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I don't know if it is the right section, because the section's name is Trading from A to Z, so I am pretty sure that my thread comes in the same category. The purpose of opening that thread is: Knowledge to inform you and getting yours information in my knowledge, so I may know what you have and you may know what I am saying.
Well, in past years when people were very concerned about FX, they went to some of the online scholars asking that whether is it okay to go ahead with marginal FX trading or not, and most of the time, there used to be an answer that No, marginal trading is not permissible. At that time, there were no swap-free accounts but now, large number of brokers offer this swap-free account including RoboForex.
We must realize that there are many grey areas which most people (even scholars) are unable to understand. No wonders that some scholars, who are well in finance world suggests to go with it.
Let me give you the example of Dr Zakir Naik. Dr Zakir naik is a stocks trader, and i watched his video on the internet regarding stocks and he mentioned there that: "Margin trading is halal as long as no interest is charged"
What is annoying me is the fact about leverage in Forex which is not mentioned anywhere in the internet.
Difference between the marginal trading (leverage) in stocks and marginal trading (leverage) in Forex:
I hope that you are aware that, in stocks trading, you will not be able to get enough leverage from your brokers or even banks. Why? Did you ever thought about this matter? Use your brain to think about it. Its because in stocks, they are lending you REAL money instead of just contracts, so that you could buy and sell your shares, and the main point is to control the debt.
Don't you wonder that in these days, there are brokers providing high leverage? (No problems with that), but what is the difference? If the leverages like 1:1000 can be given for currencies trading then why it cannot be given in stocks trading? where the risk is less than the risk in Forex!
The truth is, margin trading in Forex doesn't means that someone is lending you, it seems essential that it is trading on discounts that government orders the banks to charge no more than 2% in USA for their orders, that's 1:50 leverage. So, the currencies belongs to the country and country belongs to its governor, then to whom the currency belongs indirectly? the currencies belongs to the government. So, if the owner is saying that, do not charge more than more or less than 2% for their orders (most likely, less than 2% for their orders) then what it is? A discount? or lending?
Let me ask you a simple question. Do you think that brokerage firms are that much rich to lend you billions of dollars on every trade you make? Lets say that if the broker have a order of 1000 standard lots (1000 customers, 1 lot from each) at a time, it means that all customers have 1,000 USD and having the leverage of 1:100, then do you imagine what would be the amount of so called lending procedure? It turns to 100 Million Dollars, How the hell 100 Million Dollars could even be printed in just a day. Even banks lack such kind of funds for immediate delivery, brokers are far from that.
I have done enough research on leverage, and with my understanding, I am at the conclusion that leverage in FX doesn't means lending, it means, discount trading in terms of Forex. Think about the customers, most of the brokers have 100,000 of customers and they order the minimum of 0.5 lots at some time which means 50,000 standard lots (just for an example), then where the amount will go? Will not it turn into billions?
I think, what they do with the FX trading is, they just note that for example "A trader purchased 100 lots at such price, TP and SL". Its just a matter of electronic paper works. Its their system where orders take place (of-course in a bank's system). I don't mean to say that trades are not executed, trades are executed but its a rule of financial market that you can pay 1% now and remaining 99% after the delivery which in the matter of Forex, delivery of spot FX takes place in 2 days.
Why you extend your positions by giving swap? That means, you want to keep using the discounts and do not have other 99% to pay, so you are delaying the transactions by giving interest (which is obvious Riba).
Well, the main question remains same. If the FX trading is permissible or not. And, do you think that leverage is a discount or you still think that its lending/borrowing of funds. If you think that its lending/borrowing, please write why, and if you think I am right, then also write why!
We're looking for the peace in both worlds. It is unfair that we dis-respect the orders from our God and just care about this temporary world? How much time we can live in this earth? for 100 years at most? Okay, 120 years at most. The avg is 60 years. Do you want the paradise for eternity OR paradise in this world for averagely 60 years and then hell-fire for eternity. The reason I am saying is that, I want you to think seriously and answer the question because it is the matter of Riba. Even I am not yet confirmed if dealing in Forex is okay or not. So, I thought that asking from you here will be a good idea.
The main question remains same. It is just the information I thought to give you about leverage because it is the first reason your scholar will give you to say that it is impermissible. Information is given so that you could think enough about whether it is okay to go ahead or we should leave this profession.
Again, the major reasons which scholars give when they say that it is impermissible:
- Possession of currencies (We get ownership rights but only some scholars understand electronic rights)
- Use of margin. (Scholars say that it must be 1:1, but even if that is the case, then what about long/short issue which gonna remain same even with 1:1, short (sell) means, we are borrowing one and purchasing other, in Forex, we don't borrow actually but if scholars insist on it, then tell them that even with full payment, the matter of borrowing will remain same. Without borrowing, no chance of business.) Remember that I don't think borrowing of funds exists. Specially when it is interest-free? Sigh. impossible.
- Hand to hand. (It is an advanced world now and electronic systems are now our hands)
I hope that you aren't bored with those details, also, I bear no responsibility if my thoughts are 100% correct (because after all, they are just thoughts)


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The Black Star Project sent his email newsletter this morning. It included a story I pointed to Friday, about Education Redlining in New York City. It also included a story titled "Half of UK's young Black males are unemployed."
With the big NATO meeting in Chicago today, and the G-8 meeting in Washington last week, I was prompted to create this graphic to suggest a type of platform that might connect those who are writing about bad news with those who are in the field leading organizations and schools that are trying to prepare youth to be the next generation of workers, along with CEOs and leaders, and those who are in decision-making seats right now and control the flow and distribution of resources needed to pay for what we do to shape our future.
I joined a discussion on Linked in last week where a question is How can we enable a Systems Thinking World? I'm in similar discussion on Facebook (here and here) and have enjoyed many such discussion in other groups.
If you narrow this down to "how do we support all kids from the time they are born to the time they are adults able to take care of themselves" which to me means they have a job so they can raise their own children without the challenges of highly segregated poverty and the knowledge of how to learn and work collectively with others as they move through their adult lives, then the first question I propose is "what do we know of the problem and what do we know of how others are already trying to solve this problem?"
This is the first part of a problem solving strategy that I've posted among a set of articles in the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC library.
If we can create on-line platforms that support the components of the pie chart above, or the steps in the strategy PDF I've posted, can we find the marketing power to draw growing numbers of people into this strategy, help them understand it and lead them to on-going actions that support youth mentoring, tutoring, learning, etc. in all of the places where high poverty is a challenge that most other kids don't face every day?
While I'm trying to find people to help me build a platform to support this work I realize that thousands of others are launching their own platforms for problem solving, social interaction, etc. every day. Thus we need to find ways to connect with each other, in many of the ways that are supported in this Change.MOOC.ca event which just concluded after over 30 weeks of shared learning.
One of the organizers, Stephen Downs, just sent out a compilation of his Essays on meaning and learning networks . It's over 600 pages so I doubt many will read this completely while they fly home from the NATO summit.
But what if they built this into an on-going learning course that was intended to teach more young people these ideas over a lifetime of learning?
Such connected learners could then use web sites with graphic organizers like this to choose what cause they want to learn about, and click into a set of connected web sites that would take them deeper and deeper into knowledge about the problem and knowledge about possible solutions and ways they could apply them in their own communities and through the collective work of many stakeholders.
If only one of the benefactors who paid for the NATO event, or who is paying for the attack advertising and political campaigns of this election year were to devote some funds to building these platforms and sustaining them for the next few election cycles, we might build a system where connected individuals work together to solve problems that governments have not figured out how to solve.
Monday, May 21, 2012
The Future of Earth - Our Children. Is NATO talking about this?
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For a few years now I've been promising my oldest son, Britton, that I'd take him on a big jungle adventure. He's been desperately looking forward to it! We originally planned to do it around his 12th birthday, which would have been in August, and the middle of "dry" season--always a good time to be hiking in the jungle. But Joy and the kids took a rather sudden trip to the U.S. at that time. Britton actually voted to stay behind in Indonesia, rather than going to the U.S., if it meant that he wouldn't be able to do the jungle adventure with me. But of course, I wanted him to be able to do both, so we re-scheduled the jungle adventure for November.
My plan was to take six days to trek around the upper Pujungan River system (Pujungan Hulu) near the remote and isolated, picturesque village of Long Jelet. I was particularly interested in seeing a very unique area over which I've flown many times, which resembles a large extinct volcanic crater. Here's a picture from 12,000 feet. At the lower center of the photo, in the semi-circle shadow, if you look closely you can see a water fall. That's the Bum River Waterfall, which drops several hundred feet off the sheer outer edge of the crater wall. Inside the crater are numerous swampy ponds or lakes (visible in the picture as shiny brownish-white patches void of trees) which are very rare out here in this part of the deep Bornean jungle. At times, flying over at lower altitudes, I've seen a lot of large animals standing in or at the edges of these ponds, and I was very intrigued. The whole interior part of the crater looks from the air to be totally different, as far as the flora goes, than anywhere else in Northeast Kalimantan. I've always been curious about it. Furthermore, I've heard that there were old burial grounds in the inside cliff walls of the crater. It all sounded very exciting and adventurous, the perfect place for a father and son to spend some great time together! So that was our plan--to get there, and then to explore the area.
We started by flying an MAF 206 into the village of Long Pujungan, a one-hour flight from Tarakan (below). It turns out that there'd been a ton of rain over the past few days, so we almost got stuck in Pujungan because of the high and dangerous water levels. However, my guides and good friends, Pak Yu Taang, and Pak Lajau, who've I've done several treks with now, we're raring to go and willing to give it a try. So we gassed up and started the typical 3-hour trip in the motorized canoes up the rain-swollen Pujungan river towards Long Jelet.
I did not have a water proof camera this time, so the only pictures I took from the boat were the ones that could be snagged in the not-too-common stretches of calm water that afforded enough time to get the point and shoot out of the baby pelican, and snap a shot or two, before quickly putting it back in just before getting drenched again. So the picture below gives you a good idea of what maybe 10% of the trip looked like. The rest of the time it much more resembled something you might find at a water park, or a specialized white-water rafting outfit--but in this case we were in a wooden, over sized canoe type boat, with no added flotation. I always love the river parts of these treks!
It's always very impressive and exciting to me, to see how well these guys navigate the rivers. I wouldn't last 5 minutes on my own without capsizing the canoe--yet these guys do it day after day. Of course, to be fair I guess they probably wouldn't be able to land an airplane in Long Pujungan to save their life, so it's all good. I just kick back and enjoy the ride! It's normal on this trip to have to get out three or four times to walk around the worst of the rapids. But in this case we must have gotten out 15 times or so--and several times we had to pull the boat up through the worst areas because of the higher water. It was slow, tough going!
While walking around several of the bad areas, we stumbled across some baby waterfalls, cascading down the jungle slopes, and Britton was quick to jump in and cool off.
Late in the afternoon we pulled over and hiked the short distance to the Lower Bum River Waterfall. This is the same small river that is pictured in the areal shot above, but this is close to the mouth of the river where it dumps into the Pujungan. Even though it was a bright, hot, and sunny day, it was very cool in the waterfall area--a combination of the thick canopy cover and the constant moisture in the air. Oh, and the wind that never stopped blowing from the falling water.
And again, Britton jumped right in. This photo gives you an idea as to the size of the falls--not super big, but not tiny either. The pool was actually quite deep--we didn't find the bottom. The guides were super impressed by this time with Britton--both with his walking ability as he hiked around numerous rapids, sure-footed and confident, and also with his eagerness to fully experience all of the sights, sounds, and opportunities the jungle had to offer--like waterfalls. Although they were very excited about this trek where I had promised to bring my oldest son along (we'd been talking about it for two years now, and they were really looking forward to it), I think they were just a bit nervous as to how he would actually get along in the jungle. But I think those fears were quickly put to rest, and indeed he proved to be very capable indeed throughout the entire trip! In fact, within a few days they were saying that they thought he was part Dayak (the ethnic group of the people in that area), a high compliment indeed!
Well, late in the afternoon, at about 5:30, we finally made it to Long Jelet. It took about two and a half times longer than normal to make the trip upriver because of the high water, but make it we did! Here, Britton is standing on the bank just beside the village of Long Jelet, a hunting dog gazing into the distance in the foreground.
Our plan was to spend the night here and then leave early the next morning for five days in the jungle. But as Britton quickly learned, jungle travel is not only difficult and dangerous, but extremely unpredictable. And things often don't go as planned. Check back soon for Part 2.


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The death penalty has been in the news lately because of the American Law Institute's disavowal of the very influential framework it created for applying the death penalty in 1962. Much of the concern of death penalty critics is based on the grave harm of executing the falsely convicted. I offer one possible defense of the death penalty that claims that maintaining the death penalty is actually better for those falsely convicted of first-degree murder:
Premise 1: After a criminal is convicted of first-degree murder with a punishment of the death penalty (DP), more attention and legal help* is offered to that criminal than when there is the alternative punishment of life imprisonment.
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On Wasting Life | The Passion
The propelling drama of Holy Week finds the world stunned in complacency. We are too self-assured to mind what happened some time ago outside the city gates to a certain Christ. Either we do not care, and then life simply goes on. Or we are in the throes of despair, in active betrayal, and affected to the point of caring unbearably. We are either with Him or against Him, as were those who lived the event of His death. There is no middle way, or at least no convincing one.
And it is so, that of all the world's religions, Christianity puts its focus squarely on this suffering of the Christ, and during Holy Week it especially looks to Calvary as it seeks answers for the plethora of agonies that afflict modern man.
Here there is no passive resignation, no attempt at achieving states of nirvanic dissociation from reality. There is simply the full and total engagement with suffering and sacrifice — and we are called, dared, to believe it good.
Does not every movement in the Passion write large some common element in the sufferings of our race? First, the prayer of anguish; not granted. Then He turns to His friends. They are asleep — as ours, or we, are so often, or busy, or away, or preoccupied. Then He faces the Church; the very Church that He brought into existence. It condemns Him…. But there seems to be another chance. There is the State; in this case, the Roman state…. It claims to be just on a rough, worldly level. Yes, but only so far as is consistent with political expediency and raison d'etat. One becomes a counter in a complicated game. But even now all is not lost. There is still an appeal to the People — the poor and simple whom He had blessed, whom He had healed and fed and taught, to whom He Himself belongs. But they have become over-night (it is nothing unusual) a murderous rabble shouting for His blood. There is, then, nothing left but God. And to God, God's last words are "Why hast thou forsaken me?"
—C.S.Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
The natural instinct is disbelief. All actually does seem lost, wasted. How could one who is the Son of God hang there, seemingly abandoned, in ignominy?
What about His disciples who denied Him, or fled in fear, compounding the silver piece betrayal?
And what of the agony of His mother who stood beneath Him dying? What kind of love is this?
How could suffering like no other make any sense, or further, be salvific?
The truth remains the greatest story ever told. And the glorious ending is not to be taken a figment of intelligent imagination.
What is surely missing from the narrative is the daring call to believe that the Crucifixion is real drama, and the Resurrection, real glory. And not just drama and glory, but the very crowning of salvation history on which all else depends.
All too often we deceive ourselves on reductionist narratives of the Passion and Resurrection that fail to acknowledge the divinity of the One who died and truly rose from the dead. If is easy to forget that apart from Christ's salvific death and His rising from the dead, our death, human death would be a hopeless end, a tragedy sans redemption — the unbearable waste and privation of the good of life.
And it is here that we are well reminded to enter deeply in contemplation of the profound mystery of the Incarnation — the coming of God in the flesh — that permits our ascent to Him. For sin needed a Victor; slavery, a Liberator; the weakened, wounded, and at times hopeless nature of man, a Savior. And what Savior would He be if He were simply just another one of us?
It was this nature of a slave that had to be healed of its ancient wounds and cleansed of the defilement of sin. For that reason the only-begotten Son of God became also the son of man. He was to have both the reality of a human nature and the fullness of the godhead.
The body that lay lifeless in the tomb is ours. The body that rose again on the third day is ours. The body that ascended above all the heights of heaven to the right hand of the Father's glory is ours. If then we walk in the way of his commandments, and are not ashamed to acknowledge the price he paid for our salvation in a lowly body, we too are to rise to share his glory.
—Saint Leo the Great, Pope, Sermo 15, De Passione Domini, 3-4, emphasis added
The price paid is indeed high, and the means are lowly: human flesh, hung to die; a criminal's end for One who is the fullness of goodness. The cost is the very life of the Son of God. What kind of love is this?
What are we left with, awaiting the moment when the veil of the temple is torn? Dare we look at our lives as a waste? A spectacular failure? Our misery, a hopeless, forsaken condemnation? Or do we otherwise turn around in the night to gaze back at that hilltop outside the city gates, and look upon Him whom we have pierced, innocent and reviled, abandoned to the fullness of the Father's love and to the angry derision of a mob, and see transfigured before us the Savior of the World?
Can we dare believe ourselves loved in His wounds? Healed in His mercy? Held by the strength of a consummated dying love — as He begs our love in return? Dare we believe ourselves called to the com-passion our sufferings viscerally entail — brought to the gibbet of the Cross to share in His sacrifice as it shatters the darkness that envelops the land?
Or shall we refuse even this dying wish?
We must now pass through the first veil and approach the second, turning our eyes toward the Holy of Holies. I will say more: we must sacrifice ourselves to God, each day and in everything we do, accepting all that happens to us for the sake of the Word, imitating his passion by our sufferings, and honoring his blood by shedding our own. We must be ready to be crucified.
If you are a Simon of Cyrene, take up your cross and follow Christ. If you are crucified beside him like one of the thieves, now, like the good thief, acknowledge your God….
If you are a Joseph of Arimathea, go to the one who ordered his crucifixion, and ask for Christ's body. Make your own the expiation for the sins of the whole world. If you are a Nicodemus, like the man who worshiped God by night, bring spices and prepare Christ's body for burial. If you are one of the Marys, or Salome, or Joanna, weep in the early morning. Be the first to see the stone rolled back, and even the angels perhaps, and Jesus himself.
–From a homily by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Oratio 45, 23-24
Shall we weep there as the veil tears — visions of wasted life, indifference, losses untold — and dare behold ourselves grafted onto beams that unite heaven and earth? Will we waste our lives, or beg His strength and so offer them on the altar of the Cross? Can we survive the agony of The Passion?
And then believe the stone will be rolled away?
This is a sequel to The Infant of The Catacombs | On Helplessness and Grace, and Revelations on Pain.
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That was the message encoded in TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009 by none other than Anonymous. These 4chan netizens jumped into action and hacked the poll, not only making sure that moot, the founder of 4chan, tops the list, but also being careful to arrange the order of winners up to the 21st so that the list would read, "mARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME". TIME already made the list official — epic win for moot and Anonymous — but completely denied the hack. You can read the details of the hack here.
Here is an excerpt from Mashable regarding this piece of news:
The Internet has different rules. The folks at Time just learned about it in a very amusing way, as their third annual poll for the world's most influential person was topped by moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole, founder of the legendary memebreeding forum 4chan. And, though the results of the poll are obviously skewed, the list is now official nonetheless.
Remember, it's not Barack Obama, not Oprah Winfrey, not Pope Benedict XVI, but moot. He received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100).
The Internet does play by a very different set of rules indeed. Who is moot? I am not asking about who he really is in real life, his personal history, and so on, but what can the existence of this 21-year-old founder of 4chan who became this year's most influential person on Earth tell us about the culture we are living in?
moot has been quoted to say, "My personal private life is very separate from my internet life. There's a firewall in between." It is very interesting to note that moot did not use the phrase "real life" to denote his "personal private life". That alone I think is really telling — clearly, moot, like many of us, has an online life more real than his private life.
4chan has been described as the "Wild West" of the Internet. The rawest of lands and coarsest of media, the home to Internet vigilantes as well as the most homophobic, misogynist, and racist users, often with amazing hacking skills, 4chan represents the face of posthuman subculture today. And I am not even trying to romanticize it as we often romanticize a Wild West — go to 4chan today to /b/, the random bulletin board, and you will see what I mean, if you haven't. There is nothing romantic about it, save perhaps the total assault they do on culture on a daily basis.
The growth of a subculture, a raw resistance of any kind at all, always presents us with the Real of antagonisms of the culture we are living in. 4chan is the antithesis of Facebook, and moot is the antithesis of Mark Zuckerberg. When we discuss the Internet, we often forget today about 4chan, about the nameless, faceless commons that is Anonymous, about the glorified Master signifier that is moot. When we discuss cultures, we often forget about their breeding place, the Wild West, the grafitti brick walls of the anonymous crowd.
The TIME 100 hack tells a lot about the times we are living in. In a way, we can even say that TIME ultimately got what they wanted — they decided to do an online poll, and online, moot is indeed the most influential person. Invisible he may be, but one only needs to see the number of memes penetrating our Internet lives today, from Rickrolls to LOLcats but also "epic" phrases — indeed, 4chan can take any meaningless thing and imbue it with the object-cause of desire because they themselves embody the faceless gaze of the commons — to see how true this is. Because our times are heading towards that critical direction again: where culture can no longer be dictated, when minds can no longer be censored, and when a handful of people can turn a historical media cultural event upside down.
Slavoj Žižek says that in order for our times to grow, "maybe we just need a different chicken [fetish object]". The problem so far regarding democracy is that "we know the system is corrupt, but does the system know it is corrupt?" — in other words, we continue to do it because we know it works even if we don't believe that it works. I think the recent message-encoded TIME 100 hack proves otherwise — the system itself knows that it is corrupt, and it is only the big media companies that are losing and continue to pretend everything is OK. And fortunately, the technological apparatuses that be no longer serves them but the faceless crowd.
I'm going to have a marblecake and celebrate.


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Educational content for the LW is developed by organizations like the Minnesota Literacy Council, Goodling Institute, Literacyworks, the National College Transition Network, PSU, and others. Called Learning Plans, the content is customizable to meet the needs of users and is shared amongst all partnering members of the LW community.
According to Dr. Kathryn Harris, LLTR faculty member, the customizable Learning Plans are in part what makes the LW appealing as a support system for learners seeking to achieve specific goals. For example, with a few changes, a Learning Plan designed to help learners use online mapping and public transit tools in California can be adapted to provide locally relevant instruction and examples nearly anywhere.
"Studies have shown that adult learning is most successful when the content is relevant and timely," said Harris. "But what is timely and relevant in one region may not be in another. For our partners, customizing Learning Plans allows them to provide learners the best possible content."
As Dr. Jill Castek, Research Assistant Professor, LLTR lead faculty, noted, Learning Plan customization and visual low-text ESL versions of the digital literacy plans are new features partners are excited about.
"The Learner Web is not just a tool for learners," said Castek. "It is also a community of practice. We work with partners to hone in on improvements to the system and move the Learner Web forward. The participation of our partners provides us the opportunity to identify development priorities and meet the needs of partner organization and the learners they serve."
Recent research expanding and informing the uses of the LW include a U.S. Department of Commerce sponsored "Broadband Technology Program." In this multi-state study over 13,000 adults used Learning Plans to acquire a variety of digital skills. Amongst other ongoing studies, the LLTR Group is currently working on an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded study examining tutor-facilitated digital literacy acquisition in hard-to-serve populations and a project in collaboration with Literacy Information and Communication Systems (LINCS) to use the LW to help tutors improve their skills and better serve learners.
"What we find in our research," Harris said, "is that the Learner Web is a useful tool in ways we never imagined. There's almost no limit to how its applications can support adult learning."
According to Castek, partners in states like Minnesota are spinning out their own partnerships with other local organizations. In Louisiana, the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy at Loyola University partners with the Orleans Parish Prison reentry program to provide soon to be released inmates with the digital literacy skills they will need to find employment when they rejoin society.
In 24 sites in New York, the LW is used to support adult learners transitioning into postsecondary education or training. And across the nation the LINCS English Language Learner University in partnership with Literacyworks is leveraging the resources of the LW to improve the knowledge and skills of educators working with adult English language learners.
One might ask why it is that education is one of the major civil rights issues facing society today. As the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a statement, "Education is a major driving force for human development. It opens doors to the job market, combats inequality, improves maternal health, reduced child morality, fosters solidarity, and promotes environmental stewardshipii. "
Education enables the building of a better world for all. But all too often education is viewed through the lens of Pre-K to post-secondary schools, colleges, and universities when in fact there are adult learners, many of them underrepresented and underserved, outside of these institutions in need of educational support. The LW is an innovative platform that helps those adult learners achieve their educational and career goals. They in turn contribute more to society at large. By supporting thousands of learners across the country, the LW is broadening the field of those who have access to equity, well-being and a higher quality of life.
i. http://www2.ed.gov/news/speeches/2009/10/10092009.html
ii. http://www.globaleducationfirst.org/289.htm
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SWEET GBorn in Denver, Colorado; October 24, Sweet G was interested in music at an early age.
Her mother says instead of speaking Sweet G would sing her words.
There were no musical instruments in the house, so Sweet G would play the old records on the family stereo and sing to them, pretending to be a singer.
When she started school, she was then able to study different instruments, the recorder, flute and guitar.
I became very good with the flute and participated in City Wide Band during my middle School years.Sweet G has received several awards and recognition for her music talents.
In eighth grade I was the fourth flautist in the city out of forty-four floutists."
She is currently married and has 3 children.
She wants to make music that sounds like: EdaJames Mariah Carey, Lil Kim, Lil Rob, Whitney Houston and Yolanda Adams.
To complete Sweet G's first project she will need:
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Where I muse about just about everything...
From the weather in Texas, to my kids, pets, travel and friendships. Basically, about life. And oh yeah, about my Coquette Bath & Home™ products, too.
Perils of 'Triple Scented'
Every industry has phrases and sayings that are unique. Most of the time, these are banal. No problem. No foul. But sometimes, well, they are very problematic.
In the candlemaking world, the one phrase that makes me really very crazy is 'triple scented'. Why? Well, because it, at best, misleading. At worst, it is ignorant. Let me explain. But first, a little history lesson.
Some time back in the misty past (think wide shoulder pads) the candlemakers of the world were given a gift. A new wax was introduced. A formulated blended product that had the ability to hold more fragrance oil (about triple the current popular wax...) and yield a superior product. The candles made from that wax were stronger, burned well and were very very VERY popular with customers.
And that just makes sense. After all people are burning candles, or melting wax like my Nuggets™, for scent. So a candle that packed the fragrancing power of 3 in one...well, you can see the allure.
(chemistry note: fragrance oil is held within the wax, molecule next to molecule. And a wax can only 'contain' 'so much' oil before it cannot. The result is a seepy weepy mess that probably smokes like crazy and also maybe won't even burn well...)
Of course, let's assume that you are the owner of one of the OTHER wax making companies (and yep, there are a few of them, even today). And all of a sudden...you weren't selling wax. Not a box. Everyone was buying the other guy. Well, it wouldn't take you long, would it, to reformulate so that your wax also had the same benefit.
After all, if you didn't...well, you wouldn't be in business.
Okay, enough history. Flash back to modern time...and chandlers (candlemakers) are STILL using this outdated term. Heck, some even incorporate the name into their business! And it is confusing. And it is misleading and dagnabit, it is plain wrong.
There is absolutely NO way that someone could put triple the scent into a candle that I do. Truly. I weigh out my oils, after all, and I know, to the gram, EXACTLY how much fragrance that wax can hold. I go to that point, and no more. After all, I don't want you to get a nasty weepy mess. I want you to enjoy a great candle.
Of course, I could be snarky now, and go 'triple what, triple zero is still zero'. And that's also true.
And, then you get to the candles that are 3 scents in one. Yes, they could properly be termed 'triple scented' but honestly, once again, there's that confusing bit. I prefer to call them stacked candles. And after all, they are. One scent stacked over another one.
So, the next time you see someone posting their triple scented candles or wax melts...keep in mind a few things. There's no way that's possible. That they are either ignorant of the truth (and do you want to spend your hard earned cash with someone who isn't even aware of this reality) or they are trying to confuse you. If they are trying to say 'strong', well there is just a better way. Say strong. Simple. Amply fragranced. Incredible aroma. See, one can do far better than triple scented!
And now, a gratuitous shot of my jar candles. Yep, they are strongly scented. Yep, they fill the room with fragrance. My wax melts, Nuggets™ ditto. But nope, they are not triple scented. Unless I stack 3scents on top of one another. And sometimes I do.
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Ed Koch loved Bay Ridge restaurants, bakeries, luncheons
Jane Kelly, a longtime member of the Bay Ridge Community Council, remembers that Ed Koch was a regular at the organization's annual President's Luncheon during his days at City Hall.
"Oh yes, he came to our luncheon often when he was mayor," said Kelly, a retired Catholic school teacher who has been a member of the council since the 1960s.
During the 1980s, at the height of his tenure as mayor, Koch visited Bay Ridge often, according to civic leaders. The brash mayor frequently ate at local restuarants, met often with business leaders, and held town hall events, where he often sparred with residents whose brashness matched his.
Koch, always a big, booming presence at the community council luncheon, would bound into the Bay Ridge Manor catering hall with his enormous smile and would immediately work the room, shaking hands with everyone and shouting his famous "How'm I doing?'
There was one time, however, when the food-loving mayor kept the community council members waiting at the luncheon while he checked out desserts at a local bakery.
"We were waiting by the door of the Manor to greet him when he came in, but we were standing there a long, long time. He had stopped at Jean Danet," Kelly said, referring to a bakery located on Fifth Avenue and 76th Street, across the street from the Bay Ridge Manor. "They had made a cake that looked like City Hall and he stopped by to congratulate them.'
It wasn't the first time Koch had visited Jean Danet, Kelly said. "I think he went there a lot. He loved their cakes," she said.
Koch was also a regular at Nightfalls, a Third Avenue restaurant owned by his friend, Al Nahas, a Bay Ridge business leader. The mayor could eat a meal there undisturbed, said one longtime Bay Ridgeite who remembered those days.
It wasn't just luncheon food and restaurant dishes that brought Koch to Bay Ridge, according to Kelly.
"He held a lot of town halls here. I remember one where I asked him a question about the R train. I was chairman of the council's Traffic and Transportation Committee and at that time, many of the R train cars had no lights. People would be riding in the dark. I asked him to address this problem. A few days later, he sent me a letter promising it would be taken care of. It was," Kelly said.
"I really liked him. He was so dynamic, so personable. He really spoke his mind," Kelly said.
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It's the first day of the new school year. 5th grader Ari and her best friends Suha and Min have started an after school activity called the Problem Solving Club. However, no one seems to have any problems that need to be solved. Disappointed Ari ends up discovering an unconscious hamster on the road. Amazingly...the hamster begins to speak. "I must find the magic ring..." (Source: Official Youtube Channel of Flowering Heart)
Title: Flowering Heart
English: Flowering Heart
Japanese: 플라워링하트
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Aired: Feb 29, 2016 to May 24, 2016
Premiered: Winter 2016
Genres: Kids, Magic
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All kinds of occasions and parties necessitate the presence of each and every kind of mouth-watering cakes and pastries. Whenever you plan a birthday party or any kind of anniversary party, a cake of your favorite flavor is a must, be it chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. Nowadays even the black forest cake has also become a rage. No matter if you live away or abroad from your home country, with online delivery facilities, it will be no trouble at all if you wish to send cake to India.
Yummy Recipes For Black Forest Cake
When you say the word black forest cake, there are mouth- watering choices galore to select from. Even a single black forest cake has so many fascinatingly delicious categories that you will be spoilt for choice. Skim through the rest of the article for seeing some of the posts on the delightful black forest cake.
One very unique type of dessert would be the cream cheese black forest cake which simply melts in your mouth. The ingredients and directions are provided below for this delightfully delicious dessert.
Ingredients and components for cream cheese black forest cake
- A dozen cookies of chocolate sandwich which has cream filling
- A couple of eggs
- Half a cup of cream that is whipped and thawed
- you will need to have cocoa powder filled with one-third of a cup
- Take white sugar and fill three-fourths of a cup with it.
- Softened white cream that is 16 oz in quantity
- cherry pie filling of 21 oz
- vanilla extract of one teaspoon
How To Bake This Sumptuous Dessert
- The above portion of the chocolate sandwich cookies is taken apart. These are ground finely and set apart. The rest of the cookie portions which have the cream filling are placed in muffin cups with aluminum foil.
- The next step is to place the cocoa powder, sugar, vanilla and cream cheese in the mixing bowl and merge it finely using an electric
- Shake the eggs well and drop both of them in the finely smooth mixture.
- Now put the cake mixture in the muffin cups. The top of the cakes is powdered with the cookie crumbs to make it look and taste nice.
- Set the temperate of the oven at 325 F and bake the cake for five minutes less than half an hour.
- After the cake has cooled, the cherry pie filling can be placed on top.
- The finishing touches can be made with the leftover sprinkles of cookie crumbs and whipped cream.
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This kind of cream cheese black forest cake is a very delightful dessert and is a perfect birthday present to send someone. Even if the person wants to know more about the kinds of black forest cakes there are so many of them to check out. There is the black forest layer cake and then there is the chocolate cherry black forest pancake. All the ingredients are easy and the cakes are delightfully easy to bake.
In fact, leaving apart the black forest cake, there is also the exotic white forest cake which can serve as a delicious treat for someone's birthday, anniversary, graduation or get-together. The other types of cakes include strawberry cake, pineapple cheesecake, milk cake, fruit cake and many more. In fact, if people are vegetarian, there are options for egg-less cakes as well. You just need to browse the internet websites for more on the cakes and pastries which make your mouth water.


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Facebook is the largest social media network in the world with over 1.28 billion users. 802 million people log on daily. Every minute 510 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated and 136,000 photos are uploaded. With this volume and reach, it's obvious that our business needs to have a presence on Facebook. But, what are the best ways to make the most of Facebook?
First, you need to create a personal profile. Your personal profile should also represent your business. Pick an appropriate profile picture and cover photo. Enter all of your personal info; current position at current company, past positions, education, current address, where you're from, birth date and contact info. Add photos and videos. Add likes for business pages, sports, music, movies, TV shows and books. Send out friend requests to grow your friends. Send requests to family, friends and people you would like to do business with. Accept requests of people you want to be friends with.
Next, create a business page. Use the name of your business. Pick a profile picture and cover photo using your company logo. Add your contact info and company info. Add photos and videos. Increase your likes by inviting your email contacts and friends and sharing your page. Like other people's business pages that you want to do business with. Use The New Page Insights for your business page to optimize it. Monitor likes, reach, visits, posts , people and engagement.
Then, create groups. Create a group for your business using your business name and company logo as a cover photo. You could also create groups for your industry. Designate them as open groups so anyone can join. Tag the groups with your three top key words for your business and industry. Add your company and industry info. Add photos and videos. Send out invites and emails to your friends to build your group. Join other groups whose members you want to connect with.
Send out messages to your friends. Post to yours and other's profiles, business pages and groups timelines. Tag your friends in your posts. Keep your posts short and use videos to maximize likes, shares and comments. Don't only send messages and post self-promotion content. Post content and send messages that your network would be interested in. Comment on and like other's posts and share them on yours and other's profiles, business pages and groups timelines.
Create events and invite your friends to them. Use your company logo as a cover photo. Title the event. Add the day, time, location and address. Add a description of the event. Add photos and videos. Share yours and other's events on yours and other's profiles, business pages and groups. Join and attend other's events. Your friend's birthdays are under your events. Wish them all happy birthday daily!
Check your notifications daily. They show you who has posted to your profile, business page, group and other groups that you're a member of, what groups approved your requests to join, business pages you're invited to like and groups you're invited to join, events you're invited to, people who liked , shared and commented on your posts, links, comments, photos and videos and other's that you're following or tagged in, friends who updated their status and uploaded photos or videos, friends who accepted your friend requests, posts, links, photos and videos you were tagged in and games you're invited to play.
You can also buy Facebook ads to promote your business, get people to like your business page or see your posts. You can buy ads that show up on the right side of your friend's home pages to promote your business or liking your page. You can target the ads to people you want to reach by location, gender, age and interests. Since only 13% of your posts show up in your friend's timelines, you can buy sponsored posts to guarantee they show up in 100% of them.
Now you know all of the things you can do with Facebook. Are you doing them? Well, do them and make the most of Facebook for your business!


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Hello everyone!
Fantastic news! Life Book 2016 is now open for registration! I'm so excited to be part of this amazing year long course. I can't wait to share my lessons with you! :)
I know many of you already know what Life Book is all about, so if you can't wait to sign up, make sure to click here , yay! See you there! :)
If you want to find out a bit more about Life Book 2016 , keep on reading! :)
"Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU" is a year-long mixed media art class organised by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts.
Tam is joined by 23 incredible art teachers who are all gearing up to share their mixed media techniques, tips and tricks with YOU! Themed around self-development and healing, you'll be creating several loose mixed media art journal pages per month which by the end of the year you will bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)! You will have a wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life!
Life Book is all about making you and the world happier. Through creating art, through creating a deeper understanding of ourselves, through connecting with each other. It's all there, in one big affordable package! It has served thousands of people from all over the world over the past 4 years. It's been wildly popular!
I hope that many of you will join us on this fabulous journey (over 8700+ people have joined Life Book since its inception, amazing!). Imagine a year of weekly art lessons, inspiration, encouragement and a safe group of like minded artsy people and YOU all together making art, growing and developing your skills and soul while being guided by some of the most talented artists out there
And the best thing about it all is that you get 52 offerings throughout the one year for ONLY £80GBP (approx 125 USD)! The course/ content is valued at well over 1500+ USD - so you'd join it for only a fraction of the price! Whaaaat? :)
I haven't fully developed my class idea yet, but I'm excited to be sharing how I use colored pencils and acrylics together with you, much like you can see in this painting:
Registration opens on October 5th 2015 and the class begins on January 1st 2016.
So if you want to start the year with a fabulous creative BANG and spend 2016 with a wonderful creative community of like-minded souls, learning more about art and how to be kinder and more loving towards yourself, be sure to join NOW by clicking here! :)
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The Story I Found in the Woods: The Inspiration Behind Deadwood
When I'm brainstorming stories, my favorite thing to do is go for a walk in the woods. That's how I came across the inspiration for Deadwood. I was looking for ideas, and I found a tree.
I had just read Well Witched by Frances Hardinge and Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones, and I wanted to write a book like that – about ordinary kids who stumble upon magic and danger in the real world and have to figure out how to set things right.
All I needed was a unique kind of magic that I hadn't seen before.
On other days, I had already noticed that just about every beech tree I ever saw was carved with messages, and I always wondered about the people who put them there. Were they still alive? Did the messages of love stay true? Did KT still love JB? At the same time, carving a tree is harming a living thing. I couldn't help feeling sorry for the trees.
But on that particular idea-hunting expedition, when I saw one of my favorite carved trees, I was already thinking about magic. What if the carvings on the tree were a kind of spell or curse? And if the tree could talk, what would it say?
I looked for a scientific underpinning that would make sense in a contemporary novel with kids that seemed like real people.
My reference manual was the 1973 alternative science bestseller, The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, which explores the idea of plant sentience. This was the book popularized the 1970s idea that you should talk to your plants to keep them healthy. Most of the serious-sounding evidence in the book is not real science, but the David Attenborough 1995 BBC/Turner Broadcasting mini The Private Life of Plants is more scientifically rigorous and covers related territory about plant survival mechanisms.
I love stories with magic in them, and when I'm writing, I like to find an explanation that's somewhat plausible – I want readers to feel like the events in the story could really happen. People all over the world have believed that plants have spirits, but if a real kid came face to face with a talking tree, they wouldn't just accept it and talk back right away. It wouldn't make sense. I wanted it to make sense in the book that became Deadwood. The story and characters emerged as I wove together logic, wonder, skepticism, faith, and yes, a little bit of magic.
For more pictures and information about tree carvings (and a bunch of pictures of trees that I think look like people!) visit my tree blog,. Treeandtwig.tumblr.com. For more about Deadwood and me, visit kellandrews.com.


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Here is my tape, metal, brads, funshapes, flowers, fabric, tag, and frame.
This is my word art. It wouldn't fit with the others.
I will be sharing a kit soon on my blog. I'll be sure to list it here or in the freebies section, if this one is closed.


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KOLKATA: Financially strained power generation companies face dwindling coal stocks as Coal India Ltd is only providing supplies after deducting part of their payments for settling past dues. They have much less than the national average of about 20 days of stocks.
"Different state-owned power generation companies in West Bengal owe Coal India close to Rs.1,400 crore of past dues," said a senior Coal India official on condition of anonymity . "This has prompted us to get into an understanding with the generation companies in the state and it includes appropriating a certain amount of payment made for settling past dues and send coal for the rest."
These include Durgapur Projects Ltd, West Bengal Power Development Corp. (WBPDCL) and Damodar Valley Corp. (DVC).
Coal India has been using 30 per cent of payments made by Durgapur Projects to settle dues, while for WBPDCL the company is deducting Rs. 25-35 crore for every payment made.
This is resulting in Coal India sending about 70-80 per cent of the contracted volume of coal for each period. According to data released by the Central Electricity Authority, Mejia Thermal Power Plant under DVC is down to a critical level of coal stocks -just about enough for six days. Santandihi Thermal Power Station under WBPDCL also has stock for just six days. Durgapur Projects had a similar six-day stock last week. These three are among some 100 thermal power plants that the Central Electricity Authority monitors on a daily basis.
The three plants consume coal from different Coal India subsidiaries.
However, the bulk of the out standing dues are to Eastern Coalfields, the Bengal-based subsidiary of the coal major.
"Our dues from Bengal is close to Rs. 800 crore at present, although this has declined considerably after we entered into the arrangement of settling past dues on a regular basis," a senior Eastern Coalfields official told ET.


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Holy Qurobo on New Sunday – Damascus
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He was assisted by His Eminence Mor Timotheos Matta Al-Khoury, Patriarchal Vicar in the Patrirarchal Archdiocese of Damascus.
His Eminence the Right Reverend Bishop Michael Langrish, Former Anglican Bishop of Exeter, as well as members of the British delegation, attended the Qurobo.
In his sermon, His Holiness spoke about the character of Thomas the Apostle as an example of brave faith that seek the truth and fear not to go anywhere to preach the Gospel.
After the Qurobo, His Holiness received the delegation and the faithful at the Patriarchate headquarters. The floor was open for the members of the delegation and the faithful who were present to discuss the current situation in Syria, and the role of western countries, in addition to the mission of the delegation and the aim of their visit.Click to view slideshow.


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I met a guy who runs a small CNC machine shop tonight. He was talking about how he despises the existence of clearinghouses that bring buyers to suppliers such as MFG.com. As we talked more, he emphasized that MFG.com took the relationship out of the business of making parts for someone who desperately needed "just the right part", and while the price might be slightly better at MFG, without the relationship the whole industry and quality falls apart. At first, I thought "that's a pretty standard reaction for a fat-cat small supplier who doesn't like a little buyer power being thrown into the mix." But then I thought about Toyota and the reputation they have built for being "kind" to their suppliers over time and how it has benefited them, with a network of loyal suppliers that will move with the manufacturer almost anywhere.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Fear or Greed
Maybe my reaction to the CNC shop owner is how the fear-greed cycle gets started. I used to think that academically it made sense to try to break the fear-greed cycle, but I never gave much thought to HOW to do that....perhaps we just learned our first lesson: The cycle starts with your own behavior.
Posted by Local Motorhead at 10:42 PM
Labels: Supplier Development
2 comments:
- Jeff Jones said...
Act as a role model? Sounds like there is relevance to the company's mission and values...
- December 10, 2007 at 12:01 AM
- Unknown said...
Isn't it easy to follow the herd, especially when pricing seems seductive - at least in the short term.
Hats off to you for pausing to think about the question.
- December 10, 2007 at 11:12 PM
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In most films, in order to make a character interesting or relatable, the narrative will force the character to undergo some sort of evolution. Or, in the absence of character growth, the character is threatened with some sort of consequence for their inability to change.
In the holiday film Elf (2003), we meet Buddy (Will Ferrell), a human raised at the North Pole who believes he is a member of Santa's workforce. Upon discovering he is, in fact, a regular human being and not the elven child of Papa Elf (Bob Newhart), he sets out on a voyage to New York City in search of his real father, Walter (James Caan). On the surface, Buddy's internal journey doesn't appear very rich. The Buddy that starts the film is largely the same Buddy who we see in the end; goofy, childish, and full of quirky holiday cheer he can't control. But what happens throughout the course of the film is beneath the saccharine charm of Buddy's exterior, he follows a path that leads in appreciating and understanding himself.
Before Buddy ever leaves the North Pole, we see that his output in Santa's workshop is far less than the "true" elves. He is limited by his humanity, and crafts one toy at the speed his peers do ten. He calls himself a "cotton-headed ninny muggins" and sulks. Because he is a man, he's bad at being an elf. His journey during the film is to become accepting of this reality, and instead of dwelling on the negatives, to find reasons why his uniqueness are a blessing. In a way, his evolution comes through not evolving. He needs to learn that there is nothing wrong with being different.
At first, arriving in New York City only reaffirms the ways in which he is different. His father thinks he's some insane holiday gag telegram until Buddy drops the name of someone from Walter's past. Nonetheless, nothing he does for Walter is enough -- the man sees him as a freak. Though Walter's wife (played by Mary Steenburgen) is understanding and supportive of Buddy's unique quirks (like his solid sugar diet), she too sees him as unusual. The only person capable of appreciating Buddy for who he is without irony is Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), a department store worker serving as an elf in the Santa's Workshop section of the store. She lacks holiday spirit and Buddy lacks basic social skills -- together they find something more within themselves. Jovie is largely responsible for Buddy coming to terms with who he is. She sees a wonderful person underneath the ridiculous outward image of a gigantic man in an elf costume. In turn, his unstoppable joy and enthusiasm brighten her life and transform her from someone locked in a state of depression to someone who enjoys life.
Throughout the picture, the secondary force driving the narrative is a general lack of holiday spirit among people. Santa's sleigh runs on belief, and if nobody believes in him, he won't be able to deliver presents. When Santa's sleigh breaks in the park, only Buddy can repair it using his North Pole knowledge, and Jovie incites the crowd to fill the atmosphere with holiday cheer. Even Walter finally comes around, making a huge jump from someone who only cares about himself to someone willing to sacrifice for the sake of family and togetherness.
Buddy's internal arc is subtle, but comes through an appreciation of self and the impact he has on those around him. Buddy is aware of otherwise overlooked details in the world, but can't figure out how to adapt to them. When he finally realizes he doesn't need to change, he simply needs to accept who he is, he completes a variation of the classic innocence-to-experience character arc that makes for a charming concept.


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Welcome to Aarhus
We are proud that our hometown of Aarhus will be the Cultural Capital of Europe 2017, and would like to share with you some of the best places in our city to visit, to dine and to experience arts and architecture.
Our collections are inspired by the vibrant new trends in Danish design, architecture and jewelry, which give our frames a contemporary yet classic look. And always a perfect facial fit.
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Training a greyhound can be a little challenging, especially if you're working with a retired racing greyhound. These dogs begin their lives differently than the average dog that will grow up to be a companion. They need to unlearn some things before they can learn.
Acclimate your greyhound to his new surroundings and give him time to become accustomed to life outside the track by taking him around and showing him his world. Racing greyhounds are confined to cages for most of the day, so everything is new to them. They have never seen children, for example, or stairs, or a swimming pool, cows, grass, cars ... the list goes on and on. If you try to think like a greyhound and understand that everything he sees is a brand new experience for him, you will be in a better position to understand his special needs.
Build a trusting relationship with your dog. Bringing a greyhound to a training class or working one-on-one with a professional trainer is the best way to train your greyhound, but that comes later. When you first bring your dog home, you must give yourself and your dog time to bond. This does not happen overnight. The track employees may or may not have been abusive or harsh, but they certainly weren't warm and fuzzy, either. Your dog needs to learn to trust people, particularly you and your family. This may take a long time depending upon the dog's temperament, personality and life experiences thus far. Help him to get over any apprehension by spending time with him and playing with him. If you have another dog in the household, let them spend supervised time together. Greyhounds will mimic behavior. If you have a staircase in your home and your greyhound sees your dog going up and down the stairs, he'll learn by example. Teach your greyhound to trust you by not raising your voice and giving only gentle correction.
Watch your dog very carefully and become familiar with all the special considerations involved in training a retired racing greyhound. Be protective of any small animals, such as cats or pocket pets, until you know how your dog will react. Greyhounds have been conditioned to chase prey, so take special care introducing your greyhound to household pets. Some dogs may not bother with these animals at all; others may have a higher prey drive. Also, some greyhounds have trouble with the "sit" command. Some racing greyhounds are not allowed to sit while waiting for the race to begin and are poked when they try, so they learn not to do it. Their anatomy also makes it a bit difficult for them to assume the position. When you start basic training, you may have to skip over this particular command or spend a little extra time on it. Then again, your dog may sit just fine. Just be aware that it is a potential issue.
- Be gentle with yourself and your greyhound. "Greyts" make wonderful companions once the initial adjustment period is over. Join a group with other new greyhound owners so you can share tips and ideas, compare notes and make some more "fast friends." Choose a Martingale collar for your greyhound; it is made specifically for dogs with slender necks and heads.
- Never let your greyhound off the leash, not even when you think he is reliably trained to stay. Greyhounds are sight hounds; their prey instinct is triggered when they see movement. You will never catch a running greyhound, so don't take the chance.
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Having the flashiest new smartphone with the greatest plan is meaningless if you can't use it to its fullest extent. Dropped calls, trouble sending and receiving messages, and slow-to-non-existent loading times negate any of the benefits that come with owning a great device.
That's why Westnet puts such a premium on mobile coverage around Australia. To work out the kind of mobile broadband service available to you, you'll need to check out how far services reach into your area on the coverage map. You can inspect an exact address or widen to a general region, tailoring the search to your specific needs.
Larger metropolitan cities all over the country are flush with quick and reliable 4G service. Marquee areas in and around Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth are just some of the major locations that have indoor and outdoor service for essential features such as voice calling, text messaging, email and internet. In most cases this blanket coverage expands outwards from these epicenters, offering high quality service to thousands of users. More isolated towns, including - but not limited to - Dubbo and Bendigo, also serve as outposts of 4G activity.
Thousands of users outside major regions are connected to Westnet's service via 3G technology. The coverage map will let you know the amount of service you'll have, indoors and outdoors, in the less populated sections of the nation.
Mobile coverage from Westnet is continually expanding, with faster service speeds becoming available to more customers each week. Those in major population hubs already know the benefits of great 4G mobile broadband coverage. The steady growth and improvement of Westnet's mobile broadband technology will continue enabling users to perform their daily tasks on their devices.


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Many of us want to bring spirituality into our lives but don't know where to begin. Or we think we have to sit still in silent meditation for an hour each day in order to be "spiritual." Maybe you are you one of those who think yoga is a waste of time….with your crazy work schedule, you don't have much time to exercise and so you feel like you need to get the most "bang for your buck" and yoga just doesn't cut it for you.
Did you know that, walking is a great way to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life and has been used as a meditation practice for thousands of years?
So next time you are out for a stroll, focus on your feet touching the ground, the breeze on your face, the rhythm of your walk and the sounds surrounding you.
All you have to do is walk. Walk, and focus on the action of walking. If you need a specific focus to get you going, think, "I'm walking". Or, "Walk....walk....walk....", even humming the same few bars of a song might work for you.
There are two types of walking meditation; formal and informal.
In formal Walking Meditation you typically walk back and forth in a lane or around in a loop. This keeps your mind from having to navigate a specific route.
If you find the formal meditation challenging you may also try informal walking meditation, which is walking mindfully on the street, at work, or out in nature. Do what comes most naturally to you for ultimately it's just a way to come back to our most fluent, relaxed, and empty state of mind.
Things to remember:
- Try to keep your eyes cast downward without looking at anything in particular.
- Notice each step as it comes and be fully present with it.
- Feel the sensations of walking in your feet, legs, hips, arms, and shoulders.
- When your thoughts, feelings, and sensations distract you from the present moment, come back to noticing your step and your breath.
Adapted from Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn.


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Apps that protect students for schools and parents
by Alan Haskvitz
The Internet is both a blessing and a curse depending on its usage. The problem is that teachers/parents can't always be there when the decision between the good and evil sites and messages are being utilized. With that in mind here are a list of some of those sites that provide this service. Some have a charge and others are free. The partial list below provides insights into what is available, but is no means complete. However, these might be a good starting point. Prices range from free to over $12 a month, depending on the type of coverage you want for your family. Always check to see if these sites cover both cell phone, tablet, and home use. Some sites can use GPS tracking and other services such as blocking of callers. Take your time reviewing each of these and always check the contract carefully. Teachers should also ask the technology department what blockers they use. Remember that students may be able to access the school server with their cell phones which can eat up bandwidth, especially if they are downloading large files. Please note that this list is just for information and is not meant to convey our approval and that prices can vary.
Covenant Eyes
Internet Accountability tracks websites you visit on your computers, smart phones, and tablets, and sends them in an easy-to-read report to someone you trust.
Amber Safety
To provide parents with state-of-the-art, easy-to-use tools that help them protect their kids from threats online, at home, at school or anywhere they might go.
Phone Sheriff
PhoneSheriff allows the blocking of certain functions of the phone or tablet at certain times of each day. "For example you can tell the software to lock the phone or tablet every night at 8:00 pm until 8:00 am or whatever hours you choose. On smartphones you can choose to lock the entire phone or you can lock just the ability to make calls while the other functions of the phone remain operable."
Open DNS
OpenDNS has parental controls that empower parents to manage Web access across every device that accesses the Internet on your home network. This includes phones and computers that your kids' friends bring into the house and more.
App Certain
This service is free and includes features such as a remote curfew mode as well as an analysis of apps.
Norton Family Parental Control
This is a $50 service that enables you to check what kids are doing online, sets limits of computer time, and can monitor mobile devise activity and more. Check for a free version. http://us.norton.com/norton-family-premier/
K-9 Browser
K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filter and parental control software for your home Windows or Mac computer. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids. . http://www1.k9webprotection.com/
Mobile Watchdog
Mobile Watchdog monitors cell phone activity on Android devices — text messaging, application use, and browsing use. The app may be capable of sending usage emails.
This site has several packages and a variety of safety features. It monitors contacts with friends, pictures and posts on social networks.
For more free materials go to http://reacheverychild.com/blog/2014/prevention-apps-provide-help-when-you-cant-be-there


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In DGLux5, creating a custom gauge is as easy as grouping some components, editing some properties, and dragging and dropping a data point. In the video below, we take things a little further by making our gauge into a reusable symbol—and still, the process takes only a few minutes.
There are as many ways to make gauges as there are DGLux5 users, and we hope this video will spark some inspiration for your dashboards.
The basics
Here are a few gauge basics that we mention in the video. Check out the wiki page for a step-by-step tutorial.
- For a two-tone track, add two track components. Make one a "background" color and one a "filled" color.
- To make a gauge that reflects real-time data, drag a data point from the Metrics panel or Dataflow to the gauge properties.
- Use text components to display a title and a value readout. Remember to include units of measure—the binding dialog can help with that.
- With gauges, the Scale dataflow block is your best friend. This block takes a number from one range (like 0 to 100 for a percentage figure) and translates it to the proportionate number in a new range (like −90 to 90 for the angle of rotation on a semicircular gauge).
- To change the length of a track, bind scaled data to the End Angle of the track.
- To change the rotation of a needle, bind scaled data to the Rotation property of the needle. (Be sure to use the Transform tool to move the needle's anchor point to the gauge center!)
More ideas
- To make your dashboard even more responsive, use Horizontal layout for the Stage or parent group, and set the Flex-Shrink property of the symbol instances to 1.
- A gauge doesn't need to be a circle or an arc! To create a linear gauge, set the Scale Type property of your gauge scale components to Linear. You could also try using rectangles with a variable width.
- Do you want the properties of your gauge to change according to the value? No problem. Just hold Control to open the binding dialog when you drag and drop values on the visual properties. You might also want to make use of If and Case blocks in the dataflow.
Join the conversation
What are your custom gauge ideas? Brainstorm with other DGLux5 designers in the community forum, or share your thoughts in the comments.


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Sevenoaks is situated in the historic market town of Coleford, Gloucestershire. Providing lots of opportunity for involvement in the community.
Sevenoaks has been rated Good by the Care Quality Commission. Click HERE to see the full CQC Inspection Report.
Sevenoaks is a residential care home that offers a homely, friendly environment for people with a range of learning disabilities, sensory issues and autism spectrum conditions.
Sevenoaks has it's own sensory room and garden. The extensive grounds are safe and secluded but with the option of accessing the neighbouring skate park which has a wheelchair friendly circular path, fitness equipment, open air auditorium and much more.
Map and Directions to the Sevenoaks site.


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AAFP: CMS Final Rule Implementing MACRA Addresses Many Family Medicine Suggestions
Friday, Oct. 14, 2016
Statement attributable to:
John Meigs, Jr., MD
American Academy of Family Physicians
"The American Academy of Family Physicians is pleased the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the final rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. The final rule addresses many of the concerns family physicians have expressed about the complexity of the program, the pace of implementation, new administrative burdens and the usability of technology. The rule also accommodates physicians by providing technical assistance that will be valuable as they work to fully participate in the Quality Payment program and its two pathways -- the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System or the Alternative Payment Models.
"In particular, we are pleased that practices with low volumes of Medicare Part B patients are excluded in the first year and that family physicians will be able to move toward full participation without suffering penalties that will slow their progress.
"The AAFP made several suggestions in response to the proposed rule, and we'll closely analyze the final regulation to identify CMS action on those comments. However, our initial review indicates CMS has addressed many of our comments, especially in regards to support for small practices.
"Several provisions will smooth the way for family physicians to participate in the MIPS or APMs. We're particularly pleased the rule implements and provides additional clarification regarding the 'pick your pace' program that allows practices to choose their reporting timeline for participating in the MACRA Quality Payment Program. This will be of particular value to small and solo medical practices. We welcome several other flexibilities that will help low-volume practices, such as exemptions from certain penalties and allowances for patient-centered medical homes.
"We are also encouraged by the $20 million in funding over the next five years to pay for training and education for Medicare providers. This uniquely tailored assistance will help family physicians in individual or small group practices -- as well as those working in underserved areas -- identify appropriate technologies and quality measures, and help them evaluate their options for joining an Advanced APM. This support will allow physicians to focus on what they do best: taking care of patients.
"We now can finalize preparing our members for fully participating in payment models of the future. The AAFP looks forward to continuing to work with CMS in ensuring physicians can successfully transform their practices under the new payment system."
Editor's Note: To arrange an interview with Dr. Meigs, contact Leslie Champlin, (800) 274-2237, Ext. 6252, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 136,700 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians conduct approximately one in five office visits -- that's 192 million visits annually or 48 percent more than the next most visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care. To learn more about the specialty of family medicine, the AAFP's positions on issues and clinical care, and for downloadable multi-media highlighting family medicine, visit www.aafp.org/media. For information about health care, health conditions and wellness, please visit the AAFP's award-winning consumer website, www.familydoctor.org(familydoctor.org).
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(Halifax) The Saint Mary's Huskies edged out the StFX X-Men with a late goal to keep their record at a perfect 4-0 in AUS men's hockey action at the Halifax Forum on Friday night.
The Huskies took an early lead thanks to a shorthanded goal from Bronson Beaton (Springhill, NS) less than two minutes into the game. On a two on one, his wrist shot hit the pads of goalie Chase Marchand (Halifax, NS) and he stuffed his own rebound into the net.
Halfway through the period, SMU struck again with a beautiful goal from Jake Coughler (St Catherines, ON) that went top corner. Jacob Friend (Bowmanville, ON) assisted. Playing a dump and chase game, SMU limited StFX's scoring chances and the period ended with the Huskies in the lead.
StFX battled back in the second frame, adding their own two goals to even the score. The first came three minutes into the period, after a stretch pass to Daniel Robertson (Windsor, ON). His backhand shot was initially saved by SMU's Eric Brassard (St. Hubert, QC), but Nathan Pancel (Ottawa, ON) was right on the doorstep to tap in the rebound.
The X-Men had a few odd man rushes but were unable to generate scoring opportunities until they were on the power play with five minutes to go. Adam Stevens (Bedford, NS) deflected a cross ice pass from Matt Needham (Penticton, BC) to tie the game 2-2. Bryson Cianfrone (Stoney Creek, ON) also assisted.
In the third, both teams had chances to pull ahead. Mark Tremaine (Dartmouth, NS) missed on a breakaway for the X-Men, while the Huskies had another shorthanded chance from
Calder Brooks (Emerald Park, SK), who beat Marchand but hit the post.
With six minutes to go, Anthony Repaci (Toronto, ON) danced around two X-Men defenders, circled in the corner, and patiently walked back out front. Aaron Berisha (Mississauga, ON) provided a screen in front of the net and tipped Recapi's shot in to give SMU the lead.
StFX kept pressing right to the end, pulling Marchand for the extra attacker, but time trickled out and the Huskies took this one 3-2.
The Subway Player of the Game, scoring his first goal of the season, was Bronson Beaton.
Next up, SMU plays host to the Dalhousie Tigers at the Forum on October 13, while STFX travels to Moncton for a game on October 19.
SMU communications
Photo Mona Ghiz