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W Goa draws inspiration from the state's rich history as a mecca for the alternative, one steeped in a vibrant culture that includes an influx of visitors from hippies in search of paradise, New Age devotees, purveyors of psytrance and yogaphiles from around the globe. W Goa captures the rustic and dramatic landscape of Goa as well as its cosmopolitan, multi-cultural vibe, injecting Vagator with the exuberant spirit uniquely known to W Hotels. W Goa offers 109 stylish and spacious guestrooms and villas discreetly spread out across the private coastal setting with breathtaking views of the sea. Relish Insider access to the hip local culture of Goa with annual local festivals and street parties to further amplify the vibrant scene. Kick back on the WET® Deck or at the Rock Pool to catch that holiday sun-kissed body. Four dining venues fuel the fun, while FIT and the indulgent SPA by CLARINS reboot your body. We invite you to live it up and take it easy.Show More
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4500 sq. ft. | 4 Bedroom | 4 Bath | Sleeps 12
Palatial Kaanapali Villa, for families or couples. Sleeps 8 and 10 with 2 children in bonus room. Spacious and elegantly designed.
2 story atrium and open winding staircase with amazing Humpback whale sculpture and several other artistic surprises in store. Hale Kohola won several design awards, a villa of unique pleasures!
- 2 Master Bedrooms with ensuite bath and lanai
- If Location is Important....this is the place!
- Pool , spa, large sun deck, verdant foliage highlighted with foot bridge and pool waterfall. Grill and enjoy your dinner poolside, this is your own private resort!
- Sandy beach 2.5 blocks to Kaanapali Beach
- You will be greeted by your personal concierge who will assist in setting up activities as your vacation takes shape effortlessly with our island expert.
- 4500 sqr ft
- Maui Permit STWM 2013-0013 Tax ID: GE/TA-031-400-7552-01
- Ocean View — 2.5 Blocks to Kaanapali Beach
- Golf Course Front — Royal North Kaanapali Golf Course 13th green BACK of home
- Air Conditioning — Central
- Kitchen - Full
- Laundry - In Unit — Full Laundry room 1st floor
- Hot Tub - Private
- Jetted Tub in Bath (2) — 2 Master Bedrooms 1st floor
- Parking - Free — 2 - 3 Cars in driveway-no street parking unless approved
- Breakfast Bar
- King Bed (4) — 3 Kings beds 1st floor, 1 King bed 2nd floor
- Queen Bed — 1st Floor
- Child Bed — Sleeps 2 children on day bed with pull out trundle 2nd floor
- Internet - Wireless [Free]
- Telephone
- Free Local Calls
- Surfing - Nearby
- Golfing Nearby — Hale Kohola located on Royal North Kaanapali Golf Course 13th green
- Bedroom on Ground Floor — 4 Bedrooms on ground floor-however there is flight of stairs from street level to home
Entry Area
- Hale Kohola is gated and not visible from street
- Stunning views from 2nd floor lanai/balcony
- Dine at the table or relax on the lounge chairs
- Private gas BBQ poolside
- Pool depth 4ft to 8ft in the middle. Approx 24'-25'side to side
- Spa seats 4-6
Hot Tub
- Spa seats 4-6
- Sunning deck with lounge chairs
- Gas Grill
Living Room
- Spacious living room area tastefully furnished with tropical island style decor
- Furnished with MP3 Player
- FREE Wi-Fi
- Ceiling fans
- Large fully equipped kitchen
- New appliances- refrigerator with auto ice maker, freezer, dishwasher, ceramic stove top, oven, microwave
- Ample storage-completely outfitted for cooking and serving meals
- Coffee maker, toaster, blender and mixer
Family Room
- Huge U shaped 2nd floor with large lanai
- Open to Kitchen and Dining
Second Bathroom
- Spacious ensuite bathroom with dual sinks
- Large walk-in shower and jetted tub
Dining Area
- Large table in open floor plan
Master Bedroom
- Master Bedroom 1 king bed on 1st floor opens to pool area, spacious and comfortable with Hawaiian decor
- King bed, ensuite bath and plenty of closet space
- TV with cable
- Lots of windows and ceiling fan
Master Bathroom
- Spacious ensuite bathroom with dual sinks
- Large walk-in shower and jetted tub
Second Bedroom
- Master Bedroom 2 king bed on 1st floor opens to spa area, spacious and comfortable with Hawaiian decor
- King bed, ensuite bath and plenty of closet space
- TV with cable
- Lots of windows and ceiling fan
Third Bedroom
- King bed 1st floor with adjoining bath shared with bedroom 4
- French doors open to rear of home golf course side
Third Bathroom
- Full bath, walk in shower, shared with bedrooms 3 and 4
Fourth Bedroom
- Queen bed 1st floor shares bath with bedroom 3
- French doors open to rear of home golf course side
Adjoining Room Sleeping Area
- King bed bonus room 1 on 2nd floor just off family room
- Full bath in hall
Adjoining Room
- 2nd Floor bonus room 2: trundle day bed sleeps 2 children
- Shares 2nd floor full bath with bonus room 1
Adjoining Room Bathroom
- 2nd floor full bath
- Shared bath of adjoining bonus rooms 1 and 2
- Full size washer and dryer in full size laundry room to left of Living Room
- Iron and ironing board
- View of the beautiful Pacific Ocean with mature tropical foliage
- From December thru March you will see whales swimming off the coast
- Facing west for sunsets all year long - watch for the green flash just after the sun dips below the horizon
- Kaanapali Beach is just 2.5 blocks from Hale Kohola
Wonderful Maui Home Rental
Reviewed by Jerrie
Date 02/15/2016
The Hale Kohola house was excellent for our family of 8! We were all adults with spouses, no kids. This was our second time to rent a home from Aloha Condos & Homes-both times have been excellent. The house was an excellent location and the décor of the house was spectacular! We like to cook and the kitchen was perfectly designed with lots of counter space. The rental manager, Debbie, couldn't have been more gracious or helpful; the house needed a coffee grinder and she let us borrow it from her house. The beach was a short 10 minute walk; Lahaina was a 10 minute drive; grocery stores either 2-5 minutes away for either a local (Times) or chain (Safeway). We love Maui and hope to continue to rent from Aloha!
Great set up for extended families
Reviewed by Sarah
Date 02/10/2014
We traveled in January 2014 with our extended family, 11 adults and 3 kids (7,3,1). The house had a great set up with 2 master suites and 2 additional bedrooms downstairs, plus 2 bonus small bedrooms upstairs (one queen, one daybed with a trundle). The kids loved having their own rooms (as did their parents!) The house was great, no issues at all. Huge kitchen that we could all fit in, plus dining space big enough for us all as well. The kitchen/dining and main living room are upstairs, so if you have a problem with stairs, you may need to rethink things. The house manager Debbie was very helpful at assisting us with a last minute request to find a chef to make a special birthday dinner for us on our arrival day. The fish, pork and brisket tacos with 3 kinds of salsa and rice/beans/quesadillas by antojitos Rojas were amazing (and we had enough for 2 more meals after that!) We are arizonans used to great Mexican food, and he was the real deal.
Back to the house, the lanais were great for watching the sunset over the ocean and we all enjoyed the spa at some point. The pool was a bit too chilly for all except the 7 yo although I believe it can be heated for an additional cost. The house backs to a golf course so there's a tiny yard, but the pool/spa is in the front, so no worry of being hit by stray golf balls. We did find quite a few in the back yard though! The house next door is under construction but it appears it has been sitting untouched for a while. No activity was going on while we were there.
We were close enough to walk to the beach (down the street and across the main highway) if we wanted to, probably about a 1/2 mile. We ended up driving just because we had small kids and sand toys though. The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Villas is across the street as well and they allow use of their kids programs by non-guests. Our 7yo went one day and had a blast.
Have Questions?
Owner/Manager: Tess Knoblich & Lynda Donato, Elite Properties
Phone: 808-665-0561
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Reliance Broadcast sells TV, Radio biz for Rs 1,900 crore to Zee
While RBNL's whole stake in TV business will be sold to ZEEL, 49% of the radio business will be sold to ZMCL.
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(Disclosure: Zeebiz.com is an entity owned by Zee Media Corporation Ltd.)
Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL) has a signed a deal with Zee Media Corporation Ltd (ZMCL) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) to sell 49% its stake in radio and sell the entire TV business for approximately Rs 1,900 crore.
Reliance Capital, a part of Anil Ambani led Reliance Group, announced this deal in a statement to NSE. These transactions form part of Reliance Capital's stated strategy to reduce leverage and exposure in non-core business of media and entertainment.
RBNL has signed a deal with ZMCL to sell 49% stake in its radio broadcast business. Simultaneously, ZEEL will acquire 100% stake in the Group's General Entertainment TV business.
"The entire proceeds from the stake sale would be used to reduce Reliance Capital's debt by approximately Rs 1,900 crore (US$ 283 million) upon final completion of stake sale transactions," it said.
Both these transactions have been approved by the boards of respective companies and are expected to be completed by next year, subject to applicable approvals.


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Building One Another
STOP Vol 8 No 44
November 24, 2009
Dear Friend,
I love Thanksgiving! Somehow the confluence of family and friends and of special foods such as our family's turkey dressing and pumpkin pie make it a remarkably wonderful day.
At the same time Thanksgiving offers the opportunity for a "time out" actually to be thankful. There is so much on our mind in these days!
Consider the intensity of our day and how much we are concerned about:
The economy
Fears about flu
Those in harm's way
Other challenges in our personal lives and in our world
It's easy for these and other matters to create an aura of insecurity and to race through life with an unceasing busyness coping with life's demands.
Thanksgiving is a good time to STOP! To take that time out!
Take some time Thursday in the midst of what is often a busy day just to sit and reflect on the presence, goodness and love of our Lord and give thanks!
Read Scripture such as I Chronicles 16, Psalm 34, Psalm 103 and Psalm 145 and allow the verses to turn your thoughts toward God.
Reflect on the people, events and things in your life in the past year that have been and are a blessing to you and give thanks!
Happy Thanksgiving - E. Stanley Ott
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Haberman's friends, celebrities to play for cause
The Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick will be jumping Aug. 1 with the inaugural Steve Haberman Volunteer Jam.
And Haberman, a longtime Tri-City musician and piano teacher, has recruited two of his best celebrity buddies to some of the Tri-Cities' finest musicians for the 12-hour fundraiser for the Benton Franklin Volunteer Center.
Jerry Douglas, from Young and the Restless soap opera fame, will serenade the audience with some Sinatra-style jazz songs. And 14-year NFL football veteran Ben Davidson will be master of ceremonies.
The show starts at noon and continues for 12 hours. Admission is $25.
"I'm very excited to be coming back to the Tri-Cities for this show," Douglas said in an e-mail this week. "The people there are wonderful and a great audience to sing for."
Though Douglas stays busy with his recurring role as the ghost of John Abbot on Young and the Restless, he's also been venturing off into other roles.
"I just completed a new movie called The Romance," he said. "It was the part of a wild Texan called Bubba. A bit different role for me, but much fun to do."
He'll also sing one of his new singles, Will I Ever Find Her. "It's contemporary in its arrangement and yet romantic," Douglas said. "I'll perform it with Steve Haberman, the best pianist in the world."
Douglas and Davidson have been longtime friends of Haberman and didn't hestitate to agree when he asked if they would donate some time to the Volunteer Jam, they said.
"Steve and I met 25 years ago when we did a Variety Club telethon together," Davidson said in a telephone interview. "He's hard to say no to because he's a good friend and I'm more than happy to take part in this Volunteer Jam."
Davidson -- a towering 6-foot-8 -- is best known as Big Ben. He played with the Oakland Raiders from 1964-71. He also played for the Green Bay Packers in 1961 and the Washington Redskins from 1962-63.
When he retired in 1974 he started acting. His roles included the films M*A*S*H and Conan the Barbarian. But the Miller Lite commercials are his most memorable roles, he said.
"I did those commericals for 17 years," he said. "I had a lot of fun doing those."
Davidson, who lives in San Diego, spends most of his time traveling in a motorhome with his wife Kathy.
The Volunteer Jam also features several popular local musicians, including the eclectic voices of Cathy Kelly and Trish Thompson of Bluezette; the 10-piece Latin jazz and salsa band El Puerto; sax men Barry Bergstrom and Gary Danielson; jazz singer Mary Lou Gnoza; the romantic music of Latino Breeze; the Millionaires Club featuring Tom Gnoza; 10-piece swing band Jive at Five; Debi Eng Ensemble; the Great Unknown Jazz Band featuring Laurie Tyler; and Strings Attached featuring Rob Burroughs, Chuck Williams and Dara Quinn.
Haberman said he wanted to do something to help the Volunteer Center and a 12-hour telethon-style musical event seemed the right way to go.
"I've got a lot of experience doing telethons, so I thought an all-day music festival would appeal to the community," he said. "This is the first time we've had this many outstanding musicians together in one setting. And nobody said no to me when I asked to perform and volunteer their time to do it.
"The Volunteer Center does such good work for this community. I want this jam to be a success because it's important this organization stays afloat."
Tickets for the show are available at Ted Brown Music, 2600 N. Columbia Center Blvd.; Rececca's Galleria Salon, 7139 W. Hood Place in Kennewick; and the Albertsons stores on Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick and Gage Boulvard in Richland.
Tickets also will be available at the door. The $25 fee allows people to come and go throughout the 12-hour music jam.
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Early in December my Son and I went to Winnipeg for an exhibition lacrosse game of our favorite team, the Minnesota Swarm. Winnipeg is about 8 or 9 hours and an border crossing away from our home, so it was a non-trivial jaunt for a sporting event. For us, it was a novel adventure. I'll spare you almost all of the details other than it was a wonderful trip and Winnipeg was an awesome place to visit, even in the winter. Everybody we met was really great and especially helpful, which leads me into the actual story. Two other die-hard Swarm fans made the trek up as well. We sat on one side of the MTS Centre and they had seats on the other side. The game was fun, even if we did lose. Once the game was over the other guys stood up from their seats to leave. Someone tapped one of the guys on the shoulder and when he turned around, he asked him "Did you drive up from the Cities just for the game?". His answer was, of course, "yes". The man handed him a twenty, said "gas money", and walked away. To this day I am still astonished by the man's anonymous generosity and can't help but reflect on how that simple act affected the perception of folks from Winnipeg and perhaps Canadians in general. Like I said, i've told that story to many many people and the universal response is "whoa". I'm sure the people that I told have told it to others and so on.
How quickly and thoroughly did that simple act trump any efforts that the local tourism board could have done?
With Web 2.0 loosing its momentum (Henriette feels the same) and social networks reaching a saturation point, getting more personal seems to be the obvious choice.
And it isn't hard as it used to, thanks to the many digital tools now available. But it will surely require a new shift from companies, used to large media plans and broad market segments. Welcome to micro-targeting.
Btw, Torke (the folks from Invisible Red) have definitely a sense of humour with their new homepages.


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$20m global 7-Up task moves to O&M New York
PepsiCo has shifted its international 7-Up account, worth up to $20m (13m), out of BBDO Worldwide and into Ogilvy & Mather, New York.
PepsiCo markets 7-Up in 120 countries outside the States, where it is a $2bn (1.3bn) brand for the company.
While PepsiCo owns the brand outside the US, it is owned by Cadbury Schweppes within. That account will remain with Young & Rubicam, who won it in July.
The move consolidates all PepsiCo's flavour brands into Ogilvy & Mather. The agency already handles the company's Mirinda orange drink brand in markets including eastern Europe and Asia, as well as its Radical Fruit Company "new age" soft drinks.
7-Up takes O&M's worldwide PepsiCo billings to $100m (65m). BBDO continues to handle the core cola business for PepsiCo including Pepsi-Cola and Pepsi Max and its worldwide PepsiCo billings are $700m (454m).
The 7-Up account was resigned by Leo Burnett in June after it won the Fruitopia account from Coca-Cola, which has estimated billings of about $30m (19.4m). Leo Burnett handled the Diet 7-Up and Cherry and Diet Cherry 7-Up brands. The agency had held the account since 1985.


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July at the SBCC School of Extended Learning
Fall 2018 Registration Dates
Noncredit Registration: Begins Friday, July 6
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Since 2015, the Santa Barbara Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG) Consortium, in partnership with SBCC, has received $2.9 million to expand and improve tuition-free courses for adults in our region.
Thanks to AEBG in 2018/2019 we have tuition-free programs in English as a Second Language, Adult High School/GED Program, Work Readiness and Career Planning Certificate for Adults with Disabilities, Post-Incarcerated Training Program, and Career Skills Institute.
We are also proud to be partnering with several local entities including Santa Barbara Public Library, KRA Corporation, and Santa Barbara Unified School District.
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text: Here's the official link for this season's intro video for Quarantine Zone Wrestling! This was debuted in early June right after Filth's Cross: Cyberslam and features most of this season's QZW superstars on the intro. Of course, you can't have a QZW intro without having Virgil give his famous shoutout to the e-fed to kick start it all off! EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT! Check it out! This intro has been widely considered one of the best intros ever seen, even dating back through all the years of the RCWF! A perfect homage for an incredible season so far of QZW Wrestling!


text: Adaptive learning responds to previous knowledge, demonstrated ability Feb 10, 2015 By Glyn JonesAdaptive learning, a process that automatically adjusts the level and type of course content to a student's ability and prior knowledge, is an excellent tool for safety education that is not necessarily new, but is grossly underused. It increases learning efficiency and accelerates a learner's performance.Perhaps adaptive learning's greatest potential in the world of safety is in educating the masses, including high school students about to enter the workforce, construction and oilfield safety advisors and those furthering their education in an occupational health and safety program.Adaptive learning uses computers as interactive teaching devices. Computers adapt the presentation of the core course content to students' learning needs as indicated by their responses to questions and their demonstrated ability to complete certain tasks. The system uses pre-tests aligned with the course learning outcomes to pre-set the course content. If a student does well on the pre-test, there will be less content to cover and the learning activities will be adjusted to focus on reinforcement of content. If the student does not do well, more content will be presented and more learning activities will be added. Ongoing module self-tests are prescribed throughout the course to re-affirm or re-assess the assumptions made based on the pre-test. If a module self-test re-affirms the student knows the content, the content to cover is appropriately reduced. If the results of the test are different than the pre-test, content is re-established to support the learner to meet the course learning outcomes. Adaptive learning creates individual learning paths on a real-time basis to guide the student through the course content and curriculum and ensure the course learning outcomes are achieved. Regardless of the how the system responds, all learners are required to demonstrate mastery of the content consistent with the established learning outcomes. The only variable is how much content and how many tasks the learner has to complete to get to the final assessment.Courses developed using adaptive learning are not different than conventional courses; they have a course description, a set of learning outcomes (or competencies), instructional content, a range of learning activities and an assessment. The difference with the courses that employ adaptive learning is the content and activities adapt to the students' learning preferences and learning speed. Recent Columns by Glyn Jones The ethical dilemma A strong brand can build your influence When work is too easy for the learner and the course content is too comfortable for him, no real learning will take place and he will eventually lose interest. Conversely, when the work is too hard, the learner becomes frustrated and will likely give up. The optimal learning area is in between the "comfort zone" and the "frustration zone." This is the sweet spot where true learning will take place. It's the area where a learner will be challenged and have to work hard to understand a concept or complete a task. Adaptive learning automatically ensures the student gets the appropriate next lesson — one that is not too hard and not too easy. Some call this the Goldilocks optimization.By keeping the challenge appropriate, the learner is guided to becoming someone who thinks and strategizes such that she can apply what is being taught and integrate it with her real life experiences. This process optimizes the teaching process and, in doing so, optimizes student learning.Using an adaptive learning system has many practical applications in the safety world. When students begin a program of university study, say a certificate in OHS, it is common for them to apply for prior learning assessment. In effect, they are applying to have a course or series of courses they have previously taken count as credit for one of the courses in the certificate program. This would be unnecessary with a fully functioning adaptive learning process. If a student already has the knowledge necessary for the course, adaptive learning would automatically adapt and shorten the course to be consistent with the student's prior knowledge. This would be to the advantage of the university because the student will have demonstrated competency before being given credit. It is also to the student's advantage because if the program of study has a few elements that she did not cover previously, the adaptive learning will assess these weaknesses and automatically provide the content required.Adaptive learning also has important practical applications. Employees are often frustrated by having to repeatedly take the same education course over and over to meet some internal standard or some interpreted legislative requirement. As an example, the most common complaint is having to take some form of generic WHMIS education every three years. In the oil and gas industry, the complaint is having to take Enform's H2S Alive course every three years. (I am taking my 10th recertification in 2015.) With an adaptive learning process, a student who has the necessary knowledge can quickly complete the course, allowing for a review of material that may have been forgotten and avoiding review of concepts still mastered. But there are two problems: Most teaching institutions are not yet using tools they have access to and most learners don't know it exists so they aren't asking for it. The next time you are planning to take a training course for the nth time or you register in a university course covering content you are sure you have taken before, ask about adaptive learning. Just imagine the boost in efficiency if each course you took adapted to present just enough content to ensure you meet the learning outcomes. Glyn Jones Glyn Jones is a partner at EHS Partnerships in Calgary. He is a consulting occupational health and safety professional with 30 years of experience. He also provides program design and instructional support to the University of New Brunswick's OHS certificate and diploma programs. You can follow him on You can follow him on Twitter at @glynjones_ehsp or he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Rachael Waia, 31 and Nikki Jurcutz, 28
Co-Founders of Hero HQ and Tiny Hearts First Aid
www.herohq.co and www.tinyheartsfirstaid.com
Rachael Waia and Nikki Jurcutz first had the idea of starting a business together when they were only 10 and seven years old, fast-forward almost 20 years and the sisters are doing just that.
"It wasn't until later on in life with the both of us living in separate states when the light bulb moment for our business occurred," Rachael, 31, said, "Nikki was working as a paramedic with Ambulance Victoria at the time and found that people were not responding in an emergency."
However, the sisters found that it wasn't that members of the community weren't first aid trained, it was that people were not absorbing the information, therefore they didn't feel empowered to act and save a life in emergency situations.
"The issue was in the way in which training was delivered; in a boring and mundane fashion," Rachael said.
"We are a Gen Y company and understand that engagement equals retention, and retention of first aid skills means lives are saved."
Combining both their career backgrounds in paramedicine and education, Rachael and Nikki were determined to build a first aid training organisation that disrupted the industry by bringing a refreshed, progressive and innovative approach to first aid.
"My background in paramedicine ignited the idea behind our business and continues to pave the way for the way in which we educate, and why we continue to do what we do every day," Nikki, 28, said,
"Rach's expertise in education has formed the entire training processes and approach to learning, and has given considerable insight into the best environments for people to absorb and retain information."
The business launched in 2013 as Priority First Aid – now Hero HQ – and was developed with three branches to the business; Hero HQ which provides workplace first aid, Young Hearts First Aid providing first aid to children in school from prep to year 12, and finally, Tiny Hearts First Aid which provides paediatric first aid to new and expecting parents.
"Ultimately all three divisions were born with the aim to empower the community through quality education in the hope of saving lives through first aid," Nikki, said.
It wasn't an easy process to begin the company though, as the sisters learnt early on, spending almost two years and many sleepless nights working towards the requirements for registering a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) in order for their courses to be nationally recognised.
"We were given 20 days to rectify a huge list of issues and a measly 3% chance of becoming an RTO," Nikki said, "If we had failed after the 20 day resubmission period, we would be waiting an entire year to reapply – this was not an option,"
"As you can tell – we did successfully pass our resubmission and are now the youngest women in the country to own a registered training organisation."
Although there are times the girls need to sacrifice moments with family, and put business work before sister hangouts, they are adamant they are living their dream jobs, insisting there is nothing they would rather be doing.
"We wouldn't change a thing; every high, every low, every lesson learned has lead us to where we are today," Rachael said,
"Mistakes make great stories and some of our biggest mistakes that hurt so much at the time are the ones that pushed us to grow and they are the ones that we look back on and laugh about."
"Along with the rest of our team here at HQ we are starting a movement and that's something really special, the energy is palpable and super exciting!" Rachael said.
And the girls' tips on how you can find your dream job?
"Find something that you love, something that makes you cry, something that makes you feel alive, something that makes you passionate – and turn it into your career," Nikki encourages, "This is what we like you call your 'why'. Whatever your 'why' is we encourage you to use it to create a life you love to live."
When you were 10, what did you want to be when you grew up?
When we were 10 and 7 we actually wanted to own a babysitting company together! Although unfortunately after consulting our parents we were brought back down to earth and realised our potential customers wouldn't trust children to look after their children.
If you had one day to try any job in the world, what would it be?
If we had one day to try anything in the world we would be helicopter pilots (currently working towards my licence so one day this will be true)! Rach would be an elephant keeper – she is currently working on a cheeky deal to swap one child for an elephant, so hopefully this will also become a reality.


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Fracking – Oil Well Drilling is causing environmental damage throughout the country. Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing of rock to find oil and natural gas underground. This new technique allows hard to reach natural gas and oil to be extracted. This process is popular because it has revolutionized America's hunt for fossil fuels. Less international fuel needs to be imported. Jobs are created. Money is not shipped off to hostile countries. We definitely want to reach energy independence, lets not take short cuts and forget about the environment.
Frackings Downside
The downside is that millions of water, sand, and chemicals are pumped into the ground. Ground water could possibly be contaminated. Hundreds of complaints from at least four states have been made regarding drilling and ground water contamination. Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas were all on the list. The population within one mile of a well is over 1 million within the states of:
- Texas
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- California
- Oklahoma
- Louisiana
Fracking can lower the value of homes near a well, do to worries over ground water contamination.
Earthquakes could possibly occur, especially if fracking is done near a fault line. Fracking itself rarely causes and earthquake. The earthquakes appear to be caused when they dump wastewater from the process. These fluids are injected into disposal wells nearby. It is cheap for them to do this. Wells near Dallas-Fort Worth are causing quakes as are ones in Oklahoma.
Energy needs to be used at the location and water needs to be piped in.
Fracking uses a lot of chemicals, and the industry hasn't been forthcoming in documenting what is used. They site that it is an industrial secret. Several articles point to these toxic items in use when fracking:
- Fuel similar to camping stoves
- Boric acid
- Methanol
- Guar gum
- Phosphonic acids
- Magnesium hydroxide
- 2-butoxyethanol (used by dry cleaners)
Oil Shale in the San Joaquin Valley
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle mentioned a farmer walking near an oil well in the San Joaquin valley town of Shafter. He saw oily brown waste spilling from a pipe directly into an unlined pit near almond trees. Problems like this will end up polluting the water table and hurting our agricultural crops.
Water disposal wells from fracking should treat and clean the water and dispose of it to a location not near an earthquake fault. Noise and dust need to be managed around wells.
The EPA recently suggested that fracking may be causing ground water pollution. Previously, the folks that do fracking claim that they drill deep enough to avoid ground water aquifers. Recent ground water pollution near fracking sites has caused a rethinking of this concept.
In California, the agency that regulates oil and gas does not record the number and location of fracked wells. Environmentalists are pushing California to add oversight. Most companies don't even list what chemicals they utilize. Fracking utilizes guar gum, a food additive. They use so much that guar gum, prices have shot upwards.
Industry Information
The fracking industry has set up a website with more voluntary details of oil industry practices.
Faulty Wells?
Some energy company representatives along with some environmentalists have suggested that poorly built wells are to blame for water contamination. The wells may not have been sealed with subterranean cement, allowing contaminates to travel up into aquifers. Chesapeake Energy has indicated that poor well construction may have caused water contamination in Bradford, PA.
A National Issue
Fracking has caused significant controversy and problems that states alone cannot address. They simply do not have enough resources and expertise to regulate fracking correctly. Congress needs to set up federal laws covering the safety and regulate the industry. This uniform regulation will help everybody in the end.
Future of Fracking
While it is great to become more self-sufficient, it is important that we understand all the dangers with regards to fracking. If you live in California be sure to contact your Representative with you concerns.
According to Environmental Working Group: a study from the EPA found 25 years ago that fracking contaminated an underground water source. There is no debate needed on this subject.
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This morning I met with a group of industry influencers who are more exports in the JVM community. I brought with me a few folks from the CLR team, including Jim Miller, Brad Abrams, and Jim Hugunin.
Rather than do a lot of presenting (I had only 9 slides including the title page), we spent most of the time fielding some really good questions. I wanted to jot down a few additional pointes here:
Garbage Collection
There were lot's of questions on how our collector works. This article by Rico is a great resource for full details. A few notes:
- We do have both a client (built for interactive responsiveness) and server (built for CPU scaling) version of the collector.
- Our collector doesn't use handle indirection for references, so if you write a for() loop we will enregister the reference and do all the heavy lifting to track/update the roots ourselves.
- Our philosphy is not to have a ton of knobs on the GC. We think that for many typical programmers it is too easy to get into trouble. The response from the audience was two fold on this point: (1) they generally fealt that the JVM had overdone this with far too many switches and developer configured settings, but also (2) some developers do want more power. We do support advanced settings with our hosting API's if you need them.
- There was a question about whether we were adding the ability for developers to plug in their own GC routines. We are not planning to do this now or very likely ever. These kinds of customizations can make it harder to write a successful tuning GC (changes heuristics too much).
Memory Overhead and Sharing
I walked through how an Assembly is found on the machine, how the CLR is bootstrapped, and how we use the GAC for versioning work. A few intrestesting notes on this:
- At runtime, any IL, Metadata, etc in your Assembly will be shard by Windows using the normal PE loading techniques.
- We have the NGen compiler which allows you to pre-compile your code and share pages at runtime. I have a long article on this here on this subject. This means that NGen'd code is also shared between processes.
- In practical terms, it means if one CLR app is already running on the machine, the next one will start up a lot faster because the system is "warm". You are running the same native code for System.String in every process and don't have to wait for it to be recompiled.
- Parts of the runtime metadata (v-table and field layout information used by the engine) can also be shared with NGen'd processes.
- If you JIT compile, then the code is per process, as is the runtime metadata.
- We've done a ton of work in V2.0 to further reduce managed code overhead. This is really a big win for client applications.
Memory Model and Volitility
A question came up about how we handle aggressive memory scheduling on various CPU's. The CLR does support the concept of volitility and read order semantics. This is another example of a complicated trade off based on developer segment. Lots of people would be very happy to not ever have to understand the concepts involved. But other segments are going to be looking for every ounce of performance and want access to those features. Our high level principle is to make the system easy to use and program against by default, but not to totally hide things either.
Versioning of Assemblies
Versioning is a very tricky subject. A few notes we talked about:
- We support side by side CLR's on the machine, but only one per process.
- We capture strong versioning information at compile time and store it in the metadata.
- At deployment time, you can place your strongly versioned assemblies into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) where we can find them later.
- At bind time, we can look at your reference and the version information to figure out which one you required and load that version.
- We do support "unification" for the core .NET FX libraries themselves. This allows you to get one consistent stack at the base.
- There is a lot of good lower level material: on Suzanne's blog and Junfeng's blog.
Dynamic Languages
We had several questions about our philosphy on dynamic languages. I think I'll actually write a separate blog post on this one because it is such an interesting subject. A few quick notes for now:
- I believe we already have a great platform for dynamic languages. You get the GC, exceptions, interop, and access to a huge set of libraries for free when you taget the CLR.
- In Whibey we add Lightweight Code Gen (LCG) which further eases the ability to author the languages.
- Because we also built generics deeply into the runtime, you can leverage that support dynamically at runtime without having to "fake it out". This is a distinct advantage over techniques that use "erasure" to replace syntax with expanded code.
- Because you target our MSIL and type system, we also enable easy access to tons of tools that work across langauges seemlessly.
- I expect in the future to do a Project 7 style approach to adding more improvements to the engine, just like we did in the late 90's to form the current engine.
- And finally a quick plug for Jim Hugunin who is doing a keynote at Pycon next week.
In closing, I want to thank the attendees for their great questions and feedback!


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One of EPT's clients, Amy, came to us after she had had enough of her neck and shoulder pain that she'd been suffering with for seven years. She went from one doctor to another, each giving some, but not long lasting, relief. Her sleep was suffering, her husband was suffering. Her nerves were suffering!
Amy's muscles in her neck and shoulders were becoming gradually weaker and this meant she avoided all sports and physical activity, not wanting to aggravate her condition which may result in her having to back to the doctor's surgery, causing a vicious cycle.
One Christmas, her husband bought her a six-month package with EPT. At first, Amy was reluctant, as she used to take part in 'bootcamp' style training, and it was frustrating for her as her body would not respond as it used to.
It was a slow process, but gradually, as muscles throughout her core, neck, back and shoulders began to strengthen, and chronically tight muscles began to relax, she began feeling much less pain, even having pain free days!
By the third month, she was strong enough to start lifting light weights, progressing to lifting 75% of her bodyweight. This was more than enough to build her confidence, and being able to be increasingly more active.
After 12 months with EPT, Amy is able to to do things in and out of the gym that she hasn't been able to do in years. When her neck is tight, she has learned how to manage it, and she knows her body so much more than she did 12 months ago. Most importantly she has her life back and is an independent woman once more.


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Hyatt Place Edmonton West
The Hyatt Place Edmonton West is a state of the art building, offering 7 stories of soundproof rooms for a comfortable stay. It is the envy of the neighbourhood and is simply refreshing. Hyatt Place Edmonton West has all the amenities to make your stay that much more comfortable. Long-term conveniences include dry-cleaning services, an onsite guest laundry, and food available 24/7 from their gallery menu. So, you won't even miss those comforting late-night snacks.
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Cell phones emit electromagnetic fields, which in turn might be carcinogenic. That means every call you take on the go might be trying to kill you in a teeny-tiny way. Thus, an article at Reader's Digest provides basic tips to keep you alive. Notably, keep your long calls reserved to landlines, or just start wearing a headset; anything that keeps the waves directly away from your head is a big improvement. Alternatively, you can have more conversations via texting, which seems to be the direction society is headed anyway.
The article warns that kids have thinner skulls and nervous systems that are still developing, so they may be at higher risk from the effects of cell phones. Thus, try to keep kids from talking on cell phones very much. You can view the original article here: http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/cell-phone-safety-tips/


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Dutchies Timberworx
Over the years Marc has created amazing one off pieces of furniture hand crafted from reclaimed timber.
Come in and visit our showroom and work shop to experience true craftsmanship and discuss your next quality piece.
We offer onsite milling and machining of all types of hard and soft woods.
Bring in your own piece of timber to have cut to size or machined to your requirements.
Come and view our range of painted decorative landscape pots available in a large range of sizes and colours.
Stunning tables made from beautiful live edge timber slabs or reclaimed timber made to order.


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Following Part 1 of this video tutorial, Stuart looks at reference geometry and surface modeling to create the paddle & seals. You will see how using surfaces and features within SolidWorks makes life so much easier and more efficient when designing in 3D CAD. The hints and tips you will pick up will help you become a quicker and more effective SolidWorks user.
To see Part 1 on Lofting to create the shaft and handle follow the link below
Modelling a Paddle in SolidWorks – Basic and Advanced Lofting
Tutorial 3: Surface Modeling – Paddle Blade
Create complex and difficult shapes using SolidWorks surfacing. Modelling the blade of the paddle, Stuart will how you how to trim your surfaces to get the results you want.
Tutorial 4: Reference Surface Modeling – Paddle Seals
Use surfaces to make a reference that will allow you to create parts which are directly connected to the dimensions of your model. Here, Stuart creates a 'skin tight' rubber seal for this paddle.
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A major death happened TONIGHT (December 04) on SABC1 popular soapie drama Skeem Saam,and we had to say goodbye to Thabo "Tbose" Maputla, played by Cornet Thabiso Mamabolo.
Tbose was killed by his niece Noah (played Austin Mothapo) after he finds out the truth about his involvement in the gang that robed Maputla supermarket.
Goodbye Cornet – till we meet again!


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NEW YORK, Chimeras Dream is coming!
Judge away people, but I've never been to the most famous city in the WORLD. I've been to LA, Miami, DC, Chicago - hell I've been out the country multiple times, but I've never visited the one city where it matters. Welp on April 8th, that's gonna change. I truly don't know what to expect besides: "A city that never sleeps..."
Below I've made a list of thing I need and DON'T need to do!
5 Things I Need to Do!
1) Take a pic in the middle of Times Square with my classic, not looking pose: Let's be honest, this needs NO EXPLANATION. Its gonna happen, lets just see how many pictures I'll take. I need to find that Diddy ad and take it in front of there.
2) Meet Nas - 50 - Diddy or DJ Envy: For various reasons I think all of these dudes are cool within their own right. I need to run into one or ALL FOUR of these guys & chop it up.
3) Sunset & Sunrise picture of the Brooklyn Bridge: Anybody have any suggestions on locations?
4) Find Ghost & Tommy and reunite them before this Summer
Seriously 4) Visit important landmarks and take pictures: Im being forced to go to Yankees stadium lol So whats up with Grand Central, St. Patrick Cathedral, Radio City etc.
5) I need to Hoop!!: It wouldn't be right if I didn't hoop one time.
1) I don't want to seriously get lost: While visiting Toronto, I learned a valuable lesson, DON'T DEPEND ON CREDIT CARDS FOR SPENDING MONEY. Apparently Toronto doesn't accept Discover & I had no clue. Well I found out the hard way by traveling to play basketball 45 mins away from my hotel. The cab ride plus hooping was about $60 dollars. After a few hours, Ezra & I was tasked with making it back to our hotel with ZERO money and NO GPS, while it was raining. smh I'm thankful for the Bus driver who looked out for us. Needless to say, I don't want to experience that again lol.
2) No Time for the Decision: While one day I want to be on The Breakfast Club, for something other than the Rumor Report or DOTD, I NEVER NEVER NEVER want to be on there for the Decision. Whether it's fake or NOT, I'll pass.
3) I don't want to go broke. Apparently "WE" are going shopping which equals = I shop so you either HELP pay or shut up and hold these bags. #YOURGIRLZTOUR
4) An Out of Control Taxi Driver: I've heard rumors about the Taxi Drivers in New York...I just want to keep HEARING about the rumors.
5) I don't want this to be the last time I visit: I have a couple of places I want to visit next...but I would love to visit NYC on a regular basis...UNLESS I HATE IT.


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Conversion kits convert a fluorescent tube luminaire into an emergency light during a power failure. The luminaire perform a reduced light which is sufficient to prevent panic and make obstacles visible during evacuation.
Evx Ferro conversion kits operate with ferromagnetic ballast strip lights of up to 58 W and with various types of tubes.
Only trained personnel are allowed to install these products.
Convert a general lighting into an Emergency Lighting
Main features
It operates the tube at typically 10% to 30% of its rated power
The emergency mode can be inhibited by remote control
Range description
Mains presence indicator (LED)
Standard version
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Safety product: compliant with EN 61347-2-7
Unobtrusive installation: after installation, it disappears completely into the luminaire
Consumes only a few VA and uses the light fitting's fluorescent tube during a mains power failure
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Good Colors to Paint a Bedroom
Color is one of the important things that should be included into your consideration when designing a room. It is the thing that is believed to set people mood. Furthermore, each color will be different in giving impact to a room and each of them will bring their own sense to the room. Designing a bedroom is the same case. Since bedroom is the place where you will always stay and use it everyday in your life, therefore the decoration of it should be perfectly good. Just be wise to choose the colors depend on what mood you want to set in your bedroom. Before choosing the color that will be used, it's better for you to recognize some colors and their mood. Here, there will be some options of good colors to paint a bedroom that might become your inspiration. Check them out!
The first option of good colors to paint a bedroom is cooling green. It is the perfect color if you want to create a cool and soft mood. Such color will make your bedroom becomes a very relaxing place where you can stay comfortably. Consider using sage since it's of the most popular tone of greens used in interior painting. Or you can also consider some others colors such as ivory or olives since they're also so soothing.
Second consideration is energetic red. It's one of good colors to paint a bedroom to create an energizing feeling that will make your walls look lively. Such color is believed that increase blood circulation and give an energetic feeling, therefore it can be an ideal option to paint bedrooms for youngsters. Another option is using hot red since such colors will perfectly work when creating a romantic feeling to a bedroom. However, pink is the best color to create a romantic and feminine bedroom.


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Homeschooling is very much a lifestyle and as such, it brings along it's own set of dynamics and problems. I know you've noticed the worn down Land's end mocs I have been wearing for the last 3 years (by golly they are soo comfortable!), the laundry that sits endlessly on my couch-never quite folded and put away, and yes I squirm when we have company and I suddenly notice the state of my cupboards, the dust on the shelves, the state of my kid's closets...whatever- you get the picture, I'm sure.
Or this gem, yes, little Demi does not know his address...and yes, he probably should...but I was thinking so hard about teaching him to read and such that I forgot. I know, at age 5 I knew my address, and yes his cousins all know theirs. He does however, know how to say amen and praise the Lord in Russian, Chinese and spanish, knows alot about dinosaurs and emperor penguins, can locate Russia, Holland, the US, several states and continents on the world map and knows alot about composting. When he goes to an amusement park, I write our address on his arm in permanent pen and call it a day.
I loved this post over at Preschoolers and Peace titled "What non-Homeschoolers may not know", she covered it all beautifully. Kendra's website has been around for several years, lots of good tips for keeping the little ones busy. Go on over and enjoy.
I was nodding my head over #6- I have a relative that used to take my two oldest out for the day to do interesting things and then would comment over all I must have accomplished while I had my "break". Um, you left me with the baby and toddler and took the two who actually 'help' me with anything...what break? I need a break from my break now.
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Named 'Winery of the Year' by James Halliday and Matt Skinner, Larry Cherubino wants his wines to be distinctive and to speak clearly of their variety and vineyard site. He believes in paying meticulous attention to the vineyard, canopy and water management, picking at the right time and minimal intervention in the winery. Larry also makes wine under the Laissez Faire label, an exquisite range of natural wines which are the ultimate expression of site, made in small batches from hand harvested grapes. From delicate whites to opulent reds, all his wines have pure class and finesse.
Yields were low with most varieties achieving ripeness at a relatively low sugar levels in 2015. The fruit picked was of excellent quality, resulting in crisp and refreshing wines.
Larry Cherubino believes the magic of wine is its ability to express its provenance. In the pursuit of excellence he travels the world searching for grape clones suited to specific vineyard sites. He also pays meticulous attention in the vineyard. Herbicides are not used; instead, at Larry Cherubino they make their own compost to support the whole vineyard biology, which maintains healthy soils with good levels of microbial activity. The philosophy followed by Larry and his team considers the whole ecosystem, resulting in healthier, disease resistant vines. The grapes for this wine were planted in 1997, at a density of 1,350 vines per hectare. The vines are planted on a north facing site in the Acacia vineyard in soils that are predominantly lateritic.
The fruit was hand-picked, sorted and vinified in small lot fermenters. A moderate extraction took place to ensuring the fruit characters were fully expressed. The fruit was vinified for four months, before being aged in new and one year old oak for six months. Bottling was carried out early in order to preserve the fruit. The wine spent a minimum of 10 months in bottle prior to release.
A beautiful, inky deep red wine. The combination of spice, black fruits and oaky earthiness, make this a very complex and interesting Shiraz. Blueberry, black cherry and earthy notes carry across to the palate. Still young and ripe, the tannins are soft with good persistence and length, will mature well.
This is a great accompaniment to a whole shoulder of slow roasted lamb with a red wine reduction.


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Who was it?
OMG, deetz, pix.
Nah I'm for bed
I just turned around sharply, not seeing her, and my hand grazed her shapely rump. There was a moment, and we both just let it pass and pretended nothing happened. I'm awaiting the lawsuit.
She's a knockout though, if you know what I mean, Popti.
You knocked her out?
That's nothing. I've done worse than that. I'll have a guess who it was later on.
That's who I was gonna say. Beth Murphy's a babe.
Yeah, but...
Shut up drakpress.
Poptimus don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Popa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby


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Review 2013
A glimpse from 2013 with all the projects and events
Another year, another review. This was an important year, as far as the internet branding and firm identity goes: a new website together with a new logo. We want to thank all our collaborators and our clients for trusting us with their ideas and their wishes. We want to thank our friends and colleagues as well, for helping us in fulfilling our goals. This year, same as the last one, took us through a variety of projects ranging from houses to apartment buildings, from small offices buildings to industrial halls. We had contests, concept proposals, execution plannings but also a more pleasant part of our job, building handovers. For us, to build means to progress together, our office's motto for more than sixteen years.


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Saturday & Sunday 24 & 25 September.
We are going to dive the Yongala again.
This iconic dive is rated as one of the top dives in the world.
And it is just at our doorstep (well, maybe down the garden path a bit).
We go with Yongala Dive, which operates from Alva Beach, near Ayr.
We make our way Friday night, sleep at the dive operator, have two stunning dives, eat dinner, sleep at the dive operator, have another 2 stunning dives, have a bit of a bbq offered by the dive school, drive back to Cairns.
Accomodation is basic. Breakfast is provided, so is lunch. For dinner we dive into the bustling night scene of Ayr (normally we go to the RSL).
If you do not arrive on Friday night, you have to be there Saturday 7:30 am.
You are supposed to bring your gear. Gear rent is extra.
Check your email for prices. The given price is including accommodation.
What to do?
We have the option of the whole boat, 12 places. We want to fill it!
Be sure to be on it, so be fast.
You make your own reservations and pay the dive operator.
Nautilus does not handle any money.
Now don't hesitate, grab the phone and call.
Make your reservation with Janelle at 07 47831519
Tell her you are a Nautilus member.
When you have booked, please email me so I can keep track of the numbers and who is going.
Yongala Dive
56 Narrah St
ph 47831519
website: www.yongaladive.com.au
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You are visiting the Estonian folklorists' server Haldjas (fairy, guardian spirit), which was set up in 1995 by the folk belief research group of the Institute of the Estonian Language. Presently, the group and the server have been incorporated under the Estonian Literary Museum. The majority of electronic publications and data corpora in the server are in the Estonian language, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family. Estonia is a small country with ca one million people, who speak the Estonian language as their mother tongue.
The server offers a wide range of information on oral heritage, folklore and folk belief, on the institutions actively engaged in folkloristic research in Estonia as well as researchers and research projects. The covered aspects of folklore also include the heritage of other peoples of the Uralic language group. The server features two journals that have been published online and in print since 1996: Mäetagused and Folklore: An electronic Journal of Folklore.
Only parts of the material are currently available in English and/or German; in time the proportion of material in foreign language will grow.
Our news!
Folklore 73 is out!
It is our pleasure to present to you the 73rd issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore under the title The Heritagization of the Isonzo Front, with Jurij Fikfak and Božidar Jezernik as guest editors.
The end of the First World War left a deep imprint on the social and cultural environment in Europe as well as lobally, causing the collapse of empires and emergence of new (nation-)states, changing economies and cultural dominants. This issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore is dedicated to a specific region – the Julian Alps, the battles that were fought there and their heritagization in today's culture.
In the introduction, the guest editors give an overview of the cultural heritage of the Isonzo Front, which was one of the greatest, most tragic, and largely overlooked campaigns during the First World War. This is followed by a historical introduction by Marko Štepec, "The Experience and Memory of Trenches near the Soča River", in which the author outlines not only the history of the battles taking place on this front, but also all the tragedy of life along the front and supplying the front. Jaka Repič in his article "Memorialization of the First World War in the Landscape of the Julian Alps" addresses issues of memorialization processes and heritage construction, which are inscribed into the landscapes of the Isonzo Front in Slovenia.
Tatiana Bajuk Senčar in her article "From the Hinterland: Commemorating the Centenary of World War I in Bohinj" uses the concrete example of the Bohinj Valley in north- western Slovenia to document and analyze diverse practices of commemoration and heritagization of the First World War.
Miha Kozorog in his article "Knowledge of Place in Three Popular Music Representations of the First World War" explores the perception, reception, and production of images of the First World War, based on three recent representations in Slovenian popular music.
Local collectors as a type of actors are analyzed by Boštjan Kravanja in his article "Learning by Collecting: Amateur Collectors and Their Shifting Positions in the Isonzo Front Heritagization and Tourism Adaptation".
This issue is supplemented by three articles from the editorial board. The article co-authored by Eva Toulouze, Ranus Sadikov, Laur Vallikivi, Liivo Niglas, and Nikolai Anisimov is the continuation to the first part published in Folklore 72, and analyses the changes that were introduced in the revitalization process in several dimensions of religious practice of a marginal Udmurt group living in Bashkortostan: the use of sacred space, the role of different actors, the proceedings of the rituals, the transmission of the prayers, the costume of the priests, and the behavior of the participants.
Tiiu Jaago in her article "Multi-dimensional Borders in Narration" analyzes the story of two Estonian soldiers (so-called Finnish Boys, a volunteer Estonian unit in the Finnish army), who escaped the Finnish army during the Continuation War. This story of the escape and crossing the state border is dealt with from the aspect of experience and narration.
Rahman Veisi Hasar and Ebrahim Badakhshan's article "Metaphorical Integrations in Kurdish Riddles" investigates the metaphorical integrations of riddles in the Kurdish language, analyzing 100 Kurdish riddles according to the blending theory of metaphor.
The news section of the issue presents an overview of the all-Estonian school lore collecting action that took place from February to May 2018, reviews of an international conference under the heading "Polar Readings 2018: Technology in the History of the Arctic Development", and the interim conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, and a book review.
Balkan and Balticum. Current Studies in the Postsocialist Space is online
Sator 18, "Balkan and Balticum. Current Studies in the Postsocialist Space", edited by Ekaterina Anastasova and Mare Kõiva is online.
We invite you to visit our website to read and download articles: http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/sator/sator18/
An interdisciplinary collection of studies focused on cultural and religious processes in the example of two countries with a long-standing tradition of cultural research: Estonia and Bulgaria.
The articles focused on changes in the cultural processes of both post-socialist nation states, exploring problems that exist in modern society: minorities and small communities with their identity creation, and migration patterns; sacral places and religiousness; hobbies of contemporary city dwellers.
This collection of articles is the outcome of the bilateral project "Balkan and Baltic Holiness – Modern Religiosity and National Identity" (supported by both national academies of sciencies), research carried out by the Department of Balkan Ethnology, the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Folkloristics at the Estonian Literary Museum.
Sator is an open access multilingual publication of the WG of Religious Studies of the Department of Folkloristics at the Estonian Literature Museum. The journal is published by the Estonian Literature Museum (ELM Scholarly Press.)
More Information: Mare Kõiva, Co-editor of the Sator 18, Estonian Literature Museum
Incantatio 6, (2017) edited by James Kapalo and Jenny Butler is online
We invite you to visit our web site to read and download articles: http://www.folklore.ee/incantatio/Incantatio2017_6.pdf.
The papers presented here engage with the theme from a range of perspectives; historical change and the impact of modernity (Dillinger, Radchenko); theoretical and methodological innovation driven by the digital and virtual worlds (Ilyefalvi, Sawden) and the evolving ways in which charms and charmers have been viewed and represented in different societies over time (Milne, Tausiet, Leitão) are explored and reflected on from different disciplinary perspectives.
Incantatio is an open access publication of the ISFNR WG "The Charms, Charming and Charmers". The journal is published by the Estonian Literature Museum (ELM Scholarly Press.)
Table of content is available http://www.folklore.ee/incantatio/Incantatio2017_6.pdf or http://www.folklore.ee/incantatio/06.html
With best regards,
Mare Kõiva
Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Estonian Literature Museum
Folklore: An Electronic Journal of Folklore special issue on (post-)Soviet military bases in Central and Eastern Europe
The latest issue (70) of Folklore: An Electronic Journal of Folklore "Small Places, Large Issues" (Vol. 70), guest edited by Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, Dominka Czarnecka, Dagnosław Demski, provides insights into the complicated cultural and social landscapes of post-Cold War military bases in Central and Eastern Europe. Eight case studies from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Russia by scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds explore how military objects erected during the Cold War years continue their existence in the narratives and practices of the local population, national memory politics, and top-down development scenarios.
By foregrounding the perspective of the everyday, this volume seeks to contribute to a more nuanced and diversified understanding of the nature and effects of the Soviet/Russian military presence in CEE, and how this period and remnants thereof have been and could be recycled and mobilized for new purposes; how the Cold War as it was lived east of the Iron Curtain is remembered and narrated under the present circumstances, which are both radically different and unsettlingly similar.
Folklore 69 came out
It is our pleasure to present to you the latest issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, with Eda Kalmre as the guest editor. This special issue focuses on the research of conspiracy theories, contemporary legends, and rumours – sets of ideas and practices, their spread, consistence, and models, spreading as newslore, fake news, and communication styles – which strongly influence today's society and often create insecurity. Rumours and their related genre, legends, have a significant role in today's social and everyday communication, and articles presented here proceed from these two genres.
The first article by Anastasiya Astapova is about presidential election folklore in Belarus, which is a non-democratic country and where the results of the elections are known in advance. The author shows, based on her fieldwork examples, how the genres of rumours and jokes are interconnected, sometimes to the point of being indiscernible.
Zuzana Panczová presents in her article one of the typical features of conspiracy theories – a dualistic worldview, which explains important events as a consequence of a hidden struggle between 'Us' and the dark forces. The author points out the functions of the concept of the West as an 'enemy' in rumours and conspiracy theories.
Alexander Panchenko's article deals with the role of conspiratorial motifs and themes in the formation and transmission of what is known as 'contemporary legend'. The author shows how and why the present-day conspiracy theories and practices of 'conspiratorial hermeneutics' are inspired by particular combinations of emotional, moral, and epistemological expectations.
Eda Kalmre and Liisi Laineste write about the cult of president Putin and the media behaviour related to the recent rumours concerning Putin's disappearance from the public eye during a ten-day period in March 2015. The analysis of the data obtained from global news coverage and from social media sheds light on the inner workings of rumour and humour in social media and its effect on the dissemination and content of folklore.
Amandine Regamey writes about a very influential story, a rumour and contemporary legend, which accompanies all military conflicts provoked by Russia. The article explores the different aspects of a war legend about women-snipers, which was born among soldiers, was embodied in fiction and popular culture, and was used in Russian official propaganda.
Mari-Liis Madisson in her article explicates how the leakages concerning the details of the top-secret United States government mass surveillance programme PRISM were contextualised in the Estonian public information space. The Snowden affair received strong public feedback as it touched the cornerstone of contemporary identities – the right for free Internet.
This issue is supplemented by two articles from the editorial board. Antti Lindfors explores the notions of performativity and performance in digital environments from the combined perspective of linguistic anthropology and folkloristics. He analyses two different cases of digital communication, the first manifesting an instance of everyday SMS messaging between two friends, the second concerning the so-called Per-looks media event that took place in Finland in October 2012.
Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj's article is dedicated to riddles and humour. She argues that riddles exist in a performance context in which all the participants want to enjoy the game. The situation simultaneously involves both entertainment and humiliation, because riddles are intended to mislead the listener.
The news section of the issue presents a book review and overviews of different conferences.
Folklore 68 came out!
We are happy to present to you the latest issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 68, with Janika Oras as the guest editor. This special issue is a continuation to Folklore 67, dedicated to oral singing traditions.
The first two articles of this issue observe Seto culture from different perspectives. Andreas Kalkun, in his article "Introducing Setos on Stage: On the Early Performances of Seto Singing Culture", paints a colourful picture of the appropriation of Seto culture by the entrepreneurial and creative local elite of the neighbouring areas of the Seto region, who aspired to stage exoticism of the late nineteenth century.
The next article, continuing with the Seto theme, is Žanna Pärtlas' "On the Relict Scales and Melodic Structures in the Seto Shepherd Tune Kar'ahääl". The author shows the extensive variation of the musical scales of herding songs, which have survived in the oral tradition until the present day. The results of her analysis have inspired the author to improve the existing theories on the processes of scale formation.
Another music-related article, "Historical Skolt Sami Music and Two Types of Melodic Structures in Leu′dd Tradition" by Marko Jouste discusses the individual leu′dd song tradition that is central to the Skolt Sami culture. Jouste introduces the model of fragmentary phrase structure, characteristic of the earlier leu′dd, and demonstrates how the living song tradition has incorporated melodies and other musical features from the neighbouring cultures while preserving its main characteristics and identity.
In the second part of their co-authored article, "Star Bride Marries a Cook: Processes of Change in the Oral Singing Tradition and in Folk Song Collecting on the Western Estonian Island of Hiiumaa. II", Helen Kõmmus and Taive Särg take a closer look at the songs of Hiiumaa Island, giving examples of unique hybrid forms characteristic of the region, which have developed as a result of a longer coexistence of different styles.
Aado Lintrop in his article "Where Do Songs Come From? An Attempt to Explain Some Verses of Regilaul" directs his attention to the former magic function of objects depicted in verses about singing skills. These objects bestowed the singer with the power to recreate and perform long epic texts. The author discusses the religious background of the imagery in Estonian regilaul by pointing out parallels with several shamanic cultures. The article titled "How Old Is Runosong? Dating the Motifs of Burial-Related Folk Songs by Using Archaeological Material" by Pikne Kama approaches the Estonian singing tradition from an archaeologist's perspective, searching for manifestations of period specific tangible culture and burial practices behind the poetic images of songs related to death and burial.
The last article in the issue, titled "The Motif of Apple in Different Cultures and Its Usage in Anatolian Folk Songs", by Ahmet Emre Dağtaşoğlu, discusses the motif of apple frequently encountered in different times and cultures. The author points out its meanings in different cultures and analyses this motif in the context of Anatolian folk songs, introducing the relations of this motif therein and in other cultures.
The news section of the issue presents two conference overviews, two book reviews, and introduces some thoughts evoked by a doctoral dissertation defence at the University of Tartu.
Folklore 67
It is our pleasure to present to you the latest issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, with Janika Oras as the guest editor. This special issue is dedicated to oral singing traditions, with a special focus on older Finnic oral song tradition.
The first article, "Literary Kalevala-Metre and Hybrid Poetics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Finland" by Kati Kallio, examines the blurred boundaries between different oral and literary poetics in early modern Finland, presenting the examples of the first written poems following the poetic features of traditional Finnic oral poetry (in so-called Kalevala-metre with no rhymes or stanza structures) or contrasting with them.
Kristiina Ross and Ahti Lohk discuss early Estonian-language hymnal poetry in their article "Words, Forms, and Phrases in Estonian Folksongs and Hymns", revealing the essential differences of oral folksongs and written hymns, proceeding from their different cultural context, ways of conceptualisation, music, and language use.
In her article "Towards a Typology of Parallelism in Estonian Poetic Folklore", Mari Sarv introduces the current situation in the discussion on parallelism in runosongs and, comparing runosongs, proverbs, sayings, and riddles, proposes an original model for identifying the types of parallelism on the basis of semantic relations between parallel elements (words or phrases) in grammatically parallel units.
The article "Star Bride Marries a Cook: The Changing Processes in the Oral Singing Tradition and in Folk Song Collecting on the Western Estonian Island of Hiiumaa. I" by Helen Kõmmus and Taive Särg gives a detailed overview of the archival representations of the older oral singing tradition, the regilaul, earlier vocal genres and transitional forms of Hiiumaa Island, and discusses the ideological, local, and personal factors influencing their creation.
Liina Saarlo in her article "Regilaul in the Political Whirlpool: On Collecting Regilaul in Northeast Estonia in the Second Half of the 1950s" observes the changing status of the runosong in Estonian folklore studies during the first decades of the Soviet occupation, discussing the representations of the regilaul repertoire of the 1950s in Ida-Virumaa County, north-eastern Estonia.
Janika Oras in her article "Mari and Marie: Performativity and Creativity of Two Estonian Singers in the Late Nineteenth Century" analyses differences in the performativity of two outstanding female singers, shaped by the changing of song repertoire and performance situations alongside the modernisation of the society, their belonging to different generations of performers, and their different relationship with literary culture.
In her article "Emotional Transpositions: Interpreting Oral Lyric Poetry", Niina Hämäläinen searches for clues to understand the origin of the popular lyrical runosong text Armahan kulku ('The beloved's walk') by Elias Lönnrot, analysing the oral sources that the text is based on and the views and attitudes guiding their literary rendition.
The news section of the issue presents an obituary for academician Arvo Krikmann, a book review, and gives an overview of a PhD thesis defence at the University of Tartu.
In memoriam Arvo Krikmann (21. VII 1939 – 27. II 2017)
Estonian humanities have experienced a painful loss. Arvo Krikmann, who dedicated his life to studying folklore, short forms, figurative speech and humour - a good colleague, a great teacher and a friend - passed away after a serious illness on the early morning of February 27.
Arvo Krikmann was born on July 21, 1939, in Virumaa county, Pudivere village. In 1946-1950 he studied in Pudivere elementary school, followed by middle school years in Simuna (1950-1953) and high school in Väike-Maarja (1953-1957). In 1957 he started his studies in the department of history and linguistics at the University of Tartu, graduating as Estonian philologist in 1962. After graduation, Arvo Krikmann was assigned to work at the Estonian Literary Museum, where he worked until 1969. In 1973-1977 he studied for his postgraduate degree at the Institute of Language and Literature and in 1975 defended his thesis on the content and world view of proverbs. He later worked in the folklore section of the Institute, followed by working as Senior Fellow at the department of computational linguistics, Principal Researcher at the Institute of Estonian Language and finally, in 2000-2014, Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum.
Arvo Krikmann's bibliography includes numerous articles and monographs. Next to his monumental publications of Estonian proverbs (Eesti vanasõnad I-IV, 1980–1988), Estonian riddles (Eesti mõistatused I-III, 2001–2013) and studies into short forms of folklore, Krikmann has compiled publications for more popular purposes, the methods, prefaces and afterwords of which have been of the highest scholarly merit. In 1997 he published the exceptional study "Insights into short forms of folklore I: Fundamental concepts, genre relations, general problems", defending it for his PhD in 1998. During the last decades, Arvo Krikmann applied methods from cognitive linguistics on folkloric data and furthered considerably studies in Estonian humour. His scientific works were internationally widely known and appreciated.
Side by side with publishing research, he was a highly valued professor at the University of Tartu since 1990s. He supervised five doctoral theses and held lectures on short forms of folklore, folk humour, semantics and theories of figurative of speech. Since 1997 he was a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, belonged to a number of international scientific organisations, editorial boards, steering committees and scientific councils.
Arvo Krikmann was the recipient of Third class Order of the White Star, National Research Award, Estonian Cultural Endowment's Annual Award, Baltic Assembly Prize, and Finnish Kalevala Society Allhallows Prize. In 2014, he received the Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann's language prize for studying short forms of folklore, introducing linguistic methods to folkloristics, studying humour both humorously and analytically, and internationally disseminating his research on Estonian heritage.
His colleagues and students will remember him as an exceptionally brilliant scholar with extensive erudition and wonderful sense of humour; a great person.
Folklore: EJF Vol 65 came out
We are glad to announce that the special issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore on the theme of 'Belief Narratives' is now accessible in print and in the web: http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol65/.
The introductory part of the journal gives an overview of the terminological polemics and the connections between belief narratives and believing. Most articles in the current issue are based on papers that were presented at two joint conferences that took place simultaneously in Macau (China) on March 23–28, 2015 (Vernacular Religion, Folk Belief, and Traditions of the Supernatural, and The Supernatural in Literature and Film).
Several articles focus on supernatural experiences in today's world and the attempts to interpret them by experiencers-narrators. Karin Maria Raahauge points out that even persons who don't believe that a supernatural world could exist, experience unexplainable things and try to interpret them with the help of traditional folklore, but also by using elements from TV series on haunting, ghost movies, or advertisements. Ultimately the narrated representations have the power of gradually shaping social reality, as Reet Hiiemäe's article about the interpretation of non-verbal communication in belief narratives also exemplifies. Huai Bao in his contribution about Chinese thrillers describes how traditional concepts of mediumship and foretelling find resonance in modern films and work there, in turn, as a trigger for the creative fantasy of the audience and for their new or modified beliefs and rituals. Kaarina Koski 's article focuses on continuities and changes in Finnish belief traditions. She points out that modern Finnish people who are confronted with out-of-the-ordinary experiences often seek to interpret them through a scientific or Christian vocabulary.
Victoria Chervaneva's contribution offers the reader a structural approach to the belief narratives, paying particular attention to the syntagmatic level, i.e. methods of introducing demonic characters and linguistic tools employed for this purpose. The questions of structure and classification are also the topic of Vito Carrassi's article about fairy tales within the historical-cultural context of the Irish tradition. Kirsten Møllegaard combines literature and the supernatural in her case study about the rich folklore surrounding the famous writer Edgar Allan Poe. As a separate section, the journal presents a case analysis by Elizabeth Ann Berton-Reilly about an American Estonian woman, offering an example of how supernatural beliefs are integrated into life history narration and identity building. The news section offers reviews of new books and recent conferences
The guest editor of this issue was Reet Hiiemäe.
We hope that you will have an inspiring reading!
Folklore: EJF 64
The 64th issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore (http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol64/) contains researches in the field of linguistics and folkloristics, which are dedicated to categories and their applications essential in terms of culture, map the cognitive backgrounds of language use by different peoples, and highlight the lingvo-folkloric or lingvo-mythological interconnections. Such a selection was substantiated by a need for interdisciplinary confluence, but it was rendered possible by the 60th birthday of Professor Urmas Sutrop, a renowned linguist and cultural researcher.
The articles focuses on: children's spontaneous sayings, and proposes the theoretical mechanisms of humour they are based on (by Piret Voolaid), provides a closer look into spontaneous transmedia narratives and processes based on giant lore (by Mare Kõiva and Andres Kuperjanov), analyse in detail the tale types The Encoded Message and The Big Bull (by Yuri Berezkin and Evgeny Duvakin); gives an overview of the etymology of the word jumal 'god', its meanings, and its role as a linguistic unit fulfilling different communication goals (by Anni Jürine, Karl Pajusalu, Renate Pajusalu, Ilona Tragel, and Ann Veismann).
Three articles explores the usages of colours and colour terms in different languages and genres: cognitive organisation of colour terms in our mental lexicon (by Mari Uusküla and David Bimler), colour entrenchment in Middle-School (by Jody L. Sandford), a system of colour symbols in Mari folk songs (by Natalia Glukhova).
Liisi Piits explores collocational patterns of the noun 'man', which reveal social attitudes and stereotypes of age, gender, and behaviour. Hille Pajupuus's team introduces how to predict the possible effect of a written text on the reader and gives a description of the creation of an automatic identifier of the polarity (positivity-negativity) of Estonian texts, which is independent of domain and of text type (by Hille Pajupuu, Rene Altrov, and Jaan Pajupuu).
Ekaterina Velmezova compares the articles about the Estonian language in the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, published in 1934, 1957, and 1978, and draws attention to the ideological influences.


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