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Now THIS is the kind of post I like to write! (And I also hope to do a LOT more like yesterday's Stoneham Fire Dept. follow-up. I whole-heartedly believe in giving positive recognition where it is due. That's equally important as accountability, as far as I'm concerned.) As many readers probably know, Selectmen Ann Marie O'Neill and Tom Boussy recently launched the Stoneham Pride island beautification program. I was excited when I heard about it last month because, well, the islands around Town were nothing to be proud of.
The program has taken off and I was excited to drive by Redstone Plaza to see Redstone had sponsored the main island in front of the shopping center, and that the early stages of planting had begun. Of course I had to pull over and take some photos:
The island is still a work-in-progress and has a lot of growing/ filling in to do, but I love seeing visible change! I hope other area businesses who haven't signed on will take advantage of the program. Especially businesses who have these types of plots in front of them that look, well… I will save that for another post if I don't see proactive improvements.


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Visitors pass through the foyer and are then welcomed into a spacious, central hall. The adjoining rooms are accessed and arranged around this inner hall. The second floor follows the classical spatial organisation of the other floors and radial room boxes hug this central hall. The rooms can be entered by doorways punctuating the wooden panelling and from the inside, through built in cupboards. Underneath the main pitched roof with its existing central skylight, a fourth, more generous seminar room of around 40 m2 is planned within the structure. As the upper room does not contain a direct visual reference to the surrounding park, trees and treetops, a textile wall covering transforms it into a green, almost garden-like space. At the same time the floral wall covering refers to the original and existing artistically hand-painted wallpaper of Hans Sandreuter.


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Folks lined up for two hours on a rainy Telluride Saturday to get into Up in the Air. Hundreds were turned away. Writer-director Jason Reitman (and obsessive airline mile collector) played the crowd like a pro, hoping that the movie would live up to their expectations. He didn't need to worry. The director, who debuted Juno here two years ago at the same theater, delivers a winner. Loosely based on Walter Kirn's novel, Reitman's updated movie, which he started working on six years ago, has become, with the economic downturn, far more timely. It's a witty, charming and moving exploration of a world we all recognize.
It's about the loneliness of a long-distance air traveller–a commitment-phobe not unlike George Clooney, who decided to stare that aspect of himself in the face, Reitman said after the film. "To know me is to fly with me," says Ryan Bingham, who wings around the country to gently but sternly deliver lay-off news that bosses are too chicken to do on their own.
The movie reveals where we are now. The opening credits set the tone, as a zingy cover of "This land was made for you and me" accompanies a montage of fly-over spots. Bingham starts up a flirtation with a fellow-traveler (Vera Farmiga) as they slap down rival credit cards and compare flier miles and mile high club banter. He wants to break the 10 million miles mark –in the past year he spent 43 days at home. The rest he was on the road. She seems to be his perfect match.
But times are changing and Ryan's air-travel miles are endangered when his job as a downsizer no longer requires flying: they will give the news via video conferencing instead. Young corp exec Anna Kendrick (Rocket Science) shadows Ryan on the road as he attempts to show her the more human face of delivering bad news. The movie reveals the gap between the tech-savvy younger generation and their elders. At one point Kendrick is on the phone with her boyfriend and says, "I don't even think of him that way, he's old." Clooney does a double take in the mirror. She later tells him he's in a "cocoon of self-banishment." Looking lean, fit and grey, Clooney opens up here, moving from cockily confident "I am a rock" status to yearning vulnerability.
The movie does not offer easy solutions. Reitman interviews 25 real people who lost their jobs, who are genuinely moving. Over the closing credits he uses a song about job loss given to him by 50-ish Kevin Renick during filming on audiotape. "I like to ask questions with my movies," Reitman said at the Q & A. "This is the most personal movie I've made and could be the most personal movie I'll ever make."
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The key to success is daily practice. The more you practice, the more progress you can expect. It is difficult to set an exact amount of time, but it should be everyday and as much as possible.
For wind instruments, part of the development process is a strengthening of facial and abdominal muscles. As strength and stamina increase, so will the length of practice sessions. Also, as the student advances, a wider variety of lesson materials will necessitate greater practice time.
The bottom line of any practice session is improvement. If an hour is spent, but nothing is improved, then you have played a lot, but not practiced. On the other hand, if improvement is realized in 15 minutes, you have practiced. Hopefully, at this point, you will be encouraged and will continue practicing to improve even more.


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|Cover of Darkness by Kaylea Cross
Targeted by a terrorist cell, Bryn McAllister survives a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut only to be left to die in a desert cellar. When she is rescued by Navy SEAL Lieutenant Declan McCabe and his team, Bryn must rely on the handsome officer to get her to safety. But just when she thinks the nightmare is over, family friend and legendary CIA operative Luke Hutchinson recruits her and McCabe to help track down the terrorist mastermind responsible for the attack. With Bryn determined to see the terrorist brought to justice, Dec joins up to protect her, prepared to do whatever it takes to keep her safe during their dangerous mission. Battling the explosive attraction between them, Dec fights to keep his distance from her so he can do his job and keep her alive. But when plans fall apart and Bryn is captured, he must make the agonizing choice between his duty as a SEAL and the life of the woman he loves.
This follow up is totally different compare to Book 1. While Book 1 felt more like a contemporary romance with a little suspense, this one was straight up hardcore military suspense with a little romance thrown in. I was caught off guard by that fact.
There is a lot of details about the Middle East politics, which drives me a little dizzy. But I'm amazed by Kaylea's knowledge nonetheless. This whole deal is about Luke trying to make use of Bryn's as a human bait to capture Tehrazzi, while recruiting the Navy Seal, Declan as some sort of bodyguard. But I don't understand the rationale behind it at all. All Luke did was whisking Bryn all over Middle East trying to follow Tehrazzi's location. He can totally take down the man himself without the added burden of Bryn. To me Bryn totally didn't serve her purpose.
The romance and the steam level between Declan and Bryn is just okay. In comparison to the grand scheme of thing happening, maybe it doesn't really matter much. In fact, I find Luke's limited conversation with his ex-wife, Emily more heartfelt. Oh, I just can't wait to go through the next two books and get my hands on the final one.
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From 2010–2015, the BigBible Project sought to host conversations about the Bible through local reading groups & online conversations. Since 2016, the project has taken a slightly different focus, hosting discussion from experts on Biblical Literacy and Biblical Reception in a Digital World.
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Turn it off and Discover Godly Things (@changingworship)Posted on March 28, 2014 | 1 Comment"Ezra is all about the rediscovery of Godly things." Thus spake my mate Tim when I was stressing about writing this month's blog. Here I am in the middle of Lent and I'm stressed. For the last couple of months […]


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Well, it sure looks like the rumors were true about Wednesday nights, Ed thought, easing inconspicuously along the edges of the room. But I never knew so many soldiers were gay.
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It started with Ling's lips simply pressed up against Ed's. Well, of course it did. That was how kisses sort of went, but this was, well, a bit surprising.
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This is a 1962 East German Makarov I bought at a pawn shop for $150 out the door.
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I wish I could find stuff like that. Congrats though,looks great,thinking about a Bulgarian mak myself.
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Nice one at a great price, congrats.
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WHAT! Where, I'm in my truck with in running wanting to head to that pawn shop.
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Dr Dimitris Antoniadis, MSc Project Management
After eight years in industry, Dimitris Antoniadis came to the University of Reading to further his knowledge and skills to enable him to progress in his career. His degree ended up offering much more.
"By studying the MSc in Project Management I hoped to expand my skillset and knowledge. What I didn't expect was an overhaul in my way of thinking."
Dimitris found his whole approach to project management and how best to manage stakeholders evolving.
"When I enrolled on the MSc I approached project management as the majority of industry does – by concentrating on control issues. During my studies my eyes were opened to a whole new approach to project management. I realised that to achieve effective project management you need to focus also on the team that is delivering the project, to look at behavioural factors and use a softer approach."
Dimitris took advantage of the flexible aspects of the course:
"I studied the MSc for over two years, while working in industry, sponsored by my employer. The flexibility of the course, which was taught through block teaching, enabled me to do this. This was also aided by the supportive environment of the School and my lecturers. I was even able to continue with my second year of study, despite moving abroad with my new employer."
Dimitris was able to implement his learning immediately, as he was working alongside his studies. In fact, Dimitris was working on the programme of works that was to be the largest-scale one of his career so far: Egnatia Odos.
"The works was funded by the EU and the aim was to construct a motorway of 670km in Northern Greece, from the western port of Igoumenitsa to the eastern Greek-Turkish border at Kipoi, costing £3.2 billion. It eventually took 12 years to build.
We faced some of the biggest technical challenges on these works, especially in the Western region as the road was structured as a combination of tunnels and bridges for several kilometres. As with all major programmes of work, it was highly sensitive and had a large number of stakeholders.
I was taken on to replace the Head of Project Management Office, and I credit what I learned during the MSc at Reading with my success in this role and future ones. I was able to immediately apply my softer approach, focusing on the behavioural side of things. I successfully kept the stakeholders happy and confident in the progress of the works, and was able to support my colleagues and team to deliver the project."
After completing his MSc at the University of Reading, Dimitris went on to study a PhD:
"I was so inspired by what I learned during my MSc that I then did a PhD in 'Managing Complexity in Project Teams', and continue to champion this approach throughout my career."
Dimitris now works as Head of Programme Management Office for UK Power Networks and is a guest speaker at the University of Reading, hoping to inspire students in the same way that he was inspired:
"Guest lecturing at Reading is very important to me: I like to challenge young minds with my way of thinking and I hope to break down the barriers between students, universities and industry. I hope I can inspire Reading students, as I was inspired, to keep an open mind – to be open to a shift in perspective, or a change in attitude, which might well become your passion."


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So the world is full of big ideas and dreamers, and sometimes those dreamers take their big ideas and decide to present them to the world. That is what we have seen of late as we've seen a few upstarts take to Kickstarter to help fund their big idea of Android-based gaming consoles that are inexpensive and therefore more accessible to consumers. In theory, it is a marvelous idea to take an open operating system, jam it into a box full of some okay hardware and then sell it to consumers as a game console. The amount of time it would take to actually develop the thing would be cut down due to using an existing operating system and there will already be a built-in base of games available at launch.
I guess the problem that I'm seeing with some of these ideas, with the big ones being the Ouya and the more recent GameStick, is that Android is truly an interesting operating system and I've long been a proponent of it, but there is quite simply a sheer lack of interest in bringing over high-level games to the system. On top of that, fragmentation is something that a lot of developers fear and have a hard time dealing with. Sometimes the things that will work on one Android device and not another can be confused. I recently got a Samsung Galaxy Note II, which really is a quite marvelous device and downloaded Grand Theft Auto III for it when that game was on sale. It runs smoothly and is pretty fun to have the ability to play a full game like that on a phone. So why then does Grand Theft Auto: Vice City not run on my phone? It is one of the more powerful phones on the market and while it does feature a bigger screen, the dimensions shouldn't be a problem.
It just doesn't work.
That seems to be how things go on Android devices. Even if Apple's iOS is spread out on a few different generations of devices and that some apps simply do not work on older ones, there is still less fear of "fragmentation" with that due to Apple controlling the hardware and the software. Both Ouya and GameStick are trying to work directly with game developers to ensure that there will be games available for their respective systems and you have to believe that a big selling point for these developers is that their games will work on just about any Android device and not just those ones, as there are a ton of Android devices out in the wild now.
Will developers really take this risk? There is still no assurance that either the Ouya or GameStick will be successes, no matter how much money they see on Kickstarter or how much they end up being the darlings of the gaming media. The gaming media loves an underdog story and loves the idea of the industry expanding a bit, yet there is not a ton of room in the marketplace for new brands without billions of advertising dollars behind them. You'd have to believe that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will do everything in their power to ensure that these open source, inexpensive consoles don't gain traction, and if that means stealing away smaller developers to develop for their platforms instead, that is exactly what will happen.
In a perfect world, developers would see the potential in Android and simply dive in headfirst, but the reality is, the fears of "fragmentation" and that these consoles will never happen are strong as well as possible.


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Friday, September 28, 2012
PhotoHunt - Dodgy
This week's PhotoHunt theme is "Dodgy"
At first I didn't know what I was going to pick for this week's photo. I mean dodgy is something not quite right isn't it? Or I guess if someone was going to try to strike you, you could "dodge". I did come up with this picture taken in July in Montreal. If anything dodgy is going on these guys will know about it!
Posted by Dani - tkdchick at 6:00 am
Labels: Photo Hunters, photos
9 comments:
- Jackie's Stitches said...
I always love seeing your take on these themes!
- 6:52 am
- Unknown said...
You are too funny.. Thanks for sharing your photos - makes my day.
- 9:27 am
- Karen said...
At least they should know about it lol. Great pic! :)
- 10:30 am
- Bea said...
I like your 'take' on the theme. Good photo.
- 4:09 pm
- Sandi @the WhistleStop Cafe said...
I've been a bit dodgy about my bloggy visits... I'm glad to see you are playing too.
Happy Hunting!
- 10:53 am
- Anne said...
Love it! That person crouching in front of the building looks dodgy..hehe
- 12:08 pm
- peppylady (Dora) said...
I wonder if the police is on there doughnut break...I had trouble with this week one too.
Mine is up and the coffee is on.
- 5:56 pm
- eastcoastlife said...
Dodgy characters will run when they see these guys. :P
- 12:52 am
- Vicki said...
Yep you don't want to be dodgy when they police are around. Good interpretation for the theme.
My dodgy is at http://hindmarsh-island.com/?p=865
- 10:43 pm
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"..A tasty dub-fuelled…powerhouse of rolling breakbeats" – DJ Magazine
If you have been to a festival somewhere in Europe this past summer, chances are you heard the Freefall Collective. Regular faces at such events as Boomtown Fair, Noisily, Glastonbury and the Summer Festival in Seville, Spain, the band have been road testing their 2nd album to gaggles of joyous punters.
While the live circuit is in their blood, they are equally as comfortable in the studio making bass rumbling breaks and beats that have graced the record boxes of such luminaries as Deekline, Ed Solo & Atomic Hooligan. They have put music out on respected labels like Rat Records, Pooty Club and of course their own label 'Supafrequency', which they released their first album on, 'Sounds Out Of Time' in 2012.
'Welcome To Earth' is released in early 2015, again on 'Supafrequency' featuring the guest vocals of MC Tenja & oldskool Hip-Hop legend, MC Duke. A mixture of dub, breaks and bass, 'Welcome to Earth' heralds a new era for the Collective, but never strays too far away from their winning formula that you know and love.
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Henry Steward, Civil War soldier. Image courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
When Michigan sent its first volunteers to serve in the Civil War in April 1861, black men were not allowed to enlist. An 1862 Michigan law defined the organization of military forces as "All able-bodied white male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and not exempted by the laws of the Unites States, or this State."
After Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, some states – Massachusetts, for example – immediately changed their laws and began recruiting "men of African descent" for service. Many black men – from Massachusetts, Michigan, other states and Canada – answered Massachusetts' call, and enlisted in the spring of 1863. Henry Steward was one of these men.
Henry Steward
Henry Steward, a farmer from Adrian, Michigan; enlisted with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry on April 4, 1863 and became a non-commissioned officer. Steward recruited other volunteers for the Fifty-fourth and was eventually promoted to Sergeant. The photo above, courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is of Steward in his full military uniform. Color was added to his sword, breastplate and parts of his uniform at an extra cost.
Henry Steward was wounded at the Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina on July 18, 1863. He died two months later of dysentery at a hospital on Morris Island, South Carolina.
Fighting for Massachusetts
When looking at the enlistment rolls for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiments, you see many men from Michigan. There were sixteen in Company E along with Steward. Farmers, carpenters, a barber and a harness maker – all from the Detroit area – enlisted with Massachusetts throughout the spring of 1863.
Michigan's Own African American Unit
In August of 1863, the First Michigan Colored Troops infantry regiment was organized in Detroit, and an infantry band went on a recruitment tour through the southern part of the lower peninsula. On February 11, 1864, the First Michigan Colored Troops was mustered into federal service with 895 officers and men. It then became the 102nd United States Colored Troops.
For more information on the 54th and 55th Massachusetts, please visit the Massachusetts Historical Society's online Civil War gallery. A special thank you to the Massachusetts Historical Society for the use of the image of Henry Steward.
Conceived in Liberty
For more on Michigan's Civil War experiences, come visit "Conceived in Liberty," a new special exhibit at the Michigan Historical Museum. "Conceived in Liberty" caps the Michigan Historical Center's commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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Staff working with disabled persons at group homes and medical personnel should have a closer relationship, the executive director of Supportive Lifestyles told a fatality inquiry into the scalding death of David Holmes on Wednesday.
Joanne Hart Sweazy said there has to be clear instructions that staff are to call 911 immediately if there is a serious health concern of a patient and, if not, call HealthLink and talk directly to a trained nurse.
"We are not trained medical professionals, so we need that guidance to be certain," Sweazy told provincial inquiry counsel Nancy Purdy.
"There needs to be a closer relationship with medical services and any medical treatment required for individuals. The closer relationship we have for checking homes, the better we can serve them by coming in to assist."
Sweazy said she also would like to see group homes — such as the one in which Holmes was residing at when he suffered serious scalding burns to his buttocks, arms and legs on Oct. 23, 2011, leading to his death just over a month later — adopt a more stringent policy on the temperatures of water used in baths of patients.
She said the Alberta Building Code's permitting of temperatures of 49 C is too hot.
"Forty-eight or 49 C out of the tap still can scald you within five to 10 minutes. I think that's too high within supportive homes," Sweazy said. "It should be considered to lower temperatures to be safe. We changed it because we want to ensure nothing happens."
She also wants to see more regular inspections of water temperatures, especially in cases of patients such as Holmes, 32, who had a serious illness and could not speak.
Staffing turnover also was a serious problem because of low wages at the time of Holmes' death, she added, noting it has improved with pay raises over each of the past three years.
"I think it's had an effect on stability of our staff," Sweazy said.
She said her organization continues to look at all policies to make improvements as they go. One change already made was to have a bathing protocol that was suited to each client.
The deceased's father, Bob Holmes, said, while questioning Edith Baraniecki, director of Protection of Persons in Care, that he would like to see a recommendation made that would allow persons to call both her department and police if it is deemed necessary because of alleged abuse.
"I recall being told I couldn't report to both," Holmes alleged. "I was told if I reported to the agency, I couldn't or shouldn't report to Calgary Police Service. We were discouraged from going to police."
Bob Holmes said he believes the lost time between his son's case being reported to Protection of Persons in Care and police becoming involved affected the quality of evidence.
"The detective said he did not become involved until after David passed away. He said had he been involved sooner, we would have had a better investigation," he said.
Baraniecki said there was nothing stopping interested parties from contacting police if they felt there was some abuse going on.
"We never discourage anyone from going to police if they felt police should be involved," said Baraniecki. "That was my directive."
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Ontario's youngest university officially crowned its newest president in a ceremony at the Regent Theatre on May 8.
"Today we are ushering a new generation for this fantastic university. I feel like a parent who's watching their kid get married," said University of Ontario University of Technology (UOIT) Chancellor Noreen Taylor at the ceremony.
Dr. Steven Murphy was installed as the fourth president and vice-chancellor of the UOIT after taking over the role in March after former president Dr. Tim McTiernan stepped down at the end of 2017. Murphy has previously worked as a dean at Ryerson University, and has been working in education for more than 10 years. While Murphy said the ceremony was nice, he says the hard work begins now.
"I think we will get down to business around raising the profile around the university, increasing the student experience, bringing entrepreneurship on campus, enhancing the experiential culture of the campus, and making it a 'sticky' place where students really feel proud there," said Murphy after the ceremony.
To start his official duties as president of UOIT, Murphy aims to build on the work of those who came before him. He comments that times are changing fast and the world is more polarized than ever due to politics, free speech and differences in opinion, but this allows UOIT a chance to prove itself to the world.
"In these times, it is tempting to draw the blinds, close the drapes and retreat back into our academic silo," said Murphy, "But it is at these times of profound social change where universities have historically shone brightest in how we respond to the challenges around us."
Murphy aims to improve the student experience at UOIT saying, "the student experience drives everything I do." He wants to create more experiential learning opportunities, and continue to improve the quality of education.
"Education needs more than a podium, a mic and a person," said Murphy.
To also improve the student experience, Murphy is aiming to create a more inclusive UOIT campus.
"We need to be responsive and relevant and assume our role in building an inclusive, expansive society. We need to be an open tent," said Murphy, "We need to make sure that everyone can feel welcome in our community."
Murphy's next step is to cement a more entrepreneurial feel to how UOIT works with partners and teaches students. He says entrepreneurship is crucial to thinking 'more nimble' and will allow students to break into the business-side of an organization and increase problem-solving skills. Taking an entrepreneurial approach will raise awareness of UOIT and its capabilities, leading to more partnerships and success, Murphy says.
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Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says an undisclosed compensation package for Canada's dairy industry for the sectoral impact of the Canada-Europe trade deal was not included in the Liberal's inaugural budget because the agreement has not been ratified yet.
"As I've clearly indicated, we understand the importance of compensation – but it's [CETA] kind of like the TPP – until it's ratified," the minster told iPolitics.
"There is nothing to indicate that we're not [compensating]. But, what has to take place is that, you know, it [CETA] has to be ratified."
"The government doesn't want to cut the hand that feeds you," MacAulay said.
Canada's dairy industry is livid over the Liberals' decision to not include details of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) compensation package in their budget. This, despite International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's expectations the trade deal could be ratified as early as 2017.
Under the pending deal, European cheesemakers would be able to ship an additional 17,700 tonnes of product — 16,000 tonnes of fine cheese and 1,700 tonnes of industrial cheese — to Canada.
Dairy Farmers of Canada has estimated the concession will cost their industry $300 million in market losses.
Compensation for dairy farmers wasn't the only Liberal promise on the agriculture file that failed to make the 2016 budget. There was also no mention of a $160 million value-added fund for Canadian food processors — despite it being a key election promise.
On Thursday, MacAulay said the fund would still be developed but did not say when it would begin to receive funding. "Over the next year we will be formulating that," he told iPolitics, noting the fund is part of the government's broader innovation agenda.
"It's not that anyone was trying to skate away from it or anything," MacAulay said. "This is work that we have to do."
On the research front, MacAulay said the $30 million over six years for genomics and the $41.5 million included in the budget for repairs and modernization of a select number of research stations is "a small amount" of the government's plan for agriculture research.
"It's a start," said MacAulay. More funding for agricultural research is expected once a review of how funding for research is allocated
The federal government, MacAulay stressed, is committed to Canada's agriculture industry — before criticizing the former Conservative government's handling of the file.
"There's been an awful lot of millions taken out of agriculture and agri-food over the last number of years by the previous government," MacAulay said. "Eventually, we'll get it [the industry] back on its feet."
Meanwhile, a $500 million investment in rural broadband internet over the next five years, the minister said, will help Canadian farmers continue modernizing their operations. "We farmers, myself included, live in rural areas and we need that."


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Wednesday night's Strikeforce L.A event kicks off a crazy 10 day spell of MMA action that culminates with another Strikeforce event, Fedor Vs Werdum on the 26th.
The L.A event on the 16th coincides with the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles, which gives ample opportunity for both Strikeforce and EA Sports to promote the forthcoming EA Sports MMA title which will feature many of the stars that fight for the promotion.
Two of them, Robbie Lawler and Renato 'Babalu' Sobral headline this event at a catchweight of 195lbs. Lawler was last seen back in January where he survived a first round of eating vicious leg kicks from Melvin Manhoef before suddenly landing a knockout blow to hand him the 19th win of his career.
Sobral hasn't fought since losing his title with a devastating KO loss against Gegard Mousasi back in August of last year.
There's an added incentive for the winner of this fight as Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker says that the winner will go on to a title in their respective weight classes. For Lawler that would be Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza (who Coker says will be the no.1 contender at middleweight should Jake Shields leave for the UFC as is anticipated to happen), while Sobral would then take on Muhammed 'King Mo' Lawal for the 205lb strap.
With Bobby Lashley pulled from the LA event due to injury the fight card has had a little reshuffling and now, Evangelista 'Cyborg' Santos, husband of woman's champion Cris Cyborg, will face DREAM's welterweight champion Marius Zaromskis in the precursor to the main event.
Zaromskis will be looking for his first win in Strikeforce after losing to the current champion Nick Diaz last time out. Santos also lost his last bout in the promotion at a Strikeforce Challengers card against Joey Villasenor, though he has since rebounded with a win at an event in Brazil late last year.
After two wins in the Strikeforce Challengers series, Tim Kennedy makes his way onto the big show to take on veteran fighter Trevor Prangley who has himself recently fought on a Challengers card, drawing with Karl Amoussou in a fight stopped early due to an accidental eye-poke.
The card is rounded out by two former Elite XC veterans KJ Noons and Conor Heun.
Noons was Elite XC's lightweight champion, and he returned to MMA action in DREAM recently after almost two years out and picked up a win over Brazilian Andre Amade. Heun's last fight was a year ago, losing by decision to former UFC fighter Jorge Gurgel at ShoMMA 2.
The Strikeforce LA event will air live on Showtime this Wednesday night. Check back tomorrow for our predictions for the show.
Strikeforce: LA
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- Robbie Lawler vs. Renato "Babalu" Sobral
- Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos vs. Marius Zaramoskis
- Tim Kennedy vs. Trevor Prangley
- Conor Heun vs. K.J. Noons


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The Jungle at Sanford Lake Park
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For a brand new course, you'll have trouble finding anything better. Sanford Parks, along with designer Dan Straley have transformed a thick, wooded landscape into a tough, challenging and beautiful disc golf course that skirts the shoreline of Sanford Lake. An easy to follow layout takes you through woods, along open fairways, up and down small hills and requires a player to know how to land the disc in a great spot for the approach or putt. There's a super mix of long and short but don't expect too many aces at this Jungle. For most players, scoring a par 54 is an achievement to be thrilled about. The cons are minimal and all are being addressed and will resolve themselves as spring and summer 2010 rolls around. Many fairways are still growing new grass that when mature will enhance the beauty and groomed appearance of the entire course. There are several holes with huge right to left turns and hidden pin placement, some of which are being revised to allow a much more true indication of a players skill level as opposed to succeeding from a lucky shot or tree hit. When coming to the Saginaw Valley area, this course is a must play of all 8 existing courses. The options for play in the Saginaw Valley are so diversified that ALL players should plan a trip and plan to stay long enough to visit the courses in Frankenmuth (long and open), Tittabawasee Park in Freeland (tight, short and technical), The Pines at St. Charles (wooded, tight, short), Chippewa Banks in Midland (very well rounded course), Blizzard Hills in Pinconning (rustic, tight, water and a bar at hole 1 & 10), CMU Course in Mt. Pleasant (open, windy, disgusting rubber tee pads) and Deerfield Park @ Mt. Pleasant ( a great new course that just opened 2009).
Pros: Beautiful piece of property. Will test various parts of your game. On some holes judgement of landing zones is critical. Shooting a Pro Par 54 is truly a good round. Cons: The land prevents any grip and rip drives. This not a con to me since I cant grip and rip but I do know some will not like this. I would have liked to see a few less trees removed around a couple of baskets. Other Thoughts: The Parks Dept is solidly behind this course and have spent alot of time, and money in it development. They look at "The Jungle" as a work in progress and will continue to improve the course.
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Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, today announced a new comedy series, Friends from College, from Nick Stoller (Neighbors, Neighbors: Sorority Rising, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) and Francesca Delbanco. The husband and wife team will serve as executive producers and writers on the series and Stoller will also direct all eight episodes. Production will begin this fall in New York.
The eight episode series will feature an all star cast including Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele, Keanu, Don't Think Twice), Cobie Smulders (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Avengers, How I Met Your Mother), Annie Parisse (Vinyl, The Following), Nat Faxon (Married, American Dad, Ben & Kate), Fred Savage (The Grinder, The Wonder Years) and Jae Suh Park (The Mindy Project, The Big Short).
"Nick is a comedic mastermind. With Friends from College, he and Francesca have created a world that is both moving and very, very funny. We are thrilled to be working with them and this incredible cast, and look forward to audiences around the world laughing with and at these relatable characters," Cindy Holland, Netflix Vice President of Original Content.
The show centers on a group of friends who went to Harvard together and are now facing down their forties and experiencing a range of success, or lack thereof, both professionally and domestically. With interwoven and oftentimes complicated relationships with one another, the series is a comedic exploration of old friendships, former romantic entanglements and balancing adult life with nostalgia for the past.


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Miann Chocolate Factory is our bean-to-bar chocolate factory in the Morningside Suburb of Auckland, NZ.
We opened our workshop to create our own chocolate for our Miann Patisseries based in Britomart, Fort Street and Morningside, to create something uniquely our own and to create beautifully crafted chocolate bars which we now sell in all our stores. We use all our chocolate in our Cakes, Gelato, Bonbons and more. So if you've had a Chocolate treat from any of our stores, the chocolate was hand made in Morningside.
In early 2018, we decided to jump in the deep end and create our own range of chocolate. Currently, in our little factory we roast, crack, sort, winnow, grind, conch, and temper small batches of beans and then mold and package each bar by hand. By sourcing high quality beans and carefully crafting tiny batches, we try to bring out the individual flavors and nuances of each bean.
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Christianity is shrinking in the West. Over 70% of youth leave the church in college. Our culture is challenging the Christian worldview and Biblical truths. We are told the Bible is a book of myths, outdated morality, and contradictions. Most Christians are unprepared to respond rationally to attacks against their faith. The truth is Christianity is rational and demonstrably true! In this dynamic and informative teaching series, Brian Henson reveals how to ground the Biblical worldview and uproot the naturalistic worldview. He presents rational and factual responses to objections against our faith. This series is a must for all Christians! Learn how philosophy, science, archaeology, history, fulfilled prophecies and miracles establish the truth of the Christian faith. You will leave in awe of God, amazed with the rational world he has created, deeply grounded in biblical truth, and better equipped when confronted with skepticism and opposition against our faith.
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FENWICK — Beaches in Delaware got a much needed shot in the arm this week with the announcement of up to $30 million in federal replenishment funds for damages caused by Hurricane Sandy last fall, while Ocean City awaits a formal timeline for its own beach restoration project.
Delaware officials this week unveiled a plan to utilize roughly $30 million in federal funding passed through the Army Corps of Engineers to repair and restore the beaches from Rehoboth and points north to Fenwick Island severely damaged and eroded by Hurricane Sandy last October. The funding will be provided to the Army Corps for Delaware through the federal Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 and will restore the First State's beaches to pre-Sandy conditions.
Symbolically, Tuesday's announcement came on the six-month anniversary of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in the mid-Atlantic region. The plan calls for pumping almost two million cubic yards of sand back onto Delaware beaches. The sand will be used to restore Delaware beaches and repair the vast network of dunes.
Delaware officials said on Tuesday the planning and design work had been completed and the project was ready to be put out to bid. Although no timetable was announced, the major restoration project will likely begin around the heavily damaged Indian River Inlet area with work done on the municipal beaches likely after the summer season. For Delaware officials, the $30 million federal investment will be money well spent.
"Yesterday was the six-month anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, and while Delaware did not have the severe damage that our neighbors to the north experienced, Delaware did see widespread flooding that caused damage to many of our homes and businesses," said Senator Tom Carper on Tuesday. "I am so pleased that we are not only going to repair our beaches, but that the Corps is going to construct a truly protective beach and dune. It's a smart investment to reduce potential losses and protect lives, homes, businesses and infrastructure."
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell said the federal investment in Delaware's restoration will help ensure the state's beaches will hold up against similar storms in the future.
"Because we are a low-lying state, extreme storms pose a real threat to us," he said. "Citizens, businesses and infrastructure are affected when an area floods. My thanks goes to our Congressional delegation for securing the funding that's allowing us to restore damaged beaches and dunes and shore up our vulnerable areas so we can mitigate the potential impact of future storms."
Meanwhile, Ocean City's beaches will also undergo a major replenishment project with help from the federal Army Corps of Engineers although the scale and scope will not be as large as the vast Delaware project. In April, the Army Corps released a pre-solicitation notice for an extensive emergency renourishment project that will ultimately pump a million cubic yards of sand onto the barrier island.
Almost immediately after Sandy passed, Army Corps of Engineers officials arrived in Ocean City to assess the damage and began to make determinations about what action would be needed to restore the damaged beaches. Over five months later, the Army Corps in April released a pre-solicitation notice to begin soliciting bids for an extensive replenishment project.
The eventual contract will also include the reconstruction or repair of the vast dune system that stretches from the northern end of the Boardwalk to the Delaware line. Also included in the future contract is providing and planting of dune grass and providing and installing rope fencing.
The eventual contract duration will be approximately 210 days from start to finish and the wide cost range for the project is estimated at anywhere from $10 million to $25 million. The timetable for the project remains uncertain, but with the arrival of another summer season, it will likely be pushed back until the fall.
Ocean City Engineer Terry McGean said this week the federal funding share has been secured and the bid process is getting underway.
"The Corps has gotten funding approval and the work is expected to start in the fall, but that is all I know right now," he said. "We have a pre-bid meeting scheduled for May 17, and we should have a lot more information after that."
McGean said the hope is to coordinate the emergency replenishment needed to repair the damages from Hurricane Sandy with the normally scheduled Ocean City beach replenishment project. The Ocean City beach is routinely replenished every four years with periodic emergency projects as needed.
The next regularly scheduled replenishment project is set for 2014, but McGean said the hope is to coordinate the emergency repairs needed for the Sandy damage with the regular replenishment cycle.


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The federal government suggests it could cost as much as $40,000 for a family of six to resettle in Canada (Including Airfare).
As sponsors, our role is to provide financial and emotional support during the first year while this family rebuilds their life in Canada. Like most refugee families, this family will arrive at the airport with only a few small and precious belongings. We are raising money to provide the family with the things that most of us take for granted, including housing, heat & electricity, home furnishings, clothing, and food for one year, in addition to costs incurred during the application process (medical exams, flights to Canada).
We have partnered with Grace United Church, a registered charity, to provide you with tax receipts for your generous contributions (Receipts for donations of $25 or more). Please mail cheques to Grace United Church, 581 Howden Street Peterborough, K9J 4B4. (please put "Safe Haven" on the memo line). As this initiative is driven by volunteers, all proceeds will go directly to support the Alftih family.
Also, if you wish to make an online donation, please click on the link below and you will receive a tax receipt from Canadahelps.org. Please Click Here To Make An Online Donation
And, because we feel that our accomplishment is yours as well, we will keep you updated as the arrival of the family approaches. Please feel free to fill in the CONTACT US form, and you will be added to our e-mail list.
Thank you for your kindness and generosity. And, above all, thank you for believing that we can make a difference.


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Learning how to manage your personal finances is important to make sure that your account is always in the black. Instead of relying on credit card companies with high interest rates or loan sharks to pay back your debt, avoid these costs in the first place by spending money wisely.
Resist the illusion that your portfolio is somehow perfect, and will never face a loss. Everyone wants to make money in trading but the reality is, all traders will lose from time to time. If you understand this early in your career you are a step ahead of the game and will remain realistic when a loss happens.
Be very skeptical about any guarantee that your credit history can be improved. Some companies may say they can absolutely fix your history. Credit repair can never be guaranteed as every situation is unique, and the steps needed for repair will be unique as well. The only credit repair agencies that guarantee success are fraudulent ones.
Improve your personal finance skills with a very useful but often overlooked tip. Make sure that you are taking about 10-13% of your paychecks and putting them aside into a savings account. This will help you out greatly during the tough economic times. Then, when an unexpected bill comes, you will have the funds to cover it and not have to borrow and pay interest fees.
Don't leave your wallet or purse unattended. While thieves may not take your cards for a spending spree, they can capture the information from them and use it for online purchases or cash advances. You won't know it until the money is gone and it's too late. Keep your financial information close at all times.
To earn money for one's personal finances establishing a dog walking service can produce lucrative returns if it becomes well enough established. By starting with a smaller group of select customers at a discounted price one can gain clients through word of mouth and advertisement if one wants to attract even more clients. The key to personal finance is to take initiative what ever path one may choose.
If you decide to hire a credit repair firm to help with fixing your credit, make sure you understand what they charge. Many firms charge you by the number of disputes and deletions attempted with no guarantee of success. Try to find a credit repair firm that charges fair and has no hidden fees.
Many people spend a significant amount of money trying to win the lottery. Instead of doing this, the money should be channeled to serious investments. You will then know the money will be there and grow instead of flushing your money away!
Try to stick to your budget as best you can. If your expenses are increasing considerably, take a moment to reconsider your renovations. You may have hired the wrong contractor or may be straying away from your original idea. It is easy to get carried away when making changes, but stay focused.
Offering ones services as a piano teacher can often be a good way for one to gain some money for ones personal finances. Clients can be made of people all ages and one can often work out of home provided they have a piano. Apart from being a good gain to finances it will help one practice their own talent for piano at the same time.
As said in the beginning of this article, managing personal finances is imperative for any adult who has to pay bills or other necessities, like groceries. Remember the tips in this article, so that you can avoid getting into a pile of debt that seems impossible to pay back on your own.


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These life changes have sparked a question: What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century?
For many men, the question might seem silly — a relic of a bygone time. Modern men have transcended gender stereotypes and should be judged as individuals. But that attitude is why the question is so pressing.
Simply speaking, we have learned to cease thinking of ourselves as men.
This is problematic on a couple of fronts. Firstly, as well intentioned as our efforts might be, we are the ultimate fools of naivete if we don't see this move as fundamentally playing into the very privilege from whose yoke (and benefits) we seek to escape. The ability to turn away from and play ignorant to this most ubiquitous context in such a self-righteously defiant fashion is, itself, a privilege that lies almost exclusively at the feet of men.
Women, for all their gains over the past decades, have no such luxury at their disposal. Whether in the workplace, in social settings, in still many homes, and in a not insignificant remaining number of cultures, women have no choice but to consistently bump up against the realities of their womanhood. No escape hatches or trap doors abound to provide our counterparts with a similarly pleasant pièce de résistance. And so, our euphemistic escapism from the difficult reconciliation of our past and future responsibilities is, when the rubber hits the road, a sublime silver spooned slap in the face.
In short, we do no one any favors by cultivating and codling this frame of mind.
The second reason that this is a pressing question is that whilst we wile our days away renouncing our manhood, it is the case that the very concept is debased on an almost hourly basis. By not electing to take it upon ourselves to wrestle with the implications and responsibilities of our manhood, we leave wide open the door through which an infanticized and, frankly, feckless impostor is allowed to assume his posture of fraud.
One need only take a quick look at the kinds of male images that litter popular culture to conclude that many young boys and men are bereft of anything even approaching a constructive role model of manhood presently. Be it Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, Doug Heffernan, or Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, the implication is clear: these days, to be a man is to be fat, incompetent, and oafish. Certainly these types of comical characters have permeated popular culture in decades post, but the prevalence of their visage and the echoing absence of more constructive alternatives (a problem that, for all the challenges of previous male incarnations, has not existed in such stark contrast previously), makes these men the prime target for male cultural reference.
Consider the potential state of future men now growing up with these dullards as the constant baseline of informational bombardment about what it means to be a man. Is it any wonder that it seems like an increasing sea of boys steadily marches against the shores of our best efforts to grow up? And imagine the plight of women for whom these childish ring wraiths are meant to be partners (should those women choose men as partners, and the challenge also exists for men who come to choose men as their partners — sexual orientation is no Maginot Line against this onslaught).
The current and future problems begin to stack up relatively quickly. It is not just in our best interests, but is our obligation and responsibility to ask and steel ourselves to the task of adequately answering the question: what does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century lest we allow the lowest common denominator to answer for us.
It is with this question and the variety of answers that I joyfully and excitedly intend to grapple over the next few weeks. I hope you'll join me for the ride.


text: Digital What Every Social Media Marketer Should Know About PeopleBrowsr The PeopleBrowsr Platform is a social search engine with real-time viral analytics for brand engagement, combining ReSearch.ly, Viral Analytics and the Command Center. After the jump - what you need to know about PeopleBrowsr.By Neil Glassman|March 18, 2011 Share By Neil Glassman|March 18, 2011 Share The PeopleBrowsr Platform is a social search engine with real-time analytics for brand engagement, combining ReSearch.ly, Viral Analytics and the Command Center.Recently, PeopleBrowsr released ReSearch.ly with 1,000 days of data designed to deliver social search analytics through geo-location, sentiment analysis, real-time and historical mentions. ReSearch.ly can be used to help identify Brand Champions and top influencers within interest-based communities, as well as map degrees of separation. PeopleBrowsr's Enterprise Services help brands and advertising agencies with campaigns to build audience engagement, provide in-depth analytics with human sentiment analysis and offer customized social media reporting.Ways the product benefits social media campaignsPeopleBrowsr can be used to identify top key influencers, map an interest graph to find Brand Champions, build engaged audiences, and create in-depth campaign reporting for social media ROI. The company defines a Brand Champion as an influencer who has a wide audience of friends who are discussing a relevant topic. Coolest featureInterest Graph – With ReSearch.ly, search 1,000 days of data rapidly, find Brand Champions in the communities they influence, map connections along the interest graph and receive customized Brand Champion Scorecards. Feature rundown Interest based communities creation and filtering – Create and search within specific communities, e.g., Mommy Bloggers, music lovers, your brand champions 1,000 days of collective intelligence – Explore conversations and get industry insights in real time and historically Viral analytics – See stats on brand sentiment, global metrics, mentions and brand influencers Trends prediction – RT acceleration tracking to predict emerging trends within specific communities and globally User profile Global brands and advertising agencies.User review"PeopleBrowsr is responsive in every sense of the word – in service, in analytics, in engagement solutions that work. Our work with them in social media campaigns have helped us build a community of truly engaged fans." Sean Percival, Vice President, Online Marketing, Myspace Recent newsPeopleBrowsr is rolling out Social Media Command Centers globally.PricingThe PeopleBrowsr Platform – with ReSearch.ly, Viral Analytics and the real-time Command Center – has tiered pricing from $9 to $999. Enterprise Services with customized solutions and services vary for large agencies and global brands. Compared to competitionAccording to the company: "Enterprise Services – engage with hyper-targeted audiences with build campaigns, and in-depth custom reporting. Champions by brand – find champions specific to your brand. Influence in Real time – find people that are relevant and influential now. Human sentiment analysis – mechanical turking. PeopleBrowsr Platform – Viral Analytics, Social Search Platform, Social Engagement Command Center integrated into one end-to-end solution. Viral Analytics – see deep viral analytics, predict trends to engage in popular conversations. 1,000 days of collective intelligence – the PeopleBrowsr datamine stores 10,000 posts per second to retrieve and index the collective intelligence. Team of industry experts – including Brian Solis and Tim O'Reilly – provide critical analysis for specialized research."Our "What You Should Know" series of application profiles has been helping brands and agencies select the most appropriate tools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their campaigns. Need help measuring or monetizing your social media activities? Check out dozens of additional apps in the series archives – one is bound to come to your rescue! Share http://adweek.it/2kYGZAe copy Adweek Adweek


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Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster's blog, printed in The Jewish Daily Forward (below), expresses well why torture is contrary to Jewish values and tradition.
She is Director of North American Programs for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and a board member of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.
The resources she cites (below) show why, in truth, torture does not work and that the torture shown in this remarkable film, "Zero Dark Thirty" did NOT lead to information identifying Osama bin Laden's courier, per Senators John McCain, Diane Feinstein and Carl Levin with access to classified CIA information.
Rachel and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America have done us a tremendous service in bringing this material to public attention, and I am happy to post the links to her article and this information here.
Rabbi Kahn-Troster's blog – http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/168712/zero-dark-thirty-brings-torture-to-big-screen/
Articles and source material on torture and Jewish values http://www.rhr-na.org/issuescampaigns/torture/us-sponsored-torture/393-zero-dark.html


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Sacred Wind Communications is a privately owned, New Mexico-based company, dedicated to improve telecommunications services to rural areas within New Mexico.
Our Mission:
Sacred Wind will provide customers on and off the Navajo reservation with the highest quality telecommunications services, taking advantage of the most appropriate technologies, and we will be diligent in pursuing the most affordable alternatives for our customers.
Our Vision:
Sacred Wind Communications intends to breathe new life in the communications systems that our customers will depend on for safety, education and economic growth.
Blessing Way Ceremony
We recently announced that we were a winning bidder in the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") CAF II auction to provide broadband and voice services to new areas of Navajo land where we have never operated before. We expect to offer services to 1,000 new Navajo homes.
We celebrated this major development with a Blessing Way Ceremony, led by medicine man Anderson Hoskie. Thank you to all of our partners, elected officials, and employees for making our ceremony special and beautiful. We are excited to continue our work of connecting communities for life.
How We Protect Customers: Our Network Operations Center
Dine' Ba' Na'anish "Working for the people"
Sacred Wind Making Academic Opportunities Possible
Sacred Wind is more than a telecommunications company. We are committed to making a difference in the communities we serve, and value the relationships we have created with those on the Navajo reservation and those off tribal lands. Each year Sacred Wind offers scholarships of $1,000 each to students in our territory who are academic achievers and who are financially in need. We are pleased to do this.
One of the ways we know that we can help is by encouraging young people in rural communities to continue their education past the high school years. Presently, education at a university or a technical college can be very expensive and places a great strain on both the student and the student's family, especially in today's economy and in rural communities. We estimate that over 40% of the customers in our territory fall beneath the federal poverty guidelines; paying for a college education for their children may not be possible. And yet, education is one of the main ways that people can gain access to upward mobility.
If you'd like to support Sacred Wind Scholarships, please contact us at (505) 821-5080 to make donations so we can help make children fulfill their dreams of higher education.
Sacred Wind Donates $25,000 to Native American Scholarships (2010)
In October, 2009 Sacred Wind was voted as "The Most Inspiring Small Business in America" through the American Express/NBC Shine A Light contest because of its commitment to making a difference in the communities in its territory. As part of the contest winnings, Sacred Wind received $50,000 in cash, half of which Sacred Wind immediately awarded to Native scholarship programs.
On March 2, 2010 John Badal, CEO of Sacred Wind Communications, presented the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) with a $10,000 scholarship check. Then, on March 11, 2010 he presented the Navajo Technical College (NTC) with a $15,000 check for scholarships for Navajo youth attending NTC.
John Badal stated, "There is no better way to ensure a strong future for our company and our state than to support education. We are proud to assist AIGC and the Navajo Technical College in advancing, through higher education, a world of opportunities for our tribal youth."
Sacred Wind Communications Wins 'Shine a Light' Contest
In 2009, American Express in partnership with NBC Universal created their 'Shine a Light' program in which a national search was done for the "Most Inspiring Small Business in America." Local businesses were to be nominated for their community involvement, and then, voted on by the nation's populace. More than 4,000 companies were nominated and a panel of three judges – fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, TV personality, Ellen Degeneres and MSNBC's host of "Your Business" JJ Ramberg voted on the three finalists, of which Sacred Wind Communications was one. AMEX/ NBC Universal announced Sacred Wind as the winner of their contest on October 19, 2009.
"Our winning the award is an affirmation of our industry's value in rural areas,"said John Badal, co-founder and CEO of Sacred Wind Communications, Inc. "Whether a rural telecom carrier or a supplier to such carriers, we bridge the IT divide on a daily basis with little to no fanfare. Sacred Wind's team of dedicated employees is the main factor in the recognition we've received. Their "can do" attitude and their compassion for the many unserved customers in this remote area have transformed a business responsibility into a mission."
As the winner in the American Express/ NBC Universal 'Shine a Light' contest, Sacred Wind received a cash award of $50,000 and an additional $50,000 in marketing support from American Express. Sacred Wind donated half of the cash award to its non-profit's scholarship fund, creating a scholarship for the Navajo Technical College and supporting the American Indian Graduate Center's scholarship program.
Sacred Wind Communication's story and winning of award


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[Town Musicians of Bremen – Short Story for Kids]
"Chi… chi… chi… he… he… hi… hi… kids, do not be scared. I am your friend Die Hexe. Today I came to city of Bremen in Germany to tell you story of Town Musicians of Bremen." …and Die Hexe started the story…
Once upon a time there was donkey who served his master for many years. But when donkey became old, not fit to work as he used to be, his master thought not to give him food anymore. Donkey became very disappointed and left his house. He traveled to Bremen to become town musician. Overall, he was very proud of the singing talent he had and thought it can be used for living in his old age.
On the way he met an old dog who was crying. Donkey came to him and asked the matter. The dog replied that he became old and no longer can hunt. His master decided to kill him rather feeding him for free; so he ran for his life. Donkey consoled the dog and asked to join him to become musician in Bremen. They both started to Bremen. Donkey decided to play flute while dog would beat drums. "It's going to be melodious concert. People in Bremen would love it." They daydreamed.
Soon they saw a pussy cat. She was just like them — old and weak. She told them that she became old and no longer can chase mice. Her mistress stopped feeding. One day her mistress took the cat to drown but then cat ran for life and now she did not know what to do. Other old musicians consulted each other and offered in chorus the cat to be part of choir with them to become musician in Bremen. Cat joined Donkey and Dog.
The trio continued to their destination. They went past a farm and found a rooster sitting gravely sad. Rooster told his story to the band, "I used to predict weather and was loved by all because of my melodious crows. But tomorrow guest would be coming home and lady of house planned to cook me so I ran for my life. Now I do not know what to do." The musicians got a singer. They offered the rooster to join them to become musician in Bremen. The group of four went on together for a better future.
They entered in a forest and tried to settle under a tree, tired and hungry. Rooster, habitually, climbed on peak of the tree and started looking around. He saw a light coming from a distant, deserted house. He told the news to his fellow musicians. They all were hungry and decided to go to the house. They reached the house. Tallest among them donkey peeped through windows. Others asked desperately, "what do you see, you old fella?" Donkey replied that there was a celebration going on. A group of bandits were celebrating their loot by eating delicious food.
The musicians could not control their hunger. To see the food, dog climbed on donkey's back. Cat jumped and sat on the back of the dog. Finally rooster landed on the cat's back. Sight of feast was arousing their taste buds. It was difficult to control their hunger anymore. They decided to show their talents to the robbers in anticipation to get some food as reward.
In chorus, donkey started braying, dog barking, cat meowing and rooster crowing. Bandits turned to window to see the source of loud, scary and strange sound. Moment the bandits saw, in dark, the tall and strange structure built by four musicians, who were standing one above other and making the most horrible sound, the bandits got very scared. They thought it was ghost of the forest. They ran to save their lives, and never returned to Bremen – never ever in their life again. That day the musicians had the best dinner of their life.
"Chi… chi… chi… he… he… hi… hi… That's all for tonight kids!!!" …and Die Hexe flew to next destination, flying on her magical broom.


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Tall trend
Pancakes are out to conquer the world, but not the flat kind that anyone can make. The latest trend comes from Japan, where they are traditionally tall, soufflé-like and eaten with either savory or sweet toppings. It all started with a franchise company from Osaka and soon, Gram Cafes were springing up around the country. Hong Kong, Thailand and the U.S. followed, and it's just a matter of time before Europe does, too.


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Cartoon of the day # 139
A good Cartoon often tells the story in a better way than 1000 words
A good Cartoon often tells the story in a better way than 1000 words
We petition the Prime Minister to defy the EU and keep its place labor market controls on people from Romania and Bulgaria. A major English tabloid has started a campaign to protect the United Kingdom from mass migration from the Shengen-area. The UK is still protected by its Commonwealth laws and regulations. But the Government… Read More Daily Express leads crusaid against EU immigrants
David Cameron is about to invite the Muslim World to buy a bond that follows the zero interest principle of Sharia laws. The rapid expansion has attracted interest in the UK, which will this week for the first time host the "Islamic Davos", or the World Islamic Economic Forum – where David Cameron, prime minister,… Read More Cameron to turn city of London into new Mecca
Jack Straw says in parliament debate 'unlimited' funds available to Jewish groups in US used to control America's Mideast policy. Straw also adds Germany's 'obsession' with defending Israel another obstacle for peace. Former British Foreign Secretary and Labor MP Jack Straw made harsh anti-Semitics statements during a British parliament debate last week, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.… Read More UK Minister: "Jewish money prevent peace"
Ynet learns commander of Israeli Navy during Operation Cast Lead and raid on Gaza-bound Marmara ship held for questioning upon arrival in UK. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eli Marom, who served as the commander of the Israeli Navy during Operation Cast Lead and during the raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara vessel, was held for questioning at… Read More Former Navy chief Marom detained at Heathrow
The British PM lost a vital parliamentary vote on Thursday night meant to pave the way for an attack on Syria. In a humiliating and unexpected development, David Cameron and his coalition government failed to pass a motion that would have authorized military action against Syria in principle by 285 to 272 votes. Source: Jerusalem… Read More Massive defeat for Cameron's UK support of Obama
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague say declaration of war against Syria possible without Un backing. A response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria is possible without the unanimous consent of the UN Security Council, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said. "I would argue yes it is, otherwise it might be impossible to… Read More London ready to go to war without UN-mandate