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A Norfolk feast

21 Jun 2011

A Norfolk feast

Whether it’s fresh Cromer crab, Norfolk asparagus, delicious strawberries or freshly-pressed apple juice, there’s nothing better than keeping it local and seasonal, particularly on a special day like a wedding.

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Norfolk chef Richard Hughes, who owns the successful Lavender House restaurant in Brundall and has taken over wedding arrangements at the Assembly House in Norwich, is a strong believer in keeping it local.

“We aim to give our customers the very best experience possible and, to my mind, the only way you can really do that is by using the very best produce to create your dishes,” he said.

“Produce that has been grown on our doorstep and that is at the height of its season tastes so much better than produce that has been flown in or which has travelled for miles and miles.

“As I’ve said many times, we’re incredibly fortunate in Norfolk to have an abundance of wonderful, fresh produce so close at hand.”

Starters feature local ingredients, including Woodforde’s Wherry, Cromer crab, Binham Blue cheese and Yarmouth kippers. Main courses include roast Norfolk turkey with all the trimmings and Barnard’s beef, from DJ Barnard’s in Attleborough, with puddings of Norfolk treacle custard tart, or Norfolk strawberries.

And like all good chefs, Richard knows his local suppliers. “I prefer to build up relationships with people who know the standard we’re looking for and, of course, it’s always good to keep money in the local economy.

“It also means that we know exactly where our produce is coming from and that if we have any questions or queries we know exactly who to contact.”

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Singers’ Hearing

By Peter Harrison, August 2000

The subject of Janice Chapman's Feature Article (Newsletter Vol. 1.1) was well chosen. In singing, our ears are of primary importance. "We sing with our ears", says Alfred Tomatis; "First hear, then know", counselled Frederick Husler.

Teachers and singers must however make a clear distinction between three fundamentally different aspects of hearing. First, that which enables us to distinguish musical sounds and qualities externally. This is the province of our modern, thinking brain. Second, that which enables us to imagine sounds. Singers, like all musicians, must highly develop these abilities. The third aspect is that which enables us to hear and monitor our own voice internally as we sing. This comes from our primitive brain.

Without a clear distinction, confusion reigns. Mixing musical and vocal objects can be damning. They must be treated separately if they are to happily complement each other. Hearing in this third way is the only means of achieving and maintaining precision and economy (healthy) in an instrument which can otherwise prove unwieldy and indistinct (unhealthy). Sadly, this inner hearing has been widely neglected in teaching practice and given short shrift by voice researchers over the past century. The eye has largely taken over and, with it, 'observable' (and feelable) physical manifestations and sensations. I believe the voice will never be adequately understood until this aspect is fully explored.

Yes, the so-called bel canto school understood the need to regain subjective aural knowledge and control, enabling them to sing senza muscoli. Singers need appropriate feedback from aurally literate (albeit empirical) teaching.

I think that recording machines are too removed from the Subject's moment of sound and tend to promote dependence on external reception. The aurally perceptive teacher can indicate, in the moment, that the sound the singer is making (and hearing) is correct, on the right track, "honest", as Janice so aptly puts it.

The individual's perceived self-image in sound is always a complicating issue that must be appropriately and sensitively addressed. In regaining the true sound of his/her voice, the singer can regain self-confidence and self-empowerment. This is necessarily a process of supervised regeneration. It can take many years. I know of no short cut.

Because of this, for some years in London I have given daily lessons to as many pupils as could manage them (no practice in between!). This has required great dedication, but no more than would be expected of any aspiring dancer or athlete. Progress has been much faster and, forgive the pun, sounder for the continuity. I shall be operating this scheme in my new position as Singing Teacher of the new Opera Studio in Oporto.

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Working with Transexuals

By Christella Antoni

Therapists working in the field of gender dysphoria work in a challenging, specialist and relatively small field within the remit of speech and language therapy as a whole. The 'specialism ' is usually under the larger specialist field of 'Voice'.

However, in working with transgender individuals, working on voice is often just one aspect of our involvement, albeit a main aspect and often of prime concern to the patient.

More and more therapists around the country are now being called upon to work with the trans-gender/transexual client group. Referral rates are increasing, as is the scope of many of the voice posts, which may include a service to the transexual population.

An overview of transexualism

A transexual is a member of one sex biologically who feels and identifies as a member of the opposite sex. Psychiatric diagnosis of a Gender Dysphoric/ transexual / transgender individual is made after the conditions of schizophrenia, psychosis, homosexuality and transvestism have been excluded. There is a higher incidence of Male to Female (MTF) transexualis than Female to Male (FTM) transexuals. The ratio is approximately 4:1. However, the estimates of one per 100,000 males and one per 400,000 females (Pauly, 1968) are now considered by many to be very low.

Transexualism is not a new phenomenon. Various forms of gender dysphoria (dysphoria stems from the Greek meaning difficult to bear), and cross-gender behaviour have existed, cross-culturally, for centuries. The Gender scientist Harry Benjamin popularised the term 'transexual' with the publication of 'The Transexual Phenomenon' in 1966. The publication of Christine Jorgensen's autobiography in 1952, (one of Benjamin's former patients), served as a catalyst for many individuals who identified with her story to seek the kind of treatment she had received from Benjamin.

The treatment and management of transgender patients involves a variety of professional disciplines including Psychiatry, Urology, Endocrinology and Speech and Language Therapy. Although not all countries have Gender Identity Clinics, in some countries, progressive centres are established, for example, in the USA and the Netherlands. Since the 1990's, treatment has also become available in Japan and China. The largest treatment centre in the U.K. and internationally is the Gender Identity Clinic established in the 1970's. Charing Cross Hospital offers a national service but other local services exist around the country and offer a service on a smaller scale in areas such as Leeds, Edinburgh and Sheffield.

The MDT and aspects of intervention

An individual transitioning gender often finds themselves to be on a long and difficult road; one that will involve physical, emotional and practical adjustments. The medical model of treatment offered to these clients will bring them into contact with various gender specialists and clinicians which will include psychiatrists, and may include, urologists, endocrinologists, psychotherapists, Ear Nose and Throat surgeons and voice specialists.

Most typically, a client is referred via their GP to either a local psychiatrist or a psychiatrist at a specialised unit. A diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria is made after two separate psychiatrists have assessed the client. Following this, if there are no contra-indications, e.g., high blood pressure, the client is prescribed hormone treatment. In female to male transexuals, testosterone hormones promote hair growth. The androgen treatment they are prescribed leads to a thickening of their vocal folds and a corresponding shift in fundamental frequency resulting in a lower pitched voice. In male to female transexuals however, the oestrogen treatment they are given assists with aspects such as altering fat distribution and promoting breast growth. Oestrogen has no effect on the structure of the vocal cords and therefore no vocal changes occur in the client. The bulk of our work with this client group therefore is with Male to Female transexuals who wish to feminise their voice and communication.

The role of the voice specialist

Referral to Speech and Language Therapy to work primarily on feminising a client's voice is just one aspect of the client’s overall treatment. There is more tendency within the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria to have an increased incidence of associated or other emotional health difficulties e.g., depression, confusion, isolation and this is hardly surprising but each client must be seen as individual and in most case in an evolving or varying state of transition.

For some people, the way they communicate and the way they sound is of prime concern: for others the focus may be primarily on physical presentation. Some transexuals are happy to present fairly androgenously while others are only content to present as unquestionably female. How a client sees himself or herself overall can be important to the outcome of therapy. Similarly, how strongly a person feels about their voice often dictates their level of motivation for therapy. Feminising a voice is difficult and involves a strong commitment on the part of both the therapist and the client.

For many clients, successfully feminising their voice proves to be unachievable or unimportant. As with all voice work, the starting point is a detailed initial assessment. The client's expectations of therapy must be clearly established as well as their ability to commit to treatment sessions and to practice. Base line measures of voice, both perceptual and objective should be taken in the first or second sessions if possible.

Many clients are now becoming interested in Crico-Thyroid Approximation Surgery to raise their overall pitch. This is often carried out in conjunction with a Chondroplasty procedure to reduce the laryngeal prominence. The client's interest in these procedures should also be established early on and the therapist will need to supply information and advice to clients considering this. It is important for clients to be aware that pitch raising surgery carried out without any prior speech and language therapy is likely to be less successful than if they have attended for a full course of treatment. Whilst this type of surgery is often successful in producing higher pitch for the patients, it can lead to increased incidence of dysphonia. Post-surgical follow up is therefore also heavily indicated.

A Voice Specialists input may feature around issues such as communication skills, communicative intent, non-verbal communication, e.g., use of gesture, and confidence. These issues, although more indirect, are no less important than the sound of a persons voice and can help aid in the clients overall passibility as female. Similarly, as the majority of Voice therapists/specialists are female, they often play a role in offering general advice to clients regarding their overall presentation. Generally this is client led as many clients establish a good rapport with their therapist and feel comfortable asking for advice and opinions. They may also be fairly isolated socially and therefore value an objective opinion.

Direct voice work includes hierarchically structured exercises in the areas of pitch, resonance, intonation and prosody. Some attention may also be indicated in areas such as use of language, volume and articulation. As the client gains increased ability in the above skills, they should be guided to combine them in the various exercises they are given. The aim of course, is to generalise the modified voice into their habitual voice with the goal of sounding convincingly female. Very often, a client achieves a reasonably feminine voice that passes successfully when a client presents in person but unsuccessfully when the visual clues are taken away, e.g., when the client uses the telephone. Telephone practice is therefore an important aspect of treatment but generally takes place in the latter stages of therapy, as it is a harder skill to acquire and requires increased confidence.

A therapist's involvement with a transgender individual is often longer than with a standard voice client. Whilst some services around the country only offer a short block of treatment e.g., 6 treatment sessions or less, from my experience this is generally insufficient to achieve a successful outcome for the client. Sometimes our intervention can be short, e.g. if a client has been reasonably successful at feminising their voice prior to attending for therapy. In other cases however, a far longer intervention takes place, e.g., if the client also has (or acquired) a dysphonic element to their voice or if they require input regarding general communication skills. The main bulk of my work with this client group is actually in helping clients to generalise their voice skills into everyday voice. More often than not, this proves far harder for the patient than acquiring the actual voice skills and in this way the work can prove to be similar to the kind of therapy I offer to the non-transgendered voice clients in my caseload.

Despite the challenges outlined above, (and several that I haven't mentioned!), working with transgender clients can be a truly rewarding and stimulating aspect of working within the field of voice. It allows for innovation and creativity but also requires patience, tolerance and genuine respect for human diversity of which gender variance is just one aspect. To the clients, the service we offer is invaluable. They frequently cite their concerns regarding their voice as paramount to their successful transition. In a recent audit carried out by the Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital, involving 100 clients, no dissatisfaction with speech and language therapy intervention was listed. I guess that, the 75 patients on my current caseload and the 7-month waiting list will keep me practising in the field for a good while longer...

Christella Antoni is a specialist speech and language therapist (Voice) who works at Charing Cross Hospital, London.

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This is my take on her {genius} technique.  I used Brutus Monroe embossing ink and powder and Brutus Monroe deco foil in green for the foiling part. I am going to admit that it tool me several tries before i was able to perfect this technique but now that i know my laminator settings and the thickness of the “sandwich” needed, I feel way more comfortable about doing a card like this again.

I don’t feel like further explaining is needed here since there is a whole video dedicated to this technique, so please go watch it.  It’s pretty cool and Jennifer McGuire is actually using the same foil I did in mine but in a different color.

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“The Philippines is an agricultural country, and we have all the means to grow the amount of food that we currently import.”

MANILA – In time for Senate committee hearing on rice subsidies, dozens of protesters trooped to the gates of the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City, June 14, to denounce the government’s rice importation policies.

“Agrikultural na bansa ang Pilipinas, at kayang-kaya nating likhain ang mga pagkaing ini-import natin (The Philippines is an agricultural country, and we have all the means to grow the amount of food that we currently import),” said Zen Soriano, national spokesperson of watchdog Bantay Bigas.

Rice importation has been detrimental to the livelihood of local Filipino farmers, who are forced to sell their palay harvest to local private traders at low prices to compete with the imported rice, Soriano added.

Urban poor groups have also expressed dissent over government policies that keep rice prices high. They simply could not afford local rice from the National Food Authority (NFA) pegged at around P30 to P35 (less than US $1) per kilo, all the more imported rice which are more expensive, said Inday Bagasbas of Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay).

“Tapos hindi mo pa makain itong NFA – mabaho at madaling mapanis (Besides, one cannot easily eat NFA rice because it smells and is prone to spoilage),” she added. She said rice importation is not the solution to lower rice prices in the local market.

“The government’s rice trade liberalization and importation policy coupled with state-abandonment of local rice production is the main culprit behind skyrocketing rice prices in the local prices. [Rice importation] will only pave the way for massive smuggling and flooding of imported rice in local market that kills our rice farmers and local rice industry,” Bagasbas also said in a statement.

President Rodrigo Duterte in April fired NFA Undersecretary Halmen Valdez over issues on rice importation policies. Duterte said he wanted to “protect” the Filipino rice industry, and rice importation would only compete with local farmers’ products.

However, Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, Jr. who oversees NFA operations, stands firm that there is a need for the country to import rice, and even extended the deadline of rice importation by private traders from March 31 to June 30, despite the forthcoming harvest season.

Zen Soriano of Amihan (Photo by Daniel Boone/Bulatlat)
Zen Soriano of Amihan (Photo by Daniel Boone/Bulatlat)

Meanwhile, the protesters also denounced the proposal to lift the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importations this July, pursuant to the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Agreement on Agriculture.

Under certain clauses, WTO requires countries to import minimum quantities of agricultural products through minimum access volume (MAV). From 2012 to 2015, MAV for rice importation has drastically increased from 350,000 metric tons to 805,200 metric tons, according to Bantay Bigas.

Independent think tank Ibon Foundation said lifting the QR would double rice import volume in the coming years. The 2.2 million metric tons being imported today may increase to 4.4 million metric tons by 2022, said Ibon Foundation, citing an independent study by Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

Ultimately, rice importation limits rice production in the country and threatens food security, said Soriano. However, it can all be attributed to the backwardness of Philippine agriculture and the lack of support from the government for a genuine agrarian reform program in the country, she added.

“We believe that the key in resolving the chronic rice crisis and the attainment of food security is the implementation of a genuine agrarian reform which includes the provision of support services. Giving proper attention to the agriculture sector, strict government regulation on rice prices in the market, and veering away from agricultural liberalization will pave the way for greater local production and the realization of sufficient, safe, and affordable rice,” Soriano said.

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You have always been attracted to travelling and youve come to realize that you love to communicate with foreigners. Your colleagues come from different countries: Brazil, India, Pakistan, Costa Rica, Mexico and Indonesia, Italy, France and Germany. And customers will write to you from all over the world!
You are fed up with working in boring offices. Remote work is going to be a perfect match in such case! Work anywhere in the world, all you need is a stable Internet connection and a powerful laptop.
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Even with Sean Spicer's disastrous Tuesday press conference, which devolved into an unfortunate comparison between Adolph Hitler and Bashar al-Assad and involved the phrase "the Holocaust center," United Airlines is still in the running for the most embarrassingly bad news story. Remarkably, video of United Airlines violently removing a boarded customer going viral was only the start of the company's problems. Thanks to a, shall we say, poorly received initial response from the company's CEO, United Airlines has a mess that just doesn't seem to disappear.

The incident may cost United Airlines a pretty penny. While the long-term financial implications aren't clear yet, so far, United's stock prices tumbled and suffered market-cap losses of around $600 million, according to Yahoo! Finance.

How did United Airlines end up with a story that induces so much outrage and face-palming that it all but buries the uproar over Pepsi's completely tone-deaf protest commercial? The answer is actually not as simple as botching the damage control or even dragging a boarded passenger off a flight. (Okay, at one point, it was maybe as simple as not dragging a boarded passenger off of a flight.)

When United Airlines employees told Dr. David Dao, a 69-year-old doctor based in Kentucky, that he needed to get off his Sunday flight from Chicago to Louisville, the company wasn't actually doing anything so unusual. Aviation industry experts tell Bustle that "invols" — involuntarily bumping people from flights — are frustrating but by no means atypical.

"Airlines overbook seats to remain financially sound. The good ones have sophisticated programs to determine how many seats to sell in order to maximize seat utilization and revenue while not inconveniencing passengers or harming their reputation in the public. But they try to avoid operating airlines with empty seats," Roy Godberg, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson who has been practicing aviation law for more than two decades, tells Bustle in an email.

When offered voucher to voluntarily be bumped, customers sometimes readily oblige, explains Seth Kaplan, a managing partner of Airline Weekly. "When I was young and single, I would volunteer before they asked. I traveled around the world for free on vouchers I got for traveling two hours later," Kaplan says. "There are a lot of people who want to be bumped."

They're just not necessarily on every flight.

One of United Airlines big mistakes was letting Dao and others board when the company was ultimately going need to involuntarily remove them. "The bad thing was, they boarded this guy. They shouldn't have let him onto the plane," Kaplan says. "To let a guy board and tell him he needed to get out of a seat they gave him a boarding pass for, that's different."

Of course, we know how well boarding a passenger and then telling him he had no choice but to leave worked out for United Airlines.

But then the problem was magnified by United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz. "The CEO should have right away expressed outrage at what had happened and said 'That's not how we treat our customer,'" Kaplan says. That's not what happened. Instead, Munoz released a statement on Monday saying:

This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers.

Not only did the statement seem pretty emotionally detached, but it also didn't sound like an actual apology for the way Dao was treated. Then things got worse for Munoz when an email to United Airlines employees appeared to blame Dao, calling him "disruptive and belligerent."

"It's fine to explain some of the elements of how it happened, how flights are oversold for a reason, that they were trying to get these crew members on to get them to another flight so that instead of inconveniencing one person on this flight, you'd inconvenience hundred," Kaplan says. "I just wish they would have seen what everyone else was seeing, a customer who was just not treated how everyone should be treated."

On Tuesday, Munoz appeared to get closer at offering the right response. He released a statement calling what happened a "truly horrific event" and saying "I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be mistreated this way." He also said the company will review how its crew policies and publicize its result by April 20.

That's a start. However, as Kaplan says, "it doesn't count as much now, after everyone else has told them what to do."


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Indian Property Show at Dubai, inaugurated by Arbaaz Khan

Today, on December 1st 2015, Indian Property Show, the popular exhibition of Indian properties, opened its doors to hundreds of buyers today.  Arbaaz Khan, the Bollywood actor and brand ambassador of the show inaugurated the event, in the presence of Indian developers and hundreds of visitors. The exhibition  is being held at Dubai World Trade Centre from December to 1st to 3rd between 11am to 8pm. During the three days, the expo will be hosting over 170 developers – including the cream of the Indian real estate, construction companies and banks exhibiting over 600 projects. Entry is free with provision for free parking.

The event is an ideal opportunity for expat Indians in the UAE to explore a variety of property exhibits from India and have one-on-one contact with developers. Moreover, visitors can attend educative seminars, survey finance sources, and avail attractive promotions, pre-launch offers, exclusive deals and lucrative discounts. Children, too, will find representation at a special art contest where they can win gold bars worth AED 44,000.

Real estate is the safest investment instrument.Currently, non-resident Indians (NRIs) are extremely active in investing into Indian real estate. In fact, NRIs are among the top five investor communities in the country’s property sector. Apart from their natural affinity to India and the fact that NRIs see a higher intrinsic value on Indian real estate over property owned elsewhere, purchase decisions are also being spurred by the Indian rupee’s ongoing weakness against the US dollar.

Over 170 exhibitors, including developers, construction companies and banks; more than 600 projects on display.

· Fabulous bargains, deals, discounts and free air tickets for visitors; kids competition with winnings worth AED 44,000; Win An Apartment worth Rs 25 lacs.

Sunil Jaiswal, President of event organisers Sumansa Exhibitions said:
“With rupee depreciation by 20 percent around US dollar – which translated into bigger remittance – this is a very good time specifically for NRIs to invest in Indian property. The other driving force is that real-estate is one of the fastest-growing sectors in India with positive prospects and with higher returns on property. Already, projects like 100 smart cities planned across India have captured NRIs’ eye and with the government easing FDI flow in such projects, the investment is expected to boost further.”

IMG_8940“Measures such as easy payment plans offered by builders, more affordable, smaller units and more realty development in Tier II and III cities have been significant in improving the property market outlook. While the top tier cities continue to remain popular, NRIs are also showing increasing interest in cities like Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad, where they find higher chance of capital appreciation. Experts also predict that cities like Indore, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kochi and Coimbatore will also be in focus next year.”

“There are various forms of investment such as gold, fixed deposits, the equity market and bonds available, but real estate is the safest bet in the long run – and the most reliable investment instrument. Most of the properties built a few decades ago have easily yielded a return of 200-300%. No other investment tool can give comparable results”, said Ashwinder Raj Singh, CEO – Residential Services, JLL India.

A plethora of choice:

IMG_8935With over 170 exhibitors and more than 600 projects, visitors will have an ample opportunity to browse through the exhibits and to find property to suit their budget and preference. The property show is playing host to the best of Indian developers including Indiabulls, Bhartiya City, Lodha Group, Kanakia, Kalpataru, L&T, Ozone Group, Mantri Developers, Sobha Developers, Rachana Lifestyle, Godrej, Unique Group, JP Infra, Sheth Creators, Akar Realty, Sunteck India, Suvilas, Rajesh LifeSpaces, Saarthi Group, Jaypee Greens, ATS, Satya, Unnati fortune, Supertech, Risara and Antriksh besides other key exhibitors. They will be coming from popular destinations such as Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Kolkata, Goa, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mangalore and Kochi among many others.
IMG_8941Learn more from informative seminars and sessions: Visitors at the show will be able to attend free and interactive seminars on all three days. This year’s highlight is the sessions on Property Taxation that will initiate attendees on the issues regarding property tax and the best ways to deal with them. Besides taxation, visitors can also attend sessions on topics such as Know Your City, NRI Guide to Property Investment in India, Vaastu, Taking Care of the Legal Angles and South India’s Residential Real Estate Hot Spots, among others. Experts belonging to legal, realty and financial background will help investors take informed decisions on the various aspects of property purchase. To help NRIs sell their existing property in India, the show is bringing in property brokers from across India who can work on getting a good deal for the sellers.
Drawing contest for children: For the first time, children have become an integral part of the property show with an exclusive drawing contest. Children aged between 5-8 years, and 9-12 years can now participate in “Draw Your Dream Home” competition on all three days of the show from 12 noon to 3pm and 4pm to 7pm. Winners in each group will be awarded 100gms, 50gms, 20gms gold bars for the winner and the two runners up respectively.

Promotional offers, deals and discounts: From Property Dhamaka offers including unbelievably low-interest loans and fabulous discounts to return tickets to India by Jet Airways, visitors at the realty expo will be experiencing far more than just a shopping trip. The event also offers visitors a fantastic chance to Win An Apartment worth Rs 25 lacs.

Indiabulls and Bhartiya City are the Platinum Sponsors of the property show, while Jet Airways serves as the Official Airline Partner. Sony, Times Now and AajTak are the Official Television Partners with 89.1 Radio 4 as the Official Radio Partner and Etisalat as the Official Telecom Partner. The Remittance Partner is Wall Street Exchange and the Knowledge Partner for the exhibition is Jones Lang LaSalle India.

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How To Install Microsoft Project Software In Office 365 Online

Click this URL to login into the Office 365 account.

Once you log in, you can see the Office 365 landing page, as shown below.

There are different lists of sites like newsfeed, Sharepoint, Project etc.

In this blog, we will mainly focus only on the project software installation process.

Click on Install software at the top right corner.

Once you click on Install software, MySoftware will be opened in a new tab.

From the left side quick launch, you can see the list of software to install.

By default, Project is selected. Select language as English and the version as 32-bit, which is highly recommended by Microsoft, and click install.

Once you click install, a popup window appears, as shown below.

From the screenshot shown above, you can also observe that Setup file is downloading.

Once you finish your download, open and run it as an administrator to install in your machine.

Now, select One Drive option and also set language as English and Version as 32-bit, which is highly recommended by Microsoft , and click install.

*Follow the same steps as discussed for Project.

Tools & add-ins

In this option, we can download SharePoint Designer 2013 to create Workflows, and modify the look and feel of your SharePoint sites.

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We have selected a platform that will be able to fulfill all of our needs to host the biggest educational summit for code enforcement professionals all over California. More details about how to log on will come closer to our exciting event.

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To log into the conference follow the steps below

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All on demand sessions will be available to watch until October 31.

How many CEU's can I earn?

You can earn up to 20 CEU's at this year's conference!

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Mackenzie Valley gas pains

Two years ago, I edited a documentary for Les Productions Rivard here in Winnipeg. The English title is One River, Two Shores: Reflections on the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline (in French, the more awkward Au pays du fleuve Mackenzie, Un gazoduc au coeur d’un peuple) and it was directed by Yellowknife resident France Benoit. Over the period of a year, France visited people living along the route of the proposed natural gas pipeline which Imperial Oil and a consortium of partners want to build from the Mackenzie Delta down to Northern Alberta, getting a sense of the land and the cultures which inhabit it, and the conflicts arising from the prospect of “development”. This is a vast industrial project which would be imposed on a very sensitive ecosystem, bringing massive social and environmental changes at a time when climate change is already wreaking havoc in the North.

After decades of delays, studies, disputes, more studies and more delays, it appears that the Canadian Government is finally approving the project. But, as France points out in a recent email, the National Energy Board turned in a superficial final report recommending that approval, while the commission tasked with studying the social, environmental and economic impacts of the proposed pipeline “said that if this project is to make a positive impact to the North, we have 176 recommendations that MUST ALL be put in place before the project begins.” The government apparently has accepted 18 of those recommendations and dismissed the rest with an acknowledgement that they “liked the intent”. But, of course, development must go ahead, regardless of the consequences.

The real absurdity of this whole thing is that most of the gas to be extracted from the Mackenzie Delta will be destined for use in the Northern Alberta tar sands – in other words, one environment will be ravaged to produce energy in order for another environment to be further ravaged in the production of even dirtier energy. In our obsession with finding some kind of oil anywhere we can, we end up depleting other resources (including in this case the freshwater supply in the North), endlessly escalating the environmental damage. Of course, once all the oil is finally used up (and many experts agree that we have already passed “peak oil” and there’s going to be a diminishing supply from here on), these corporations and the politicians who enable them will no doubt finally look around and start to think that maybe they should come up with some other ideas. By which time it’ll probably be too late to do anything meaningful about the damage that’s been done.

Check out Chris Smith’s documentary Collapse for a chilling look at what we’re probably facing, and Peter Mettler’s Petropolis for a look at what’s already being done to Alberta.

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CEFC China Unit Plunges in Trading on Debt Concerns, Probe of Founder

Private energy conglomerate CEFC China has scrambled after founder Ye Jianming was detained for investigation. Photo: VCG
Private energy conglomerate CEFC China has scrambled after founder Ye Jianming was detained for investigation. Photo: VCG

A Shenzhen-listed unit of CEFC China Energy lost almost 2 billion yuan ($316 million) in market capitalization in two days as trading resumed following a suspension of more than a month. Investors are concerned over the embattled conglomerate’s heavy debt and the January arrest of the company’s founder.

Shares of CEFC Anhui International Holding, which is principally engaged in fertilizers, agricultural chemicals and energy businesses, dropped by the 10% daily limit within one hour after trading started for a second day on Thursday. A sixth of the company’s value evaporated.

Trading in CEFC Anhui, which is controlled by CEFC China’s main business subsidiary, CEFC Shanghai International Group, was suspended March 19 following reports that founder Ye Jianming had been detained by Chinese authorities. Caixin learned that Ye was detained in January. CEFC China has since stepped up its borrowings from banks and other creditors.

The news has sparked a series of downgrades of CEFC China’s units, leading to the abandonment of a bond sale and the freezing of assets by several courts. Investor concerns have mounted over the company’s financial situation and the outlook of several of its overseas deals, including the proposed $9 billion purchase of a stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft.

CEFC Anhui said in late March that all 1.38 billion shares held by its parent company have been frozen by several courts. The shares represent almost 61% of CEFC Anhui.

Data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange showed that CEFC Shanghai’s debt balance increased in the first month of 2018 by 16.2 billion yuan, or 16%, to a total of 114.5 billion yuan.

CEFC Shanghai has repayment obligations on 13 bond issues totaling 29.6 billion yuan, including 10 billion yuan to be repaid this year, according to data from financial information provider Hithink Flush Information Network. The maturity of 2 billion yuan of bonds will come on May 21.

In early April, CEFC Shanghai dropped a plan to sell as much as 5 billion yuan of bonds to repay other debt and supplement working capital.

A group of more than 10 creditors of CEFC Shanghai, including state-owned China Construction Bank, are set to meet in May. They are asking CEFC Shanghai to clarify the company’s assets and liabilities. The creditors also require that they approve any potential sale of assets.

CEFC China is considering selling its real estate holdings and a brokerage, according to a Bloomberg report. Reuters reported this week that China's state-owned conglomerate Citic Group is looking at CEFC’s oil assets in Abu Dhabi.

CITIC recently confirmed that it is in talks to take a stake in CEFC China, though Citic Chairman Chang Zhenming said the two companies are only in “preliminary contact.”

Zhuang Jianzhong, vice director of CEFC China’s international research unit, said Wednesday on the sidelines of an energy conference in Shanghai that CEFC China may cut half of its 30,000-strong workforce.

The uncertainties have cast a shadow over CEFC China’s planned purchase of a 14% stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft. But citing Zhuang, Bloomberg reported that the deal remains viable.

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Jul 06, 2018 03:12 AM

HNA Sells Singapore Warehouse Assets to Lower Debt

HNA embarked on a major selling spree this year to pay down its debt. Photo: VCG
HNA embarked on a major selling spree this year to pay down its debt. Photo: VCG

Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, whose co-founder died Tuesday in France, is selling its warehouse properties in Singapore for $534 million as part of its efforts to reduce debt.

CWT International, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of HNA, said in an exchange filing that it agreed to sell five warehouse properties to HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore). HSBC Institutional is the trustee of Mapletree Logistics Trust, based in a Singapore.

CWT said it will rent the properties from the buyer and continue using them as warehouses after the sale. CWT said the asset sale will generate a net gain of around HK$82 million ($10.45 million).

The deal needs approval from CWT’s shareholders and JTC Corp., owner of the industrial zone where the warehouses are located.

Shares of CWT and other HNA subsidiaries listed on the mainland and in Hong Kong have tumbled since Wednesday following the news that HNA’s co-founder and Chairman Wang Jian died after accidentally falling during a business trip to France. CWT closed down 5.1% on Thursday after a 5.6% loss the day before.

Markets are concerned that the unexpected death of Wang may complicate efforts to restructure assets and relieve debt pressures. HNA has been under heavy financial and regulatory pressure since last year because of its debt load after years of spending on overseas assets.

In May, HNA disclosed in a stock exchange filing that at the end of 2017 it had total assets of 1.23 trillion yuan ($185 billion), up 21% from the previous year. But debt grew even faster, by 22% to 737 billion yuan at the end of last year, the report showed. The debt-to-assets ratio climbed to almost 60% at year end.

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Israel’s Asylum Seekers and Tech Allies Speak Out Against Deportation Order

In December, the Israeli parliament passed by a vote of 71 to 41 a plan to deport some 40,000 refugees and asylum seekers, primarily from Eritrea and Sudan

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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a plan to deport tens of thousands of African asylum seekers by April, the urgency of the matter compelled many Israelis to consider the fate of the people who clean their streets and cook their meals, the dark-skinned, non-Jews who crowd Tel Aviv’s distressed southern neighborhoods.

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Many opponents of the deportation policy appeal to humanitarian sentiment or Jewish history, but Joey Low, a Jewish-American tech investor and outspoken advocate for Israel, believes the best argument against the policy can be found in a few dozen migrants who have managed to climb out of poverty and enroll in Israeli universities.

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Mr. Low has sponsored scholarships and stipends for about 40 migrants. He says they could be goodwill ambassadors for Israel and its best weapon against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to pressure Israel around the Palestinian issue.

“If they start deporting these Africans, and BDS starts saying, ‘Well, look at how Israel is treating blacks,’ I would have a very difficult time defending Israel,” Mr. Law recently said in an interview with Israeli site Ynet News. “In fact, I couldn’t. I’d have to leave the debate and let somebody else do it.”

Mr. Netanyahu’s deportation order offers the migrants, who come mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, a choice: leave the country voluntarily with a $3,500 grant and a plane ticket to a third country by April or face incarceration.

Mr. Netanyahu, who refers to the migrants as “infiltrators” who came to Israel seeking economic opportunities, says the offer is more than fair. His rhetoric has proven popular with his base of right-wing voters.
A line of asylum seekers formed outside a government office in Tel Aviv. Photo: Amit Shaal A line of asylum seekers formed outside a government office in Tel Aviv. Photo: Amit Shaal

The vast majority of the 60,000 asylum seekers who crossed the Egyptian border into Israel over the past 15 years came from Eritrea, where military conscription is mandatory and can last 40 years, and from South Sudan and the Darfur region of Sudan, which have been plagued by armed and humanitarian disaster.

Israel has approved 11 of some 14,000 asylum requests it has received.

In 2012, Israel began a crackdown to deter would-be migrants and prevent their entry, including the construction of a border fence, which was completed in 2014. By 2017, no African migrants were entering the country and some 20,000 have already left, according to Israel’s population authority.

Mutasim Ali, 31, arrived in Israel from Darfur eight years ago and is about to earn a law degree with the help of one of Mr. Low’s scholarships. Mr. Ali is one of the rare few who have been granted refugee status.

“I feel like I am part of Israeli society, my friends are Israeli, and I know the country has the capacity to absorb asylum seekers,” he said in a recent interview with Calcalist. “These are people who can bring added value to Israel and the politicians up above don’t understand it.”

Mr. Ali’s family lives in Darfur in a camp for displaced people. Since he arrived in Israel, he has not been able to maintain regular contact with them.

“I am on a government blacklist and our calls are monitored,” he said. “They jailed my father in 2009 because I phoned him.”

He said he is studying law with the goal of helping the people of Darfur and Sudan.

“Meanwhile, I am here and I’m sure I’ll be able to use my legal knowledge to aid disadvantaged communities in Israel – not only asylum seekers but all minority groups, including Israelis who are being harmed by government policies,” Mr. Ali added.

Refugees protesting deportation at a detention camp in Israel's south. Photo: Haim Hornstein Refugees protesting deportation at a detention camp in Israel's south. Photo: Haim Hornstein

Israeli business executives, who typically avoid weighing in on political issues for fear of popular backlash, are increasingly outspoken in their criticism of the deportation order. Earlier this month, Calcalist devoted its weekend edition to showcasing appeals to the government by tech entrepreneurs and top executives.

Among the voices featured were local tech luminaries including tech investor Yossi Vardi, who has invested in over 80 startups, Dov Moran, one of the inventors behind the USB memory stick, and Benny Landa, who is credited with the development of digital printing.

“Our call to (business leaders) to voice their opposition to the deportation order led to a rare collaboration,” Calcalist editor Amir Ziv wrote in the introduction to the weekend edition. “We insisted they use their full name and photo without hiding behind spokespeople, and they turned out. Their words were well-reasoned, articulate, and poignant. From their perspective, it is their duty – as Israelis, as Jews, and as human beings – to ring the alarm about the injustice of expulsion.”

“I am the son of holocaust survivors. You cannot be Jewish, with Jewish principles, and deport refugees in this manner. This is the greatest disgrace,” said Mr. Landa.

“The decision to deport these asylum seekers is miserable, and for many reasons, especially considering their limited number,” said businessman and entrepreneur Allan (Chanoch) Barkat, the founder of the Dualis Social Investment Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in socially-oriented businesses. Mr. Barkat said that the deportation will have a negative impact on many Israeli businesses where immigrants work, and said the decision has severe social and moral implications.

The deportation plan represents “total madness, stupidity, and malice,” said Ran Sarig, co-founder and CEO of Datorama Ltd., a company developing artificial intelligence-powered marketing analytics software that has been integrated into Alexa, Amazon's voice-enabled artificial intelligence service for smart devices. “We are talking about a few tens of thousands of people, who have applied for asylum but the government is intentionally not processing the requests,” Mr. Sarig said. “It is true evil. Because of our own history we must do good,” Mr. Sarig said. “We were all refugees once.”
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90 Calories

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Fat7 g
Carbs0.5 g
Fiber0 g
Protein5 g
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Calories 90(376 kJ)
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Total Fat7 g11%
Saturated Fat6 g30%
Trans Fat0 g
Cholesterol10 mg3%
Sodium230 mg10%
Total Carbohydrate0.5 g0%
Dietary Fiber0 g0%
Sugars0 g
Protein5 g
Calcium150 mg
Alcohol0 g
Iron0 mg
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A labour standards inspection office has acknowledged that workplace pressure contributed to the suicide of a female Dentsu staff member last December, according to reports in the Japanese media.

The employee, Matsuri Takahashi, a graduate of Tokyo University,  was reportedly 24 years old and had joined the company in April 2015. It is understood that her overtime hours ranged from 70 to 130 per month, and that she sometimes slept no more then 10 hours in a week.

The Asahi Shimbun has reported that Takahashi worked for Dentsu's Digital Account division, which was recently implicated in the overbilling of clients

The employee’s mother has called for improvements to be made to Japan’s labour management system to prevent similar incidents happening in the future. Dentsu said it is taking the matter seriously but did not provide further comment.

Japan is notorious for its culture of long working hours. A recent government report into karoshi (death from overwork) found employees at nearly a quarter of companies in Japan log more than 80 hours of overtime per month. Almost 12 percent of companies reported staff working more than 100 extra monthly hours. But while advertising and public relations are undoubtedly high pressure industries, IT companies were found to have the highest rates of overtime.

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  • Well-designed and properly timed pop-ups can lead to conversion rates as high as 60%.

Notice that timing is critical here—you need to make sure you aren’t rushing people into your pop-up.

Exit intent pop-ups help keep people on your site longer. That means you want them to display at the optimum time, and on the right pages.

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When site visitors make an indication that they’re about to leave the site, a pop-up is displayed asking them to stay a little longer.

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60 exit intent pop-up examples that increase conversions

Knowing what to ask of your site visitors is critical to getting your exit intent pop-ups right. What do you want them to do? Do you want them to buy something? Or download something? Maybe you want them to get in touch with you? What’s your CTA?

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Modcloth uses an exit intent pop-up to get new subscribers to their email list. They offer a discount for someone’s first purchase.

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Cotopaxi takes it a step further than Modcloth by extending their discount offer to anyone who makes a purchase today. They also include a compelling image, something critical to exit intent popups.

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6. Other products you’ll love

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 Oprah’s exit intent pop-up is a giveaway. With a combination of images that speak to the message and a message that speaks to the visitor, this pop-up drives traffic back to the website.

Source: Oprah

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The Palm Valley Animal Center uses an exit intent pop-up to request donations to their organization. They include an image that should appeal to the reader’s emotions as well.

Source: Palm Valley Animal Center

28. Download our technical guide

RazorSocial uses their exit intent pop-up to collect an email address and their visitor’s first name. Notice that they also offer a content download to subscribers.

Source: RazorSocial

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Marie Forleo’s exit intent pop-up uses a compelling headline to catch her reader’s attention. She follows up with an offer to download a free audio training.

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These exit intent pop-up examples work for a number of businesses. See something you like, but it doesn’t work exactly? Get creative and list several ideas before choosing the best one.

Bonus tactics for creating exit intent pop-ups that work

Even with these examples, putting together an exit intent pop-up can be intimidating at first. There’s a lot going on in such a small package. Thankfully, with practice, it gets a lot easier.

Exit intent pop-ups, like all pop-ups, have a variety of components to them. Each component requires individual attention. You’ll want to spend more time on some of these components and less on others, but you’ll figure out which pieces require the most effort, with time.

To create exit intent pop-ups that convert, follow these guidelines:

  • Compelling graphics: if you want your exit intent pop-up to catch people’s eyes, you’re going to need images. Your image is effectively your CTA. It may be a graphic you create or it may be an image of a product. Whatever it is, it needs to capture attention.
  • Intriguing headline: your headline is like an email subject line. It’s what pulls people in. You don’t read promotional emails that don’t have subject lines that say something interesting. Would you really want to click on a pop-up with a dull headline?
  • Vivid colors: while you don’t want to overwhelm your visitors with clashing colors, you do want to use color to grab their attention and focus. Bright colors are eye catching. Think of how red, orange, and yellow instantly grab your gaze.
  • An offer: you don’t just want to ask people for their email addresses. You need to offer them a reason to sign up for your email list, download your latest content, or purchase your newest merchandise. Give them a reason to want to work with you.
  • Close button: as part of pop-up best practices, you want to make sure your exit intent pop-up includes a way to close the pop-up. Sometimes the pop-ups are inconvenient, and you don’t want people leaving your site out of frustration.

If you follow these guidelines when creating your exit intent pop-ups, you’ll figure out a strategy that works for you. Just don’t forget to use A/B testing to see how your pop-ups are performing.

Wrap up

When it comes to keeping visitors on your site and driving them back to your offer, exit intent pop-ups are one of the best ways to capitalize on the fact that the visitor is already on your site.

Keep these three things in mind when creating your exit intent popups:

  • Timing is everything—move too quickly and you risk annoying your visitor. Move too slowly and you miss out on the opportunity.
  • Figure out your message—you need to know what you want your visitors to do before you put together a pop-up. Otherwise, what will you be driving them to?
  • Make an offer they can’t refuse—give your visitors a reason to follow through on your pop-up’s request. Don’t expect something for nothing.

Exit intent pop-ups provide the perfect platform for communicating with your site visitors that you really want them to stay. Take advantage of that last touch and make it count.

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How is the amount of a fine decided?

Up until March 2015 the maximum fine that the judge of a Magistrates’ Court was allowed to give was £5,000. That ceiling has since been removed allowing, in most cases, the fine to be of an unlimited sum.

The amount is determined by various Magistrates’ Court rules; your financial status has an impact on the figure as does the type of offence for which you are convicted.

The penalty element of the fine (not the court costs or compensation elements) will even be reduced in light of a guilty plea but is itself determined by when the offender admits their guilt. For instance, if they admitted guilt at their earliest opportunity following the accusation the penalty may be reduced by one third.

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Along with a summons ordering you to attend a means enquiry hearing you will receive a Means Enquiry Form (MC100). You’re legally obliged to complete this and must present it to the Court in order for the Court to measure its fine accordingly.

After all, levying a large fine against someone on a low income will not benefit anyone and will only lead to an increase in unpaid court fines.

The nature and seriousness of the offence

The Court first uses statutory guidelines to work out what level of fine is appropriate for the crime. The Court will consider:

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After you have been sentenced and your trial is closed the Court will send to you a copy of something called a ‘collection order’. This order is discussed during the trial as well and outlines what happens next. In short, the process following the hearing is as follows:

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If, after your trial, you realise you can’t pay your fine either by the arranged instalments or in full you must contact the sentencing Court’s fines officer ASAP. In some places the fines officer works independently of the Court House but in either case you will find their contact details on your collection order.

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If you still don’t make contact, a Distress Warrant will be issued which is a way for the judge to enforce the payment of a fine. This issue results in one or more of the following:

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The Court will use its powers to punish you further for the unpaid court fine, especially if it hasn’t heard from you. In the most serious cases of non-payment and after every avenue is exhausted a judge can send you to prison. However, this will come after at least one further hearing when you will be given an opportunity to more fully explain your reasons.

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In order to make a case for rearranging a payment plan to suit your circumstances you will need to show evidence of your income and outgoings, and evidence of how the court’s fine has left you with little money for other priority debts.

It is best to try to convince the judge during the trial that you have a genuine reason for being unable to pay, but after the trial is ended your claim of unforeseen hardship can be helped along by the mention of one of the following:

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