implementing indigenous and Western knowledge systems in water research and management.
Stefanelli, R., Castleden, H., Cunsolo, A., Martin, D., Harper, S.L. and Hart, C., 2017. Canadian and Australian researchers' perspectives on promising practices for implementing indigenous and Western knowledge systems in water research and management. Water Policy, DOI: 10.2166/wp.2017.181. Click here to access the article.
National and international policies have called for the inclusion of Indigenous peoples and the uptake of Indigenous knowledge alongside Western knowledge in natural resource management. Such policy decisions have led to a recent proliferation of research projects seeking to apply both Indigenous and Western knowledge in water research and management. While these policies require people with knowledge from both Western and Indigenous perspectives to collaborate and share knowledge, how best to create and foster these partnerships is less understood. To elicit this understanding, 17 semi-structured interviews were completed with academic researchers from Canada and Australia who conduct integrative water research. Participants, most of whom were non-Indigenous, were asked to expand on their experiences in conducting integrative water research projects, and findings were thematically analyzed. Our findings suggest that Indigenous and Western knowledge systems influence how one relates to water, and that partnerships require a recognition and acceptance of these differences. We learned that community-based participatory research approaches, and the associated tenets of fostering mutual trust and community ownership for such an approach, are integral to the meaningful engagement that is essential for developing collaborative partnerships to implement both Indigenous and Western knowledge systems and better care for water.


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If there is one thing Americans know how to do best, it is to sell their country. I haven't been to America (Yet) but I know how it looks like and I sure as hell know I do not want to mess with it. They are years ahead in terms of technology, their defense systems are 98% unbreakable and their president is truly the leader of the free world. All this I know because of the power of their films where they showcase America as a super power.
Come back closer home and we have been raised to not question the government or speak ill of the president without dire consequences. Until recently as seen with the Uhuru administration, presidents were feared and not much of their personal lives were known and maybe that is the reason we've never seen anyone dare make a TV series on the life of the president and what goes on in his private life. Politics were and perhaps still is a sensitive subject matter. How are presidential decisions made? Who affects them? Does the 1st family have issues like any other family? Is knowing all this information affect our view of the presidency? Well, no one dared to do ask those questions, until now.
It has been termed Kenya's version of the Scandal but the similiarity between the two shows ends at the fact that it is a show that opens us into the life of the president. State House is a thrilling 12 episode series which will air on Zuku Entertainment, channel 100 every Monday 8:30pm, starting 3 March. The 12 episodes will be followed by a "making of" episode, in which cast, crew, producers and broadcaster all give behind the scenes insights into the production.
Shot in a lavish mansion that is rumored to be the house of the late Njenga karume, State house is a Zuku Production and is directed by award winning film maker Wanuri Kahiu.
Starring some big names in the acting industry like Jimmi Gathu (plays the president), Chichi Seii (presidents wife) , Steve Matias (State house controller), Kaz Lucas (Presidents PA) , Hellen Keli, Martin Githinji, Shirleen Wangari plus many more, the series is an original modern day political drama , that traverses the unseen world of the head of state's residence and office, peeking into an arena that is constantly rife with political intrigue and scandalous relationships. It follows the servants who run the house, the Controller that rules it and the guests, politicians and diplomats that fill its corridors.
It's another thumbs up for Wanuri Kahiu as she continues to break the ground with projects that set the bar high for film making in Kenya. Another project that Wanuri is famously known for is Pumzi, a Kenyan science-fiction short film that was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program.
Politics and power seem to be the themes that State house has to offer; Power that is not only portrayed by the men but by the 1st lady and PA to the president and how they directly or indirectly affect, the presidents stand as the pillar of authority. Who exactly wears the pants in this house?
The public had a chance to watch the 1st four episodes of State house when it premiered on Thursday 27th Feb 2014 at Nakumatt Junction Century Cinemax. The series will continue showing at the cinema everyday at 7:30pm till the 7th of March.
Below are some of the pictures from the premier of statehouse.


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Singer Donna Summer, who found fame as one of the biggest stars of the disco era, died Thursday of cancer, according to news reports. She was 63.
Summer, whose hits included such songs as "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and "MacArthur Park," won five Grammys in a career that started with her work in musical theater and as a studio backup singer before she exploded in the latter half of the '70s as one of the most recognizable stars of the disco scene.
"Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith," her family said in a statement released Thursday. "While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."
Her breathy and seductive vocals on "Love To Love You Baby" turned into her first hit record on its release in 1975, with controversy over her moans and groans of pleasure on the track causing some radio stations to ban it even as club-goers grooved to a longer version that reached 17 minutes or so.
In 1978, she earned her first No. 1 single with a cover of "MacArthur Park," also acting in the movie "Thank God It's Friday," which produced the hit single "Last Dance," the single that won Summer her first Grammy.
The concept album Bad Girls followed in 1979, with its title track, "Hot Stuff," and "Dim All The Lights" among its best-known tracks. Moving into the '80s, Summer tried to break away from disco and expand her work into other parts of pop and rock 'n' roll. The 1983 album She Works Hard For Her Money was another success, with its title track a hit single and popular video on the still-new-at-the-time MTV.
In recent years, she had continued success with dance records, and toured regularly. In 2008, she played two nights at the Hollywood Bowl while touring behind Crayons, her first album of new material since 1991. (See our review for the first of those shows here.) In 2009, she played the Orange County Performing Arts Center, her last local appearance, if we're not mistaken.
Summer was in Florida when she died. She is survived by her husband Bruce Sudano and three daughters.
Remember her here with this classic clip of Summer singing "Last Dance":
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Let's join the party and explore different hawker stalls along the Food Street at Broadway Macau. With live performance and chances to win travel packages from the lucky draw!
Event details:-
Date: September 22 , 2019 (Sunday)
Time: 10:00 p.m. – 12 a.m.
Venue: Food Street, Broadway Macau, Avenida Marginal Flor de Lotus, COTAI, Macau
For ticket redemption please refer to additional information.
This event will close by September 19.
一起来参加 DreamNight 派对吃尽百老汇美食街的街头小吃! 现场有音乐娱乐表演, 更有幸运大抽奖, 有机会得到丰富的旅行套餐!
日期: 2019 年9 月22 日 (星期日)
时间: 晚上10时- 12 时
地点: 澳门路氹城莲花海滨大马路, 澳门百老汇美食街
领票方法请参阅更多信息 (Additional information)。
此活动将于9 月19日截止预订。
Each ticket includes:
*Additional donation are welcome at the event on-site.
Combining both food and entertainment, the Food Street at Broadway Macau would never let you get bored and hungry!
Broadway Food Street has over 40 restaurants serving local and International delicacies and you could savour from specialty snacks to Michelin-starred restaurants.
结合美食和娱乐,澳门百老汇美食街永远不会让您感到无聊和饥饿!百老汇美食街拥有超过40间餐厅让您尝尽澳门地道和国际美食, 从特色小吃到米其林餐厅应有尽有。
Ticket redemption:
On September 22, please present your confirmation together with your identification document at
- This is a one-day event only. No hotel room stay included.
- Free admission for children at 4 years old and below. No coupons and gifts are included but transfer service only. 5 years old and above will be charged as adult.
- Transfer shuttle service will be provided on first-come, first-served basis.
- Price and points are displayed per 1 ticket only.
- Please choose "1 room" and "1 ticket" to be purchased.
于9 月22日当天请出示确认书,连同个人身分證明文件于以下地点换领:
- 此為一天活動, 並不包括任何酒店住宿。
- 0-4 岁以下之小童免费入场, 只包括接送服务, 并不包括任何餐饮劵和礼品。5 岁或以上小童将收取成人费用。
- 专车接送服务将按先到先得的原则提供。
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- 购票时请选择「 1 房」 -> 选择「1张」门票。
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Saudi Arabia's electricity market is estimated to be the largest in the Arab world with the installed capacity estimated at 78,558 MW in 2015.
Latin America's M&A Deals: Companies offload grid assets for core businesses
November 7, 2016
Despite economic and political challenges, Latin America's power sector witnessed several major mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals during 2015-16. As per PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), 57 deals aggregating USD10 billion took place in the electricity sectors of South and Central America during 2015, about 45 per cent higher than in 2014.
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UK's Offshore Transmission System Owner (OFTO) regime to own and maintain offshore transmission assets through a competitive tender process has met with significant success, with the sector attracting GBP1.5 billion worth of investments since its launch in 2009.
Germany's Plans for Underground DC Lines: To fast-track grid expansion
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In Germany, the recent revival of the SuedLink and SuedOstLink projects to evacuate offshore wind power through underground direct current (DC) cables is expected to help fast-track grid expansion, which so far has not kept pace with the government's green energy plans.
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Utilities in the US are facing low energy demand, which is affecting their sales and earnings. The scenario is not likely to change significantly in the coming decades.
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Colombia's electricity demand is projected to grow significantly over the coming years, fuelled by the increasing number of middle-income households. Expected demand in 2020 is estimated to be 16 per cent higher than the current demand.
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September 9, 2016
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September 9, 2016
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Florida Children and Youth Cabinet
VISION: All children in Florida grow up safe, healthy, educated and prepared to meet their full potential.
MISSION: To ensure that the public policy of Florida relating to children and youth promotes interdepartmental collaboration and program implementation in order for services designed for children and youth to be planned, managed and delivered in a holistic and integrated manner to improve the self-sufficiency, safety, economic stability, health and quality of life of all children and youth in Florida.
On July 11, 2007, legislation was signed by the Governor that created the Children and Youth Cabinet.
The Cabinet is charged with promoting and implementing collaboration, creativity, increased efficiency, information sharing and improved service delivery between and within state agencies and organizations.
As directed by statute, in 2007 the Cabinet developed a shared vision and a Strategic Plan to guide the Cabinet in designing and implementing measurable outcomes and actions that promote collaboration and information sharing.
Next Cabinet Meetings:
August 23, 2019
10:30 a.m.
Orange County – Commission Chambers, Administration Building
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Orlando FL, 32801
The Orange County Board of Commission Chambers is located on the 1st floor of the Orange County Administration Building
Conference Room Number: 472-450-272
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The Florida Children and Youth Cabinet held a strategic workshop in Tampa on July 20, 2017 with the purpose of defining three areas of action for the Cabinet members to tackle during the next 18 months.
Representative Gayle Harrell presented a resolution to Chair Wansley Walters recognizing April 2017 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Florida.
Below are the top three priorities that the Cabinet will be focusing on over the next 18 months:
1) Continued focus on pre-natal to age three (0-3) with an additional focus on the School Readiness of children ensuring children are prepared for kindergarten from ages 3-5;
2) Children living in high poverty areas (safety, health & education); addressing children in poverty; safe and affordable housing (and neighborhoods); and
3) Mental Health & Substance Abuse (safety and health); this includes teens with significant behavioral/mental health issues
Cabinet Initiatives:
• Bullying Prevention Workgroup
• Business, Finance, and Governance Workgroup
• Children and Youth Collaboration Services Workgroup
• Communications Workgroup
• Crossover Children Workgroup
• Early Learning Workgroup
• Legislative Affairs Workgroup
• Multi-System Children and Youth Workgroup
• Policy Impact Committee
• Prevention Investment Strategy Workgroup
• Technology Workgroup
• Statewide Suicide Prevention Task Force
• Youth Commission
2018 Legislative Initiatives Supported by the Cabinet
List of Florida Children and Youth Cabinet members
2018 Florida Children and Youth Cabinet Annual Report
Upcoming meetings and events for the Florida Children's Youth Cabinet and its members
Workgroup Alignment to Children and Youth Focus Areas and Headline Indicators
Workgroup Alignment to Children and Youth Strategic Plan


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PROPER 23 (October 9-15) — YEAR C / Ordinary Time 28
RCL: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19
RoCa: 2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19
This week's lessons ring out a theme gratefulness, the gospel lesson being a standard lection for Thanksgiving. More than commenting specifically on the lessons I'd like to explore the theme of gratitude.
Can Christian theology begin to do for gratitude what it has done for love? Namely, develop our understanding and experience of it as more than a feeling or emotion but also as a way of acting, a way of living. When Christ asks us to love our enemies, we have had to assume that he hasn't meant just a feeling. It is difficult, if not impossible, to feel love toward one's enemies. But we can act loving toward them. We can accept them as fellow children of God and refuse to return harm. We might even be able to find ourselves identifying with them and achieving some empathy.
I'd like to suggest a similar experience of gratitude. There are many situations in life and many experiences that feel more like curses for which it would be difficult, if not impossible, to feel grateful. But perhaps gratitude is also a way of acting, a way of living. What I have in mind is a way of acting which presumes upon the grace of God. Gratitude is a way of living that never lets go of living in dependence on God's grace. The psalmist, for example, will often times lament a terrible situation for which it would be difficult to have the feeling of gratitude. But the psalmist nevertheless makes the lament to God. The psalmist continues to presume, to call upon, God's grace.
The opposite of gratitude, then, would generally be the way of sin: living in the illusion that one is independent of God's grace, that one is equal enough to God that one doesn't really need God. Gratitude is a particularly difficult way of living in our modern age, I think, because we have a distorted view of both freedom and equality. Gratitude as a way of living must presume at least one true inequality: that between Creator and creature. God the Creator is the source of life; we the creatures are the recipients of life. There is no getting around our dependence on God's gracious power of life.
As I've previously suggested in these commentaries: we cannot have true equality with each other as children of God unless it's founded on that basic inequality between us and our heavenly parent. Otherwise, as mimetic theory helps us to understand, we fall into rivalry with one another. The way out of rivalry is for everyone to defer to God's desire, to jointly seek God's will. The way out of rivalry is to be disciples of the true Son who was able to defer to the will of his heavenly Father.
Jesus lived a life of gratitude. With only five loaves and two fish to feed five thousand, he gave thanks to God, broke the bread, and gave it away. On the night in which he was handed over, he gave thanks, broke the bread, and gave it away — all as a sign of what he did with his life the next day. When we live the eucharistic life, we find real freedom from the fear of death. We are able to trust our lives to the God who is an unending source of life.
2 Kings 5:14-17
Reflections and Questions
1. This story is alluded to in Luke 4:17. Jesus implies to his hometown crowd that he will not cater to them; he will bring his ministry to outsiders like Elijah did with the Widow of Sidon and Elisha with Namaan the Syrian. The people of Nazareth react in a rage and try to lynch Jesus, to force him off the cliff. See comments for Epiphany 3C and Epiphany 4C.
2 Timothy 2:8-15
Reflections and Questions
1. In 1995 I used the Pauline image of dying in Christ as a jumping off point for a sermon "Healing through Death." We need to die to the sin of righteous violence and take up Jesus' way of unconditional love, even toward those we deem enemies. We were observing "Pink Ribbon" Sunday that day, lifting up those who battle breast cancer. The themes of dying in Christ and battling cancer are roled in with the image of a computer virus around an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "I, Borg."
2. "if we deny him, he will also deny us." Is this true? What about Peter who denied Jesus? Wasn't he forgiven instead of reciprocally denied? The next line seems to imply Christ's faithfulness to us even when we aren't faithful to him: "if we are faithless, he remains faithful — for he cannot deny himself." So I'm doubly puzzled by the previous phrase regarding denial. These two lines seem to contradict each other. And Jesus clearly didn't deny Peter after Peter denied him.
Luke 17:11-19
Exegetical Notes
1. If this were Mark's Gospel, we might take the mentions of Samaritans in Luke 10 & 17 as an inclusion since Mark is famous for that. What about Luke? Could he have an inclusion in mind here? Luke 10:25 begins with the question about the greatest commandment, to which Jesus most immediate response lifts up a Samaritan as exemplary in the second part of the greatest commandment: the "Good Samaritan" shows us how to love our neighbor. In this next mention of a Samaritan in Luke's Gospel, isn't this tenth leper an examplary of first part of the greatest commandment? Jesus queries, "Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" (Luke 17:18) And the irony of a Samaritan who knows how to truly worship God is even more pronounced than a Samaritan who knows how to love neighbor. The Jewish hatred of Samaritans stemmed from their differing worship practices. The Samaritans had it all wrong. Yet this Samaritan, in bowing down and giving thanks to Jesus, is the exemplary of true worship. How might we read all that comes in between as an inclusion?
2. Michael Hardin, at PreachingPeace.org (the "Anthropological Reading"), offers the reading of Jesus command — "Go and show yourselves to the priests" — as a plural, "priests," that points to the differing worship practices. The nine Jewish lepers were to go to their priest; the Samaritan to his priest — thus, the plural "priests." The Samaritan ends up choosing his priest as Jesus, modeling true worship.
3. The only other mentions of Samaritans in Luke are the Parable of the Good Samaritan (10:25-37) and as Jesus begins what in Luke is called the Journey to Jerusalem:
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" But he turned and rebuked them. Then they went on to another village. (Luke 9:51-56)
This passage is most often interpreted with a negative focus on Samaritans. My Oxford Annotated NRSV Bible, for example, titles this passage (in the footnotes) "The hostile Samaritans." I find this to be absolutely incredible. To me the passage is clearly about the rebuke to the disciples for assuming the Samaritans to be hostile — which means modern interpretation hasn't advanced a wit over the disciples. As Jesus turns his face to his own offering up to our engines of righteous violence, the disciples display a fundamental misrecognition of his mission in their wishing for an act of divine righteous violence upon their enemies.
In a published article, "The Work of René Girard as a New Key to Biblical Hermeneutics" (Currents in Theology and Mission, June 1999, pages 196-209.) I use Luke 9:51-62 as an example of how mimetic theory can help us to correct such mistaken readings (link to excerpt on Luke 9:51-62). I argue that "they" in "they did not receive him" actual refers to the messengers, not to the Samaritans as is usually assumed. Jesus has set his face to Jerusalem, unbeknownst to the others, and so he changes his plans about going to the Samaritan town. The advance guard of messengers don't receive him because he has changed his plans. The disciples wrongly assume that Jesus has changed his mind because of the Samaritans, their enemies, and wish divine fire down upon them. They coudln't be further from the truth, and Jesus rebukes them. Supportive of this reading, in my view, are the two subsequent uses by Jesus of Samaritans as exemplifying both parts of the Great Commandment: worshiping God (17:11-19) and loving neighbor (10:25-37). (For more on Luke 9:51-56, see Proper 8C).
4. There are four times in this passage that healing is indicated, and the different words that Luke chooses to convey it are interesting. First, the two most common words used to indicate healing in the NT are iaomai and therapeuo; the NRSV, for the most part, adopted a convention of translating the first as "heal" and the second as "cure."
In the case of these lepers, the main word that Luke uses to indicate the healing in vs. 14 & 17 is katharizo, "cleanse," "make clean." In between, in vs. 15, the major witnesses use the word iaomai. But there are several ancient texts that keep it consistent at this point using the word katharizo. The significance of the word choices is that Luke's Jesus changes to a very different word for the final pronouncement, saying to the Samaritan leper in 17:19 (NRSV), "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well." "Well" is the translation of the Greek word sozo, "save," "rescue." Especially if we take the lesser textual witnesses, Luke changes from "made clean" to "saved." Has there been a double healing for the Samaritan? Does sozo indicate a healing, a salvation, for the Samaritan that goes beyond the initial cleansing enjoyed by all ten lepers?
1. Michael Hardin and Jeff Krantz, PreachingPeace.org. Hardin brings mimetic theory to bear upon this passage as being about the perspective of the victim. These lepers are pushed to the margins between their homelands. The one Samaritan with none Jews is even the lowest of the low. Hardin concludes:
Not only do we have a group of marginalized lepers, but that group also has its singular marginalized person, the Samaritan. Shall we suppose that the disease of leprosy so united the lepers that they no longer were engaged by the victimage mechanism? Shall we suppose that the nine Jewish lepers did not in some fashion ostracize the Samaritan within their little circle? Would their leprosy have overcome the hundreds of years of social animosity that they carried with them in their worldviews? No. This seems to be implied by Jesus reference to the Samaritan as an allogenes, a foreigner. The Samaritan, in other words, is the victim par excellence in the story, he is the victim of the victims, yet it is this most marginalized one who truly sees (not at all an unfamiliar theme in the gospels).When all were healed and only one returned thanking God, where did the other nine go? They made a beeline back to the social matrix from which they had been thrust, back to families they may have missed, back to the world of social respectability. They made straight for the religious dimension of the sacral mechanism, the priest, who would declare them socially acceptable. They failed to see that God, in cleansing them, had already accepted not only them, but also their fellow leper, the Samaritan. A new sociality had been given in the miracle that they failed to grasp and so they took this gift from God and walked right back to the system that had previously extruded them without seeing or understanding that something indeed was bent about the system. Nor, as mentioned, did they see a new thing had occurred in their midst, the healing of a division that went back hundreds of years. Jesus brings healing to each of us and all of us in order that we might be one in Him. Do we see any clearer than the nine?
2. Andrew Marr, Abbot of St. Gregory's Abbey (Three Rivers, MI) is a long-time reader and writer on Mimetic Theory and in his blog, "Imaginary Visions of True Peace," made these reflections on this passage in 2013, "Cast Out by the Outcasts."
3. Sermons/blogs from a Girardian perspective by members and friends of Theology & Peace: Tom Truby, a sermon in 2013, titled "Is Gratitude a Form of Faith That Makes Us Well?"; a sermon in 2016, "One Embraced a New Way of Living"; Russ Hewett, a blog in 2016, "Ten Lepers — When Disobeying Jesus Is the Right Thing to Do."
4. Paul Nuechterlein, The Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual 2014, pp. 246-47. This text is also the Gospel Reading for Thanksgiving Day A. A Thanksgiving sermon that I've given at several times and places is, "Give Thanks and Be Whole."
Reflections and Questions
1. In 2016 Brian McLaren's extraordinarily important book The Great Spiritual Migration had just come out, which elaborates three essential migrations for the Christian movement at this point in history. I decided this book is so important that I'd like to try a three week series that fits each of the three migrations to three consecutive sets of readings, beginning last week. This is the second sermon in the series, "The Great Spiritual Migration, Part 2: The God of Outsiders, Immigrants, and Refugees." (Link to Part 1, Part 3)
At the parish I was at, we also designated this day as Refugee Sunday, a means to lift up the excellent work of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS). The basic moves for this sermon included:
- Setting up the problem of reading Scripture where you have "God is love" (1 John 4) and God commanding genocide (Deut. 7). The popular reading strategy, treating all parts of scripture as literally and equally true, leads to such contradictions.
- A new reading strategy has been needed for a long time: viewing Scripture anthropologically as the true narrative of God taking human beings on a journey from our false gods to the true God — who is love, period. It's a narrative in travail (see McLaren, ch. 6, "The Bible in Labor"), a rebirthing of humans beings.
- Part of the story of travail, then, is human beings — including subsequent Christian history! — continuing to mistake false gods who do things like command genocide as the true God (see McLaren, ch. 4, "The Genocide Card in Your Back Pocket").
- The basic god who evolved as the basis of our cultures, our original birthing, is the God-on-our-side. God-is-love, the true God behind our rebirthing, does not take sides, coming to expression in Jesus's message to love even one's enemies (Matt 5:38-48). (In McLaren's excellent elaboration of this migration, see ch. 5, "God 5.0." The evolution of God to my designation of God-on-our-side is God 4.0 in McLaren's nomenclature. Jesus takes us to God 5.0.)
- How does God-is-love move human beings past God-on-our-side — a virtual rebirthing since experience of gods (transcendence) is fundamental to human evolution? This is my basic move that highlights Refugee Sunday: God must progressively be identified with the outsiders, immigrants, and refugees. Read the Bible through that lens, and it rather immediately reveals its truth. Abraham and Sarah open the story by being called out of their culture to become perpetual wanderers. The foundational story of God's people is liberation as slaves in Egypt to become wanderers in the wilderness. After a relatively brief time of landedness and a successful monarchy, the remainder of the story of God's people is either one of exile-diaspora, or one of being outsiders in one's own land, a people under the oppression of foreign empires. Jesus the Messiah comes into this story and, instead of turning it around to a wonderful dénouement of God-on-our-side, defeating all God's enemies, Jesus the Messiah lets himself become the ultimate outsider on the cross, letting God's enemies defeat him. And only the resurrection, as God's vindication of the ultimate outsider, can begin to turn human history to begin evolving toward God-is-love. The Resurrection begins the rebirth of Creation because the children of God have been rebirthed (Romans 8:18-23).
2. katharizo, "made clean," is a term of sacred religion which divides the world along lines of sacred/profane, clean/unclean. When the Samaritan, instead of doing his sacred duty by going to the priest for official pronouncement of his status of purity, returns to Jesus giving thanks, is Jesus' final pronouncement upon him referring to the fact that he has been saved from the system of ritual purity itself? His faith in Jesus has now taken him outside of the sacred system, rescuing him from its pronouncements?
On the theme of healing vs. ritual purity there is much from the viewpoint of mimetic theory during a four-week sermon series on healing from Mark's Gospel during Epiphany 2003. It might be most poignant to begin with Mark's story of Jesus healing a leper in Mark 1:40-45 (Epiphany 6B), which is paralleled in Luke 5:12-16 (but not part of the Year C Revised Common Lectionary).
3. What is the significance of this leper being Samaritan in terms of his religious duty to be pronounced clean? Would he have needed to go to a Jewish priest like his fellow cleansed lepers? Would he have gone to a Samaritan priest? Or is part of his returning to Jesus, forsaking the visit to the priest, due to the fact that he is a Samaritan and had different ritual requirements in the first place? In the latter case, his differing religious "faith" would have saved him the trouble of needing to do what the other nine Jewish lepers needed to do. (See Michael Hardin's reading in note 2 of the Exegetical Notes.)
4. When he saw them, he said to them, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.'" What is Jesus doing here? In other stories of Jesus healing lepers, he makes a big show of bucking the purity system by even touching them when he heals them. And there's nothing about showing oneself to the priest. Here, it seems he keeps his distance, merely calling to them to go show themselves to the priests. He seems to be going along with the purity system. But, upon being made clean, the Samaritan forsakes that system to immediately come back to thank his healer and to praise God. Is his leaving behind the purity system the point of this story? True faith goes beyond the sacred system of clean and unclean to find a compassionate God who truly can make us "well." But, in that case, why does Jesus tell them to follow the purity system in the first place? Was his telling them to go the priests a test of sorts to see which ones had enough faith to forsake the purity system in favor of the truer, more complete source of healing, one which saves us from the ill effects of the purity system itself? In that case, it's significant that only the Samaritan, only the one that Jews considered as religiously inferior, was able to pass this test of true religion. Only the one designated as the outsider was able to escape the dis-ease of playing games of insiders and outsiders.
5. If the purity system itself is cause for dis-ease, then the Samaritan was the only one in need of a double cure from it. He was unclean both by virtue of being a leper and by being a Samaritan; his fellow lepers were only unclean in terms of their leprosy. The priest could pronounce the lepers cleansed of their disease, but they would not pronounce the Samaritan clean of his being a Samaritan. Only Jesus, the one who would expose the dis-ease of the sacred system itself, would pronounce the Samaritan's second cleansing, a pronouncement that effectively declares his having been rescued from the system itself. Jesus would let himself be judged unclean in order that the veil would be rent in two that keeps us from seeing the emptiness of the sacred system.
6. True faith. Is this story a follow-up for Luke to last week's text when the disciples ask for an increase in faith? See the comments on the Gospel for Proper 22C. Also, 17:9-10 raises the issue of giving thanks.


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We've been contacted by another blog reader looking for some help filling out the final details of some family history research which has led him from Suffolk to Norfolk.
My grandfather, Albert Holmes from Newmarket Suffolk, was born in 1883. Albert was a Bricklayer before he joined up to the B Company of the 2nd Btn Suffolk Regiment. He was born in Exning (nr Newmarket) and lived in Newmarket. He married just before he joined up and his widow (my grandmother) never remarried but lived until 1971 aged 88 – much of the time in the house they moved into after the marriage!
We know he was home on leave late 1916/1917 as I have a photo of him with his wife and my mother – who was born in April 1915.
He is recorded on the War memorial in Newmarket but until I contacted the Suffolk Regiment Museum with a photograph I did not know that he was in the Norfolk Regiment. More research has let us know that Albert died of his wounds on 6th Aug 1918 and was buried in North Gate Cemetery in Baghdad.
I knew from my grandmother that he was buried in the Middle East but I don't know if she even knew exactly where. I have two requests:
Does anyone have any photos of his grave or memorial in the North Gate Cemetary? At present I don't know if he even has a grave or if this cemetary is still in existance.
Also I would also love to know is more about his service, things like when he returned from leave (which would more positively date my family photo), when he joined the Norfolks, when he arrived in the Middle East, when and where he was injured and in hospital.
I know that other readers of this blog have helped fill in the gaps for other people and I hope the same comes true here – thank you in advance, Mike Browne.
As ever if you can help tell Albert's story please do drop us a line (email@example.com), leave a comment here or reach us on Twitter (@Norfolkinww1).


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This will be a yearly thing where I bring this post to the top. I feel it's just that important for the well being of wild steelhead. Those of you that already curtails your upriver fishing, I applaud you!
Those of you who insist on harassing fish on their redds then maybe you should pay attention. There are still fresh steelhead in the lower portions of the river so why not stay down there and leave the upriver areas alone....ya think?
This subject is something I strongly believe in and adhere to so since this is my blog you dear readers will just have to indulge me.
As most of you know I spend a lot of time fishing the rivers near Tillamook, Oregon. I fish for steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout on those rivers and know some of them very well. I know the fish and where they frequent, although you would never guess that by my angling success or lack thereof on the Wilson. This time of year I will stay out of the upper parts of those rivers because I know there are many wild steelhead using the upper rivers and tributaries to spawn.
How did I arrive at this decision? In 2001 I was fishing in the upper portion of a Tillamook area stream and hooked a very large wild female steelhead. I played her out and landed her carefully to avoid any harm coming to her when I saw that she was dropping her eggs. I had probably taken her right off a spawning bed and I felt disgusted with myself for even being in that section of the river.
I vowed from that day on to never fish the upper river in late spring until at least the end of May. I've tried to convince others to do likewise and have managed to convince some but others steadfastly refuse.
The ODFW (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife) closes the nearby Miami river completely for that two month period and the upper Nestucca river is closed in order to limit access to spawning areas but why not the Wilson or the Trask?
I have seen too many pictures of grinning fishermen holding a wild buck steelhead out of the water for their hero shot while that male fish is dumping it's milt all over the fisherman's waders.
Some might say that why stop at the upper rivers why not close the whole river during that time? Wouldn't bother me in the least but some of those are big revenue rivers for both the ODFW and Tillamook county so with heavy lobbying from a few "good old boys" Tillamook area fishing groups they stays open.
I urge everyone who reads my blog to consider what they can do to further the cause of wild fish in this state and any state. If we don't do it then who will!
The picture below gives you an idea of what to look for.
PLEASE LEAVE SPAWNING or GUARDING FISH ALONE
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Friday, April 07, 2017
The Vilification of Conservation....A Disturbing Trend
Why is this and what is this? The why is the paranoia that these conservation groups are working to have hatcheries closed. The what is just plain old fear mongering by those that are apparently too dumb to understand and by those with a personal agenda who will go to any length and spread any lie to achieve their goals of over loading rivers with harmful hatchery plants.
They also have bought into the lie that these conservation groups want to make all streams fly fishing only! Again not true but this is perhaps the most popular lie.
I am a lifetime member of Trout Unlimited. I am also a member of Native Fish Society, Wild Steelhead Coalition and Federation of Fly Fishers. None of these groups want to make our Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead rivers fly fishing only! Got that? None!!!
Then there is the the disdain for proven science. Fish biologists have almost unanimously agreed that hatchery salmonids are harmful to wild salmonids.Even Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has published papers, BY THEIR OWN BIOLOGISTS, stating the harmful effects of hatchery fish! Clearly the preponderance of evidence is there! Yet in this day and age of disdaining anything scientific this evidence is dismissed.Instead the opinion of arm chair fishery biologists,gear guides and half-baked, self proclaimed fishing experts who have little practical training if any in complex fishery science is listened to by the ignorant masses. Does this scenario sound familiar? The opinion of some north coast guides is listened to instead of those with doctoral degrees. Go figure huh?
Anytime that conservation groups are compared to Nazism and the holocaust then the debate has gone into a dangerous and dark direction. There is no accountability for the fear mongering and these lies and that is too bad.You can bombard the lies with facts and peer proven science but to no avail.
We are nearing the end of a resource that was once abundant. Because of ignorance,greed and short-sightedness we are looking at the proverbial bottom of the barrel.
I am not a fish biologist so anything I state that comes off as personal opinion can be taken with a grain of salt. I try to avoid getting on a soap box but I will definitely link scientific data about the dangers of things like broodstock programs and inter-action between hatchery fish and wild fish. There is a ton of unbiased studies out there.
Conservation groups get accused of "cherry picking" the science and that is something that is totally untrue! There are a lot of thoughtful, intelligent people in groups like Native Fish Society who know that to publish false information would be ruinous to the organization so they just do not do it.
The old "you want to close the hatcheries" argument is something right out of the alt-right playbook. You feed people lies and misinformation long enough you might actually get a few of the more gullible to believe you! FOX News is a prime example of using lies and fear mongering to sway votes.
If you want to debate me then you can bet that I will politely listen to your points but if you start spouting off bullshit then I will come back at you with science. It's the only way right?
I first wrote this entry back 4 years ago and have updated and expanded it.
The fact remains that there is still mistrust and outright hate towards the very people who are trying to save a few wild fish for future generation.It's maddening and frustrating beyond words.
All of us that care about the cold water fisheries here in the Pacific Northwest know that this is imperative! Follow the science!
Helpful Tips For The Older Fly Fisherman
A few years ago I picked up a helpful pamphlet by the late Lenox Dick about fly fishing for the elderly. I'm almost 63 but don't put me in the grave yet and I do appreciate those senior discounts. Since I have a bad back and it sometimes makes me feel like I'm 103 I thought that the information by Mr. Dick was useful.
I did, however, notice that the author left out a few tips that would be of use for us veteran anglers so here goes....
1. Never fish with someone a lot younger than you. Exceptions of course would be your own children or grandchildren who wouldn't dare keep you out too long in fear of having to carry you back to the car. Anyway, these young guys tend to be obsessed and you may never, ever get off the river especially if the two of you are in his vehicle. This rule also applies to fishing with someone who is new to the sport! They just don't understand that your old body just ain't up to those marathon fishing trips anymore.
2. Never eat spicy or high fiber food the day before a fishing trip on a remote location - Trust me on this guys! Avoid those coconut macaroon cookies at all cost.
3. Do not forget to take toilet paper - You will have to cannibalize your favorite fishing shirt if you forget the TP!
4. When nature calls be sure to get your waders out of the way - They don't make Depends for fly fishermen yet!
5. Try to not make your disdain for bait fishermen too obvious - Remember this is the group from whence you came and may still dabble in occasionally in the winter. Remember there may be a day after you've hung up the fly gear when you cannot do anything but plunk Powerbait at the boat dock.
6.Try to avoid phrases like "Well in my day we did it this way" - Remember how much you used to hate it when someone said it to you when you were young? My day was before graphite, cell phones and the Internet so it's a wonder I ever caught anything.
7.Always tell someone where you are going if you are fishing by yourself - They will need to know where to start their search for the body after all.
8.Invest in a pair of waders with a zipper in them and don't forget to zip them back up before you wade back out.
9.The pants you wear under your waders should have a zipper as well. Button up Levis are a hassle when you gotta go.
Face it Gramps you are not the world class caster you mistakenly thought you once were! Just be satisfied that you at least didn't miss any guides when you threaded your fly rod...you didn't miss any guides did you?
So there you go pops! You can enter your golden years of fly fishing fully prepared and hey at least you are getting out of the house.
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Huge Timesaver! Photo Transfer App
I'm so happy about this find and I bet you will be too! I love to download photos from Dropbox onto my iPad to use for scrapbooking in the Project Life App. I was getting tired of downloading them one at a time and knew there had to be a better way. I Googled it (my process for solving almost every problem) and read several posts about how you can't download multiple files that way and that you could zip them and yada yada yada. Not the answer I was looking for.
I kept going and I found this Photo Transfer App that makes it all super easy! You can download big batches of files from your computer, Dropbox, Flickr, and other devices. Awesome! It's available for iOS and Android devices and it's only $2.99 and totally worth the price.
It's very easy to figure out, but I'm going to walk you through the steps so you feel comfortable. (Mom, this is for you - lol!)
First of all, let the app know if you want to receive or send files. I want to receive them.
Where do you want your files to come from? In this case, I have all the ones I need in Dropbox. I've sorted out enough photos to make 18 pages in the Project Life App.
There are benefits to being organized and it will make the process go faster. However, there are many ways to accomplish the same thing. Just figure out where you want to get your pictures from and select that folder. Also, it's worth a side note mention here that I don't sync Dropbox to my computer.
Once you've located the folder you want, open it up and "select all files" or just the ones you want to download.
Then specify where you want them to go. You can save them to your general camera roll or you can put them into albums. I created albums ahead of time to match up with each of the folders. No sorting photos while I'm scrapping for me!
Man, they sure do download fast!
Before you know, they are all on your device. Just open up your photos app and check!
If you are like me, this little app will make you want to do the happy dance all over town! I love technology!


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2010 KSA Scholarship Recipients
15th Annual KSA Scholarship Awards DinnerUpdated Sunday January 5, 2014 by Kitchener Sports Association.
PHOTO: The 2010 KSA Scholarship recipients and presenters: (Front row l-r) - Ogi Oroz (Huron Heights), Emily Germann (GRCI), Najeam Mehanmel (Cameron Heights), Flo Peters (GRCI) and Cole Chessell (Forest Heights).
Recipient, absent from photo: Katie Phelan (KW Rangers & student at St Mary's)
(Back row: the respective presenters): Bob Fedy (KSA), Bob Hicks (KMHA), Nazin Ramzam (Cameron Heights), Bull Milks (GRCI) and Trevor Francis (Forest Heights).
Each of these students was awarded $1,000 towards the costs of his/her first year of post-secondary education and a further $1,000 for second year studies. Congratulations!
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Special guests at this event included:
Colleen (Galloway) Borman, guest speaker, who was in the first group (of four awards in 1996). Colleen brought greetings, some advice for the scholarship recipients and updated attendees with some personal highlights of her 15 years since starting one of the first recipients of a KSA scholarship.
Courtney Greer (and her dad, Wayne), guest speaker, who ended up in the courts to win the right to play on her high school boys' soccer team.
Courtney is a 17-year-old Grade 11 student at Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School in Waterloo who recently challenged the long-standing position of the high school sports governing bodies that girls in high school must play on the girls' team where a girls' team exists. Courtney wanted to play soccer for her high school senior boys' team but there was a difference of opinion about whether she could play. (She did.) Courtney's father, Wayne, filed an action on her behalf with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal citing gender discrimination. A recent settlement permitting girls to try out for a boys' team even where a girls' team exists ignited the debate about the issue and Courtney was the "lighting rod" for this debate. Courtney and Wayne shared their story and answered questions about their experiences and their thoughts on the on-going debate.
and David Edgar, European professional soccer player and nominee for local 2008 Athlete of the Year honours, who kindly dropped by to say hello!


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Ten Second Concert Review
If Ministry and RevCo are coming to your town, buy earplugs.
The deafness has mostly gone away, but there's still a bit of weirdness going on around the top of my range.
Other than that? It's awesome. I paid thirty dollars to see Luc Van Acker parade around stage in a giant penis costume because he didn't have anything better to do during "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" My life may be officially complete.


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A lot of hosting and other internet services companies offer prepaid annual/multi-year customer plans. These plans generally are not a problem when it comes to selling your business but they can create a few issues. We're going to try to walk through some of those issues in this post.
The key in all discussions of valuation is to remember that the value of your business depends largely on the expected cash flow it will produce for the buyer and the risk to that cash flow.
Renewal/Churn Risk. Renewal/churn risk is the risk that customers will not renew their service at the end of their contract cycle. Non-renewal is sometimes called churn.
Buyers want the customers they acquire to stick around. A customer base made up of customers that have been very stable over a long period of time gives a buyer more comfort than one that hasn't and would likely be worth more.
It can be a problem for buyers if a seller's customer base has a lot of new, prepaid annual contracts. In this case the buyer would have to provide services to those customers for some time but may be uncertain about their churn risk. It can be a huge problem if the base has a lot of new, multi-year customer contracts. In these cases, the churn risk is even higher and the buyer would have to provide services for a longer period of time. Our experience has been that a new, three-year, prepaid customer would likely have little to no value to an buyer. (In fact, some buyers may subtract value because of the costs of maintaining the customer over the three years.)
Cash Flow. We see a number of buyers concerned about the cash flow effects of buying a customer base made up of monthly vs. annual accounts. As long as the customers are spread out evenly across the year, there are no revenue differences between annual and monthly customers bases, all other things being equal. (See this post for the math.)
The bigger cash flow issue is where a seller sells or renews a lot of annual or multi-year contracts just prior to putting their business on the market. This has the effect of pulling future revenues out of the business and reduces the cash flow for buyers.
Deferred Revenue. Deferred Revenue is the liability that is created when you take a payment today for services you are to provide in the future.
For example, your customer pays for one year of hosting service in advance for $120 ($10/month). Under accounting rules, when you first make the sale and got the $120 there would be $10 of revenue (for the first month) and $110 of Deferred Revenue would go on your balance sheet as a liability (adds up to $120.) At the beginning of the second month, a second $10 of revenue would be booked and the Deferred Revenue Liability would be reduced by that $10 to $100. And so on until the end of the year.
Why do you care? Deferred Revenue can have a major impact on a buyer's valuation of your business. How buyer's look at Deferred Revenue can vary greatly from company to company. We've seen buyers that (a) ignore it; (b) reduce the purchase price based on the cost of providing the service that has already been paid for; or (C) reduce the purchase price for the full amount of the Deferred Revenue Liability.
If you have mostly monthly or quarterly customers, Deferred Revenue isn't going to be a big issue for you. As more and more of your base has annual, or longer, contracts, the issue gets bigger. If you have a base with a lot of annual or longer contracts, do the calculations and figure out how big an issue you may have. It is a lot easier to deal with the issue now, before you plan to sell.
Summary. We hope that this overview of some of the purchase/sale issues facing prepaid annual customers has been helpful. Obviously we've had to be brief in our discussion and there are other nuances and issues that come into play.
If you'd like to discuss these further or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Cheval Capital, Inc.
Disclaimer: This post is for general information purposes and is not meant to be taken as financial advice, a recommendation to buy or sell the stocks mentioned above, a comprehensive discussion of valuation or how to do the calculations discussed. Please be sure to consult your financial advisors when valuing your company, considering the sale of your business or making other financial decisions


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2018 New Year, New Body & Mind - New You
You can make a difference.
Taking the time out to reflect on what you will do differently in 2018 and make this commitment to you. To help you ponder I have provided you with a worksheet to help you deliver a great year.
The first thing that needs to be celebrated is 'What went well?'
- Where did you feel "in flow"?
- What made you feel energised?
- When did you feel like you could burst with happiness?
- Obviously pondering these things helps us establish what can be carried through to the 2018.
The questions of 'What didn't go so well' need to be posed after this.
- How did I get into those situations?
- What did I contribute to them?
- What am I resisting?
- Did I act without creating friction?
- How do I now move on?
- Answering these questions will give you insight on bringing more joy into your life and areas of your life to let go.
Then be inspired to visualise your dream life in 12 months, three years or five years from now. Consider the different areas of your life and how they all work together to help you achieve a sense of balance.
The areas of your life are:
- health
- career
- family and friends
- partner
- education, self growth
- recreation
I have placed your health at the top of the list. It's important to be committed to good health and daily practices to have great health. If you let your health go you will have little energy to achieve your dreams and desires. With the little energy you have it maybe wasted on illness.
Wouldn't it be great to have an abundance of energy?
A better mind and body?
What we must do is make time for us.
Are you ready to eliminate the personal stress that is limiting your potential?
Are you ready to banish anxiety from your life and get onto more living?
Make time to eat a healthy diet, exercise daily and go to yoga regularly. This will provide you with basis of being healthy and charging your body and mind with energy.
Well let's start the journey for 2018. Look out for my next email to help you get the most out of your living 2018.


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With a hugely successful career spanning the fashion, housing, urban design and festival industries, Hemingway will draw on his experiences launching the Vintage Festival, The Festival of Thrift, the Classic Car Boot Sale and some exciting new national initiatives to spark what promises to be a lively debate.
Hemingway will appear courtesy of the Speakers Corner agency.
The gentrification of festivals is an event industry 'hot topic' and the Access Sessions will explore whether or not the introduction of designated VIP areas, luxury showers and toilets, technology charging stations and similar 'glamping' amenities are beneficial to a festival's reputation.
Are they too much of a drastic change from the artistic, alternative ethos traditionally associated with outdoor festivals or simply a natural evolution that appeals to a more widespread audience? That is a likely key question for Hemingway and his fellow panellists who will take to the Main Stage on 19 February, at 11am.
Event director Liz Agostini, adds: "We are delighted to announce Wayne as a guest panellist for one of the Show's Access Sessions and fully expect it to be a hotly anticipated debate. Each year, we strive to create content that is challenging, educational and most importantly, relevant to our diverse audience. We are pleased to make this announcement and look forward to revealing further information about this year's exciting programme."
Five Access Sessions will take place at the Event Production Show, which runs 18-19 February at Olympia, London, including a discussion on 'The Importance of Opening and Closing Ceremonies to the Cultural Heritage and Legacy of Large Sporting Events'. Further debates and discussions will be staged in the seminar theatre.
The EPS co-locates this year with International Confex. Register here.
Do you have news for CN? Email: Paul Colston


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Instagram is such a fun and visual way to share sneak peaks into your work and life. But it can get kind of same same if you always take the same type of picture (morning tea, your shoes) and use the same filters.
So here are three ways to mix it up a bit and make your Instagram feed POP!
Try out Instagram video! Find a process you do all the time in your work: it could be priming a canvas, stretching out an embroidered piece, sketching your ideas and make a little video. People love a 'behind the scenes' or glimpse into the creative process.
Tip: If you turn the sound off on your phone, it will help eliminate that bad muffled sound that you often hear on Instagram videos.
Don't have a steady hand and your videos are looking a little bit more Blair witch project than you'd like? A tripod will help maintain a steady shot on any kind of surface. There are lots of smart phone tripods out there (google it!) and even some handy DIY options!
Get some new photo filters If you aren't ready for video then perhaps it's just a matter of making your regular photos a bit more interesting? There are loads of free and low-cost apps out there to make your photos a little more interesting by adding text, compiling images into a collage and more.
I recommend:
- Muzy for photo editing, collages, and more
- Insta picframes, another option for photo collages & picture frames
Add some text
Followers will always be drawn to photos that contain text - it's just the way the human brain works. Luckily there are some lovely apps out there that assist you to add text to your images in beautiful fonts, with just a couple of clicks.
- A Beautiful Mess for adding hand drawn borders and text
- Piclab for dreamy filters and bold contemporary text
Filters, compilations and text can all add a bit more dimension and interest to your photos. There are thousands more photo editing smartphone apps available, it's just a matter of finding the right ones for you.
And one last thing!
For those of you who have a Wordpress blog or website, don't let your Instagram photos stay inside Instagram. Try:
- Simply Instagram For importing the pics into your sidebar
- DsgnWrks Instagram importer for making your pics into blog posts
- IFTTT also has a myriad of recipes that can turn your Instagram feed into so much more.
So get snapping and make your Instagram feed POP!
Susan Goodwin is the designer, sewer and creator of Rocket Fuel, ensuring you are decked out in style while cycling. Read her blog or follow her on Twitter @rocketfuelstyle.


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The 'collaboration' group
These nouns refer to the fact that two or more people or groups do something together, or to something that people achieve or produce together.
collaboration collusion complicity cooperation coordination co-production duet joint venture
He feels his collaboration with the band Art of Noise was a career milestone.
They ruled out cooperation with the Communist party, or the Slovak National party.
Bono has been talking about his duet with Frank Sinatra, recorded for Sinatra's first studio album in 10 years.


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This striking image represents the chemical composition of Martian sand recently collected by the Curiosity rover. Analysis of it reveals that Martian dirt is similar to volcanic soil from Hawaii, containing crystalline feldspar, pyroxene and olivine. To create this image, the rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument bombarded sand samples with X-rays, which bounce off in different patterns depending on the sample composition, allowing scientists to figure out which chemicals are present and in what quantities.
Image via NASA
The excavation at Spitalfields
The churchyard at St. Mary's in Spitalfields, London, was the final resting place for more than 10,000 people in medieval times. But among the run-of-the-mill gravesites, archaeologists with the Museum of London Archaeology have found, were 175 mass graves, containing the closely packed bodies of thousands of men, women, and children. What happened to these people? The answer, it turns out, could be decidedly unusual.
The team's first thought was the obvious: the Black Death, which ravaged England starting in 1347. But once the bodies in the mass graves were carbon dated, it was clear that they had died a hundred years before the first plague-carrying flea came to Britain: around 1250. "As soon as we got the radiocarbon dates back, we knew that couldn't possibly be the case. There had to be some other event," says Natasha Powers, the head of osteology at the Museum of London Archaeology.
Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980
Step aside, crystal balls—another kind of crystal could help scientists forecast eruptions. The structure of microscopic crystals in lava oozing out of volcanoes give clues into when and how a volcano will erupt, according to a study on Mount St. Helens just published in Science.
For six years after Mount St. Helens infamously blew its top in 1980, the volcano in Washington continued to spew and sputter, erupting periodically. Each eruption brought more magma to the surface, and crystals embedded in the magma are snapshots of what happened inside the volcano just before each eruption. They contain concentric circles of elements like iron and magnesium, just like tree rings. Volcanologists examined over 300 of these crystals from Mount St. Helens, each no more than 1/10 of a millimeter in size.
Pulling together decades of data from the Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizon probes, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists at the US Geological Survey have put together a complete geological map of Io, the beautiful, mysterious Jovian moon. Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system, and its surface reflects that: unlike everything else around, it has no craters, a sign that its surface is constantly being remade. That's thanks to volcanoes that shoot out more than 100 times more lava per year than Earth's.
The map is a lovely thing, and you can play around with it yourself here.
The Laki fissure's eruption in Iceland was behind tens of thousands of deaths in the 1780s.
What's the News: Iceland's busy volcanoes have caused their share of air traffic snafus in Europe lately, but they have the potential to be deadly, not just inconvenient. A new model examining how air quality would change should the volcanoes erupt as spectacularly as they occasionally have in the past suggests that increased particulates in the air could kill more than 140,000 people in Europe in the year following the eruption.
What's the News: Jupiter's moon Io is more volcanically active than any other object in our solar system, releasing 30 times more heat than Earth through volcanism. It's thought that Jupiter's gravity pulls so hard on the moon and causes so much friction that the resulting thermal energy melts a huge amount of underground rock, feeding Io's 400 active volcanoes.
For years, astronomers have debated whether Io's spewing lava comes from isolated pockets of magma or a layer that spans the entire moon. Astronomers have now peered into Io's interior for the first time, discovering that it has a global sea of magma roughly 30 miles thick. "It turns out Io was continually giving off a 'sounding signal' in Jupiter's … magnetic field that matched what would be expected from molten or partially molten rocks deep beneath the surface," lead researcher Krishan Khurana told Wired. Read More
The Permian extinction event was the biggest shake-up of life that Earth has ever seen: in the "Great Dying" that took place 250 million years ago, more than 90 percent of marine species were killed and about 70 percent of land animals vanished. The cause of this catastrophe has been debated for years, but new research suggests that volcanic eruptions triggered massive coal fires that pumped pollution into the air, eventually poisoning the planet.
The study, published in Nature Geoscience, is based on new findings from arctic rocks that date back to the Permian period, when all of the planet's land masses formed a supercontinent called Pangaea. When the researchers analyzed the rocks, they found signs of a coal-based apocalypse.
Besides the usual miniscule clumps of organic matter, they also found tiny bubble-filled particles called cenospheres. These frothy little blobs form only when molten coal spews into the atmosphere, the researchers say…. [The cenospheres] must have been created when massive amounts of molten rock—more than 1 trillion metric tons—erupted through overlying coal deposits in Siberia to form lava deposits known as the Siberian Traps. [ScienceNOW]
Saturn's moon Titan has lakes on its surface and a thick atmosphere, but there's one more way this cold, distant world is like the Earth: It appears to have volcanoes—though they're a little chillier than Eyjafjallajökull.
Scientists have long suspected and presented some evidence that Titan could have these features, and this week at the American Geophysical Union meet-up, researchers presented a finding from the Cassini spacecraft that they say is the best evidence yet of a Titanic volcano.
"We finally have some proof that Titan is an active world," said geophysicist Randolph Kirk of the U.S. Geological Survey, who presented the findings. [NPR]
Japan's new spacecraft has reached Venus; that much we know. But today Akatsuki left its creators hanging when it lost contact with home for longer than expected, and Japan's space agency JAXA is now trying to make sure the $300 million mission reached the orbit they intended for it above the second planet from the sun.
When Akatsuki arrived at Venus and swung around the backside, it was expected to lose contact with Earth for a little over 20 minutes. Instead, it couldn't reach JAXA for an hour and a half, sending the space scientists scrambling to make sure nothing went awry.
Communications with the probe were eventually resumed, but it's currently unclear whether Akatsuki successfully entered orbit around Venus. "It is not known which path the probe is following at the moment," JAXA official Munetaka Ueno told the AFP news agency. "We are making maximum effort to readjust the probe." [National Geographic]
In those volcanoes that kids (or their parents) build for elementary school science fairs, the style is generally simple: There's one chamber in which the baking soda rests, ready to meet the vinegar and erupt. Most real volcanoes are a little like this, in that they have a single magma chamber that fuels their eruptions.
But not Eyjafjallajökull.
The Icelandic volcano that stirred in March and grounded European air travel has a peculiar kind of plumbing, scientists report today in Nature. Freysteinn Sigmundsson and colleagues combined 20 years' worth of GPS, satellite, and seismic observations of the volcano see note how it changed over the years—and especially what was happening in the lead-up to this year's eruption.


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Diversity according to South Park and Family Guy by Matt Glowacki
Event Description
Matt uses pop culture, news media, and of course, Family Guy and South Park clips to demonstrate the opportunities that arise to learn about diversity in everyday life. His interpretation of these popular cultural icons is engaging and encourages a fresh look at life around us. He identifies the ways that these programs breakdown stereotypical attitudes and behavior toward people's differences.
Matt uses the hidden messages behind family Guy and South Park to illustrate diversity issues in our culture. You'll leave the event with the knowledge of how diversity motivates and drives the choices and decisions we make every day. You'll also learn how to motivate your mind as you watch television and learn from, question, and understand what you're seeing.


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By Ted Boyer and Stan Rosenzweig
Are any of you old enough to remember the good old days when the Fuller Brush man would come knocking to give you free samples of brushes, soaps, lotions and such? Salesmen at our door is the way we shopped. Recall the opening scene from the musical "Music Man," where a full train of salesmen sang about it?
Back then, there was no Walmart, no Smith's Marketplace, no Amazon Prime and no UPS next-day delivery. Nope. We bought many of our things from door-to-door canvassers.
Ah, it was a simpler time without concern if those doorbell ringers were calling to sell stuff, or to case our homes for a later burglary. Today, while we may be interested in sales pitches from canvassers selling roof repairs, lawn services and such, we need to be more prudent.
So, what should we do as good "Neighborhood Watch" citizens, and how can we help Cottonwood Heights Police protect our neighborhoods?
First, check to see that the solicitors are following the rules of calling between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Then check that they have official Residential Solicitation Certificates. Official certificates are issued by the CH Police or the State of Utah and must be in the possession of each solicitor. A certificate is not required for invitees, delivery persons, persons distributing religious or political information, or charitable organizations.
But everyone else must show you their CH Police-issued certificates. If they don't, please help by calling 801-840-4000 to report the activity.


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Join us on Thursday, June 18 for a No.9 fundraiser and Opening Night Preview of the Eco-Art-Fest @ Todmorden Mills.
June 18, 6-11PM @ Todmorden Mills
Rain date will be Friday June 19 from 6-11PM - You will be notified by email.
Tickets are on sale now for the Opening Night of the annual Eco-Art-Fest at Todmorden Mills June 20-September 14.
Regular Tickets are $99
Young Patrons Tickets (Students and 25/under) are available for $30.
A $60 Tax Receipt can be issued upon request, for any $99 ticket purchased.
Use the discount code Eco_10OG7!
Find out more here.


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Graffiti and Vandalism
The Operations Department is responsible for the management of graffiti and vandalism in open spaces within the Fingal County Council Administrative area.
"Fix Your Street" is an online service that we use which allows you to report non emergency issues like graffiti and vandalism. Click on the link below to report a problem.