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New India Assurance
"India has given state-run insurers approval to provide limited cover to its ships transporting Iran's oil. . . Domestic insurance firms are allowed to provide ship owners carrying Iranian oil $50 million in cover against pollution and personal injury claims, also known as protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance, Devli said. They will also provide hull and machinery cover of $50 million, to protect ships against physical damage. General Insurance Corp of India will be the re-insurer and cover will be extended by any of four state-run non-life insurance firms: United India Insurance, New India Assurance Co. Ltd., National Insurance Co. Ltd. and the Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. 'We have received a letter from the shipping ministry ... saying General Insurance Corp has provisionally been allowed to arrange cover,' said a source at a state-run refiner." (Reuters, "India insures Iran oil imports to safeguard flow -sources," 7/10/12)
"Indian shipping firms will continue to transport Iranian crude even if limited insurance coverage due to tightening Western sanctions leaves them financially exposed to a spill or accident, a top executive and industry sources said... Shipping Corp of India, which is the country's largest shipping firm, Great Eastern and other Indian tanker firms have asked state insurers to step in and provide up to $50 million in third-party liability coverage per tanker voyage. The amount is a fraction of the typical $1 billion coverage that a supertanker carrying around 2 million barrels of crude would have from reinsurers against personal injury and pollution claims. India's shipping companies would run the risk of shipping the crude even though they would be liable for any claims above $50 million in the case of an incident, industry sources said... The shipping firms have sent their request to state insurers United India Insurance, General Insurance Company, New India Assurance Co. Ltd., National Insurance Co. Ltd. and the Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd., said a shipping source. The shipping and finance ministries were also looking at the proposal." (Chicago Tribune, "Indian firms to carry Iran crude despite reduced insurance," 4/24/12)


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19-year-old stabbed when he opened his car door into someone
It was a minor mistake.
Anthony "Tony" Marudas opened the door of his Volkswagon bug into someone's leg. Words were exchanged. The person pulled out a knife and stabbed the 19-year-old to death. It was Nov. 10, 1979.
The whole incident lasted less than a few minutes, but the consequences ended Anthony's life.
A witness saw what happened and had been walking with the suspect but has never come forward and identified the killer.
Marudas grew up in Lakewood.
His mother Patricia remembered him as an independent boy who always found things to do to occupy his time.
"I remember my brother as this little white-haired boy who excelled in sports of all kinds," his sister recalled for a profile for Families of Victims of Homicide and Missing Persons. He and his friends made a bike ramp that they used for jumping with their stingray bikes.
Tony Marudas attended Alameda High School.
He liked skiing, mountain climbing, basketball, football, wrestling, golfing and bowling, according to his family.
After graduating from high school he worked in construction with his father.
"He was trying to find out what he wanted to do," Patricia Marudas said. "He didn't want to go to college."
On the night he was killed, Patricia Marudus got onto his son for buying so many gadgets for his prized dark blue Volkswagon that he kept in his closet and never installed. The car was always freezing inside because the heater didn't work. But before he went out the door that night, she stopped him.

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In this section, you can find how to:
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1 Once you are on LG.com, press Tab on your keyboard. You will see a link that reads "Skip to Contents". Press Enter to directly go to main content.
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1 Calendar layer appears whenever an input box with calendar icon is focused. Press Tab or Shift + Tab on your keyboard to move back and forth in the calendar layer.
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4 With the calendar layer opened, press Ctrl + Arrow keys to view a yearly calendar.
5 You need to choose a date to close the layer.
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Confession time: This might be the last Dictionary girl paper doll post for a while.
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I have been feeling really ambiguous about my Dictionary Girl paper dolls lately and I haven't even been able to get myself excited about drawing for them. Originally, I wanted to do this fun vintage thing which I did, but lately I've been feeling less then inspired. Their feet freak me out and I'm not in love with their faces. The truth is that I have moved towards a more cartoon style of drawing lately and these dolls feel… forced and awkward.
I'm really divided about this, because I think it's important to have paper dolls of all body types and I think it's important to show that healthy figured women are… well… healthy, but on the other hand… I'm having trouble getting excited about them…
You know, I feel like I'm writing an awkward break up letter… "It's not you. It's me."
Anyway, I'm taking a break from these girls to see if inspiration strikes and if it doesn't, I might be slipping them into the retired section with Curves paper dolls the first version, Flora the Regency paper doll and Florence the 1870's paper doll.
But I do want to know how people feel about this and I was going to do a poll, but instead I thought I would just ask.
How important is it for the site to have a full figured printable paper doll? And if I decide on a different one than the Dictionary Girls, how would people feel?


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Sew News' primary focus is garment sewing for women, but we also include stories on sewing for men, children and specialty groups like senior citizens, plus sizes, petites and the handicapped. We also cover home décor, soft crafts, machine embroidery, and various fabric embellishment methods, such as stamping, painting, beading and stenciling. Emphasis should always involve sewing, fabrics or notions in some way. Sew News does not normally cover areas like hand weaving, hand needlecrafts, crochet, knitting or macramé.


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Regional visitor's center in the works
People make up our government, real people with conviction to activate, not just talk. However, they like to talk, too. That's what makes meetings like the Regional Visitor's Center's first meeting, held Monday, September 9 at 5 p.m. in the Moose Lake City Hall's Conference Room, so interesting.
What made it fun was the wit and charm of the people who cared enough to attend rather than go home after work to veg out.
The meeting was attended by Veronica Fenice, Executive Director of the Moose Lake Chamber of Commerce whose organizational skills are jaw dropping; city administrator Pat Oman who had done so much background work he became the point person for information; Amy Perrine, president of the Moose Lake Chamber of Commerce, and Deb Mohelski, chamber board member, both who asked steadfast questions that sharpened and focused the concept; and Patty Frye, vice president of the chamber whose watchful eye served as an anchor in reality.
So as to make good use of the time allotted for any other interested party to attend, the group threw out a variety of casual facts for general education, including, but not limited to the fact that, in Mixed Marshal Arts Boxing there are two rules, no hitting below the belt and no elbowing.
When it was decided that enough time had passed, even for late-comers to attend, the concept meeting officially began. Oman set the tone.
"This is just a start meeting," said Oman. "This is where it all begins."
The concept is to develop a regional visitor's bureau that would encompass a number of communities and townships in the county, sharing resources and costs.
Potential communities include Barnum, Cromwell, Kettle River, Moose Lake Township, Mahtowa, Barnum Township, Wright, Sturgeon Lake and others that may find the concept valuable.
"The reason I thought these were all good communities to look at is because all of them bring something to the table when we go down the path of a lodging tax, if we were ever to do that," said Oman.
"Essentially they all have a park, a place for people to camp; they all have a hotel or motel. They have something that could bring revenue into the visitor's bureau to assist it."
Sharing costs is a significant benefit to forming a regional visitor's center.
"It's easier to pool all that money," said Oman. "For example, instead of doing eight informational brochures you can do a brochure with eight things in it."
Contacting each community to gauge interest is another of the beginning steps. If a community is interested in the concept, a public hearing will be held to inform community residents and business owners about the steps involved.
If a community has no interest or does not want to participate, there is no mandatory involvement.
Creating a suitable name of the visitor's bureau is another aspect of planning.
"This isn't just a Moose Lake thing," said Oman. "All these communities understand that if it would be a regional visitors bureau, call it a different name, something to accurately represent the region."
Oman pointed out that campgrounds, rivers, lakes, Old Highway 61 and Highway 73 are just some of the many geographic aspects that draw the communities together, which would assist in naming the visitor's center and its marketing focus.
Other questions to answer include housing, staff and funding resources. The group welcomes such inquiries from area residents and business owners.
"Ask tough questions," said Oman. "That's only going to make the project stronger, to have answers."
With the many steps involved, and this being only a concept meeting, there will be time for interested parties to become involved.
"Obviously this is going to take some time," said Oman as the meeting progressed. "Keep in mind, before this thing gets officially set up, there are some pretty major steps here."
"The ones who want to do it will do it," said Frye. "They're going to buy in right away. They're going to see the value."
Time frames will depend on communities involved.
"Since we are getting into the fall, this is probably a good time to do it," said Oman. "Maybe, if you plan it right, this could be up and running next summer. Nothing says it can't be. It's really up to those communities."
Interested parties may contact the Moose Lake Chamber of Commerce with comments or questions.


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|5th March 2013, 18:27
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VP62 - More steady bitrate
Hey guys,
I know nsv isnt all that much used anymore.
But still i like it so i use it .
I wish it was that simple, but i need a bit of help.
Now i'm trying to encode on 640 all is kinda well.
Except that at 1 point of the video encoding mostly the opening i guess more movement or not sure.
It starts at around 300+- and then boosts up to 1000 then back to 300+-.
Been messing with settings i can get the boost lower to around 700. but the quality of the overall stream is way worse!
So i was wondering am i missing something? i want a pretty nice quality stream @ 640 and not having to stream at around 300 cause there are peaks that reach 1k
I tried the temporal resamping, but it will just remove loads of frames where it would be 1000k and well its unwatchable. now then for Spatial resampling.
The bitrate is nice and all but i get first a green bar suddenly @ top and then video messes up more and more.
Not sure if im using a broken VP62 or something but aint able to find a better .
Thanks in advance for any help i might be getting .
Btw: No VP8 as i don't really get any results nor do i get a actuall panel to set options.
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What is type of video that is being used as a source file ?
Have you tried switching from variable to fixed bit rate encoding ?
|7th March 2013, 00:53
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Well i have it set to stream instead of local.
I don't see any other option to set it to static.
My source are originaly mp4 or mkv.
I convert it first to avi before i encode it.
It seems on 640kbps VP8 is able to stream well.
Im on the list just search google have atm 1 test stream for vp8.
Still the color's arent even close to the original.
Have tried to compile the latest vp8.
Might be that im on windows 8, 64bit that im getting some errors .
Atm no xp box to test it on.
Anyway if you know how to get more options/normal colors on vp8 i would be happy.
As the bitrate is perfect although i have to set it to 1400 to get 570kbps kinda weird.
So any fix for that would be great, as the quality seems pretty good.
If you know how to fix vp62 im also happy though .
Just trying to stream at uhmz i wouldnt dare say high quality.
But still get the most out of the bitrate i'm streaming at.
|7th March 2013, 00:59
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The original NSV software was designed around Windows XP and 32 bit.
With each generation of windows " improvements " minor quirks appear.
You have to remember that NSV has not been updated since 2004.
|7th March 2013, 02:03
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I know but i have no box to compile vp8 atm myself.
I might try a virualbox but atm not quite the time for it.
But from your reply. i asume you have no fix then ?
Btw like your site .
Had a small problem downloading a bit ago though got a internal server error.
Not sure if its been fixed.
Tried to email the webmaster email that was listed with the error but it never got deliverd.
|7th March 2013, 02:14
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NSV was software that was developed and written by Justen Frankel in 2004. The executable code was not open source and I am not a programmer.
Shoutcast and America Online chose not to continue active development of the NSV project.
What were you trying to download from scvi.net ?
|7th March 2013, 02:43
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to make a correction to the above, NSV might have been started by Justin / Christophe, etc but most of the 'later' stuff was done by a completely different team within AOL (when they were trying to make use of it before other formats (WMV) were deemed more appropriate for company use. so NSV hadn't been under directly Winamp / SHOUTcast control (seeing as that basically ground to a halt in mid-2004 anyway) for some time.
|7th March 2013, 02:55
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Thanks for the info guys,
But anyway .
At that time the activex files.
Although as i noticed firefox no longer supports it its useless.
Though i found the people who have vlc installed can still see it online with the vlc plugin.
That seems to work on most major browsers yay!
No solution for mobile but what do you expect with nsv .
Atm i will be using VP8 hope im at least using latest version thats compiled.
No version so no clue .
Atm thinking of writing a new nsvscsrc, or write a proper gui tool,
To add the support it doesnt have, and fix a annoying bug of updating the title before its even connected..
Any hints to improve my encoding speed or even quality is helpful .
Offtopic but oh well,
sank, as i have been reading quite some old posts.
I noticed you where looking for a good p2p solution.
Did you find a good one ? one that ofcourse has a userbase.
As even though im listed in the shoutcast tv directory.
Max viewers i can get is about 80. and thats more then most are getting.
Even when im around 30-40 at good times i still top the others.
So i asume the userbase has slimed down/was never to big.
So checking if i can use nsv to stream to any other base to get some more viewers .
Second Edit:
It seems the icecast directory,
Allows you to add servers to there list not coming from the ip thats adding them.
I might whip up a app that reads the info from the shoutcast page.
And adds it to the icecast directory .
Now the question.. would it be usefull or just don't even try ?
|7th March 2013, 08:07
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Sorry for the double post,
But my other post got rather big,
Well i was able to compile the vp8 .
Now using 1.1.0 yay!
Seems i had to setup everything as it was set to build a .exe
Couldnt figure it out directly.. now build it with vc++ 2005 but seems i could have done it with 2008.. need to reinstall 2008 later and try and see if it still works .
I can encode and watch the vid. havent noticed any changes yet though.
Yes winamp does use 1.1.0 for decoding.
Could upload it somewhere if interested.
All this time i was trying to build as Debug, those settings where messed up.
While Release was correct. but i never checked.. shame on me!
Seems the threads option was never passed so it only used 1 core.
1 small change from 1 to config.g_threads and now i can set the amounth of threads i want.
I asume its cause some people set a amounth that they dont have ?
usershoot/overshoot is also used. yet you cant set it.. no clue why.
Though threads shouldnt mean core's should it ? even if i set it to 4 it uses about 5% more to reach 80% i got 4 cores btw. so i asume it was just a mistake.
Love this blazing fast encoding. normaly i had to wait now i can watch and encode!
Seems there is 1.2.0 but no name ?
Nor a actuall zip for it so i will try to just use the real latest modified a few days ago.
from github wish me luck lol.
|7th March 2013, 12:43
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For some reason i cant alter my other message.
But anyway.. i need cygwin to work to get what i need.
And for what ever reason always ls: command not found.
I googled and googled always set your path's right.
I checked it multiple times removed it and added it.
It just wont see it..
|8th March 2013, 00:40
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There was a open source NSV library that was developed some time ago. It is a cross platform C/C++ Library that can be used to read or write in NSV format.
This NSV lib could be made into a module for VLC - and VLC could be used for a video streaming GUI.
VLC has encoding capabilities for numerous video codecs and it also supports Shoutcast / Icecast server sourcing.
Instant NSV Karma.
|8th March 2013, 12:03
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Ah yeah i know about the nsvlib and about vlc.
Yet i wouldnt wanna use vlc as a streaming application.
Anyway anybody here interested in a vp80 v1.1.0 ?
I compiled it. if wanted i should be able to enable some extra feature's.
Like make the treading option actually do something.
Noise option and stuff like that.
Or just compile it as is.
|9th March 2013, 02:30
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Not sure why the edit button is gone but oh well..
Anyway been testing with some options etc.
Checking the code..
Found a major annoyings in the current released version.
Anybody noticed @ low quality aka also low framerate.
Lets say you set it to 12 frames. the quality is horrible ? @ 128kbps ? realtime ?
Its cause the encoders auto gets set to 30 in the code.
I fixed it and the quality @ 12 frames get amazing! and the target bitrate also now works cause of it yay! 2 fixed in 1 .
|9th March 2013, 09:03
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the live streaming program, nsvcap.exe is microsoft directshow capture example amcap with some minor additions to do the encoding and streaming
Is it just me or are shoutcast users getting dumber?
|9th March 2013, 09:15
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|10th March 2013, 00:32
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it's do do with openness of source
Is it just me or are shoutcast users getting dumber?
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|10th March 2013, 01:50
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@DrO, ah i see that explain a lot.
@jaromanda, still.. what are you on about?
When did we switch to talk about open source applications ?
So there is nobody who would want the new vp80 build 1.1.0 ?
|10th March 2013, 02:50
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sorry, I must've mis-read something earlier
I was just wondering why the source to nsvcap was not "open" - then the glaring bugs in it could be fixed
seems quicker than starting from scratch
I'll bow out now, as I'm obviously too stupid to understand what y'all are talking about
Is it just me or are shoutcast users getting dumber?
|10th March 2013, 13:43
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I doubt your to stupid.
As you said before you probably mis read something.
Anyway i havent used nsvcap is quite sometime.
When i did though i never had problems with it i could keep it running for weeks without problem.
Atm i mostly stream pre-encoded files to a hosting server.
Would be nice though seeing more nsv related open source tools.
|10th March 2013, 18:20
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I hate that i have to double post but oh well..
Anyway are you guys sure nsv is all that dead as people think ?
Atm you can play a nsv stream on the wii, android, windows pc,linux pc, mac!
Most of them are done by VideoLan(VLC) + Browser support by VLC! yes they have a browser plugin for all mainstream browsers!
But i can watch my stream on my mobile without problem(sound stutterd cause mobile it a bit slow) but still!
I did notice winamp hasnt fixed the flip screen.. so when you encode for winamp.
VLC will show it upside down. but it has options to fix it. even on android!
With the VP80 codec i compiled i can get quite good quality on 320kbps even 128kbps its quite good(not as good as what i wanna watch though i like hd).
List of things we might want to replace/update, though update isnt possible.
nsvate.exe - still working perfectly for me(would be nice to have multi file encoding)
nsvcap.exe - never had problems(did read people having problems)
nsvscsrc.exe - would be nice to have a better one with more options(its possible to make a fully new one, would take a bit of time)
NSVenc.exe - never used it doubt it has any problems.
nsv_coder_vp62.dll - kinda outdated but still nice to sometimes use.
nsv_coder_vp80.dll - not to new but still being updated by google yay?
nsv_coder_aacplus.dll - no problems that are known to me so no problem right ?
So if we could get a gui that fixes/bypasses problems on nsvscsrc and adds a few feature's
Its a done deal, although a new app for this might be best(requires more work).
So to me it looks like we still got all tools working to make this happen.
Good video encoder(vp62,vp80), good audio encoder(aacplus).
Good encoder tools(nsvate), good live encoder tool(nsvcap).
Semi good streaming tool(nsvscsrc).
Any other reason why nsv would be outdated ? as to me it doesnt even seem most tools do require a update.
Btw atm i'm checking how to add second pass to vp80 as it would be nice to have.
Just a pain to me to add as i dont often code in c++.
And ofcourse saving/reading of profile data. shouldnt be to hard.
And add some more public options like noise/sharpness.
|16th March 2013, 15:42
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This was the day AOL killed it. July 1, 2004. Is Winamp dead? I think a lot of these things are dead being replaced by dedicated applications. Give it 10 years and we might not remember what a podcast, a media player or an RSS feed is.
Dead as a can of spam. It always was a twitchy bitch.
Webmaster rules of thumb:
No one will type or install anything. They'll just go someplace they don't have to.
There is a shift in the way media is getting delivered. In 10 years, we won't remember what a podcast, an RSS feed or a media player is. Everything is going to dedicated apps.
On Android.... you really do need that hardware video decoder. The manufacturers didn't include it for fun. VLC on Android? Not good. Uses your main processor instead of the super fast hardware decoder. That's doggish and a half.
NSV is dead. Is Winamp? It's got a lot of things working against it.
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|19th May 2013, 18:39
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Well just so you know still using vp8, though i guess its a mix of vp8 and vp9 atm..
As the vp8 source is using partially same as vp9 and vise-versa.
Anyway i am finally able to compile the github version on my win 8 box with visual studio 2010 yay!
Not quite sure how much improvement this will give though.
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President's Corner
As legendary a basketball player as he was, it is said that Michael Jordan would work tirelessly on the weakest areas of his basketball skills every off-season. If his first dribble to the left was slower than his first dribble to the right, he spent the summer practicing his move to the left. By the next season, defenders who thought they could count on him going right in a key situation would be "left" behind.
If Ithaca College is to aim for excellence as Michael Jordan has, then we, too, must focus on constantly improving. Continuous improvement takes place when we identify, celebrate, and reinforce those things we do very well, and when we are fearless in identifying and seeking to improve things we do not do as well.
It is human nature to get the most pleasure from practicing the things we already do well. But Jordan's willingness to focus on his weaknesses led to the player-without-peer that he became.
In this issue you will read about how the college is working to improve the student experience so that IC will be, in the words of our mission statement, "the standard of excellence for residential, comprehensive colleges." At the same time, the college is looking for ways to manage costs.
IC has been no exception to the general trend: college tuition everywhere has gone up significantly faster than the rate of inflation and also faster than the growth of household incomes every year for the last 35 years. The result is that families are stretching harder every year to be financially able to send their sons and daughters to college, and students themselves are graduating with increasing levels of debt.
We seek at IC to be a leader and role model in reversing this trend. Our cost control initiative is now being developed with the goal of limiting future increases in IC tuition so that it aligns much closer with the rate of inflation. Given our commitment to offering the best in educational quality, that is an aggressive goal with respect to cost.
Our quality initiative is captured by the IC 20/20 plan. Through this plan we will create an innovative core curriculum that ties freshman general education instruction to major topics or problems in the world; we will increase our support of student learning in a variety of ways that includes creation of a student-alumni mentorship network; and we will greatly increase the number and variety of the hands-on learning experiences—both on campus and around the world—that have always been a hallmark of an IC education.
In February I met with an alumnus from the 1970s who has been very successful in the fashion industry. He is one of maybe a dozen people I have met in my life who I consider a true genius—someone whose mind makes jumps and connections that would never occur to most of us—though he's not a genius in the academic sense. In fact, he was by his own account a pretty mediocre student. But this man is one of those people who would have been a success in his field even had he not gone to college. Think of him as the fashion world's Steve Jobs.
So I asked him what he thought his IC experience had done for him. He said our lives are composed of nothing more than our histories and our relationships—IC blessed him with richness in both. He said his Ithaca College experience gave him the foundation he needed to build a great business.
Undergraduate students come to us at a key formative stage for their adult lives. Different students need different things from us, which is why we are all responsible for creating an environment that fosters a rich student experience for everyone. It is now our job to lay the foundation for the next generation of relationships and histories.


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The fiscal cliff: Will Obama, Congress cut budget deal?
- Obama: Higher taxes for those making more than $250K annually
- Republicans: Tax rates and defense spending stay same; social programs cut
- Stalemate: Higher taxes and reduced federal spending across the board
WASHINGTON — Five people will gather Friday inside the White House to begin making decisions that could affect the pocketbooks of 315 million Americans.
When President Obama sits down with the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress, only 46 days will remain before the nation risks plunging over the "fiscal cliff" — a pileup of scheduled tax increases and spending cuts that threaten to drain $560 billion out of the economy next year and derail the recovery.
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It will be high-stakes poker, holding the promise of great rewards for an economic rebound if Washington succeeds and the peril of another recession if it fails.
Promise or peril, some Americans are going to feel the pinch. Should Obama get his way, those with annual incomes above $250,000 will face higher tax bills. If Republicans come out on top, tax rates and defense spending will remain the same, but social programs will face budget cuts.
A compromise portends discomfort, most likely in the form of reduced paychecks, jobless benefits and business tax breaks. And a stalemate means higher taxes and reduced federal spending across the board, including at the Pentagon.
That last scenario has Main Street and Wall Street worried. "We think the fiscal cliff would trigger an avoidable and unnecessary recession," says David Riley, head of Fitch Rating's sovereign-debt rating committee, comparing a decision to go over the cliff to a "kamikaze" deficit-cutting mission. "It would impose real costs on real people."
Conversely, a sensible solution to avoid the fiscal cliff and put the nation's finances on a more sustainable path offers lawmakers the chance to latch on to a budding economic recovery. An improving housing market and a blossoming oil and gas market already have economists projecting that the U.S. could add 12 million jobs over four years if policymakers don't mess things up.
"Main Street will come alive. All the lights will be bright, and the economy of this nation will be the envy of the world," says Republican Judd Gregg, former Senate Budget Committee chairman. "We are ready for boom times in the nation if we could just get our fiscal policy under control."
Now that the election is over, and the same cast of characters is left watching the store, the whole world is waiting to see what they do. Businesses fearing another recession are waiting to hire. Workers are wondering if they'll lose a 2-year-long reduction in the payroll taxes that fund Social Security — a break worth $20 a week to the median working family. Domestic and international financial markets are waiting to see if a U.S. recession would further damage a global economy already weakened by European austerity and a marked slowdown in China.
Americans are hopeful but not confident. Two in three of those surveyed in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll during the past week want the two sides to split their differences, 45% want an equal division between tax increases and spending cuts, 30% want mostly spending cuts and only 10% oppose tax increases altogether. One in three expect negotiations to fail and the economy to tumble over the fiscal cliff.
The cliff is already holding back the recovery, as companies keep capital on the sidelines in fretful anticipation. David Cote, CEO of Honeywell and a member of the commission that recommended nearly $4 trillion in tax increases and spending cuts in 2010, sees it in reduced hiring. Since spring, he has replaced only 25% of the workers who left Honeywell, a decision that has cost about 600 jobs so far.
"The last thing you want is to hire a lot of people and then have to lay them off," Cote says, explaining why the other 75% of people who leave Honeywell are not being replaced. "Capital is a coward."
Democrats cheered by Obama's re-election and small gains for their party in the Senate and House believe they have the upperhand in negotiations, particularly on taxing higher-income Americans. Unions and liberal groups have seized on that advantage with a grass-roots and advertising campaign calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and no reductions in benefits for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
"The game changed (election) night," says Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, one of several labor leaders to meet with Obama at the White House Tuesday. "We are going to call upon our government to respect the will of the voters."
GOP leaders, including the two who will meet with Obama on Friday — House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — want to hold the line on income tax rates and force bigger reductions in benefit programs.
"The president needs to lead," McConnell said Tuesday. "And that means offering a concrete plan that takes into account the fact that half the Congress opposes tax hikes — not because we're selfish or stubborn, but because we know it's the wrong thing to do, because we know it will hurt the economy."
In the middle are fiscal watchdogs, business executives and young Millennials who want a deal, even if it includes tough tax hikes and spending cuts needed to trim annual $1 trillion deficits and control a $16.2 trillion debt. A dozen CEOs get their White House session with Obama today.
"We think the fiscal cliff is the best opportunity Congress has had in decades to solve some of the major economic and fiscal problems this country faces," says Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy at Third Way, a moderate Democratic think tank. "This is a now-or-never moment that we should embrace."
Scenario 1
A hard landing
As Obama demands higher tax rates for the wealthiest and Republicans insist that won't happen, the two sides could go briefly past Jan. 1 without a deal on most of the expiring tax breaks. That could lead to an economic slowdown and joblessness heading toward 10%. T. Rowe Price chief economist Alan Levenson says Obama can reduce the impact for a short time by ordering the Internal Revenue Service to collect 2013 withholding taxes at 2012 rates.
If Washington fails and all of the fiscal cliff's tax and spending measures stay in effect, the economy would fall into a mild recession in the first half of the year before resuming its weak growth rate in the second, the Congressional Budget Office estimated last week.
Unemployment, now 7.9%, would rise to 9.1% by the end of 2013, it said.
It's unlikely that the downturn, while expected to be short, would be as nasty as the 2008 financial crisis. Financial markets think CBO's forecast is too optimistic, because the economy is only growing a little faster than 2% this year and the cuts could subtract up to 3.6% or more of total economic activity. The International Monetary Fund says "global spillovers would be amplified through negative confidence effects, including, for example, a global drop in stock prices."
Fitch, one of the bond-rating services whose threats to cut the U.S. bond rating is driving pressure to make a deal, says unemployment could top 10%. Both Fitch and Moody's Investors Service say failure to reach even a temporary deal likely would result in a downgrade. The National Association of Manufacturers says going over the cliff could forfeit 6 million jobs and a 10% loss in household income.
"It could be a lot worse than people expect," Cote says.
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center estimates that toppling over the cliff would cost about $3,500 per U.S. household. A typical middle-income family would see taxes rise by about $2,000. Those in the top 1% would pay an additional $120,000, while the average low-income household would pay about $400 more.
Another potential downside for taxpayers: Congress has to decide whether to let the payroll tax cut and extended jobless benefits expire, since both were tied to the recession. Eliminating the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits could cost the economy 800,000 jobs, CBO says. The Wall Street firm BlackRock estimates it would cut the economy's 2% growth rate in half.
If extended unemployment insurance expires on schedule, 2.1 million Americans would see benefits stop immediately at the end of the year — a "human cliff," says Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee.
And if lawmakers don't agree to prevent the alternative minimum tax (AMT) from hitting millions of upper-middle-income taxpayers, the IRS might have to delay processing tens of millions of returns in January and February.
Automatic spending cuts would trim about $55 billion, or nearly 10%, from the defense budget next year. While Obama has exempted the armed forces from personnel or pay cuts, more than 100,000 civilian employees could lose their jobs next spring. The defense industry would be forced to downsize, reducing employment among defense contractors gradually, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment. There would be no base closures.
The cuts would cause an equally large reduction in domestic programs, ranging from air-traffic control to agriculture. That could threaten nearly 25,000 Homeland Security jobs, 45,000 cancer screenings for women and 100,000 Head Start placements, according to House Appropriations Committee Democrats. Medicare would be cut by 2%.
Scenario 2
A soft landing
This most likely scenario includes extending most if not all of the Bush tax cuts and making a down payment on spending cuts. The payroll tax cut and extended jobless benefits could expire; the AMT could be patched. A timetable for actions on spending and income taxes would be created.
Leading up to Friday's initial White House meeting, the public appears to be siding with Obama on taxes. Surveys of voters taken on Election Day showed 47% of Americans favor raising individual income taxes on the wealthiest, while 35% want to keep taxes where they are.
Boehner and other Republicans insist that Obama's proposal to push the top income tax rate back up from 35% to 39.6%, where it was under President Clinton, would hurt small-business "job creators" who pay personal tax rates rather than corporate rates. Boehner says it would cost 700,000 jobs.
About three-fourths of U.S. manufacturers, mostly small ones, use personal rates, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Their average taxable income: $384,000. Under Obama's proposal, a sole proprietor matching their profile would pay about $6,750 more per year.
Restoring payroll taxes to their 2010 level would raise about $115 billion, and ending the extended unemployment insurance benefits would save another $40 billion. Along with spending cuts chosen by negotiators rather than leveled across the board, an interim deal could produce "a down payment of $300 billion to $500 billion to show that we're serious," Cote says.
Because Congress has patched the AMT every year since 1969, it's likely to do so again. Today, the AMT, originally intended to ensure the wealthy pay a minimum income tax, usually hits taxpayers who have a household income over $75,000 and are married with more than two kids, according to Bob Meighan, vice president at TurboTax. It would hit an estimated 28 million for the first time if Congress doesn't act, raising their 2012 tax bills by an average of $3,700.
A compromise deal would reduce growth next year by as much as 1.5 percentage points, says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, but would hurt average taxpayers less than many people believe. The recovering economy is nearly ready to pick up that slack, partly because of the improving housing market, rising consumer confidence and the effect that more certainty may have on business investment, he says. Fast-expanding domestic oil and gas supplies are another tailwind that will help the economy, BlackRock vice chair Barbara Novick says.
"It's time," Zandi says. "Our economy is strong enough to digest the fiscal drag. If we lay out a path, the economy will jump."
Scenario 3
A safe landing
The least likely scenario is the opposite of going over the cliff: striking a "grand bargain" during the lame-duck Congress and outlining how to get $3 trillion or more in deficit reduction over the next decade.
Fiscal watchdog groups have joined forces with corporate CEOs to encourage such a deal. The "Fix the Debt" campaign has raised more than $36 million, signed up more than 100 business leaders and built bipartisan support for a balanced deal. More than 300,000 Americans have signed its petitions.
But there are dangers to agreeing on too much, too soon. It could trigger a European-style recession, which could turn policymakers back toward stimulus spending and tax cuts, such as those enacted in 2009.
One key to a long-term deal: eliminating or at least reducing tax deductions and loopholes that cost the government billions. Targets include tax breaks for oil and gas companies, and the wealthy, but some could affect middle-income taxpayers, such as breaks for home mortgage interest and employer-paid health insurance.
"One of the prices to get tax reform is that people are going to have to pay more," Cote says.
The other major part of any grand bargain would be changes to entitlement programs, led by Medicare and Medicaid. Social Security is more likely to be handled separately.
Republicans are looking for an eventual increase in Medicare's retirement age from 65 to 67 and some form of means-testing to collect more from higher-income seniors. Obama last year entertained changes in the Medicare retirement age during talks with Boehner over raising the debt ceiling. Those talks failed, but they form the basis of a new deal.
In an interview with USA TODAY, Boehner puts the problem in historical terms: "The next two years," he says, "are going to be some of the most consequential we've had in 50 or 60 years."


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Spring has Sprung
Spring has sprung, and it's finally time for the Easter Bunny to make his rounds. Check out our top five tips for keeping your pet safe and happy during the Easter season and spring.
Some popular plants—including Easter lilies—are highly toxic to pets and can easily prove fatal if eaten. Make sure that your home and garden are free of these dangerous plants.
Bunnies, chicks, ducks and other animals are adorable, but resist the urge to buy or adopt a pet on impulse. People often forget that these cute little animals grow up into adult animals who require a commitment to provide daily care for the rest of their lives. Bringing any animal—including small animals like rabbits and chicks—into your home places demands on your time and financial resources and should be done only after carefully assessing your family's ability to meet the animal's needs. So remember Make Mine Chocolate!
Easter basket decorations—including plastic grass—are dangerous to animals if ingested. The grass can become twisted within a pet's intestines and can be fatal if not caught quickly enough. Often, the only solution is expensive surgery. Easter Egg wrappers, plastic eggs and small toy parts can also pose a danger to pets. Keep your pet out of harm's way by using tissue paper instead of plastic grass and doing a thorough clean-up after Easter celebrations.
Consider your pets when planning family gatherings or parties at home. Loud noises, erratic movements from children and crowds of people can be very stressful for animals. If your pet isn't up for the chaos of an Easter egg hunt or family dinner, put her in a quiet area of the house when guests are visiting.
Keep your pet out of the Easter basket and away from Easter Eggs and sweets. Sweets can be harmful to pets, and chocolate is toxic to cats, dogs and ferrets. "As many pet owners know, animals will eat just about anything that they can find, including Easter treats, chocolates and sweets that are high in sugar and caffeine are especially bad for our pets. Every pet owner should make an effort to keep these foods out of the reach of their furry friends


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October 19, 2018
An event every day that begins at 12:00 AM, repeating until October 27, 2018
The Rapid City Arts Council is pleased to bring you the Artists of the Black Hills 13th Annual Exhibition, opening on July 27 and on display until October 27, 2018. A reception will be held on Friday, July 27 from 5 – 7pm. The show will be located in the Sen. Stan Adelstein & Lynda K. Clark Gallery at the Dahl Arts Center in downtown Rapid City.
Artists of the Black Hills (ABH) is an organization of professional artists, artisans, and galleries who joined together with the common goal of presenting and promoting the Black Hills region as an art destination. Each of the members has been juried into the organization by a selection committee made up of a cross-section of ABH artists representing the entire body of the membership. The intent of this organization is to make evident the large pool of artistic talent in the Black Hills area and the impact that art has made, and continues to make on the quality of life in the Black Hills.
This will be the 13th annual show that Artists of the Black Hills has exhibited to the public. The exhibition will showcase the work of 40 individual members whose artwork includes numerous different mediums and styles of painting, sculpting, pastels, photography, printmaking, jewelry, collage and assemblage. For more information on the group, please visit their website at artistsoftheblackhills.com.
This exhibit is generously sponsored by Denny Gemeny, the Pailing Family, South Dakota Arts Council and Rapid City Arts Council.
The Dahl Arts Center galleries are open Monday-Friday, 10am – 6pm and Saturday, 10am – 5pm. Admission is free; however, for those with the ability to pay, donations are encouraged and appreciated. For more information about upcoming exhibits, visit thedahl.org.


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Welcome to the Department of Management and Marketing. We offer two majors at the baccalaureate level, Management and Administration; Management and Marketing. We also contribute extensively to the delivery of the MBA program.
We are proud of our students' accomplishments - both present and past. Our faculty are among the region's leading scholars in a broad array of management and marketing topics. We publish extensively and regularly consult with many local businesses on a variety of strategic and tactical problems. We thank our various constituents for their support as we continue in our quest to train leaders of today and tomorrow, serve our community, and conduct quality research.


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Flooring options for your garage
By Caryn Colgan, Networx
Coating a concrete garage floor is an inexpensive way to transform a stained surface into a value-added extension of the home. Epoxy floor coatings are a popular way to hide stains and imperfections while also creating a strong, stain-resistant surface. Some products can be professionally installed while others are packaged for the do-it-yourselfer.
With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, Epoxy-Coat, Inc. boasts a product that is 100 percent-solids cycloaliphatic epoxy. Suitable as a coating for garages, patios, driveways, basements, pool decks and even industrial concrete or wood floors, this product dries and leaves a coating made entirely of solid materials. The percentage of solids left after an epoxy product has dried is a measurement that allows products from different manufacturers to be compared.
According to Epoxy-Coat, Inc, "If you want the highest grade of 100 percent solids epoxy, you will want a cycloaliphatic epoxy." Cycloaliphatic epoxy offers high abrasion resistance, won't fade or yellow, has no VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and emits no odor after it dries.
Depending on the product, there are many color and design choices available. Color is added to the epoxy by adding flakes to the mixture. More flakes in the mix will create a solid color, while fewer flakes result in a flecked design. Matte, semi-gloss and high-gloss finishes are also available.
Concrete garage floor coatings will resist tire skid marks, and a quality epoxy will not be damaged when it comes into contact with hot tires. Additionally, an epoxy coating will not be harmed by the oil and chemical drips often occurring in garages.
For home and business owners who want to upgrade the appearance of their garage or make it more resistant to stains, chips and cracks, a concrete garage floor coating offers all of those advantages. A brave and competent do-it-yourselfer can complete the project in a weekend with the help of a video included in most kits. Professional installers are also available to complete your garage's transformation in the same amount of time.
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Global chip sales close out 2012 with $291.6B, says SIA
Keywords:global chip market? Microprocessors? memory? WSTS?
As a result, global chip sales for 2012 reached $291.6 billion, a decrease of 2.7 percent from $299.5 billion in 2011. Total sales for the year were slightly above the $290 billion predicted by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization in November. WSTS forecasts the global chip market will grow by 4.5 percent in 2013.
The December averaged number came in below the $25.2 billion forecast of Bruce Diesen, analyst with investment bank Carnegie AS. It was, however, up 3.8 percent on the equivalent figure in December 2011.
The November 2012 sales figure was revised downward from $25.73 billion by the WSTS.
Monthly data is given by the SIA as a three-month average, although the source of the data, the WSTS organization, tracks actual monthly data. The SIA and other regional semiconductor industry bodies opt to use averaged data because it irons out the actual data that typically show troughs at the beginnings of the quarters and peaks at the ends of the quarters.
"Recent momentum, led by strength in the Americas, has the industry well-positioned for a successful 2013," said Brian Toohey, CEO of the SIA, in a statement.
Logic was the largest semiconductor category, reaching $81.7 billion in 2012, a 3.7 percent increase compared to 2011. Microprocessors ($60.2 billion) and memory ($57 billion) rounded out the top three segments, but both lagged behind 2011 sales totals. Optoelectronics was the fastest growing market on a yearly basis, increasing 13.4 percent in 2012 to reach $26.2 billion for the year. NAND flash grew at the second-fastest rate of 4.1 percent to reach $25.4 billion in 2012.
Regionally, the Americas continued to show signs of strength, increasing sales by 12 percent in 4Q12 compared to 3Q12. Sales in Asia Pacific during December also increased compared to the same month in 2011 (6.7 percent), while sales in Europe fell by 5.5 percent and in Japan sales decreased by 11.2 percent over the same period.
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Q: "We have several dogs. They can be a nuisance when we have company. What wooden gates do you suggest that are portable and can block off a wide doorway. Thanks. Bill."
Answer: Safe Home sells both extra tall gates for larger dogs and step-over type gates for smaller dogs. These are Cardinal Gate. Choose white, black or stained wood depending upon the model of the gate.
For example, choose the white wooden extra tall free standing pet gate if your doorway is 27.5 to 51 inches wide and you need a gate that is 36 inches tall. This gate also comes in black and in oak. The white 20 inch high step over gate also expands 28 to 51.75 inches. An extension is available to increase the width another 22 inches. Multiple extensions can be used to increase the width.
If you want to make a "dog play pen", I suggest you purchase the Cardinal Gates Perfect Fit Small Pet Gate or Puppy Pen.The PFPG model dog gate, the Perfect Fit Pet Gate, by Cardinal Gates is the perfect portable gate for owners of small dogs who want to contain dogs in an area without kenneling them. No assembly required: remove from box and set it up as a puppy pen or dog gate ! Portable dog fence for indoor use only. This is not a child gate.
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Please measure carefully. Gates are returnable only if damaged in transit or in unopened boxes. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your question.
Sincerely, Barbara
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Q: "I am looking for an expandable pet gate for small dogs that I can move from area to area of my house. Some areas that will need spanned are larger. Will this gate meet my needs? How large can I make it? Is is hard to move? I have two Chihuahuas. They are not jumpers What are the options? Thanks. Sheila.
Answer: This is a quality wooden gate made for Cardinal Gates for small dogs, small puppies and non-jumping dogs. The small dog gate is 20 inches tall, 1 inch thick and has bar spacings of 2.25 inches. The gate fits openings from 28 inches to 51.75 inches. Each gate extension adds 22.25 inches of width to the Step Over Gate. Each extension comes with one 'foot' piece. Each foot fits securely over the gate and has rubber feet to avoid harming floors. Add as many extensions as you like for a very long gate. The pet gate is easily moved. The basic gate expands and weighs about 6 lbs. Each extension weighs just under 5 pounds.
The gate and extensions come in several colors. All gates and extensions and foot pieces are made of hard wood.
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I've long been a fan of Josh Ritter, so when word started circulating about a new EP (titled Bringing In the Darkness and available here in download, CD, and vinyl versions), I was eager to experience it. The first peek of it was the above video for its second track, Love Is Making Its Way Back Home, and a lovely video it is. Created with 12,000 pieces of construction paper using stop motion animation, you can tell that a whole heaping full of love was put into its creation. I was so entranced with the artistry that I had to watch/listen to it a few times before I could shift my attention to enjoying the song as well.
The EP's six songs are soft and melodious, with finely crafted lyrics; exactly what Josh's strengths were from the beginning. It's light acoustic honey that shies away from the larger, complex sounds of some of the material on his last few albums.
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Just when you think the hype surrounding Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow can't get any bigger, he goes and sets a new record on Twitter.
The polarizing pro athlete pulled off an improbable win in a playoff matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers last weekend, and Twitter erupted to the tune of 9,420 tweets per second when his 80-yard pass in overtime ended the game. While the mark fell short of the overall record (11,349 tweets per second) set in December during an airing of the anime Castle in the Sky, the response to Tebow's game-winning play became the most-tweeted sports event in the company's history, according to Twitter.
The storm of Tebow-related tweets also knocked pop star Beyonce's pregnancy announcement out of the #2 overall spot in the Twitter rankings, only further adding to the athlete's long list of recent accolades.
For those wondering which sports event was the previous record-holder on Twitter, the finale of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup garnered just over 7,100 tweets per second last year.
As if the top sports record and #2 spot weren't enough, Tebow's OT win also occupied several of the trending topic spots on Twitter in the 24 hours following the game.
Love him or hate him, Tebow continues to be a force to be reckoned with on the field and in the online world.
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Two Random Questions and a Plug
I have sat with both Soto and Rinzai teachers and I am still debating about which school is the best for me. I was wondering what I should look for in myself to help me decide which suits me better. I realize you don't know me to answer that question, so any advice on how I should decide would be helpful. I am 28 years old and have practiced (admittedly off and on) for 12 years. I am not sure about the outlook of both of these schools when it comes to women and equal rights, I wouldn't think either are misogynistic, however, I would like to know their differences, due to the fact that I am a woman and such issues matter a great deal to me. Last but not least, your books are great, they are down to earth and a great read. I appreciate your writing style a great deal and your straight up answer.
There really is no answer as to what the views of the Rinzai and Soto schools are in terms of women and equal rights.
As for Rinzai, there is no real school as such. At least as far as I'm aware, there is no central organizational body. So it would be impossible to determine the school's views on anything at all. You might try looking up the words of Master Lin Chi (aka Master Rinzai). But I wouldn't know where to find anything regarding women and equal rights. These were probably not big concerns in medieval China. Besides that, the Rinzai school doesn't necessarily derive from the teachings of Master Lin Chi in the way that Christianity supposedly derives from the teachings of Jesus and Islam from the teachings of Mohammed.
Dogen Zenji is generally considered to be the founder of contemporary Soto Zen. In 1240 he composed a piece called Raihai Tokuzui, which means roughly "Bowing to What (or Who) Has Attained The Marrow (of the Truth)." In this piece he is very clear that women, children and even animals can attain the truth as surely as any man. It appears to have been written to counter what we today would call sexist and racist views among the monks who practiced under his guidance.
Here is an article I found in a very lazy Google search on the subject. I typed in "Dogen women" and this was the first thing that came up.
Here is one translation of Raihai Tokzui. I just skimmed over it, but it seems like a good one. The scholars who made it are pretty reputable.
However, even this isn't really what you might call the view of the Soto School. I doubt that the Soto-shu headquarters in Japan has ever issued anything resembling an official statement on the subject of women and equal rights.
The book Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters might be useful to answer your question more thoroughly. The book The Zen of Meeting Women probably will not.
You describe zazen in the last chapter of Hardcore Zen. In it you say that you don't need to try and stop your thoughts. You go on to say that straightening your posture should slow your mind. I'm a little confused about this. Is it not a goal of zazen to clear your mind of thoughts?
No. The goal (or even "a goal") of zazen is not to clear your mind of thoughts. There is no goal of zazen.
This is the hardest part of zazen practice; that there is no goal or point to it. You just sit and experience what you experience while sitting. That's it.
If you think a lot, then that is the content of your experience. If you transcend all thought and zone out into pure white light or whatever, then that is the content of your experience. Neither one is better or worse than the other. Our habit of defining certain experiences as better or worse than others is the problem.
Of course it's best not to use your zazen as a time to sit and ponder stuff. You are encouraged to let your thoughts go as soon as they appear. But that's not the same as trying to clear your mind of thoughts. Attempting to clear your mind of thoughts is just another type of goal-oriented intentional activity. Goal-oriented intentional activity is always problematic because it separates you from the real moment of the present.
The folks who are making the film I'm in, are getting down to the wire in their fund raising campaign. Below is a message from the director.
Note that for a donation of $25 you get all kinds of neat stuff including a DVD of the film, a T-shirt and the soundtrack. I don't know how he's doing this. But it's a really good deal if you ask me. $25 is less than you'd pay for all that stuff if you decided to buy it retail after the movie came out.
Take it away, director Pirooz Kaleyah:
"This is our very first fundraising drive for SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL and we are aiming to raise $10,000 for production costs. This includes casting, location scouting, art direction, equipment and crew. Any remaining funds from this drive will go straight to post-production. Almost as importantly, other potential donors and investors will use our success at IndieGoGo as a gauge by which to measure the public appeal of our project, so your donation may be worth twice as much!
"Also, be sure to let everyone know that there are all kinds of PERKS for donating depending on how much one donates. For $25 they get a t-shirt, soundtrack, special thanks credit AND a DVD! For $100 they also get a limited edition chapbook of poetry with contributions from all the writers involved in the film and a movie poster, ETC."


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Unawatuna – Sri Lanka Travel Guide
General Facts
The number one beach destination in Sri Lanka, the sleepy fishing hamlet Unawatuna has a mythical and historical past, which makes it a very special place.
Mythical Legend
Was Unawatuna one of the beach paradises described in Valmiki's epic Ramayanaya, as a "seashore dotted with thousands of trees, coconuts and palms dominating, strings of houses and hermitages along the coastline human beings and superior beings such as gandharvas, siddhas, and ascetics, living in them and countless bejeweled celestial nymphs thronging the shore, the coast intermittently visited by heavenly beings, gods and demons"?
Anyhow, Ramayanaya is definitely connected with this village. The legend has it that when the Monkey-warrior Hanuman was sent back to India to fetch the four medicinal herbs, mritasanjeevani, vishalyakarani, suvarnakarani and sandhani from Himalayas, to heal Lushman who was wounded in the great battle with Ravana to save the abducted Princess Sita, Hanuman fails to identify the herbs so he uproots that mount and ferries it to the battlefield, but a hunk of that "fell-down" here, forming the Rumassala Hillock, and the name of the village derives from Unna-watuna meaning "fell down".
Now an edfice is being built for Hanuman on the harbour end of Rumassala Hill by some Japanese monks of the Mahayana sect.
Historical Past
Historical background of Unawatuna is that a banished Indian Prince was shipwrecked and the Goddess of Earth, Manimekala, taking pity created a rocky shelf for him to save his life and that subsequently he headed to Unawatuna. The Goddess of chastity, Pattini, created a wall of fire to prevent him coming ashore, but being a person of some supreme power, he set in motion a tidal-wave of the ocean with his foot and extinguished the fire and set foot on the shores of Unawatuna.
It is said that he lived in Unawatuna and helped the people in various ways and over the years he had been venerated and worshipped and the Kovil or the Devalaya on the west end point of the bay which has a history over thousand years is believed to be the abode of this Devol deity.
In later years a Buduge or House of Buddah and the Swethamalee Chaitiya or Dagoba was built on the hillock abbutting the Devalaya or House of Gods. Thousands of pilgrims throng to this place of worship every month of Esala to offer poojas. This fest is a new Rice offering so most cultivators bring a share of their crop and pray for timely rain and plentiful harvest. Some others save a fistful of rice from their daily meal and offer that rice, still others would purchase a few measures or even full gunnies of rice along with coconuts to offer.
This rice is pounded and mixed with coconut milk and treacle and made into a porridge which is then offered to the deities at the devalaya and given as alms to thousands of devotees who will trek to the devalaya for this alms giving or Maha Deva Dana or Kiri Dana. Fisher folk save and offer part of their earnings called "Goda kotasa" seeking protection on their forays into the ocean.
This year's festival will be held for one week from Esala full moon day of 2003.
Colonial Glory
Yet another aspect is the colonial past, it is said that the Dutch, after defeating the Portuguese at the Fort of Negombo, sailed south and landed in Unawatuna in 1640 and marched to Galle. The Portuguese had encountered the Dutch soldiers at Magalle (near Closenburg Hotel) where fierce fighting took place. Over 400 Dutchmen were killed while only 49 Portuguese managed to get back to their fortification in Galle, where they were held in siege for four days before they surrendered.
The Dutch built houses for their officials in Unawatuna. The Nooit Gedatch hotel, Unawatuna Hospital and the mansion Maharambe are Dutch edifices. UBR hotel is situated on a land called Parangiyawatta, meaning "land of the Portuguese" and the area nearby is known as Jayakotuwa, suggesting there may have been some fortification.
The Galle tower or Edwards Pillar in Rumassala is believed to have been a fake lighthouse built during World War I and the area is shown as property of the British Admiralty in old survey maps.
Unawatuna is also rich in its biodiversity.
Unfortunately its greatest potential for Eco-tourism, the marsh land or mangrove called Kadolana, was completely destroyed, dredged and filled up to build a chain hotel. The hotel never got off the ground as most people believe it was damned, as it was being built at the door-step of the Wella Devalaya.
Over 60 species of endemic birds had been sighted in the locality by the ornithologist Clive Byers like Terns, Egrets, Herons, Sandpipers, Kingfishers and more rare Lesser Whistling Duck, Asian Palm Swift, White Breasted Waterhen, Turnstone Loten's Sunbird, Black Bittern etc. They are mostly seen in the remaining marshy area and Rumassala Hillock.
Beneath the placid Indian Ocean lies wealth of underwater wonderment. The coral reefs, the shipwrecks, great variety of fish and the turtles who still wade on shore to lay their nests and at times going right into the beach front restaurants as if to lay first claim to the sandy shore now invaded by the tourists and restaurateurs.
Rumassala coral reefs at the east end of the Galle Harbor, now endangered with possible Port development is a unique treasure, more details in the website listed below. Eco treks in the shrub jungles of Rumassala bring one close to nature.
How to get there
Most visitors to Unawatuna make a beeline here from the BI Airport, Colombo, which is 150 kms away but would take over four hours by private vehicle or longer by public transport. Click here for a map.
Most uesthouses provide airport transfers, which is the best way to get out of the busy Colombo area without much hassle.
Air-conditioned transportation would cost US$45-50 for the trip. Charges at the Airport Taxi counters could be more depending on the arrivals and time of the day. By public bus, get to Pettah Central Bus Station and take an A/C bus to Galle (Rs.75) and take a tuk-tuk to Unawatuna (Rs.100). Or, take the Matara A/C bus (Rs.90) and get off at Unawatuna. You would perhaps be charged double if you have backpacks or other luggage on buses, no extra charges on trains.
When engaging "tuk-tuks" or 3 wheelers as they are known in Sri Lanka, deal directly with the driver, if you have a "hanger-on" you have a tout on your back and you'll be "taken for a ride".
Unawatuna Beach Resort is the only Tourist Board classified hotel.
Other Ceylon Tourist Board approved places are:
A Grade Guesthouses = Milton Hotel
B Grade Guesthouses = Seaview Guesthouse, Rumassala Hotel, Sun 'n' Sea, Dilena Beach Resort, Araliya.
However there is a choice of places on par with any approved hotel, and one can look into couple of places before settling down as most places are close by and it's worthwhile to walk into the village without bunking down in the first place you visit.
Best accommodation is to be found in the Yaddehimulla area, which is the best residential area and also hugs the best part of the beach. Other areas are Ganahena and Pillagoda by the Main Road and Jayakotuwa which is rather congested.
Other Places Recommended in Guidebooks
Amma's, Benny's, Brink House, Black Beauty, Blue Eyes Inn, Eterna, Full Moon, Family Silva Guesthouse, Golden Ente, Happy Banana, Land's End Holiday Inn, Ocean Bay, Ocean View, Rock House, Saadhana, Strand, Saffron, Village Inn, Weliwatta, Giragiri.
Operated or Co-owned by Foreigners
Blue Swan Inn, Hotel Cormorant, Green Lodge, Italian Dream House, Neptune, Three Fishes, Secret Garden.
Guesthouses Located Outside Unawatuna Bay Area
Nooit Gedatch, Sunshine inn, Point De Galle, Sri Gamunu, Shanthi, Sri Wijaya, and Paragon.
Unawatuna on the Web
Unawatuna Beach Resort
Homestay Strand – Colonial vintage villa
Surf's Up! – Homepage on Unawatuna
Unawatuna – German language webpage
Secret Garden Villa – Meditation and Yoga
Diving in Unawatuna
If you want more information about this area you can email the author or check out our Asia Insiders page.
Where Is It?
On the south coast of Sri Lanka, almost a stone's throw from the southernmost tip of India. Click here for a map.
Fast Lane
With a history that stretches back over 2500 years, it's easiest to dwell straight into the interesting blend of varying influences Sri Lanka has seen for more than 600 years like the Islamic mosques, the Catholic, Dutch Reformed and Anglican churches.
The Dutch colonial style of architecture is very much in evidence, as are the special quarters for separate trades in Colombo Fort and Pettah. Yes, the Fort got its name from the former military garrison located here under the Dutch and British; today partly occupied by the Janadhipathi Mandiraya – the Sri Lankan President's home. Nearby, the beautiful sandstone building which is the Presidential Secretariat – almost a replica of Whitehall in England.
The Colombo Pettah, bordering the Fort, its many criss-crossing roads selling anything from sarees to spices. One of these streets – Gabo's Lane, still specialises in ayurvedic herbal medicines.
Click here for Sri Lankan hotels with websites.
Sri Lanka Hostels
Transfers from the airport to Colombo city center cost between Rs. 650-1,000. This fare is for up to four persons travelling in an AC car. You can get an autorickshaw (aka 3 Wheeler) for much less on your return. Direct journey to Unawatuna is Rs.3000-3500.
A train service also runs from the airport to the city and back. The railway also serves Kandy, Nanu Oya (for Nuwara Eliya), Bandarawela (SE of Nuwara Eliya), Hikkaduwa, Galle, Matara, Negombo, Bentota (all beach resorts), Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa (in the Mid Country) and Batticaloa (on the eastern coast) and therefore makes for a tremendous journey.
You can even get an observation saloon on the 'Podi Menike' and 'Udarata Menike' trains to Kandy and Badulla. Contact the Railway Information Centre at the airport (tel. 0315-260).
The fare from Colombo Fort to Kandy is SLR 72 which gives you an idea of the fare structure. The island also has an efficient, friendly and cheap Intercity Express bus service of privately owned AC buses connecting every town. The tiny Japanese buses depart almost every half hour from all towns.
Cheap Eats
Click here for some great places to eat at low cost.
Sri Lanka has a five day week. In addition to to Saturdays and Sundays and special public holidays, the full moon (Poya) day of each month is a public holiday. All places of entertainment including cinemas and bars are closed on Poya day. Hotels arrange to serve you liquor on this day.
The Unusual
Click here for some of Sri Lanka's more unusual attractions.
Foreign currencies exchanged in every town. You can however exchange to Sri Lankan rupees only at the airport. It's advisable therefore to change $100 bills at a time, which if you are a back packer and travelling every third day, can be stretched over quite a few days considering you get about SLR 95+ for the dollar. Euro is now on par with the dollar.
Remember the entrance fee to the cultural places is $12-15 per site, to the National Parks $15 and the embarkation fee at the time of departure SLR 1000. If you travel independently in the comfort of an AC taxi you would then need to budget for more.
ATMs are available at most major cities and towns and accept Visa, Maestro, Mastercard and Cirrus. Travellers Cheques can be encashed at any bank in the island.


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TORONTO — Berkshire Axis Media has nabbed all Canadian rights to Michael Winterbottom's "Everyday," Ben Drew's "Ill Manors" and Rowan Athale's helming bow "Wasteland," BAM CEO John Carbone announced Tuesday.
The deal was negotiated by Iain Taylor and Glen Wood for BAM, and Steven Kelliher for Bankside Films, which repped the three U.K. pics at the Toronto Film Festival.
Last week Oscilloscope announced it had acquired U.S. rights to heist pic "Wasteland," which world preemed in Toronto's Discovery program.
Carbone, who founded BAM in 2010, said: "All three films are the best of contemporary British cinema."


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We expect the Czech economy to remain strong in 2018. Although wage costs are rising, companies are continuing to expand, which is good news for the office and industrial sectors. As wages are rising faster than inflation, people have more disposable income which will have a positive impact on the retail sector.
An increased confidence in the fundamentals of the CEE economies has been pushing investment volumes up. Investors have shown great appetite for the Czech Republic while Czech investors have been investing in other markets at never before seen levels.
The Prague office market has been experiencing a very active period. Supported by a positive economic outlook, the positive market sentiment is expected to continue through 2018. We forecast take-up will once again exceed 300,000 sq m in 2018.
The Czech industrial & logistics market has been growing rapidly. With consumer spending growing, retailing has become the prime driver of the market.It is all about people nowadays, companies need to create attractive and productive work environments.
Currently, the retail sector in the Czech Republic enjoys a very favourable period. The Czech economy is growing, and both purchasing and consumer behavior are experiencing positive development. The desire to be in the right location in the most appropriate city is as important as ever and this is helping to drive prime rental growth.


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Calling courageous post-collegiates! Our interview series is back with a vengeance as a semi-regular blog feature! Want to nominate a courageous post-collegiate to be featured (including yourself)? Email postcollegiateblog [at] gmail [dotcom].
There are some post-collegiates who graduate and then take some time to relax, unwind from the stress of school, and catch up on their Netflix queue. And then there are post-collegiates like Emelina Minero, who dive right into pursuing a 21st century career of freelancing, brand-development, and resource building that embodies the spirit of the Millennial generation – tech-savvy, independent, and eager to work for the advancement of others. It was my pleasure to sit down with Emelina and learn more about how productive she has been since college, in some very un-traditional ways.
Tell me a little about yourself – who is Emelina? How did she get where she is now?
I am a 24-year-old lesbian feminist and a realist optimist who is passionate about people, women's education, equality and respect for gender and sexual minorities, self-love, body positivity and changing the world through building community, global citizenry and uniting people through their passions. Being in the closet for 14+ years was a 14+ year journey of finding my voice and accepting my sexuality and myself. Without a voice, I was a great observer and I realized the importance of being listened to, of being accepted, of being supported and the importance of feeling like you belong to a community. This is one reason why I am so passionate about building communities, supporting people to love themselves and giving people a platform to voice their passions.
Growing up, I was surrounded by strong, independent women within the eating disorder recovery community. That helped me to embrace a body positive, self-loving culture and it showed me the importance and the power of a strong collaborative group of women. Attending Randolph-Macon Woman's College and seeing the problems of a patriarchy heightened during the co-ed transition made me realize the importance of women's education and the necessity to help bridge the gender gap.
Working for Curve Magazine, the leading lesbian magazine in the nation, has strengthened my roots within the LGBTQ community and has also highlighted my awareness of the bigotry within the LGBTQ community, which I want to help alleviate.
That's a pretty impressive back-story. You're a fairly recent college graduate – what was your initial plan when you graduated?
I was going to be a news reporter. I loved running The Sundial, the college newspaper and I was dead set on reporting on gay news for the San Francisco Chronicle, that or writing for Curve Magazine. My "dream job" was starting the first LGBTQ national newspaper. As soon as I graduated, I didn't want anything to do with newspapers and I didn't want to be employed by someone else. I wanted to run my own business, to travel and to have my life run by my passions: exploring, helping others and living outside of my comfort zone.
Ironically, now I'm writing for Curve Magazine, as well as online LGBT news and entertainment site, EDGE Boston. And I'm developing my own online LGBTQ publication, The Queer Spectrum, which will highlight and celebrate the diversity within the subcultures of the queer spectrum. But I'm not only doing this. I'm giving myself the best of both worlds, writing for LGBTQ publications and creating my own life outside of the 9 to 5 arena.
You're really juggling a lot of different projects and passions. What challenges are you facing that were unexpected? How are you redefining your expectations of life in the post-college world?
I thought "the real world" would be a lot harder or boring, but it has been amazing and a lot of fun and nothing like I thought it would be. This doesn't mean that it's not challenging. It's not all sugar plum fairies and chocolate cake. Financially I'm not doing great, but that was expected. Social life is off and on. It's really what I make it. When I get on work-kicks, my social life suffers. When I make balance my focus, my social life thrives.
I didn't expect how easy post-grad life can be — and it all depends on your mentality, how you view life and how you view what's possible. The biggest thing that I have learned is that I am the only person who can hinder me from what I want in life and I am the only person who can attain what I want in life. You will be your worst enemy and your biggest supporter. And balance is key to bringing out the supporter within you. I believe that self-love is the strongest foundation for personal growth, personal strength and leading a balanced life. If you love yourself, everything else falls into place. If you act and think from a place of self-love, it makes life easier.
You seem to be making the most of the "Gig Economy" and focusing on freelancing as opposed to a steady 9-to-5. What are the pros and cons to pursuing this type of career path?
There are a lot of pros and cons, and for me the pros outweigh the cons. One, stability is not something that comes naturally with this lifestyle. You have to work hard to achieve stability, and not just financial stability. Choosing this lifestyle can be an emotional roller coaster. You don't have a boss telling you that every Monday through Friday you'll be working X set schedule, at X place, at X time, doing A, B and C activities with X responsibilities. You don't always know what you're going to do. You don't always know the next step. Stability is something that you have to create for yourself. Someone else isn't going to serve it to you on a platter. This lifestyle isn't for every one. It pushes you to live outside of your comfort zone, which I like.
There are SO MANY pros. Last March I bought a one-way ticket to Virginia and I traveled along the East Coast for 2 months, hitting 7 different states and 13+ cities. I was able to support myself through my freelance work. I worked at cafes and at friends' houses who had wi-fi. I traveled via bus, train and car. I had no set schedule. At points it did get emotionally exhausting, moving from one place to another so quickly. But overall I had a blast and I was able to do this because of the freelance path I had chosen.
Choosing a freelance career, it's a lot of work. Sometimes I work 16 hour days, and at first, you won't bring in a lot of money, for awhile you won't, unless you make yourself focus on only one thing. Sometimes you'll have money pouring in, and then you'll go through dry spells of nothing, so you have to plan and save and budget. The key to success is consistency, not giving up, taking action, moving forward and only focusing on one thing, on one project, on one idea. The last part is where I am not succeeding. I focus on too many things. I overextend myself and my projects are moving along fine, but slower than they would be if I was only focusing on one thing at a time.
Balance in all aspects of life is key to your success. I have gone through periods where I have been so passionate and excited about what I'm doing that I wasn't able to sleep. I was literally sleeping 2 to 4 hours a night and working the rest, and I had to work until literal exhaustion because I was too excited to not be working. Other times, it's physically and emotionally exhausting and I get depressed from the cycles of imbalance that I create for myself. Work/life balance is a fine line and it's very important to maintain balance in your life if you want happiness and if you want to succeed in your goals.
It's amazing how much travel you've been able to do since graduation. Any tips for 20-somethings looking to travel on a budget?
If you're traveling, you either have to have money saved up and set aside or you have to have money coming in consistently. If you don't have money set aside, and you are freelancing, make sure you have a set number of consistent clients before you set out to travel. And create a consistent payment schedule, so every Thursday so and so will pay you by this time. That way you will know for certain that on X days X amount of money is coming in.
I had people pay me via Pay Pal. It's all done online and they can be across the country or in another continent making payments to you. There is a small fee taken out of the payment when you receive money via PayPal. I had the money transferred to my checking account from PayPal and that can take up to a few days, so you have to take that into account.
I also kept a journal of my money. How much I was bringing in & how much I was spending. Save the receipts and write down everything you spend. Also mark it on the receipt if it's for business. If you're traveling and are a freelancer, a lot of things can be business, a.k.a. — a lot of your purchases can be written off.
Greyhound and buses are cheap, especially on the East Coast. Look up Peter Pan and China buses. Mega bus is also good and it comes with wifi. I remember my average bus ticket was around $18 and that was from DC to NYC, really from any big city to another big city. There were some $5 steals and the most I paid was around $30. If you need to get to smaller cities, it can cost more and you may have to use greyhound or a train, but still transportation cost isn't that bad. Traveling globally & nationally, I've found some really nice deals if you stay at hostels. Also give Cough Surfing a go.
When it comes to traveling, networking can be amazing. Tapping into your network can lead to free or cheap rides, places to stay, tours, meals, etc. If you know no one, explore, go out on your own to bars, clubs, whatever and meet new people and make friends who can show you around.
There's a lot you can do without money, or with little money. Look up free museums, cool parks and clubs without covers. If you want to drink, pre-drink before you go out so it will be loads cheaper. Don't go out to eat a lot, or you can go out by yourself, but eat a snack before hand so you won't order a big expensive meal. Or go out to eat with others, but if you eat before hand, you don't have to spend anything. Buy food at grocery stores.
I am so impressed with the work you have created online. Can you tell us more about Community Bucket List and Love Warrior Community? What can these sites offer postcollegiates?
They're my passions. They're my babies and my loves. Through these communities and through the people who get involved in them, I see us changing the world. We're going to contribute to a global movement of self-love, self-acceptance, global citizenry and passion.
The Love Warrior Community I created with my mom. My mom, Michelle Minero, is a Bay Area therapist who specializes in helping people recover from eating disorders. She founded EDRS (Eating Disorders Recovery Support, Inc.), which I'm currently interning for. You should check it out soon for some cool updates.
The Love Warrior Community uses creative expression to help people build self-love, self-acceptance and body acceptance. Through art, photography, writing, videos and music, people can develop their own self-love practice. As a post grad, cultivating an active self-love practice has been my biggest tool for success in all my projects, because self-love is about cultivating balance and when you're living a balanced life, everything is simplified, is clear and flows smoother.
Community Bucket List enables people to achieve their goals and live their passions. If more people are living and realizing their passions, then they're contributing those passions to the world and are contributing their positive energy to the world. I want CBL to evolve into this global community where people come together united by their common passions and work together in achieving their goals.
One of the main tools we use is an action-oriented bucket list, which helps an individual focus on one to 3 things they want to work on achieving now. The action-oriented bucket list helps them focus on one or a few specific goals by asking them to write out what their motivation is for working on X now, what is the 1st step they will take to achieve X goal, what is a brief outline of the actions they will take to achieve X goal and what help or support do they want from the CBL community.
CBL offers other online resources, articles on goal setting, on discovering your passions, a Facebook group for people to share their successes and journey and an online mastermind group for those who have submitted action-oriented bucket lists who want more support and help with achieving their goals.
CBL is perfect for post grads because initially, I created it for myself. A year out of college, I needed more focus in my life. So I structured CBL to give me the structure, focus and support that I needed.
Even though it's only been a couple years, if you could go back to graduation day and give yourself advice, what would you say?
Don't hold yourself back. Don't doubt yourself and don't tell yourself that you can't do something. Don't discredit yourself. Don't think less of yourself and don't be so hard on yourself. Enjoy life, explore it. Try all options that appeal to you and don't be afraid to drop them in an instant if you no longer want them in your life. Don't be afraid to say no to others. Say yes to new opportunities. Live outside of your comfort zone. At first, it will be uncomfortable, but soon you'll get used to it and you're comfort zone will have expanded to take in a lot more.
Surround yourself with a supportive network of people. Put time into strengthening your friendships. Make time for yourself. Make time for everything that you need to be in balance.
Develop a conscious and active self-love practice, as soon as possible. The most effective thing for me is self-love writing, writing daily or almost daily, reflecting on my self-love journey.
I share my writing with the Love Warrior Community's group blog. You don't have to share your writing publicly, you can write in a personal journal. Self-love writing could entail writing with the prompt, What Would Love Do? in mind. It could be writing yourself a love letter. It could be reflecting on something you're struggling with and writing out how to work through it and coming up with actions you can take to get past it. Writing with self-love in mind helps make you more conscious about it throughout your day. It helps you guide your daily thoughts and action with self-love. It helps you focus on what you need to live a balanced, healthy and happy life.
Your mindset is your strongest tool for success and happiness. Train your mind to be happy, positive and motivated. For me that means balance and balance means self-love.
Many, many thanks to Emelina for agreeing to be featured and sharing all her work with you. Please peruse the links throughout the article for more information on her work and follow her on Twitter. As always, you can leave questions for Emelina in the comments section as well!