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In Florida the beginning of May signals the beginning of the summer boating season. Soon summer vacation will be upon us, and with it, the humidity that plagues us. To escape the oppressive heat, many of us will flock to the beach – and for some lucky individuals, their boats.
In the insurance world getting coverage for your boat largely depends on the size and type of boat you own. The most important point to know about boat insurance is that like homeowners insurance it is vital that you have your boat covered. Your first call when looking for boat insurance should be to the company or agency that currently writes your car and homeowners insurance. Many car and homeowners insurance companies offer boat insurance that can be packaged with your existing policy to save you money. Be sure to ask if they allow you to suspend coverage for periods when you are not going to be using the boat. That can be in an important factor when you are deciding which policy to purchase. Why pay for insurance in the winter if you're never going to take your boat out on to the water? That being said, if you choose this route it is extremely important that you do not use the boat without first calling your company or agent to reinstate coverage.
Your boat insurance policy needs to include liability in case someone is injured on your boat and in case your boat injures someone else. You will also need coverage for property damage in case your boat causes damage to docks or other boats and physical damage coverage for your boat if you hit something or someone hits you–this is very similar to your car insurance. There are many different types of coverage that can be added to provide more coverage for you and your boat while in use. Your local insurance agent will be able to guide you through these coverages and help you decide on what options are best for you and your family.

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Hello everyone!!! I was given two written assignments yesterday and I made them yesterday at night. I was wondering if you could check if they are right, I often have problems with prepositions.
(transantiago is a chilean transportation system)
Dear Valentina,
Thanks so much for your beautiful postcard.
I just finished unpacking the last boxes so this is really a great time to write you this letter. I really miss all your jokes, and I need them. Are you even having fun without me?
Yesterday it was a wonderful day, because it was my first day at work. The children were amazing and very curious about the place I came from. My colleagues were very nice and we talked for hours in the cafeteria. The commuting was a bit uncomfortable because there were so many people, but its really fast. Better than transantiago, really.
The house is beautiful, with all that low-level furniture and stuff. Of course I added a bit of my western touch to the decoration so I can feel home.
The language is harder than I thought. Not the speaking, anyway. But the writing is a pain! There are thousands of symbols to learn, but not enough time to do it.
I really miss you; nothings the same without you. I hope your husband and your children are fine too. I miss them! Send them love. Im really looking forward to your visit at the beginning of next year.
Anyway, thats about it for the moment. Look after yourself and keep in touch.
PS Send me some pictures!
Here goes the second
Dear Claudia,
How are you doing? I havent heard from you in ages. Last week Barbara and I had a wonderful, but also terrifying experience.
Barbara and I went to Funcenter, well, to have fun. We had just finished last semester and we wanted to do something different from what we did last month. We decided to go to the Haunted House. While we were in the Haunted House we started talking and making jokes to the monsters. They were trying to be scary; however, they couldnt, because they just wanted to laugh. Well, they found us so interesting (dont ask) that they offered us a job. We were really shocked by the proposition, we accepted, though. Its only a 10 hours a day job. However, its only one day a week.
Were starting tomorrow. Were really looking forward for this job. It looks really fun. Well, from tomorrow on, Im no longer Carlos, but Frankenstein.
Have a nice day!
I Really Hope you can help me, because I don't know how to fix them anymore! Thanks!
the decoration so I can feel at home
Send them love >> Please give them my love
Though we were really shocked by the proposition, we accepted. Its a 10 hours a day job but its only one day a week.
Otherwise they look fine


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Community activist Mimi Pierre-Johnson and congressional candidate Carl Achille met with a small group of supporters on March 9, along the banks of the greasy gray waters of Elmont Creek. Their purpose was to call attention to the elevated rates of certain cancers in the community, still unexplained after many years of effort by community groups, and to urge more extensive tests
Nassau County is crisscrossed with creeks and drainage canals like this one, and it is dotted with lakes and ponds as well, from Bellmore to Freeport to Massapequa to Wantagh. Some are littered with plastic bags and cups like the creek in Elmont, so it doesn't appear exceptional. And those who addressed the group were careful to stress that no causal links have ever been found between the creek and cancer in Elmont. But with some cancer rates at more than double those of the state as a whole, the group was calling on all public officials to redouble their efforts to find the cause.
Pierre-Johnson and Achille both wanted to see more extensive testing of Elmont's water and soil. "This is something we've been living with and asking for, for years, Achille said. "If the problem is too much for the town and county to handle on their own, we may need the support of federal agencies." The question is especially personal to Achille, whose mother was diagnosed in 2016, with inoperable lung cancer. "Now, though, when we most need their resources, [President] Trump wants to cut the EPA budget."
Specifically, the group said they want wider environmental testing for the volatile organic compounds known to have been present in the area in the past decades, and which do not appear in any of the water quality reports that county officials say have been sent out annually since at least 2002, the first year for which online versions of the reports appear. At the same time, both Pierre-Johnson and Achille also stressed the need for wider screening among residents — a point underscored with equal force by county health officials earlier this month. Several types of cancer, including breast and prostate cancer, have high rates of survival if detected early, those officials said, and checking for genetic markers can help identify residents at higher risk, because some cancers — breast and colorectal cancers, for example — may have genetic components.
"This whole street used to be gas stations," Pierre-Johnson said, pointing to Elmont Rd., by way of explaining the event's location. "After the 7-Elevens stopped selling gas, they took the tanks out and said they cleaned up the soil. But we never saw any test results, and we don't know if it's ever been tested since they left." The main thoroughfares in Elmont still are lined with gas stations. "They keep putting them up, one after another," Pierre-Johnson said. "I use filters on the water at my house, but the water still isn't clear. So it's hard to know what 'clean' means."
"Right now, the situation almost seems permanent," Achille said. "It's been an issue going back to the 80s." He added that it was one reason he decided to contest the seat in New York's 5th Congressional District currently held by Rep. Gregory Meeks, Democrat of Jamaica. "He doesn't know this community and hasn't been here on this issue."
Elmont is in the Water Authority of Western Nassau County and sits atop the same aquifers as Jamaica. Until 2007, Jamaica's residential water supplies came partly from 87 surface-drilled wells, according to the New York City Environmental Protection web site. Those wells have since been capped. All groundwater in New York City is treated with chlorine and fluorine, as well as a variety of other food-grade chemicals, according to the same source. These are commonly found in the water supplies of many cities and are judged safe by the EPA at the levels they are used.
Achille charged that some of the EPA's safety standards have been relaxed since the Trump administration took office in 2017. To date, nearly 60 EPA standards or roll-backs have been, or soon will be overturned, according to a January New York Times report. So far, however, only two have to do with groundwater directly. Some standards were relaxed under President George W. Bush as well, but no evidence has yet been found to suggest that the list included Benzene or Toluene or any of the heavy metals known to have leached into the acquirer from the one Superfund site in the area.
"I've been trying to get answers for so long," said Pierre-Johnson, echoing Achille. Pierre Johnson was president of the Argo Civic Association in 2010, when Achille was serving as president of the Parkhurst Civic Association. She ran for the State Assembly against Patrick Nicolosi and Edward Ra that year, in the 21st district. She lost in the Democratic primary to Nicolosi, another long-time cancer activist who has been speaking out on the subject for more than four decades. Nicolosi is currently being treated for medullary thyroid cancer. Pierre-Johnson then ran as a third-party candidate in the general election, on the Working Families slate. There, she was defeated by Edward Ra, who currently represents the 22nd district. The 21st district seat is held by Brian Curran. "After so many years of fighting and being active, getting nowhere, I finally just got worn out and had to take a break," Pierre-Johnson said. "But I'm back and ready to get involved again."
"The citizens of Elmont need to know more about these high rates of cancer here," said activist Tamar Paoli. "We've been hearing for years that nothing is wrong, the water is safe, the soil is clean. If nothing is wrong, why are we sick? What about the planes that fly over every 10 minutes? What about the other sources of air pollution? If no one knows, why aren't they trying to find out? We just want more testing, and we want people to be aware of the need personally for regular screening and check-ups. We want to get to the bottom of this and not wait for another generation of our friends and families to get sick and die."


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Milky Chance 'blossoms' at the Commodore
This weekend Milky Chance performed at the Commodore Ballroom. The band, which hails from Germany, is on a worldwide tour promoting their latest album named "Blossom". It has been three years since their last album. Unfortunately, Vancouver was one the last stops in North America but if you happen to be in Europe be sure to catch them as they continue onto European leg of their tour.
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Ukulele is a London based romantic contemporary brand designed to bring a breath of fresh air to the world of fashion.
Ukulele was launched in 2012 by self-taught designer Purple-Qie Qin. Its unique, romantic and playful collections immediately gained celebrity fans including Little Mix, Fearne Cotton, Diana Vickers, The Saturdays and Chelsea socialites such as Millie Mackintosh, Lucy Watson and Rosie Fortescue. With the vision of creating an attainable range for the style conscious, the Ukulele team has dedicated itself to creating high quality pieces at affordable prices, accessible for all fashion lovers.


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The charity leaders' network ACEVO has named this year's list of five rising stars in the sector each of whom will receive an ACEVO Fellowship for a year. Sponsored by The Leadership Trust Foundation, the ACEVO Fellowships aim to champion inspirational and emerging leaders from across the country, identifying those who deserve greater recognition for their work and achievements locally, nationally and internationally.
The ACEVO Fellowships will be awarded at ACEVO's Annual General Meeting on Thursday, December 8th. The winners are: Gail Gibbons, CEO of Sheffield Futures; Adrian Ramsay, CEO of the Centre for Alternative Technology; Anita Grover, CEO of Auditory Verbal UK; Trish McGrath, CEO of Aberystwyth Students Union and Jane Bake, the Director of Service Innovation and Integration at St Barnabas Hospice.
Each Fellowship receives a free place on a Leadership Trust development programme worth over £3,000; a personalised development plan; an ACEVO mentor; a free place on an ACEVO Masterclass; a pack of ACEVO publications and, if not already a member, a year's free membership.
Additionally, Gemma Holding, CEO of Cancer Support UK, receives a Recognition Award.
Paul Farmer, Chair of ACEVO said: "ACEVO and the Leadership Trust Foundation are delighted to announce these awards. They are only ever issued to candidates of the highest quality whose passion, professionalism and ability to inspire place them at vanguard of emerging leaders. Their beneficiaries, causes, staff and boards are all fortunate to have these individuals at the helm. Too often hard work and vision do not get the recognition they deserve. These awards attempt to address that deficit."
Henrietta Baldock, Chair of Leadership Trust Foundation said: "Our congratulations to all the fellows on this much deserved award. At the Leadership Trust we have always believed that leadership is critical to the health of an organisation and that healthier organisations contribute more to society. We also believe that leadership is something which can be learned, developed and improved by everyone so I hope that the awards will help the recipients and their organisations make an even greater contribution."
Gail Gibbons
Gail joined the sector two and a half years ago as CEO of Sheffield Futures – a large charity based in Sheffield, supporting young people to achieve their full potential in life – particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The charity supports over 20,000 local people annually.
Before working in the third sector, Gail spent over twenty years working in the public sector in both children and young people's services, and mental health. She qualified as a social worker in 1995 and since then has worked in a range of social work positions in local government, before taking up roles across strategy, policy and commissioning in both local government and health.
She is involved in a wide range of local and regional partnerships, and is passionate about improving outcomes for young people and ensuring the voice of young people is heard. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family – including two teenage children – reading, sports and travel.
Adrian Ramsay
Adrian has been Chief Executive of the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) since June 2014. He has a background in leadership in local and national politics, having served as a councillor and Leader of the Opposition on Norwich City Council and Deputy Leader of the Green Party. He has a First Class degree in Politics and Sociology and previously worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and then at CAT's Graduate School of the Environment before taking up his current role. Adrian is married with a young family and is a big supporter of Norwich City Football Club.
Anita Grover
Anita became Chief Executive of Auditory Verbal UK in 2013. Anita is profoundly deaf after losing her hearing progressively from childhood and had successful cochlear implant surgery in 2006. She brings to the role personal insight into hearing impairment and a passion for improving the life chances of deaf children.
Before joining the charity, Anita had a successful career in the public sector. As a senior civil servant, she led communications on the government's disability, employers, pensions and poverty agendas, working with a succession of cabinet ministers, business leaders and third sector organisations. She has worked at the Department for Education, Department of Social Security and her last position was at the Department for Work and Pensions as Head of Communications Group.
In 2014, Anita became the first CEO of a UK-based charity to be awarded the Macquarie David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowship and was nominated for the 2015 Rising CEO of the Year at the Third Sector Awards.
Anita is a Fellow of the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a governor of a primary school in Buckinghamshire and a former Trustee of Chiltern Citizens Advice Bureau.
Jane Bake
Jane qualified as a nurse in 1983 from the University of Hull, undertaking oncology training at the Christie Hospital Manchester. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1986 where she spent some time with the areomedical team in the first Gulf war. She undertook palliative care training at St Joseph's Hospice, working at the Cancer Centre in Cheltenham and as a clinical teacher at the Sue Ryder Palliative Care Centre in Oxfordshire where she undertook further training at Sir Michael Sobell House, in Oxford.
Jane joined St Barnabas Hospice and was appointed as Director of Patient Care. She has managed the clinical services and a number of elements of governance and education within the organisation. In 2012, she led the development of the clinical elements of the Hospice in the Hospital, bringing together commissioners, an acute trust and the hospice. The same year ospital, an innovative approach to inpatient palliative care the same yearshe was elected as a member of the Hospice UK Advisory Council representing the East Midlands Region.
Jane has moved to a newly created role in 2015, as Director of Service Innovation and Integration, within the Hospice. She is passionate about transformational leadership and empowerment and is now leading a team focussed on new ways of working, taking an integrated and systematic approach, enabling colleagues across the health and social care systems 'to be brave' to achieve better patient outcomes.
Jane is married with two grown up sons and is a carer for her parents. She has a passion for Guinea pigs and spy novels.
Trish McGrath
Trish is a passionate advocate for Students' Unions and their ability to empower individuals and groups to positively change the world around them. She first became involved in the student movement in 1997 as a Theatre student at Lancaster University where she held various elected roles including Union President.
Trish most recently joined Aberystwyth University Students Union (AberSU) as CEO after working in advice, advocacy and student voice at the University of Cumbria and University of Manchester Students' Unions as a staff member over the last 12 years.
She is a feminist, a Mum, a singer, an avid fan of heavy metal music and proud to have led her team at Manchester to achieve the highest number of students voting in a Students Union election in UK history.
Gemma Holding
Gemma Holding is a positive and optimistic leader. Her broad experience and ability to navigate complex challenges means she is especially accomplished in turnaround management. As the CEO of Cancer Support UK she is committed to delivering new and innovative support services for people living with cancer. She holds a longstanding passion for development in Africa. She is the Vice-Chairman of the Westminster Africa Business Group, and sits on the Board of a small African charity. Gemma is also a surprisingly good pool player.


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Londoner Archy Marshall (better known as King Krule) is a singer whose style usually vacillates between bookish oversize suit jackets and streamlined streetwear classics. His more casual approach to dress is on full display in his ghoulish "Dum Surfer" video—see his plain white button-down and vibrant blue workwear jacket—and he even released a capsule collection of minimalist T-shirts and hats with Babylon L.A.
While Marshall's streetwise style is usually down-to-earth, his new live performance video, shot by Molten Jets, finds the artist playing eight songs from his latest record The Ooz on a lunar landscape. It quite literally finds him taking his look to spacier places. The performance is titled "Live on the Moon," and appropriately, Marshall dons a space suit alongside his band members who wear white jumpsuits. The practical jumpsuit is a pretty standard onstage wardrobe choice, but Marshall's look makes the case for space suits as an even better showstopping alternative.


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Colossians 3:11
Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is in all.
For all our racist, judgmental tendencies, none of them are justified or come from the Lord.
I feel especially, in this time of fear and division, that God does not allow His children to even begin to categorize people.
Whatever you may want for immigration policies or marriage rights, God calls us to see Christ in all!
Think about how all that energy we use, to argue with others about how our side is right, could be used to actually love someone. Instead of glorifying immigration reform policies, go and get to know immigrants. Serve them, love on them. Instead of chastising any LGBT person, meet them, hear their story.
Jesus never went to a sinner (prostitutes, the sexually immoral, thieves) and judged them or even argued with them about how wrong they were.
No, Jesus told them about something better.
The woman at the well could easily be comparable to anyone with a different sexual orientation and life style than you. Jesus did not point out her sin in a judgmental way or tell her she's wrong or hope for a law to be implaced to punish her. Jesus told her a solution, that she could drink from a well and never become thirsty, that He was the answer.
The sexually immoral woman that people were going to stone, which was essentially their "law", Jesus stopped. Jesus would rather forgive, love, and teach the gospel to someone than enforce the world's law onto them.
Jesus is meant for everyone, but when we place people in boxes because of laws, policies, misconceptions, stereotypes, etc., we've already shown that person that we believe them to be unworthy and unequal to us. Remember Christ is in all: Jew or Gentile, Mexican or Chinese, woman or man, straight or gay. We are taught to treat each equally and tell them all the gospel truth. Don't spend your energy elsewhere.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Food Temptress 2010 Winter Virtual Book Tour
The Food Temptress 2010 Winter Virtual Book Tour Stop – About the Author: Rekaya Gibson's love for food is evident throughout her fiction work, "The Food Temptress," and her children's book, "Are There French Fries in Heaven?" Some of her nonfiction articles have appeared in the Cabo Living Magazine, Desert Saints Magazine, and Lake of the Ozarks Second Home Living Magazine. In 2006, she self-published an e-Book, "Wow Them With Your Grant Proposal" under her own e-publishing company, Gibson Girl Publishing Company. She holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of New Orleans. ekaya resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can reach her at www.foodtemptress.com
What is The Food Temptress?
The Food Temptress is a fiction novel about a 30-year-old single woman named Ambrosia (meaning - food and/or drink of the gods) who uses food to seduce men and it converts them into the perfect guy. Set in New Orleans, she captures the hearts and minds of different men, ranging from the local sheriff to a Bourbon Street musician. Each short story serves up a delectable treat connected by Ambrosia's continuing quest for both romantic and culinary perfection.
How did you come up with the concept for the novel?
I developed the concept from the adage, "a way to a man's heart is through his stomach." I took my own interpretation and expanded upon it by using my creativity. As result, I birthed The Food Temptress.
Looking at the book now, what surprises you?
I was surprised at all the men that Ambrosia dated – 16 total.
What do you want readers to take from your book?
I long for readers to have an emotional connection to my characters.
Who are some of your favorite writers?
Some of my favorite writers are as follows: Maya Angelou, Venise Berry, John Grisham, Michelle Mckinney Hammod, Jill Nelson, and Jennifer Weiner.
What are you reading now?
I am reading "Life with McDuff: Lesson Learned from a Therapy Dog" by Judy McFadden and "Excessive Baggage" by Sean Gardner.
What's next for your writing career?
The sequel, "The Food Enchantress," comes out in mid-April by Xpress Yourself Publishing Company. I am working on a cookbook that comes out in November. In addition, I am finishing a historical fiction featuring a female pharaoh and I am writing a fiction novel, "Mama Don't Like Ugly."
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(First published in The Dominion Post, March 7.)
IT MUST BE tough being Australian right now.
Think about it. They're shutting down the factories that produce the Holden and the Ford Falcon – cars that, for generations, have helped define what it meant to be Australian.
The Holden and the Falcon are Australia on wheels, but the country's guilty secret was that the two automotive brands were able to survive only with massive taxpayer handouts. Economically speaking, they were crocks.
Australian governments spent an estimated $30 billion over the past 16 years propping up the car industry and the workforce it employed. Now Tony Abbott's government has decided the subsidies must end – a bold move, given the Holden's sacred status in Australian culture.
It's worth pointing out that New Zealand went through this painful process more than two decades ago, when our politicians realised it made more sense for cars to be built in their country of origin.
The phasing out of protection for the domestic vehicle industry is one reason why a new car in New Zealand now costs the equivalent of 30 weeks' salary rather than 90 weeks', as was the case in the 1980s.
In this, we were ahead of the Australians – but then we often are, though the average Aussie would sooner undergo multiple limb amputations than admit it.
Arguably even more traumatic for patriotic Australians than the collapse of the car industry is the crisis engulfing Qantas – Australia's best-known brand internationally, and hence an even more potent nationalist symbol than the Holden.
Last week, on the same day as Air New Zealand celebrated a record half-year profit, Qantas was announcing a $271 million first-half loss and the shedding of 5000 jobs.
This was accompanied by renewed wailing from Qantas about the unfairness of competition. It seems the first instinct of the Australian carrier when it's in trouble is to run to Mummy government complaining that the playing field isn't even.
Australians are famous for their swaggering self-confidence, but you have to wonder whether, underneath that tough veneer, they are actually fearful and insecure. Just look at how they fought to keep New Zealand apples out of the Australian market on spurious pretexts, and how they recently stripped New Zealand products from their supermarket shelves.
Perhaps reality is starting to bite for the Lucky Country. The mining boom helped insulate Australians against the global financial crisis and may have convinced them they were invincible – a view to which the typical Ocker is highly susceptible.
Don't you feel sorry for them? No, I don't either.
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WATCHING the rebirth of ACT, and in particular the performance of its new leader Jamie Whyte, is like watching a high-wire artist crossing the Niagara Falls.
Mr Whyte is an intelligent man who, unlike the impostor John Banks, believes in ACT's original credo and promises to take the party back to its ideological roots.
His big problem is that he seems honest. Once journalists latched on to this novelty, they realised there was some sport to be had.
A question about incest, which Mr Whyte answered with the ingenuousness of a political novice, was quickly followed by one about polygamy. Result: a media furore.
As long as he responds to questions like a philosophy lecturer (his previous calling) rather than a politician, the media will continue trying to trap him into saying outrageous things which can then be used to ridicule him. It doesn't help that these are philosophical positions that can't easily be explained in a sound bite.
Whether this will harm him politically is another matter. It's possible the commentariat was more excited by his statements than the public, which very likely recognised it was Whyte the pointy-headed philosopher speaking.
To get back to the high-wire analogy, Mr Whyte has managed to stay upright so far. But each curly question is like a gust of wind that causes him to teeter precariously before regaining his balance.
Will he make it safely to the other side, or will he topple into the torrent below? Either way, ACT's true believers may be in for a few more heart-stopping moments.
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NEW ZEALANDERS drink to get drunk, declares the ever-censorious Ross Bell of the New Zealand Drug Foundation. "One of the ways Kiwis drink is we drink to get drunk," he told the Dominion Post this week. "People plan their whole weekend around it – what's the next drinking occasion and how much can I drink."
Really? This doesn't describe any New Zealander I know. Mr Bell's description may apply to a small and troublesome minority of binge drinkers, but he didn't differentiate. According to him, we're all hopeless inebriates.
As long as the wowser lobby resorts to ridiculous hyperbole in an attempt to whip up hysteria over alcohol, it forfeits the right to be taken seriously.


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The Hindu Friday Review November Fest has "carved a niche for itself and is eagerly awaited by music lovers," said G. Satish Kumar, The Hindu's Associate Vice President Advertising – South. This year's festival, the sixth edition, has a unique character, drawing musicians from five nations including Pakistan and Israel, he added.
Speaking at a press conference at Vivanta by Taj, Connemara, to announce the festival, which will run over seven days, between November 15 and 21, Mr. Kumar said this year's fest will also encourage young artists. There will be a 45- minute open air under-the-shamiana recitals held just before the main concert of each evening at the venue, Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall on Harrington Road.
C. Venugopal, Marketing Director, Nippon Paint (India) Ltd. said he has watched the festival grow from strength to strength over the years. He added with a laugh: "Every year the number of calls we get asking for passes go up!" Adding that "music brings people together" he said the festival has proved to be an effective platform for his company to reach out to the public.
K. Aathisakthi, Assistant Manager Sales and Marketing of Unitech, which has come on board as an associate sponsor this year, said they would like to carry on their association. A. Shakti Vellu, Branch Marketing manager, LG Electronics, called the festival an "opportunity to listen to great music."
In a message, Ratish Pandey, Country Manager, Bose Corporation India Private Ltd, the presenting sponsor of the festival said his company has been associated with the event since its inception. Bose sees the Fest as a natural extension of the brand, he added.
The festival features ghazals by Tina Sani, fusion by Shasank and the Manganiyars, Korean contemporary music by wHOOL, chamber music by Trio Image, Indian contemporary music by Colonial Cousins, world music by EarthSync and Hindi retro film music by Pancham. The presenting sponsor is Bose Corporation India Pvt Ltd and the associate Sponsors are Unitech, LG Electronics, Nippon Paint, Casio, GRT Jewellers, RMKV and Indica Vista. The channel partner is NDTV Hindu, the radio partner is Radio One 94.3 FM, and Vivanta by Taj, Connemara is the hospitality sponsor. The event is managed by Showspace.
Tickets, priced between Rs 250 and Rs 1000, are available online at www.thehindu.com/novemberfest/ and www.indianstage.in. For door delivery contact 9003016954.
All shows start at 7.15 pm at the Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, Lady Andal School, Harrington Road, Chennai.


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Our in-house, state of the art printing, duplication and packaging systems allow for super-fast short run CD duplication
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Your requirement for short run CD duplication and your need for an ultra-quick turnaround time will be more than satisfied by our short run CD duplication service. We are proud to be able to offer one of the UK's most extensive CD duplication facilities enabling us to offer amazingly fast turnaround times and nicely affordable service costs.
We can carry out short run CD duplication for the following disc formats:
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How our short run CD duplication system works
As well as catering for the mass production market where we could be printing upwards of 20,000 CDs for one job, it is equally as important for a professional CD duplication business to be able supply a short run CD duplication service as there is a huge requirement for such a service.
Whether it's short notice company data transfer or a band looking get their music noticed, Alpha Duplication acknowledged from the outset that we have to be able to cost effectively cater for the short run CD duplication market.
So, we devised a completely in-house system for CD printing, duplication and packaging .
Depending upon the number of CDs required, we either digitally print (ink jet), screen print or litho print the CDs first. Typically, a run of less than 100 discs is digitally printed. There is most certainly no quality compromise with any of our printing processes, it's simply a matter of supplying the most cost effective service that we can.
Following printing, the CDs are then transferred to our short run CD duplication suite. We have duplication towers set up here specifically assigned to the task. The CDs are then transferred to the duplication suite on a spindle and are quickly loaded into the duplication tower using an automated robotic arm system.
The robotic arm uses vacuum cups to pick and place the discs, which eliminates the possibility of damage to the disc surface upon handling.
The CD duplication drives are similar to the optical drive units found in a desktop PC. They are controlled by a central master unit which contains the master CD to be duplicated. By using many duplication towers in conjunction with each other, a short run CD duplication job can be completed very quickly indeed.
Once the duplication process is completed, the CDs are then transferred back onto a spindle for delivery to the packaging line which is set up and ready to go according to the schedule.
Our printing systems only use recognised worldwide industry standard processes, silk screen printing, offset litho printing and digital CD printing. We are the only short run CD duplication specialist in the UK who have systems for all these printing methods on our premises. This allows us to keep both cost and lead times to an absolute minimum.


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"There's a way to do it better – find it!"
-Thomas Edison
The manager of your field worker team has asked for a mobile solution to enable them to access customer information and log data during customer visits. You interview the key stakeholders about their needs, map out the process and describe the mobile customer journey through a flow chart and wireframes. The solution is developed and deployed and just 6 months later productivity increases substantially for the team as they reduce the amount of administration work on a PC by 4 hours per week and data accuracy is increased. Mission accomplished, right? Wrong!
Through mobile, organizations can innovate their offerings and the way they work in two ways:
- Harnessing mobile to energize their existing product offerings and workers. Mobile can serve to keep a company's product offerings more compelling and relevant to its target markets as well as making employees more productive, satisfied and enabling better customer service.
- Tapping mobile to develop entirely new offerings. Mobile can open entirely new worlds of revenue. Digital in general, and mobility especially, is an opportunity to reinvent your business including product, process and business model innovation.
In summary, don't just mobilize your existing business and organization – reinvent it!
At the center of all of this is always the end-user whether it's a customer, employee or even a machine. Here are four great examples of product, process and business model innovation.
Glowcap: Turning Dumb Pill Bottles into Smart Medication Reminders
Half of people on medication have forgotten to take their prescription medicines on time (or at all), and more than $100 billion is spent annually because of excess hospitalizations stemming from poor medical prescription adherence. It's all too clear that remembering something as simple as taking medications on time, every time, is anything but easy.
Instead of just developing an application that reminds people to take their medicine, Vitality reinvented the pill bottle with Glowcap to help patients with reminders to take the medicine, keep track of how many pills they've taken and get a refill when the pill bottle is empty, plus much more. The product increases consumption of the pills to what the doctor ordered and reduces issues associated with patients not taking their medicine.
Progressive: Smart Car Insurance
After analysis of billions of miles in driving data, Progressive found that key driving behaviors— actual miles driven, braking, and time of day of driving— carry more than twice the predictive power of traditional insurance rating variables, like a driver's age, gender and the year, make and model of the insured vehicle.
Progressive therefore gave auto insurance customers the option of installing a tracking device connected to the car and get 10-15% discount if they drive in accordance with what is considered "correct" behavior. The tracking device provides more data for the insurance company to reduce risk and increase profit but more importantly, increases safety and reduces accidents on the roads. The same concept has since been launched by lots of other car insurance companies.
Vigga: Renting of Clothes
Consumers are being urged to extend the life of their clothing to avoid millions of tonnes of garments ending up in landfills every year. Especially for children's clothes, which are only worn for a short period of time.
Vigga provides a children's clothes rental membership service. Sign up and a couple of weeks ahead of the due date of the child the Vigga changing bag is ready for collection, complete with the newborn's first beautiful wardrobe. The clothing is ethically made in organic fabrics, in a neutral unisex design. As soon as the child outgrows the newborn size members are supplied with the next size up and the newborn clothing will be returned to Vigga, where it will be environmentally friendly dry cleaned and made ready for another new baby.
Global Manufacturer: Pay as You Clean
One of our clients, a global leader in cleaning industry technology and related machinery, provides cleaning equipment to airports, public transportation areas, factories and other big spaces. Although the equipment is very reliable, the biggest complaint from customers is when it breaks down which is usually caused by lack of maintenance. To solve this, our client wanted to consolidate and analyze its cleaning machine telemetry data, along with its ERP and other sources of data to provide better information to its field services team, sales people and customers.
We helped our client design a solution that allows them to monitor performance, usage, issues, and predict when maintenance is required and provide the information through mobile. Their customers, including its Business Service Contractors, can now review machine data to see if their stores have been cleaned the prior night, determine where machines are physically located, review service metrics at the fleet level and optimize overall operations. On the plus side, the company can also monetize its data by marketing this solution to its customers as a new service and introduce new business models such as a pay-as-you-clean model where the customer pays based on the areas that need cleaning every day instead of buying or renting the equipment.
More Examples?
Nicolas Bry provides an excellent list of Business Model innovation in his blog Rapid Innovation in Digital Time.
What Are the Drivers of Product, Business Model and Process Innovation?
To understand how you can innovate your organization, process, business model and products it's important to understand the drivers of innovation. You can use these to challenge your business, your product or service offering, marketing or technology team or future strategy.
Possible drivers of product innovation:
- Changes in customer requirements/behavior
- Adding more functions/features to meet demand or needs
- Increasing salability (appearance)
- Increasing product's life cycle
- Improving quality and reliability
- Reducing processing and manufacturing costs
- Enhancing ease in manufacturing (removing unnecessary or complicated attributes)
- Standardization and simplification efforts in an organization
Possible drivers of business model innovation:
- Pricing and Offering, (e.g. moving from one-off purchase to subscriptions such as Spotify and Amazon Unlimited)
- Distribution and Channels
- Sharing economy (e.g. Zipcar and Airbnb)
- Design and Manufacturing
- Two-sides and asymmetric (e.g. Google's free to consumer and advertiser pays model)
- APIs (e.g. flighstats data)
- Platform (e.g. force.com)
Possible drivers of process innovation:
- Improving quality of output
- Improving productivity and efficiency
- Controlling and reducing process wastage or work in process inventory
- Reducing processing time or cost
- Ensuring timely delivery
- Reducing health hazards and improving safety of workforce
- Forced by product design or technology changes
Process innovation often involves working with a small group of operators, workers and customers either to redo the process from scratch or review how the current process can be improved.
Cultural and Human Factor
Don't forget the cultural and human factor. Lou Gerstner, who helped engineer a turnaround at IBM, notes in his book Who says Elephants Can't Dance? "It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person".
While it's OK to build on the legacy of a founder, many organizations need to scrap their obsolete trappings. On the other hand, no business will change or innovate without buy-in from the people.
"Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow."
-Paul Sloane
Where Do You Start?
According to an article in Harvard Business Review, very few organizations routinely think, "How can we tweak our business model? How can we find a better, more efficient, greater value-creating business model?" Managers and organizations would benefit by thinking deeper about the design and not thinking about it not as a one-time or once in two years thing of, "Is there a better way?", but as an ongoing, dynamic capability that the firm has. Mobility projects are a great opportunity to not only mobilize what you have, but to rethink what you do and how you work.
So you want to venture into the unknown and reinvent rather than just mobilizing. Where do you start? There's a myriad of different innovation processes and methodologies but whichever one you choose, start with your customers and employees at the centre of the solution. Business Consulting Group lists four approaches to business model innovation in this article. A recently trending model for reinvention is the Business Model Canvas that we've been using at DMI to continuously document, evaluate and review our own business model and opportunities for change, enhancements and optimization.
Our job is to not only mobilize but also to help businesses and government organizations reinvent themselves through mobile technology and every project is different. Maybe this is why I love going to work every day…
Do you agree or disagree? What are other great examples of reinventing products, processes and business models through mobility solutions? What's the best methodology? Contact us to discuss further!
Magnus Jern, President Mobile Application Solutions


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Taras Lendzyk
Taras has been a part of the KBJR sales team for a combined 12 years. First, from 2001 – 2008 and then rejoining the staff in 2011.Originally from Wynyard, Saskatchewan, he attended the University of Minnesota-Duluth from 1992-1996.
Taras was a goalie for the Division I UMD Bulldogs during those four years and still holds multiple team records today. After his college career, he went on to dress in two exhibition games with the San Jose Sharks and played four years in the ECHL. He also backed up Roberto Luongo for one game in the American Hockey League with the Lowell Loch Monsters.
Taras volunteers his time in the Hermantown Amateur Hockey Association program as the Mite II coordinator and coaches at that level as well. He is also a member of the local Aad Shrine where he dedicates his time to helping children. In his spare time, Taras spends as much of his time as he can with his only son, Kole, who is 8. Together they enjoy playing hockey, baseball, soccer, golf, and bike riding.
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You died on March 6 2015
by setting yourself on fire
later the news came
that you left three children behind. Three children.
the reality of life without free air, clear water, and pure soil for generations
where many lost their lives in expressing their dignity and that they never give up
Probably you had lived fully: you offered water every morning, prayed, worked hard and raised children.
Till you decided to give your life away for what you believed in.
I wish I could feel you more.
After days since your passing, I see you standing with your bare feet on soft green grass like a mountain. So as you can watch your children grow
Peace, peace, peace. Peace, please come to your land


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We are now on our 10th Mixtape Madness contest. Things continue to go well. We've had some fantastic themes, excellent submissions, and some lovely winners. We continue on with a new theme by Week 9's winner, Corpsegoddess:
Since we're coming up on Canada/Independence Day, I want people to give me a playlist of their favourite summer songs by Canadian and American artists. It can be all of one, or a mix of both.
Hit me up with some North American summery tunes!
So there we go. It's time to share your best songs of summer playlists featuring artists from the US and Canada. We're back to the standard 60 minute timelimit and as always, the same rules apply. You have until Tuesday, July 1 to get your submissions in. Reminders will go up a couple times to remind everyone. Start submitting!


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Final Project: Play Space
Physical Computing
David Gochfeld and my final project was "Play Space", a musically-activated space that used a Kinect to track the motion of people and transform that motion into musical output. We envisioned the project as a sort of collaborative instrument, one which would be usable even by people who just wander into the space. Along those lines, I think the project was generally successful—it quickly engaged people, but we also found that we, at least, enjoyed teasing out more sophisticated control of our musical output.
As far as materials were concerned, the project was quite simple. We used the Kinect camera for our tracking and a Processing sketch with the OpenNI library for interpreting the data. From there, we sent our musical output (in MIDI form) to a copy of Logic Pro X, which handled the musical instrument synthesis and final audio output. Besides the Kinect, our only hardware requirements were a decently fast computer, speakers, and the necessary cabling.
We set ourselves the challenge of creating a space that was both immediately engaging but also interesting and rich as a musical instrument. The biggest challenge was communicating to our users what was going on using only audio cues, and indeed many of our first user tests were confusing for people. Our simple instructions (a taped rectangle around the active area and the injunction to "PLAY"), seemed to help a bit—the people who moved in the most interesting ways (not coincidentally, the people with dance/movement backgrounds) created more interesting sounds and more quickly were able to feel out the possibilities for the interface. One remaining challenge is how to encourage more people to move and explore in this way.
We didn't have very clear ideas of the exact mappings we wanted between movement and music, so we experimented in many directions through trial and error. Because of this working process, I feel like there are so many ways the ideas here could be adapted for various uses. I've begun to conceive of this as less of a discrete project, and more as a solid foundation for future research.


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Wed Aug 12, 7pm
Brooklyn Free School
372 Clinton Ave between Greene and Lafayette
In January of 2011, the Egyptian Revolution showed the world what mass struggle looks like. The people of Egypt toppled almost 30 years of Mubarak's rule and fueled a wave of struggle across the globe from Occupy Wall Street in the U.S. to the movement of the squares in Europe.
Now, three years out, that high point feels like a world away. Every advance of the last three years has been followed by state repression and set backs as a new generation comes up against the forces of capitalism and the political limitations of the level of existing organization.
At the same time, struggle continues. In Greece SYRIZA, a new left-wing party, won the elections this winter and debates within the party about how to combat austerity are shaping Greek politics. Just this summer equal marriage rights were won in the U.S. after more than a decade of activism. This has sparked debates about whether this is a victory or not given how much more there is to fight for.
The list could go on…the dynamics of the moment lead to some big questions:
• How does change happen?
• Is there an alternative to capitalism?
• What would it look like?
• What's the connection between struggles for reform and revolution?
Join the Brooklyn branch of the International Socialist Organization in a discussion of the system we are up against and the tasks ahead for socialists in the fight for reforms and revolution.


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The HTC U12+ has just been leaked and its components appear to have been picked to go head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and upcoming Note 9.
The HTC U12+ image and specs were revealed by leakster Evan Blass, who says the phone will be HTC's flagship device this year, following on from last year's HTC U11 and mid-season HTC U11+ refresh.
According to Blass, the HTC U12+ will feature a 6-inch LCD screen with WQHD+ resolution and will be powered by Qualcomm's top-of-the-range Snapdragon 845 processor and 6GB of RAM. The device will be supplied energy from a 3,420mAh battery.
Those specs are near-identical to Samsung's new S9 Plus phone.
Blass adds that the HTC U12+ will sport two cameras on the rear (16MP and 12MP respectively), and two 8MP selfie cameras on the front.
As you would expect from a phone released in 2018, the U12+ will also boast an almost bezel-less design.
The HTC U12+'s release date is apparently scheduled for May.
Interestingly, there is still no sign of a standard-sized HTC U12. The HTC U11 was announced in April 2017 and then released on June 1, before being refreshed and enlarged in the HTC U11+, which hit shelves in December of last year.
It's common knowledge that HTC is having to scale back its portfolio after selling part of its phone-making business to Google, so perhaps there never will be a U12 after all, although it would be odd for the company to target the market for larger phones at the expense of standard-sized phones.
If the HTC U12 does materialise, though, then we expect it to launch at the same time or slightly before the U12+.


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This event has now passed.Jameson and Shanghai creatives team up to celebrate St Patrick's day once more with a daytime bash featuring music, fashion pop-ups, food and more. This time, it's at Central Studios with bars stocked with Jameson, music from the likes of the Yeti crew, food by Dope Shifu x Papito Pancakes and The Pho Store, a film screening of cult classic Fight Club (50RMB) and much more. For more details and to register, follow Jameson-Whiskey on WeChat.
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|Free entry
|Venue name:
|Central Studios
|By Appointment
|Madang Lu
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|Bldg 1, Central Studios 751 Huangpi Nan Lu, near Jianguo Dong Lu, Huangpu district
|Chinese address:
|黄浦区黄陂南路751号1号楼, 近建国东路


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51Degrees redirection module is a valid alternative to incorporating detection logic in to your .NET pages. This is a very flexible approach that can make use of all device properties available to your data file and you can easily create and maintain a set of rules for any eventuality. Maintenance is also less of an issue as with a change in requirements only one file needs to be changed as opposed to changing every occurrence of detection logic in the application.
All of the properties available in your data file can be used with the redirection module. The module and all rules are configured in the section of 51Degrees.config file.
This is the most basic rule which redirects all devices that are detected as mobile to Default.aspx page in the Mobile folder.
<location name="Mobile" url="~/Mobile/Default.aspx" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="IsMobile" matchExpression="True" enabled="true" />
Each <location> element redirects to a specific location based on one or more rules. <location> element has 3 properties:
Each location must contain at least one filter property (add). All added filter properties must evaluate to True in order for the redirect to take place.
In this example Desktops, Tablets and SmartPhones get redirected to the relevant pages.
<!-- Desktop -->
<location name="Desktop" url="Desktop.aspx" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="IsMobile" matchExpression="False" />
<!-- Tablet -->
<location name="Tablet" url="Tablet.aspx" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="IsMobile" matchExpression="True" />
<add property="IsTablet" matchExpression="True" />
<!-- SmartPhone -->
<location name="SmartPhone" url="SmartPhone.aspx" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="IsMobile" matchExpression="True" />
<add property="IsSmartPhone" matchExpression="True" />
In some cases you may wish to access the page ignoring the redirection rules. The following example rule allows you to access the desired page without being redirected by adding the ?noredirect or &noredirect to the url.
<location name="noredirect" url="" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="Url" matchExpression="[&|\?]noredirect" enabled="true" />
The following example uses ScreenPixelsWidth property to redirect devices with screen sizes between 0 and 999 pixels to a page called medium.aspx. Using this template you can set up a more complex redirections based on the screen size ranges.
<location name="medium" url="medium.aspx" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="ScreenPixelsWidth" matchExpression="^([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9][0-9])$" enabled="true" />
If you want to redirect specific page/pages you can make use of the origUrl property as shown below. Using this property tells the redirect module that redirect will only happen for a given page. In this example visitors will be redirected to MobileWelcome.aspx page when they visit https://yourwebsite.com. This rule won't work on any other page.
<location name="MobileWelcome" url="MobileWelcome.aspx" matchExpression="" enabled="true">
<add property="IsMobile" matchExpression="True" />
<add property="origUrl" matchExpression="^http://yoursite.com$" />
In order to allow your mobile visitors to view the full version of the website you can make use of the firstRequestOnly property which, if set to True will only redirect to the mobile version of the website upon the first request. Setting it to False will effectively force users on mobile devices to view the mobile version of the website. This property should be accompanied by the devicesFile property which is used to store details of devices that made a request before. This is not device data file used for detection.
<redirect devicesFile="~/App_Data/MobileVisitors.dat" firstRequestOnly="true">
Author: Products Team
Categories: Development
Tags: Device Detection , Redirection


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I follow Decoding Your Dollars, a blog that Vanessa, my financial whizz friend, writes. Today she posted about "Recouping After a Job Loss" (click here to be taken to the post).
She mentioned her family trip to the seashore this year. On all the beaches, signs were posted alerting swimmers to riptides. The signs explained what to do and first on the list was "Don't Panic!" The sign said that riptides were narrow and a swimmer who remained calm could quickly get out of one.
The thought that riptides are narrow got me thinking…I realized it's the same when trouble starts messing with our well-laid plans.
If a swimmer panics when caught in a riptide, they stop thinking clearly. They thrash around making things worse, the riptide's strength seems unbreakable and pulls them farther and farther out to sea. Soon, the panicked swimmer is down for the count.
The same is true with troubles. If we panic, levelheadedness goes out the window. We rush over here thinking this idea will solve the problem, then we rush over there because that idea seems better. Then we rush somewhere else, grabbing and hoping that this will be the idea that saves us. We end up not only making things worse, but also prolonging the trouble.
Just like the swimmer who stays calm and quickly swims their way out of the riptide, if we maintain our cool, we, too, can get ourselves out of the jam we're in. Keeping our head clear helps us remember that troubles don't last forever. Like riptides, troubles can be narrow—as long as we keep a cool head.
Your homework today is to remind yourself that difficulties don't last forever—they're narrow. Just like a swimmer in a riptide using a sure even stroke, you can work your way out of challenges. Take it one step—one stroke—at a time.
You can do it!
I'm proud of you!
Your Friend and Pep Pal,


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Synergy Multi-Academy Trust is made up of schools, both secondary and primary, from north Norfolk. The Trust was initially established by Reepham High School and College in 2015. Our vision is simple; for all of our schools to work together to provide teaching and learning of the highest quality and for all of them to provide an exceptional range of educational experiences and opportunities.
Attendance at school and legal intervention
Research commissioned by the Department for Education shows missing school for even a day can mean a child is less likely to achieve good grades, which can have a damaging effect on their life chances. At Bawdeswell CP School our aim is to work with parents to ensure that all our pupils receive the most from their education and reach their full potential.
This letter is to remind to all parents/carers regarding the law that requires them to ensure that their child attends school regularly. The Government remains very clear that no child should miss school apart from in exceptional circumstances and schools must to continue take steps to reduce absence to support children's attainment.
The Local Authority operates a system where any pupil will meet the criteria for legal intervention where they have:
- 10 consecutive sessions of unauthorised absence where some or all of the absence may be attributed to an unauthorised holiday in term-time (for absences from 1 September 2017); or
- 15% unauthorised absence over a period of 6 school weeks for reasons other than unauthorised term time holiday.
The intervention could be in the form of a Fixed Penalty Notice. Any pupil at Bawdeswell CP School who meets either of the criteria, will be referred to the Local Authority for action to be considered. If a Fixed Penalty Notice is issued it is a fine of £60 per parent per child which must be paid in one payment in 21 days. If unpaid, a further invoice for £60 per parent per child is issued; both individual invoices would then have to be paid making a total payment of £120 in 28 days. You should be aware that failure to pay the total amount within the timescale will result in legal action being taken.


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Do you find that your relationships consistently have a similar pattern or story? Is there a certain type of partner you find yourself with repeatedly? Is he always late or standing you up? Do you think that this is the way it's always going to be because nobody's perfect or because that's just how men are?
If this sounds familiar you are so not alone. Most of us go through our lives making choices based on our default patterns and stories without even realizing it. But what if I told you that it can be totally different than the way it's always been by just re-writing what your story is? What if your love story can be exactly the way YOU want and decide it to be?
If you've bought into a negative story you are so not alone. Whether it was from your upbringing or fed to you via the media (oh, don't get me started about the negative media), a story you choose to take on can seem very real. Some common negative stories that get thrown around and bought into are:
Men and women can't live with each other, can't live without each other.
Men just have to spread themselves around.
Relationships are tough and hard work.
It's normal to have fights in a relationship.
Nobody's perfect so I guess I'll just have to take what I got.
It's so hard to find a mate I'm just lucky to be with the person I have now.
And on and on.
In my reality (and in other couples I know) none of the above stories are true. All of those above statements are completely false in my love story. Because I deliberately created my own story.
Everything is just a story. What you choose to believe in and accept is just a story that becomes your reality. Have you ever had a fantasy or imagined something and really felt like you were living that experience even though it was just a story? Yes, me too. Because the truth is that your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. And as you imagine, so goes your life.
So I say – get thee to writing a new story! A story that is exactly what you desire in your love life. A story that makes you feel good and beautiful and loved like the amazing being that you are.
Here's an exercise for you: Write your love story down as "a day in the life with my soul mate" from the moment you wake up together until the moment you fall asleep. Forget about the grammar, spelling, literary merit, or whatever; just write what comes to you. What things are you saying to each other? How do you speak to each other? What things is your soul mate doing? What activities are you doing? What is your life like with him? How do you feel?
There are just two rules for this new story to be effective:
1) It must be believable for you. Save the epic drama for your bestseller, instead write it as the life you can really see yourself living.
2) It must feel good to you. If it doesn't feel good, it's not your true story. It's perfectly okay to write several stories before you get to one that feels just right. Sometimes it takes time getting used to the idea of a new story.
When you've got your story down just that way that you want it, it feels true to you and it feels good – then read it twice a day. First thing in the morning and right before you go to bed, as those are the two times of the day your brain is most receptive.
Notice how you feel when you read it over time and how it becomes more and more believable to you. Notice how you begin to see evidence of your story around you, maybe in other couples in your life. Notice how you realize you will no longer accept anything less than this story again. Notice how you start to trust that the Universe is arranging for this very story to come to you into physical form very soon. What else do you notice?
Did you write your new story? How did you feel reading it? As always I'd love to read your comments below.
If you need guidance re-writing your story I'm happy to offer you a free 30-minute clarity session. Just contact me at dinarobisoncoaching at gmail dot com.
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This is one of our twins Elisa with Karson who turned 1 yesterday. He sure enjoyed his cake and it was delicious!
If you look at the post below with the dogs swimming, this is the same pond but a few days ago our son had it dug out alittle and then added a beach area. The water is like bath water. Everyone has been having a blast enjoying the little area.
I cant believe only a few weeks ago it looked like my post below and now this. Unreal what a few things can do! I'm back to work tomorrow, vacation is over. I have mixed feelings, because the core of me is a homemaker and I never tire of being home.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Karson's 1st Birthday and the Beach!
This is one of our twins Elisa with Karson who turned 1 yesterday. He sure enjoyed his cake and it was delicious!
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Summer Livin
This is early Summer at our sons house. If you look close you can see Pheney and Bugsy romping in the pond. Pheny is out here all day long until night and I'm not exaggerating. This dog swims all day, barks at the fish and then just enjoys the wildlife. Its so fun to watch him. Bugsy our other sons dog comes out to visit and then swims with him.
Today for the first time I went swimming in the pond. It dosnt look anything like this picture now, and this was taken just a few weeks ago. Since this photo, our son has had a beach put in, filled the pond with some sand and then colored the water. I will take some photos tomorrow when we go back. It really looks like a beach now. He has umbrellas, chairs, sand toys, its just beautiful. The only thing that hasnt changed is Pheny! I had my grandaughters racing tonight and Pheny was swimming right next to them and of course I didnt have my camera but what a picture that would have been. I'm not much of a water baby, I dont even know how to swim. I brought a raft and enjoyed that. The fish come up and nibble at ya which is pretty strange.
Tomorrow our grandson turns 1 and they are having a party, fireworks and all. Should be nice and i will bring my camera and get some good photos!
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Ready or Not, Fall will Arrive!
Dont be shocked but guess whose back? YEP,,little ole me. I'm on vacation this week and decided to stay home. No exotic vacation this summer.
To say I've been busy would be an understatement. Our daughter got married last month. That went well, but you all know how that takes time. (and money)
I'm just to pooped when I get home from work. I hope to change that soon also...but for now--I'll do my best to get back to blogging. I really really miss it and I really miss visiting so many wonderful blogs.
My little business is doing well. I'm getting great feedback and steady happy customers! This is what I've done this week. I'm like a store..I think ahead! Sooo, I"ve gotten my Fall candles DONE! I have Spiced Apple in a pretty Apple jar and then my favorite is the Pumpkin! Pumpkin Scented, with a happy pumpkin face and the tin hat. If you look at the hat it has sun, moon stars cutouts so when lit it should show a pretty pattern thru the hat. Since these candles are 100% Soy, you can wash the jars out, fill em with candy or other Fall pretties. I think these will do very well.
Something new I'm starting to work on tomorrow, I will be making candles for Christmas with the wooden wicks. They are rather new on the scene but the customers who buy them like them. I've boughten candles with the wood wicks and i like the crackle so I thought I would give it a try.
So, thats what I've been up to..just family life, work and then my business. We've been camping and thats always fun. I didnt get to plant flowers like I wanted to this season. I've just been to busy. I think this is the worst year for my flowers and I'm not happy.
I'll be around to check your blogs out!
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Presentation of Krasnoyarsk Technologic Valley
The industrial park 'Aluminium Valley' in Krasnoyarsk region is a platform to create a complex of modern companies for high value added aluminium production.
The creation of the industrial park 'Aluminium Valley' is a joint project between the government of Krasnoyarsk region, the Aluminium Association and UC RUSAL.
The project responds to the strategic directions for development and sectoral programme of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, including new high-tech production, import substitution, increase of production output with high added value and growth of the domestic market of aluminium consumption.
The access to industrial and transport infrastructure that is almost completed, as well as proximity to suppliers of liquid and primary aluminium will allow for new processing companies to reduce costs and launch production in a short space of time.
Added benefits of the industrial park are its location near to growing Asian markets and the possibility of quick commercialisation of innovative ideas through collaboration with leading scientific centres in the region, including the Siberian Federal University.
The organisation of 'Aluminium Valley' will considerably increase the economic and investment potential of the Krasnoyarsk region. So far, more than 10 new investment projects are in the development stages with more than USD 400 mln in declared investments and the potential to create over 1000 new jobs. All projects entail output of finished products for the industrial and consumer sector.
The investors in 'Aluminium Valley' will have the opportunity to cooperate with established companies and producers: Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter, Krasnoyarsk Alumina Refinery, Foundry-Forging Plant SEGAL, producer of alloy wheel rims 'KiK', manufacturer of wheel rims 'SKAD' and other companies.
Possible areas for production in the scope of the 'Aluminium Valley':
In June 2016, plans to create 'Aluminium Valley' were consolidated in a Letter of Intent signed by the government of Krasnoyarsk region, the Aluminium Association and UC RUSAL. The parties agreed to collaborate in order to attract Russian and foreign investors to the Krasnoyarsk region, to create the necessary conditions to implement new investment projects and foster investment attractiveness in 'Aluminium Valley'.
The first phase of the project will be carried out at the industrial site of the Krasnoyarsk Metallurgic Plant and Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter.
A proposal (technical-economical equipment) is in the drafting stages to create a Special Economic Port Zone of industrial-production type on the edges of 'Aluminium Valley' (in accordance with 116-FL 'On Special Economic Port Zones'). It is planned that the investors (companies and residents) in 'Aluminium Valley' will use benefits and preferences at federal and regional level, including tax breaks and the option of applying 'Free Customs Zones' procedures.
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
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Roper Guitars of Lillian, Alabama
Alabama Music Office.com goes to rural Lillian, Alabama to meet Pat Roper, the founder of Roper Guitars.
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Here's how Bradford Van Diver, in Roadside Geology of New York, describes Watkins Glen in western New York State:
This is the best known of the Finger Lakes glens and certainly one of the most beautiful places in Eastern North America. Here, Glen Creek has cut a deep and unusually narrow gorge into the thin-bedded Enfield siltstones and shales belonging to the late Devonian Sonyea group that overlies the Genesee group. Because of the relatively uniform resistance of the rocks to erosion, the gorge does not have large falls... The stream twists and turns in a tortuous manner, leaving overhanging walls where meanders have drifted sideways as they cut rapidly downward.The unnumbered Rotograph postcard at the top of this post shows an evocative (if not quite convincingly colored) view of the gorge, but the one below (5082 a.) may be of special interest for the postcard historian. Depicting a feature called "the Card-Rack," it appears to document a practice of leaving postcards and letters at a selected location in the glen.
Were these missives votive offerings, or love charms like the locks on Paris's Pont des Arts, or just mementos recording that "So-and-so was here"? I haven't been able to find any other record of the practice or when it was discontinued; I suspect that park authorities would frown on it today. Any information would be appreciated.


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It was an eventful week for the Birthday boy. First highlight of the festivities was a special treat dinner for two at Paparazzi, Edsa Shangri – la Hotel. Being greeted by the beautiful Ms Aimee Lagman.
As we walked in the beautiful 'Frozen' inspired hotel lobby, Aimee was sharing with us the must trys at Paparazzi. We were excited with all the dishes and even more overwhelmed when we saw the menu.
The restaurant was so picture friendly we could not help but capture our time there. Their wine selection was amazing too, we are definitely coming back.
We decided to start with "Caciucco" seafood for Nic and minestrone soups for me.
The main course we went for the "Costata, Wagyu beef rib eye" and "Risotto di mare" seafood risotto. It was definitely a feast for a King. Even the bone was displayed to show how big the steak actually was. Great table setting I must say.
Aimee said not to miss out on the desert so I made sure I made room for it. I picked "Tortina" Chocolate lava cake with stracciatella ice cream. It was amazing!!! Nic said he would share with me because he was so full from the main course. To our surprise Aimee and the Paparazzi staff did not allow Nic to miss out, when my desert was placed in front of me beautiful voices followed singing "Happy Birthday" with another plate of desert.
Thank you again Aimee and Paparazzi for the amazing Birthday memory for my hubby. We love the food, ambience and the beautiful company of the staff. Definitely a romantic way of spending a night with your loved one.
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Transparency in state is still MIA
Campaign finance reports are due this week from those seeking election to the offices of governor, executive councilor, state senator and state representative. It is, in theory, an opportunity for the public to see where New Hampshire candidates got their money and how they spent it.
A few candidates – Colin Van Ostern and Mark Connolly in the race for governor and Dan Weeks his a bid for a seat on the New Hampshire Executive Council – released reports well in advance of the deadline, and they should be commended for it. Having the information in the public realm longer is better, since it gives would-be voters who might be interested in that kind of thing a longer time to peruse the reports.
They're going to need it.
One of the questions a voter might want to know is how much out-of-state money a candidate for governor, Executive Council, state senator or state representative has received. Or how many corporate donations. A voter might also want to know how much money a candidate has received from donors in a particular town or from outside the district they represent.
That kind of information is easily compiled by campaigns, which keep donor databases that can be easily sorted with just a few mouse clicks.
In New Hampshire, the public can find that information, too, but they have to work at it.
Really, really hard.
"Follow the money," is a fundamental principal of understanding our political process, but New Hampshire's campaign finance system is designed to make that as difficult as possible.
The New Hampshire secretary of state's website lists 75 political committees, 58 political advocacy organizations, 99 candidate committees and 63 funds registered to candidates running for office. Some of those organizations have been collecting money for months without being required to report it before now.
They have acted in accordance with state law, but that's part of the problem.
The law also doesn't facilitate anything close to transparency.
Take Van Ostern's June 22 filing, which shows the Democratic candidate for governor raised an impressive $793,729 from 2,285 contributors to that point. The report is about 80 pages long, and it's mighty thorough. Most of those pages are lists of contributors – 61 names per page. None of those names can be searched or sorted electronically. They are scanned copies of paper documents that were themselves created on a spreadsheet.
It's as if somebody delivered a new car to the state, but they took out the engine and hooked it up to a horse.
To find out how many Nashua donors a candidate has, how many were from out-of-state or how much those subsets contributed would require someone to go through each of those pages of tiny type line-by-line, create a tally, and add up the numbers.
It is a nearly impenetrable system that prevents – and seems designed to prevent – the flow of money from being accessed quickly or in any organized fashion. It obscures, rather than illuminates, and shields candidates, political action committees, lobbyists and political operatives from real public scrutiny.
So, yes, campaign finance reports will be filed this week. But the system itself is a disgrace to the state and an insult to voters.
And the people who have had the power to change that system, but haven't, still want your vote.


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I have a paper concerning temple steps on the temple mount ready for reading. It helps confirm my temple location. You may read it here. temple steps paper
paper 'concerning the distance of 2000 cubits'
have a new paper concerning the distance of 2000 cubits from locations on the temple mount. This helps to confirm the temple's location. You can read the paper here.
paper 'Sacred Surveying in Jerusalem'
My paper 'Sacred Surveying in Jerusalem' is online. It concerns a number of locations with in the City paper on survey of Jerusalem forming a pattern. This helps to confirm my temple location.
New project under review
I am not posting the new project stated in the previous post until I have it verified by experts review my work. I am in the process of having this done.
I have a new project
I have a new project I am currently working on. I will post a link to this paper when it is completed. I have found classes of Roman buildings were designed in the same manner which I believe has never been realized before.
Big discovery I am working on
I am updating my paper on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. I will post a link when it is up. This material will have a new discovery concerning my work on the temple location.
Another update to my Quran paper concerning Letter mystery
I have an update on my letter mystery in the Quran. You can find it here.