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After following Almighty God, I was put in prison because I believed in God. At that time I was a new believer and God had given me strength so that I could stand firm in my testimony. However, I mistakenly believed that I had the stature; I thought that I had a great amount of faith, love and loyalty for God, therefore I didn't pay particular attention to eating and drinking God's words of judgment and chastisement. Even though I read, I compared the word by which God exposes man with other people and excluded myself from God's judging words. I was only willing to read about the mysteries God has revealed and prophecies as well as words concerning obtaining blessings; these are the words I was most interested in. I read God's words: "Based on their different functions and testimonies, the overcomers within the kingdom will serve as priests or followers, and all those who are victorious amid tribulation will become the body of priests within the kingdom. … In the body of priests there will be chief priests and priests, and the remainder will be the sons and people of God. This is all determined by their testimonies to God during tribulation; they are not titles that are given at whim" ("God's Work and Man's Practice" in The Word Appears in the Flesh). "The time of the tribulation will not be too protracted—it will not even be a year. If it were to last for a year it would delay the next step of work, and people's stature would be inadequate. If it were too long they wouldn't be able to withstand it—their stature has its limitations" ("How You Should Walk the Last Leg of the Path" in The Word Appears in the Flesh). I thought: Position in the kingdom will be determined based on how people testify during the tribulation; these testimonies could influence someone's fate. When the tribulation comes upon me, I will have to grit my teeth and put forth enough energy, and I will certainly offer a beautiful testimony. That way I will be able to obtain great blessings; besides, the tribulation won't last too long–it will be less than a year. No matter what happens, I'll be able to endure this period of hardship. By being dominated by thoughts of obtaining blessings I made up my mind to get ready for battle; I thought that by relying on my own "faith" and "will," I would be able to be an overcomer in the tribulation.
God's work of saving people is so wonderful and so wise. In 1996, we all entered into the great tribulation through God's arrangement. But when the tribulation came upon us, no one was aware of it; everything happened so naturally, my true form and disgraceful situation of being an opportunist came to light during the tribulation.
In June and July of 1996, I was in another part of the country fulfilling my duty involving writing. One day, the leader of this area came and told us that the recent situation was not very good and that Sister so-and-so had been arrested by the great red dragon. When we heard of this, we wanted to pray for this sister and didn't think of much else, because we all knew that it was a common occurrence for people to be arrested for their belief in God in China, a country that persecuted God like this. But, it wasn't many days before we heard that a few more brothers and sisters were arrested. After a few more days, we heard that a dozen or so were arrested, and many well-known believers who were serving as leaders in God's family were secretly listed as wanted. There were also some who had bounties for their arrests. The local leaders were also on the black list of the great red dragon. I sensed that things were not good: It looked like the great red dragon was trying to destroy the believers in one fell swoop. We felt a kind of terror in the atmosphere that enveloped us; we didn't know what to do in this kind of situation; we wanted to contact the above and ask him how to proceed, but we couldn't contact him. Later I found out that the tribulation had begun a month earlier. God's word came true that "That is, when God smites the shepherd, the sheep of the flock will be scattered, and at that time you won't have any true leader. The people will be divided—it won't be like now, where you can come together as a congregation." But at that time we were numb in spirit and we didn't dare make wild guesses and define God's work. Therefore we didn't know that this was the great tribulation. All we could feel was the dark hand of the great red dragon pressing near us and we couldn't progress in our work for objective reasons. In facing this kind of plight, we faintly became aware that the work had been obstructed by God's hand; God was leading us to stop the work and hide ourselves and lose no time returning back to our homeland. That way we would be safer. Consequently, we were forced to disperse and return to our homeland.
I had only been home for a week when a sister came and gave me a letter saying that a brother in our church was arrested, and I needed to immediately leave home. At this time I was just like a deer in the headlights; I didn't have any faith and I only had one thought in my heart: Quickly hide and don't allow the great red dragon to capture me; the great red dragon is too deplorable and cruel, the vicious methods it uses to ravage believers is unprecedented. If I fall into the hands of the demon, the consequences would be unimaginable. Following this, a sister introduced me to the mountains to cook for the miners. I was there with two sisters and we took advantage of the times when no one was around to eat and drink the words of God, fellowship and sing hymns. Because we had a supply of God's words, each day was very enriching. However, in less than a month, police came into the area and I had no choice but to quickly leave. Afterward I came to another restaurant to work. Everyone I came into contact with was an unbeliever and I didn't have any common language with them; moreover, I didn't have God's word in this kind of environment, and there was no one to fellowship with to the point that it was difficult to even offer a proper prayer. I felt lonely and desolate and my heart couldn't help but start complaining. I even wanted to betray God and not believe anymore: "Believing in God is really not easy and I am on edge all day; I am wandering in a world that lacks justice; when will these days be over? If I didn't believe in God, living an easy and stable lifestyle like the unbelievers, wouldn't that be wonderful?" Even though my heart thought this way, I felt afraid and didn't dare leave God; I also felt like I couldn't leave God, the thought of leaving God caused me pain. Yet since I didn't love reading God's words in the past, didn't seek after truth, and only fulfilled my duties to obtain blessings, therefore, the moment I left the books of God's word, my heart didn't have a line of God's word left in it. Without God's words of life supporting me, I was just like a fool who had lost his mind. I didn't know what to do with myself or what to pursue after. I just desperately struggled through each day. What was God's will? Why did He arrange this for me? How could I practice and satisfy God? I didn't have the strength to ponder this, all I thought about was my hardships. At that time my belief in the omnipotence and omniscience of God and my belief in God's universal dominance were all lost. It got to the point that when a sister came to invite me to go visit some brothers and sisters, I declined, because my heart was fearful and cowardly. I didn't have faith or strength, I only relied on my mind and thoughts, thinking that the environment will not be good before Hong Kong's return to China. During this period of time, the great red dragon will frantically suppress and eradicate everyone who sincerely believes in God. Now it will be a long time before Hong Kong's return, I certainly must protect myself well. During the two and a half months that I worked in the restaurant, my heart became more and more distant from God, almost to the point that I only acknowledged God's name, but didn't have God in my heart. My heart was often attracted to the sensual pleasures; I wanted to run away from God and live the life of the unbelievers. However, over the next few days I especially missed God and the brothers and sisters; I missed my former church life. While being by myself, I always couldn't help but cry. My heart was sorrowful: Oh God, all day I am with people who belong to the devil; if I am not working, then I am eating or having a boring conversation. Only You know the emptiness and pain in my heart. Oh God, when will this long night pass? When will we be set free to believe in God, like in the past when we lived in Your warm family? My heart was tormented like it was being overrun by weeds and I couldn't stay any longer. It just so happened to be getting close to the Spring Festival and I took advantage of the opportunity and quit my job and quickly returned to my brothers and sisters. Afterward I realized that it wasn't just me who had these thoughts; there were many brothers and sisters who had avoided being arrested by the great red dragon by fleeing to other areas who had experienced the same thing. They all returned home because they were thinking the same thing. This was a miraculous guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Not more than a few days after I had returned home, a sister came to notify me of a church gathering. When I heard the sister say that the tribulation was over, and that everything had returned back to normal, and that I could go and fulfill my former duty, I took a moment before I realized: "What? The tribulation is over? This was the tribulation? It will still be a few months before Hong Kong's return to China. How could the tribulation have ended? This is not what I expected! All along these things we have been experiencing were the tribulation, now I am finished! What did I manifest during the tribulation? Besides being cowardly and afraid, I complained, escaped, and betrayed. I didn't have any components of faith, not to mention loyalty and love. This time God has tested my work and I completely failed." I hung my head in despair with all kinds of feelings in my heart. This time I was able to understand what God said before the tribulation began: "After My own work has been completed, the next step will be for people to walk the path that they should. Everyone must understand what path they should walk—this is a path of suffering and a process of suffering, and it is also a path of refining your will to love God. Which truths you should enter into, which truths you should supplement, how you should experience, and from which aspect you should enter in—you must understand all of these things. You must equip yourself now. If you wait until the tribulation comes upon you, it will be too late" ("How You Should Walk the Last Leg of the Path" in The Word Appears in the Flesh). This tragic lesson tells me: People cannot stand testimony in the tribulation if they do not have truth and if they rely on their own desires. People who live without truth in God's work will certainly be thoroughly revealed; they will not be able to conceal themselves in the least bit or be able to fake it anymore. Without truth, you are built on a sand foundation, which won't withstand the slightest test. Only with truth can you see things clearly, have faith and strength, be able to triumph over Satan and be able to put truth into practice to satisfy God and testify for God. I really hated myself: God has already patiently told us these things a long time ago, and why didn't I believe it, why didn't I take it seriously! Nothing can be taken back; there is no other choice but to diligently seek truth on the path ahead.
When we were finished meeting, I heard a sister reveal some internal intelligence: The great red dragon is still aggressively going about arresting believers and it is getting even more intense. When I heard this, my heart of little faith again whispered: The environment is this tense and the brothers and sisters are all fulfilling their duties. Is this OK? But the fact allowed me to see that: Even though the situation is tense, people are not fearful as they were during the tribulation; when we fulfill our duties, our hearts are especially steadfast and peaceful as if everyone forgot about the piece of intelligence the sister told us. The Holy Spirit is also doing an enormous work in the church; it won't be long before the grand occasion when the gospel is extended into every land. Our work is getting busier and every duty is being smoothly carried out. Nearly all the brothers and sisters are fulfilling their duties with their best efforts in their respective positions. The scene is progressing in full swing just under the great red dragon's nose, but with the work expanding this vigorously, there have not been any arrests like that in the midst of the great tribulation. These facts allowed me to see a truth clearly: In fact, the great red dragon is always working to resist God, persecute God and coerce God's chosen people; it has never stopped and wants to assassinate God and His chosen people. Sometimes the butcher's knife in its hand does not fall down on us, and that is God watching over and protecting us. Sometimes we don't even perceive its intention to kill, and that is God using His great wings to shelter us, it is not that the great red dragon put its butcher's knife down and stopped its persecution. The great red dragon has never put down its butcher's knife, it will never put it down; it wants to resist God to the end and the closer it gets to the end, the more frantic it becomes, because the great red dragon is Satan, the evil spirit. It knows that the glorious day that God completes His work of salvation is its last day. Therefore, the closer death draws near, the more it struggles. However, no matter what happens, God's work uses the great red dragon as a foil, it is a serving object in God's hands, it is a tool for testing God's chosen people. Its cruelty cannot block God's work, without God's permission, it has no power over God's chosen people. When God does not allow it to hunt, God's chosen people will be under its nose and it won't be able to catch them. It has no other choice but to be at God's mercy. Just like God's word says: "When I formally begin My work, all people move as I move, such that people throughout the universe occupy themselves in step with Me, there is 'jubilation' across the universe, and man is spurred onward by Me. In consequence, the great red dragon itself is whipped into a state of frenzy and bewilderment by Me, and serves My work, and, despite being unwilling, is unable to follow its own desires, leaving it no choice but to 'submit to My control.'" ("The Twenty-ninth Utterance" of God's Utterances to the Entire Universe in The Word Appears in the Flesh). In the great tribulation, God allowed the great red dragon to persecute God's chosen people, because He wanted to exploit the great red dragon and use it to benefit God's chosen people so that they see clearly the substance of the great red dragon's resistance against God. If God was always watching over and protecting us, and didn't allow us to suffer even a little bit of persecution in the real environment, then we would not be able to truly believe the words God revealed about the substance of the great red dragon's corruption; and we wouldn't be aware of the faithfulness of God. Therefore, God allows us to see the truth of the facts when appropriate. Only in this way can we see that everything God says is true and that the great red dragon is indeed the enemy of God, that it is an evil spirit, and that it slaughters people and swallows people's spirits. If these facts were not revealed, I would still be fooled and cheated by it; I would still believe it when it said, "freedom of religion" and "legal rights of the citizens." Today, I have personally experienced the pursuit and persecution of the great red dragon, I have seen the atrocious countenance of the great red dragon's slaughtering of God's chosen people with my own eyes. And I know now that the freedom and democracy that it proclaims is all a cover-up for its crimes. I now clearly see the evil and deplorable demonic substance of the great red dragon, and my heart truly despises it. I have made up my mind to betray it and follow God to the end.
Tribulations come from God, and the timing of their ending is surely in God's hands. When God's work produces results, God will certainly not procrastinate the time. Just like God said: "The time of the tribulation will not be too protracted—it will not even be a year. If it were to last for a year it would delay the next step of work, and people's stature would be inadequate. If it were too long they wouldn't be able to withstand it—their stature has its limitations" ("How You Should Walk the Last Leg of the Path" in The Word Appears in the Flesh). God has His plan, and He does not delay the next step of spreading His gospel. God has a thorough understanding of us, He knows our statures, He knows our circumstances, and He is not willing to allow our lives to have losses. God has made exact plans for us in His work, He has thought about our lives in every way; but in my tribulation, all I thought about was my own safety and whether or not I was suffering hardships; I didn't think about God at all. I am truly selfish and deplorable; I don't have a rational conscience and am not worthy to live in God's presence. In my tribulation, God revealed my actual stature, which caused me to have a realistic understanding of myself. I saw how poor, pitiful and blind I was; I saw that I had no faith or love for God, but only had rebellion and resistance to the point that I would betray at any time and any place. At this time, I was able to see my danger, and I felt the importance of being equipped with truth; since then I have had a thirst for truth. At this time I read the words God revealed about man's corrupt nature and felt that God's word came alive in me like a two-edged sword piercing my joints and marrow and revealing the filth and injustice in the depths of my heart. It caused me to see that I was deplorable and ugly and to see that I was deeply corrupted by Satan. I began to despise myself and have desire to change myself; I thirsted to be a genuine person. I felt the work of God's judgment and chastisement was truly cleansing people and as long as I sincerely sought after truth, I would surely be cleansed and saved. The first time I felt the preciousness of God's words and the importance of truth, my heart inwardly became gladdened: I have finally entered into my belief in God, I am striding toward a new beginning and can see the hope of obtaining salvation. Consequently, I set a resolution: No matter how bumpy the path is ahead of me, I will always be firm and unmoving in following God and walk in the correct path of life.
God's wonderful arrangements allowed us to unwittingly enter the tribulation and to unwittingly rise out of the tribulation. The harvest we reaped from this was clear and easy to see. Through the tribulation, we can see that God is almighty and wise; we see that the great red dragon is incapable and foolish. It is unbridled and savage, and has no other choice but to be involuntarily tossed to and fro by God's work; it will forever be defeated in God's hands. The great red dragon vainly attempts to scare God's chosen people through cruel persecution and disturb and dismantle God's work. It doesn't realize that God is using this to perfect God's people. Even though on the outside it looks like the great red dragon's persecution has come upon the people, in reality, it is all arranged by God's almighty hand. He scatters people and gathers people, He leads people into tribulations and leads people out of tribulations; He allows people to endure until they want to leave, but He has always supported people, pulled people, and caused people to not be able to leave. It is amidst these wonderful arrangements of God that people are able to clearly see the ugly face of the great red dragon and to truly despise the great red dragon from the bottom of their hearts. People are also able to see God's great power and experience God's love, almightiness and wisdom. They are more steadfast and unwavering in following God, and can see their true statures and deficiencies; their hearts have a greater thirst for God and truth. There is so much significance in God raising the great tribulation; there is so much wisdom in God's work. No one can fathom it. I was able to take part in the great tribulation arranged by God; it was truly God's exaltation and abundant love and my honor in this life. Every time I reflect on this I am overwhelmed with emotion and want to give my heartfelt thanks and praise to God. If I didn't experience the tribulation, I would have had no other choice but to follow blindly like a layman standing outside of the ranks of the training of the kingdom who ultimately would sink and be destroyed. If I didn't experience the tribulation, I wouldn't have true faith in God and wouldn't understand the difficulty of God's work and that saving people was not easy. If I didn't experience the tribulation, I would not be able to see the true face of the great red dragon and I would still have delusions about this dark society, I would still have a fondness for this world and would not be able to follow God with an iron heart. It is God's wonderful and wise work that has conquered me; it is God's omnipotence and great love that has led me to where I am today! From now on, no matter what trials and tribulations I face, I will be willing to rely on my faith and love for God to stand witness for God and comfort God's heart.
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Otto Saki had to leave his home in Africa last year. "I had no intention of leaving the country but I'd become so targeted because of my work, and I had to look for an opportunity to take a breather," said Otto, a lawyer with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. Columbia Law School and Professor Peter Rosenblum provided one. "If I'd not been able to get a scholarship I couldn't have come, could not have afforded the plane trip, even," Otto said.
This past March, Zimbabwe held highly contested elections. Otto has represented Morgan Tsvangirai, the likely winner of the presidency if the Mugabe government releases the vote results. Otto said that after the election he hopes those who drove him to seek safety at Columbia Law School will have less interest in him. When he goes back after graduating, he is prepared for his work in ways he wasn't before, because law schools there did not have classes in human rights, nor any notion of pro bono work, public interest law or litigating human rights issues, he said.
Otto and his wife have weathered their first winter and are both looking forward to their return home to his work at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. "I am glad I came," Otto said. "I feel that now I am a very different lawyer and very different activist."

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First this first, Happy birthday to my little girl!! Hailey was so excited about her Dora birthday party and she had been so patient about waiting for it. I learned my lesson with planning a date though. Never again on a holiday weekend. I had invited about 65 people and planned for a lot of people. We rented out a room at Kids America which is an indoor soccer arena. A handfull of kids showed up and they had a blast chasing each other around. We did a dora star hunt which they really had fun doing. Hailey had a super cute dora cake for herself and purple dora cupcakes for everyone else. Things just didnt seem to go my way for her party this year, like I forgot the batteries to my camera so I only have a few pictures. But the point of the party was for Hailey to have fun and I know she had a wonderful birthday party. She keeps talking about her friends that came and everything we did. It makes me so happy that she had a good time :) Next year is tea party time!!! I already have started planning! Ok so I know I'm this crazy obsessed mother. But hey... its what I do best :)
Cookout at the Cox's Camper
On Sunday before Memorial day we went out to Charles' camper for a cookout with the Cox crew which includes the 15 kids lol.. not really but there were a lot of kids. Hailey had a blast and loved playing with all of them. Hailey has never been outdoors by a campfire and she really enjoyed it. She was so excited about roasting marshmellows and she ate probably 10 marshmellows by herself. We had so much fun that we are in the process of buying a camper very soon and getting a campsite. Hopefully we can get everything going by fourth of july and invite everyone out there. Anyways... Thanks charles! We had a great time on sunday!!
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Most of the time, when you spend every waking moment with the people in your life you take them for granted. I do it myself very much so especially in my marriage. Within the daily hustle of life, bickering about all the little things and being too busy to notice each other, we often dont remember what it was that made us fall in love. Lately I've been trying to take time and appreciate what a wonderful man I married. Jeremy and I are like that old married couple. We bitch all day at each other but when you take a good look at us, you'll find us holding hands at no particular moment or sharing a knowing look at each other. We are best friends and know all the little quirks about each other. I love that Jeremy knows when to just back down and let me have my way ... and when to stand up for himself. And just when I think I want to strangle him, he hugs me and tells me how much he loves me. Jeremy would never let anyone else know how sensitive he is but I catch him all the time tearing up when Hailey does or says something amazing or even a sad story on TV ha ha... he hates watching extreem home addition because it makes him cry! ohh dear I've said too much! Good lord I love this man! Of course hes by far perfect and neither am I. He is not exactly Mr.Handiman and sometimes his decision making makes me wonder. Between wanting to strangle him and bickering, I have to take the time to appreciate how much I love him. So here is to my husband, incredible daddy and all round wonderful man :) I love you!
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I went to prom!!
Friday I took Kevin to the prom that his workshop has every year. At first the loudness of the music bothered him and we went in the hall. Then we heard Achy Breaky Heart and Kevin was ecstatic! He started bouncin his head, laughing and movin his wheelchair around. We had such a fun time dancing and spinning him around. After that song we sat back and people watched. Watching people with mental disablities really makes me wonder about what really defines happiness. Everyone feels sorry for people with disabilities. I always admire them. I sit back and see all these people genuinely happy and laughing and realize that I have never seen such a group of happy people. What is happiness?? Are we really the ones with the disablity to be happy with the simple things in life??? So when you see someone with mental disabilities don't pity them. Admire the fact that they will be more happy then we could ever be.
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First Fridays are one thing we look forward to here in Coshocton. They are so fun and free. First Friday is a celebration on Main street with all the businesses and other community organizations. They have face painting, balloons, bounce house and tons of other stuff. We always run into people we know and its nice see what is going on in the community. We werent there very long before we heard a severe thunderstorm was coming soon. We did face painting, the bounce house, got a balloon. We pretty much finished up when it started to sprinkle and two seconds later a big windstorm hit and we ran for the car. Hopefully next month the weather will cooperate. Although we still had fun before it rained :)
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| 31 October 2018
There it is, the first day of your new life in your decision to become an entrepreneur. You realise you have many things to do, most importantly, you have to incorporate a company and register your business with ACRA. There are so many forms and documents to plough through before you can even start to getting back to your wares and begin marketing and selling your niche products.
Where do you even begin?
What do you start to look out for?
This article picks out 5 things to look out for when registering a business. Hopefully, these few bullet points can guide you on your journey to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Good luck!
1. Always do your research.
First and foremost, when registering a business and even way before that, always do your research. Research, research, research, know your product, know your business and your market. A successful entrepreneur always looks to conduct proper research of market conditions either online or from other entrepreneurs in the niche. This allows new entrepreneurs to figure out the best approach into the market and ways to cut excess overhead cost. There are others who have paved these roads before you in one way or another, try to learn from their failures and successes and improve on them.
2. Figure out your business partners.
Figure out who your business partners are and what their involvement is in the longer term. If you're a lone ranger above the age of 18 with sufficient resources and are willing to be taxed at personal income tax rates for your business, then consider a sole proprietorship. If you have a riff raff of family members and friends all willing to invest in your business, such that there would be 21 individual shareholders (more than 20) but that none of you are willing to be personally liable for the debts and losses of your company, explore a private limited company when registering your business. One should familiarize themselves with the numerous legal entity forms available for registration when deciding on the business structure for your new start-up, ranging from sole proprietorship to limited liability partnerships to perhaps even public companies limited by shares. Business formation is important because in the longer term, this impacts many aspects of your growing business, factors relating to whether you would be personally liable for the losses in your business and whether you have enough resources to weather this can affect your businesses' credibility in customers' eyes, the ability to take out a loan from financial institutes, your ease of business expansion etc. For example, when considering registering a sole proprietorship, consider if your small business would only be facing minimal risks (the cobbler down the road with very little overheads could be a sole proprietor; there is nothing much that would affect his business but for the weather conditions and if people in the area had soles that frequently wore out but wouldn't buy new shoes).
3. Office address registry.
Consider where to register your office address. Having a right business address can cut overheads considerably. If you have a very small business that employs only a handful of people, perhaps work from home and use that address to register or utilise the address of a reputable shared working space.
4. Take note of mandatory licensing requirements.
Take note of mandatory licensing requirements for your new business if any. Any new company or business will only be allowed to get the necessary licences after registration with ACRA. Figure out what licenses you need in order to start your business so you don't run into any problems with the authorities. Say for instance, if you wanted to distribute alcohol, you would then have to apply to the police for an alcohol license before you could even start your business. You don't want to be in the red with the authorities and be in breach of any laws and have to pay massive fines even before your business takes off the ground. In addition, you should properly read up on the laws in the field of business you wish to start in just in case of any potential licensing issues that may arise in due course. The Singapore authorities have an OBLS (Online Business Licensing Service) which has a wealth of information on specific licensing required when starting a business in Singapore. Refer to that.
5. Employment passes for foreigners.
If you intend to hire foreigners, please note that Employment Passes can only be given out once your business registration is complete. Also, there is a quota on how many foreigners may be employed in various scenarios. Be familiar with this. If in doubt and as a boot-strapped company, try to call an incorporation service provider who might sometimes be able to provide off-the-cuff free advice. Take advantage of using one-stop incorporation and migration companies to avoid all the red tape. These companies can help you register your business for a very flat fee and in the process, answer your various questions about incorporation in Singapore.
BONUS: Watch out for employee compensation insurance
Always remember to watch out for employee compensation insurance as mandated by Singapore's Work Injury Compensation Act for all employees performing manual work and for employees earning less than S$1600 per month. It is mandatory to obtain insurance for both local and foreign employees and failure to provide adequate insurance is an offense with severe penalties in Singapore.
We understand that starting a business and the path to becoming a successful entrepreneur isn't always paved with glitter and gold but with the right resources, legally and administratively, that can make your journey a whole lot easier.
Created on 20 July, 2017.
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Hello Kitties,
We are very, very sad because one of our family has to move very, very, very far away. I think we are going to be sad a long time.
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Hi Kitties,
It has been very hot in our town lately. We are taking some time outside but only for an hour or so in the mornings. Do you see us pretending that we are camping with our kitty camper? I am having a great time eating some grass. Spending time outdoors is very relaxing, but if you are a kitty make sure you wear a leash so you do not get lost! Because my mommie is out of town for work the next little while I will not be going on any visitations for a few weeks. But my Aunt V. will be taking good cares of me.
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Library Network Analysis and Planning (LIB-NAT)
A preliminary report on planning for network design undertaken by the Reference Round Table of the Texas Library Association and the State Advisory Council to Library Services and Construction Act Title III Texas Program. Necessary components of a network are discussed, and network transactions of eighteen Dallas area libraries analyzed using a methodology and quantitative measures developed fm· this project.
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Foothills Wine, Art and Music Festival - After The Party
The 1st Annual Foothills Wine, Art and Music
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Carnival Motion Pictures releases Bruce Willis' Death Wish In India: Trailer Out Now
The trailer for the remake of 1974 action thriller Death Wish has been released! The Bruce Willis starrer will release in India by Carnival Motion Pictures and will be out on the same day as its worldwide release on 2nd March.
The trailer gives us a glimpse of the power-packed action in the film. The film is a remake of 1974 action thriller of the same name. Directed by Eli Roth, Death Wish stars Bruce Willis in the classic vigilante role of Paul Kersey, a father, who when his wife is murdered and his daughter sexually assaulted, becomes a vigilante killer nicknamed "The Grim Reaper."
Along with Willis, Death Wish also stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Dean Norris and Mike Epps. Produced by MGM Studio and presented by Carnival Motion Pictures, the film releases in India on 2nd March in English, Hindi and Tamil on the same day as its worldwide release.
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Live by night (2016)
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Genre : Crime/Drama
Country : USA
Cast :
Ben Affleck
: Joe Coughlin
Chris Messina
Dion Bartolo
Zoe Saldana : Graciela
Director : Ben Affleck
My opinion
"I swore If I made it home, I would never follow orders again.
I left a soldier.
I came home an outlaw."
Ben Affleck
isn't exactly one of my favorite actors. Not that he's such a terrible actor, but he's such a smooth guy who manages to play in some outstanding movies every time. Movies that didn't leave an everlasting impression on me anyway. In retrospect, it's really a giant list I've seen him in, such as "
The Accountant
", "
Suicide Squad
", "
Batman v Superman
", "
Gone Girl
", "
Runner Runner
", "
", "
Changing Lanes
", "
Pearl Harbor
" and "
" (absolutely his worst performance). The only memorable role he played was in "
Good Will Hunting
". Most probably it's due to the participation of Matt Damon and Robin Williams. He was also succesfull as a producer and directed the absolute masterpiece "
". With "
Live by Night
" he tries to be succesfull as leading actor and at the same time as a producer. But that's a bridge too far in my opinion.
The result is pleasing to the eye, but storywise it's all rather messy and hopelessly complicated. The multiple story lines follow each other in a terrible pace. The main thread is about the prohibition era and illegal trade of alcoholic beverages. Furthermore there are some side plots in which the main role is claimed by a female character. At first Emma Gould (
Sienna Miller
), mistress of a mafia boss. Then there's the sister of a Cuban business partner (
Zoe Saldana
). And finally, the daughter (
Ella Fanning
) of the sheriff from Tampa who's being rescued by Joe (
Ben Affleck
) after she pursuit her luck in Hollywood and ended up as an addicted prostitute. Afterwards she turns out to be a prophet of doom who boycotts Joe's plan to build a huge casino in Tampa.
Just like "
", this is an adaptation of a book by Dennis Lehane. In the past it's often proved that making a film based on a book isn't that easy. The big problem is to reproduce the details of a book into a movie. Usually as a result you get a jam packed film crammed with tangled storylines. The solution would be to split it up into multiple movies. But that's not really applicable to "
Live by night
". The most succesfull part is the way they portrayed this era by using excellent camerawork. A realistic view of America from the 20s, thanks to the magnificent sets, beautiful costumes and authentic props. Ultimately it's not a truly epic gangster film, but the chase with oldtimers at the beginning of the film and the explosive ending led to some impressive images.
In my opinion the biggest problem in this not so bad film, was the acting of Affleck himself. And this has nothing to do with his talent as an actor but rather with his goody-goody appearance. Without a doubt many mothers hope that their daughter would hook up with such a perfect guy. Ideal son in law material, so to speak. But as a gangster he fails completely. Because of his likeable appearance his performance is absolutely implausible. Had they given this part to Michael Shannon for example, the tone of the film would have been harsher and more intimidating. You can safely say this was an ambitious project, but unfortunately it's a soft version of any leading gangster epic from the past.
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I have chosen a slalom K1 kayak with a dark purple base with a black outline. I have also chosen to get some stars and flowers.I have some idea that someone who likes stars and flowers would like to buy my own designed kayak but i would not mind if no one would buy it.
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It is a unique mixture of fires, sparks and dancing
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-"An endless passion for fire and lust that we
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Yep, it's my birthday today. I'm another year older, another year's gone by and here I am on my birthday again.
I can't say I'm 28 anymore, now I'm 29 – an odd number, hmm, what fun :). I hope that doesn't mean it's going to be an odd year lol ;).
Anyway, I'm suppose to go have fun today for my birthday so hopefully I will and my mother won't ruin my birthday with her moodiness. She's been on one of her moody and 'poor pity me' kicks lately so I'm hoping I can have fun and not let her spoil my day for me with her moodiness :p.
Well, here's to hoping the day will go good and my mom won't tick me off to no end like usual. Yeah, so here's to hoping it's really a happy birthday :D, which it will be, but it wouldn't be as annoying if my mother would put herself in a better mood :p.
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone officially named Larry Rothschild the team's pitching coach, Josh Bard bench coach and Marcus Thames hitting coach for the 2018 season.
Rothschild, 63, has been the team's pitching coach since 2011 and is one of the holdovers from Joe Girardi's staff.
Bard served as the Dodgers' bullpen coach for the past two seasons and was one of Boone's teammates when the two played together with the Indians.
Thames was promoted from assistant hitting coach, a position in which he helped with video during games and worked with players at the batting cage beforehand. He has been with the Yankees organization since 2013, working his way up from High-A Tampa to the majors.
P.J. Pilittere, who spent last season as the hitting coach with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, will be the assistant hitting coach.
Boone also named Mike Harkey bullpen pitching coach, Phil Nevin third base coach, Reggie Willits first base coach and outfield instructor, Carlos Mendoza Major League quality control coach/infield instructor, Jason Brown catching coach, Radley Haddad coaching assistant/bullpen catcher and Brett Weber coaching assistant/instant replay coordinator.


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John Caddy's
Morning Earth Poems
May 2006
Small crabapple flowers have attitude,
stretch long stems out until
in your face red folded petals
hold the show
until the grand opening
when fragrance wafts out to the bees
and wasps, who will take their parts
and play out this endless flowered tumbling.
The long co-evolution of flowers and pollinators is an endless spirit lift.
A vertical cleft with sides so close
a small fallen tree bridges easily,
the branch depending clad all
in green maidenhair ferns.
Thirty feet down, the architect streams.
Both rock sides live in shade much of the day.
Both absorb enough bright to grow
tier after tier of maidenhair ferns from
green mirror water all the way
up to the alarming bright.
The place is Fern Canyon, near redwoods on California's north coast. Maidenhairs!
5. 3.2005
Sowbugs scurry toward shelter
like photophobic time machines.
Hands and knees at four by the concrete
blocks I uncovered sowbugs
which grew antennas with elbows,
which clearly came from a different place,
which only wanted moist and dark,
until I grew ashamed. So now
I turn the camera off
and turn the bark back over.
People with cameras have little shame. Their vast need seems to confer, they think, a certain reprieve from ordinary social standards. Present company excluded, of course, given that I listen to my childhood shames as I lurch toward childhood again.
Mosses prepare to cast their futures to the winds.
Like all in spring, generation is the first concern.
The little capsules at stalk tips dance already in breeze
as if green raindrops were arrested and held flat.
Within, myriad spores mature to be puffed out
in a little dark cloud. Think of it:
A cloud of future released from a raindrop.
Two tree swallows contest a territory.
They have good reason, although not
at all reasonable. They nest now.
Dispersal means enough food for nestlings.
This was learned and in-wired so long ago
our minds can't hold that span.
But they can hold beauty.
So here are we, too new for much in-wired.
But we are reasonable, sapient, and do find our reasons.
Our minds hold pride so easily.
The difference between our contests and almost every other species' contests is that in ours, conspecifics often die.
The coiled spring of life uncurls
pure as a pearl is pure
and as unknowable. Once
life discovers itself coiled
and holding life tension it must
release, it must spring free.
How Spring got its name. This fiddlehead belongs to the maidenhair fern.
Trillium opened and orioles flew in
on the fine seventh day of May.
Orioles sing now from oak tops,
that swelling of trills and sudden vowels
while trillium petals three white
ruffles around a core of gold.
Oranges are cut and wait,
juice gleaming, magnets
for migrants bright with orange
that burns against black plumage
come alive as summer night.
Gold and orange everywhere, and now rose-breasted grosbeaks have arrived. Hummingbirds any moment. A circular pageant and paean of pleasure and praise.
Met a yellow violet in the woods,
others in the patch like her, but she
was special, her petaled beauty set off
by a beauty mark, as women once
artfully placed on a cheek or near a lip
in the fashion of the day. Ambiguous.
But violet's mark exists outside time,
the punctuation mark of life. The mark
at first seems a tiny map
sketched upon a petal lobe, of an island
immersed in a sea where a fungus
has paled deep yellow to almost white
as if it had eaten sun.
This flower's beauty is direct: Like you,
it says, "I eat, and I am food. I guide the bee
toward nectar with converging lines,
pollen-dust its head, take pollen from the bee
so we together can make seed.
Are we not beautiful? Even though our petals
become the food of time and fall?
Life and death, eat and be food, round and round. The pollinators see target patterns on flowers—this way to nectar. We all are beautiful. Renaissance beauty-marks simulated moles, which connote otherwise today. We are all ambivalent—it goes with the territory. Admit it: this fungus is a pretty good sketch artist.
As the water lily leaf nears the surface
its red pigments blush green
where chloroplasts kick in--
some will wait for sun direct.
The leaf is already food for animals,
a notch chewed there, here tunnels of larvae.
A pale sunburst of rays brightens
the circular pad where on its flip side
the rays show as ribs, structure for strength
to withstand wind and storm wave
and vascular system in one.
The center, the sun, is the stem, the green
spear that drove up from the mud.
The colors on the canvas of the emerging water lily leaf are a delight. But water plants seem improbable and somehow uncanny.
On the path, a clump of down compels me.
A bird died here, was killed and eaten,
and there is that pang. Feathers flurried
all about. This breast down
pulls me to my knees, as power will.
Such fine blues, such a flowering of lines.
Blake said, "For everything that lives is holy."
And each that dies is holy too.
There is such beauty in the flow.
This is the old bargain, predators hunt, eat the least swift and wily, that the species live on in health. Life is all process and we are all verbs.
On these clustered little flowers
many anthers curve into the center stigma
as if the male part gallantly protects the female,
but the anthers only wait the warm to spring apart,
expose the stigma on the style,
and gift the fur of bee with pollen gold.
Forget chivalry.
Flowers have their own persuasive ways.
These papery little flowers cluster on the raceme of chokecherry; each will be a pucker cherry dangled on a stem. The fragrance of the flower is most sweet.
A redwinged blackbird male perched on a snag
bends his head down and down until
his beak is at his toes.
I see chickadees do this every day
to crack seeds between their toes,
but this silhouetted curve
is tense and lovely as a gymnast's
and as improbable.
Pure shape. Simplicity.
The ordinary becomes extraordinary once a moment if you keep looking.
Opportunity opens with the wild
strawberry flowers that array
pollen gifts and sweets
for insects to come feast,
a chance for the patient
flower spider to grasp and eat
a hungry pollinator wasp or bee.
The spider will unmoving wait,
four legs ready and outstretched
until dark or food arrives,
for this is life and death.
This little spider is known as the hairy crab spider, an awful name it doesn't know about. It calls itself the little flower spider. And none of us is sure whether that rose would really smell as sweet.
Trumpet honeysuckle vine owns magical leaves
we don't notice until now, when
intense buds are ready to delight
all beings that own long slim tongues, be they
hummingbird, butterfly or bee, for
there is nectar in the trumpet bulb
below the open petals. As if
nectar were not magic enough,
wild honeysuckle gives us stems that
pierce leaf centers and rise.
Picture this vine grow.
Buds in the center of encircling leaves.
Stems that from buds rise to leaf
and by magic culminate in flowers.
It's all magic of course, but no smoke and mirrors. Plain and clear. Few plants have these pierced leaves, boneset and compass plant come to mind. They have always struck me as improbable—I can't imagine an adaptive advantage, but that only heightens my affection.
Thunderstorm rolls in
and time hangs. All
beings pause, crawl under
if they have senses. Light
is epic just before storm —
a story of bright need &
dark contrast, myth from
the mornings of Earth.
First fat drops white forks
black explosions winced
in the root of the spine,
The exhilaration of dark-within-day.
No pallid weather here in the Midwest. I suspect that many of us, when we read of Dr. Frankenstein, enjoyed some sympathy with his joy of lightning storms. We don't love them, but we do find them fascinating. Old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.
Wild geese feed on good roadside greens,
Mom and two fledglings
almost her size.
A car is coming, slow, the driver knows
this is a game refuge.
Mom is edgy, tries
to alert her kids, who nibble grass, ignore her,
what does she know?
She bugles alarm! No response.
Steps to the center of the road
stretches her head to the skies
as mothers have for all time,
lifts one foot for emphasis
and bugles the Angry Mom call,
"I said Go!"
As one, the three fly.
Sometimes the Cousins really are like us. No body with a brain messes with an angry Mom.
All in sequence sleek as the fish
he grips the blue heron
unfurls wings, crouches,
leaps from pool to sky
lifts wings through light to pull down air
as pearls drop from feathers
and scales, all this aimed
again and again toward
the hunger in the nest.
This great dinosaur descendant makes now endless round trips to grow squalling spike-feathered chicks. This circle is ancient, and whatever our kind, hard to complete.
Under great twin umbrella leaves
mayapple reveals her flower, shy and lovely
in self-shade. Petals textured like camellia
surround anthers and fused styles.
Mayapple flower is so shy she lacks nectar.
Pollinators visit rarely, sweet scent their sole reward.
Mayapple grows in colonies of clones
and cannot fruit without crossing
with a different colony, another heritage.
Often then her petals fall to waste
but the clone is energetic and knows
that if each year it flowers, eventually
one spring some accidental bumblebee
will wander far through woods and pollinate
her flower, the result a tasty little fruit
that a furry creature will find sweet
and down the trail, drop mayapple's seed
so a brand new clone can open her umbrellas.
The self-shaded shy learn to rely on chance, which, in the long run, works as well as any other means of finding what one needs. Mayapple is guarded; she ensures survival by growing toxic leaves and roots. After one taste, herbivores from grasshoppers to deer leave her be.
The ordinary never is when
you permit your senses play.
The lion's tooth that painted
once your chin with gold is
extraordinary when you kneel
and magnify its flower bud.
Fused sepals make a green vase
that swells on top toward opening,
glimpses of the sun it holds.
Elegant this shape compressed at waist,
Careless charm where lower sepals
Droop like a child's discarded sock.
The ordinary is a bud that waits for you.
Look close and it will open gold.
Ordinary is a one word oxymoron. Lives we encounter, rooted or mobile, are buds ready to share their becoming, if we will share our own. Sometimes it requires the knees.
Particulars are best, lives
self-flowering one by one, gifts
taken inside one by one, but
a few things experienced en masse
like lilacs in full season, can open wide
your heart's child, and retrieve
that moment when your thrust tongue
found the nectar at the center.
There may be no universal experiences, but discovering nectar at the root of a flower must come close. Nectar is the pollinator's reward, which makes an intriguing generalization.
Wildflowers have such spirit.
Umbels of virginia waterleaf
are clustered wine glasses
held up for a wedding toast.
Hola! It's spring!
Hold your anthers high.
Reveal your style.
Wildflowers are adept at advertising their intentions in this pollinating season. Waterleaf is named for the whitish spots on its leaves, perhaps by a botanist who left water rings on his wife's favorite table.
Close by in willow brush a yellow warbler sings.
I am all smile as eye leaps into mind: Blue-eyed grass!
It's native here, a true wild
flower, here at my feet, a patch
of tiny thin-leaved iris, pale blue blooms,
Bee-guide lines to center gold,
large seed capsules iris grow.
Buds are blue and long,
petal tips already curled
as elves' imagined shoes.
Blue-eyed grass in eye,
golden warbler in my ear.
Wakeful attention to Earth offers lovely moments of discovery which become sorrow's ease.
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Antonio Cortese and F. Howard Nelson claim to have refuted my conclusion that the teacher-transfer provisions of collective bargaining agreements doom the lowest-income schools to hiring less-experienced and lower-paid teachers ("An Urban LegendLiterally," Commentary, Dec. 13, 2006).
Their analysis, however, misses the point about transfers within districts, which happen when teachers exercise seniority rights to move from higher- to lower-poverty schools. This happens regardless of the district's poverty level. Teachers will transfer from higher- to lower-poverty schools even if the lowest-poverty schools are still very poor by national standards.
Poverty rates are relative, so I defined the highest-poverty schools (following researcher Marguerite Roza's example) as those in the highest poverty quartile in their own district. The cutoff for the top quartile will vary from one district to another, but the effects are the same. In big-city districts, teacher salaries, on average, are nearly $3,000 lower in the highest-poverty schools.
Ms. Cortese and Mr. Nelson define high-poverty schools very differently, using a uniform national cutoff of 75 percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By this definition, half to virtually all of the schools in districts we have studied (such as Houston, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Denver, and Dallas) are high-poverty. Schools in the highest poverty quartile within those districts are from 87 percent to 100 percent free or reduced-price lunch. Teachers still use seniority-transfer rights to go to schools that, though less poor, are often still above 75 percent free or reduced-price lunch.
The authors can't see the transfers inside big-city districts because they lump virtually all the schools into the high-poverty category. The vast majority of low-poverty schools in their analysis are not even in the same districts as the high-poverty schools. Thus, their comparisons of high- and low-poverty schools can't tell us anything about the effects of within-district teacher transfers.
Ms. Cortese and Mr. Nelson also cite an earlier National Center for Education Statistics report as evidence that first-year teachers are no more prevalent in high-poverty schools than in low-poverty schools. But the NCES report uses the same definitions of high-poverty schools as the authors, and it does not claim to represent the distribution of teachers in any district. Thus, there is no warrant in either study for their claim that teacher-transfer provisions do no harm to the poorest children.
It is good that the American Federation of Teachers is examining the effects of its contracts, but it needs to look within districts and make sensible comparisons.
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