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Based on what I have read over the years and what has been excavated from historical sites around Hong Kong, particularly the construction site of the Shatin-Central Link in To Kwa Wan, I am more convinced than ever that Hong Kong was not necessarily a barren rock as the British set their feet on the shores of Hong Kong Island. At the dawn of the Song Dynasty in the second half of the tenth century, Hong Kong had been a busy transit of international vessels making their way to China through the roaring waters. In different parts of Hong Kong, there were also considerably developed settlements with people engaged in various occupations.
Pearl collection was one of the long lost businesses of Hong Kong. The other better known one, and official as well, was salt production.
So where were the pearls found? The Kingdom of Southern Han (917-971 AD) founded a pearl collection site called Meichuandou in 963 AD, where residents were forced to collect pearls in the deep waters barehandedly. Up to 8,000 troops were sent to station around the area. Although it was widely believed that Meichuandou was located somewhere near Tai Po today, I never came across any evidence in the primary sources. Some said it was in Yuen Chau Tsai, some others insisted it was Sam Mun Tsai.
I still have no idea whatsoever who is right, but found one more vote for Sam Mun Tsai in a leisure walk there on the third and last holiday of the New Year.
This was my first visit to Sam Mun Tsai, although I have heard about it for many years. Neither did I have any clue whatsoever where it exactly is until arriving at the small private pier looking over to the Tolo Harbour after the 45-minute minibus ride from Tai Po Market station. It is a remote corner at the tip of a small peninsula stretching out from Tai Po, with the opening of the Tolo Harbour right at its south. Facing southward, you can see a suffocating fortress of residential blocks under Ma On Shan on the left, and the densely built slopes of The Chinese University of Hong Kong on the right.
But the area should not be called Sam Mun Tsai, at least before 1965. Its original name should be Yim Tin Tsai, sharing the same name with an abandoned Hakka village on an outlying island in Sai Kung, where most of the indigenous villagers were named Chan and devout Catholics. According to the photo exhibition at the entrance to the Sam Mun Tsai village, what we see now are government-built settlements for fishermen relocated from Sam Mun Tsai near Pak Sha Tau, Sai Kung, when the Plover Cove Reservoir was built. The village, literally known as Sam Mun Tsai Fishermen's New Village, was open in 1965 by then-governor Sir David Trench.
The village was dotted with two-storey, long-stretched residential blocks housing about 20 homes each. At a glance, the flats look pretty small at no more than 300 square feet per unit. It is noteworthy that many homes have a hand-painted red cross above their doors, probably indicating that the dwellers are Christian (not sure if they are Catholics or Protestants though).
The reason of visiting Sam Mun Tsai was not so much about an old resettlement of the fishermen, probably the oldest occupation in Hong Kong, but Ma Shi Chau Special Area of the Hong Kong Geopark. Although I can't recall anything learned from the geography class, the 30-minute walk to Ma Shi Chau was quite refreshing. Along the way you will never lose sight of all the peaks of Pat Sin Leng and the enormous white statue of Avalokiteśvara of Tsz Shan Monastery in the backdrop. The extensive fish farms, fishing boats and nets in the quiet waters beneath Pat Sin Leng only serve to remind us where Hong Kong had originally come from.
But the walk could be somewhat uneasy for some, especially in the Lunar New Year holidays, because the hills were covered with countless graves and tombstones of the deceased villagers. The cemetery stretches from the hillsides surrounding the abandoned village school and radiates along the slopes of Sam Mun Tsai in all directions. You simply can't avoid eye contact with the graves even if you look out to the far.
Walking on a well-built stone path cutting across the grave-filled slopes bring visitors to Ma Shi Chau, a densely vegetated island full of volcanic rocks dating back to 2.5 million to 2.9 million years ago, the second oldest in Hong Kong. Most of those rocks are distinctively red in colour, some as much as the clay courts in the French Open, quite different from what we used to see around Hong Kong. Some of them even look black, covered with substances similar to coal, formed by fossilised plants as a result of biological and geological processes before the first human beings were conceived.
Indeed, Ma Shi Chau was pretty well protected with rugged, undisturbed shores and vibrant marine life, if you pay attention close enough. It feels somewhat surreal to see tiny crabs and lobsters moving around the gaps and holes of the millions-of-years-old rocks under your feet, where artificial evidence of human civilisation are lying around across the waters. But the nature is not always benevolent, as we should always bear in mind. In fact, the tombolo linking Sam Mun Tsai and Ma Shi Chau is littered with dead, rotten fish of all sizes and huge heaps of shattered sea shells, indicating how destructive, and ruthless the forces of nature can possibly be. This is because the tombolo will be flooded by rising tides every day, cutting off access from Sam Mun Tsai to Ma Shi Chau.
After all, humans are but part of the nature. For centuries and millennia we have shamelessly claimed supremacy over other fellow co-habitants, and it is now time to develop a greater sense of responsibility by making this world more sustainable and suitable for habitation. I don't know if extinction is inescapable for all forms of life, as some may believe, but there is little doubt that we, the depleters and destructors of the natural world, should compensate for the damages we have caused. Apparently I have no crystal ball to see for how much longer the current landscape will survive, relatively untouched by human settlements, if destruction. And I can only hope my disappointments and frustrations with many aspects of life here in Hong Kong would vanish in no time. The crepuscular rays, nicknamed Rays from Jesus in Cantonese, from afar when we left Sam Mun Tsai were by all means welcome as a token of hope and encouragement.
We simply need some indication of hope and direction to get out of the darkness.


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Many future cosmetologists leave high school with dreams of the perfect "final summer" experience. They dream of beach days, long movie nights snuggled into someone great, and big plans to work a part time job all summer and spend the time saving and preparing to start beauty school that fall.
While that perfect summer experience may be something of legend, there is something that many future cosmetologists often discount that could make a huge impact on their summer plans, and on their future schooling: scholarships and grants.
Scholarships and grants are often overlooked because they seem like an impossibility. There is an idea that not only are they hard to get, but that they won't make that much of an impact.
Well, get ready to have those ideas blown out of the water!
Scholarship Availability
There are numerous scholarships available to students. Websites like Beauty Changes Lives specializes in helping students find beauty based scholarships to apply for, but there are many other options available. If you have a job, your employer could possibly have scholarships available to employees, and tuition reimbursement could be available. Also look into local options as many cities will have resident based opportunities that could take a huge chunk out of your cost.
Make an Impact on Out of Pocket Costs
Often people will avoid scholarships all together thinking that even if you get them there is no way they can make that much of a difference. While many scholarships and grants may seem insignificant compared to education costs, if you qualify for a scholarship and/or grant, it will make an overall impact on your direct educational investment.
Check Out What The School Has to Offer
Often schools will have their own scholarships and grants available to students. Contact the Admissions Director for available scholarships and grants, for those who qualify. While they are still limited in their distribution, they can be considerably easier to get than some of the other scholarships out there. Check with the school's financial assistance and admissions department to find out what's available.
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Things really are falling apart. Our Captains of Industry know that profit maximization at all costs paves the way to a better future for us all. By putting Capital into the hands of the wealthy we will fuel economic prosperity across class lines by creating jobs. Removing the burden of regulation we can lead the way to a new economic paradigm in which the rising economic tide lifts all boats. To staunch the growing international debt/credit crisis social safety nets need to be pared. The many must belt tighten; even suffer a bit, if but for their own good. The rightness of these beliefs are self-evident, even filtered through third hand delivery systems tracing back to the great thinkers who lay prone in the bell towers of the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, as they adjust their scopes on their oblivious targets, bustling about on the quad below.
Meanwhile our captains are lifting foreign workers out of their poverty, providing jobs, feeding their families, providing goods and services to the next emerging market, raising mankind. They've suffered some minor setbacks lately. Plant explosions for one, and BTW, worker suicides are up. Working conditions are beside the point. These kamakazi workers are merely trying to cash in on the deep pockets of their employers. Diving from company rooftops to oblivion never looked so inviting, when hope has faded. These free-loaders are merely cashing in. The obvious solution is to install "suicide nets" in strategic places. Then have worker-bees sign anti-suicide pacts with the company. Always think PR. Control the press, spin the discussion, and the collective amnesia of the masses will do the rest. Above all keep the production lines operating. If things continue to fall apart, we'll move operations to an even more bereft corner of the world, where they'll open their hearts and minds to the magic of our Capital.
In some ways it's easier to accomplish now. That sense of desperation can swing both ways. It can work for us captain, or it can swing the other way. Jobs. Carrot? Or Stick? No matter. When they're hungry and cold they'll see the logic. Docility can come from desperation or from hunger. Weak body, weak mind. You get the picture. I think we can make this work. As long as things don't continue to fall apart. As long as all we captains stick together. Stick to the script. Deserters will be shot.
This essay was written in response to a discussion I had last night with an expat businessman who thought parroting the rhetoric of Heritage and Cato, (even filtered through his third generation sources), is the balm the nation and the world needs now, if only the blind would see, and the deaf open their ears. My thinking is further influenced the Matthew Stoller's excellent essay. In Stoller's own closing words:
"One day a chunk of the elites will break away from this consensus, as the system experiences a breakdown that is so severe it threatens the interests of a powerful constituency group. For now, we will be watching the embers."
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Eric Clapton: Auld Lang Syne – His Alibi For The Last Night. (TARANTURA :: TCDED-54-1, 2)
Recorded Live at Yokohama Arena , Kanagawa, Yokohama , Japan - December 13, 1990.
Excellent Audience Recording :: Silver CDs :: MP3 CBR 320 kbps & FLAC.
Disc 1
01. Announcement
02. SE / All Right Now
03. SE / Walk Away
04. SE / Layla (Orchestra Intro)
05. Pretending
07. No Alibis
08. Running On Faith
09. I Shot The Sheriff
10. White Room
11. Can't Find My Way Home
12. Bad Love
13. Before You Accuse Me
Disc 2
01. Old Love
02. Badge
03. Wonderful Tonight
04. Band Intro
05. Cocaine
06. Auld Lang Syne
07. Cocaine
08. Auld Lang Syne
09. A Remark You Made
10. Layla
11. Crossroads
12. Sunshine Of Your Love
13. Otukaresama-Deshita!
14. SE / Happy Trils 'Announcement
Files: 27.:: Size: 325.37 MB (mp3)| 1005.62 MB (flac).
Total Time: 02:22:12 hour/s.
Personnel: Eric Clapton (guitar/vocals), Nathan East (bass), Greg Phillinganes (keyboards), Alan Clark (keyboards), Steve Ferrone (drums), Phil Palmer (guitar), Ray Cooper (percussion), Katie Kissoon (vocals), and Tessa Niles (vocals).
Notes: Eric Clapton's Journeyman tour in 1990, when he returned to playing the blues and to being a guitar hero, ended with seven days of pleasure in Japan. And the tour of Japan ended on December 13th in Yokohama in Kanagawa.
Auld Lang Syne – His Alibi For The Last Night is another Tarantura release in the Clapton "Alibi" series. Utilizing previously uncirculated, excellent quality Krypton recordings, these rival some of the best Clapton audience recordings. Yokohama has had prior silver pressings including Journey's End (Tricone 001/002) and discs seven and eight of Seven Nights of Pleasure (Mid Valley 406-413) (along with a DVD with amateur footage of this show in very poor quality).
Auld Lang Syne is an excellent stereo DAT recording. Like other Crypton tapes, he wants to capture the whole concert-going experience by taping event before and after the actual show. Other tapes capture him at the train station, but this tape begins with the opening buzzer, some of the pre-concert music, and the post-show shuffle to the exits. (info taken from collectorsmusicreviews.com).
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At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you'll be approaching the conclusion of your essay. So let's say that you are ready to write your conclusion. What now?
Honestly, teachers differ on this one. A lot of them just want you to sum up what you've written in the paper—to remind them what you proved and how you proved it. They'll say "synthesize, don't just summarize." I'll leave that to them to explain.
I'm here to tell you how you can still spice things up a little in your conclusion. For instance, at the end of my essays I used to like to ask myself: Why does anyone care? Why was my paper meaningful? Usually, answering those questions brought the paper to a close, while still shedding some new light on my thesis statement.
Oh yeah, and it kept my teachers from falling asleep at the end of my papers—even if that's what I wanted to do.
Which brings me to Step Seven: Make it Sing!
Closing arguments. There's a reason courtroom dramas reach their climax at trial's end: Closing arguments represent that last chance to win a case
Sort of like the conclusion of your essay. It's your last opportunity to sell your reader on your argument. Without a great conclusion, an A+ essay...isn't.
But great conclusions don't have to be hard to write. In How to Write an A+ Paper: A Step by Step Guide to Acing Your Next Assignment, you'll learn the dos and don'ts of wrapping up your essay. You'll watch me build the kind of conclusion that closes a strong essay.
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There is a particular breed of Christmas movies that are — and there is no better way to put it —so bad, they're good. With melodramatic structures, soft-focus filters and — not least of all — Christmas cheer, they come nowhere near approaching the classics like The Grinch or Charlie Brown. Instead, the creators of these films are content to produce holiday-themed white noise. Companies like Hallmark, Lifetime and now Netflix produce dozens of these Christmas clones each year.
These best of the worst made for TV Christmas movies espouse generic values of family, true love and selflessness. They are often about disillusioned adults who go through some kind of transformation and rediscover the Christmas spirit. In a way, these movies exist as a kind of promise that the wonderment of childhood Christmases can be recaptured with the right combination of tradition, magic and terrible clichés.
They are unabashedly American and, despite being the celluloid embodiment of so-called Christian values, notably secular. The Netflix-produced films are especially interesting, as they tend to offer a unique perspective into their algorithmic storytelling structures. It doesn't take long to realize that nearly all the Netflix Christmas films feature baking, royalty, magic and Netflix itself.
The vast majority of these movies are also overwhelmingly white. On the popular film social media network letterboxd, a list called "Christmas movie posters with white heterosexual couples wearing red and green" recently went viral. After almost two decades of original Christmas TV productions, it was only this year that Hallmark premiered it's first-ever movie with black romantic leads, Christmas Everlasting.
Some actors have even made a parallel career within the genre, like Alicia Witt. For the past six years, she's starred in an annual Hallmark Christmas movie, bringing her unique bubbly wholesomeness to the small screen. Other "Christmas Queens" include Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Danica McKellar and Lori Loughlin, all of whom head a Christmas movie every season.
With literally thousands of the cheaply made Christmas films circulating, it would be impossible to summarize them all. What we can do is offer a crash-course for the uninitiated, an amuse-bouche of factory-line holiday cheer. And so, here are the best of the "they're so bad, they're good" Christmas TV movie classics.
The Christmas Shoes (2002)
Description: Wall Street meets The Red Shoes
Rob Lowe plays a heartless businessman whose fate is intertwined with that of a dying woman. In the realm of Christmas-themed movies about dying matriarchs, this movie is a perfect storm of saccharine romanticism, evil corporate influences and ugly Christmas sweaters.
A Christmas Prince (2017)
Description: Pride and Prejudice meets The Prince & Me
The monarchy is (unfortunately) cool again, which half-explains the popularity of Netflix's A Christmas Prince. A copy-editor is sent on her first writing assignment to investigate a royal family, and along the way, her spontaneous American traditions melt the icy hearts of her uptight European hosts. With cardboard sets, waxy actors and over-lit cinematography, the movie is little more than an odd-couple romance set in an enormous dollhouse.
Christmas Inheritance (2017)
Description: The Bachelor meets Groundhog Day
A back-flipping heiress is sent by her father to a small-town to deliver a letter and to hopefully learn important life lessons from the humble village folk. This film features some truly bizarre comedy set-pieces, including an exploding vacuum cleaner. Christmas Inheritance also relies heavily on the cinematic legacy of Andie McDowell to endear an audience to a — let's be honest — stupid premise.
Christmas at Cartwright's (2014)
Description: Mrs. Doubtfire meets Cyrano de Bergerac
Alicia Witt plays Nicky, a desperate single mom who ends up as the mall Santa. As Nicky tries to keep her identity secret, she's also plagued by an uptight mall manager and her daughter's obsessive desire for a new father named Bill (not a specific Bill, just any man named Bill). In a progressive twist (for a Hallmark film), the movie suggests that Santa's gender doesn't really matter and maybe moms do a lot more heavy Christmas lifting than they're given credit for.
The Holiday Calendar (2018)
Description: This is Us meets Love & Basketball
A "best friends fall in love" story with a magical antique advent calendar thrown in, The Holiday Calendar is a film with no concept of what a cheap studio apartment looks like, or how photography works. In spite of this, the movie is charming thanks largely to the beautiful and charismatic cast. The movie's villain, a self-serving doctor who likes to bring dates to homeless shelters to flex his charitable credibility, adds some much-needed tension to the movie.
To Grandmother's House We Go (1992)
Description: Home Alone meets Little Miss Sunshine
If you grew up between 1985 and 2000, chances are you had a lot of exposure to the Olsen Twins Business Empire. Amidst all their straight-to-TV movies, none have the enduring charm of To Grandmother's House We Go, a cross-country road film where the twins are at their cutest (and also most racist). The movie infamously features a scene where the two adorable twins tip a black jazz musician with pieces of fried chicken.
Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Description: The Thing meets The Santa Clause
2018 is the year of the Daddy: first Thanos, then John Huston and now Santa Claus. In the newest Netflix special, Kurt Russell dons an all-time great beard and plays a sassy and sexy Santa who is joined by two youths to save the holidays. The movie is all over the place and features Minion-level CGI elf abominations, but Russell has enough charm to sustain dozens of mid-tier TV movies.
The Princess Switch (2018)
Description: The Parent Trap meets The Simpsons episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" (a.k.a. the one where Marge buys a Chanel suit)
A candy-coloured dream written and directed by computers, The Princess Switch is a classic Prince and the Pauper story starring Vanessa Hudgens in a double role as a Duchess and a Chicago baker. This absolutely soulless film is so unabashedly constructed by algorithms that it is as gratingly delightful as it is undeniably pleasing. Pure camp Christmas bliss brought to you by our future A.I. overlords.
The Greatest Store in the World (1999)
Description: Dawn of the Dead meets Reindeer Games
We all have a weird Christmas TV movie classic we watched as a child, and for my family, it was The Greatest Store in the World. A BBC production about a homeless single mom and her three kids who hide out in a department store overnight, the film is equal parts social drama and heist film. In a very 1999 move, the film features a very important cameo appearance by the pop group S Club 7.
I'll Be Home for Christmas (2016)
Description: American Beauty meets The Way We Were
James Brolin stars and directs this vehicle for two Barbra Streisand songs. He plays a hardened ex-cop who reunites with his daughter, Mena Suvari, a struggling single mom. Together, through the magic of Christmas, both learn to love again. Surprisingly gritty, Brolin throws out the soft-filters and flood lighting emblematic of most Christmas movies to create a more down to earth portrait of relatable hardship.
A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013)
Description: The Imposter meets Hugo
Alicia Witt (who else?) finds a magic clock, eats some grey tofu, gets a concussion and finds herself in a classic case of mistaken identity. Channelling the electric energy of Gilmore Girls dialogue, Witt singlehandedly elevates this film to a minor holiday classic. Relying heavily on the power of holiday miracles and the intense unlikeability of colon-cleansing green drinks, A Very Merry Mix-Up is just weird enough to be actually good.
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
Description: 9 to 5 meets Hocus Pocus
Directed by The Fonz, A Smoky Moutain Christmas stars Dolly Parton as an overworked country music artist who escapes to the Smoky Mountains, is pursued by an evil witch and shacks up with a ramshackle group of orphans. From the pink-toned world of Parton's Hollywood mansion to the earthier world of the backwoods, A Smoky Mountain Christmas has it all: music, pie, magic and the ever-important holiday message: Don't trust the cops.


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National living and national minimum wage
From April 2017 the national living and national minimum wage became aligned.
The new rates are as follows:
Employees aged 25+ £7.50
Employees aged 21 – 24 £7.05
Employees aged 18 – 20 £5.60
Employees aged 16 – 17 £4.05
Apprenticeship rate £3.50
The apprenticeship rate applies to those aged under 19 or 19+ in their first year of apprenticeship.
Accommodation offset rate is £6.40/day or £44.80 per week.
Exclusions to the national minimum wage
The majority of workers age 16 and over qualify to receive the national minimum wage. Exclusions include au pairs, family members in the family business, voluntary workers and apprentices over 19 and in the first 12 months of employment or under the age of 19.
Calculating the minimum wage
Calculating whether an employee has been paid the national minimum wage can be very complicated. In essence, the employer should divide the amount of gross pay by the number of hours worked, but there are different rules relating to different types of work.
Employers must keep records to show they have paid their workers the national minimum wage for three years after the pay reference period that the records cover.
Penalties for non-compliance
Employers who fail to pay the minimum wage can face prosecution, risking a criminal record and a maximum fine of £20,000 per worker.
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Karen speaks with Kathy Shroeder, lead instructor for the American Red Cross. Kathy gives a lot of excellent advice on how to help your dog if he's choking or has swallowed a toxic substance like antifreeze. This is a hugely important show for pet parents to listen to!
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Breeders and Breeding Dogs
Renee interviews well-known breeder, Sharon Sakson. Sharon breeds Brussels Griffons and Whippets and she is a show judge, as well as an author of the book, "Paws and Effects: The Healing Power of Dogs." The discussion centers around how responsible breeders pair up only the best of the best to breed puppies. Renee also questions Sharon on a problem called "first-heat aggression." If you're looking to get a puppy, this show is an important one for you to listen to!
Keeping dogs cool during the summer
Karen Fazio offers many ideas on how to keep your dogs feeling cool and comfy during the hot weather months using the latest products available.
Purr 'n' Pooch Foundation for Animals
Betsy Palazzo, president of Purr 'n' Pooch Foundation talks about a gala being held on August 9th. This gala is to honor a police dog named Jordan who took a bullet for her partner.
Viand brand of dog food
Karen Interviews Scott Pollak about his own line of dog food, Viand, which helps prevent food allergies with dogs.


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Aug 01, 2012 6:57 AM GMT
All I can say (because I am tired and need to sleep), he is a wonderful, wonderful human being! We both have an extremely common love for Astronomy too... Another guy from this board came by for about an hour or so and I can't remember his handle name! He had to work early so he couldn't stay too long but he was very friendly. Well, write more about it later, I really need some sleep.


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IG4 Shutters
There's no doubt that shutters have become the latest style feature in IG4. They can be used in any room, but most popular in bedrooms, living rooms and offices. To see the range, click one of the images below.
If you need shutters in IG4 click on one of the images above. There are a host of good reasons to buy window shutters. Covering your windows with wooden shutters helps keep your room warmer in winter, and shutters definitely look tidier than curtains - as well as enhancing the value of your property.
Most modern British shutters have louvres that can be adjusted by a tilt bar. California, traditional and plantation shutters are all names to describe this kind of bar-controlled shutter. Whatever you want to call them, our suppliers can deliver to you in IG4.
Shutters can of course be used on the inside or the outside of windows.Outside shutters tend to be fixed, not louvred, which means that they are stronger when dealing with intense weather. Inside shutters are generally more flexible and more about controlling light and privacy. It doesn't matter what time of year, you want the right temperature in your home, and shutters are a very efficient way of controlling this. There are lots of great reasons why you should take the plunge. IG4 has a number of great looking houses, make yours one of them!


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5 Things We Miss About Being a Kid
Throwback to simpler times
(SPOT.ph) Growing up sucks! You've got all these responsibilities like bills, a job, and loans; you work all day and don't have enough time to play; and relationships are the most complicated they've ever been! Ah, what it would be like to be a carefree kid once again. Here are some of the things we miss most about being a kid.
Natural suspension of disbelief
Or, put simply, if you believed that Santa filled your stocking every December, then he was—there was no other way to understand it. Kids have the natural ability to put power behind belief, which allows them to imagine and dream. Those are two things we sour adults seem to overlook because of too much adulting.
Nap time
Who doesn't miss nap time? Implement mandatory naps within the work day and productivity could improve. We can all follow the lead of several Japanese companies who encourage inemuri—or, "sleeping while present." The idea is that little naps throughout the day will make people work better. Can we get an amen on that?
Being wide-eyed about everything
When you're a kid, everything is new and magical. Why is the sky blue? Why is grass green? Later on, science will tell you that on a clear day, the sky scatters blue light from the sun, while chlorophyll gives grass its green pigment. That information is pretty much useless trivia now that you're old, but as a kid, you would have felt like a genius to have figured that out.
Clear skin
We're not talking about your pizza-faced pre-pubescent phase. We're talking about the period in your life when you could play in the dirt all day, get sweaty, and still wake up the next day with smooth baby cheeks. Try doing that now and you'll probably need to get a professional facial to clear your enlarged pores.
Living without fear of consequence (sort of)
Back in the day, you could have failed a quiz at school, forgotten to do your chores, or even gotten into a fight. While it's not cool to do any of that, the most you would've gotten would be a stiff reprimand from your folks or a teacher. Try bombing a corporate presentation, or getting into a fight with your boss, and things wouldn't be resolved as simply.
It's pretty common for us old folks to look back at our childhood and recall simpler times. But because growing up is still a trip and an adventure in its own right, it's ok to not go back to being a kid again (besides, who wants to be a helpless, snot-nosed child all their lives, right?)
But for moments when we want a little throwback, there are a few things we can do. Listen to music from back in the day, look at old photos, or even take a bite out of food that's been there since we were tiny tots. Take for example Purefoods TJ Hotdogs: they're still as tender and juicy as they were when we enjoyed them as children, and they speak to the kid that lives inside all of us (especially when they're served on a barbecue stick!).
Check out the video below and relive (along with the featured kids) your own fond memories with a Purefoods TJ Hotdog:


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John Kerry smirking and in his best George Bush Jr. voice: John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack. And then Syria says yes! This is getting interesting, and maybe just a bit hopeful: Syria positive about giving up chemical weapons. Wow, fantastic, what an "elegant solution," in the words of Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus. Here's more detail, and then afterwards I have to discuss the potential peace party poopers (I've edited the terrible grammar in the following, and removed the italics):
Syria welcomes Russia's offer to put its chemical weapons under international control
Damascus welcomes Russia's call to hand over control of its chemical weapons to the international community, the Syrian Foreign Minister has said, responding to Sergey Lavrov's statement after the two met in the Russian capital.
"The Syrian Arab Republic welcomes Russia's initiative, because the Syrian government cares about the lives of our people and the security of our country," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said …
"We are calling on the Syrian authorities not only to agree on putting chemical weapons stores under international control, but also for their further destruction, and then joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had said earlier.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for measures to provide for the safe storage and destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal.
"I am sure that the international community will take quick measures to make sure that these chemical weapons reserves are stored in a safe place and are destroyed," Ban said.
The rebels seem none to happy about this possible outbreak of peace (same source as above):
In response to the news, Syria's top rebel commander has accused President Bashar Assad's regime and Moscow of deceit. "We call for strikes and we warn the international community that this [Assad] regime tells lies, and the liar [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is its teacher. Putin is the biggest liar," Free Syrian Army chief Selim Idriss told Al Jazeera.
And note, with concern, that Kerry's offer was apparently "rhetorical," since he can mind read Syrian President Assad:
The US state department stressed that Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the one-week deadline and unlikelihood of Assad turning over Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. In a statement, the department added: "His point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That's why the world faces this moment." …
Kerry said Assad might avoid an attack if he handed every bit of his chemical weapons stock, but added that the Syrian president was not going to do that.
Oh, okay, so it wasn't a real offer, just a bluff, bull doo doo? Note also, by the way, the "every bit of" phrase, which takes me back to good old 2003. It's the traditional 'prove a negative' challenge the U.S. always presents its next victim: in Iraq it was called "prove you're not hiding even one little bit of WMD."
Still, the ground has shifted, and the War Party may not get its war … and credit is due to Kerry's spectacular gaffe, if that's what it was. (He may be the best/worst Secretary of State in many a decade, depending on your perspective.)
Nonetheless, President Obama has to soldier on, trying to push skepticism and staying the cruise missiles course, but I also sense he doesn't have his heart into pushing through all this surprisingly rough weather for warmongering:
The White House said it would take a "hard look" at the proposal from the Russian government to get Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to turn over his chemical-weapons stockpiles, but said it didn't have confidence that Mr. Assad would do so.
"We would welcome a decision and action for Syria to give up its weapons," said Tony Blinken, President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser. But Mr. Blinken said he had little hope that Mr. Assad would give his chemical weapons to the international community as he refused for years to even acknowledge he held such stockpiles.
Notwithstanding reports that Russia has asked Syria to surrender an arsenal of chemical warheads to avoid a likely military strike from the United States, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that lawmakers in Washington should continue to consider President Barack Obama's request to launch an attack against the regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking during a White House press conference Monday afternoon, Carney told reporters that he hopes the members of the House of Representatives and Senate agree to authorize a strike against Assad in retaliation of the August 21 gassing of civilians outside of Damascus. …
Carney's remarks came only hours after officials in both Russia and Syria said they were working towards relinquishing that stockpile of weapons. Despite a potential negotiation, however, Carney urged lawmakers to move quickly towards approving an attack.


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Meet authors Arjun Basu (Waiting for the Man), Ann Y.K. Choi (Kay's Lucky Coin Variety) and Kim Moritsugu (The Showrunner) at the Thunder Bay Public Library. The authors will read selections from their works and answer audience questions at this intimate special event. Book signing to follow. Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of the Lakehead University Bookstore.
Tickets may be purchased online through the link below, by phone at 1-807-577-6427 or in person at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Brodie Library and Waverley Library.
This event is part of the Lit On Tour programme.
Arjun Basu
Arjun Basu is a writer and editor. In 2008, he published Squishy, a collection of short stories that was shortlisted for the ReLit Prize. In 2014 he published Waiting for the Man, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He also used to write 140-character short stories on Twitter, for which he won a Shorty Award. Arjun lives in Montreal, Quebec, where he is working on his book.
Ann Y.K. Choi
Originally from South Korea, Ann Y.K. Choi immigrated to Canada in 1975. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and the Creative Writing Certificate Program at the University of Toronto. Most recently, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at National University in San Diego, California. Her debut novel, Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. The story, set in the 1980s, was inspired by her experiences working in her family-run variety store. A teacher with the York Region District School Board, Ann lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. Photo Credit: John Burridge
Kim Moritsugu
Kim Moritsugu holds a BA and MBA from the University of Toronto, and worked several years in a corporate setting before becoming a novelist. Moritsugu's novels include Looks Perfect, a romantic comedy shortlisted for the Toronto Book award; The Glenwood Treasure, a literary mystery shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award; The Restoration of Emily, a coming of middle age story (serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers); The Oakdale Dinner Club, a comedy of suburban manners about food and sex; and her seventh novel, The Showrunner, a work of darkly humourous suspense. She has built an international online following for her TV recaps and food writing at her blog The Hungry Novelist. She lives in Toronto.


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Baby Room With Nursery Bookshelf
Nursery bookshelf for baby room plays more than just storage design but to complete functionality with beautiful colors and textures created. Baby nursery bookcase can also boost decorating ideas. DIY can be a fun thing to do in arranging favorite books for you to read for your baby. Different designs are available to choose from depending on personal taste and requirements in how to decorate the room. Mostly, white painted wooden shelving and cabinet hutch are popular. Why not try some other ideas?
You can build the construction by yourself alone or purchase already made and finished from IKEA. It can be in form of tree bookshelf or wall shelving. Tree bookshelf is best to pour into baby room with nursery tree decorating ideas. For a unique and attractive wall decor, invisible or floating shelving will make a fine design.
Cube bookcases can be a good choice for multi-functionality. Some empty cubes can be used as storage space for hampers or decorative baby items. If you have small baby room, then this one is a fine choice. Even better, you can choose to have corner baby nursery shelving. Creating contrasting colors like espresso shelves while the wall is in white will be cool. Ideas are limitless depending on how you want to decorate your baby room look like.
In order to get inspired about ideas to decorate baby room with books and shelving, pictures on gallery are meant to describe more. Baby room with nursery bookshelf is one proof that you love your baby so much.


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Leaked documents show how Walmart combats labor protests
"If you see something, say something" is no longer just a motto for the Department of Homeland Security. It's also how Walmart plans to snuff out labor organizing drives before they happen, according to internal company documents leaked on Tuesday.
In a module developed for training purposes [PDF], Walmart urges salaried managers to "[r]eport union activity to the Labor Relations Hotline immediately" and "[s]upport Walmart's position on how we treat people." The document also provides talking points that managers can use to diffuse potential labor actions, including: "In my opinion, unions just want to hurt Walmart and make it harder to run our business."
In a section dedicationg to "Early Warning Signs," managers are advised to watch out for employees who are "[s]peaking negatively about wages and benefits" or "ceasing conversations when leadership approaches."
Occupy Wall Street posted the document online on Tuesday, and a Walmart spokesperson confirmed their authenticity to msnbc.
"We think communications like these that we're talking about are important to make sure that our associates are receiving accurate and timely information," said Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg.
Occupy Wall Street did not reveal the source of the leak, but noted that last week the group of hackers known as Anonymous had promised they would soon target Walmart. Whoever leaked the training module also provided Occupy with another Walmart document [PDF] warning employees that the labor group OUR Walmart is not "really here to help you."
OUR Walmart is the organization behind the Walmart Black Friday strikes, as well as various other actions targeting the company. The group, which is being supported by theUnited Food and Commercial Workers, is demanding that Walmart pay all employees a base salary of at least $25,000 per year.


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This was the view beneath the New Pass Drawbridge over New Pass in Sarasota Saturday night. I kinda liked the way the sunset was illuminating the normally dark space, making it glow more than plain old concrete columns should.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Before Grissom and Huntsville High School battle it out at Milton Frank Stadium Friday night, both teams faced off in a different kind of challenge.
The teams gathered at Parkway Place Mall Tuesday for the first 'Young Life Eat the Menu' challenge at Chick-fil-A. Players lined up at tables facing each other and ate different combos until one team finished.
"The second I said Chick-fil-A and eating contest they were all in hooping and hollering," said Jeff Cole, Young Life Director of Madison County.
"Hopefully, it'll be an annual event, and maybe we'll see if it's correlated to the big win Friday night," said Beth Monroe, owner and operator of Chick-fil-A at Parkway Place Mall.
At the end of the night, Huntsville High's football team took the win.
"We were thrilled to be apart of it, but it's definitely just another fun Young life event where they go out in the community and just create joy for people," said Monroe.
Rivalry week at Chick-fil-A continues until Friday in Madison between James Clemens and Bob Jones. When you order a milkshake from the Chik-fil-A in Madison, make sure to mention your favorite of the two schools. The school with the most votes will receive a donation from Chick-fil-A.
The Jets and Patriots are set for kickoff at 7 p.m. Friday at the Madison City Stadium.


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Global Consumer NAS Market 2016-2020
- 30 June, 2016
- Global
- 62 pages
- Technavio
About the Consumer Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Market
NAS is a low-maintenance, remotely manageable, server-based storage system that enables file sharing, multimedia streaming, and storing and sharing photos, music, and videos among users. It can also stream video content through smart TVs at home. It facilitates access to files through mobile devices that are connected to NAS appliances and offers high-performance storage compared to DAS (direct-attached storage) and external hard drives.
Technavio's analysts forecast the global consumer NAS market to grow at a CAGR of 11.01% during the period 2016-2020.
Covered in this report
The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global consumer NAS market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, Technavio considers the revenue generated from the following:
• Sales of NAS devices for individual consumers
• Retail sales revenue of individual consumer NAS storage devices
The market is divided into the following segments based on geography:
• Americas
Technavio's report, Global Consumer Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Market 2016-2020, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
Key vendors
• Apple
• Buffalo Technology
• Netgear
• Seagate
• Synology
• Western Digital
Other prominent vendors
• Asustor
• Drobo
• Iomega
• Thecus
• Transporter
• Zyxel
Market driver
• Increase in number of connected home devices
• For a full, detailed list, view our report
Market challenge
• Connectivity
• For a full, detailed list, view our report
Market trend
• Reduction in prices of individual consumer NAS devices
• For a full, detailed list, view our report
Key questions answered in this report
• What will the market size be in 2020 and what will the growth rate be?
• What are the key market trends?
• What is driving this market?
• What are the challenges to market growth?
• Who are the key vendors in this market space?
• What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the key vendors?
You can request one free hour of our analyst's time when you purchase this market report. Details are provided within the report.
PART 01: Executive summary
• Highlights
PART 02: Scope of the report
• Market overview
• Top-vendor offerings
PART 03: Market research methodology
• Research methodology
• Economic indicators
PART 04: Introduction
• Key market highlights
PART 05: Market landscape
• Market overview
• Market size and forecast
• Five forces analysis
PART 06: Geographical segmentation
• Americas
PART 07: Market drivers
PART 08: Impact of drivers
PART 09: Market challenges
PART 10: Impact of drivers and challenges
PART 11: Market trends
PART 12: Vendor landscape
• Competitive scenario
• Apple
• Buffalo Technology
• Netgear
• Seagate
• Synology
• Western Digital
• Other prominent vendors
PART 13: Appendix
• List of abbreviations
PART 14: Explore Technavio
List of Exhibits
Exhibit 01: Product offerings
Exhibit 02: Growth of digital media
Exhibit 03: Digital data generated by platforms
Exhibit 04: Global IoT market: Market share by segment
Exhibit 05: Storage behavior of individual consumers in US and UK
Exhibit 06: Retail ASP of portable external drives versus NAS systems
Exhibit 07: Retail ASP of HDDs
Exhibit 08: Global consumer NAS market 2015-2020 ($ millions)
Exhibit 09: ASP by consumer NAS systems ($)
Exhibit 10: Global consumer NAS market by unit shipment (in millions)
Exhibit 11: ASP by NAS HDDs ($)
Exhibit 12: Consumer NAS market by capacity shipment (Exabyte)
Exhibit 13: Five forces analysis
Exhibit 14: Geographical segmentation 2015
Exhibit 15: Geographical segmentation 2015
Exhibit 16: Consumer NAS market in Americas 2015-2020 ($ millions)
Exhibit 17: Consumer NAS Market in EMEA 2015-2020 ($ millions)
Exhibit 18: Consumer NAS Market in APAC 2014-2019 ($ millions)
Exhibit 19: Impact of drivers
Exhibit 20: Impact of drivers and challenges
Exhibit 21: Market share analysis by vendors 2015
Exhibit 22: Apple: Business segmentation by revenue 2015
Exhibit 23: Apple: Other products segmentation by revenue 2014 and 2015 ($ billions)
Exhibit 24: Apple: Revenue by geography 2015
Exhibit 25: Netgear: Revenue 2015 versus 2014 ($ billions)
Exhibit 26: Netgear: Business segmentation by revenue 2015 and 2014 ($ millions)
Exhibit 27: Netgear: Geographical segmentation by revenue 2015
Exhibit 28: Seagate: Revenue 2014 versus 2015
Exhibit 29: Seagate: Geographical segmentation by revenue 2015
Exhibit 30: Western Digital: Revenue generated by channels in 2015
Exhibit 31: Western Digital: Geographical segmentation by revenue 2015


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Tree Growth
Title 36, M.R.S.A. Sections 571-584A PL 1995, c. 236 amd.
As a matter of public policy, the State of Maine has set up a Tree Growth category of property which values land according to rates established by the State rather than market value. A property owner who wishes to maintain land for the planting, culture, and continuous harvesting of trees may apply for a Tree Growth classification. The owner should be intent on actual long-term tree cultivation, as any change in use triggers a hefty penalty tax. To apply, a landowner should
- Have at least 10 acres in forest production
- Have a forest management and harvest plan
- Fill out an application to be filed with the Assessor's Office
- File by April 1 in the year for which the classification is requested
- For more information and an application, visit the Assessor's Office or view the State's Property Tax Bulletin # 19 on Tree Growth: Property Tax Bulletin 19
- The Maine Forest Service also puts out a helpful bulletin.


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Light on Law-Independent Contractors and Employees
The IRS and state taxing agencies are auditing yoga studios and wellness businesses over the use of independent contractors. New York and California are targeting specifically the yoga community. If you are audited and you have misclassified your teachers as independent contractors, you may be liable for back taxes, fees and penalties.
As a business owner the burden is on you to prove that your teachers and other workers are independent contractors.
Do you know the difference between an independent contractor and an employee and have you properly classified your teachers and other workers?
This book has chapters on the federal and state laws on independent contractors, how to properly classify your teachers and workers, how to protect yourself from liability for misclassification, federal and state employment laws and tax issues.
Many studios are converting their independent contractors into employees because they no longer wish to face the risk of an audit. This book contains a new chapter on the conversion process, a checklist and extensive resources.
There are over 180 federal laws that regulate employees and every state has its own system of laws. Do you know the laws that govern the interviewing, hiring, managing and termination process? Are you using best practices for hiring and firing employees? Are you using professional employment agreements? All of these questions are answered in the book.
This book is a full color, 200 page PDF book. It includes 10 legal agreements (including model agreements for independent contractors and employees) and many other resources.
The list price of the book is $29.95.
Here is the table of contents from Light on Law for Independent Contractors and Employees:
1. On The Horns of the Dilemma
- The Standard Business Model
- The Use of Independent Contractors May Be Abusive
- IRS and State Responses to Independent Contractor Abuse
- The Employment Model-The Other Horn of the Dilemma
- Make an Informed Decision on Your Business Model
2. The Federal Law of Independent Contractors
- Introduction
- The Federal Response to the Misclassification of Independent Contractors
- The Common Law Test for Independent Contractors: Its All About Control
- The IRS 20 Factor Test for Classification of Workers
- The IRS Three Limbed Test
- What Is a Studio's Liability Under Federal Law for Misclassification?
- IRS Relief From Tax Liability For Misclassification-Section 530
- The IRS Voluntary Classification Settlement Program
3. The State Law of Independent Contractors
- Introduction
- California Independent Contractor Laws
- California Worksheet On Employment Status
- New York Independent Contractor Laws
- New York Department of Labor Guidelines for Yoga Studios
- Illinois Independent Contractor Laws
- Texas Independent Contractor Laws
4. The Top 10 Misconceptions About Independent Contractors
5. How To Protect Yourself From Liability For Misclassifying Your Workers
- Introduction
- How To Build Your Case for Independent Contractor Classification
- Make Your Teachers Employees
- Landlord and Tenant Model
- What If I Get Audited?
- What Should Teachers Do About the Independent Contractor Problem?
- Worker's Compensation Insurance Compliance
- State and Local Tax and Regulatory Issues
6. Federal Employment Laws
- Introduction
- The Fair Labor Standards Act
- The Occupational Safety and Health Act
- The Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- The Family and Medical Leave Act
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Laws
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Age Discrimination
- Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008
- The Americans With Disabilities Act
- The Equal Pay Act
- The Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
- The Pregnancy Discrimination Act
- The Immigration and Control Act
- Relationships With Interns and Volunteers
- Work for Trade
7. State Employment Laws
- Introduction
- California Employment Laws
- New York Employment Laws
- Illinois Employment Laws
- Texas Employment Laws
8. The Lifespan of the Employment Relationship
- Introduction
- Best Practices For Hiring Employees
- Best Practices For Firing Employees
- Social Media Posts and Employees
9. Employment Agreements
- Introduction
- Key Provisions In Employment Agreements
10. Tax Savings For Independent Contractors
- Introduction
- Tax Savings for Independent Contractors
- Bartering
- Work For Trade
11. How To Work With Lawyers Without Losing Your Wallet and Your Mind
- When Should I Hire A Lawyer
- How Do I Find A Lawyer
- Use Paralegals
- How To Choose A Lawyer
- Twelve Strategies To Lower Your Legal Fees
- Appendix A-IRS 20 Factor Test for Independent Contractors
- Appendix B-IRS Three Limb Test and Worksheet for Classifying Workers
- Appendix C-Independent Contractor Worksheet
- Appendix D-New York Department of Labor Yoga Guidelines
Exhibits-The Forms Library
(You can copy the legal agreements from the book, paste them into Word and revise them for your specific situation)
- A-1 Model Independent Contractor Agreement
- A-2 Employment Agreement-Short Form
- A-3 Employment Agreement-Long Form
- A-4 Lease Agreement
- A-5 Mutual Release Agreement
- A-6 Form of Amendment to Agreement
- A-7 Non-Disclosure Agreement
- A-8 Bartering Agreement
- A-9 Intern Agreement
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Winners and Losers
by James Long and Marcus Youssef
Adapted by Valerie Planche, Makambe K. Simamba and Jenna Rodgers
Presented in association with Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre and Arts Commons Presents
November 15-25, 2018
Tuesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Saturday & Sunday 2pm matinee
Pay-what-you-can previews on November 13 & 14 at 7:30pm
Engineered Air Theatre, Arts Commons, 205 8 Ave SE
Run time: approximately 75 minutes
Buy tickets online, at 403-294-9494 or at the door
$25 general, $20 students/seniors/artists
November 13-14 pay-what-you-can tickets available at the door
We're proud to partner with Inside Out Theatre's Good Host Program to make Winners and Losers more accessible! There will be relaxed performances on November 18 (2:00 pm) and November 24 (2:00 pm), and an audio described performance on November 22 (7:30 pm)
Winners and Losers is one part game, one part conversation that leans into our universally flawed human logic, and the desire to win at all costs. Valerie Planche and Makambe K. Simamba, two powerhouse performers at different stages of life and careers, debate whether people, places or things – Robin Williams, camping, Meghan Markle, private schools – are winners or losers. This exploration of female friendships leads us down a spiralling path of staunch sisterhood and deep-seated difference. As the discussion gets personal, how far is too far when confronting deep-seated beliefs?
Based on the Governor General Award-nominated text by Marcus Youssef and James Long, this homegrown adaptation – re-written and re-cast with an all-female team – premiered to rave reviews at Toronto's SummerWorks Performance Festival!
"The elemental nature of this show (there is no set, just a simple folding table and two chairs) requires big, engaging performances. Planche and Simamba deliver, making this remount a clear winner." – Now Magazine
"Retained both the humor and all the edge of the original." – Mooney on Theatre
"Lively and revealing work" – Mooney on Theatre
"The affection between Planche and Simamba is palpable, and the play is gripping when it's emotionally bare" – Globe and Mail
Accessibility and Trip Planning
Please do not hesitate to call the Arts Commons box office with any questions or concerns regarding ticketing or accessibility: 403-294-9494.
To make planning your trip a bit easier, the most convenient parking can be found in the Arts Commons Parkade or across the street in the City Hall Parkade (attached by a +15 with an elevator). Arts Commons is also easily accessible by Calgary Transit (the C-Train is a block away) and the Centre City Cycle Track Network (there are bike racks out front of each entrance on 8th Ave SE).


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The National AOTS initiated the Camp Improvement Project in 2012 to support Canadian not-for-profit camps that offer youth camping programs as part of their mission. The project goal is to provide financial grants targeted to improving campfacilities and/or equipment. Support from The National AOTS, we hope, will assist camps in achieving their mission as it relates to youth camping.
The National AOTS is an association of Men's Clubs in the United Church of Canada. The AOTS achieves its outreach through the projects and activities of both local clubs and the AOTS organization. One of the principle aims of the AOTS is:
To give encouragement and practical assistance to work among the youth of the church and community.
Please check back in the new year to see how we are going to make this National Project a reality.


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There's a new movie with Nicolas Cage.
I think Nicolas Cage might have a particular set of skills. For example: having only two facial expressions which sets this film up to be hilariously bad. But the craziest thing about this trailer must be the ridiculous 90s-style narrator telling us the story of how Liam Neeson's daugther gets taken (or that is what you could easily assume, if you weren't watching the incredibly bad performance Cage displays – even in this cut-together piece of cinematic non-history).
This might turn out to be worse than Wicker Man.


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Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Just for You
Good morning everyone. Very icy today and more snow expected :0(
Well I have got through my first week of not smoking and I'm really happy I got this far. Now to get through the second week.
This card was made with the same CD Rom as yesterday and uses Di's Digi Designs image (coloured with pro markers) and Kay Millers Spring papers. Really love these papers and made up I can print them over and over again.
I have used dark pink bazil card for matting and layering, WOC flowers and the sentiment was a freebie stamp from a magazine. The pearls are just from my stash.
Thank you so much for looking, I appreciate it loads and have a great day :0) Michelle
Glitter N Sparkle - What girls are made of
Eclectic Epalu - Girly
Di's Digi Designs - Valentine or Love
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Fabulous pink and green color combo, Michelle! Wonderful papers and flowers. Thanks so much for playing along at Eclectic Ellapu this week in our "Girly" challenge. Good luck in the challenge.ReplyDelete
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Such a cute card. Sue xReplyDelete
Great card, thanks so much for playing at Di's Digi Designs this time and using one of Di's images!!ReplyDelete
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Here's The Problem: Just when you think that Kanye & Kim couldn't be any more ridiculous – they prove you wrong. It's as if they sat around thinking "What can we do to just blow everyone's minds?". Well, kudos to you both! This is the dumbest name in the history of, perhaps, the world. But the bigger issue here are the questions that are now raised:
Actual Problem:
Will the baby be allowed to fly on South West?
Will she eventually have a sister named Wild Wild?
Does Blanket Jackson have to hand over the trophy for Most Ridic Moniker?


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Can You Get A Better Sleep By Sleeping Less?
Do you want to fall asleep fast, longer and better?
If you said yes to any of the three above then you have come to the right place.
We are going to show you how to get better sleeps by sleeping less.
The process is called Sleep Restriction Therapy and it has been used to treat some of the most server cases of insomnia.
How Does It Work?
SRT works by depriving a persons time in bed in order to improve their sleep efficiency.
There have been numerous studies proving that this kind of therapy works and can be very beneficial.
How Do You Know How Much Time To Restrict?
First you need to track how much you average total sleep time is over the next 1-2 weeks.
You can do this by utilizing a sleep log.
A sleep log is very effective at keep tract of any disruptions during your sleep and exact times you wake up and fall asleep.
See an example of a sleep log below:
(Remember you can construct your sleep log how ever you like, such as how much cups of coffee you drank through the day as well)
Once you have recorded 1-2 weeks of information in your sleep log you are able to calculate how much restriction you need.
For example using the equation below:
Time In Bed = Average Total Sleep Time
You will now be able to find out how long you are aloud to sleep through the night.
If you got an Average Total Sleep Time of 6 hours and you have to wake up at 7 am every day than you are not aloud to sleep until 1 am.
This might sound scary but this must be done in order for SRT to work properly.
Another example is if you found out your Average Total Sleep Time to be less than 4.5 hours than your time in bed can be rounded to 5 hours.
You are not aloud to take naps throughout the day either while completing SRT.
This should be done for the next 1-2 weeks while still recording your information into your sleep log.
Once you have obtained your new information in your log.
You can determine whether or not you will have to add or subtract more hours off sleep at night.
Find Your Sleep Efficiency
In order to find out your sleep efficiency you have to take your NEW Average Total Sleep Time and divide it by your Time In Bed.
See the equation below:
(New) Average Total Sleep Time / Time In Bed = Sleep Efficiency
If your sleep efficiency is calculated to be above 90% than you can add 15 minutes to your sleep time.
Below 80% than you have to take away 15 minutes of your sleep time.
But if you found it to be between 80-90% than you will keep your sleep time at night the same.
A quick example of this process can be seen below with someone named Ben's sleep patterns:
Ben found that his new average sleep time was 5.5 hours and his time in bed was 6 hours.
When Ben converted his hours into minutes and plugged his information into the sleep efficiency equation he got:
330/360 = 92%
This means that Ben can go to sleep 15 minutes earlier at night.
After Finding Your Sleep Efficiency
Once you have found out whether or not to add or subtract 15 mins to your sleep at night.
You can continue this process of recalculating your sleep efficiency every couple of weeks until you find you sweet spot.
SRT is not an easy process and getting less hours of sleep at night can effect your productivity during the day.
If you manage to follow through with it and find your perfect sleep pattern it can be very beneficial.
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We already know that good marketing does not equal good aid. Toms Shoes has earned a fair amount of criticism for its "One for One" model – a pair of shoes is donated to a child in need for every pair bought by the consumer. But, after seeing the marketing benefits, more and more for-profit businesses are using a similar model to donate goods in developing countries.
Here's the basic problem of the "One for One" model: When everyone in a community can get a free pair of shoes, the local shoe vendor goes out of business. Not only does it hurt the local economy, but it is also a short-term solution that creates long-term problems.
Toms model may also encourage poverty tourism, as the company allows people to pay to travel along with distribution trips as shoe fitters. Niharika Jain writes more in-depth about the unintended consequences of charitable giving for the Harvard Crimson, and Peace Corps volunteer Zachary Mason discusses Toms Shoes from a public health perspective, questioning the cost-effectiveness of the model for reducing disease.
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Despite the unintended consequences of its "One for One" program, Tom's has a cult following. Chances are if you don't already have a pair, you know someone who does. Is Toms merely a fashion statement, or are consumers drawn to the company for its cause, creating an atypical status symbol?
It's hard to know what motivates individual purchases of Toms products, but a 2010 Cone Cause Evolution study shows that 85 percent of consumers surveyed feel more positively about companies that support a cause they care about. When price and quality are equal, most consumers choose the product supporting the cause.
If we want to be socially conscious consumers, it's important to understand the impact of Toms and similar products. We can learn from Toms' marketing success, but to alleviate poverty in the long-term we need to promote sustainable programs the support local economic development.
Warby Parker, another for-profit enterprise that donates its product in developing countries, is getting a lot of attention for the innovative way that it sells eyewear to the consumer and sends glasses around the world to people who can't afford them – earning them the B Corp status. Like Toms, they are popular among the fashion conscious and have a hugely successful marketing campaign.
Warby Parker partners with a nonprofit called Vision Spring in order to donate their glasses abroad. Vision Spring is in tune with how local economies function and what kind of products are culturally appropriate – something that Warby Parker itself may not have the resources to know. Vision Spring receives funding and glasses from Warby Parker to train low-income local entrepreneurs to start their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
Warby Parker uses the same "buy one, give one" strategy as Toms, which is successful at attracting consumers, but is sensitive to the impact donations have on local economies. Warby Parker and Vision Spring's mission is to help entrepreneurs sustain a business and to create jobs – not create a dependency on unpredictable donations, which unintentionally creates economic stagnation.
As socially conscious consumers, we should reserve some skepticism for businesses that claim to do good. Transparency and randomized studies are need in order to assess their impact. A recent randomized control trial by the University of Michigan found that people who bought Vision Spring glasses earned 20 percent more, but more research is needed. It is also promising that Vision Spring is continually learning and evolving its strategy to increase its impact, as recognized by Duke's Fuqua School of Business Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship.
This partnership between a for-profit business and a nonprofit looks promising and solves some of the problems with Toms' "One for One" model.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime," is what we're told. It's an excellent example of the ability of corporations and nonprofits to do what they do well and team up to do good. Hopefully, organizations that inform consumers – like B Corp – will make this kind of partnership more attractive.
Have you bought or would you buy Warby Parker glasses and Toms Shoes? What drew you to the brand?
• Monica Gerber is a 2011 graduate of Reed College. Read her other contributions to Global Envision.
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In a prior edition of EMPlawyers Update, we informed our readers of the tragic events of the R. v. Metron Construction case. On December 24, 2009 a swing stage descended from the fourteenth floor of Metron Construction's high-rise con-dominium construction site, fatally injuring three workers and a site supervisor. Post-mortem examinations identified the cause of death as multiple injuries consistent with a fall from a great height, as well as the presence of marijuana in three of the four deceased. It was identified that the incident was caused by the defective design of the swing stage, the swing stage's inability to support the weight of six men and their equipment, and the lack of personal harness lifelines on all but one of the workers.
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The Crown, viewing the sentence as being too lenient, requested leave to appeal. It sought a fine of one million dollars, presenting the position that, regardless of mitigating factors such as a "guilty" plea, the accident was preventable.
The Defence contended that the guilty plea was a significant mitigating factor. Also, the accident resulted from a momentary lapse in judgement; there were safety precautions in place generally throughout the construction site, including a usual practice of only two workers being on a swing stage at one time. It was argued that this was not a systematic course of non-compliance with the Act and the Code.
The Court of Appeal discussed the distinction between regulatory offences of the Act and criminal offences of the Code. The Act protects the public from adverse effects of otherwise lawful activity, while Code offences require an element of fault and blameworthiness. Of the various Code offences, criminal negligence causing death is one of the most serious and is at the high end of the continuum of moral blameworthiness. Sentences under this charge can result in life imprisonment for an individual and an unlimited fine for an organization, whereas offenses under the Act are limited by statutory maximums. The Court then concluded that the distinction between these two types of offences establishes that a proportionate sentence under one regime would not be proportionate under the other. Therefore, the reliance of the court of first instance on statutory maximums in this case was an error.
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Typically themes and images are drawn from what I call making "art inside the cracks," translating visually the unspoken, the unseen, life as defined below the surface. My work draws on the personal but I'm also looking for the common links that connect to all of us.
Titles and themes for each series are often identified through key words and bits of phrases incorporated in each print. The use of language and numbers, serves both as a graphic element and helps me label the process and group prints thematically.
Most of my work, including the commissions, are informed by personal connections and imagery based on the cultures I grew up with, the languages I heard and spoke, the ideas and politics of the various communities I chose as my own.
I left New York in the '70s to move to San Francisco, where I turned to printmaking first trying out a number of techniques but quickly settling on the monotype. Printmaking later evolved into a mixed media approach with chine collé and stencils and now with photo transfers using my own photograhy to add content and personalize the imagery.
I'm not connected to any gallery and have mainly shown in local group shows and/or "chez moi." Commissions are usually through referrals and negotiated individually.


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Mark Anderson's 2010 Tech industry predictions
Mark Anderson, strategist and visionary known for his sense and knowledge of markets around the world has released his list of 10 trends for 2010 which make an exciting read.Here are the ten:
1. 2010 will be The year of Platform Wars: netbooks, cell phones, pads, Cloud standards. Clouds will tend to support the consumer world (Picnik, Amazon), enterprises will continue to build out their own data centers, and Netbook sector growth rates continue to post very large numbers.
2. 2010 will be The year of Operating System Wars: Windows 7 flavors, Mac OS, Linux flavors, Symbian, Android, Chrome OS, Nokia Maemo 5. The winners, in order in unit sales: W7, Mac OS, Android. W7, ironically, by failure of imagination and by its PC-centric platform, actively clears space for others to take over the OS via mobile platforms.
3. All content goes mobile. Everything gets tagged, multi-channeled, and the walled gardens open up. TV and movie content, particularly, break free of old trapped business models. We are moving toward watching first-run TV and movies on phones, for a price. Which leads to no. 4.
4. MobileApps and Mobile Content drive MicroPayments, which move from niche to mainstream payment models. Payment for content will split along age lines, at around 35; above, pay; below, don't pay.
5. The Phone vs. the PC: A Split Along Two Paths (enterprise vs. consumer).Note: The phone is now the most interesting computer platform, and it is driving innovation: software, business models, distribution. Netbooks are next up as drivers.
6. There will be a Cloud Catastrophe in 2010 that limits Cloud growth by raising security issues and restricting enterprise trust. CIOs will see the cloud as the doorstep for industrial espionage.
7. A huge chasm opens in computing, between Consumer and Enterprise (government/business.), with Apple, Google and most Asian hardware companies in Consumer, and Dell, IBM, Cisco, and MS on the Enterprise side. HP will straddle both. Before 2010, talk was all about unifying consumer and enterprise. Now, talk will be about their split.
8. Microsoft loses in its Consumer play: except for gaming, it is Game Over for MS in Consumer. This will make Consumer the place to be, where the most robust and exciting change artists will work.
9. News media that survive will move to the subscription model, in whole or in part, along age lines. (See no. 4)
10. Connecting remote data to people and things in real time will lead to a series of exciting new devices and applications. Possible examples: real time comparison and recipe-driven shopping, facial recognition (in social spaces) linked to bios, self-guided tours by phone, voice-queried information about your personal environment. Many of these are technically proved out today, but they will start to emerge as an exciting and brand new trend in applications in 2010.
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G2 House by Masahiko Sato
Masahiko Sato Spotlights The G2 House Architecture Residential
Masahiko Sato, the project leader of the awarded project Award Winning G2 House Architecture Residential says, This project is located in rural area of Mii city in Fukuoka Prefecture Japan.The building was to protect privacy of the house, and create a stylistic facade.Roof direction of the front and back of the building is opposing each against to protect and optimized the daylight and ventilation to the house and help to give extra space for living and also its help to achieve the main goals of the design which are privacy and protection. At night the building will appear more appealing and dramatic with the effect of lighting design of the house. .
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