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To all Parents, Children and Teachers,
I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New year. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your families and are able to relax away from work for a few days.
We reopen on the 5th of January and are looking forward to a long hot summer of squirting hoses and general fun outside in the garden. Until then I hope you enjoy the beach, the barbeques, camping, or anything else you manage to squeeze into the Christmas break.
Thank you all for making 2009 so enjoyable.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merr Christmas & Happy New Year 2009
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Christmas Video to make 2009
Click on the link below for a great video that you can make up for your child.. It is even better if you can add your childs photo! http://portablenorthpole.tv
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Children performances 2009
The wonderful and talented children at Next Generation love to sing and dance. This year they all took part in making the following movie to share with their families and friends! Well done children!!!
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Memories of 2009
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Have you noticed the T-shirts the teachers have been wearing? They are our new uniform. The children love our T-shirts and recognise the characters from their favourite stories. The shirts are available in childrens sizes and there are lots of different designs. Unfortunately the company does not have a website but if parents /caregivers are interested, the phone number is 8185325.
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Christmas 2009
|Make a Smilebox slideshow
The teachers and children wish to thank everyone who came to our end of year Christmas party! We all had a great time! We hope you enjoyed our special dvd that we all put together, (which you will all get a copy of).
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Rainy Friday......
What a miserable, wet day it has been today - but it gave us all the oppportunity to transform Next Generation into a magical Christmas Wonderland.
The children have been so busy making decorations for the Christmas tree. The walls are looking very colourful with Christmas wreaths, collage and paintings.
We don't want to spoil the surprise with photos so hope you will have a look around when you come in. The children are all looking forward to showing you their creations.
Have a fantastic weekend and we will see you all next week.
The children have been so busy making decorations for the Christmas tree. The walls are looking very colourful with Christmas wreaths, collage and paintings.
We don't want to spoil the surprise with photos so hope you will have a look around when you come in. The children are all looking forward to showing you their creations.
Have a fantastic weekend and we will see you all next week.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Tuesday 1st December
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Monday, November 30, 2009
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thursday 26th November 2009
At mat time today we got out our new BeeBot and his mat! The BeeBot travels forwards, backwards and from side to side on the mat. We took turns deciding where we wanted the BeeBot to travel to, it was quite tricky! It is great for our logic, thinking and memory skills. Come in and try it out with your child.
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November Newsletter
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Friday 13th October 2009
We love Fridays! On Fridays some of the children bring in one 'thing' that they would like to share with all of their friends. These photos are a snapshot of the children's favourite 'things'. I hope nobody loves boa constrictors!!!
|Make a Smilebox slideshow
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday 29th October 2009
Today has been a very windy day and many of the children have opted to stay inside and build. The children have been working together in small groups, working on individual or group projects. There has been lots of magnificent creations!
Some of the children have agreed to talk about their creations through this photostory.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hot Dog Song
Wow, the HOTDOG video clip has gone to air!!!
Can you see any familiar superstars?
The children would love you to leave a comment about what you see.
Can you see any familiar superstars?
The children would love you to leave a comment about what you see.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Soren turns 5!
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Gloop Fun
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Thursday 10th September 2009
Some of the children at Next Generation have been having a competition on the Dora the Explorer website playing the game Dora's Puppy Adventure. The children are all competing against one another for the top score but I don't know if anyone can beat Rachael. These pop culture sites are great because the children are learning with their favourite characters. Most of the children's characters/shows do have free games sites where the children can create, explore and learn. Be cyber safe and have fun exploring the web with your child.
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Video Project
Cabeau // Evolution Cool Pillow
Instructional Live Production Motion Graphics
Cabeau asked ipso to create a video to serve as a resource to answer customer questions about how to remove and replace the washable cover of the Evoution Cool Pillow.
In response to the customer service department, Cabeau asked ipso to create a video to serve as a resource to answer customer questions about how to remove and replace the washable cover of the Evolution Cool pillow. A challenge for Cabeau's team was addressing a slightly difficult process of replacing the washable cover. This feature is a true benefit to the consumer, but they were having trouble with it. This video needed to be practically shot with an in depth demonstration including close ups, overhead shots, a hand model, and motion design included.
As videos are being consumed more and more on social media and other digital distribution, instructional videos are quite common – and interesting. Opting for kinetic typography instead of voice over, we put together style frames, that utilized two prominent camera angles. An overhead view with a hand model interacting with the product, and a close up shot. After a pick-up shot of the washing machine, the story was complete!
The perfect combination of practically captured live photography and motion graphics instructs the customer beautifully. We got tremendous feedback from Cabeau, and now their customers know how to launder their pillow and experience one of the best features of the best travel pillow in the world. We think the customer service representatives miss talking to customers and Cabeau's customer services representatives love ipso!

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Attack and Canadian Cancer Society announce Cubs For Cancer fundraising initiative
The Owen Sound Attack, in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society's Bluewater Office, is pleased to announce the inaugural Cubs For Cancer event in support of childhood cancer research and support services.
Centered around Saturday, Nov. 25's game against the Guelph Storm, Cubs For Cancer will see the Attack don special jerseys that will be auctioned off after the game.
"The Attack are thrilled to partner with the Canadian Cancer Society for another year in an effort to put an end to such a terrible disease," said Shaun Bisson, Attack Coordinator of Communications and Community Events.
"Cancer touches the lives of many and we often forget that the youngest of us have to put up such a large fight. This is an unbelievably worthy cause and we look forward to helping the Canadian Cancer Society make an impact on children and their families combating the disease in the Grey-Bruce area," he said.
Unique to Cubs for Cancer, the Attack and Canadian Cancer Society are giving fans two new opportunities to be involved in the fundraising efforts.
Launching today, and running until Sept. 8, fans will have a chance to design the jersey that the Attack players will wear on Nov. 25 against the Storm.
Open to children aged 17 and under, the contest winner will receive a pair of tickets to the game as well as an authentic Cubs For Cancer jersey personalized with their last name and choice of a number.
Supporters will also have the opportunity to participate in a haircut alongside the Attack at the Celebrity Serve the week prior to the game against Guelph.
Participants will be asked to raise at least $200 in pledges towards the event to be able to participate in the haircut with the players. Hair that is donated will go toward making wigs for local cancer patients as part of a program that sees the Canadian Cancer Society offer free wigs to cancer patients in need.
"We are excited to offer the community a chance to be directly involved with this event through both the jersey designing contest and the haircut," said Society Community Fundraising Specialist, Emily Bisson.
"The Attack have always been a fantastic community partner and we look forward to adding to the more than $240,000 we have raised in partnership together. These events wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the incredible support of our generous community."
To register for the haircut please visit www.cancer.ca/cubsforcancer.
More information surrounding Cubs For Cancer will be announced at a later date.
Childhood cancer is relatively uncommon. However, it remains the most common disease-related cause of death – more than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined. It is second only to injury-related deaths among Canadian children.
Cancer in children creates a large impact on our health, economic and social welfare systems. It also places a burden on the child with cancer and their family. An estimated two-thirds of childhood cancer survivors will have at least one chronic or long-term side effect from their cancer treatment. As more children survive cancer, the need for long-term monitoring and follow-up care will continue to grow.
The Canadian Cancer Society is making progress, with the survival rate increasing to 83% from 66% in 1985. Their researchers have discovered better ways to detect earlier and well as helped find new ways to treat the various cancers children get.


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KSG have recently supplied the mighty British band, The Cure with two customised Black Shure Beta 58a microphones.
These awesome looking microphones made their début on stage at The Cure's performance during the latest Teenage Cancer Trust run of concerts which were again at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall.
The Cure played two nights at the Royal Albert Hall all in the name of charity and helping out those who need a bit of a helping hand in life.
Where possible, The Cure try to use black microphones to help with the on stage look and these latests additions to the line up really fit in well.
We have taken a few photos of the microphones throughout the process to give you and idea of how we went about it and the attention to detail.
If you would like your microphone or any other bit of kit customised, get in touch with here
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For new of what The Cure are up to, click here
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The original Shure Beta 58a, stripped and ready for blasting
Dissembled and media blasted ready for coating
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They almost blend into the black carpet of the drum riser!
The Cure's Custom Black Shure Beta 58a in action
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Ull Hohn. Painting, Painting - with frame by Tom Burr
11 Apr 2015 – 6 Jun 2015
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Peep-Hole presents painting, painting, the first solo show in Italy by the artist Ull Hohn, with an intervention by Tom Burr.
For about one decade, from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s – when he passed away prematurely at the age of 35 – Ull Hohn moved forward with coherent theoretical and formal research that investigated painting, forcing its limits and offering an aesthetic model that remains timely today if seen in the context of a more general debate on painting that is still open, searching for conclusions.
His career took place inside a very precise historical and artistic context, passing from studies at the Academy of Düsseldorf with Gerhard Richter to the experience of the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, where he lived starting in 1986. In a moment when the second period of Institutional Critique was developing, in which painting was viewed with suspicion, Hohn absorbed and processed, in an utterly personal way, the trends and theories that informed the art debate in those years, finding a way to make critical thinking and the pure practice of painting coexist.
During the short span of his life the artist experimented with different styles and registers, moving from abstraction to landscape painting that cites the 19th-century works of Albert Bierstadt and of the Hudson River School; from exercises of a pedagogical nature inspired by Bob Ross and his television program "The Joy of Painting", to the series of the Revisions, works made before his death in which he reproduced certain subjects painted prior to his academic studies. These are some examples of a stylistic promiscuity that, looking back, reveals its integrity precisely in Hohn's attempt to make a kind of painting "beyond painting" without giving up his attachment to that language. The exhibition springs from the desire to underline the value of this assumption and to reflect on the timely pertinence of research that challenged painting from within painting.
Painting, painting is the first institutional exhibition to trace back through the moments of Hohn's output through a selection that draws on the various series he made. The display of the works, not in chronological order, is structured to start with two important series from 1988, Nine Landscapes and Off The Wall, installed on two diametrically opposite walls at the start and end of the exhibition space. Between these two extremes that condense the fundamental nuclei of Ull Hohn's research, all the phases of his career are represented, in a path shaped and paced by the dialogue with the work of Tom Burr. The reasons behind this juxtaposition can be found in Burr's profound understanding of the work of Ull Hohn, which beyond the relationship of a private nature between the two had its roots in the same historical-artistic context and the sharing of similar experiences, starting with that of the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Tom Burr's contribution to the exhibition starts precisely from the memory of that experience, and particularly of the wall that separated his studio from that of Ull Hohn. Thinking back on that architectural element as an object that separates and joins at the same time, which defines a space and regulates the movement of bodies inside it, Burr has made four structures that allude to the four walls of a room, broken down and relocated in different points in space. Each of these "walls" reflects, hosts and obscures the paintings of Ull Hohn, framing not only the works but also the audience that observes them, activating a mechanism of mimesis and doubling of the "original" wall, the formal manifestation of desire, nostalgia, affection.
The dichotomy of intimacy and detachment to which these structures allude is the same one that marked the artistic practice of Ull Hohn from the outset. Constantly wavering between a conscious distancing and an aesthetic engagement with painting, Hohn demonstrated how a theoretical and conceptual approach to painting can also come from virtuosity, from mastery of the medium, from the stylistic exercises that were seen with suspicion in those years – and still are – and how painting can become "different" even when it remains inherently to itself.
Ull Hohn (Trier, 1960 – Berlin, 1995) began to study painting at the age of 20 when he moved to Berlin to go to art school, studying with Kuno Gonschior. Four years later, in 1984, Hohn enrolled at the Künstakademie in Düsseldorf and became a student of Gerhard Richter. In 1986 he left Germany to move to New York, where one year later he took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program, an experience that had a fundamental impact on his output and his approach to painting, which became more theoretical and conceptual. The New York scene opened Hohn up to some utterly new perspectives. Questions connected with identity, sexuality and gender differences were central issues in the art debate in those years, and Hohn began to come to terms with those themes. It was in this moment, precisely in 1988, that he made some of his most important series of paintings: Nine Landscapes and Untitled, both shown in the final exhibition of the Whitney Program, and Off The Wall. In 1989 he had a solo show at the Julian Pretto/Berland Hall Gallery, followed the next year by a show at White Columns and, in 1991, a solo show at Randy Alexander, New York. In 1993 he showed work at American Fine Arts, New York. Two years later the artist died prematurely, at the age of 35. Posthumous solo shows of his work include: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Philip Morris Art Sponsoring), 1996; Ull Hohn: Malerei, Galerie Neu, Berlin, 2000; Off the Wall, Galerie Neu, Berlin, 2006; Ull Hohn, Between Bridges, London, 2009; Ull Hohn, Algus Greenspon, New York, 2009; Galerie Neu, Berlin, 2010. Groups shows that have included his work in recent years: Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Künstverein Braunschweig, 2006; UNTITLED (Ohne Titel), NGBK, Berlin, 2010; Time Again, The Sculpture Center, New York, 2011. Tom Burr (New Haven, Connecticut, 1963) lives and works in New York. After studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, in 1987-88 he took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program. From the start of the 1990s to the present his solo shows have been presented in museums and institutions all over the world: Gravity Moves Me, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, 2011; Bovincini/Burr, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel and Lenbachhaus, Munich (with Monica Bonvicini), 2009; Addict-Love, Sculpture Center, New York, 2008; Swiss Institute, New York (with Walter Pfeiffer), 2007; Anxiety – A Showcase, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, 2007; Moods, Secession, Vienna, 2007;
Tom Burr: Extrospective: Works 1994–2006, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, 2006; Deep Purple, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2002; Low Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2000; White Columns, New York, 1992. He has participated in many group shows, including: The Present of Modernism, MuMOK, Vienna, 2014; Deviance Credits, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, NY, 2014; Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014; Anamericana, American Academy, Rome, 2013; Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2013; Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2009; Political/Minimal, Kunst-Werke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2008; Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st. Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2007; BODYPOLITICX, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2007; Das achte Feld. Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2006. He also took part at the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2011 and the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2004.


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Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences @Illinois
From Jennifer Shike on 08/18/2017
Interested in a college experience focused on making the most of our planet? You will be right at home in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences where students obtain an active, hands-on, scientific education that prepares them to address critical environmental issues facing our world.
NRES offers field experience courses for an out-of-the-classroom learning environment in each of its four concentrations: fish and wildlife conservation; global change and landscape dynamics; human dimensions of the environment; and resource conservation and restoration ecology. Learn more at nres.illinois.edu
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How are universities planning for the fall semester and having some students on campus?
Valley Metro sees ridership records in October
November 20, 2012
More people took mass transit to get to their metro Phoenix destinations last month than in any month ever. Valley Metro says ridership during October topped 7 million trips for the first time, with bus and light rail ridership increasing 10 percent, according to spokeswoman Susan Tierney.
"We saw weekday ridership exceed last year and in fact light rail's average Saturday ridership was the highest ever at more than 38,000 passengers," Tierney said.
Valley Metro says special events helped fuel the increase in ridership, with the largest daily light rail volume ever, on Thursday of ASU's home football game with the University of Oregon, as more than 65,000 riders used the system.
Listen to the full interview with Susan Tierney.


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Map My Track: Fisheries voluntarly share their AIS, VMS or GPS track for TransparentSea. Transparency of catch positions is the basics for a sustainable monitoring. A joined initiative of WWF and navama.
Making great tracks for all to see:
Register your fishing vessels and share your track data
Fishing should not be "out of sight, out of mind". The decisive step to curb overfishing and illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU) present everywhere from the high seas to coastal zones is to make fishing operations transparent, and to show where vessels travel and fish.
Show that your are committed to legal and responsible fishing
WWF and navama developed a new vessel tracking tool and data sharing platform which offers fisheries worldwide the possibility to register and make their fishing activities transparent. The goal is to improve fishery management worldwide, create more transparency at sea and increase the understanding of responsible fishing.
With their registration fisheries agree to share either satellite-AIS 24/7 data , VMS data or other location based information data of their vessels with independent experts from WWF, navama, other NGOs, governments and science.
Fisheries which register on TransparentSea.org can show that they are not involved in illegal fishing activities and that they are willing to demonstrate full transparency of their fishing operation.
TransparentSea, a joint project of the WWF Smart Fishing Initiative and navama – technology for nature.
More information about TransparentSea, seeFish, seeOcean and smartTrack to download: TransparentSea Flyer


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Beth DameronDirector of School Admissions
Beth earned her B.A. in Communications with a Business Minor at Valparaiso University. Mrs. Dameron enjoys the opportunity to speak with prospective families about their children and about St. John's Christ-centered, excellent education, as well as to share news about the outstanding faculty, staff and students. She also likes to visit with the Preschoolers. She enjoys visiting with the Preschool students, going 'Up North' in the summer, biking and spending time with her family.
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A child's first words. Grasping a spoon. Babies turning their head in recognition of mother's voice. What do these things have in common? All of them are examples of a young child's developmental "steps" forward. Perhaps no aspect of child development is so miraculous and transformative as the development of a child's brain. Brain development allows a child to develop the abilities to crawl, speak, eat, laugh and walk. Healthy development of a child's brain is built on the small moments that parents and caregivers experience as they interact with a child.
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Working in reversePosted: March 12, 2011 Filed under: process, the words | Tags: audience, fun-a-day nc, sharing, sugar plum, u, vowels Leave a comment
(About that u effect I mentioned:
E said, leaving the Fun-A-Day art show last night, "'Sugar plum' will never be the same for me." "
"But," I said, "but dosen't it redeem itself at the end?"
"Well," said E. . . .
I hadn't thought that the poems might begin to change the original words. That was not my intention. But I don't think my intentions are relevant, in this instance.)


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This Eulogy was read on June 25, 2014 during my father's service.
On behalf of my mother Pui King, my brother Ken, my sister Cheryl, and myself, we thank you for taking this time to gather with us in remembering our father Buck Wan. There are few specific people that we would like to thank – Sui Ling Wong, and her son Ming for travelling all the way from Toronto to attend this day. Michelle Pan and all of the palliative care team were so supportive. A big gratitude to Joanne, my sister in law, as well as my brother in law Wesley, and to my cousin Fung for going above and beyond in helping us during a very stressful time. We would also like to give a special thanks to Denny Yu, for his invaluable generosity, presence and energy during our father's illness. My father was so comforted when you were around. Thank you so much Denny.
I am eternally grateful to my brave niece Lauren, who contacted me early enough in time which enabled me the opportunity to see Dad just before he left.
My dad, he was man with incredible energy, curiosity, beliefs and devotion. He was a man who definitely made his opinions clear and knew exactly what he wanted and how he wanted it. There was nothing ambiguous about him. My dad comes from a special generation of immigrant Chinese who led storied lives of hardship and heartaches. As with many of his fellow immigrant males from Canton, he maintained a single minded determination to create a beautiful life for himself, his wife and kids. He fought hard but he loved affectionately and tenderly. He was a fighter from the beginning to the end. Even as a kid in China, he was already known as someone not to be messed around with.
With this fighting spirit, he overcame and survived the period of the Sino- Japanese war, where he witnessed unspeakable barbaric atrocities and cruelties. Dad himself was almost recruited to fight in that war as a child-soldier, luckily his cousins went and saved him by pulling him out of the truck that was taking him towards the front Iines to a certain death; imagine he was only 8 at the time. My father was forever grateful to these cousins and never forgotten the love that they showed for him. This traumatic period must have influenced and deeply shaped his philosophy of life and how he was to live it.
His perseverance to succeed reflected in his work ethic as soon as he arrived in Canada. He worked hard in the family store and in both Canadian and Chinese restaurants learning and earning a living. During the summer months, he would head north to Prince Rupert where he worked in the Canneries to earn more money. He diligently saved his cash and avoided the many distractions that are often tempted on a good-looking young bachelor as he kept to one singular vision, to return back to China to find a wife. He did just that, my parents got married in 1958.
When I was a child, I saw my father as a larger than life, authoritative, and proud figure, always working and a little impatient at times. This tough exterior however hid one of the most sensitive, caring, and thoughtful human beings who believed in karma and the well being of others. He was a protector, a provider, a caretaker and a teacher. Dad always made sure everyone was properly fed, taken care of, whether it was family, friends, or just mere acquaintances. He sponsored my mother's side of the family to this country in order help them build a better life. He talked dearly of his own father and elder brother Shong Buck Chong of how they helped him in immigrating over to here. At the time, it wasn't simple for the Chinese to immigrate here. He also kept a special place in his heart for his sister Sally, his other brother Sonny, his nieces and nephew Jean, Pearl, Gladys, Leona, Joyce, Diane, and Stephen. He always mentioned how amazing his friend Morris was to him. My dad enjoyed the many excursions with his long-time friend Bong and his wife Yuen Joe who also happens to be Wesley's my brother in law's parents. After retirement, Dad enjoyed hanging out drinking coffee and bantering with his buddies at the Oakridge Mall food court. My father was extremely appreciative of all the people that touched him and in turn he was generous towards many around him.
I would like to tell you of this one incident during the time my father was working at Ming's supper club. Ming's would contract female singers from Asia, flying them from overseas to sing with the house band. At the time it must have been very glamorous and lucrative for these entertainers. On one particular evening, after finishing the Iast night of her contract, one of these singers went celebrating with friends before flying back home to her infant daughter. During the course of that night while driving back, they had an accident, a full head on collision with another vehicle. The driver escaped with minor cuts and bruises however the woman sustained critical life threatening injuries. She was here alone, had no insurance or any financial means and was far away from her child who was thousands of miles away. When dad learned of the accident he would often take the time to visit the woman in the hospital. He took it upon himself to help her as he felt it was his duty to do the right thing. When it was evident that she was not going to survive from the injuries, Dad told her that he would to take care of everything and not to worry. He promised on her deathbed that he would make sure that she would receive an appropriate burial in order for her spirit to make the proper passage, plus money would be sent back home to help her daughter. So Dad did a fundraising drive in Chinatown and collected enough money from the community in support of this cause. When the woman eventually succumbed to her injuries and died, as promised she was given the proper funeral and burial and money was sent overseas. Dad could not have lived with himself if he did not try all he could to save her soul. He believed passionately in social responsibility and justice. My father tried to live a life of integrity and in my opinion, heroically.
My father was heroic up to the day he left. He was the ultimate caretaker, making sure all of his bills and responsibilities were taken care of. Even on the night before he passed, he asked my sister Cheryl if his property taxes were paid up yet. He fought so hard and nobly till the end.
I remember a man that was fiercely independent and autonomous that he drove his car even up till the day of his diagnosis. I remember a man with a smile that was so radiant that it would charm the nurses at the Grandview highway dialysis clinic. He would be so charming that one of the nurses one day brought him gifts of freshly caught crab from their husband's catch. He really enjoyed that particular clinic because it was a happy place of gather and laughter. I remember when he cackled and laughed uncontrollably all over the couch while watching Peter Seller's in the movie The Party, I remember the time he would take my mom and us kids driving through Stanley Park every Sunday on his rare day offs, or taking us out to eat with him to discover and develop our culinary palettes. I remember the man who looked forward to planning and preparing diligently 8 course meals every Sunday for the weekly family dinners. He was so happy seeing everyone eating and sharing meals together as a family. I remember the man who loved all of his amazing grandkids, Lauren, Devon, Chris, and Ryan and how proud he was of Cheryl and Wesley, and Kenny and Joanne for being parents. I remember the time how he talked about how he wanted to marry my mother from the very first time he laid eyes upon her. I remember my moments that we shared together, the conversations on life, social issues, politics (l especially liked our common hatred for the Harper government). I remember the time that I was able to have with him, unfortunately in hindsight, it really wasn't enough. I remember the man who will always be my beloved father, Buck Wan Chong. I love and miss you very much Papa.
November 12, 1932 – June 14, 2014
Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night
Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rage at close of day
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Though wise men at their end know dark is night
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night
Good men, the last wave by crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night
Grave men, near death, who see with blinking sight,
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
And you my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray
Do not go gentle into the the good night
Rage, rage against the dying light
– Dylan Thomas


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There's Been A Big Step Towards The Legalisation Of Weed In The UK
There could be some good news for cannabis aficionados as new NHS research could mark the first step towards the legalisation of the substance.
The first ever cannabis-based vaporiser is currently being researched by the National Health Service, reports The Independent.
Officials are looking into the usage of the MediPen, which uses the non-psychoactive element of cannabis – cannabidiol – to treat both pain and anxiety.
Jordan Owen, MediPen's managing director, told The Independent:
We've recently been working very closely with a team of NHS production and regulatory support pharmacists who've been able to analyse our formulation for both safety and cannabinoid concentration.
As the UK's industry leading consumer cannabis biotechnology company, we're excited to have set a new benchmark in providing a much-needed sense of legitimacy to the UK's rapidly growing legal cannabis industry.
For many, it is hoped the UK will follow the lead of other places as the beneficial effects of cannabis legalisation are becoming more and more widely accepted.
Marijuana has been proven to be extremely effective in the treatment of a range of conditions including glaucoma, epilepsy, anxiety, and Alzheimer's.
There are other social benefits too. In Colorado the legalisation of marijuana is believed to have kick-started a drop in not only drug related crime, but all crime.
Traffic fatalities have been greatly reduced and the state is now the fastest-growing economy in the U.S. with unemployment at a six-year low.
I'm not really seeing a downside here…
CreditsThe Independent
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One year ago, Nguyen Thi Chi, a 32-year-old public employee, became a familiar visitor to "Bac Tom" Store, a place on Ly Thai To Street that claims to provide only safe foods. Chi says that although she could easily buy pork at the street market near her house, she prefers to pay 20,000 more to have meat delivered from the safe food store, particularly on busy days.
"That is when you really care," the mother of two says.
Safe food is now in increasing demand. During the last nine months, a series of food safety and hygiene violations have been exposed by domestic media, ranging from rotten pork and antibiotic-laden fish to imported fruits with excessive pesticide residues and preservatives. More and more people, particularly pregnant and lactating women, are searching for alternative food sources besides street markets. Safe food products have become more and more available, sold everywhere from supermarkets to new pop-up private stores.
"I only buy safe food products. Although the price of everything here is higher, I care enough about the quality of my family's meals to pay a little extra," says Vuong Thi Chung, a 30-year-old employee at Vietinbank. She is a regular customer at an organic food store on Han Thuyen Street.
Dang Nghia Nam, owner of the shop, reveals that last year he sold children's clothing, but decided to change his business once he heard of the new trend.
"I had sold made-in-Viet Nam clothes for years, and I started selling organic foods only one month ago, but I already have regular visitors. Most of them are white-collar workers who work in the buildings around here," he says.
Although Nam's store is across the street from a "frog" market, which offers similar foods at cheaper prices, he is not afraid his customers will cross the street to find a better deal.
"Occasionally I see people pick up our goods and examine them carefully, then leave for the market across the street, but they are not the majority. Those who purchase my products once not only come back but also bring more people in, because they realise how different organic food is when cooked. Organic vegetables are crisper and more flavourful, while my pork is fresher and more delicious," he says.
Ngo Tuong Vi, who established the website www.organic.vn, opened her fourth organic food store at Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh four days ago. When Vi opened her first store by the end of 2011, she soon realised it was difficult to sell a whole pig in one store. To sell all her pork while still fresh, she opened the other three, one by one - all in only a year. Vi says the business has a lot of potential, as her customers come from different backgrounds.
"It doesn't appear that rich people are our most frequent visitors. I know those who have billions of dong, but still don't buy safe foods, because they argue eating 'dirty' won't make them die immediately. Among my regular customers are often doctors, teachers, and even egg sellers. They share the same concern for their health," Vi says.
Vice President cum General Secretary of Viet Nam Standards and Consumers Association (VINASTAS), Nguyen Manh Hung, confirms this statement: "A great number of consumers today say that safe vegetables are their first priority in their daily meals, and most are willing to buy vegetables at a price 10-20 or even 50 per cent higher than normal if they are safer."
More than 1,000 food poisoning cases occurred nation-wide from 2004 to 2009, killing 298 people, according to the Ministry of Health. Last year, 142 cases occurred nationwide, causing 25 deaths and leaving more than 3,560 people hospitalised. The ministry said the number of poisoning cases involving chemical substances was increasing rapidly and had become more difficult to control.
Following the trend, Nguyen Thi Loan, mother to a one-year-old boy, says she has often bought safe vegetables and other foods at the supermarket since she was warned by the media, but she still sometimes questions how safe they could be.
"Buying food at the supermarket is more for my psychological well-being than anything else. All I can do is trust my eyes and my experience. There is no official certification that says these foods are completely safe," she says.
Even Vi, the owner of four organic-food stores, confirms that it's impossible to know where some foods come from. For organic vegetables, she can provide buyers with certifications, but it's impossible to clarify where "safe pork" comes from because meat has no similar documentation.
"Vegetables are always obtained from organic vegetable projects sponsored by foreign organisations, but we have to source pigs from small farming households. They raise only one or two pigs at a time. We know the pork is safe, but we can't obtain official certification," Vi says, adding that every store is in the same situation.
Since many businesses that strictly comply with food-safety regulations have not been identified by city authorities, consumers must accept the risk, Vi says. But many stores take advantage of the situation to mix safe foods with unquarantined imports from China. That's why there are still customers who avoid being cheated by continuing to visit street markets. At least, there is one thing they are sure about: the price is cheaper.
Wandering around Long Bien market, a typical wholesale site, visitors can see fruits and vegetables imported from China everywhere, while sellers boldly tell every customer their origin. "They are from China. You want to buy or not?" They ask. Retail sellers still come here to select products and relabel them in various ways.
"I love apples but am afraid of chemical residue, so I often order those grown in the USA from a store nearby my house. When I read in the newspaper that they are actually unquarantined imports from China, I was really frightened," says Le Huong, a Manulife Company employee.
Once customers discovered this fact, many of them refused to buy high-priced foods. Huong is a case in point: she doesn't spend money buying "safe" foods, as she doesn't believe in them.
"Now I trust my intuition more. For example, I prefer small fruits with plain appearances than those that are big and beautiful, as they might contain fewer pesticides. I also buy vegetables that have thick skins and have to be cooked before you can eat them. In general, though, I have to accept the fact that I can't completely avoid unsafe products," she says.
Tran Cong Thang, director of Strategic Policy Department under the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture (IPSARD), says the demand of Hanoians for safe vegetables has reached 15,000 tonnes a day, and climbs even higher during holidays and festivals. However, the current supply meets only 14 per cent of the demand. Ironically, safe vegetables are unsellable in many cases.
Nguyen Duc, director of Van Duc Cooperatove in Gia Lam Province, says that his farm grows safe vegetables on 250ha and provides 50 to 70 tonnes of vegetables to domestic markets everyday.
"The products all meet the VietGap standards. However, since the amount is huge, and there is not a stable output, only a large part of them are given Safe Vegetable stamps to be sold at big shops, while the rest are sold to street markets for the same price as other vegetables. That's why we earn little profit," he says, suggesting that there should be a wholesale market like Long Bien that offers only safe vegetables to vendors instead of imported products.
Although there are a lot of difficulties for farmers, sellers and customers of safe food products, the media is keeping people more alert about what they buy for daily meals.
Vi says each of her four stores gets hundreds of visitors a day, which could earn her VND7-25 millions daily.
"I still have to subsidise millions of dong a day for my stores. We are a one-year-old business and it's an investment. I believe in the statement of Alan Phan*, 'Safe foods and software are the two fields with the most potential in Viet Nam, and pioneers would get fruitful results,'" Vi says. VNS
*Dr. Alan Phan was the first Vietnamese-American to list a private company on the US stock exchange in 1987. The Hartcourt Group was valued at US$670 million in 1999 and subsequently spun off into 5 companies which are still listed. Dr. Phan was also the first to introduce online stock trading and distance learning to China in 1997. Previously, he worked for many multi-national and investment banking firms on Wall Street. He is now Chairman of Viasa Fund (a private family fund) and a consultant on emerging markets for some multi-nationals. — VNS


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Reaching the unreached in education
One thing that makes me happy is that seeing children in the rural area going to school. I believe education will harvest eternal smile in the future of those children. We can smile when children laugh, without being confronted with the problem. However, when they grow a variety of issues they must face. Thus, it is our duty to facilitate them so that they can go to school and have a brighter future. To me, there must be more children attending school in this new school year coming shortly.For these efforts, today accompanied Bapak Ukar, the community leader (RT) I made a community visit to make sure if there were children do not gain education. With our bike we went down the street winding and steep. We had to be extra careful given the impassable terrain is quite vulnerable. Last night rain had made the road slippery prophecy. Along the way we enjoyed the beautiful trees. All are green.
Finally we arrived at the community houses and took a rest after a fairly exhausting journey. We were pleased to meet and discuss with Mr. Budiman, a junior teacher to reassure parents and children about the importance of education. We also had a nice chat with the villagers. Today was a tiring day but meaningful one. It's life to care.
Education for less fortunate children through volunteer schools in disaster areas.
Without exception every child has right to have education. In theory, the state guarantees the right of children to education as outlined in the Constitution of 1945. However, in practice other facts prove that there are millions of children due to various barriers have not had access to education.
In general there are 3 (three) main barriers, economic barriers, culture and geography. Economic barriers are community income levels that they are not able to finance their children's education. These conditions especially for orphans and those whose parents do not have a steady job. Cultural factors is a view to place education is not something that is important for children especially for women. There is a common view within the community that is no matter how high on level she will eventually return to the "kitchen". While geography factor is a long distance from residential to schools as well as dwellings geography prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and landslides.
To overcome these obstacles, in 2012 the Diva Tunas Bangsa Foundation (Yayasan Diva Tunas Bangsa) opened Diva Tunas Bangsa Vocational High School. The opening of that institution has been helping rural children gain an education so they can be equal with other children and in turn forward their future will be brighter.
The opening of the school is still facing problems, to mention there are two main problems, namely the cost for children who can not afford and orphans, operating costs and efforts to ensure the safety of students as a place where the school is located is an area prone to earthquakes and disasters, especially hurricanes. In 2012 in the local area has occurred landslides and hurricanes and resulting in loss of property and lives.
Therefore, special efforts are needed so that the continuity of education and children's safety could be guaranteed. Alternative is to do with foster parents and to seek training to mitigate the negative impact of natural disasters.
School to school campaign
There is close connection between supply and demand in captive dolphin show (circus). As long as the demand exist and so does the show. Unless public are educated how captivity is cruel, better changes are almost impossible to happens.
As a part of the effort to end the show, I have been raising of awareness for not to visit marine parks (dolphinariums) through schools. This activity will be continuing with more schools get involved both nationally and globally.
Fact shows, visiting such show has been school agenda in the name of what they call "a part of education". Thus, this very important to raise awareness through schools. I have been informed, in the Philippines for example, as many as hundred students visit captive dolphin show in a day. It also happens in almost part of the world including Indonesia.
Let's end this cruelty by supporting my activity or spreading the message at the closet to ourselves: the family and neighbor.
When market goes…
November is really busy month for us as beside we had to finish the production activities we also had to market, check financial status, and write final report about our enterprise. In addition to these assignments, we had to give manual printing training to the teams. This training will enable the team to innovate our products. Yes, product innovation should be our specific touch.
Even though this month put us on the most stressing condition: overload works, but as November rain comes things turned into brighter place . The Project Leader had always pour his cool words that keep us on spirit. He reminded us that we should cooperate to be on the track. Think first think and together we can were the two powerful phrases! In this blog you can read our full activities during the month. Our hectic life of our business started to shine when market goes..
Bags production
November 5-6, 2011
As we have written on October blog entry, the rest of November would also be used to make bag from combined with plastics. This activity seemed to be the most difficult time for the team. Fortunately, as some of the students (grade VIII and IX have been equipped with sewing skill there was no serious problem arose. We could run the activity well.
In order all activities could run smoothly we divided the team into some sub-division according to who did what systems. Hence, all the team work did their part accordingly. There were two main activities: making bag from plastics waste and making bag from gunny combined with plastics waste.
The process of making bag from plastic waste was almost the same with the making of pencil case as we have explained in previous activity. The final product of the activity was a bag as shown below.
Another type of school bag we made was that bag made from gunny combined with plastic waste. We came to decision of making this kind of bag was that we found that "gunny" has not been recycled into other stuffs.
It took two days for the team to finish the bags. The activity was carried out on week end starting in the morning until afternoon.
The process of making gunny-waste-based bag was almost similar to the process of plastic waste based ones. There was a slight difference of the basic material used. Most of the basic materials for this bag were organic waste and can be found easily at our surrounding. Followings are basic materials and step to make the bag.
A. Materials needed
1. Gunny waste
2. Plastics waste
3. Coconut shell
4. Rope
5. Rope-bag plastic holder
B. Steps
1. Clean gunny bag by washing thoroughly
2. Dry under shining sun
3. Cut the gunny bag according to specific model
4. Sew the cut-gunny accordingly
5. Cut another gunny for bag rope
6. Cut coconut button in the form of button
7. Stick all part together
8. Gunny bag is ready
As result we could made as many as 15 plastic bags and 10 gunny-plastic bags. The team agreed to market some of the products to our students and the rest would go to other schools.
These two both marketing strategies we hoped could broaden our market place as well as a mean to promote a more eco-friendly way of living.
Based on our observation students were really proud of being able to wear school bags they produce themselves. When I asked a student what he think of the bag, he say," I like it very much. I am proud to wear. It's a simple promotion on how we care of environment".
Considering that community has an important role in promoting eco-friendly life style, we decided to make bag from plastic waste for them. Those bags are especially used when women go to market. The process of making such bags are the same with plastic waste-based school bags. Nevertheless, this kind of bag is designed with special touch. We put interesting pictures on the bags such as fruits, vegetable, motto, view or any draw to attract people's attention and as part of sustainable living-style.
The following photos figure out how those bags are made, what materials are needed and how end product look like.
Innovation makes our products perfect
November 11-13, 2011
We believe "innovation" is an important part of our business. By innovating products we can compete and win market. Such innovation can be made ranging from the simplest to the hardest one. As we had explained in last month blog entry, we would differ our product by giving choices to the consumers according to their preference of the bags we design.
To meet the customers' expectation on November 11 and 12 we had had manual-printing training for the production team. This activity was carried out in the morning before students went to schools and last for two days. The training materials were theory followed by practice. During the training the students shown great excitement and followed the activity happily. As the result of the these activities we were able to produce bags and other products with our own pictures designs. Following photos show activity of the trainings.
The training was really useful for the team because through the program they were able to mix paint into more colours and was an opportunity to express their though. Following are some drawers the team made and will be printed out on the next products.
At the time we are writing this blog we have produced many kinds of products with different designs and different purposes as shown on the following photos.
Time flies so fast when we have good time! Yes, it has been almost seven months we have been blogging.Through the months we have been doing and learning a lot of things: business planning, fund raising, product processing, and product marketing.
Those activities keep us busy and we hardly have time to check our financial status, how much much money we had earned from the business. We almost forget to give attention and opportunity to Marketing and Financial Unit to report their work. We then asked the team to settle a short discussion on the issue. Based on the financial report made by the team, we learn that our business has been running very well. We were so proud of the team that had made money as market goes.
We have been successful networking with shops and school in addition to student to student sale. The report was also great source from where we studied that student to student marketing strategy was the most successful one. In the future we need to promote our products in such way so that more people would use our products.
School Enterprise Challenge: phase II (part 2)
The product making training held last month has enable production team able to produce our business product. Thus, the activity on October will be focused on product production so that in early November we will be able to market our business. Starting producing has also brought us to other supporting activities such as collecting raw material, selecting suitable materials, empowering business team, and over all management. In this October blog entry, we would like to give full report through the month and will be updated accordingly as agenda may change unexpectedly.
Introducing business to new Head School
October 5, 2011
Today some teachers attended farewell and welcoming ceremony of old and new Head Schools. We attended the even as we thought that our business should be known and supported by the new Head School. During the ceremony we thank the old Head School, H. Dedi Haidir for his continuing support to our business. We also explained the business to the new Head School, Mr Abdullah and hoped he support it.
More product; less waste
October 12, 2011
Producing activity will of course need raw materials as much as possible, or at least can cover the number of production we were planning. To support the activity, team business had meeting discussing on how the raw materials be collected, kind and number of product we produce.
The team collaborated with Environmental Science teacher then decided to call on all students, grade 7, 8 and 9 to bring plastics waste as part of the lesson. Those who bring it will get mark for the subject. Marking systems is arranged according to amount and quality of the plastics. All students were excited not only as they will bring waste they left at home but also they get involved in the business.
At break time some students living close to school begin to collect plastics they took from home. This shown that they were very interested in taking part of the activity. As they collect, the Business Team will register student's name and amount of plastics collected. The register will the be reported to the Environmental Science teacher for further action. We thank School Enterprise Challenge to have this activity in which all students get involved to keep their environment clean. We are planning in the new school year to put waste management into our curriculum.
The process of plastics collecting and registering is continuing for the rest of two weeks. Day by day number of plastics from students are more and more. We have many kind of plastics waste ranging from waste of daily need, weekly need and monthly need. The most plastics waste were coffee-package waste, soap, and followed by plastics cooking oil package. Up to October 15 we have collected as many as 17 kg of plastics waste from about 100 students. We are pretty sure if this activity is carried out through the year we could be able to free environment from plastics waste. We are planning to produce more products as more products we produce there less waste left!.
Gaining new charger
October 15, 2011
The rest two weeks of October was marked by a very good news. Yes, we came up as the runner up of September photo competition hosted by School Enterprise Challenge. We have had more than 400 "likes" to our photo. The picture was students wearing plastics holding a globe with background plastics waste we collected. This picture represents what our activity all about. If those plastics are not managed we believe the whole world will be covered by those waste. Our business is part the solution to this problem.
As the news was being told all students particularly the business team were listening very silently. "This is a very good news, as you all are aware that we are taking part on photo contest. And we came up as…the….the runner up", the Project Leader explained. All students and teacher were very happy to hear the news. We gained new charger to do the business.
The making of pencil box
October 16, 2011
As our enterprise is part of extra-curricula that is why this activity is carried out on week end so that students are able to do the business without leaving schools. Having discussion with the team on what product we should produce first, we decided to start from the simplest one to the hardest: pencil box. To start with activity we divided the production teams into sub-groups. Each sub-group consists of three students. They had different job to do. Some were responsible for selecting plastics (basic materials), designing, cutting, and others responsible for sewing. The total sub-groups were 4.
Having given short briefing by the Production Coordinator the groups started to make products. The overall activity was as followed:
1. Designing. In this stage students design form, size and type of pencil box. There were lot of models students made.
2. Cutting. In the second stage students cut plastics according to design the have made. It seemed that this part was the most difficult part. Nevertheless they show great anxiety and excitement to do the activity.
3. Sewing. The sewing process mostly carried out by girls. They were students who have been following extra-curriculum activity for about a year.
4. Finishing. The last stage was finishing the products that was to make pencil box look more interesting, neat and suitable to youth life
These two weeks were very busy one to us. The team members had to do a lot of works. Besides doing the business students also had to follow regular lessons at schools so that they did not have a lot of lessons to catch up. This delayed our plan of being able to produce products in time.
At the end of the activity we only could finish working on making the final design of end-design. We are planning to do the business in the morning before school time. This decision we hope can give us more time to make our production so that in November we begun to market the product.
Before we finished working we had had brief discussion on what to do in November beside finishing what we did today. We agreed to do another work that was to start making bag from another waste combined with plastics waste. The teams were really excited to have another thing to do. The Project Leader explained that this new product would be bag for many purposes. So, stay tuned on this blog.
School Enterprise Challenge: phase II (part 1)
Colouring business.
For last two weeks we were busy implementing the second phase of the business that was screening paint training as had been planed last month. The plan, however, was changed and coloured our business "out of the box" known nationally. Our full reports of the month are as follows.
Preparing business' facility
September 9 , 2011
Business facility is one of many factors supporting business activity to run well. Considering its significance, we prepared all what our business needs. Two of those urgent facilities are having room for the activity and rack to store screening painting and other materials. As our school is lack of room, we decided to use my garage as business class where the team work.
At first the decision was not supported by the members. Most of the members thought it was unrepresentative and and need a lot of work to do. At the end, all members agreed to the decision after the Project Leader explained that doing any business one must consider resource available. Using any resource available means less expense is spent. Turning a mass garage into a good one meant we had to work hard. The team were divided to do who did what. Another business facility we need is rack. Again, we made ourselves with resources available. All team are involved and work happily. The team really did great job.
Chance never comes twice
September 19-21, 2011
Above is old Indonesian proverb and came to our business and brought it into a wider market. The Indonesian Minister of Education invited our school to participate on a three-day teacher professional development workshops at national level. This workshops was held from September 19-21, 2011 attended by more than 200 teachers from 50 different schools. The workshops was officially opened by the head of Education Agency of West Java Province. There were also some representatives from the Indonesian Ministry of Education, and other government officials.
What made this event was so important for our business was that we had chance to promote the business and gained wider market place. During the workshops we displayed our activity and have had many questions about the business and our involvement on School Enterprise Challenge. There were some schools interested in our business and would like to be our business partner. Some schools proposed us to make products with waste-paper based. Another type of business opportunity is ahead our eyes.
Getting real customer
September 22-24, 2011
One of many factors determining business is sustainable customers, – real customers. Sustainable customer mean secure and long-lasting ones. Having such kind of customers will ensure business survive and compete with others. Facts has shown that a lot of business activity was closed as they do not have sustainable customers. Considering this importance, the team decided to establish business partnerships with prospect customers.
Based on job description we have created earlier, this task falls under marketing division. On September 22, the division then drafted document and put forward into a discussion. During the discussion team members examined draft of partnerships document, and we finally created the document of business partnerships. Our business partners target were schools, shops, government and private offices, and foundations. Our business partnerships is MOU_business
Creating real customers mean we must give the best service so that they satisfied. Satisfaction will come if we know what customers' preferences are. To understand our prospects customers, on September 22, we had meeting discussing on how we could gain it. To discus this matter, on September 23, we had another meeting. The meeting started in the morning, ran fruitfully and we agreed on creating survey to collect data needed. The data collection was carried out using survey sheet containing some questions.
The next activities were implementing business partnerships and customers' preferences survey. These two activities were carried out on the same day after we had break time. We then worked based on who do what management and went to different places and should report at noon time. At noon, the team met and reported what the findings were. The first report was from team conducting business partnerships. They reached business partnerships agreement with two prospectus business partners: school and shops and become our business partner for two years ahead and will be renewed for another two years period or longer upon the two parties agreement . Based on the agreement we sell the products on certain condition and our partners are allowed to resell the products at higher price.
Our business is not all about money we get, but we educating community to be care for the environment. Learning from the experiences that plastics waste is continuing to raise as the producers (companies) are keep producing product s with plastics packing. Those businesses produce plastics waste and effort to alleviate it is really rare. Both government and companies put money as their first priority instead of environmental protection.
As a part of reaching our school mission and promote our business we wrote some companies asking their responsibility for waste they produce. We proposed the companies to buy our products made from waste they produce on partnerships base. Unfortunately, to the time we wrote the blog we have not heard any response from the companies (firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com). We will not give up, we will keep effort asking them to be responsible for the waste they produce. The business team proposed we should hold more campaign and hold demonstration if necessary. Great team to work with.
What the team have learnt from the two activities during the day was that they practiced real business in reality. The team said that during the business partnerships establishment they had to explain all about the business, make sure the business partner and negotiate. The team also said that in the interview activity, at first they felt nervous but as they move from one respondent to another the interview run well. They were really excited doing the interview. This activity was real lesson to students in understanding part of business activity.
Based on the interview sheet we understand what customers' trend towards the products including type, model, colour, price and other related information. The data also reveled what our rival strength and weakness that we can play our role in the right track. All information we collected was very important to our business because they give on how the products should be made according to customers' preference. This we believe will push our business on top.
Raising community 's awareness
We realize that running business plastics-waste-based is a hard work and many challenge a head. Community at our surrounding is not used recycle waste nor use recycled product. But, we believe that there is always opportunity behind challenge. All we need is to raise community's awareness about how important healthy environment to our life is. Having discussion on how our product can be marketed to community we concluded there should be an effort: campaign.
Our first step to the effort was getting community attention on what we are doing. We then decided to hold environmental campaign and made preparation to hold this big event. One of those activity was designing the campaign team and made necessary arrangement. We hope this campaign will raise community awareness to use recycled things, our product and to be more care towards environmental protection.
Getting people attention: business mascot and campaign
September 26, 2011
Doing business requires people attention both to the activity and product. Business needs to have its own icon reminding people to the product. To reach it, on September 26 the team had discussion on how our business be represented. There were many idea and suggestion proposed. Every one had opportunity to explained their argument. We finally reach agreement to have business mascot represented by student covered by black plastics holding a globe. It represents plastics pollutes the Earth. The earth will be dominated by plastics unless people do something about it. Our business, we believe is one of the solution to plastics waste problem.
The next activity was environmental campaign to the school and community at the surrounding. The activity started at school opened formally by the Team Leader and later the team spread accordingly. Some students went to schools, community housing, while others to government and private office.
This campaign focused on waste plastics problem to environment, human and other inhabitants of the Earth. The team persuaded and called on people to reduce plastics usage and use recycled products. During the campaign the team looked so excited and had good response from the people.
Getting things right
September 27, 2011
Today we did not have much to do except finishing rack to keep the materials needed for the business. This work was started two weeks ago and today we could get things all done.
It is our policy that in every work every one should get involved. Some team members doing wood work, polishing and others painting the rack. Every one played his own role. We were happy being able to keep the members cooperating. Things become easier when we cooperate.
By the end of this month we believe,we are ready to begin producing our products and begin to sell the product in November or earlier. That is why, starting tomorrow our plan is focused on product production. We have checked all necessary arrangement for the rest days of the month. We have solid business team, business facility, business partner and financial support. We are ready to the path of business' production as things are set. Markets are waiting for us!
Training on producing product and its innovation
September 30, 2011
We were happy because we were on the track to finish all activities of this month. As has been planned before the last day of September will be used for production training activity. To begin with all production team, all are 8 grade students had a meeting to have brief explanation. This meeting was lead by Project Leader and facilitated by Production Coordinator and last for about 2 hours.
The main agenda of the meeting was to give training on how we produce plastics waste-base product and was hoped it could raise members' product innovation. At the opening, the Project Leader re-stressed the main goal of the business and our participation on the School Enterprise Challenge. "As we are all aware that plastics has been causing problems to environment, that is why our business is not all about money we want to get, but most of all we want to lessen the environment's burden from plastics waste. But, our business will of course turn into a successful one if we all do it seriously, patiently, and work hard. We all are agree our business is an eco-friendly enterprise, doing business while protecting our environment". That was the main point of what the Project Leader reminded us. He also mention that we were one among the sevenths best blog writer of August entry. We would work harder to be the best!
The next activity was training activity lead by Project Leader and Production Coordinator in turn. It was started by Project Leader's presentation and followed by training in action led by Production Coordinator. During the training the team were very excited and gave many input and innovation that could furnish the products better. Followings are training presentation and activity. It review briefly on how plastics waste is turned into more useful products. The Production Coordinator gave sample on how to make a pencil case
A. Material and tools needed
1. Various plastics waste
2. Zipper
3. Sewing thread
4. Scissors
5. Cutter/knife
6. Ruler
7. Sewing machine
8. Bucket
9. Water
B. Steps
1. Select the type of plastics that suits with needs. This plastics should be strong enough
2. Wash until it is clean and no dirty is left
3. Dry under the sun. Though the best way is drying in the dry room
4. Design any form of stuff be made
5. Reverse the inside part of the plastics so that become out side part
6. Sewing all sides of the plastics
7. Sewing zipper on the top
8. Reverse for second time so that the outside look of the plastics turning into as it looks first.
The training lasted for about two hours. All team members still shown spirit. We then had discussion on how our product could be marketed well. There were many ideas came up, we loved to hear those thought. One of the idea that we discuss further was we should make the products as close as to customers' preferences. This is particularly for teenagers where they usually have their idol. Members agreed to make product based on order where customers can have their own drawing or pictures on the products.
Other team members still wanted the plastics just the way they are. This is as part of the environmental campaign effort. "We need to show those plastics producers that they left waste, and we care of those waste". One of the team members argue. To cover those two ideas, we agreed to diversify the products: one just the way the plastics waste are and the other by giving innovation to make the product more interesting. We believe this product diversification will enrich our business. We ended today activity by shaking hand to each other, hoping for the best!!
More photos of our business facility and activity
Above are some photos of our business starting from the beginning up to present. There will some changes be implemented:
1. When the washing machine (diesel) is ready to operate it will replace washing process manually.
2. The washing machine will next be replaced by an eco-friendly energy sources, such as water, wind or solar (sun) energy. At the mean time, diesel is generated by fuel. The use of natural energy is anticipated towards the big project establishing sustainable school.
We realize this big project is not an easy one, we need to be out of the box: more human resources and more financial are needed,
We believe that School Enterprise Challenge http://schoolenterprisechallenge.wordpress.com/author/schoolenterprisechallenge/
is a starting point to the project.
Muslihudin Sharbinie
Project Leader
School Enterprise Challenge: phase I
First step to our Business
New school year of SMP Terbuka Mandiri Al Fajri is started. End of long holiday season took us into busy days. New students and new schools years brought a new hope for the school.
In the line with new student admission activity we introduced a big project to follow. It's the biggest activity as were going internationally through School Enterprise Challenge. Here are our report of the first step to our business
What we do …
It took our school some times to decide on what our business to be submitted. There were some suggestion came up ranging from food-based business; farming-based business to eco-friendly-based business.
Having a long but fruitful discussion and debate we finally agreed to run business driven from our school's vision and mission-a modern waste and environment-based school. Thus, we will run life skill for a better life: an eco-friendly plastics waste-based entrepreneurship as stated in Business and financial plan. We will recycle plastics waste into more useful stuff: bag, rain coat, pencil case, and others.


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So I think I finally figured out why I've been MIA here. Even before I lost my phone, I uninstalled the WordPress app, thinking it was a source of unproductivity because I was always at it. But then even though I uninstalled it, productivity was still low and I just ended up not blogging. Sometimes I get ideas for blog topics and it vanishes into the ether because I wasn't able to write it away or even note it down. And I had a lot to say in the months I was away but always no energy or drive to open my laptop and type.
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>On Thursday afternoon I had hand surgery to remove two stones from my hand embedded there since a motorbike accident in Thailand eight years ago. Although I can now clap without fear of the stones jabbing into me I will miss my little quirk and way to entertain small children. It has made me realise how much of my life the stones have been present for and how I will miss them. So, my tribute to my stones and the memories we have shared:
- Moving into my first flat with the Man after university, it was tiny but it was ours and celebrating it by breaking the bed.
- Working in the City, so much fun in my early twenties, far too much wine and not enough sleep.
- The Man proposing to me in Richmond Park and the only time in my life I have been speechless (I had to nod yes).
- Our beautiful wedding in Cornwall where the sun shone down on us and we were surrounded by all of our family and friends and I was made to feel so special.
- The positive pregnancy test at 11pm after three pints and the subsequent breakdown in a Tesco toilet.
- The birth of the Boy and the agony I went through to get him out followed by pure amazement at what we had created.
- So many Boy moments that have filled my heart with pride and happiness.
- And a memorable last day together.
So goodbye dear friends, whilst you live on in a plastic pot I feel our relationship will not be the same again. I will miss you and think of you when I see my two scars.
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