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|The fact that we are still talking about women empowerment reveals how little we have achieved in terms of gender equality in all these years. Women constitute 50% of the world's population yet, they remain a marginalised section in a largely patriarchal society, where men enjoy a privileged position.
A. Women Empowerment is a burning issue, which has not lost its relevance in any age and time. The need for women empowerment, much like other marginalised sections arise from the premise that history has not been kind to them. In a patriarchal society, women play second fiddle to their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons. They occupy the domestic space and are expected to look after the house whereas the men of the house are free to explore.
B. One of the major reasons for lack of women empowerment is lack of financial independence. The society has conventionally been closed to the idea of women earning their livelihood, as this has been considered the domain of men. This marginalises them and ensures the hold of men over them. This dependence on men feeds into maintain the patriarchal order.
C. Talking about women empowerment has become a fashionable thing for the society. It is something that people want to be seen talking about, lest they be considered 'orthodox' and 'conservative'. This, however, does not necessarily translate into concrete action to change the lives of women even in the personal lives of people talking about women issues. The issue is one which is hotly debated but remains unfulfilled.
D. True. Even with a rise in the number of women who have broken from the mould to become successful, such as Kalpana Chawla, Saina Nehwal, Kiran Bedi, Anoushka Shankar and others, and steps being taken by the government to empower women, such as 'The Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' to make credit available to women among others, we are far from realising absolute empowerment for women. Thus, it remains a topic more debated than acted upon.
E. The issue of Women Empowerment has always been around yet steps taken for the same have been unable to ensure an improvement in the situation of women. In the Indian context, inspite of the passions aroused whenever women rights are discussed, the Indian Parliament has found ways to stall the proposal for reserving seats for women in the Parliament. There is a huge gap in what we say and what we do as far as women rights are concerned.
F. The situation is gradually changing though. Women are becoming aware of their rights and are asserting themselves like never before. Parents are beginning to view their daughters not as liabilities but important contributors to the house. Women are asserting themselves like never before and creating a new space for themselves, challenging the patriarchal order in the process.
|While it is alright to debate the issue of women empowerment, despite the debate being one sided as no right thinking person would oppose it as it creates awareness, merely talking about it is not going to help the cause. Women Empowerment is a right which women deserve to have. Not giving them this is a matter of shame for the society.
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One cannot be too careful,
When one gives one's heart away,
My heart's been crushed and broken,
Many times in many ways.
First I gave it to a kid at school,
Who made it flutter and beat fast,
An athlete ... who was a cheat,
And had a girl in every class.
Next I chose a college man,
Same story ... only worse,
He would not go out with me,
Unless I brought my purse.
Then I fell for a nice, young man,
That I soon kicked out the door,
When I found out he lived at home,
And adored his mother more.
And then there was an oilman,
I thought, for sure, he was the one.
But with all his ex's down in Texas,
He was a real, two-timing bum.
I can't forget a sailor I met,
Who had a gal in every port,
But he'd not give up a one for me,
So our relationship was short.
Next I almost wed a broker,
Who was into stocks and bonds,
Thank goodness I wised up to him,
Before my capital was gone.
It's not that I am bitter,
Though I've been burned so many times,
I feel for everyone there's someone,
But I wonder, "Where is mine?"
I've searched this whole world over,
For my very own true love,
I have begged and prayed and pleaded,
With the good Lord up above.
But no matter where I looked,
Or how very hard I tried,
The good guys were already wed,
Or had already died,
One night, as I despaired my plight,
A solution came to me,
So bright and early the next day,
I went on a shopping spree.
First I bought a bright red sweater,
The warmest I could find,
And I bought a little pillow,
A soft and cushy kind.
Then I bought some colored balls,
And a bug-eyed, squeaky frog,
Next I went down to the pound,
And found a little dog.
His eyes lit up when he saw me,
He barked a bit and whined,
He wagged his tail, and I could tell,
His doggy heart was mine.
Loyal, trustworthy, faithful,
Honest and true to the core,
I gave him my heart that day,
And true love was my reward.
Virginia (Ginny) Ellis
Copyright February 2007
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The online stories about Super Bowl XLVI are just getting better and better. Sure, you have M.I.A. and Gisele's f-bomb defense of her husband Tom Brady, but now Deadspin is reporting a story out of the losing Patriots camp.
Looks like the Patriots had a pretty raucous postgame party, just hours after losing in the last minute to the Giants. And someone took photos. Oops. But hell, who cares! That is how you handle defeat.
Yup, the guy on the left in the back without the shirt is Patriots tight end Dan Gronkowski.
Here is Gronk dancing with shirtless offensive lineman Matt Light.
Screw it. Tough loss, boys. Just take off your shirts and dance to LMFAO. Wonder if Coach Bill was there.


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Item one is the handle. I did not include it in the materials section since the actual material cannot affect the edge cutting quality and overall performance of a knife, but can effect the relationship of the cook and the knife. There are two major categories of knives' handles; wood and plastic. Although wood is more traditional, plastic has emerged and it is pretty competitive since it is cheap, colorful and resists chemicals environments like the dishwasher. Regardless, however, the material the one thing that really matters is the feel. How does it feel in your hand. The fingers should wrap nicely around it, and be able to grasp it tightly. So a very good tip is to buy knives from a store where you can actually grab them and evaluate the feel in your hand. Regardless of the price, the material the design, if it does not feel nice in your hand, is probably worthless.
Chef's KnifeThe longest knife that is include on the set, at least in the more typical sets. It is between 7-14 in long and is has a straight spine and a curved blade, usually more curved towards the tip. It is quite heave and it is the knife for, cutting, chopping, mincing, julienning and dicing. The wide blade allows for better directionality when cutting vertically down since the knuckles can be used to guide it.Utility KnifeVery similarly shaped to the chef's knife, but smaller. It comes through to the places that the chef's knife due to the size cannot make it. Not quite as heavy and the length can vary from 3-7 in.Boning KnifeA knife that is distinct not due tot he sigmoidal curve shape only but also due to the material. It is a low carbon stainless steel and it can bend. This give it flexibility and can navigate around a bone removing the meat leaving no trace behind. To that great addition is the very thin blade that can allow for turns in narrow places, like in-between the bones of a rack.Paring KnifeThe sister/brother knife to the utility knife. It is very small 2-3 in and it comes through.. you guessed it, where the utility knife cannot go through. In addition the small size makes it ideal for jobs that need to be done of the cutting board like for example pealing and carving.CleaverNo introductions here. Well known from horror movies and of course from the butchers. It is also refereed to as butchers knife as well. It comes with a straght very wide blade. It is made for cutting bones and cartilage with ease. The size of the blade is there just to add a great amount of weight. With this lifting and lowering the knife gives it great momentum and therefore ability to break bones and cut joins in a snap.SlicerOne more specialty knife. This one is constructed by a straight edge with curved end. Its only purpose is to slice. To that, the narrow blade adds with small friction and sometimes the grooves on either side, allows for less drag. In some sets this comes just like a utility knife only longer.Serrated KnifeThe teeth are there to concentrate pressure. this is particular useful for cutting tomatoes and bread. Tomatoes have a thick skin over a soft tissue and therefore you need to be able to pierce through the skin to cut. Bread on the other side has a very tough crust that is hard to cut with a chef's knife. There you need the strength of the serrated knife. But, when it comes to vegetables for slicing and dicing, it is bad. Very poor control, and since the teeth touch the board only with the tips, you never have full contact with the surface.ScimitarHighly specialized knife. It is used by butchers for cutting meat. The long blade allows for cutting with a simple stroke while the curved upwards end increase the range of motion where the cutting is effective.Oyster KnifeJust there to open Oysters. Not sharp, just pointy and thick blade to be able to cut the join that hold the oyster shells together and pear it open.Clam KinfeSimilar for the oyster knifes but this one only for clams. A little thinner and more pointy suitable for the clams' shells.
So all you need are 2 knives, a chef's knife and a parring knife. Slowly and based on your skill and needs you can start building around your flagship knife and it's assistant a fleet of knives.
The question now is where to cut? The knives, need a surface that will yield on their blade, so the blade is not damaged. Under these considerations, the glass, granite, metal and marble are completely out of the question. Absolutely not. Besides the grinding of the blade against their surface is so annoying.
So this is all you need to know about cutlery:
- Buy knifes as you need them and avoid sets. Invest the money you saved on a better knife.
- Choose the material based on your budget and needs. All blades are good, some are just a bit better.
- Make sure the knife feels nice in your arm. The most expensive knife will be worthless if it does not feel as the extension of your arm.
- Choose a nice cutting board. Wood or plastic, just not glass, granite metal and marble.
With all these simple information, you can build your cooking skills upon a great start. Knife was the first cooking gadget and it is still the base of every kitchen. To polish your knife skills you can try the following recipes salsa, pineapple mango salsa and ceviche.


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A combination of two companies into one bigger corporation where one of them is absorbed by the other is the simple definition of Merger, the unity of the assets of two companies into one legally and also the sharing of the liabilities or the debts of the acquired company is inclusive when an M& A happens.
What happens when two companies merge?
- the existing or the surviving company assumes all the rights of the acquired company including the assets, liabilities, privileges
- major competition is avoided as mostly the M & A happens when there are two very competitive businesses and once acquired, the competition is lessened and rivalry is negated,
- number of social benefits, as the scope of reducing the cost, improve the quality of the products and get an increased output with higher profit margins, hence the government to go easy on in the process of acquiring and merging businesses as they are highly regulated,
- most of the unutilized skill sets of people and technical aspects are increased and are used to full capacity
- underused assets are optimally used for increasing the output and increase the profitability once the M & A is completed
The market is one of the most upper forces which make companies to even think of M& A; though competition and price are determinants the future ahead has more and more M& A happening due to the market conditions prevailing and the edge over other similar industries in the business.
Factors which influence M& A:
- most of the strength and weakness of each of the company are tabled and is a major factor in deciding whether it is a viable option as one company may have a higher liability and the other may have less debt to equity ratio which is a lucrative offer
- a key factor in determining whether the two companies fit in strategically, there should not be a merger or acquisition happening just to take over the liabilities or the customer base, a good equation of similar organizational culture, leadership quality and conducive environment gives the required scope
- the amount of branding a company has or will have once two companies are merged is yet another influential factor on how good the marketing of the product is done, and how much percentage of market share such products hold, the higher the percentage of market share a product or service has, higher will be the profitability if the branding is done well.


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The cline for D. montana on the Western coast of USA has now been completed. Cheers! It reaches from Vancouver (lat 49o 15′, old sample) to Azalea (lat 42o 45′). Unfortunately we succeeded to get only three females from Azalea, but already for Fall Creek (lat 44o) the sample size is much bigger. It will be really exiting to see what kind of clines we will find e.g. in the cold tolerance and diapause behaviour of the flies and how do they look like compared to our European samples from much higher latitudes. And is there a good reason to call these flies 'giant montana'?
Special thanks to Mikko who has been a tireless driver and collected half of the flies during the trip. Here he is standing in front of a jail waiting to be hanged.


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The Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team is sending three players to the next level after Brooke Kaawa, Genesis Benitez, and Joise Maldonado all committed on Thursday.
Kaawa, who came to WNCC from Hawaii, is headed to Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Lewis-Clark is a NAIA school.
Benitez and Maldonado, who are both from Puerto Rico, are headed to the Division I level after signing with the University of North Alabama, located in Florence, Alabama. UNA will be making the move from Division II to Division I next season.
All three said they are excited to be going on to play.
"For me it means a lot because that was my dream all the time and is going to be true," Benitez said. "To be here was a big challenge because I came here without knowing any English."
Maldonado said she had a dream to play Division I volleyball, and to continue playing with her teammate is a blessing.
"I wasn't expecting that but I am happy that we are going to the same school. We are roommates here and I think it is pretty great that we get to share that experience together at the next level," she said. "It also was a dream of mine [to play Division I volleyball] but I didn't see it coming. It is a reality now and when I had the offer I couldn't believe it. Here I am or here we are. I think I grew up a lot as a player during the two years but I still have to grow. They told me they are going to help me do that. I am very excited.
Kaawa said her decision to attend Lewis-Clark State was based on how she and the coach connected. Lewis-Clark hired Northwest College's Shawn Pohlman in December and Kaawa said she is excited to be joining his program.
"I choose Lewis-Clark because it was like the best fit for me volleyball-wise and school-wise," she said. "I love volleyball and I am excited that I get to play for another two years. I found a good place."
Kaawa said she was looking at other schools, but the connection she felt at Lewis-Clark was just something she couldn't turn down.
"I was looking at other schools, too, but because me and their coach, Shawn Pohlman, really connected," she said. "When we talked on the phone, I felt like wereally had a bond."
The three volleyball players join Kadara Marshall, who inked with Dickinson State in December, as the sophomores that will be playing next year. The three current Cougar volleyball players helped the Cougars to a 33-8 record in the fall and the program's 19th-straight Region IX championship. Marshall is currently participating at Dickinson State with the track and field team as a triple and long jumper.
Kaawa finished her sophomore year with 430 kills, 352 digs and 53 digs. For her career, the 5-foot-9 hitter finished with 787 kills, 751 digs, and 123 blocks. Kaawa said that she improved a lot in her two years at WNCC considering she never played the backrow in high school and she was a middle hitter coming in. Kaawa was an outside hitter for the Cougars.
"Before coming here, I never used to play the back row, which was kind of hard for me," Kaawa said. "I improved a lot coming here. I moved to an outside hitter and I played middle hitter all my life before here."
Kaawa said these last two years have been special.
"It was memorable. These last two years have been a really big stepping stone for me," she said. "I love the girls. I love the coaches. I love western Nebraska."
Kaawa said it will be sad when May comes and she will be leaving.
"The friendships I have made here have been great," she said. "I love it here. I love the people here. I love the community here. Having friends from all over the world. It was a good experience."
Benitez was the team's libero and finished her career as one of the top dig leaders. Benitez had a career 1,159 digs. This past season, she finished with 678 digs. Benitez ranks fifth in career digs and tied for seventh with digs in a season.
Benitez said it is going to be hard to leave Scottsbluff and WNCC in May because of all the people she met and helped her along the way, especially helping her learn the English language.
"It's going to be hard because my friends, instructors, dorm family and coaches have helped me a lot and never, never let me alone in this hard challenge," she said. "I just want say thanks all the people who help me in this time of my life."
Maldonado had a strong sophomore season, finishing with 239 kills with 14 blocks. The 6-foot-2 outside hitter finished her career with 319 kills.
Maldonado said she has a ton of memories on and off the court while at WNCC.
"I am very thankful for the opportunity that I had to come here and play. It has been amazing," she said. "We had the opportunity of going twice to nationals. These past two years, the chemistry was very different with the teams and we have wonderful memories. I loved it here."
It is those memories that will make it hard for Maldonado to leave to head to UNA, which is closer to her home in Puerto Rico.
"It is going to be very hard to leave," she said. "We have family here. We have dorm parents and brothers and sisters that we are going to miss. We spend most of the weekends over there at their house and we have memories. It will be very hard when May comes and we have to leave."


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(Chicago Health Tribune) — Getting high blood pressure is the easy part — 76 million Americans already have it. But lowering it back down again doesn't have to be tricky either. Talk to your doctor and see if trying some of these ideas throughout the day can get you back on track.
When you wake: Drink two cups of Greek coffee
The science: A 2010 study by Greek researchers finds that drinking two to three cups of java daily reduces your risk of heart disease by 21 percent and lowers your blood pressure by up to 10 percent. The coffee works by releasing flavonoids and cafestol, which increases your heart's ability to stretch to accommodate more blood flow, said Christina Chrysohoou, study author and cardiologist with the First Cardiology Clinic University in Athens. Keep in mind though, that this kind of coffee can raise your serum cholesterol. Talk to your doctor if this is an issue for you.
Make it work for you: Although American coffee — which has less caffeine — may also do the trick, the study only examined Greek coffee. Brew it at home: Try Loumidis Papagalos Greek Coffee ($13 for 16 ounces at amazon.com).
In the office: Hold your head up
The science: There's a link between your neck muscles and the area of your brain that regulates your blood pressure, said Ian Edwards, author of a recent study focusing on blood pressure and posture. Standing up straight can actually lower your BP.
Make it work for you: If you're sitting in front of a desk all day, you need to make sure it's at the right height for your posture, Edwards said. Put a Post-it note on your computer reminding you to sit up straight. But before you pop on the Post-it, make sure that your computer is at the right height so it will feel more natural to sit straight and work. For most people, making sure your eyes are 2 to 3 inches below the top of the monitor will ensure that you're sitting straight.
On the ride home: Get rid of the noise
The science: European researchers have found that your blood pressure rises when you hear ambient noise — even if you're sleeping and don't think you're noticing the sounds. It's especially bad for anyone living near an airport or highway, says study author Dr. Alexandros Haralabidis. "Noise is considered an environmental stressor," Haralabidis said. "Like other stressors, it may affect the autonomic nervous system and our stress hormones by interfering with our activities, relaxation and sleep."
Make it work for you: Haralabidis suggests wearing earplugs when you sleep or are driving with your windows open. Try Apothecary Products Flents Quiet Please Foam Ear Plugs ($23 for 50 pairs at amazon.com).
Before dinner: Alternate nostrils
The science: A recent study published in the Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Journal finds that alternating nostrils while steadily breathing significantly lowers diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate and respiratory rate. The study's authors believe it works because each of your nostrils holds its own nerves that reach various areas of your hypothalamus — the area of your brain regulating BP.
Make it work for you: Find a quiet spot in your house, and sit with your neck and trunk erect in a straight line, said Kshitiz Upadhyay-Dhungel, study author and assistant professor of physiology at KIST Medical College in Nepal. Close only your right nostril with your thumb, and slowly exhale and then inhale. Then use your ring finger to close only your left nostril when you exhale and inhale. Continue switching sides and breathing. Make sure you're doing this slowly — take 6 breaths per minute — on an empty stomach, and perform the breathing exercise for 15 minutes each day.


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Financial advisor Suze Orman accused private banks of "financially raping" students at a Politico event with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday.
"The kids today, they don't have money and they have not been educated about how important it is that have to pay their student loans…so why are we protecting private banks who are financially raping, and I say that word truthfully, our children?" Orman stated.
Warren blamed for-profit colleges and argued they should "have some skin in the game" and should "be held responsible" for rebating the loans of students who default back to the federal government. "They [colleges] can't just be bringing them [students] in, taking the tuition money, cashing the checks from the federal government, and then tossing these kids out with nothing" she said.
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Nick Bostrom is an influential philosopher who specializes in the future. An Oxford don, he is also the founder of the Future of Humanity Institute.1 Bostrom's paper, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?," has been republished five times and translated into Russian, Ukrainian, and the artificial language Kah. Its title raises a question about the posthuman world that Bostrom imagines is our future. It is a world in which superintelligent human beings, or their posthuman successors, or their computers, have extraordinary powers. They may be able to harness planets and even galaxies to enhance their computing capacity.
Would they, Bostrom wonders, have the power to simulate human brain activity and the desire to simulate human beings? His argument has an enviable simplicity:
…at least one [emphasis original] of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.2
This argument is based on a fallacy.
To simplify the problem, I assume that a posthuman world, in Bostrom's most optimistic sense, comes to pass. It has enormous, but not infinite, computing power, and devotes some of it to simulation. A human being has on the order of 1010 synapses, each of which at any time can fire or not. These, according to Bostrom, fire at a rate of 1,000 times per second. On Bostrom's view, we can simulate a person's brain by describing the firing pattern of his synapses. To simulate Bostrom, it would be sufficient to match his firing pattern over the course of his life. His firing pattern at any one time can be described by 1010 bits of information, but suppose, for the sake of argument, we really only need only 105 of these bits. There are more than 1011 thousandths of a second in his life so far, so to describe his overall pattern would require 1016 bits.
If we generate simulations at random, there are 2 to the power of 1016 possible patterns. The probability of a discovering a randomly generated Bostrom-pattern is much less than 1/1015. The probability of getting Bostrom right at any given moment is less than 1/1010,000. The probability of matching any of the roughly 1010 individuals in human history, rather than only Bostrom, is 1010 × 1/1010,000.3 The probability of matching any person at all in 101000 simulations is extraordinarily close to zero. The probability that Nick Bostrom, or anyone else, may be described by a randomly generated simulation is nil.
What is wrong with Bostrom's argument?
If there are H individuals and N simulations, Bostrom assumes that each individual will be simulated an average of N/H times. When N/H is large, he asserts, any individual is more likely to be simulated than real. In a word of abundantly many clones, the odds that you are you are not very good.4 This is true only if every simulation produces a simulacrum. But the vast majority of simulations represent no one at all. The number of simulations that count as simulacra has a mean value of zero, because the number of simulations is far larger than the number of individuals. The number of possible simulations is so large that the probability that any future simulator, even one capable of performing 1010,000 simulations, can succeed in ever matching any living or past person even at any given moment is negligibly small. I am willing to believe that it is possible to simulate 10100 people, but not much more than 101000 of them. Do not allow yourself to be confused by the fact that the vast majority of simulation targets will be dead. The dead, being dead, have no synapses that could be simulated. Before Bostrom's vast project could even begin, the dead would have to be brought back to life.
Whatever the obstacles to Bostrom's project, the fact remains that Bostrom himself cannot be identified with the set b of his synapses, even if they are firing like mad. A b-Bostrom conveys no more useful information about the real Bostrom than his social security number. An individual is comprised of his accomplishments, wit, appearance, skills, and failings. Such properties exist at a level of abstraction far removed from that of synapse firing and there is no clear way of relating one level to the other.
Could posthumanity find another way to generate all of human history? Who knows? Bostrom has based his claims on synapse firings and his conclusions on probabilities.
- Wikipedia, "Nick Bostrom." ↩
- Nick Bostrom, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" Philosophical Quarterly 53, no. 211 (2003): 243. ↩
- A common population esimate of all the human beings who have ever lived. ↩
- Daniel Kleitman, "It's You, Again," Inference: International Review of Science 2, no. 2 (2016). ↩
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Today's Letters: Dear Mr. Loerke, this morning I found you consolidating your cooking magazines & medical journals. 4 points for purging, 2 points for creative use of your camping chair. Dear Homemade Whoopie Pies, you tasted just like mini red velvet sandwiches. In fact, you tasted so good I probably should have cut the recipe in half. Yikes. Dear Caroline Smith & the Goodnight Sleeps, thanks for being such great company in the kitchen today. You were almost as wonderful as baking with the windows open. Dear Timosabi, Papa's homemade beef stir-fry tonight. You got your magic chopsticks ready? Love you more than Hoisan sauce and snow peas.
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Getting Around Maui
We understand that figuring out Maui transportation can be one of the most important steps in planning your vacation. Whether you want a car rental so you can explore the island at your leisure or just need service between the airport and your accommodation, we've got a few options for getting you around the island.
Maui's main airport is Kahului Airport (OGG) or there is a smaller airport on West Maui, Kapalua Airport (JHM), and a smaller airport on East Maui, Hana Airport (HNM). Many flights will have you connect through Honolulu International Airport (HNL) on Oahu, but it's an easy 30-minute flight from Oahu to Maui.
Maui car rentals are available at Kahului Airport with eight options though it's recommended to book your rental prior to your arrival, especially if you need a bigger vehicle or ADA accessible vehicle.
These companies are located at the airport:
- Alamo Rent a Car
- Avis Rent a Car
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- Enterprise Rent a Car
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If you don't plan on driving around the island, you can arrange private car service or limo pick-up with these companies:
Maui has 13 bus routes operated by Roberts Hawaii that services Central, South, West, Haiku, Kula, and Upcountry regions. The buses run seven days a week and runs to Kahului Airport. Fares start at $2 for general boarding or you can buy a daily pass for fixed routes and ADA paratransit service for $4. Children under the age of two and riding on the lap of an adult ride the bus for free. Most routes start service for the day around 6 a.m. and run until about 10 p.m., check the schedule for specific route start and stop times.
If you want to visit the nearby islands of Lanai and Molokai you're in luck with daily ferry service between the islands from the Lahaina Harbor. It's about an hour boat ride to Lanai and an hour and a half to reach Molokai.
Ferry options include:
Expeditions offers several departures each day, leaving Lahaina at:
- 6:45 a.m.
- 9:15 a.m.
- 12:45 p.m.
- 3:15 p.m.
- 5:45 p.m.
The ferry departs Lanai at:
- 8:00 a.m.
- 10:30 a.m.
- 2:00 p.m.
- 4:30 p.m.
- 5:45 p.m.
One-way tickets are $30 for adults.
Molokai Ferry operates Tuesday – Saturday and departs Maui at 7 a.m. toward Molokai and then departs at 5 p.m. to return to Maui.
Boarding is 15 minutes prior to departure and an adult one-way ticket is $60.25.
Shuttles are an affordable way to arrange transportation from the airport to your accommodation and many shuttle services also do tours of the island.
- Speedi Shuttle
- VIP Trans
- Roberts Hawaii
- Temptation Tours
- Akina Aloha Tours
- Hawaii Executive Transportation
Taxi service is available on the island through these companies:
There's no shortage of possibilities for getting around Maui and visiting our nearby isles but do plan ahead as some shuttles or car services will book out in advance and many car rental companies have lenient cancellation policies.
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Performing a Normal (Soft) Reset on a Samsung GT-S5230
A normal reset is sometimes referred to as a soft reset. A normal reset stops all running applications but does not erase any programs or saved data.
Caution be sure to save any unsaved data before performing a normal reset since a normal reset erases all unsaved data.
To perform a soft reset:
- Press End key to power down the phone.
- When the phone has powered-down Press End key again to power on.
- If step 1 is not powering down the phone:
- Detach the battery from the phone.
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iOS users are the first to be treated to the new Photo Filter and Automatic Albums WhatsApp is rolling out. The instant messaging app has new features meant to make chatting, sharing pictures and videos more intuitive, organized, and convenient.
This update rollout out to iOS app yesterday and already people are sharing screenshots of the new features working on their iPhones.
Automatic Albums
As it has been, when you share photos with your contact, the receiver gets them as a continuous stream of pictures, videos, or GIFs. Hardly a pretty sight to look at and seems all over the place and disorganized. Well, the WhatsApp update allows you to share pictures in an album; multiple pictures wrapped in one album to bring about some organization and aesthetics to sharing multiple photos, videos, or GIFs.
Photo Filters
These days filters are everywhere, are they? On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even on your camera app. It hardly surprising that WhatsApp now has it; because everyone just wants to 'fake-slay' pictures, they're flaunting to their friends.
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The Ethics of Shamanic Work
: Do shamanic healing only with their permission. Before doing any healing work in your circle for anyone, we must have their express and informed consent to do shamanic (spiritual) healing. If the person is a child, get the consent of the parents or primary caregivers. If the person is in a coma, you must have the permission of their family or guardian. And, we will still journey to that person to ask their permission and what it is they want. When dealing with the spirit of a deceased person, permission from his or her family or guardian is desirable. And, again, we will also ask the spirit of the person what they want. If in doubt, don't do the work.
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We have featured stunning and sexy Adam Coussins a couple of times already but he is such an awesome guy that we wanted to show him off some more!
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Here are a few shots Adam was kind enough to give us. In our opinion, Adam is one of the sexiest models around!
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See the awesome 1984 Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense
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When I find something that I like, I want to tell others. That urge seems to come from a desire to share the pleasure of the experience, but perhaps also from wanting somehow to get credit for the discovery, or to raise your status by association with something cool. That feeling is particularly strong for me when the experience in question has not yet discovered by the public at large. Right now I am a fan of the Falafel Shop in Adams Morgan, DC—see if you agree.
But I want to call attention in this post to something that is well-known and already justly famous. It is the awesome 1984 Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense.
Since the early 1980s Talking Heads has been my favorite band. It is hard to put a finger on why. I guess it is a combination of great music and associations with formative times. The first time I heard of them, in high school, I did not think much of the band name. But then I got cassette copies from a friend of Remain in Light, Fear of Music, and later Speaking in Tongues. Burning Down the House played everywhere. And their music was on all the time the summer I canvassed for CoPIRG. My freshman year in college we programmed to Psycho Killer in the basement of Bingham Hall. (Another student mocked the lyrics as "Psycho Chicken Bawk-bawk, bawk, bawk-bawk.")
But the movie really sealed the deal for me. I first saw Stop Making Sense in Boulder when it came out. I love the way it builds from song to song, starting with David Byrne, a boom-box and an empty stage. If programmers could dance, they would dance like he does. When we exited the theater, I surprised my friends by how effusively I praised the movie, because it was not like me to be so demonstrative. Later I saw the movie again with a girlfriend in a Chicago theater and confirmed my original impression.
Stop Making Sense: simply a brilliant film and a transcendant more-than-a-concert movie. Let me know if you agree.


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I'm writing from the passenger seat of our Prius, driving through a cloudless twilight in western Minnesota. We are en route to Fargo to visit my family.
A fresh mix CD is in the stereo, the snow is quietly melting into the farmland, and it's a beautiful night for a drive. We enjoy the music, we occasionally sing along, we look out the window, but mostly we talk.
If anyone asks me for marriage or relationship advice (which they don't, but that's ok) my best tip is to find someone you never grow tired of talking to. Marriage is a lot of long car rides and waiting for things at restaurants.
I never run out of things to say to Sam, and vice versa. Add two little voices with their thoughts and observations, and the 250 miles to Fargo breezes by.
Here are a few snippets of Wiant car talk from this evening:
Evie: Here are 3 annoying things: When your cat complains a lot, when you drive off a cliff, and when you get into a car crash.
Monica: The first one is annoying, but the others are serious problems. "Annoying" means something bothers you, but it's pretty small.
Evie: OK, here are 3 annoying things: When your cat complains a lot, when you have too much email, and when you go to a meeting and find out it wasn't actually important.
Evie: You know how you try to remember something, like a dream you had or something from a long time ago, and it's like a bubble where if you stare at it too hard, it pops?
Felix: I drank it all up. Hey, why didn't I drink it down?
Sam: Let's stop and get coffee at Caribou.
Evie: Can I get a Caribou?
Sam: No. You can only have a reindeer.
Evie: Noooo! Wait, what?
Felix: I want a reindeer!
We're 73 miles from the North Dakota border, Evie is looking at stars and she discovers Orion's Belt and asks why she can't see the rest of him.
Sam tells her of the best star-watching place he knows, the family cabin in Montana. We should go there this summer. It's a 15-hour drive... But I think we can handle it.


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.....what I write when I am not writing software codes. Almost as illogical.
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You forgot to mention the biggest secret of our age group - whether it's a boy or a girl!!
I don't believe in secrets really only because I'm very, very curious in nature! Also, you have to tell me 'not to tell anyone' for your secret to remain a secret because, like I said, I don't think anything should be a secret!
:D I dont tell anyone anything ..and I dont think anything is a total secret these days...just people tend to be secretive about their not-so-happening lives just to feel good :DDelete
Ha ha, good one. And so true. Some people never change. I have a friend who begins her sentence with, " don't tell this to anyone but....".ReplyDelete
Hehe yeah ..I have seen many people like that too ... they think everything about them should be mysterious or something. Too much TV !Delete
I have nothing called secrets! If the age of Facebook and Twitter hardly anything is a secret anymore.
And I hate those people who desperately try to hide a secret very well knowing that the other person is aware of it. Silly fools.
Yeah our lives are open books ! The pages being twitter and Facebook ! :DDelete
Ha! I am sure you leaked out the news to other cats. Admit it! :DReplyDelete
:-| Shhh don't embarass me here. We will chat in private ;-)Delete
This "how did you know" is the more worrisome bit. People always wants to know the source.ReplyDelete
Yeah. And its always a dilemma to answer that !Delete
hahah! this post is really cool! I can relate very well to this and i know a few people whose fav pasttime is indulging in this 'secrets' game only..I wonder how they manage to gossip the whole day with their'shh..don't tell anyone' cards!!ReplyDelete
I know...! Some people live in a really small world, their most trivial stuff is 'top secret' for them..!Delete
I dont have secrets. Atleast a bunch of people know everything and anything about me and I am fine with it. What you said about keeping the good news lik Mahesh cracking the IIT a top secret...while spreading every other ugly news, I sooooooooo second you on that!!!
I loved this one.
Thanks Red. All good news are well kept secrets. Such news proves that the loosest of mouths actually KNOW how to keep things to themselves !Delete


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Alphabetic cube, that's me! I'm a set of 10 white wooden blocks made from solid French oak. I can teach you all about stacking, counting and words. I've added all the letters of the alphabet and numbers so you can write 'dada' or even more complicated words like 'watermelon' and 'unicorn'. My blocks come in a cotton bag for storage.
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Doing sexual stuff with iTunes on Shuffle - a perilous game
Terrible times if you're me and 'groovy kind of love' by Phil Collins comes on just as you're just about to lay the pipe down
Worse still is if you're in a band and one of your own songs comes on though, adds a whole level of self-absorbed narcissism to proceedings, feels like you should be flexing your muscles in the mirror PAtrick Bateman style
the second half of the post made me lol.
Its also quite bad during the few seconds when theres silence at the end of one song waiting to see what comes on next. You cant help but prick up your ears in anticipation.
Lay the pipe down? Ha!
You do know you can mark invididual tracks to say 'don't play on shuffle'?
i hate a mate who used to do that
and always boasted about how he timed himself to finish during "In The Jungle", usually the high falsetto bit
weird fucker
Use party shuffle
i think this is hilarious
but i find listening to music is offputting. i feel like i might stop half way through and go "hmmm. is this Tom Vek?" or something. that could be quite dangerous.


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During Carnaval 2014, I was in Rio De Janeiro celebrating the famous national holiday, and this is one of the ads in the street that caught my attention:
The poster says "I forgot the 'NO' at home". The biggest brewery in Brazil was widely seen as specifically inviting women to not say no to guys during the Carnaval and rather let the guys freely kiss them.
Fast forward to 2016. Despite all the ongoing discussions about gender equality, this is what we still see in advertising today:
So, let's understand a few things about women first.
Women are the world's largest consumer group. We make 85% of all buying decisions and control 73% of the global consumer purchasing, accounting for a staggering $20 trillion of the world's annual consumer spending. And yet, we still see women wrongly represented in the media and many times being stereotyped, most probably as a consequence of women being woefully underrepresented in creative jobs in advertising. Unsurprisingly, 91% of female consumers feel advertisers don't understand them. We believe that this issue has even deeper and more serious consequences.
What has advertising been selling?
The majority of the time, women are still stereotyped as fragile and are encouraged to pursue beauty as the ultimate goal in life, while men are inspired to be brave, adventurous and open-minded. If we still doubt it, take a look at what real girls' points of view are in this video:
The consequence
Advertising is present in people's lives from a young age, so people's desires and ambitions in life are influenced by the aspirational reality depicted to them. This process starts early, very early. For little girls and boys it starts way before they have established their own points of view. Thus, the consequence of what is shown in advertising can have a massive societal impact.
Change is needed
Generations to come are no longer going to accept what ads tell them without criticizing it. Generation Z has new role models to be inspired by. Girls in this group have acquired new references from brave activists. Social media has given space for activists like Malala Yousafzai and Emma Watson to speak out and stand up for causes that will impact their future directly. And most of all, they call for girls to participate. They are empowering and provoking them, giving them information and ways to contribute. #YesAllGirls and #HeForShe are real examples of how girls and boys are being called to action, called to fight for other girls' rights and for a fairer world. We must also change and use advertising to contribute towards this.
Beyond the Powergirl
Unlocking the greater potential of people and communities is Innate Motion's core purpose, mission and business. After years of working with global brands and teams, driving change and movements, our flag now stands for them: the women in media and advertising. We will not only applaud, support and make efforts to represent them fairly, we will create the means to achieve this and apply our knowledge to portray them as they want to be. The answer isn't a one-size-fits-all image of women. Through the representation and celebration of the diversity of all qualities, we want to contribute to an image in the media landscape that does women justice.
We have started a movement to portray real women in advertising. We invite you to join this movement and contribute. Innate Motion has developed a guide for this journey; Beyond The Powergirl. This work aims to promote a vision of how it is possible to portray women fairly in society and also inspire them to be the best they can be.
This is just a starting point but an important one for sure. Let's aim higher in what we create. Let's do this together, better than the ads shown above, because we can and we should.


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The PhD programme at the Faculty of Theology
The Research School at the Faculty of Theology supervises PhDs in the main theological subjects (Bible exegesis, church history and systematic theology) and their disciplines, as well as in areas where theological issues and considerations play a significant role. The PhD programme at the Faculty of Theology is thus open to a broad range of theological, religious/science and historical subject areas, and is not bound by particular theoretical directions or methodologies.
The objective of the research and training programme is to develop the students' competencies in academic work at an international level, and in interaction with international research environments. During their studies, the PhD students work on an original academic project. By the end of the course of study, they will present either one complete major thesis or a collection of small published or publishable works, in the framework of an introductory preface and an overall conclusion. The PhD student has the right to demand, and the duty to receive, supervision from one or more recognised researchers during their period of study; The principal supervisor must be an associate or full professor employed at the faculty during the PhD programme.
The PhD study programme is run as per the overarching and local sets of rules. In connection with the application for matriculation, as fees are charged for PhD study, the applicant must substantiate that their studies are fully funded.
The PhD programme is normally a three years' full-time programme (3 x 60 ECTS points); only limited options are granted for leave and reduced study activity (part-time study).


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This legal ring fencing could help build consensus on GST rates when the issue is taken up next month, officials said
The government is likely to bring a separate law detailing the method of compensating states for any revenue loss from the goods and services tax to give a firm assurance to states that their revenues will be protected even if the GST rate is low.
This legal ring fencing could help build consensus on GST rates when the issue is taken up next month, officials said.
"Compensation mechanism will be given a legal backing," said a senior government official confirming some deliberations on the issue. The formula has broadly been agreed to at the first meeting of GST Council yesterday and today and its nitty-gritty would be finalised before the next meeting by officials.
The constitution amendment to roll out GST provides for full compensation to the states for five years but there are no details mentioned. "Parliament shall, by law, on the recommendation of the Goods and Services Tax Council, provide for compensation to the States for loss of revenue arising on account of implementation of the goods and services tax for a period of five years," the amended law says.
A separate compensation law is being mulled that will give the provisions a statutory framework. GST will replace all indirect taxes on goods and services levied by central and state governments.
States have in past complained of the Centre going back on its word on compensation for phase out of central sales tax and differences on the issue had hurt the progress on GST for some time. It was only after past dues were cleared that states agreed to move forward on the new tax regime.
The base year for GST compensation is fixed at FY16 but other details like what would be the percentage increase every year over the five year period are to be worked out.
A legally binding compensation agreement will give states comfort to support a lower rate of GST as they would be protected against any loss. The Central government is keen on a lower rate and lesser exemptions though states have pitched for GST rate of more than 20 per cent. A high GST rate would cause inflation.


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On the way there, we had the first problems with the taxi: the taxi driver's wife was visiting him for Xmas and he did not go to stay all day out with us. I could convince him to come back to Cueva del Indio in two hours' time, which gave us time to visit the cave and to hike in the nearby Rancho de San Vicente.
Cueva del Indio was not so large, but still interesting, as caves always are! In addition, it was very tourist-oriented, which made it easy to visit with our son. There is a larger cave in the valley, Cueva de Santo Tomas. But that one is supposed to be quite rough and some point, so we decided not to go there either with our son. The price to pay to be parents!!! ;)
The most interesting part of Cueva del Indio is the second part of the visit, which is done by boat. There is a river coming out of the cave and there is a small boat ride from the cave towards the exit. On the way out, the person in charge of the boat pointed out some "weird" rock formations which resemble other things: bananas, crocodiles, etc, etc...
This is the actual exit of Cueva del Indio:
Just in the exit, there were some tourist traps (souvenirs, overpriced restaurants...) and behind those, Rancho de San Vicente was waiting for some hiking opportunities. The landscape out there felt really tropical with jungle and palm trees all over.
The hikes in this area are not so special, but are ok to feel the rustic atmosphere: cattle, pigs, plantations, jungle, birds singing in it...
After Cueva del Indio, our taxi driver was different and some more problems arised. Basically, he just wanted to bring us to places quickly and come back to town really early. It took us 20 minutes to convince him that the plan we had agreed upon was not like that and he should honour that plan. Finally, it was fine and we could leasurely visit the places we wanted to visit and have a nice long lunch at a local paladar (privately owned restaurant).
The other interesting part of the Viñales Valley is around Mogote Dos Hermanas, and here is where the most beautiful karst mountain scenery is. The size of these mogotes is just amazing. Compare the size of the one below with respect to the house on the lower right corner to understand the proportions.
The main tourist attraction in here is the so-called Mural de la Prehistoria, a mural painted over a large wall in one of the mogotes. It was painted over several years around the 70s by some Diego Rivera followers. The result is shocking. You may like it or not, but it does not leave you indifferent. In my opinion, let's say I do not like it so much :P
After this part of the valley, it was time for the best views, from Hotel Los Jazmines. From up there, all the valley is visible and it is really beautiful.
The final stop was in another beautiful hotel-mirador, Hotel La Ermita. From there, we could see the town and the mogotes in the background.
Finally, we got back to town at around 16.30, just in time for some mojitos and chilling out before going back to our casa for a special dinner...
That night, we were meeting some great friends, Seppo and Cynthia, who were also traveling around Cuba! It was very nice to meet them after some years. Actually, the last time we had met them had been two years before, in our own wedding celebration in Almansa, Spain. During dinner, we got up to date with our lives and made plans to meet again in La Habana in the end of our trips, around one week later.
The next day, it was time to leave Viñales. The next stop was Trinidad, but it was more than 7 hours away by bus, so we decided to go back to La Habana to break the trip in two parts and make it more agreable for Yuuhi and for us. Shopping in town, we got a shared taxi with two Argentineans for the same price as the bus. So same price, faster and door-to-door service! The car was a pretty cool old American car from the 50s. However, the sound system was Pioneer, the driving wheel was from a Hyundai and the engine was Toyota! A good vehicle to come back to La Habana, where we planned to visit Vedado, the new city center developed during the American-influence era.


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In case you're wondering if the binary number in Stephan's glasses means anything, I checked, and it doesn't.
Hard to prove.
It could be anything; from microprocessor instructions to some kind of data stream. If it was meant to be encrypted data stream, then it's impossible to determine whether it carries some data, or doesn't, since encryption should make normal data seem like random numbers.
Well,if they have child-labor laws (and since they're in the US except when they aren't, and this is specified as California they do) and he isn't among the kids who've finished high school by that age and is allowed an exemption…
Maybe he took a GED test? He's smart enough to pass.
Ahh reality hits like a sledgehammer


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Ana + Brett are one of the most relaxed, joyful couples we've photographed, and we had the best time taking their engagement photos on a sailboat in the Bay earlier this summer. When we met up with them on their wedding day at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa Valley, they had just returned from a refreshing swim at the pool, and a nice lounge in the sunshine. It was a perfect day for a wedding. In fact, this was their second: an American encore performance after getting married a few weeks earlier in Brazil. These two were having the most fun ever on their International, Rock Star TOUR OF LOVE!
After getting dressed, Brett took a little spin in their vintage wedding Volvo (aficionados: feel free to ID the year of the car in the comments section below). With a hesitant ignition, the groomsmen helped get the car rolling with a bit of a push, and even more hearty laughs. Then Brett waited for his bride to arrive in the Meritage courtyard, for the "first look." Ana came walking down, twirling Brett around, and gave him a big kiss, the bridesmaids cheering behind them.
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