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The post I wrote titled 'Mourning My Pagan Past is Making Me Angry' was tough for me to write. At the same time it brought back feelings of anger toward my personal experiences as a lone student behind a glass wall. Sadly, a lot of people who had read it felt I had offended them because my experiences were valid to me and not them. Somehow they felt I was being incredibly horrid because I have chosen a well-deserved path for myself. Let me make myself a little clearer, it's MY path, and I need to do what is true for ME; I am not trying to convert anyone, just sharing my experiences and promulgating the Law.
I have written this post over and over, trying to figure out how to put my discoveries across. Obviously there are an awful lot of sensitive people out there, and they don't stop and think about what it is they could be saying to me. Yes, I learnt witchcraft, and in some ways I still see myself using witchcraft in the future, and yes I finally graduated from the field of Wicca and I'm much happier. That is something people cannot seem to understand. Folks genuinely believe there is no existence beyond Wicca, nor do they feel that anything outside Wicca is right. The sad thing is, a lot of Neo-pagans today left Christianity for that same judgemental attitude. I also try to be one of the few occult practitioners who is trying to put the importance of words on the map, for example, witchcraft is a craft, and Wicca is a religion. Witchcraft is used by any religion or non-religious person(s).
If you found a better cooking method, based on methods from a bygone era, wouldn't you follow those methods? Like keeping the tradition of cooking with your grandmothers recipe, rather than following a popular trend based on cooking from a box?
Folks have moaned in the past that Thelema is a new concept, sure. Aleister Crowley merely made it accessible for magick students. If you research Thelema itself, the philosophy goes as far back as 'Gargantuan' by Rabelais – at least from what I have read. It's probably a whole lot older. The thing that I love most about my path is that I'm learning new things, having more physical experiences and I'm able to put all the amazing lessons I've learnt from witchcraft and the occult to good use.
I don't feel like a stranger or someone who is odd. I still follow ancient Egyptian ideals with a Qabalah flow, whereas when I was practising Egyptian Wicca I had to make sure I turned Egyptian symbols into Wiccan ones. I would celebrate Wiccan holidays every year, with Wiccan symbols, but remember to make the Egyptian symbols comply. I didn't feel comfortable. Why only two deities when all are a part of your very being? Why frown on things outside the circle when I hadn't explored them? I was always a curious child, and I've always listened to my gut.
Why hadn't there been more emphasis on modern ideals set on old symbols outside of western new age practices? It was a learning curve, and I was happy to do all the research and conversions for my own practices, which eventually lead me to just doing my own thing. When I would research particular symbols, the idea of the Universe, ascension and a solid philosophy with goal, I couldn't find very much. Like most religions Wicca was based on much older practices, but unlike most, Wicca was diluted. The idea of casting a circle wasn't a Wiccan concept, but when I researched various ways it could be done, I found them to be more in-depth, and they held symbols that I could never find within the confines of Wicca or Neo-Wicca. I didn't mind. It annoyed me that I preached so highly about this path, yet in the long run it wouldn't serve anything for my soul. I did my daily devotions – to what end? Discipline? I already had that. I wasn't sure. I just didn't fit the mould.
I recently tried to Wiccan-ise Thelemic holidays and failed. I just felt I wasn't meant to. I have recently decided on not doing that anymore. A few people have stepped forward and given me their ideas and tips of how to combine Wicca with Thelema, but I prefer not to. If Wicca is based on Thelema, minus the other colours (other cultures and their practices) and sexuality freedoms (orientation and freedom), then I personally don't feel the need to mix the two. I will happily practice witchcraft and the occult, but to my own ends, with a goal to work toward.
I experience and understand things unique to me, and others like me. I'm quite happy on my path. Lonely, but quite happy. If the universe wants me to grieve the process of moving onto the next chapter, then I will. It's a process I have come to realise as life. I feel safe going into something considered the unknown, because it's known to me and that's all that counts. If I were to teach my child magick, I would teach them witchcraft and allow them to find the religious or spiritual path they choose to combine with it themselves.
I choose to live my life this way, and if it upsets you or you think terribly about me then that's your prerogative. I'm working toward my True Will, and it's a one seated vehicle. These feelings will not cease.
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My evening with Deepak concluded with 100's of New Yorkers attempting to cut the line to have him autograph their book, me patiently waiting in my row while reveling in the fact that myself and Deepak are cut from the same banana tree, followed by him signing my book, and me smiling for a picture with the host of the evening. If you have not read a book by Deepak Chopra I recommend it! This one already looks like it will be one of my favorites but I also enjoyed "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind", "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success", "The Spontaneous Fulfilment of Desire", "Quantum Healing", "Buddha",and "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga". I think I may have read other works by him, but those are the titles that come to mind. Have a peaceful journey! Have an attitude of gratitude! Pick up "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting The Soul" and enjoy the subway ride! ~Peace & hugs, Ambria
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
My Night with Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra has inspired many evenings, and subway rides for me. So many evenings I have spent reading my books, listening to my books on my IPod, and it is no secret one of my favorite authors is Deepak Chopra. Like millions of other fans, I enjoy Deepak's mind body connections. Tonight, I had the pleasure to hear him speak about his newest book "Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting the Soul". The event was an Open Center event, with at least over 1000 people, including myself in attendance. While waiting in my pew for Deepak to begin his talk, I happily engaged in conversation with the person next to me and began to read Deepak's book 17 pages in. I took the Quiz "are you ready for change"? , and I responded yes to every question, which when evaluated, painted me to be the person who embraces personal transformation, holistic medicine, hands on healing, viewing the body spirit connection as a serious aspect of our journey, and someone who identifies with other seekers of higher consciousness. This did not surprise me. Enter Deepak Chopra...applause! He spoke about how we are all "consciousness" or spirit, molecular energy that vibrates and manifests aspects of our lives from our own minds. Personally, I agree that we do create our path, we attract situations, and are connected to nature, so as usual I was loving this new book already. While the evening was full of insight, humour and an interesting Power Point Slide Show, I enjoyed learning that we share 60 % of our genes with a banana. We also share 90% of genes with a mouse, and 99% with a Chimpanzee! Therefore, all the other things that make us human are dependant upon an evolutionary process that is more non-physical than physical. We are connected to nature in more ways than we care to admit. We invent ourselves. Personally, the many miracles I have experienced and witnessed in my life, along with my personal journey as a musician, yogi, reiki practitioner and lover of life, all make me feel deeply connected to the topics in this latest book by the lovely, Deepak Chopra.
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Either way, it doesn't matter since comedy was written off The Simpsons 20+ years ago.
Either way, it doesn't matter since comedy was written off The Simpsons 20+ years ago.
While it might not be what it was The Simpson's are still fuckin great, it's just too cool to bag on it these days. However it's just another example of cocksuckers pulling the censorship card for when it's something the pussies can't handle yet take away their next bullshit rap record and they'll cry all over themselves. Funny every fuckin time I'm in a 7-11 I'm dealin with a Apu yet according to these d-bags that's just a stereotype that doesn't exist.
Insert generic comment about how Simpsons stopped being good 15 seasons ago, i don't care, i'm having fun watching this show which is more than i can say for a certain show that this site is based on !
The PC police strike again. I guess we know who doesn't need the Kwik-E-Mart. It's a shame that people can be so easily offended over something that's fairly innocent.
If the character was on another show I'd see their point, but on the Simpsons? Every single character on the show is a stereotype.
Plus...I love Apu, dammit.
I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, but the news that Hank Azaria will no longer voice Apu is a little sad.
Fuck hank azaria, if it's soooo bad and has caused sooo much harm I guess he's going to give back all that dirty racist money now.
Oh that's right he's no different than any other holier than now cocksucker. Talk a big game than just be the typical hypocrite all these woke pussies are.


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KARL Robinson's response to a blank weekend for Oxford United was predictable – watch as many other matches as possible.
He will have been a recognisable figure in the stands at Salford City and Tranmere Rovers, with no shortage of people interested in chatting to the head coach.
And the feedback which came Robinson's way was music to his ears.
"I've been to a few games this week and every scout has been saying how they like watching us play," he said.
"But the one thing that people also say is we have a little nasty side to us as well and we don't care who we upset.
Also read: Chris Cadden's future at Oxford United 'out of his control'
"We're trying to build a siege mentality with the fans and the players and sometimes you have to do things that are borderline not great, but you're there to win.
"I think we have both sides of that and it will certainly be tested at the weekend."
Southend United are a shorter price to get relegated with bookmakers than Bolton Wanderers, who started the season on -12 points.
The Shrimpers have won just once in Sky Bet League One, collecting a single point in front of their home fans.
It is a role reversal from United's trip to Roots Hall last season, when the visitors dug out an ugly goalless draw to stop the rot.
Also read: Ex-Oxford United midfielder Peter Leven on brink of history in Belarus
Although they dropped to the foot of the table as a result, it was the start of a fightback and Robinson expects the grit his side showed that afternoon will be on show from Sol Campbell's side.
Robinson said: "It was a 'close your eyes and hope for the best' game.
"But I remember going into the dressing room and we all said 'that could be an important point if we can build on it'.
"We know what it's like to be down there, that was us last season and we ended up doing all right.
"They certainly have the players to do that, it's just a case of us finding a way around it to make sure we're better than the opposition."
Coming out on top is likely to need that nasty streak – and it starts from the front.
While Jamie Mackie misses the game through suspension, United have Matty Taylor to lead the line.
Robinson said: "They're streetfighters.
"There's an edge to them, they've both been suspended because of that.
Also read: Oxford United working to blow away the cobwebs after break
"As a manager you (want to) know you have players who are willing to fight for each other and fight for the club."
He added: "When you say nasty, you never want a player to be hurt, but I think people sometimes think we're a nice club.
"But looking back at that Oxford team in the 1980s there were names you wouldn't have wanted to mess with.
"All the best teams in the world have an edge. It's something you have to find that separates you from the rest."


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This has been a bad year for Levi. In hindsight there were clues that his health was deteriorating beyond old age vision problems. Over the last year he has been lashing out at the three younger dogs for no apparent reason. I made excuses that his unusual, aggressive behavior was a result of living with three young, exuberant dogs filled with vigor and not much common sense. But was there a demon living inside him that was growing and waiting to come out? We cannot foresee the future of our animals, we can only read gradual changes in behavior; clues that something is not right. Animals speak in a language we cannot fathom. We can only pick up a sense of something wrong or off as we go along our daily path together.
Earlier this year Levi had a bout of Clostridium, a nasty poopy-butt mess that often attacks young and old dogs with weakened immune systems. The vet gave me some pills for Levi, but cautioned that should he start throwing up I was to return Levi immediately. For twenty-four hours Levi was a new dog. I could almost hear him sighing with relief. But within forty-eight hours he was throwing up clear liquid. Again I took him to the vet and returned with more medicine. It was at this time that I wrote my first eulogy draft as I believed my dog was clearly at death's door. But he recovered. I felt happy and stored away the final words I'd written about him.
Levi had been limping on his left leg and there was some swelling at one joint. After he recovered from his near death poopy-butt episode I took him back to the vet. An x-ray showed Levi has osteoarthritis, no doubt from years of running, jumping and herding imaginary sheep in the back yard. Again I left the vet's office with medicine. Levi was a sweetie about pill time. I could gently insert the pills into the back of his mouth and kiss his muzzle as I rubbed his throat. He'd wag his tail and walk away. I felt blessed to have such a sweet loving animal. We are in this journey together, I wrote in my notebook. I will keep him healthy and by my side forever. A well noted author of books about dogs, donkeys and life, Jon Katz, introduced me to the word hubris, which means over-confidence, pride, egotism. Hubris soon came forward and slapped me in the face.
In May, Levi was blissfully running in the fenced back yard with the other dogs while I trimmed the long line of bushes in the front yard. After an hour I gathered up the panting dogs and they all dutifully followed me into the cool house. As I got ready to leave to treat myself to lunch at a nearby restaurant, I called Levi to join the others in one last potty run outside. Levi was curled up under the kitchen table in an odd position, alive, panting but not moving. I got down to his level and called him to me. He was panicking. His body wasn't responding to his brain's commands. Shocked, I realized he was paralyzed and needed to go to the vet immediately. There is a lot of shade in the back yard and a big bucket of water. It didn't appear that he was having a heat stroke. This was not something I could fix on my own. My voice shaking, I called the vet and said I was coming in with Levi immediately. The lady on the phone hesitated. This particular clinic is always very busy but I left no chance for her to deny my dog. I pushed my wooden table aside easily on the tile floor to get closer to Levi. The other dogs strangely stayed back in another room, quiet, watching. Reaching under Levi I picked up forty-nine pounds of bones and fur and walked halfway to the garage, when my back suddenly felt like it was being ripped in two. I screamed in pain. Levi and I collapsed together on the floor where I cried out in frustration. The only option left was to call my non-dog neighbor who is the same age as me and ask for help. She and a visiting friend and I managed to get Levi into the back of my car and I took off to the vet, my back still pulsing in pain.
That was the start of four days of back and forth calls to the clinic's two vets and numerous technicians. Over the course of this period Levi regained the use of his legs. I was waiting for a definitive diagnosis. Was it an inner ear infection, a stroke or a brain tumor, exercise induced or tick related? Animal clinics rarely have the sophisticated equipment one would find in a human hospital. The vet said, had it been me, I would have had a brain scan immediately. The clinic had to use the limited equipment on hand to make a diagnosis. They hooked Levi up to an IV, give him anti-inflammatory drugs, did a blood panel, etc.
Each day I got a call from the doctor telling me that Levi was responding slowly, that he was spinning to the right only, but it was getting better. He believes it is an inner ear infection but said although there was the possibility of permanent neurological damage Levi could over time, do well enough to survive. On Monday I went to the office to pick up my old dog. He walked by me and heard my voice but gave no indication that he knew me. I walked him to the car as he circled to the right repetitively and with my back screaming in pain, I loaded him into the front seat, his legs still going in odd directions. Within an hour I called the vet back in tears. This is not quality of life, I cried.
Have you ever read Stephen King's Pet Sematary? I have walked down the path to the place where you send off your final tearful prayers to your long-loved pet, its cold body resting in the dark soil. In disbelief I ventured over the forbidden wall to the area where you can get your pet's body back. But the moral of the story is that you cannot get the soul of the pet back. What remains is a shell, sometimes a vicious or at least angry being that lashes back at being torn from its last resting place. I have tried to save the Levi I knew and there is only his physical body beside me. To add even more fuel to my fiery decision, Levi has lashed out at me like he used to with the other dogs. All the training he had over the last decade is erased from his mind. Our relationship, our memories are now wiped clean from his brain. He exists: breathing, eating, pottying outside and barking at various things. But he is not the dog I wanted to save. In my haste to do the right thing he became one of the characters in a horror novel.
The vet suggested that I give Levi two weeks to heal but I've amended that to "up to two weeks". I cannot live in fear that the undead stranger on my kitchen floor may turn on me. I cannot let his memories and his loving spirit which I now hold in my own mind, end in a memory of him inflicting pain, for no reason other than that he is fighting to return to a peaceful place beyond us. The next eulogy to Levi will be the real one.
POSTSCRIPT: After reading the above I called the vet back. I brought Levi in and he agreed that Levi's temperament was becoming aggressive. We both feel Levi had a brain tumor so my beloved dog was released to Heaven to chase sheep for eternity.
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While Fall decor typically centers on rich crimson, burnt orange, and bright gold colors, Penny at Penny's Vintage Home shows us this week that Fall decorating can be achieved with shades of cream combined with the rough textures of wicker baskets:
Aimee from Refresh Renew also went with a neutral color scheme and made these great burlap pumpkins, which she says are fool proof:
Jann from Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olsen also varied the traditional color scheme for her Fall decor, using black and white elements combined with a few colorful Fall elements:
Perhaps Fall means Oktoberfest to you. I've never been to one, but Brittany's post on dirndls and the fun to be had at Oktoberfest just made me want try it. On my way to brunch today, I saw a sign in a nearby town for one in mid-October. You can be sure that hubby and I are planning to go! Brittany's outing to the bone church is super-interesting too-- be sure to check out her post. I have never seen anything like this church, and I love the churches of Austria!
|Brittany in her dirndl
It is always a treat to visit your blogs, to learn new things, and to get to know you better.
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>Behind the Scenes>The quirky shoe sizes
if you live in a country in Europe, then the European system should be selected, except if you live in the UK. So, I took a brief tour of the continent, and located all its member countries. So far so good.
Survive the 'Rona • Cover 4000 miles (3300 on-bike, 700 on-foot) • Duathlon podiums • Keep bustin' ass -1 lung lobe and assorted guts parts • Continue showing Cancer that it's not welcome back. Ever. • Improve power:weight ratio • $1000
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Wouldn't it be a whole lot less work for you and just as easy for the users (if not easier) to just make the shoe field a freeform field?
I think shoe data is an area where you got "a little carried away" to quote you, Eric. I think it's great to have an online running log that lets you track shoe mileage but that's about it. Is it really necessary to have the make and model pulldowns? Let alone size? Before this site I was used to just giving a shoe name (with a uniqe date code) when I added a new shoe, something like, "Asics Landreth 08-06."
Wouldn't it be a whole lot less work for you and just as easy for the users (if not easier) to just make the shoe field a freeform field? I don't see what funcionality the user loses in that. If he/she wants to add size it's easy to write, "Landreth 08-06 size 9.5".
Just my .02.
Either way, best online log I've ever used.
And with all that hard work my shoe model wasn't listed!
Good thing you can type in the drop-down box...
You know I love this site.
Your shoe model's not listed because you're the first one to have them. The shoe models are added by users of this site. It takes a little more work on my part, but it saves me work now because I don't have to maintain it.


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Control of body & mind & heart are directly proportional to each other.
m * Control(Mind) = n * Control(Heart) = k * Control(Body)
{m, n, k are constants}
It is the variance in the value of constant that brings disturbance.
For an equal value of constants exercise is vital. Right exercise and right diet helps a lot.
Whenever exercise is not in the daily schedule of things the variance of constants is huge.
PS: This post is from my perspective & experience. Anyone else experience the same?


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Last week Marc Guimond dropped a mind grenade in the comments that I just got around to. Susan Keating, NFCC President, has thrown a temper tantrum about the Homeownership Preservation Foundation, complaining that the "the HPF has been extremely aggressive in their efforts to force agencies to join their NFMCP intermediary." They think the HPF is attempting to gain a monopoly over housing counseling.
If you know anything about the NFCC and the credit counseling industry, this line of argument is hilarious. As Mark put it in his comment:
Susan Keating of the NFCC is complaining about referral services and mandatory membership in an organization????
Don't believe a word of this nonsense from the NFCC. It's pathetic; sour grapes. The NFCC wants to be the only Sheriff in town. This complaint has nothing to do with serving homeowners or consumers; it's about the NFCC wanting total control of the industry. Period. And they're not content to gain the control they so desperately crave by simply being excellent; no, they're threatening to demand government oversight hearings to crush their enemies. This from the same organization that's been fending off those kinds of threats from consumer law groups and anti-bankruptcy reform activists for years.
If they wanted a seat at this table, they should have been way out in front of the housing situation the way the HPF was. The HPF was committed to this work years before the current troubles in the housing market; they didn't just suddenly decide to help homeowners because it would get them good press. If the NFCC truly put the needs of consumers and homeowners first, they would have been more directly involved in homeownership preservation much sooner, before there was government money being thrown at the problem.
The NFCC is pathetic.


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The League's latest proposal — which resembles the previous proposal quite a bit — isn't a very popular one among NBA players and their agents. According to multiple reports, decertification (which would basically blow up any chance of there being a 2011 – '12 season) is still an option on the table: "Sources close to the decertification movement told ESPN.com there was a growing desire, as of Thursday night, to start the decertification clock as soon as possible by filing a petition with the National Labor Relations Boards calling for a decertification vote — with the signatures of more than 200 players — as soon as possible. A firm decertification timetable won't be established before Friday at the earliest, but sources said that Monday is the target date to file the petition, factoring in that Friday is the Veteran's Day holiday. Hunter himself acknowledged in a Tuesday night interview with NBA TV that the fast-moving decertification push — fronted most notably Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce — has 'close to' 200 players in the process of signing a petition that would trigger a decertification vote. The movement, sources said, has grown to include more than the original seven agents (Mark Bartelstein, Bill Duffy, Dan Fegan, Leon Rose, Jeff Schwartz, Arn Tellem and Henry Thomas) who have been advocating decertification for months. The two-step decertification process requires 30 percent of the league's workforce — an estimated 130 players — to sign the petition calling for a vote. That petition is then forwarded to the NLRB, which would take up to 45 days to ratify the petition and arrange the vote, during which the union and league could continue to negotiate. Decertification backers believe that the fear of the unknown, with the labor fight potentially moving into courtrooms, would finally move NBA owners off the extreme hard-line negotiating stance they've maintained and lead to a more palatable offer during that 45-day window. Stern, though, insists that the league has no interest in further talks if Thursday's proposal is rejected. He repeated last week's vow that the owners will 'reset' to their far more rigid proposal from earlier in the summer calling for a 53/47 revenue split in the owners' favor, along with a restrictive flex salary cap and rollbacks on existing salaries. 'There comes a time when you have to be through negotiating,' Stern said, 'and we are. I am optimistic owners will approve it if the players approve it and I await their response. We've done our best.' Only a simple majority of teams is needed to approve any labor contract on the league side, but one league source told ESPN.com late Thursday that he expects 'more than 20 teams' to sign off on the deal despite the ongoing battles within the ownership ranks between small-market franchises seeking harsh tax penalties and other restrictions on big spenders."
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|This is the stage they were at two years ago; mine is on the left, Eva's on the right
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|I hand quilted this quilt in the ditch, but it seemed to need more so I quilted lines in white strips and about an inch and a half apart along the borders and circles in the dark green squares.
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Anger as Birmingham mum marched off bus despite showing valid proof of payment
A Birmingham mother has claimed she was marched off a National Express West Midlands bus, despite having proof of fare payment for the service.
Inderjit Kaur has written of her "humiliating" and "embarrassing" experience after allegedly being told to leave the bus she was travelling on, even after presenting her proof of payment for the new contactless payment facility to the conductor on board.
In a post on Twitter, she recalls, "The most humiliating and embarrassing experience on NX West Midlands bus today. I used contactless to pay for my ticket as I do every day, I've totally transformed my travel habits, using bus, train, bike each day rather than car.
"Today, an inspector came up to me, said I hadn't, even though I had proof of payment on my phone… It didn't come up on the inspector's system, so he told me in front of whole bus to get up and leave the bus; and then even though I had proof, proceeded to embarrass me in front of everyone [at the] bus stop."
Kaur, who has been using public transport to reduce her carbon footprint, also shared a photo of her proof of payment to her Twitter followers.
She continued: "The problem was with his system, but he treated me like the dirt of his shoe. I explained I had paid, that I was on the way to get my son from school and needed to get there, and had paid. It all made no difference. I stood at the bus stop in tears feeling utterly humiliated."
"All this on #CleanAirDay, where they are trying to persuade more people to travel by bus. How, on earth is this okay, welcoming or showing you can have a nice commute on the bus; or even remotely fair? What shall I do? This is NOT OK treatment of customers @nxwestmidlands!"
The most humiliating & embarrassing experience on @nxwestmidlands bus today. I used contactless to pay for my ticket as I do every day, I've totally transformed my travel habits, using bus, train, bike each day rather than car. Today, an inspector came up to me, said I hadn't …
— Inderjit Kaur (@inderjitkaur77) June 21, 2018
… even though I had proof of payment on my phone. See attached image. It didn't come up on the inspectors system, so he told me in front of whole bus to get up & leave the bus, & then even though I had proof proceeded to embarrass me in front of everyone on bus stop … pic.twitter.com/TZA1ctGNhn
— Inderjit Kaur (@inderjitkaur77) June 21, 2018
… the problem was with his system, but he treated me like the dirt of his shoe, I explained I had paid, that I was on the way to get my son from school, & needed to get there & had paid. It all made no difference. I stood at the bus stop in tears feeling utterly humiliated ..
— Inderjit Kaur (@inderjitkaur77) June 21, 2018
"I have really been trying to change my habits too and this makes me utterly dismayed with whole thing. A reminder once again I HAD PAID THE MEASLY £2.40 @nxwestmidlands, you had no right to humiliate me, leave me in tears and remove me from bus whilst I was on the way to school run."
According to Ms Kaur, the incident took place on the Number 24 bus going towards Harbourne at around 4.10pm yesterday afternoon (Thursday 21 June); but she was removed from the vehicle outside Harbourne Academy, well before her intended stop.
It's #CleanAirDay and Cllr @WaseemZaffar has taken the bus to work, using a free daysaver bus pass being offered today by @nxwestmidlands to encourage more people to use public transport instead of their cars, helping to reduce vehicle emissions. #brumbreathes #brum #airquality pic.twitter.com/mNk1JjmFIi
— Bham City Council (@BhamCityCouncil) June 21, 2018
Oddly, Natonal Express West Midlands had rolled out a special free Day Saver bus pass yesterday to coincide with Clean Air Day, which was being offered to encourage more people to use public transport instead of their cars, helping to reduce vehicle emissions. This would've meant that Inderjit could've travelled for free regardless.
"It was terribly embarrassing at the time and was just shocked at the whole situation. The irony of it all is that I could have travelled for free all day on the bus as it's #CleanAirDay2018, but I chose to pay £2.40."
Hi, i am very sorry to hear of your experience yesterday. Can you please send us your contact number in a private message and I will ask our team to call you about this to discuss in more detail.
— NX West Midlands (@nxwestmidlands) June 22, 2018
Responding to Inderjit on the social media platform, a spokesperson for National Express stated:
"I am very sorry to hear of your experience yesterday. Can you please send us your contact number in a private message and I will ask our team to call you about this to discuss in more detail."
Several Twitter users were outraged by the events described by Inderjit Kaur, with many questioning National Express' new contactless payment service and the ability to verify payment:
This is @inderjitkaur77's son, encouraging people onto the buses yesterday morning. By, the afternoon you treating her like a criminal @nxwestmidlands.https://t.co/SAqrEynVde
— Imandeep Kaur (@ImmyKaur) June 22, 2018
That is SHOCKING Inderjit.. absolutely SHOCKING! @nxwestmidlands what do you have to say for yourself? How can u justify such action? No amount of apologising will be good enough. What action u going to take against those responsible? Is the action taken yr policy? Pls explain😡
— Jay Bansal (@JayJayBansal) June 21, 2018
Oh, Indy. That's awful. I'm glad you spoke up and tweeted the bus company, too. There's no small irony in a change- maker like yourself being picked up and, by the sounds of it. picked on, wrongly, for this, especially as you were in the right all along. 1/2
— Susannah Goh (@businessgohs) June 21, 2018
My mum had a similar thing happen to her on a bus. The inspector made a fuss that her day ticket was stamped with the wrong time. She simply and audibly replied that it was his company's technology and not her that was in error. Good for her. Hope you're feeling better🌷xx.2/2
— Susannah Goh (@businessgohs) June 21, 2018
As a member of a cycling campaign group trying to get people to use multi midal transport in WMids this is bad, but typical of nxwm who feel they answer to no one. They're to large to control and this will result in corporate appology for the sake of it.
— George Reeves (@georgereeves64) June 22, 2018
Disgusting behaviour and whatever it was about it clearly wasn't about the payment given you were showing evidence of it! Sorry to read this and that it upset you I hope @nxwestmidlands get in touch quickly to investigate and apologise!
— Louise Cannon (@louise4change) June 21, 2018
Shocking. What has @nxwestmidlands said since this tweet thread? Sorry you were treated so appallingly badly
— Alison Fordham (@Alisonbluesky) June 21, 2018
I'm so sorry to hear this happened. I had a pretty rubbish experience when I lost my pass a few years ago and had a pretty grotty interaction with the inspectors too. I totally get why they might be a bit tough to people who have no proof of payment but you clearly did…
— Laura Creaven (@lauracreaven) June 21, 2018
…if you don't get a proper response from @nxwestmidlands and you bloody well better because this sounds awful, please let me know and I'll bring it up at one of the Passenger Champion meetings, think there's one scheduled soon.
— Laura Creaven (@lauracreaven) June 21, 2018
So this happened on #CleanAirDay2018 @nxwestmidlands what on earth were you thinking! You embarrassed an honest person who was doing her bit. What an awful way to treat someone https://t.co/cmZDqOPDJK
— Alison Baskerville (@AliBaskerville) June 21, 2018
We spend a lot of time encourage modal shift in Birmingham. This is very sad to see one of our team, reduced to tears due to @nxwestmidlands, especially on a day they are trying to show how easy it is or should, to change habits. #CleanAirDay https://t.co/muTuHNkrMo
— Impact Hub B'ham (@ImpactHubBrum) June 21, 2018
I've been very wary of the way they are implementing contactless. Using a phone seems to be just asking for humiliation or an argument. It's not just a technical change, it's a culture change.
— Daz Wright (@dazwright) June 21, 2018
I'm proper angry about the humanity of this. But also because as citizens & businesses all the onus is put on us to change & we working hard to do that & encourage it. Meanwhile bros like @nxwestmidlands can remain miserable, power hungry, expensive & so on.
— Imandeep Kaur (@ImmyKaur) June 22, 2018
Agreed. This is not acceptable. Passenger has proof of fare paid and that should be all that is needed.
— Kevin Chapman (@chappersbrum) June 22, 2018
One for @andy4wm to note. It's fine to big up contactless payments on buses but it needs to work. People getting thrown off buses due to ignorant @nxwestmidlands staff https://t.co/1prSJVXk9Z
— Dr Dave Harte (@daveharte) June 21, 2018
National Express West Midlands recently launched contactless card payments on their buses in the region. The company's website describes the payment method "as easy as 1, 2, 3".
Information on the site explaining how bus inspectors would know a passenger has paid states:
"When our inspectors do a ticket check they will ask you for the last 4 digits of your card number or your device card number which will be checked against a list printed from the bus you are on."
Earlier this month, it was announced that a Birmingham bus driver has beaten off competition from 47,000 employees from across the National Express Group, including colleagues from across the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Bahrain, Spain, Morocco and North America, to win the National Express Group Customer Value Award.
At the time of writing, National Express had not made a public statement about the incident.


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Attending his state funeral this morning in Accra, the Secretary-General joined a congregation of world leaders and citizens from all walks of life to give thanks for the life and work of the Ghanaian statesman, who led the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.
"Kofi Annan was a great son of Africa and of the Commonwealth. His unflagging commitment to world peace and multilateralism bore fruit in closer international cooperation on global development, for the enduring benefit of all humanity," she stated.
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More roots today: this time a very fine pair of "Duchess" Parsnips.
They are nice and long (about 12") and very smooth and regular.
When they are like this, cleaning them up is the work of moments. There is just one tiny patch of brownish canker about halfway down one of the roots, but other than that they almost perfect.
Since they are this straight, peeling them should be a doddle!
My Parsnips have not been grown for exhibition purposes, but it is gratifying to think that maybe I could produce something of exhibition standard if I wanted to. If you are into this sort of thing, why not have a look at the blog of my friend Damien Guttridge, called Two Chances Veg Plot Blog. An enthusiastic member of the National Vegetable Society, he grows some very fine Parsnips.
By the way, the Parsnips are displayed in my latest "basket". That container is one which was used to supply take-away sandwiches for one of my training courses, instead of the usual plastic trays. Whilst very unlovely, the plastic food-trays are at least re-useable, but those wooden containers are considered disposable. Such a waste!
On a different note... The other day I was looking round for some seeds to send to a friend and I happened to spot this:
That single pack, priced at a mere 90p, contains six types of seed: carrot, Dwarf French bean, lettuce, chilli, spinach and tomato. I reckon this would make a really good "Starter Pack" for someone who is going into veg-gardening for the first time, perhaps a child. For a very small outlay they could have a go at growing a range of very different plants. I think maybe this could end up as a Christmas stocking-filler for my granddaughter Lara.
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What a fine pair!
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I suppose the sandwich tray made from natural (& hopefully sustainable) wood is ultimately more eco-friendly than a plastic tray (even a re-used one) which comes from the petrochemical industry & is difficult to remove from the environment. Your re-purposing of the wooden tray for veg is a great way to further reduce its environmental impact.ReplyDelete
They certainly do look like fine specimens! Could you relocate more of those trays, they look like they would make some super seed trays with some drainage holes added.ReplyDelete
Those are such nice parsnips. I only wish mine were like that. They have more blemishes than nice skin.ReplyDelete
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Turns out, my older daughter and my son-in-law went to the shelter today and brought home a basset hound.
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Anyone who believes the Canadiens didn't initiate the action that the NHL took out against a Montreal restaurant this week is naive. The League (the Canadiens) want 89-thousand dollars because of a banner showing a man in a red-and-white Canadiens jersey slicing up shawarma with the words "Go Habs Go". The issue seems to be the words "Go Habs Go" which the league (the Canadiens) says violates a trademark copyright.
There was a similar story last month in Vancouver where the league (Canucks) took action against a city car dealership for a similar sign in the showroom window.
The words "corporate greed" are going to be brought up and beating up on the little guy. On the other side, where does the unauthorized use of the Canadiens image begin and end. Dozens of sponsors pay millions of dollars to connect their product with the NHL and the Canadiens. They have to be protected as well. At first glance, assuming they do have a copyright on "Go Habs Go" the Canadiens and the league are on solid ground. From a public relations standpoint, not so much. Do I hear out-of-court settlement?
Here's the Canadian Press coverage of the story-
MONTREAL – The NHL wants to send a Montreal restaurant owner to the penalty box over a sign in support of his beloved Canadiens.
The league is demanding $89,000 from Fadl Issa for putting up a sign in one of his downtown restaurants showing a Middle Eastern man in a red-and-white Canadiens jersey slicing up shawarma.
The poster in one of the franchise's restaurants near the Bell Centre also had the logo "Go Habs Go," embazoned near the fez-wearing character with a large handlebar moustache.
A lawyer representing the NHL took a dim view of the tribute and sent Issa a letter in December, warning him that he was violating copyrights.
Issa swears the NHL will not get one thin dime out of him: "I took the banner out and definitely we're not going to pay the $89,000."
Issa painted over the Canadiens logo after receiving the first letter but another letter followed in January, saying that the "Go Habs Go" slogan is also a trademark.
"After we took out 'Go Habs Go' we received a letter asking us for $89,000 for damages," Issa said in a telephone interview.
"The ideas (for the sign) came from my children because we are supporting the Canadiens. They said, 'Dad, why don't you do some publicity for the Canadiens to win?'
"That's what we did and unfortunately we came up with big problems."
NHL lawyer Francois Larose was out of the country on Monday and could not be immediately reached for comment.
Issa said he didn't get much sympathy when he discussed the matter with Larose.
He says he tried pleading that he had seen plenty of merchants with Canadiens signs and the "Go Habs Go" slogan — but that Larose was unswayed by his argument.
He says that, at first, he thought it was a joke when someone told him he would be charged $1,000 per day until he removed the sign.
Shortly afterward, Issa got the letter demanding the $89,000.
"I said, 'Wow, to do publicity for the Canadiens costs you $89,000.' That's crazy, that's unbelievable.
"We cannot afford this kind of money and we're not going to pay it."
Issa hasn't been in touch with Larose since the last letter.
The incident hasn't soured him on supporting the Habs. He says he was told by reporters who spoke to officials of the hockey team that the Habs were unaware of the incident.
"We are Canadian, we should support the Canadiens, it's simple as that," Issa said in a telephone interview. "We are in Montreal, we should support the Montreal (team).
"We are proud of supporting our own people, the Canadiens. If we don't support it, who's going to support it?"
Issa was getting support of his own on websites telling his story.
Some people said they didn't understand why the NHL would want to get embroiled in what would likely be a public-relations nightmare that would only make it look greedy.
"Go Lawyers Go," harumphed Don James Anderson on the CBC's website.
Another man took a pragmatic view.
"They should walk through Vancouver," wrote Daryl Lamb. "They could sue enough people to make the Thrashers profitable!


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Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kırman is a graduate of Ankara University, Faculty of Law. He holds a master's degree in EU Competition Law, and Ph.D. in Commercial Law from Ankara University where he became Professor in Public Finance/Tax Law and served as a Faculty Member, Division Head, Head of the Finance Department and Institute Director. He also served as a faculty member at the Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law. Kırman started his career at İşbank in 1982, where he held various positions in banking and insurance operations. He served as Chairman and Board Member in several prominent companies, foremost amongst them being Işbank, Milli Reasürans T.A.Ş. and Petrol Ofisi A.Ş. Prof. Dr. Kırman served Şişecam Group as Chairman between 2006 and 2008, as Chairman and Managing Director between 2008 and 2011 and he became the Vice Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of Şişecam Group in April 2011. He also serves on TEPAV's Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, BTHE's and IAV's and ICC Turkish National Committee's Board of Directors, and the Turkish Shooting and Hunting Federation's Board of Directors and Board of Legal Affairs. Prof. Dr. Kırman is the author of a large number of publications, including 12 books and numerous articles.
Dr. Reha Akçakaya is a graduate of Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sci. at the same university. Mr. Akçakaya completed his second M.Sci. in Alfred University, Department of Glass Science and Technology in the U.S.A. He completed his Ph.D. in Marmara University, Department of Engineering Management, and completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School in 2013. Mr. Akçakaya worked as research assistant at Boğaziçi University from 1985 to 1988, Akçakaya joined Şişecam Group in the Flat Glass Group in 1988. After holding various managerial positions, he has been serving as the Executive Vice President Flat Glass Business since 2 January 2014.
Zeynep Hansu Uçar is a graduate of Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. She started her career as an Assistant Investment Specialist in the Subsidiaries Division of İşbank in 1994. She held several managerial positions responsible for various group companies at the same department. Uçar has been serving as the Subsidiaries Division Unit Manager since 2007. She currently serves as a Board Member at Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş., Trakya Cam Sanayii A.Ş., Anadolu Cam Sanayii A.Ş. and Paşabahçe Cam Sanayii A.Ş. Having functioned as a Board Member and Auditor at various companies of Şişecam Group since 2010, she also holds seats on the Board of Directors of Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası A.Ş. since November 27, 2015, and Camiş Yatırım Holding A.Ş. since March 27, 2012, all being İşbank subsidiaries.
(66) Having graduated from the Department of Administrative Sciences at Boğaziçi University in 1975, Dinç Kızıldemir started his career as the Sales and Marketing Manager at Elka Elyaflı Plaka Sanayii A.Ş., which was previously an affiliate of Garanti Bank and then joined Koç Group. Following his military service at Tuzla Infantry School and Turkish War Colleges, Kızıldemir acted as the Sales and Marketing Manager and Vice Managing Director at Kelebek Kontrplak ve Mobilya A.Ş., an affiliate of Enka Group, and assumed the responsibility for establishing and managing McDonalds Corporation Turkey company in 1991. He acted as the Managing Director and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at this company and supervised the establishment of retail, logistics and supply infrastructure for the company. Joining OYAK Group in 2001, he acted as the Managing Director for the Retail Group and became a Board Member for AXA-OYAK Holding and its insurance companies and at companies such as Good Year and Eti Marketing by representing minority shares. Since 2006, he has worked at Erdemir Group of Companies for 10 years as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Director. Between 2009 and 2016, he worked as the Head of Business Development (new company acquisitions) Group, Energy Group, International Chemistry Group and the Department of Legislation Compliance and the Department of Sustainability within OYAK Group. He acted as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Executive Director and Board Member at more than 40 national and international companies within OYAK Group. He assumed responsibility for the acquisition and, subsequently, management of more than 20 companies, factories and refineries in the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Brazil, India and other countries. As a part of these assignments, he was involved in the establishment of a joint medical startup company with Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Dinç Kızıldemir was appointed as an Independent Member in line with the Corporate Governance Principles of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders by our company. on March 20, 2018.
Having graduated from the Department of Finance of the Faculty of Political Sciences affiliated to Ankara University in 1983, İlhan İl completed his MBA on International Business Economics at the University of the West of England in the UK between 1992 and 1993. Starting his career as a Tax Inspector at the Ministry of Finance in 1984, İl was appointed as the Adviser for the Minister of State in Charge of Economy in 1994 and the Deputy Director General of Economic Research and Evaluation at the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade affiliated to the Prime Ministry in 1995. Between 1997 and 2015, he acted as a Member of the Board of Coordination for Bilkent Holding, the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Tepe Home, Tepe Betopan, Tepe Prefabrik and Tepe Real Estate Investment, CEO at Tepe Security, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors for Bilkent Cyberpark and a Board Member at TAV Airports Holding, ATÜ Duty Free, BTA Food & Beverage and İDO İstanbul Deniz Otobüsleri A.Ş. İlhan İl currently acts as an Independent Board Member at Sütaş Group of Companies and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Travelex Turkey. İlhan İl was appointed as an Independent Board Member in line with the Corporate Governance Principles of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders by our company on March 20, 2018.


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Category Archives: Another
Another – Review
Another isn't very subtle about telling you that scary stuff is about to happen.
Another: The Ways Of Getting To Know One Another
One thing about the show still baffles me: How did this whole phenomena start? Was it really this one class' fault since they didn't treat the dead classmate as well, dead? Did they just tiptoe around the matter the entire time? It certainly seems weird how this phenomena occurs and in what form. It's only strange because it doesn't really say anything about death, the phenomena is just a mystery that needs to be solved and nothing more. The supernatural doesn't care much about giving a message to the audience in this series.
Another – 08 Review
The first breath is the beginning of death. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
And come he slow or come he fast, it is but Death who comes at last.
Episode 8 – Hair Stand
Another – 07 Review
In the wild struggle for existence, people want to have something that endures, and so they fill their minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping their so called "place" to return to. There are really only but two worlds – real and fantasy, Is this a dream? – Do you really exist or not?
Episode 7 – Sphere Joint
Another – 06 Review
Death is not kind. It's dark, black as far as you can see, and you're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, is it? No matter how much relationship you seem to have, you're all alone, the world that their approaching is already covered by the tide of darkness.
Episode 6 – Face to Face
Another – 05 Review
The Engrave Horror in the Class would never Fade Away. In order to save themselves from death, they try to kill another instead. Human beings are selfish by nature,
they don't really live to impress other persons, they live to satisfy themselves.
Episode 5 – Build Limbs
Another – 04 Review
Destiny is such a funny word and when the word "END" intertwines, everything turns out to be a complete comedy. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? The Wheel of Destiny Starts to Revolve Slowly and for people who fears it, gritting your teeth and wishing the storm to just pass by is never good enough.
Episode 4 – Put Flesh
Another – 03 Review
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. It offers solace that there is order & discipline, and saves a lot of time and effort explaining the unexplainable – especially to yourself. It's easy to turn a blind eye about certain things, it was definitely easier – but sometimes even when you don't want to get involved, there's this urging feeling that you feel you should – no, you just have to.
Episode 3 – Bone Work
Another – 02 Review
The past has so much to tell – and there's the fact that it had led to the present. The present was terribly uncertain, a place of fear and of doubt – restless. The future initiates more suspicions, more anxiety, more concerns, it's dim and the light is nowhere to be found.
Episode 2 – Blueprint
Another – 01 Review
Every single person had a story to tell, not only with their book, but with their life. It happened 26 years ago, a popular girl named misaki who's smart, pretty and had a great personality from 9th grade, class 3 suddenly died from an accident. Since Misaki was loved by both students and teachers alike, everybody was in great shock and the class felt hunted, until, suddenly one day someone pointed out misaki's desk and spoke "Misaki's right there. She's not dead". The rest of the story is….
EPISODE 1 – Rough Sketch


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My latest client letter is available
For those of you interested, my latest client letter just came out today.
In it, I discuss client account performance, my projections for the market over the next 6 years and my opinion on the economy, Part III of my assembling portfolios segment dealing with investment probabilities, an investment spotlight on Microsoft, a segment on why the subprime mortgage market impacted equity markets, and my section on admirable business people covering Benjamin Graham–the father of value investing.
If you get a chance to read it, please tell me what you think and what could be improved.
Nothing in this blog should be considered investment, financial, tax, or legal advice. The opinions, estimates and projections contained herein are subject to change without notice. Information throughout this blog has been obtained from sources believed to be accurate and reliable, but such accuracy cannot be guaranteed.


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We're learning more about the body of a man found behind the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, in early November.
Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni held a press conference Thursday to discuss his findings. He says at this time, they do not know the identity of the man but they do know he was white, in his mid-40's, and suffered from arthritis.
At this point, there is no evidence that there was anything suspicious in the way the man died but that does not rule out foul play. It's believed the man died sometime in June or July of 2011.
Diamantoni's main focus right now, though, is trying to figure out who the man was.
"It's very difficult and painful for any family to wonder whether or not somebody who they love and who is incredibly important to them is alive or dead. It's incredibly important for them to know where those individuals are".
The mans description has been sent to two national databases – NAMUS and NCIS, in hopes of finding more answers.
If anyone knows anyone that might fit this description, they're asked to call the coroner at 717-735-5123 or Lancaster County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-322-1913.
No Id of Body Found in Elizabethtown
We're learning more about the body of a man found behind the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, in early November.


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How is your school year? My year has been a whirlwind which may explain why I haven't been able to blog. We are rolling out many new things in our district. Common assessments, PLCs, new curriculum, new standards, new testing.... sound familiar ? Well, no fear I'm hear to brighten your day and share some LOVE. I'm also going to be giving away some of my favorite things so please link up.
My first thing I'm LOVING saves me so much time in the classroom. I was just introduced to MobyMax and all it's features a few months back. Boy am I LOVING this resource and I think you will too! I definitely would recommend this engaging, individualized instruction to anyone. You will love how easy it is to start up. Students will be able to get on a placement test and the program differentiates lessons based on skill needs. It covers math, language, vocabulary, literature, writing, test prep and MORE! My students absolutely love their Moby time. The lessons are fun and engaging. My students are highly motivated and competitive trying to earn badges for their collection. It's great for intervention or enrichment. I love that they can practice and reinforce skills at home. Teachers will love the detailed reports and data that can be used for progress monitoring. I promise you will see students improving in tons of areas because the program fills in those gaps. I'd love to share the Moby Love.
I've been using the RainMate for years but just haven't shared how much I LOVE it. It re-circulates the air, gently infusing it with the scent of your choosing. I use peppermint or spearmint from NOW Essential Oils. They are highly concentrated and work wonders. The kids love the smell and all the teachers who have allergies like to come and stand in my room to breathe in the essential oils. Peppermint and Spearmint both offer the benefits of cooling, invigorating, revitalizing, stimulating.
My last thing I've been loving is not really teaching related. Well, it sorta is because I'm always attending baby showers for adorable co-workers. I'm obsessed with photographs, fonts, and colors. I've found something that has all three.
Meet these adorable LUCY DARLIN monthly stickers. I ordered a bunch for our gift shops. I'd like to giveaway a set. There are many options to choose from. Stickers for baby bellies or monthly stickers for babies.
Happy Valentine's Day! I can't wait to see some of the things you are LOVING. It doesn't have to be school related.


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Course overview
This is a fully comprehensive introduction to the skills, knowledge, understanding and expertise of management; and so in this context, the range of topics covered in this module is deliberately broad. The intention is to provide a substantial yet wide-ranging initial introduction to the overall field of management. That base then serves as a foundation upon which your studies in this area may be directed. This scope is approached via five overarching areas of study:
- a full introduction to what management is and is not;
- a broad coverage of the overall field of management knowledge, skills and expertise;
- a substantial introduction to the crucial area of expertise of critical thinking, evaluation and analysis, leading to the formation of a sound judgmental faculty
- a general familiarity and understanding of management priorities and issues, which should provide you with a foundation on which to base your future studies of more detailed areas of management
- a specific understanding of the foundations of leadership and managerial professional practice, with particular reference to: the UCL Connected Curriculum; and the stated priority of the UCL School of Management: creating disruptive research and entrepreneurial leaders for the complex, interconnected world of the future.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the module a student will be able to:
- Understand the nature of professionalism in management, and begin to apply a professional approach based on the existing range of knowledge and skills
- deliver work to a professional standard and recognising the nature and structure of professional standards
- discuss the problems and issues that surround management practice in organisations, using a critical perspective and informed approach
- explain and evaluate principal strategic, operating, environmental issues facing organisations (along with some related people, financial and ethical issues)
- produce, justify and support analysis and arguments in favour of (or against) particular initiatives, issues and approaches of importance
- apply effectively a range of concepts, methods, frameworks and analytical approaches to specific issues and cases
- begin to develop an expertise in critical thinking and evaluation, and to apply this to management concepts, operations and activities
Topics covered
- The foundations of management
- The environment of business and management
- Managerial and business ethics and standards
- Organisational and managerial performance
- Investment and risk
- Strategy and organisation
- Organisational behaviour
- The management of people
- Innovation, development and organisational advance
- Managing for the present and future
Assessment summary
2 x group poster presentations 10% each; individual test 10%; individual forum/log (2000 words) 10%; weekly log and blog (8 entries) 60%
Essential reading
Introduction to Management (4th edition) 2007, by Richard Pettinger
Maverick (1993, 2011) by Ricardo Semler
Note: other core and essential readings and materials are posted on the module moodle site. There are in particular key readings which must be read in advance of the classes for the week. Additionally, students must keep themselves abreast of developments in the business world via printed, published, visual and online media.


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(b New York, NY, 4 April 1922; d Ojai, CA, 18 Aug 2004). Composer and conductor. He was trained as a pianist but also studied composition with Israel Citkowitz, Roger Sessions, Ivan Langstroth and Stefan Wolpe. He attended New York University, then enlisted in the Army Air Corps (1942); he arranged and composed music for some 80 programs for the Armed Forces Radio Service and was a concert pianist for three years after his discharge. Norman Corwin then engaged him to score radio drama, which led to composition for films; Bernstein's third film, Sudden Fear (1952), attracted favorable attention. In 1955, despite suffering career difficulties due to McCarthyism (see Marmorstein), he rose to sudden prominence with his score for The Man with the Golden Arm. In this, as in several scores that followed (e.g. Walk on the Wild Side, 1962), he effectively blended jazz into a modern symphonic idiom to suit gritty stories and contemporary settings. He subsequently became known for his rousing scores for westerns and action films (notably ...
Christopher Palmer
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Kate Daubney
(b New York, NY, 21 Nov 1896; d Beverly Hills, CA, 24 May 1960). Composer, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor. He studied the piano with Maurice Gould and Jeanne Franco and composition and orchestration with Frank Saddler. During the 1920s he worked as an arranger for Broadway musicals, including The Girlfriend, Manhattan Mary, and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 and 1921. He also wrote songs for the 1922 musical Glory. He established the De PackhEnsemble, which he conducted between 1928 and 1931, then in 1933 he went to Hollywood as an arranger and orchestrator. He worked first for MGM and smaller studios on films such as The Dancing Lady (1933) and Rip Tide (1934). He was also one of the team of five principal orchestrators who assisted composer Max Steiner with Gone with the Wind (1939), a score that exemplifies the richness of orchestral timbre and complexity of arrangement that were hallmarks of film music of the time. In the early 1940s he moved to Twentieth Century Fox, where he worked on a number of Betty Grable musicals, including ...
Martin Marks
(b Los Angeles, CA, 10 Feb 1929; d Beverly Hills, CA, 21 July 2004). Composer and conductor. In the 1940s he studied the piano with Jakob Gimpel and theory and composition with Castelnuovo-Tedesco; he also attended Los Angeles City College, as well as Rózsa's classes at the University of Southern California. In the 1950s he worked primarily for CBS, composing and conducting music first for radio, then for television. His television credits include numerous scores for such live dramatic programs as Climax! and Playhouse 90, as well as for episodes of long-running series such as Gunsmoke and The Twilight Zone. Although he continued to write for television with some frequency during the 1960s and 70s, after 1962 he mostly scored feature films. Over four decades he completed scores for more than 160 films and collaborated repeatedly with directors including Schaffner, Ridley Scott, Dante, Verhoeven and Schepisi. He worked closely with two outstanding orchestrators, Arthur Morton and Alexander Courage....
James Wierzbicki
(b Cambridge, MA, 27 March 1920; D New York, 5 February 2014).. Conductor, arranger, harmonica player, and composer. He began his professional career in 1938 as a performer and arranger with the Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals. His arrangements for this ensemble brought him to the attention of commercial musicians, and within a few years he was working as an orchestrator for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios on musical films that included Girl Crazy, Meet me in St. Louis, and As Thousands Cheer. After returning to Boston, where he was music director of the Vaughn Monroe Orchestra in the late 1940s, Hayman was named principal arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1950. In the decades that followed he served as music director for numerous leading entertainers, including Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, Red Skelton, Johnny Carson, Andy Williams, Pat Boone, Olivia Newton-John, and Bobby Vinton. His tune "Ruby" (from the soundtrack for the film ...
David Cooper
(b New York, NY, 29 June 1911; d Los Angeles, CA, 24 Dec 1975). Composer and conductor. In 1929, while still a student at DeWitt Clinton High School, he enrolled for classes in composition and conducting at New York University. The subsequent year he followed his conducting teacher Albert Stoessel to the Juilliard School of Music, where he was taught composition by the Dutch émigré Bernard Wagenaar. He left the Juilliard School after less than two years, apparently because he found the institution too conservative, and returned informally to New York University during the academic year 1932–3 to attend a course in composition and orchestration given by Percy Grainger. Grainger's eclectic approach revealed to Herrmann the range and diversity of the musical materials available to the contemporary composer. Early in 1933 he formed the New Chamber Orchestra from a group of unemployed musicians as a vehicle for his talents as both conductor and composer. The orchestra's repertory brought together contemporary compositions (including those of Charles Ives, with whom Herrmann formed a lasting friendship) and works by English composers such as Henry Purcell and Edward Elgar, symptomatic of his anglophile tendencies....
Clifford McCarty and David Neumeyer
(b Chester, PA, 4 Dec 1910; d Los Angeles, CA, 8 Sept 1991). Composer and conductor.
After attending the Curtis Institute, where he studied the piano with George Frederick Boyle, he won a scholarship (1929) to the Juilliard School. He also studied on scholarship at the Moscow Conservatory (from 1933) and went on to serve as music director of the German Theatre Group and the Latvian State Theatre. He was the only American member of the Union of Soviet Composers, from which he received commissions for two choruses and a set of piano variations. In 1935 he returned to the United States and taught music for dance at Finch, Briarcliff, Sarah Lawrence, and Bennington colleges. In New York he studied composition with Aaron Copland and Ernst Toch and composed ballet scores for Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Agnes De Mille. In 1939 he went to Mexico as music director for Anna Sokolow's dance troupe, and while there he studied with ...
Martin Marks
(b Philadelphia, PA, 4 Aug 1912; d Los Angeles, CA, 9 Aug 2004). Composer, arranger, conductor, and author.
He first learned about music from his father, who conducted an orchestra for silent films. While at school he studied several instruments and played professionally in dance bands; at the University of Pennsylvania he studied composition with Harl McDonald and developed a strong interest in jazz. He went to New York (1934), studied privately with Isadore Freed, and continued to play and arrange for bands; his arrangement of "I got rhythm" impressed Gershwin and won him a position as an arranger at Harms/Chappell.
In 1935 Raksin went to Hollywood to work with Charlie Chaplin on the music for Modern Times. This collaboration yielded one of the most effective original scores ever written for a silent film. He also met Alfred Newman, who nurtured his career as a film composer. Raksin settled permanently in Los Angeles in ...
Kate Daubney and Janet B. Bradford
(b Vienna, Austria, 10 May 1888; d Beverly, Hills, CA, 28 Dec 1971). Composer and conductor of Austrian birth.
His father was a theatrical producer and his grandfather managed the Theater an der Wien when the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss were produced there. Steiner showed exceptional musical talent at an early age, publishing his first song in 1897 and composing a one-act operetta, Die schöne Griechin, in 1903. He received academic training at the Vienna Conservatory, and a practical apprenticeship conducting and composing small works in the theaters of his father and of other contemporary Viennese impresarios. From 1904 to 1914 he worked throughout Europe, most frequently in London, Ireland, and Paris, acting as the musical director and conductor for a range of theatrical shows. He composed ballets for the Tiller Girls dance troupe, and he worked on shows for George Dance and Ned Wayburn. At the outbreak of World War I he moved to New York, where he worked as a copyist and later as an arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of musicals and revue shows, on and off Broadway. These shows included the George Gershwin's ...
Kate Daubney and William Rosar
(b Milwaukee, WI, 11 Sept 1885; d Los, Angeles, CA, 1 Feb 1949). Composer and conductor. He was educated in Milwaukee and then became involved in conducting and composing for theatrical productions at the University of Wisconsin. He began working as a conductor on Broadway in 1920, writing songs with the lyricists Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, and collaborating with the composers Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, and Vincent Youmans. In 1929 he moved to Hollywood to work for MGM, where he remained until his death, conducting and composing for more than 100 films. As a music director he was associated mainly with film musicals, notably The Wizard of Oz, for which he won an Academy Award, and those starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. As a composer he worked on almost all of MGM's prestige productions of the 1930s and 40s. His idiom incorporates thematic quotation from other composers, including Chopin (...
Christopher Palmer
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(b New York, NY, 8 Feb 1932). Composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist.
He learned the piano from the age of eight and after moving to Los Angeles with his family in 1948 studied with the pianist and arranger Bobby Van Eps. He served in the US Air Force (1951–4), orchestrating for and conducting service bands, then moved back to New York, where he studied for a year with Rosina Lhévinne at the Juilliard School and played in jazz clubs and recording studios. After returning to the West Coast he enrolled at UCLA and took up private composition studies with Arthur Olaf Andersen and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, among others. From 1956 Williams was a studio pianist in Hollywood and two years later began arranging and composing music for television, contributing the main title to Checkmate (1960; see Thomas and Burlingame). Through the mid-1960s he composed for several series and worked for Columbia Records as a pianist, arranger, and conductor; he also made a number of albums with André Previn. During this period Williams began scoring feature films, with many of his earliest scores for comedies, such as ...