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As wild flowers start budding in and around the west coast town of Darling, organisers of the Voorkamerfest are busy preparing for the town’s unique annual performing arts event to take place during the first weekend of spring… with flowers in full bloom!
The Voorkamerfest, now 12 YEARS OLD! sees 21 original performances staged in residents’ homes – whether or not they have a ‘voorkamer’ (sitting room) – audiences buying a ticket for a performance routes. A maximum of 26 people are accommodated on one of seven routes and are picked up by a local taxi that transports them to a series of three different shows in three different homes before returning them to Evita se Perron (restaurant/theatre) at the old Darling train station which forms the festival hub.
R5 of every ticket of R195 & R10 of every ticket of R235 sold is donated to The Darling Trust () which works toward education and upliftment in the local community.
This year Voorkamerfest takes place over the weekend 4, 5 & 6 September 2015.
Tickets are R195 per person for the Friday evening route and R235 per person for all other routes.
- Sat 5 Sept 2015 @ 12h00 @ R235 ea
- Sat 5 Sept 2015 @ 17h00 @ R235 ea
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(Please note: R5 of every R195 ticket and R10 of every R235 ticket sold goes to The Darling Trust in Darling, – thank you for your contribution!)
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It is essential for you to be at Evita se Perron no later than 1 hour before the show to collect your colour coded tickets at the booking office and start absorbing the weekend’s festivities! Please be sure to read all the information below to help make your weekend a relaxed and unique experience.
- No alcohol or smoking permitted on the taxis or in the theatre homes
- The colour coded tickets are dated – please check your tickets when you receive them. NB If an incorrect ticket is used on the day, the finely balanced system of dividing the audience into the taxis/routes will collapse.
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- The Voorkamerfest food & crafts market at Evita se Perron will be even more vibrant this year.


Hopwell Brewing Co. is one of Chicago's newest breweries in the up-and-coming, funky, hipster neighborhood of Logan Square. Also dubbed the new "hipster mecca of the Midwest," by the Chicago Advocate, Logan Square has been going through a phase of gentrification in recent years, and the restaurant scene is exploding. This brewery is going to be yet another new […
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I LOVED being at the beach with my family last week!
We had so much fun even with the few days I was down there but I know they had a great time the entire week! I wish I was still there but duty calls and I am back in Rainy Alabama and working though I have some fun things in the works!!!
I have been waiting to wear this dress because well it is kinda out of my comfort zone, I mean it is flesh toned, see through in some areas, and most of all just not what I normally wear. I snatched it from Alter’d State in the fall when last years spring/summer pieces were all around 50% off! I like to shop on bargains, sorry ladies!!! I paired it with a show-stopping earrings that sadly I don’t think Kendra Scott makes anymore. Which I have to say Kendra Scott is the go to place for show-stopping earrings well anything! I also for once in my life skipped the SHOES gasp I know! I am in love with shoes and the fact that I skipped them surprises me but I made a little dip in the pool so it was the best idea! I also LOVE my new YSL Teint in Oil! OMG! I hate gloss okay is a string word but I don’t pick it first. BUT I love this YSL Teint in Oil! It makes my lips feel hydrated and stained in a beautiful color and NOT sticky which is what I hate the most about glosses.
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A church is a Christian place of worship; there is no doubt about it but what about a chapel then? Even a dictionary does not make the situation clear. It defines a church as a building used by Christians for worship, and a chapel as a small building for Christian worship; the only difference it seems is their size, with a chapel being smaller than a church. However, the difference is not limited to size as there are a few more, and read on if you want to learn about these differences.
In some dictionaries, the word church has been described as originated from the Greek ecclesia that means an assembly that has been called together. Looking from a physical angle, both church and chapel are entities that are used to offer prayers. A church is a building containing a chapel that is considered the holiest room in the building, and has gotten an exalted status not accorded to other rooms in the church. A chapel is reserved for revered activities such as prayers, sermons, singing of hymns, and so on. Other rooms in the church are used for congregations and school classrooms, and other casual activities not related to worship. Sometimes, chapel is also used to hold funerals and choirs. Inside a church, chapel is the solitary place of worship.


Successful Falcon Heavy Test Flight: "Starman" Reaches Orbit, 2/3 Rocket Cores Recovered
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Although SpaceX engineers spent countless hours poring over simulations to ensure Falcon Heavy would have the best possible chance at a successful debut, a number of open questions remained when the 1,420-metric-ton beast rumbled off its storied Kennedy Space Center launch pad. A tripling of acoustics and vibration over the Falcon 9, the potential of unforeseen dynamics between the three booster cores and their 27 engines, ice falling off the rocket's second stage and punching holes in the side booster nose cones and the unknowns coming with separating two massive cores from the still-firing central stage were serious concerns when Falcon Heavy embarked on its long-delayed maiden flight.
The roar of 27 Merlin engines engulfed Cape Canaveral at 20:45 UTC on Tuesday, 3:45 p.m. local time and many had descended onto the Space Coast to witness SpaceX take another major step on the company's path toe ground shook as Falcon Heavy officially became the most-powerful rocket in operation when rising from its historic launch pad that saw off all Apollo flights to the lunar surface and the majority of Space Shuttle missions.
Rising into clear skies, the 70-meter tall Falcon Heavy departed Cape Canaveral straight east to begin a complex mission profile eventually leading up to an Earth Departure Maneuver early Wednesday morning UTC to send its payload into deep space – a midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster from Musk's personal collection, now 'driven' by a mannequin dressed in a SpaceX Space Suit, aiming for an elliptical orbit around the sun venturing out as far as the orbit of Mars, some 400 million Kilometers from Earth.
Starman Orbits the Earth – Photo: SpaceX Webcast
The first sigh of relief was breathed by the SpaceX workforce when Falcon Heavy passed the point of maximum stress on the used airframes of its flight-proven boosters and the reinforced central core. The twin boosters successfully departed the vehicle two and a half minutes after launch and went through near-simultaneous boost-back maneuvers to power back toward Cape Canaveral and land just 300 meters from one another in SpaceX's Landing Zones 1 & 2 after an eight-minute round trip to the edge of space.
At the same time, around 350 Kilometers from shore, the 47-meter tall central core was on its final approach to SpaceX's Drone Ship after separating from the climbing rocket at the three-minute mark into the flight, handing off to the second stage for the boost into orbit. SpaceX was only able to 2-for-3 in rocket landings on Tuesday as the Center Core crashed into the Ocean after running out of igniter fluid for its three-engine landing burn – only a little tarnish on an otherwise spectacularly successful day.
After the incredibly fast pace of first stage flight and having four separate free-flying Falcon Heavy stages heading toward their destination points, it was up to the rocket's second stage to finish the job of pushing "Starman" and its Tesla into solar orbit. The MVac-powered stage completed an initial five-and-a-half-minute burn into a Low Earth Orbit and a thirty-second re-light over Sub-Saharan Africa pushed the stack into an elliptical orbit where it was to complete two laps around Earth before the experimental departure maneuver to head off into Deep Space.
Falcon Heavy's Inaugural Payload – Photo: SpaceX
As the payload for Falcon Heavy's high-risk missiont off into the Solar System instead of opting for the "boring" dummy payloads like concrete or metal boilerplates that were part of the maiden flights of vehicles preceding SpaceX. To add to the fun in true SpaceX style, the company placed a mannequin wearing a space-qualified SpaceX suit in the car's driver's seat, one arm on the wheel, the other hanging out the window.
Named "Starman" in homage to the famous 1972 David Bowie song, the figure traveled into the cosmos while Bowie's "Space Oddity" was playing on the radio and the car's glove compartment contained awel saying 'Don't Panic'Tweeted in December.
Accelerating the 1,300-Kilogram sports car to a top speed of 11 Kilometers per second did not come close to exhausting Falcon Heavy's potential performance, allowing for all three boosters to be returned to Earth intact and the second stage to perform a less-than-optimal flight trajectory to facilitate the long coast test. The car's final orbit had been set up to precess between Earth and Mars without interfering with Earth's neighboring planet for hundreds of millions of years to come in order to comply with planetary protection guidelines.
Popular viewing locations like Jetty Park were reported at capacity over three hours before the opening of the rocket's launch window and Kennedy's press site was buzzing like it last did for the Shuttle's final launches in 2010 and 2011. Weather was fair for an afternoon of launch watching with temperatures of 24°C, mostly clear skies and calm winds – also creating very favorable conditions for Falcon Heavy to get off the pad – barring any technical gremlins that usually come up when new rockets are involved.
With the massive launch vehicle assembled in December, SpaceX went through a series of Wet Dress Rehearsals in January, culminating in a successful Static Fire Test on the 24th that delivered a wealth of data on the performance of the 27 Merlin engines and the structural interplay of the three cores. The tanking tests and Static Fire were also designed to iron out any teething issues with the launch vehicle and the revamped ground system at LC-39A in a bid to avoid surprises on the technical side come launch day,
Towering above Launch Complex 39A, Falcon Heavy entered a lengthy countdown operation Tuesday morning when power was applied to the vehicle for a methodical checkout campaign – giving Launch Controllers plenty of work as four sets of avionics had to be checked out and configured for flight. No issues were reported from the vehicle side and the launch pad was cleared two hours before the opening of the day's two-and-a-half-hour launch window.
However, liftoff had to be pushed over two hours into the day's 2.5-hour window to wait for sporty winds aloft to calm down and create a more benign flight environment for the untried rocket. Balloon data showed the favorable trend for upper level winds and teams at two Launch Control Rooms at the Cape and engineering support at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne provided a unanimous GO to allow the countdown to be handed over to computers for the 85-minute automated countdown sequence facilitating the complex tanking operation to load the vehicle with over 1,300 metric tons of rocket-grade Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen.
Falcon Heavy's triple-redundant flight computers assumed control of the countdown at the one-minute mark and the Launch Director declared a final GO just inside T-30 seconds. Ignition of Falcon Heavy's 27 Merlin 1D main engines was commanded at T-5 seconds, lighting them in pairwise fashion to prevent thrust torques from building up and ripping the vehicle apart right on the pad – one of the biggest fears for SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk who stated multiple times that getting the vehicle off the pad "would be a win."
And off the pad it went – Liftoff occurred at 20:45:00.49 UTC and Falcon Heavy ascended vertically to clear the 106-meter tall Fixed Service Structure left behind from the Space Shuttle with a total thrust of 2,140 metric-ton-force. Although the most powerful rocket in service today – both in terms of launch thrust and lift capability – Falcon Heavy is only the third-most-powerful rocket to launch from Kennedy's LC-39A after the mighty Saturn V and the Space Shuttle with its Solid Rocket Booster assistance.
Spreading its wings, Falcon Heavy completed its pitch and roll maneuvers into a knife-edge orientation, burning over seven metric tons of propellant every second of powered flight between the three cores. Launch Controllers called out Mach 1 at one minute and seven seconds into the mission and Falcon Heavy throttled back on all three of its cores as it passed Maximum Dynamic Pressure at 82 seconds into the flight.
Booster Separation – Photo: SpaceX Webcast
Three Cores going on Separate Ways – Photo: SpaceX Webcast
BECO was called out by the launch team and was followed by one of the most critical moments of Falcon Heavy's shakedown flight as the separation systems of the boosters could not be fully tested on the ground and concerns had lingered that there was a possibility of re-contact after separation. Onboard video from the Central Core and the two side-mounted boosters showed them falling away from the core at an altitude of 61 Kilometers with each departing booster receiving a slight blasting from the core's engine exhaust.
MECO – Main Engine Cutoff on the Center Core was confirmed three minutes and 5 seconds into the flight after it boosted the vehicle to an altitude of 86 Kilometers and a velocity of 2.65 Kilometers per second. The two stages parted ways five seconds later via four pneumatic pushers with the second stage immediately heading into start-up mode and the Central Core using its interstage thrusters to flip around for its partial boostback maneuver of nearly one minute, starting at T+3:26 to slow the booster for a more manageable re-entry and to limit its downrange travel distance from the Cape. Booster 1033 was aiming for the Drone Ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' holding position 345 Kilometers from the launch pad – set for SpaceX's 14th recovery attempt at sea, the first since last October.
Two Falcons Land Simultaneously – Photo: SpaceX Webcast
Photo: Elon Musk Instagram
While the two Falcons successfully touched down in Florida, their B1033 colleague was still in mid-air and fast approaching its landing spot in the Atlantic Ocean. The Launch Team called out 'Landing Burn Start-Up' at T+8 minutes and 24 seconds and B1033 was also set for the more-efficient but higher-risk three-engine burn to cut propellant consumption. A call at T+8:36 announced "We've lost the center core!" and SpaceX's Elon Musk later confirmed the center met its fate when crashing into the Atlantic at over 400 Kilometers per hour because it failed to re-light two of its engines when it ran out of TEA-TEB igniter fluid.
SpaceX did not plan on re-using any of the boosters in play on Tuesday: the two side cores had already flown as individual Falcon 9 rockets in 2016 helping lift a Thaicom communications satellite and a Dragon cargo ship, and the 1033 Core Stage also was of a previous Falcon generation. As the company rolls out Falcon 9 Block 5 in the coming months, Falcon Heavy will also transition to "Block 5" stages that host a number of improvements to enable rapid and cost-effective re-flight missions.
The rocket's second stage – tasked with its lengthy demonstration mission, successfully dropped the 13.1-meter long fairing halves just shy of four minutes into the flight and three cameras rigged on and around the Roadster began providing views of the Starman blazing toward orbit. Shutdown on the second stage was called eight minutes and 35 seconds after launch and its orbital parameters were confirmed nominal as the vehicle began its multi-hour mission.
Starman after Fairing Separation – Photo: SpaceX Webcast
A second burn executed at T+28.5 minutes fired the MVac engine for 30 seconds to accelerate the stack into an elliptical transfer orbit of 180 by 6,951 Kilometers, 29° for two orbits of coasting around Earth to demonstrate a typical 5.5-hour coast phase needed in a direct flight to Geostationary Orbit. SpaceX provided live views of the Roadster and Starman for the majority of the vehicle's trek around the planet, showing Earth visibly shrink in size as the vehicle reached the high point of its orbit.
For Tuesday's mission, the second stage was fitted with additional batteries and loaded with more Nitrogen attitude control system propellant to support the lengthy coast duration and the required attitude maneuvers for thermal control and propellant settling. The Earth Departure Maneuver by the second stage is expected around 3 UTC to increase Tesla's top speed to 11 Kilometers per second and send the combined stack into a Heliocentric Orbit venturing out just beyond the orbit of Mars.
Also traveling alongside the Tesla is a commemorative plate with over 6,000 employee names from SpaceX and an "Arch" 5D, laser-optical quartz storage device meant to survive the harsh conditions of space over millions of years. Built by the Arch Mission Foundation, the device contains Isaac Asimov's Foundation book series and is launched under the greater goal of preserving libraries of human knowledge, in part inspired by Asimov's novels themselves.
For Falcon Heavy, Tuesday's milestone launch marked only the beginning, now ready to carry non-novelty payloads into space and currently planning two more launches in 2018 with the Air Force Space Test Program Flight 2 carrying as many as 20 satellites and targeting a tentative launch date in June and the Arabsat 6A communications satellite marking the rocket's first Geotransfer mission.
With Falcon 9 Block 5 – the final iteration of the workhorse launcher – almost ready for its debut, Dragon 2 in a final design & testing phase and Falcon Heavy lifting off the drawing board, SpaceX is now free to focus all its development resources on the BFR – Big Falcon Rocket, the company's ultimate vehicle for human colonization of our neighborhood in the Solar System. Elon Musk – as always optimistic when it comes to schedules – noted initial short-hop missions of an Interplanetary Spaceship prototype could start as early as next year and orbital test flights of the vehicle may only be three or four years out.
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Reed, Chafee, U.S. Energy Secretary Moniz Headline Forum on Nation's Energy Future
By: Ernest Moniz Lincoln Chafee Jack Reed
The  Rhode Island Convention Center to hold a public discussion about New England's energy infrastructure needs and challenges. The event provided an opportunity for Rhode Islanders and other stakeholders from the New England region to attend a series of energy panel forums on issues related to the nation's energy strategy and the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER).
"Rhode, which have resulted in consumers and businesses in this state," said Senator. "Ts, businesses, manufacturing, and the state's economic competitiveness. We need a balanced, forward thinking national energy policy that emphasizes job creation, reduces pollutioncleaner energy sources. I'm glad Rhode Islanders had a chance today to engage with Secretary Moniz and share with him their perspective on the unique challenges our state faces as we look to chart a roadmap for our energy future. I thank Secretary Moniz for coming to visit Rhode Islandimportant issues that were raised today."
"Thank you to Senator Reed for putting together this important discourse regarding energy infrastructure in our region," Governor Lincoln D. Chafee said. "We are honoreRhode Island as a key player in this arena, and has chosen us as one of the stops on its listening tour. Through this dialogue, the Department of Energy will learn more about the challenges Rhode Island faces, and the steps we are taking to ensure an affordable, cleaner and more reliable energy system for home heating in the Northeast increased 7-10% this year over last winter. The average household using natural gas for home heating in the Northeast spent nearly $1,000 to heat their home this past winter, 47% more than the national average of $663. Average households using electricity for home heating spent more than $1,100, 20% more than the national average of $900, while households using heating oil spent more than $2,200.
Last December, Reed led the New England Senate delegation in sending a letter to Secretary Moniz expressing concern about the energy challenges facing the New England region and urging that these regional issues be considerew. Reed subsequently invited Moniz to Rhode Island so the Secretary could hear directly from resident the New England region, including tes.
Secretary Moniz, who was born in Fall River, holds a bachelor's in physics from Boston College and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Stanford University, spent 22 years on the faculty at MIT, the last four as head of the physics department. He was confirmed 97 to 0 by the United States Senate last May to become the U.S. Secretary of Energchafee-us-energy-secretary-moniz-headline-forum-on-nations-energy-future


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(Bodnarik, Robert G.; "On the Pleistocene Settlement of South America," Antiquity, 63:101, 1989.)
Comments. Dredges have brought up elephant teeth from the continental shelf of earthern North Ameriva, but we are not aware of any human artifacts. The continental shelf along North America's west coast is hardly a thoroughfare, for it is very narrow.
*Very old signs of human activity have now (1997) been found in northern Australia. (SF#110) Also in 1997, Clovistype projectile points were reported from eastern Siberia. The situation is still in a state of flux.


The humphead wrasse is a vulnerable tropical fish species. Natural rarity, lack of trade regulations, overfishing and climate change have contributed to a population loss of 50% in the last thirty years.
This four-hundred pound fish is often hooked for the exotic animal trade, and it’s easy to see why aquarium collectors would find it a prized possession. Oversized fleshy lips, colorful scales and a prominent forehead make the humphead wrasse a spectacular sight. They can live as long as thirty years and grow to be almost eight feet. And even more astounding? The humphead wrasse can switch sexes, transform colors and change shape during its lifetime.
And although the humphead wrasse was once only eaten by royalty, this endangered odd-looking fish is now a delicacy in the fine dining market throughout east Asia. It’s been said that wealthy individuals have paid hundreds of dollars – even thousands – for a taste of its rare flesh. The humphead wrasse is slow to multiply, as t.
Whether the demand is for a pet or the palate, this coral reef dweller is unprotected in many areas and often illegally traded across borders. Both mature and juvenile humphead wrasse are at risk – aquarium collectors frequently snatch up the hooked little ones and larger catches are sold to lavish Asian restaurants.
Combined with unmanaged fisheries, coral reef destruction, predictable spawning sites and a natural infrequency in the wild, the humphead wrasse is a species that may soon disappear from its range in the Indo-Pacific.
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Photo taken by Jodi Kendall at the Georgia Aquarium.


across Quebec increased by 14 on Monday, but at 2,425, remained lower than it was at the start of last weekend. The situation was similar for those in intensive care across the province, with an increase of one overall, to 178.
There were also 20 new Covid-related deaths recorded, for a total of 13,495re were 137 in hospital with the virus on Monday, 14 of whom were in intensive care. This represents a decrease of nine in the overall number of people, but a slight increase in the number of ICU cases in the region since last Friday’s update.
The healthcare authority for the Eastern Townships also recorded four more deaths linked to Covid over the weekend, for a total of 507.
As of Monday, 66,683 rapid test results had been recorded using the province’s self-declaration tool including 51,381 that were positive. Of that total, 1,091 were listed as taken on Sunday, including 813 positive.


According to investment firm JLL, 18,000 new residential units will be ready in Abu Dhabi between 2015 and 2016. Oates said: "Abu Dhabi is seeing a number of new launches like Aldar's Al Hadeel project in Al Raha Beach, the Ansam development on Yas Island. Regulatory changes in Abu Dhabi, with the emirate's plans to launch its own rental index, will further regulate rental prices in Abu Dhabi."


For The Broken Finishes New EP entitled ‘Aurora’ be released later this year. The five song release was produced and mastered by Life On Repeat’s Andrew Baylis (Apparitions, Camisado, Honour Crest, Provoke Destroy) and features artwork by Sphere Studios (Chad Orange of Honour Crest). Drummer Jacob Buttner had this to say about the record, “Aurora was a mix of every single part of us. We all bring so much to the table and we all have so many influences. So we found a way take all these influences and put them all into this EP which is just as much a part of us as we are of it. There’s so much passion in every song and it really comes out in our music. We wrote about our experiences, but we try to keep it about our fans. We want people to relate to us so we keep the subjects broad but still to the point.”
For The Broken is currently in the running for Skye’s March band of the month, in which they are exceptionally in the lead, where voting is taking place right now HERE. The winner each month receives a photo shoot, an article in Syke’s Magazine, Syke merch, and heavy promotion. With all the hype surrounding them and the desire to tour, For The Broken has also signed on Persistent Heart Media’s Head of Booking Lauren Richey as their booking agent. Fans can expect the band to be hitting the road hard this summer.
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...I was asked to write on this topic in my writing group - this is what came out..
SPIRITUAL TEACHERS I HAVE HAD
So many spiritual teachers out there. Everyone I meet has something to teach me, whoever I’m with is my perfect teacher for the present. So I guess the question is, who taught me that? Hmm, hate to say it, but I think it was Katie. She’s taught me a lot of things: taught me to care less and as a result care a whole lot more; taught me that it’s all an illusion, that nothing is as it seems, that this is a world of my making; taught me that love is all there is. I love that.
And there’s been others. Old Buddha was a big influence, and then there’s everybody’s mate Jesus, who speaks to me daily though A Course in Miracles.
And still, this all lies inside the greatest spiritual teacher: life itself. And I suppose if life is the overwhelming spiritual teacher and life is what I make it, then I am ultimately my greatest spiritual teacher. I never even had to get out of bed! What a relief.
That’s the thing, isn’t it? Always wanting, needing, to do something, and ultimately never really even needing to get out of bed. All my teachers are inside me. They come in light and leave in light, a constant flow of beauty, a beam of indestructible vulnerability.
And every time I feel I need to be doing something, every time I feel empty, every time the torment of suffering finds its way into my life yet again, all that’s really happening is a shadow is covering that beam. The light is always there, only sometimes clouds cover it, like a grey day: the sky is still blue, we just can’t see it.
Yes, that beam is interminable, ceaseless, eternal and infinite. It’s the ‘not me’ beam: the voice that speaks when I get out of the way. And in its silence it has so much to say. Words are lies after all, so who needs them when the truth speaks so beautifully in its knowing silence?
These are the words of light, of consciousness, words we all hear in some form or other, yet are too often afraid of. We are scared of freedom because it is not what we know. To the average human being suffering seems so normal, and yet it is an illusion, so unnecessary in this beautiful heaven that surrounds us.
Oh yeah, spiritual teachers. So many, so many. My best mate Johno was a good one. He led me to the dark side and I found a whole new world to embrace. It wasn’t me though, so I left. Well, a lot of me did. Light is the amalgamation of all colours, so darkness is an essential part of it. Only if darkness is the goal, instead of the point of salvation, then the confusion begins. It’s a powerful place, all the same.
Spiritual teachers. So many, so many. My entire community at Dharmananda was one great personal teacher: a lifetime worth of personal growth in 16 months. Powerful stuff. So much pain, so much gain, so many things I’ll hopefully never have to know again, so many things I’ll hopefully always understand.
Yes, life is full of spiritual teachers. As I watch this pen move across the page and wonder what it’s going to write next I witness yet another one. Coming from inside, where the entire universe exists in a beautiful beam of light. Accessing something so far beyond me that I can but sit in awe and observe. I am so privileged to be here, an involuntary witness to the evolution of existence. Thankful, grateful, glad to be this part of consciousness in this place in eternity, knowing that nothing could possibly matter and therefore that everything intrinsically does. This is privilege. This is that point of abandonment that rewards endlessly with mystery. This is life Jim, but not as we know it. This is evolution.
Yeah, they love their noise. In Zacatecas a truck would come past around 7am every morning with a loudspeaker yelling, "GAS. GAS. GAS." You could hear it from blocks away and it went right past our window: "GAS (time to wake up). GAS (I said it's time to wake up). GAS (have you got the message yet?). And you know, the funny thing is that hardly anyone seems to wake up in Mexico until at least 9am, and the streets are deserted until 10 or 11 - except for the morning school rush, I guess.
And church bells. What is it with the church bells? They'll ring on the hour, the half hour, the quarter hour and any damn time in between if they please, and there's a lot of churches in Mexico! If you ain't Catholic, I guess that's supposed to be some kind of reminder to become one. The midnight bells don't wake me too much anymore - they come from a distant church - but 5am fireworks, they wake me.
And it's great. Evidently someone other than me knew this would be a good time to get up and write. I should go up the hill and thank them, because those fireworks must be costing them a fortune. But I won't, I'll stay here and write instead; I've seen fireworks before and my vantage point here isn't fantastic and I know that the moment I get up the hill to where they're launching them they'll stop anyway, so I'll stay here. And like the last throes of a passionate embrace, they do seem to be dying off now. The spark has gone, so to speak.
SBut I like it. Five am fireworks included.
So the question is, when are you coming to visit?
My good friend Tiff, with her ex-hubby-to-be, John. Tiff won't marry me, either.
All my friends are having babies! This is Philil with baby Declan. You can read more on the adventures of Rich, Philil and Declan at http://www.ginklozo.com.
It is said there is a giant slab of quartz crystal lying under San Miguel de Allende. I don’t know a lot about crystals, so can’t comment on the significance of that. All I know is that something incredible is happening here.
Just over six weeks ago I decided to move here and facilitate The Work for a while. The money I had was all but gone and I came across this town full of Americans, Europeans and assorted foreigners and thought, ‘This place is a gold mine!’ I then spent two weeks in Mexico City, consolidating friendships, making new ones and attending a couple of invaluable workshops. Oh, and I guess I did a bit of sightseeing too. Finally, with a newfound focus on prosperity, I moved to San Miguel four weeks ago.
You know, if things transpired according to plan life would have no mystery, no excitement. And things, of course, have not transpired according to plan. I love it!
In four weeks I’ve put out 200 flyers and around as many business cards, and have so far accumulated one regular client. I’ve had one other person pay me to do The Work with them and another pay my to read their Tarot.
And yet to say I haven’t been prosperous would be denying the richness of the environment I’m living in. I’ve also had countless free meals, an amazing bodywork session and been given two beautiful framed pictures to hang in my room. I am living in an apartment block with some amazing people and it seems almost daily I am meeting more. The birds are chirping and my father has given me work to do on the ‘net – Australian dollars last a lot longer than pesos. And now there is a chance I could be moving into a place that could double as an office and still be paying the same low rent that currently gives me a room with shared facilities.
Life is good here. And somehow I am keeping so busy that I wonder where too much more work would fit in. And I’m writing for the local newspaper and that’s fun too.
And it is good to settle for a while. Five months of traveling is enough for me for now. San Miguel has found me and it is time to become a part of a place again, to ground myself, to belong. So far the firm arms of San Miguel have welcomed me warmly, made me feel at home.


Dark chocolate butter keks: Shannan has talked about these often on her blog and professed her love for them. Last Friday when we were all hanging out at Taco Time her oldest, Calvin, told me about how butter keks are a whole-body experience. High praise! Verdict: delicious. They taste like a s'more without the marshmallow… and really made me wish I had a marshmallow to slap on top! WIN.
Biscoff spread: I've seen Biscoff cookies and Biscoff spread on lots of blogs and they always talk about how amazing it is, so I bought a bottle to try. Guys. I tried the very tiniest amount and I could not get it out of my mouth fast enough. It was disgusting. So sickeningly sweet and terrible tasting. FAIL.
Strawberry fruit twists: These were in the markdown section so I grabbed them as a different kind of snack option for Leo. As I was packing up the food he wanted something to eat, so I grabbed one out for him. He licked it – not even a bite – and wanted nothing else to do with it. His buddy Silas did not have a better experience. I tried Leo's rejected one and maybe I have terrible taste buds (possible), but these tasted totally fine to me. What the what, kids? It's a fruit snack in stick form! FAIL?
OMG! I LOVE Biscoff SO MUCH. Anything sickening sweet and I am in. I hope my ALDI has some! Stock up for me!!! It's expensive at the other stores.
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Influence of Polymorphisms in the RANKL-RANK-OPG Signaling Pathway on Volumetric Bone Mineral Density and Bone Geometry at the Forearm in Men
Influence of Polymorphisms in the RANKL-RANK-OPG Signaling Pathway on Volumetric Bone Mineral Density and Bone Geometry at the Forearm in Men - Download this document for free, or read online. Document in PDF available to download.
, Volume 89, Issue 6, pp 446–455
First Online: 02 October 2011Received: 08 March 2011Accepted: 19 July 2011
We sought to determine the influence of single-nucleotide polymorphisms SNPs in RANKL, RANK, and OPG on volumetric bone mineral density vBMD and bone geometry at the radius in men. Pairwise tag SNPs r ≥ 0.8 for RANKL n = 8, RANK n = 44, and OPG n = 22 and five SNPs near RANKL and OPG strongly associated with areal BMD in genomewide association studies were previously genotyped in men aged 40–79 years in the European Male Ageing Study EMAS. Here, these SNPs were analyzed in a subsample of men n = 589 who had peripheral quantitative computed tomography pQCT performed at the distal 4% and mid-shaft 50% radius. Estimated parameters were total and trabecular vBMD mg-mm and cross-sectional area mm at the 4% site and cortical vBMD mg-mm; total, cortical, and medullary area mm; cortical thickness mm; and stress strain index SSI mm at the 50% site. We identified 12 OPG SNPs associated with vBMD and-or geometric parameters, including rs<DIGITS> associated with total vBMD β 95% CI = 9.35 2.12–16.58, P = 0.011, cortical vBMD β 95% CI = 5.62 2.10–9.14, P = 0.002, cortical thickness β 95% CI = 0.08 0.03–0.13, P = 0.002, and medullary area β 95% CI = −2.90 −4.94 to −0.86, P = 0.005 and rs2073618 associated with cortical vBMD β 95% CI = −4.30 −7.78 to −0.82, P = 0.015 and cortical thickness β 95% CI = −0.08 −0.13 to −0.03, P = 0.001. Three RANK SNPs were associated with vBMD, including rs<DIGITS> associated with trabecular vBMD β 95% CI = −7.58 −14.01 to −1.15, P = 0.021. There were five RANK SNPs associated with geometric parameters, including rs8083511 associated with distal radius cross-sectional area β 95% CI = 8.90 0.92–16.88, P = 0.029. No significant association was observed between RANKL SNPs and pQCT parameters. Our findings suggest that genetic variation in OPG and RANK influences radius vBMD and geometry in men.
KeywordsOsteoporosis Genetic association Genetic polymorphism Male QCT T. W. O’Neill and W. Thomson equally contributed to this study.
F. C. W. Wu is the coordinator for the European Male Ageing Study EMAS.
The EMAS Study Group: Florence Gianni Forti, Luisa Petrone, Glovanni Corona; Leuven Dirk Vanderschueren, Steven Boonen, Herman Borghs; Lodz Krzysztof Kula, Jolanta Slowikowska-Hilczer, Renata Walczak-Jedrzejowska; London Ilpo Huhtaniemi; Malmö Aleksander Giwercman; Manchester Frederick Wu, Alan Silman, Terence O’Neill, Joseph Finn, Philip Steer, Abdelouahid Tajar, David Lee, Stephen Pye; Santiago Felipe Casanueva, Mary Lage; Szeged Gyorgy Bartfai, Imre Földesi, Imre Fejes; Tartu Margus Punab, Paul Korrovitz; Turku Min Jiang.
Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article doi:10.1007-s<PHONE>-y contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.


1. Halestorm – Apocalyptic: Been waiting patiently for Halestorm to put out new tunes!! This is their first single off of their upcoming album, to be released April 7, 2015, To The Wild Life. This song rocks hard and showcases Lzzy’s voice beautifully.
6: Second single release from his to be announced 8th album. This song, is funky and soul full, makes you dance in your seat, and again, you can’t help but sing it CONSTANTLY!
9. Volbeat – The Nameless One: From the 2013 album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, this tune is my all time favorite Volbeat song. This song will continue lyrically in another “tale” on their upcoming album! I can’t wait for that! I a giving you this song LIVE!
10. KEEL – Because The Night: Ok.. yes, I admit… I still have a love for the 80’s hair bands I grew up with in highschool. KEEL was one of my favorite bands back in the 80’s and I still love their music today. In my not so humble opinion, their greatest album was The Final Frontier, and I still have my original vinal album from 1986! BTW.. did you all know that Keel front man, Ronnie Keel was doing country now?e.


On my way into the office this morning, I was reminded of something that recently occurred on a listing appointment. There’s a neighborhood that is adjacent to a religious building. When I meet with owners to list their houses, I am frequently requested to advertise their house is close to this structure.
For sale by owners and landlords are bound by this law as well. Perhaps you weren’t aware of this, didn’t think this law applied to you, or thought it only applied to Realtors®! There recently was a lawsuit against craigslist where a property owner made discriminatory remarks about a home they were selling. If you don’t know what these descriptive words are, perhaps you should become familiar with this law. One more reason to hire a Realtor!®(F).


"Their mission is not shifting," he said, though he said economic development would be emphasized more. "It will be a part of what they do to complete their mission, which is to revitalize and make downtown a valuable place."
"We're not investing that much money in it. It's worth an effort. If it doesn't work, it's very easy to change that," he said. "Within six months we'll have a pretty good idea of what this is doing. We will know whether or not this thing is worth continuing or if we need to go in a different direction."


Lupita Nyong’o sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein
South Africa’s football chief accused of rape
Emma Thompson told BBC Two’s Newsnight programme sheWeinstein sacked after sexual harassment claims


Hmm, in my naivety I failed to notice that the 'official' GHC.Generics are completely different to SYB on which syz is built. Classic case of reading the same words/names and assuming they're exactly the same thing. Maybe it's not that hard to rewrite syz in terms of GHC.Generics.Generic (I'll perhaps take a look), but maybe there's a generic Zipper library already based on the GHC stuff? On 2013-04-10, at 3:19...Apart from that, I am not aware of any problems with syz. > > Roman


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I used my new set today too, so check back soon as there will be new posts popping up shortly. I tried out two different recipes today and this weekend my family are having a little Christmas get together down at my nana’s, which means I will have lots of food to share!


Vulnerability of Youth
Traditionally, youth and women are put in economically dependent roles. When women and children lose their husbands and parents, they also lose financial security. People are vulnerable to HIV infection when poverty forces them to choose between day-to-day survival and safe behavior. The rate of infection for females doubles in situations of cross-generational sex and prostitution.
Sexual education and independence is kept from youth and women because there is an expectation of innocence. Ultimately, this ignorance leaves them unprepared to make safe decisions regarding sex.
TAYL’s programs, from Behavior Change Communication to apprenticeships and skill building, address these causes of vulnerability directly and have positive, sustainable results.


Working in the cannabis space as a member of the criminalized class poses its own challenges.
He believes all communities of colour, particularly activists, have a crucial role in speaking to the marginalization and oppression at the hands of prohibition, to ensure inequities and inequalities are appropriately addressed.
He sees now as an opportunity to provide hope to the next generation through leading the way and chartering a path of excellence.


plush bear! This cute Alabama Crimson Tide bear will make an adorable addition to your familyon the body and comes in team colors, so everyone will know who the most adorable bear in the country cheers for.


WHO (World Health Organization) states that processed meats are carcinogens and red meats are probable carcinogens.
Animal protein products also inflame the body and increase insulin resistance.


Breaking Down the Chart for Pfizer Inc. (PFE)
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In the meantime the Belgians for once must really stick to the rules and follow the government's guidelines, for everyone's health and safety. Of the thousand reasons not to start a new book (reading or, in my case, writing one) not a single one remains. So, at it!


"...100 chart (from August 4, 1958 -- the inception of the Hot 100 chart -- through the Jan. 16, 2010."
Now, here's one song that made Billboard's list. It also made a VH-1 countdown at some point and guess who introduced it on that show? ;-)
So, to paraphrase Salt-n-Pepa, let's talk about sex in songs. What do you think is David Cassidy's sexiest song? My choice: "Rock Me Baby" - perhaps the most obvious choice, but what can I say, his voice could prompt deals with the devil. Here's a live clip of him singing it on a European music show back then (don't mention the show please - this clip has been removed from YT in the past). Only found one clip of the 1972 recorded version of the song and it's the one of him in his shiny pink suit on "Top of the Pops".
SCREAMS!!!!!!!!!!! David sure is sexy here, voice and ... facial expressions!!!!!! OMG. Thanks, DD.
I actually HAVE been trying to decide on his sexiest song recently but so far I haven't been able to choose just one. I will think on it some more today. But this live version of him singing RMB may just be it.
Let me guess, Sing Me? :)
The way he say Rock Me, my oh my. And when he says Get Down, I want to obey!! Not too steamy for you DD I hope. I don't mind being edited. This is my kind of sexy song.
YES!!! He is very very sexy in this clip and of course his voice is strong and very good sounding here.
There are a lot of David Cassidy songs I´ve never heard.From which songs I know I would choose Junked Heart Blues.
His voice is strong and even soft, he points out the ups and downs in this song perfectly.He is realy catching me over and over again....thinking myself.. Gush!!......this man sounds soooooo sexy!!
LOL, Tina Funk, who lives in Germany and does Just David with me (she started it in 1974) had a funny incident. When David appeared on one of the German music show in the 70's they put her address on the screen as he was singing, as an address to write to David. Well she had fans calling her and even had fans waiting outside her house because they thought this is where David was staying while in Germany! And to make it even funnier, one of her neighbors liked American cars and he had an imported one parked at the curb, so the fans thought that the Amer car was proof that David was staying there even thought Tina told them he was not! LOL
Yes, it sounds even better when he sings it live.
Another tune of his I like is This Could Be The Night, that's quite sexy the way David sings it.
Imagine David singin this to you:
"Each time we kiss it takes a little bit longer, my love for you grows a little bit stronger and I feel like I'm sittin on dynamte".
British fan, I'm kinda liking that lyric: ite" but I don't think it's in David's version of the song. When does he sing it? And I'm with you regarding those lovey-dovey romantic ballads - usually can't stand them.
Barbara - Just David: that is a very funny story. I'm sure Tina's family must have appreciated all those Cassidymaniacs at their door. BTW, will you chime in with your vote for his sexiest song?
I never really listen to the lyrics of songs much. I shall have to take more notice of such details.
Ack! No, Barbara, not his blond period. :)
The lyrics to Romance are sexy - "Tonight you're mine, darling we can take our time, turn the lights down low, tonight I feel like letting go and making sweet romance." Man that's IS sex. And I liked him with the blonde hair. You had to be with him in person to appreciate it, he looked good, he was in good mood and very accessible for fans. His hair was full and thick. Sorry for me that was a wonderful time to be around him.
I do not like his hair at all the way it is now. He doesn't look like the guy I knew.
The lyrics are TOO sexy for me - not my cup of tea. I have to admit they don't sound too too bad with his voice though ;-) I'm sure he looked good in person with blonde hair - he has such beautiful features. I agree with you about his current hairstyle. What's the most flattering on him is bangs - it gives his face perfect proportions and he's just stunning. Ah, we can wax poetic about hair all we want but after a while, we don't dictate our hairstyles; our hair does.
You're not the first person to say he was very accessible during that period. You are lucky to have been following his career all this time.
I've enjoyed all these posts!
Yes, DD, Sing Me. The second verse he sings tugs at my heart strings every time I hear it. You can hear his emotion in his singing and breathing. Bless him.
Yes, I watched the first clip BEFORE I watched RMB no less, but sorry, my brain got hijacked listening and watching him sing RMB. LOL!
I meant to say that I remember seeing mention of the first video on YouTube recently but I guess I forgot to watch it so thanks so much for posting this! Of course I think the short dark-haired guy is cute and a very good singer. They all are good singers.
Even if the lyrics are not sexy, David's delivery usually is. Just hearing his voice, especially his non-PF work, seduces me into a trance immediately. LOVE IT!!!!
I think Mae is very sexy. I Can Feel Your Heartbeat. I think the way he does Be-Bop-A-Lula, Junked Heart Blues, and Please, Please Me is very sexy. I'd love to hear him sing those "Each time we kiss..." lyrics. Wow!
Doh!! How could I forget David's version of Fever - that's sexy!!!!!!
Just to lighten the mood a little, and take our minds off recent events, I'd like to publicly state I would like to stand in front of David Cassidy whilst he's on stage singing Chuck Berry's immortal classic My Ding-A-Ling!!!
I also have to say Pffft! to that list of 50 songs too. Not a Mowtown classic there, and Mowtown is full of sexy songs. What about George McCrae, Rock Your Baby?!!! That should have made the list it was a great song,a big hit and gets to the point!
Singmedavid, I agree with you about "Mae" being a sexy song which is why it baffles me no end he dedicates it to his mother in concerts. (I know her middle name is Mae, but with lyrics like
"Mae, what a good time you are
Always willin'
Put your lovin' arms around me",
it doesn't sound like the song addresses a mother! I know mine said no to me plenty of times!)
British fan, don't worry too much about that list - it's all about numbers. "Rock Your Baby" probably didn't stay at the top of their Hot 100 chart long enough.
heres another review. It gets worse he's started taking phone numbers from fans in the audience! I heard that he did that in the past but thought he was a little more discreet.
Sorry DD for puting this hereIf you want to move it to a different place, thats ok :)
sorry, messed up the link
LOL, DD!! Maybe there's more to his sordid past than we know. Just kidding.
Ditto, BF, about My Ding-A-Ling. LOL!
There are so many other songs that I find a lot sexier than what is on that list.
There's no doubt he's damned sexy in this clip singing Rock Me Baby, but it's not one of my favourite songs (I could view the clip for hours though). I agree with BF that This Could Be the Night is one of his sexiest, as is I'm On Fire (there was a brilliant clip on YT of him singing this & playing guitar with Steve Ross - he may have been miming but he oozed sexiness). I always thought his voice was pretty sexy in the Puppy Song too, although the lyrics aren't!
ContraryMary, I agree with you that he oozed sexiness in that clip of him with Steve Ross. I've never seen eyes sparkle like that on camera before - they'd give the Hope diamond an inferiority complex.
What a lovely description of David's eyes DD.
If anyone has seen the video of David in the '90s astride a chair singing 'No bridge I wouldn't cross' then they would see David at his sexiest best with a nice sense of humour and a big smile !
Oh to be that chair :)
and I also agree with BarbaraP with Romance even with that 'je t'aime' like section in the middle.
Ah yes, UK Fan, that is a lovely video. Plenty of sex appeal there. ;-)


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“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”–When You Know It’s Time to Let That Client Go
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Be respectful of agency time. Many PR firms bill by the hour, and others, including mine, bill on a retained basis, although I track billable time to gauge performance against the retainer. Clients need to be respectful of agency time. If they take up all your time for too little return, you will be less inclined to go the extra mile when they really need it.
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Public relations is a creative job. You have to be able to look at a client’s product or service, assess market needs and news angles, and find a way to build market awareness with his target audience. It’s not always an easy task and it requires innovative thinking, solid storytelling – creativity! Good PR and marketing also require solid teamwork. You need to be able to engage with your clients to agree on market objectives, key messages, market differentiators, everything. You need to work together with senior decision-makers to agree on strategy, execution, deliverables, and ways to measure success.
Creativity and teamwork are not good bedfellows.
I have the privilege or working with some very smart and dedicated people. And that means we have some very heated discussions on how to do things to achieve an end result, right or wrong. One of the challenges in being smart and creative is that you can see multiple ways to solve a problem or achieve an objective. However, your ideas may not jibe with someone who is equally intelligent and brings a different perspective. So good PR also requires good diplomacy and a willingness to compromise, even when you are convinced you are right. There is little room for ego if you run a service business.
So I was interested to spot a blog post by Kimberley Weisul on BNET today, “Why Smart People Make Lousy Teams.” Citing a recent study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, and Union College, the findings demonstrate that smart people don’t necessarily play well with others. For example:
– Intelligence does not affect team performance. There is no connection between smarts and teamwork, so throwing smart people at a team-driven problem isn’t going to help you.
– EQ is more important than IQ. Good communications, good coordination, and stronger emotional intelligence (EQ) tend to promote good teamwork. If you have people who are good at reading and responding to other’s emotional needs, your team will deliver better performance. Even a single contributor with a high EQ can make a big difference.
– Strong personalities hurt team performance. Groups where a single strong personality or decision-maker dominates the conversation don’t do as well as groups where team members take turns. Strong leaders are less effective in group decision-making.
According to the research, the easiest way to create more emotionally intelligent teams is to include women:
Women are often perceived to be more socially sensitive, and more communally-minded, than men. To the extent that’s true, it’s easy to see how it could be helpful in a team context. And in the experiments, the researchers found that teams that included women were more socially-sensitive, and better performing, than then all-male teams. (No word on the performance of all-female teams. I’ve reached out to the researchers about that, and will update if I hear back.)
Without revising any additional scientific research, I think I can safely say that the male ego plays a role here. Working with male CEOs and executives, particularly at start-up companies, has taught me that even though they are paying for your counsel and expertise, you have to tread lightly and be judicious with your opinion. (I find women executives are, indeed, more open to new ideas. I also think that’s why women gravitate to public relations.) To be a successful CEO requires a certain amount of hutzpah, and the conviction to stand your ground when everyone else tells you that you are wrong. Sometimes such egos get in the way of success and sometimes they fuel that success; it depends on the situation. But whenever you are dealing with a strong, charismatic leader, the concept of teamwork changes dramatically and the work becomes more of a parade than a huddle. If you can’t follow the leader, then you should bow out.
And that’s where a different kind of creativity comes into play. You need to find new ways to deliver through compromise. No matter how good your approach or ideas, if the client says no, then you have to achieve the goal within whatever restrictions you have to deal with. Being in a service business means you have to fulfill the wishes of the client as well as the requirements of the project. And when the two seem at odds, it’s time to set aside you IQ, crank up your EQ, and deliver the goods.
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The Challenges of Peanut-Butter Consulting
Forrest Gump believes that life is like a box of chocolates, and I see consulting as like a jar of peanut butter. Some people like their smooth and some like it chunky (my preference) but the challenge is not to spread yourself too thin.
Consultants face an ongoing challenge in terms of work balance. You should be spending about 20 percent of your time on new business development, and the other 80 percent of the time on keeping your current clients happy. But when that 20 percent of effort yields multiple projects simultaneously, then you need to be prepared to step up and deliver advice and services that have value; deliver the chunky stuff so you don’t have to spread the creamy peanut butter too thin.
Granted, having more work than you can handle is a good problem to have, sort of, but it can backfire if you don’t manage the work appropriately. If you overpromise and under deliver, it will affect your professional reputation, and probably cost you a lot of current business. If you overcommit and then work yourself too hard to get the job done, which leads to second-rate service and ultimately burnout.
So how do you spread yourself appropriately to make sure you are optimizing both time and money? Here are a few strategies I have used in the past:
Set up a monthly work calendar. I recommend to all my clients to establish a “scope of work” for each month, outlining objectives and tasks to be completed. As part of this exercise, you should establish your own time estimates to assess how much time you need to allocate. Granted, priorities will change during the course of the month, which means as you add new tasks you take other tasks off the agenda. This exercise is not only about creating a roadmap for yourself as to what you can reasonably achieve during the month, but it’s also about setting expectations for the client.
Touch every client every day. It’s so easy to focus on projects that are interesting or that have seemingly more urgent deadlines. Therein lies a common consulting trap – oiling the squeaky wheel. If you only pay attention to the clients and projects that are demanding your attention, those other tasks that support the less demanding clients will fall by the wayside. If you touch every client every day with some communication, task, or even checking in on work in process, you can stay on top of your client work.
Keep track of your efforts. I like to bill on a retainer since this makes budgeting simpler for the clients and eliminates billing surprises. That doesn’t mean you don’t keep track of your work. I keep timesheets for all my clients, retained or not, to determine whether my time budgeting is on target and to determine if one client is demanding too much of my time. If you keep track of where your time goes, it is easier to identify where the problems are emerging in time management so you can either reset expectations or realign your hours.
Get help when you need it. When the floodgates open and new business comes pouring in, I know many consultants turn away business based on their availability. A better strategy is to take on the projects and enlist partners to help. I have operated a “virtual” agency model for years and for larger projects can bring in one of my peers to help with the day-to-day tasks. You can scale if you have help and assume a project management role, assuming you can continue to maintain the quality of the work.
Know when to say no. There are times when a giant project might land in your lap that is tempting and lucrative. You need to ask yourself a few leading questions before you accept the contract. Will it jeopardize your other work? Will you be able to continue to build your business while you handle this mongo project? What about when the project is completed; will you still have enough work? I find that putting all your eggs in a single client basket can be fraught with risk.
Get rid of the dead wood. If you have new work coming in the front door, consider kicking the dead wood out the back door. There are always some clients that you will never satisfy or that aren’t a good fit. Either your work styles don’t align, expectations aren’t set properly, or you just don’t have the right tools to deliver what they need. If, like a bad job, the client isn’t a good fit or they are too demanding, taking on new business gives you an opportunity to clean house.
Follow the money. As part of your housekeeping, take a look at some of your less lucrative clients and determine if new business opportunities give you a chance to renegotiate or change the terms of your contract. Even fun contracts can prove to be a loss leader in terms of time and energy. New, more lucrative contracts will give you a chance to change or end a less profitable client relationship without risk.
Successful consulting is a a continuous balancing act. Knowing when to streamline your operation and how to balance dueling priorities is the key to consulting success. So keep it crunchy and don’t spread yourself too thin.


A typical Roman menu begins with the essential bruschetta “ammazzavampiri” (so full of garlic it would kill vampires), and maybe also a wonderful mozzarella in carrozza. The large pasta course that follows could be: If you want to try rigatoni pasta with the famous pajata sauce, we recommend that first you eat it and then ask what the ingredients are: you might be so shocked that you no longer want to try the dish otherwise and lose your chance to try out new types of food.
Onto the main course. You can choose between: coda alla vaccinara, saltimbocca alla romana, costolette d'abbacchio.
For side dishes, don’t miss the chance to try artichokes “alla giudia”, a typical way of cooking artichokes from Jewish-Roman traditional cooking.
Wash the whole meal down with a white wine from Frascati or Cerveteri.
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Every morning in the picturesque market in Campo de' Fiori, fruit and vegetable stalls show off their seasonal wares: the effect you get is an explosion of color and aromas that makes your mouth water. The bakers’ shops and food shops surrounding the square are also culprits in stirring up this desire for food.
For good wine lovers, many wine cellars in the city organize wine tasting courses and information-giving meetings about vineyards, harvesting, fermentation and all the processes linked to the production of this nectar of the gods. Among some of the places in the city that organize such events, we can name "La Tradizione" and "Franchi".
The historical coffee shops in the city are our last stop in this section, where it is possible to try typical Roman food in unique surroundings that combine culture, history and tradition. Meeting places and places to swap ideas f such as Caffè Greco, Babington’s Tearooms, Caffè Rosati and Caffè Canova. For espresso coffee-lovers, we recommend Caffè Sant'Eustachio located in the square with the same name, a fine coffee shop founded in the 1930s where the coffee is roasted by hand over wood fires.


As Maharashtra continues to grapple with the prevailing Covid situation, twenty one cases of the "Delta plus" variant of COVID-19, considered highly infectious, has been reported in the state.
Health Minister Rajesh Tope the highest nine cases were reported in Ratnagiri, followed by seven in Jalgaon, two in Mumbai, and one case each in Palghar, Thane and Sindhudurg districts.
He said 7,500 samples from different parts of the state were collected and sent for laboratory testing. These samples were collected since May 15 and their genome sequencing was done.
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Tope said complete information about the people detected with the "Delta plus" variant is being sought, including their travel history, whether they were vaccinated or not, and if they were reinfected.
Their contacts are being traced and tested, the minister said, adding that information on the mutation of Delta and Delta plus variants is also being scrutinised.
The newly identified 'Delta plus' variant may trigger a third wave of the pandemic in the state, the health department had noted.
The new Delta plus variant has been formed due to a mutation in the Delta or B.1.617.2 variant, was first identified in India.


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Kendrick Lamar may have just scored his second No. 1 album with untitled unmastered., but he isn’t kicking his feet up anytime soon. Dave Free, co-president of TDE, shared some rare footage of K. Dot getting back on his grind in the lab last night.
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A manifesto signed by the leader of the Irish Nationalist Party and certain other Irish gentlemen has been widely circulated in the United Kingdom, in the form of a letter purporting to have been addressed to your Excellency.
There is in Ireland a minority, whom we claim to represent, comprising  the island, located mainly, but not exclusively, in the province of Ulster, who dissent emphatically from the views of Mr. Dillon and his associates. This minority maintained throughout the present war that the same obligations should in all respects be borne by Ireland as by Great Britain, and it has caused them as Irishmen a keen sense of shame that their country has not submitted to this equality of sacrifice.
Your Excellency does not need to be informed that this question has become entangled in the ancient controversy cUnited Kingdom. This is, indeed, sufficiently clear from the terms of the Nationalist manifesto addressed to you, every paragraph of which is coloured by allusion to bygone history and threadbare political disputes.
There is, however, one matter to which reference must be made, in order to make clear the position of the Irish minority whom we represent. The Nationalist Party have based their claim to American sympathy on the historic appeal addressed to Irishmen by the British colonists who fought for independence in America a hundred and fifty years ago. By no Irishmen was that appeal received with a more lively sympathy than by the Protestants of Ulster, the ancestors of those for whom we speak to-day—a fact that was not surprising in view of the circumstance that more than one-sixth part of the entire colonial population ine consisted of emigrants from Ulster.
Such are the conditions which, in the eyes of Nationalist politicians, constitute a tyranny so intolerable as to justify Ireland in repudiating her fair share in the burden of war against the enemies of civilisation.
The claim of these men, in league with Germany on the one hand, and with the forces of clericalism on the other, to resist a law passed by Parliament as necessary for national defence is, moreover, inconsistent with any political status short of independent sovereignty—status which could only be attained by Ireland by an act of secession from the United Kingdom, such as the American Union averted only by resort to civil war. In every Federal or other Constitution embracing subordinate legislatures the raising and control of military forces are matters reserved for the supreme legislative authority alone, and they are so reserved for the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Home Rule Act of 1914, the “withholding” of which during the war is complained of by the Nationalists who have addressed your Excellency. The contention of these gentlemen that until the internal government of Ireland is changed in accordance with their demands, Ireland is justified in resisting the law of Conscription, is one that finds support in no intelligible theory of political science.
To us as Irishmen—convinced as we are of the righteousness of the cause for which we are fighting, and resolved that no sacrifice can be too great to “make the world safe for democracy"—it is a matter of poignant regret that the conduct of the Nationalist leaders in refusing to lay aside matters of domestic dispute, in order to put forth the whole strength of the country against Germany should have cast a stain on the good name of Ireland. We have done everything in our power to dissociate ourselves from their action, and we disclaim responsibility for it at the bar of posterity and history.
JAMES JOHNSTON, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
R.N. ANDERSON, Mayor of Londonderry, and President Londonderry Chamber of Commerce.
JAMES A. TURKINGTON, Vice-Chairman Ulster Unionist Labour Association, and Secretary Power-loom and Allied Trades Friendly Society, and ex-Secretary Power-loom Tenters’ Trade Union of Ireland.
THOMPSON DONALD, Hon. Secretary Ulster Unionist Labour Association, and ex-District Secretary Shipwrights’ Association.
HENRY FLEMINGMember of Boilermakers’ Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’ Society.
Since then the Irish Parliament has been destroyed, by methods described by the greatest of British statesmen as those of “black-guardism and baseness.” Ireland, deprived of its protection and overborne by more than six to one in the British Lower House, and by more than a hundred to one in the Upper House, is summoned by England to submit to a hitherto-unheard-of decree against her liberties.
Were Ireland to surrender that principle, she must submit to a usurped power, condone the fraudulent prostration of her Parliament in 1800, and abandon all claim to distinct nationality. Deep-seated and far-reaching are the problems remorselessly aroused by the unthinking and violent courses taken at Westminster.
Thus the sudden and unlooked-for departure of British politicians from their past military procedure towards this island provokes acutely the fundamental issue of Self-determination. That issue will decide whether our whole economic, social, and political life must lie at the uncontrolled disposition of another race whose title to legislate for us rests on force and fraud alone.
Ireland is a nation more ancient than England,d not only by religious persecution,, and legislative rights. The authority of which its invaders boasted rests solely on an alleged Papal Bull.
 the Parliament held in Ireland in 1542, That title originated in no English enactment. Neither did the Irish Parliament so originate. Every military aid granted by that Parliament to English kings was purely voluntary. Even when the Penal Code denied representation to the majority of the Irish population, military service was never enforced against them.
For this, the spirit evoked by the successful revolt of the United States of America is to be thanked, and Ireland won no mean return for the sympathy invited by your Congress. Yet scarcely had George III signified his Royal Assent to that “scrap of paper,” when his Ministers began to debauch the Irish Parliament. No Catholic had, for over a century, been allowed to sit within its walls; and only a handful of the population enjoyed the franchise. In 1800, by shameless bribery, a majority of corrupt Colonists was procured to embrace the London subjugation and vote away the existence of their Legislature for pensions, pelf, and titles.
Where there was no law establishing military service for Ireland, what “alteration or regulation” respecting such a law can legally bind? Can an enactment such as Conscription, affecting the legal and moral rights of an entire people, be described as an “alteration” or “regulation” springing from a pre-existing law? Is the Treaty to be construed as Britain pleases, and always to the prejudice of the weaker side?
British military statecraft has hitherto rigidly held by a separate tradition for Ireland. The Territorial military system, created in 1907 for Great Britain, was not set up in Ireland. The Irish Militia was then actually disbanded, and the War Office insisted that no Territorial force to replace it should be embodied. Stranger still, the Volunteer Acts (Naval or Military) from 1804 to 1900 (some twenty in all) were never extended to Ireland. In 1880, when a Conservative House of Commons agreed to tolerate volunteering, the measure was thrown out by the House of Lords on the plea that Irishmen must not be allowed to learn the use of arms.
For, despite the Bill of Rights, the privilege of free citizens to bear arms in self-defence has been refused to us. The Constitution of America affirms that right as appertaining to the common people, but the men of Ireland are forbidden to bear arms in their own defence. Where, then, lies the basis of the claim that they can be forced to take them up for the defence of others?
It is known to you how our population shrank to its present fallen state. Grants of money for emigration, “especially of families,” were provided even by the Land Act of 1881. Previous Poor Law Acts had stimulated this “remedy.” So late as 1891 a “Congested District” Board was empowered to “aid emigration,” although millions of Irishmen had in the nineteenth century been evicted from their homes or driven abroad.
Seventy years ago our population stood at 8,000,000, and, in the normal ratio of increase, it should to-day amount to 16,000,000. Instead, it has dwindled to 4,500,000; and it is from this residuum that our manhood between the ages of eighteen and fifty-one is to be delivered up in such measure as the strategists of the English War Cabinet may demand.
To-day, as in the days of George Washington, nearly half the American forces have been furnished from the descendants of our banished race. If England could not, during your Revolution, regard that enrolment with satisfaction, might she not set something now to Ireland’s credit from the racial composition of your Army or Navy? No other small nation has been so bereft by law of her children, but in vain for Ireland has the bread of exile been thrown upon the waters.
Yet, while Selto “make the world safe for democracy "—in every country except our own. Surely this cannot be the meaning of America’s message to mankind glowing from the pen of her illustrious President?
In the 750 years during which the stranger sway has blighted Ireland her people have never had occasion to welcome an unselfish or generous deed at the hands of their rulers. Every so-called "concession” was but the loosening of a fetter. Every benefit sprang from a manipulation of our own money by a foreign Treasury denying us an honest audit of accounts. None was yielded as an act of grace. All were the offspring of constraint, tumult, or political necessity. Reason and arguments fell on deaf ears. To England the Union has brought enhanced wealth, population, power, and importance; to Ireland increased taxation, stunted industries, swollen emigration, and callous officialism.
Possessing in this land neither moral nor intellectual pre-eminence, nor any prestige derived from past merit or present esteem, ties, control our fortunes, and exercise over our people the power of life and death. To obstruct the recent Home Rule Bill it allowed its favouri, to threaten “to break every law” to effectuate their designs to infect the Army with mutiny and set up a rival Executive backed by military array to enforce the rule of a caste against the vast majority of the people. The highest offices of State became the guerdon of the organisers of rebellion, boastful of aid from Germany. To-day they are pillars of the Constitution, and the chief instrument of law. The only laurels lacking to the leaders of the Mutineers are those transplanted from the field of battle!
Are we to fight to maintain a system so repugnant, and must Irishmen be content to remain slaves themselves after freedom for distant lands has been purchased by their blood?
Irishmen, in their chivalrous eagerness, laid themselves open to the reproach from some of their brethren of forgetting the woes of their own land, which had suffered from its rulers, at one time or another, almost every inhumanity for which Germany is impeached. It was hard to bear the taunt that the army they were joining was that which held Ireland in subjection; but fresh bitterness has been added to such reproaches by what has since taken place.
Nevertheless, in the face of persistent discouragements, Irish chivalry remained ardent and aflame in the first years of the war. Tens of thousands of the ir bones bleach upon the soil of Flanders or moulder beneath the waves of Suvla Bay. The slopes of Gallipoli, the sands of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Judasa afford them sepulture. Mons and Ypres provide their monuments. Wherever the battle-line extends from the English Channel to the Persian Gulf their ghostly voices whisper a response to the roll-call of the guardian-spirits of Liberty. What is their reward?
The spot on earth they loved best, and the land to which they owed their first duty,m, lies unredeemed under an age-long thraldom. So, too, would it for ever lie, were every man and every youth within the shores of Ireland to immolate himself in England’s service, unless the clamour of a dominant caste be rebuked and stilled.
Yet proof after proof accumulates that British Cabinets continue to be towards our country as conscienceless as ever. They deceive frankly nations throughout the world as to their Irish policy, while withholding from us even the Act of Home Rule which in 1914 was placed on the Statute-book. The recent “Convention,” which they composed to initiate reform, was brought to confusion by a letter from the Prime Minister diminishing his original engagements.
Such insincere manoeuvres have left an indelible sense of wrong rankling in the hearts of Ireland.
Capitulations are observed with French Canadians, with the Maltese, with the Hindoos, with the Mohammedan Arabs, or the African Boers; but never has the word of England, in any capital case, been kept towards the “sister” island.
The Parliaments of Australia and of South Africa—both of which (unlike our ancient Legislature) were founded by British enactments—refused to adopt conscription. This was well known when the law against Ireland was resolved on. For opposing the application of that law to Irishmen, and while this appeal to you, sir, was being penned, members of our Conference have been arrested and deported without trial. It was even sought to poison the wells of American sympathy by levelling against them and others an allegation which its authors have failed to submit to the investigation of any tribunal.
To overlay malpractice by imputing to its victims perverse or criminal conduct is the stale but never-failing device of tyranny.
A claim has also been put forward by the British Foreign Office to prevent you, Mr. President, as the head of a great allied Republic, from acquiring first-hand information of the reasons why Ireland has rejected, and will resist, conscription except in so far as the Military Governor of Ireland, Field-Marshal Lord French, may be pleased to allow you to peruse his version of our opinions.
America’s present conflict with Germany obstructs no argument that we advance. “Liberty and ordered peace” we, too, strive for; and confidently do we look to you, sir, and to America—whose freedom Irishmen risked something to establish—to lend ear and weight to the prayer that another unprovoked wrong against the defenceless may not stain this sorry century.
We know that America entered the war because her rights as a neutral, in respect of ocean navigation, were interfered with, and only then. Yet America in her strength had a guarantee that in victory she would not be cheated of that for which she joined in the struggle What Ireland is to give, a free Ireland must determine.
We are sadly aware, from recent proclamations and deportations, of the efforts of British authorities to inflame prejudice against our country. We therefore crave allowance briefly to notice the insinuation that the Irish coasts, with native connivance, could be made a base for the destruction of American shipping.
The fathers of the American Revolution were likewise pursued in turn by the venom of Governments. Could they have been snatched from their homes and haled to London, what fate would have befallen them? There your noblest patriots might also have perished amidst scenes of shame, and their effigies would now bedeck a British chamber of horrors. Nor would death itself have shielded their reputations from hatchments of dishonour. For the greatest of Englishmen reviled even the sacred name of Joan of Arc, the stainless Maid of France, to belittle a fallen foe and spice a ribald stage-play.
It is hardly thirty years since every Irish leader was made the victim of a special Statute of Proscription, and was cited to answer vague charges before London judges. During 1888 and 1889 a malignant and unprecedented inquisition was maintained to  the chicanery of State.
In every generation the Irish nation is challenged to plead to a new indictment, and to the present summons answer is made before no narrow forum but to the tribunal of the world. So answering, we commit our cause, as did America, to “the virtuous and humane,” and also more humbly to the providence of God.
Well assured are we that you, Mr. President, whose exhortations have inspired the Small Nations of the world with fortitude to defend to the last their liberties against oppressors, s, by an unexampled unity of National judgment and National right.
Chairman of a Conference of representative Irishmen whose names stand hereunder.
{Acting in the place E. DE VALERA and A. GRIFFITH, deported 18th of May, 1918, to separate prisons in England, without trial or accusation—communication with whom has been cut off.}"