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This week is books people might not know about. You know, those books where you think you’re the only person who’s read them.
Dream Factory by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
This book takes place at Disney World, which is possibly the most unique setting I’ve ever read (other than fantasy books). It’s about the teenagers who work there as the characters, and it’s so interesting. It’s not fine literature or anything, but it’s still really enjoyable.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
This book is about Jenna, who wakes up from a coma one day. Honestly, I don’t remember much about this book. I remember the ending, and I remember loving it (I gave it 5 stars) and thinking it was one of the best books I’d read up to that point.
The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty
This book is probably more middle grade/YA, but I still really liked it. It’s about the Zing family and their family secret, as well as the lives of some other characters. I definitely recommend it.
Nothing by Janne Teller
Okay this books is categorized in Chapters/Indigo as for 9-11-year olds, BUT THAT IS A LIE. This book is so fucked up. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone under 16. But it’s so good. I loved it, and it was one of the first books that made me think. I wrote a review for it forever ago, which you can check out here if you’re interested.
Those are my books that you might not know about. What are some lesser-known books you love?
Thanks for reading! Ally xx


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31 cm x 19.5 cm x 6.5 cm
Do not stack other stuffs on the top of the bag to prevent dents.Avoiding exposure to prolonged sunlight and chemical cleaners.
This is the mini version of the Black Diamond bag. Small size sculptural bag with additional detachable adjustable crossbody strap and wrist strap. The crossbody strap is combination of high quality chain in gunmetal-finished and leather. The Diamond crossbody bag features three dimensional shape in both sides. It might be too small to carry women purse, so there is attached magnetic closure wallet inside the middle zipped closure compartment.
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Jones Day's Project Lesvos honored by the Sodalitas Foundation's Call for Future initiative
Jones Day's Project Lesvos is among the eight projects selected as part of the Sodalitas Call for Future initiative, a campaign created by the Sodalitas Foundation (Fondazione Sodalitas) to make people, institutions, and especially young people aware of the strategic role of companies in Italy that are committed to achieving the objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Fondazione Sodalitas was founded in 1995 by Assolombarda—an association of companies operating in the City of Milan and in the provinces of Lodi, Monza, and Brianza—and a group of volunteer companies and managers, establishing itself as the first organization in Italy to promote corporate sustainability.
An independent panel assembled and managed by the RUS - Network of Universities for Sustainable Development analyzed the 150 projects submitted to Sodalitas Call for Future and recognized eight of them as particularly worthy and effective in building a sustainable future.
Jones Day's Project Lesvos is the only law firm project to have received this important recognition. Firm lawyers from across Europe and the Middle East travel to Lesvos, Greece for three weeks at a time to assist refugees. They help ensure that the national, European, and international laws governing humanitarian relief are available and properly applied, particularly to women and children.
The judging panel explained their choice of Project Lesvos: "Jones Day lawyers assist the permanent staff of HIAS, a well-known NGO based in New York, in collecting asylum applications, in guiding asylum seekers through the asylum process, in informing them of their rights and duties and in preparing them for the first steps of the procedure for the recognition of asylum status. [The project] is consistent with the pursuit of Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda by ensuring access to justice for all by building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels."
Watch Jones Day lawyers describe how the Firm is assisting asylum seekers and refugees in Lesvos, Greece.

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Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy HD dated in the US
Ubisoft has quietly slipped out a US release date for their HD remastering of the first three Splinter Cell titles.
The collection, which includes Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory, has been slated for release in North America on the 22nd of March.
The Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy HD is coming exclusively to the PS3 in HD bringing these classic games together on one Blu-Ray disc and even adding full 3D support.
No European date has been announced as yet but conventional wisdom would suggest that the collection will be out the Friday following the US release date which would place it's release on the 25th of March. Amazon.co.uk however is listing the release date as April the 1st.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 after all
- Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third gets a release date
- Adr1ft is coming to PC and consoles at the end of the summer
- EA gives the new Mirror's Edge a name – Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- ZombiU PS4 and Xbox One port reportedly in the works
- Mike Bithell's Volume to be released this August
- Gearbox's new shooter Battleborn gets a pre-E3 trailer
- Steam Controller launches in October, Steam Machines arrive in November
- Gears Of War devs Black Tusk change their name to The Coalition ahead of E3

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I’ve never seen a play in a 20-seat theatre before but, with the gentle storytelling of Starfish, a small venue seems right. Newly written by Luna Rose and performed by a bright-eyed cast of three, it’s the story of a romance and the bumps along the way.
This is a tender, engaging and likeable hour of theatre, and a young company who deserve support.
In terms of storyline, Starfish covers familiar territory. Girl (Adeline, played by Rose) meets boy (Ben, played by Vinesh Veerasami) at a party. She’s wearing a gothic dress and talking to stars. He’s in a white shirt and tapping his cigarette packet nervously. Romance, infidelity, domestic disputes and pregnancies follow.
Veerasami cuts an earnest and sweetly ungainly figure as Ben, with clever use of empty auditorium seats during conversations with Adeline to further close the rift between actors and audience. Henry Esdon as Adeline’s alternative lover Adam (and a superb comic turn as a waiter) manages to stand out even in the smallest role, shifting skilfully between high energy and the intense stillness of withheld aggression. Rose’s acting is quiet, naturalistic and appropriately intimate for the small space, which allows for even sotto voce remarks to be heard, though this style can seem muted against the energy of her co-stars.
The script shows promise, but there’s much to be improved. There need to be more surprises, more unique aspects to steer it away from clichés. Glimpses of individuality do lift it, however. Adeline’s eclectic, inelegant dress sense (technicolored jumper and oversized dungarees) is particularly loveable when it is revealed she is a professional dancer. Adam hands over all of his personal belongings upon meeting Adeline to win her trust enough to use her phone. Ben stares at a bottle of gin at night while missing the absent Adeline. These moments demonstrate the quirkiness and originality that is still slightly lacking to lift the characters and their situations out of prototypical tropes.
The show is fast-paced and I was never bored, but it’s often too fast, moving from one key point in the relationship to another in a series of short, blunt scenes. The publicity material focuses on Adeline’s internal struggles ‘as she tries to decide what she wants from her life’, yet there’s not much that’s internal in the play. The only real monologues come from Ben, so Adeline’s psychology isn’t explored much. Rose, as the writer, could definitely afford to slow the whole thing down, create longer scenes and find her focus on many interesting topics- Adeline’s dancing career, her mental illness, her relationship with Adam, and the eponymous shape in the night sky, to name only a few- that she touches on but never fully explores.
This is a tender, engaging and likeable hour of theatre, and a young company that deserves support. Rose just needs to make sure she's bringing something fresh and focused to the table.


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Welcome to Day 9 of the Daily Kreatif Painting Series: Watercolor Fun!
Do you like mangoes? To be frank, this is the first time I’ve ever painted a mango. I loved the color of this mango and wanted to document it in a painting so I could show you that there are a variety of mangoes around the world that you can find in other parts of the world.
Here in the US, I can find different types of mangos in the local market. They come from different parts of the world, mostly from South America. The ones that catch my eye the most are the orange-red skinned mangoes like the one that I’m painting in this video.
So, I chose to paint this mango from this angle, to show you its pretty side.
Growing up in Malaysia, the only mangoes I saw were the green ones. Well, if you grow up in Asia, you pretty much just see greenery around you because you live in a tropical climate.
When I was growing up, my late father planted a lot of mango trees. That was his favorite past time, gardening. I remember there were 3 mango trees in the backyard. Those mango trees produced a lot of mangos, year after year. I grew up eating tons of organic mangos.
Okay, so at this point, I started to put the red paints and worked my way up, to cover the area of the mangos that has the red-orange color.
If you’ve ever wondered about the taste of these types of mangos when they are ripe, well they are really sweet. But, if you choose to eat them before they are ripe, they are not that sour, unlike Asian mangos. I grew up eating a lot of mangos raw and in salads. If you like them sour, then make sure you buy the ones that are not ripe.
I tried to reproduce the same color I saw on the mango; the greenish, yellowish, and orangey colors. Also, there’s a little touch of pink in the center where the highlight is.
I added darker paints on the bottom and a bit of texture and spots on the top.
We’re almost done here; for the finishing touch, I created a shadow under the mango so it doesn’t look like it’s floating in the painting.

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Capes are such a fun staple for fall! They are warm, cozy and flowy and are just so cute! I actually bought this wool cape when I was in Ireland back in June (see my Ireland posts here and here). Even though it was June and warm back home in the states, it was in the high-50’s over in Ireland, so it didn’t take too much convincing to get me to buy this super warm accessory. I also wanted to be able to say that I had brought back something that Ireland (specifically the Aran Islands) is famous for…their wool!
Check out the details of this outfit below!
I hope you enjoyed this post! Happy Shopping!


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At 49, Ricardo Pinto comes across as simultaneously youthful and professorial. These qualities temper each other, making him both an engaging conversationalist and a passionate arguer of his worldview. But nowhere is he more passionate than in his epic Stone Dance of the Chameleon trilogy, the final volume of which, The Third God, will be published in paperback this March by Transworld.
Pinto and his long-time partner moved from Edinburgh's New Town to the Scottish countryside in 2007, and their house sees frequent visits from friends and their families: "People love it here," he said. "One night we walked under the full moon with a couple of our friends, across the road to the small loch there. We sat on a jetty gazing at the perfect reflection of the trees around the shore, while two glowing, luminous swans drifted past—like a fairytale, really, or a vision. . . ."
Being surrounded by nature allows Pinto to get in touch with the soil, to literally ground himself. He confesses to missing the proximity of other people, but has grown very fond of his new surroundings, particularly since he installed his bookshelves: "My books had been in boxes since we moved, but now I feel much more at home."
Like his bookshelves and walls, Pinto's mind is filled with the stuff of a wider and older world, from photographs of Assyrian sculpture—his latest love—to books on the Ancient Egyptian history that inspired a lifelong obsession with the unfolding story of human civilization and conflict.
We settle in his spacious study, where a strange yet striking painting overlooks his desk. It depicts a grotesque man holding a mask of classical beauty, its features smooth and symmetrical. Pinto tells me that the painting, done by a friend, struck a chord with him. "Most people seem to find it disturbing, but I find it, if not comforting, neutral; a representation of how things are." He grins wryly. "It could, of course, be like Dorian Gray's portrait, where the turmoil inside me is visible not in my face, but in the painting."
The turmoil to which Pinto refers is central to a full understanding of his work. It stems from his emigration, when he was six, from Portugal to the UK, where the Pintos' family life was distorted by prejudice.
"My parents came over here with a lot of emotional baggage because they both had very difficult childhoods, and a lot of demons made their way down to me through the generations. My mother's mother died soon after giving birth to her. Her father disappeared, and it fell to an elder sister to raise her and their other siblings. My paternal grandfather fought in the trenches in the First World War. As a seventeen-year-old he was transported from a rural idyll to a place where he was treading on the faces of the dead as he fled the artillery."
War stories such as these resonate everywhere in Pinto's work, especially in the graphically described brutality of the ruling class, the Chosen. Sartlar slaves die in the millions: burnt, crushed to a pulp, or worked to death and made into render—that is, liquid meat rations for their masters' armies. Denied freedom, individuality, and humanity, the Sartlar are the story's ultimate underdogs, and Pinto firmly attributes the books' bloodily expressed outrage to his family history and childhood.
He's reluctant to say much more about his parents' early lives, but revealingly characterizes their emigration as an "exile." This emphasizes the parallel between Pinto and his protagonist Carnelian, a youth whose idyllic childhood on a remote island comes to an end when his father is called home to the city-state of Osrakum to supervise the election of the next God Emperor. There, in the Guarded Land of the Chosen, Carnelian discovers a corrupt, decadent world that makes Imperial Rome pale in comparison.
"I couldn't easily untangle the emigration from my emotional life as a child—it was all swirling around in the one bucket," Pinto says. "We didn't know any other immigrants or have many friends locally, so we were very isolated. Initially, school wasn't so bad. I was seen as exotic and bright, and primary school kids were quite open. But soon they began to close up. I started to hone my defenses, and it became a kind of arms race."
The UK, and especially Scotland where Pinto grew up, was considerably different at that time: "Racism was endemic and people here were profoundly ignorant about the outside world," he says. "My mother is quite dark, and people called us 'Pakis.' I don't imagine emigration is ever easy, but if the parents are struggling to cope with it, it is a deeply disturbing time for the children. It has left me with a sort of siege mentality."
Pinto's early sense of dislocation and anger grew as, reaching puberty in 1970s Scotland, he encountered not only racism but also homophobia. Homosexuality was still a criminal offence in Scotland, and popular culture represented gay men only in stereotypes of high camp or tragedy. For a youth in search of support and encouragement, there were no real role models. Pinto explains that, at its most personal level, The Stone Dance of the Chameleon trilogy has been a means of coming to terms with the pain of his early life.
"In writing my books I effectively returned to my childhood," he says. "The notion of Eden being left behind is common across the world—the passing of the Golden Age—for the very reason that one is leaving the Eden of childhood. In Portugal, I grew up in a modernist house a few minutes' walk from the sea, with a forest on one side and a meadow on the other. It was full of sun and insects buzzing. For a long time I was only aware of the light, but the darkness that ultimately pushed us into exile was also building."
The loss of Carnelian's Eden is both a literal displacement and a moral one as, rejecting the privilege of the Chosen to ally with the downtrodden, he finds an ethical quandary as old as politics: can he survive and wield his influence for good, without compromising the people he is trying to help? Carnelian's dilemma is intentionally a familiar one, and the relationship of the Chosen to the rest of their world is that of the West to the developing world: like the Chosen, Westerners are largely unwilling to face the true cost of the comfort and plenty in which we live.
"Consider a civilization that lives behind an impenetrable wall, living in unbounded privilege funded by the rape of the world beyond that wall—a wall that also prevents the privileged having to see that world's suffering. That is how the West relates to the Third World—in The Stone Dance I have just mythologized that relationship," he says.
Pinto's message may be a worthy one, but his readers' willingness to believe in it is due not just to the appeal of his humanitarian ideology, but also to the solidity of his world. He built the world of the Three Lands with a historian's eye for context, and his rigorous training as a mathematician is evident in his quest for precision and accuracy: Pinto consulted experts in geology and linguistics to ensure that his world would stand up to the most minute scrutiny, from the constructed language of Quya to the world's climate.
"In writing The Stone Dance I went for total 'immersion.' I want my readers to feel that this place and these people are real. For that reason, I had to make sure that everything worked," he explains.
Comparisons of Pinto's trilogy with the works of Tolkien are justified, and there are also echoes of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast in the tradition-stultified grandeur inhabited by the Chosen. But the trilogy's social commentary reveals less common ground with these godfathers of British twentieth century fantasy than with the left wing politics of China Miéville, Iain Banks, and Clive Barker. Pinto is concerned, however, that the trilogy's setting obscures its message for some readers.
"People have tried to characterize it as Egyptian mixed with Aztec, or Roman with Chinese, but in fact I'm trying to undermine this kind of pigeonholing," he says. "The Stone Dance is a social critique. It holds up a mirror to our civilization. It is about how people grow power structures, out of their families and their childhoods, and then impose those patterns on the world and on other people as compensation for their own inadequacies."
Overcompensating or not, the Chosen have created their utopia by turning the world into a dystopia for those they exploit.
"Utopias and dystopias—and the boundary between them—have exerted a fascination on me for so long—since I was a child—that I'm barely aware of them as categories," he says. "They are a fundamental part of the world I live in. After all, what is any society, any group of people, any family, but a dystopia and a utopia? They bleed into each other, an emotional landscape upon which the sun shines, but over which sometimes dark clouds cast their shadow."
I point out that his portrayal of Chosen society at a tipping point is being published as our own society reels from the end of the last decade's economic boom. He agrees, but says that "the tipping point I had in mind was that of global warming, the destruction of eco-systems, and the human population explosion. And, I suppose, the recent economic collapse is a part of that; so, yes—it is significant."
Does the world seem a better or a worse place to Pinto since he began the trilogy?
"It's both better and worse," he says. "Although it is within our power to eliminate poverty, for example, I'm not so sure that we have it in us to avoid the most terrible consequences of global warming. I feel that, because there is always hope that a human being can be talked around—talked off a ledge, talked into putting down his gun—too many of us treat our planet as if it was amenable to such persuasion. It isn't: it's not human, and it's implacable."
The trilogy's concerns reflect the various forms of unrest across the globe that happened during its long genesis. The first draft, written when Pinto was a student, coincided with global reactions against Apartheid. He also cites the significance of "the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and the legacy of World War II and the gas chambers" in the trilogy's development.
"Can a book be written which does not, in some way, reflect its times?" he asks.
Between the unflinchingly violent depiction of human suffering in the books and Pinto's refusal to offer cozy moral escapism, the Three Lands represent harsher territory than that traversed by many popular fantasy authors. I ask Pinto if he believes that the general public still underestimates the genre, despite the past decade's wealth of crossover hits with mainstream marketing but clear debts to the speculative tradition. Have such preconceptions separated the trilogy from a segment of its potential audience?
"It's more insidious than that," he says. "Because of the way the books are marketed there are a lot of people out there who are convinced, without recourse to experience, that they wouldn't like it because it is fantasy, and they don't like fantasy. Now, if the reason they don't like fantasy is because 'it's full of goblins and elves,' then there is much fantasy fiction that does not have those in it. If they don't like fantasy because it has magic in it, and they want to read about reality, then there is fantasy fiction that doesn't have magic in it. So what I am irritated by is the catch-all nature of these genre categories that have everything to do with commerce—which shelf it goes on in the bookshop—and nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the books."
But the reverse is also true, as a significant proportion of fantasy readers are disdainful of both other genres and literary fiction, preferring their fantasy to stay within reassuringly familiar boundaries. In this context, the failure of Pinto's publisher to distinguish his work visually from the many simplistic, escapist fantasy trilogies on the market has created a no-win situation. The Stone Dance's marketing thus entices the very readership to whom it is least likely to appeal, while simultaneously alienating the seekers of complex, meaningful fantasy to whom it could become iconic. Instead, within both fantasy fandom and the wider literary spectrum, The Stone Dance of the Chameleon still lacks the name recognition factor that it deserves.
"Part of me bristles at the thought of being categorized, within this genre or another, but it's hard to take this kind of position without other genre authors and readers feeling that they are being somehow dismissed, as if what I'm saying is that I don't want to be with them, but with those 'other' people," Pinto says. "What I really don't want is to have a barrier put up between me and my potential readers that is not of their or my making, and I don't want to be constrained in what I am allowed to write."
In the early days of Pinto's literary career, the constraint of most concern to Pinto was the possibility that, because the books' central romantic relationship is between two men, critics and readers might dismiss the trilogy as appealing only to gay readers. Carnelian falls in love with another young Chosen lord, who holds vigorously to the perceived right of their people to cruelly dominate others.
Carnelian's early, naïve conviction that he can change his lover for the better, his gradual realization of his own complicity in others' suffering, and his efforts to sabotage the machinations of the man he still loves provide the trilogy with a great deal of its tension. In interviews given when The Standing Dead was published in 2003, Pinto appeared to downplay Carnelian's choice of partner as the result of male partners being more available than females in Chosen culture, rather than of innate orientation.
"I think what I said then shows that I was feeling more defensive than I am now. However, I am still not comfortable with the label," he explains. "For one thing, historically, the sexual boundaries were differently drawn—in Ancient Greece, for example, the distinction was made not on the basis of who you slept with, but whether you were active or passive. I react strongly against the imposing of a contemporary, cultural distinction on a place that is, in so many ways, different. Even more fundamentally, what is the point of discussing the gay issue unless it is directly relevant to the books? The gender of my characters and who they choose for lovers is not as pertinent as the fact that they love, and that their love has an effect on the world."
Pinto remains cautious on several counts as he selects his next project from the many ideas he accumulated while working on the trilogy.
"It's hard to decide. Not only because I want to make sure that it is what I really should be doing, but also because of the constraints of the book market, which doesn't like people moving from one ghetto to another," he says. "There are definitely movement restrictions imposed on novelists. I have expended a lot of energy getting frustrated by genre limitations and feel they're all to do with the external form; with books as objects, and, most importantly, with books as commodities."
Asked what might answer the need of novelists for more fluid genre identities, he states that one of them could well be technology.
"Amazon's virtual shelves can have any number of books next to each other, and an e-book could have a hundred different covers, or none," he says. "What is perhaps more fundamental is that authors have to find a way to reach out to readers, who are themselves reaching out, so that we can connect without the mediation of commerce."
I remark that many people in creative industries are worried about Internet piracy, and that some authors are concerned e-books will facilitate the violation of their copyright.
"Every new thing, every turn of events, is naturally approached with hope and fear," he answers. "A new form of copyright is desperately needed. Essentially, all anyone is trying to do—anyone who is actually involved, the authors and the readers—is to find a way that writers can write and readers can read. It should not be beyond our ingenuity to find a way to make this happen. Of course, the pain comes in making the transition to this new world."
And with that, Pinto sums up the central paradox of his life and work: that the height of his creativity has not only been an attempt to build a new world, but also to make sense of the old one and the pain that comes with living in it. After over a decade of labour, the success of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon can only rejuvenate and inspire him as he decides which worlds to shake up next.
Ricardo Pinto's Web site can be found here.
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Japanese Cultural Identity & Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. This story depicts a couple taking at a station in Ebro, Spain, on a hot summer day, and the combination of descriptions of a hot summer day and sadness of parting lead readers to have unique nostalgia for summer. The nostalgia for summer may be a common sense among people in a country with seasons, but the picture of summer that they have in their mind is different from each other. This makes each person have a picture of summer different from other people when they read this story, and that will different from the real view of Ebro, Spain, because people create their pictures being influenced by their memory and cultural background. Indeed, when I read this story at the first time, I had a picture of a station in Japan in a hot summer day. However, I noticed that this short story misses an important thing to describe nostalgia of summer of Japan, and I unconsciously added it in my picture of the summer day written in this story. That is the voice of cicada, especially the voice of a large brown cicada called aburazemi, which symbolizes hot summer days.
In Japanese literature, the depiction of the voice of the insects is an important matter, and it can be found even in the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry called Manyoushuu, complied in 8th century. Enjoying listening the voice of insects, and having various thoughts for it are one of essential part of Japanese culture, so we conjure up the voice cicada when we have a picture of summer even if there is no description of it, and develop nostalgia connected the image of the voice of cicada. The reason why Japanese people have developed the culture to enjoy listening the voice of insects is not known, but the uniqueness of Japanese that Japanese has many onomatopoeia may contribute to it. The use of many kinds of onomatopoeia helps expression of the voice of insects and may make it possible to distinguish the differences of the voices of different species of insects. For example, we express the voice of cicada called ヒグラシ(蜩) higurashi with onomatopoeia “かなかなかなかなかな kana-kana-kana-kana-kana”, which represents evening, sunset or dusk in summer and is often used in the end of a story about a day in the summer. Onomatopoeia “りんりん rii-n, rii-n” usually represents the sound of bell and the voice a cricket called すずむし（鈴虫）suzumushi (“すず（鈴）suzu” means bell, and its voice shows a night of the end of summer and the beginning of autumn), and “ころころころころ koro-koro-koro-koro” is used to express the voice of an other species of crickets called コオロギ（蟋蟀）koorogi, which also represents a night of the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. In addition, in Japanese traditional culture, sounds have very important roles. For example, ししおどし（鹿威し）shishiodoshi found in Japanese garden and wind chimes show how Japanese people use and enjoy fine sounds in our life. A poet Bashou Matsuo wrote many poems related to the beauty of sounds. Such cultural uniqueness of thought about sounds may be also related with the importance of depictions of the voice of insects that leads readers to have certain feelings and pictures in Japanese literature.
As I mentioned above, the pictures that each reader conjures up may be different from others’ because each person has different memory and cultural background. However, there must be some portions of their pictures of summer days that people in a shared culture have in common, and they may represent the uniqueness of their culture, or cultural identity. Having a picture of a summer day with the voice of cicada that Japanese people conjure up for the word ‘summer’ is one of example of the representation of such cultural identity. The search for the cultural identity will clear the similarity and difference among cultures, and we may see the origin of our own cultures by making connections among groups like making a phylogenetic tree based on such cultural identity. Also, understanding of an author’s cultural identity is a vital matter for translation. When someone tries to translate Japanese literatures to other language, the understanding of the cultural identity of Japanese people that puts special emphasis on treatments of sounds surround us including the voice of insects, which can represent a certain emotion, is a key for the complete translation.
Through reading “Hills Like White Elephants”, I found the cultural identity of Japanese people and developed my interest in ethnology. The development of cultural identity and literature can be associated with each other, and that contributes the diversity of literature around the world. Discovery of own cultural identity through reading stories written by people form other ethnic groups is one of fun when I read foreign literatures, and that may be one of reason why I enjoy analyzing English poetry.
Hiroki Sato is a Japanese student studying in Canada. He is interested in the different ways of thinking among different cultural groups.

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- Legal name of organization or individual requesting this grant
- For organizations: Are you a for-profit entity?
- For organizations: If non-profit (US) or equivalent (outside the US) status is available in your country, do you have or are you pursuing such status (please be specific):
- For individual applicants: Please note that if your request is accepted you will be required to provide documentation verifying your full legal name and address.
The event will be organized by teams made of indivuduals from Wikimedia Brasil and the incubating chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation in Brazil (see br.okfn.org). Hence, it's not a formal organization.
- Grant contact name
- Jonas Xavier and Everton Zanella Alvarenga (should we choose only one?)
- Grant contact username or email
- Jonas AGX and everton137
- Grant contact title (position)
- Project coordinators
- Jonas and Tom
- Project coordinators usernames or emails
- Jonas and everton137
- Project coordinators titles (positions), if any
- both volunteers for Wikimedia Brasil and Tom is a community coordinator for Open Knowledge Foundation in Brazil
- Full project name
- Balaio Hacker
- Amount requested in USD or local currency (USD will be assumed if no other currency is specified)
- Provisional target start date
- Late May (we need plan the size of the event. If it's too big, it's not possible to make in 1,5 month)
- Provisional completion date
- Early June
(O que significa esse eakdown? Colocando algumas coisas que devem entrar no orçamento)
- travel (how many people are we brings? from which places? preferably from nearby regions and conditions to bring people from more distant places of the country)
- production (how is "produção" in English?)
- infra-structure (if the place of the event isn't enough, like a good wi-fi connection for the number of attendees)
- outrreaching the event
- some food (if we decide and see the necessity of havint it, preferably local food prepared by locals)
- something else?
By(?) doing this event, we expect stabilish a new style of hacker-like event in Brazil, mixing academics and commercial experience to popular problems like digital culture sharing, creation and improvement of niches related to regional activities. Improve activities related to the third sector (not for profit organizations) by engaging new volunteers for wiki and community driven activities.
We are going to achieve these goals doing hackathons like events, lectures and regional presentations. That will be a very important aspect of our event, adapting this first Balaio Hacker to the region where it's going to happen, Recife, in the northeast of the country and far from the tradition axle Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo, where things are usually concentrated. Although some trials in the southeast region of the country, Brazil is still not familiar with the culture of athons-like events, then this one will decrease the gap, trying to expand in a more forgotten region of the country and aiming to serve as inspiration to happen in other regions of the country. We are inviting college students, IT professionals from the indrustry and the government, and nearby cultural organizations.
Expand projects related to Open Data, semantic web and others open source ideas launched by Wikimedia or other groups. Some ideas here: Wikimedia GitHub page, Gitorious' Wikpedia category and Wikidata.
(We need include a more OKFn taste here thinking about regional projects, such as open spending and how to transofrm raw data into human readable information.)
Project scope and list of activities[editar]
Like described above we are planing workshops, lectures and cultural presentations for 2 or 3 days (it's not decided yet).
- How many lectures can we reach? Do we already have people interested? Maybe this is a first step to try to have an estimative on the actual number of people we will have. Usually events are outreached in advance (see for instance OKFestival with its call for proposals) inviting people with the event format already in mind. People won't appear from nowhere. We need advertising and have in mind focused goals - less is more. For instance, we need propose specific projects to work on during this hackthons. --Everton137 (discussão) 17h30min de 13 de abril de 2012 (UTC)
- enough volunteers for the amount of work we will need and the size of the event we are doing. Without enough volunteers, it doesn't make sense in asking for money
Fit to strategy[editar]
Measures of success[editar]
Considering the goals, our sense of success is:
- Expand the open source community at Recife to areas like Open Data, Knowledge access tools.
- Make lectures with experts in the areas listed above, with many participants.


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601-C Accurate TENS
The 601-C Accurate -TENS is a user-friendly portable analogue TENS machine. Ideal for treatment of overactive bladder and pain conditions.
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The 601-C Accurate -TENS is a user-friendly portable analogue TENS machine.
TENS can be used for :
- pain relief
- tretament of bladder and bowel urgency and frequency
If you have been prescribed a TENS machine for treating OAB or FI you may find THIS VIDEO helpful.
In the video our Physiotherapist, Fiona, demonstrates how to set up and use your TENS machine for TTNS - Transcutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation.
External adhesive electrodes are attached to the inside ankle to gently stimulate the tibial nerve, helping to reduce urinary and faecal urgency.
The 601-C Accurate-TENS model allows you to adjust the:
- pulse width (uS)
- frequency (Hz)
- timer ( continuous, 30 min or 60 min)
B : burst : low and high frequency (combination of A-L and Conventional TENS)
C : conventional TENS ( high frequency) with the abiity to control all parameters
M : modulated pulse width
MM : modulated pulse width and frequency
Intensity controls ( on top of machine) and parameter controls (on front of machine) both have covers to prevent unexpected changes in any of the settings during use whilst allowing you to see at a glance what settings you are on.
Small, light-weight but durable, the 601-C Accurate-TENS is an ideal choice for pain relief and treatment of bladder and bowel urgency.
What you get:
- TENS unit
- 9 volt battery
- 2 x leads
- 1 set of 40 x40mm adhesive electrodes
- instruction manual
- sturdy plastic storage case
This unit will also run on a rechargeable 9V battery, please follow instructions in the manual for use.
CONTRA-INDICATIONS. Do NOT use TENS
- If you have a pacemaker or implanted defibrillator
- If you have an active IPG (implanted pulse generator) - check with your health professional if you can turn off during TENS use
- Over the pregnant uterus
- Over the neck
- If you have epilepsy
- Around actively bleeding tissue
- Around local malignancy
- Near the eyes or testes
- Near an active epiphysis
- In presence of poor circulation or sensation
- Channel Dual, isolated between channels
- Pulse Intensity Adjustable, 0-100mA
- peak into 500 ohm load each channel
- constant current
- Wave Form Asymmetrical Bi-Phasic square pluse

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Apartment at Westwood by K2LD Architects
The first thing that I liked about this apartment is its contemporary stylish outlook and the flight of stairs that lead you to the living room. I feel it adds to the look of the house. Love the wooden furnishing on the floor, gives the apartment a warm and inviting appearance.
I liked the idea of the drawing room with a balcony adjacent to it. I like the idea of the false wall working as a divider as well as a showcase. The dining room looks clean and cozy with ample illumination and ventilation. I love the way the kitchen is designed to utilize the available space efficiently. Bedroom looks elegant and spacious and really thoughtful as it is lined with an inbuilt wardrobe for storage.
Overall the furniture, natural colors and texture choosed and arranged by the architects give a welcome look.

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Distance from Armavir to Lorain
Distance from Armavir to Lorain is 8,897 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 5,528 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Armavir and Lorain is 8,897 km= 5,528 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Armavir to Lorain, It takes 9.87 hours to arrive.
Armavir is located in Russia.
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41° 7´ 24.2400'' E
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Armavir Distances to Cities
|Distance from Armavir to Omaha||9,541 km|
|Distance from Armavir to Lorain||8,897 km|
|Distance from Armavir to Saint Joseph||9,640 km|
|Distance from Armavir to Pleasantville||8,668 km|
|Distance from Armavir to Rutland||8,231 km|

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There will be more 100-watt incandescent bulbs in commerce from Wednesday, July 1. They leave room for low-consumption models.
From 1 July, we should no longer find incandescent to a higher power or equal to 100 W in the trade. The France launched a program of removal of this type of lamps that will gradually give way to low-energy light bulbs.
End 2012, filament bulbs will have experienced different stages: the withdrawal of more than 75 W lamps is scheduled for the end of the year, those 60 w will disappear on June 30, 2010, those of 40 W on August 31, 2011, and those of 25 W December 31, 2012. An agreement on the timetable for withdrawal was signed in October 2008 between the Department of ecology, the federations of commerce, the eco-agency partnership, EDF and Ademe.
The environment and control of energy (Ademe) Agency estimated that the replacement of incandescent lamps low consumption allow France to save 6 terawatt-hours of electricity by 2016, or the equivalent of twice the electricity of the inhabitants of Paris. Lighting in the residential sector accounts for 9% of the electricity bill of french households: each has an average of 22 lamps, buy 3 times a year and consumes about 350 kWh per year for its lighting.
Five to eight times more expensive to buy, the lamps low consumption (See type of LED bulbs on businessjust) need four to five times less energy than filament bulbs and last six to ten times longer (8000 hours). However, unlike conventional bulbs – which must be thrown in the trash-ordinary, the LBC must be collected in the bins available at retailers because they often contain mercury (an average of 3 mg per bulb). This is to avoid harmful emissions to the environment. The LBC are recyclable at 93%, says Ademe.
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Home technology is at its best when it’s part of the plan, not an afterthought. That’s why we consider it essential to create ongoing, relevant, and consistent programs to engage architects, builders, and remodelers; foster opportunities for our members; and raise awareness of our profession.
Developing collaborative opportunities contributes to:
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Milan-based Marni has been a leader in luxury ladieswear for almost two decades now (and has subsequently launched men’s and accessory lines), but last year the label branched out in a new direction: a furniture line of 100 metal-framed chairs. Each was woven with bright, pop-hued PVC cords in styles common in Colombia, where the pieces were handmade by ex-prisoners seeking rehabilitation and reentry into the social and working world.
This year, the second collection of 100 Chairs, as well as a children’s collection, debuted in the new Spazio Marni, a renovated 1920s-era factory characterized by incredible skylights and an industrial feel that manages to maintain the history of the original locale. In addition to the colorful seats on display, the company partnered with the Education Department of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea to produce “Inhabi-tants: The Migrating Multitude,” a series of mini-robots and figurines assembled from found objects and discarded scraps.
Now that design week is done, Marni plans to use the space for offices, showrooms, fashion shows, a gallery, and, undoubtedly, a different incarnation of furnishings for next year’s Salone.


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Parenting Children with Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips and Tactics for Raising Kids with Chronic Illness, Medical Conditions and Special Healthcare Needs by Foster Cline, MD and Lisa C. Greene
Learn essential parenting skills to raise children to be as happy and healthy as possible. Increase the odds of medical adherence, effectively talk with children about their health challenges, avoid power struggles over self-care issues, and create loving, respectful relationships. Love’s and Logic’s powerful, yet easy-to-use, parenting techniques have been adapted for use with children of all ages with special needs.
Individual copies are available at Love and Logic, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and your local bookstores.


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What are the agricultural products of Germany?
Chief agricultural products include milk, pork, beef, poultry, cereals, potatoes, wheat, barley, cabbages, and sugar beets. In some regions wine, fruits, and vegetables, and other horticultural products play an important role.
What is the main agriculture in Germany?
Grain is grown on about one third of Germany’s agricultural land. Wheat is by far the leading crop, followed by barley and rye.
What is the most popular fruit in Germany?
The most popular fruits Regarding fruit, Germany’s favourite are apples, with bananas, which are the most popular imported fruit, in second place. Cherries, pears, plums and strawberries are other important fruits. Germans are very fond of local produce and especially seasonal fruit.
What is German religion?
What is the main religion in Germany? The main religion in Germany is Christianity, with around two-thirds of the population identifying as Christian. The number that actively practices Christianity in the form of church attendance, however, is significantly lower.
What is the national fruit of Germany?
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What is the German national dish?
Sauerbraten is regarded as one Germany’s national dishes and there are several regional variations in Franconia, Thuringia, Rhineland, Saarland, Silesia and Swabia.
What is the coldest month in Germany?
During January, the coldest month, the average temperature is about 1.5°C in the north and about -2°C in the south. In July, the warmest month, it is cooler in the north than in the south.
Which is the fastest growing religion in Germany?
Today, with roughly five million Muslims making up 6.1 percent of the population, Germany has the second largest Muslim population of any European Union country, following France. Just as church memberships—and church tax revenues—have been dwindling, Islam has become the country’s fastest-growing religion.
What are the top 3 Exports of Germany?
The top 10 exports of Germany are vehicles, machinery, chemical goods, electronic products, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, transport equipment, basic metals, food products, and rubber and plastics.
What are the top 3 Imports of Germany?
Germany’s Top Imports
- Crude petroleum – $32.4 billion.
- Refined petroleum – $24.4 billion.
- Petroleum gas – $14.6 billion.
- Cheese – $4.38 billion.
- Coal briquettes – $3.68 billion.
What animal represents Germany?
The eagle is the emblem of the Federal Republic of Germany.
What is the traditional food of Germany?
Whilst there are regional variations in food culture, most German recipes focus heavily on bread, potatoes, and meat, especially pork, as well as plenty of greens such as types of cabbage and kale. Cake, coffee, and beer are all highly popular elements of German cuisine too – which will be good news to most!
What are chief agricultural products?
California produces almost all of the country’s almonds, apricots, dates, figs, kiwi fruit, nectarines, olives, pistachios, prunes, and walnuts. It leads in the production of avocados, grapes, lemons, melons, peaches, plums, and strawberries.
What is the biggest export in Germany?
The main German export product: motor vehicles Accounting for 15.6% motor vehicles and parts thereof of exports, was Germany’s main export product in 2020. Machinery (14.6%) and chemical products (9.3%) ranked second and third, respectively, among the most important export items.
What kind of agricultural products does Germany produce?
Germany is the world’s third largest exporter of agricultural goods. The German agricultural industry exports about one third of its products. Cattle are the main livestock Adobe Stock/Stephen Cordory. 4. High milk production. Germany is the largest milk producer in the European Union.
What kind of food do they eat in Germany?
Germany – Agriculture. Chief agricultural products include milk, pork, beef, poultry, cereals, potatoes, wheat, barley, cabbages, and sugar beets. In some regions wine, fruits, and vegetables, and other horticultural products play an important role. Agricultural products vary from region to region.
What was the percentage of Agriculture in East Germany?
Although the percentage of the agricultural sector of the East German GDP was twice as high, its total proportion of the reunited Germany’s GDP amounted to only about two percent.
What kind of crops did Germany grow before unification?
Agriculture. Despite a marked decrease in agricultural employees, modern machinery and technological innovation led to increased production. After unification agricultural employment in eastern Germany plunged by about three-fourths. In areas of high natural fertility, wheat, barley, corn (maize), and sugar beets are the principal crops.
What are Germany’s agricultural products?
Agricultural products vary from region to region. In the flat terrain of northern Germany and especially in the eastern portions, cereals and sugar beets are grown. Elsewhere, with the terrain more hilly and even mountainous, farmers produce vegetables, milk, pork, or beef.
What products does Germany produce?
Agricultural products vary from region to region. In the flat terrain of northern Germany and especially in the eastern portions, cereals and sugar beets are grown. Elsewhere, with the terrain more hilly and even mountainous, farmers produce vegetables, milk, pork, or beef .
What does Germany grow as their crops?
In Germany, field crops cover some 70% of agricultural land, with only about 25 cash crops and 35 forage crops being used for arable farming. At present, the most dominant crops grown are by far cereals (wheat, barley, maize, rye, triticale and oat), canola, potato and sugar beet.
What are Germany’s major fruit crops?
The most important organic fruit crop in Germany is apples, produced and sold from September through April. There are no data available on total sales or the growth rate of production of the different crops.

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Chas DivineChef Scott is a friend of mine on Face Book and a terrific baker. He produces his own videos about the things he bakes and cooks on YouTube. Like this video he made of this very Blueberry Buttermilk Crumb cake. I couldn’t wait to try this little gem! It was WONDERFUL!! To Read More, Click On The Recipe Title.
The cake is very moist , the crumb topping is excellent, throw in 3 cups of blueberries and WOW!! It’s a winner all the way around. I made this in two 9 inch square baking pans, one for me…one to share. I found the batter baked up a little and went over the pan a bit so I stuck a cookie sheet on the lower rack. It was all good. Thanks Scotty for the recipe and your videos!
Wanna print just the recipe, click here!
Blueberry Buttermilk Crumb Cake
Chas DivineChef Scott
2 – 1/4 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 pound butter
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 – 1/2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 pound butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon creme de tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Combine ingredients for crumb topping in a mixer and refrigerate when mixed
In mixer add butter, sugar and vanilla, blend then slowly add 3 eggs. Add dry ingredients and buttermilk half at a time until blended. Pour into 14 x 10″ coated pan and top with 3 cups blueberries and crumb topping.
Bake for one hour at 350 degrees.
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I don’t think I could resist even one of these sweet treats ladies.
As usual everything looks amazing. I just made a blueberry crumb cake. I’m so happy when we get sweet blueberries again!
Man, it’s so hard visiting here! Too many yummy choices. 🙂
My goodness – you always have the best sweets over here!!!
Oh gosh Bunny, everything looks so fabulously delicious!! I am bookmarking these recipes for sure! (especially the strawberry cheesecake sweet rolls!) I can’t bake bread though, hopeless at it, so they will probably remain a dream. I didn’t know you lived so close to me. Perhaps we can “do lunch” one day! That would be lovely! xxoo
Cheesecake in danish form? count me in. I also have that BRUNCH cookbook and drool over it often. I think I’ll read it before I go to bed 🙂
Now I’m hungry! Looks fantastic!
this post is a sweets-lover’s dream! that crumb cake is FIERCE–i love the thick layers of crumble and blueberries. and wow, those sweet rolls are inspired. i’m liking this stuff, ladies. bravo!
Wow, what a nice collection of sweets…they all look so yummie!
Those waffles are on my radar! YUM
Fantastic post! I am drawn particularly to the strawberry cheesecake rolls. The use of graham cracker crumbs here is a very interesting technique. I’ve never seen that done with this type of recipe, but I am curious to try it. These look lusciously good.
oh my..love all the sweets!
Wow, everything looks so good! (especially the strawberry cheesecake sweet rolls!) <3
You ladies are so impressive. Love, love, love it all.
oooomg!! they all look incredible! I wish my husband was a sweets guy…I’d be making them all for me…err…for him on fathers day!
Any one of these would be welcome at our dinner table on Father’s Day or any other day! I could eat a dozen of those cheesecake rolls!
Oh my goodness, these are all going on my to-bake list. What a fabulous post!
OMG Carol those rolls look like they were made in a bakery! They look so special!
Those chocolate waffles are calling me. Love the mountain of whipped cream, grins. Good for breakfast and for dessert!
How did you know I LOVE blueberries. Ooooh, I swoon!
great site design and even better recepies

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America's Got Talent 2023 recently aired its grand final episode, revealing the highly anticipated results. The competition, known for showcasing extraordinary talents, came to an intense culmination with a winner being crowned. This article aims to summarize the content of the article titled "America's Got Talent 2023 GRAND FINAL - Results!" within 400 words, while maintaining the main idea.
The thrilling climax of America's Got Talent 2023 left viewers on the edge of their seats as the finalists vied for the ultimate title. The grand final, which aired recently, showcased an array of impressive performances ranging from singing and dancing to magic and acrobatics. This season of America's Got Talent has been praised for its diverse range of contestants, each bringing their unique skills and abilities to the stage.
The judges, including Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, and Sofia Vergara, had the challenging task of evaluating the performances and deciding on the winner. A variety of talents were displayed, captivating the audience and leaving them in awe. Each finalist gave their all to secure the grand prize and claim the title of America's most talented act.
After weeks of intense competition, it was finally time to announce the results. The tension in the room was palpable, as the contestants anxiously awaited their fate. The presenter took the stage, building anticipation, before revealing the top three acts. The talented individuals who made it to the final stretch were a singer, a magician, and a dance troupe.
The singer, known for their powerful vocals and emotional performances, had won the hearts of the audience with their soul-stirring renditions throughout the season. The magician, with their mind-boggling tricks and illusions, had consistently amazed both the judges and viewers. Lastly, the dance troupe had wowed everyone with their breathtaking choreography and synchronized movements.
As the tension escalated, the presenter dramatically announced the third-place act, leaving them with a sense of accomplishment and recognition for their exceptional talent. The remaining two acts awaited the final verdict, knowing that the title of America's Got Talent 2023 winner was about to be revealed.
With bated breath, the presenter finally announced the winner. The audience erupted in cheers and applause as the name of the victor was unveiled. The talented act, which had managed to captivate the judges and viewers with their exceptional talent since their initial audition, celebrated their well-deserved victory.
America's Got Talent 2023 grand final showcased the immense talent possessed by individuals from different backgrounds and disciplines. The competition provided a platform for these talented performers to shine and gain recognition on a national scale. The result of this grand final is a testament to their dedication, hard work, and extraordinary abilities, proving that America truly has a diverse and remarkable pool of talent.
In conclusion, America's Got Talent 2023 grand final delivered the much-awaited results, crowning a deserving winner. The competition has once again highlighted the incredible talents that exist within the United States, leaving viewers inspired and amazed.


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Wayne Brady is dating TLC's Chilli, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.The relationship is fairly new, but the couple has already shown their affection for each other in public.Chilli split from Usher in 2004 after three years together.report claims the singer is dating Wayne Brady, with a source telling the mag that the twosome was spotted holding hands while the funnyman supported the TLC star during a recent concert at the MGM in Las Vegas on Friday, Jan. Chilli and Wayne are friends but there is nothing else going on besides friendship."Brady also denied the reports via Twitter writing, "So, just clear it up @officialchilli are not dating. Don't believe everything u read:)"While there's no romance brewing between the twosome, Chilli happily admitted she has another man on her mind—33-year-old Chris Pine, whom she shamelessly admitted to swooning over."As a matter of fact, Chilli happens to be a 'Pine Nut' so if you all want to play matchmaker Chris Pine is definitely what Chilli wants," the singer's rep told E!They make a really great couple." As it turns out, the pair have given love a shot before.Brady, 41, and Chilli, 42, dated briefly a year ago but put things on hold after only a few weeks due to their busy schedules.Besides, his professional life, he is also known in the media for multiple marriages and relationship. According to Wayne, it is Mandie who helped him get out of the depression. She is not only an actor or singer but also a yoga instructor, a physical therapist, and a bodybuilder.Wayne met Mandie during a musical revue based in Oahu, Hawaii in At some point in his life, people even suspected him being gay.
Wayne Brady is romancing TLC’s Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas – and it’s not the first time the pair has hooked up according to a source. He is best known for “ The actor through his skills and talent has already established himself as one of the renowned American celebrities in the world. Well, the answer is that he is not only an actor and singer but also a comedian and a very famous television personality.However, there is no strong information about this except once he said that he supports gay marriage.Maybe, this was one of the reasons behind people assuming him to be gay.
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Report on IT Audit |Asia Pacific International College
IT auditing is an evident process of auditing that is used to evaluate IT systems and applications used by a firm as a tool to operate their services. In the current study the evaluation of audit reports on various IT applications used by various business entities will be performed. The responsibilities of IT audit professionals will also be analyzed to show their importance within managing the IT system of a business.
Identify the audit focus and scope of the given audit
No matter which business one is doing IT is one of the most important features or characteristics of any business. Managing and having a dedicated and efficient IT team is very important for any business to survive in this ever changing world. The audit report has focused on the evaluation of different IT that are used by business entities in order to operate their business activities.
IT delivers and manages information for the business and is of paramount importance for the successful running of the business. There is no doubt that IT delivers considerable benefits but at the same time it has some backdrop as well. With the increasing adoption of IT business today rely on software systems and applications more than ever. Many of the IT systems often generate and process data that is useful in making financial statements of the company. The auditor also rely on the data and the reports generated by the IT systems but it is critical to understand the IT related issues and also the auditors are unsure about the integrity and and reliability of financial transaction and data flowing through company’s systems.
Therefore the focus of the audit of the IT is to ensure about the integrity, reliability and relevance of the data. But apart from some loopholes there are various advantages as well. The usage of IT in audit has many benefits as well.
It helps companies in making fast calculations and makes sure that some repetitive works are being automated to reduce the work time (Böhm, Bollen and Hassink, 2016).
As already mentioned operations are prone to risk of user access management if inappropriately accessed and misused can be dangerous and can have catastrophic effect. The focus of the audit is to find the loopholes or to identify the loopholes. The next step after identifying the loopholes are to report or monitor the risk and then rectify it. Nowadays in many business there is a special department of cyber security management as well. Therefore it is really very necessary to look and keep a check on the governance of the IT systems and with the help of professional keep the business less prone to risk.
We must evaluate and scrutinize properly about the advantages and disadvantages of IT used in audit.
High risk IT issues
As per the report there were 575 high risk issues reported in 2019 compared to 448 high risk issues during the year 2018. To break it down even further the audit risk has been segregated into 3 categories low, moderate and high risks. There were 45 low risk issues in 2018 which was 10% of the total risk issues identified but in 2019 we saw 74 low risk issues identified which stands to 12.8% of the total risk, therefore from this we can conclude that we have seen a rise in low risk issues which is a positive as risk can never be zero.
Now if we take into consideration the high risk issues there were 39 high risk issues which comes around 8.7% of the total risks identified in 2018, but there were 29 high risk issues in 2019. The positive part about this is that not only the number decreased by 10 but also the percentage of high risk issues in the audit has also decreased by 3%.
The biggest chunk of risk issues are considered to be moderate. In 2018 the moderate risk was round about 82% which is same in 2019 as well. But the main concern is the surge in the moderate and low risk issues which can be dangerous for the company.
There were many reasons for the high risk issues and they are to be addressed as early as possible. One of the most alarming risk factors are the lack of IT policies and procedures. The lack of IT policies and procedures has led to user access management issues. There has been deficiencies in the governance and management as well. There should be concern about the key financial systems as well which are of paramount importance to the business. The key managerial personnel should take up the responsibility of managing the risk of IT. The company should focus on segregation of duties. Segregation of duties mitigates the ambiguity of the issues. Each and every step should be done by a different person. This is helpful as it reduces or mitigates the risk of unfair decisions and reduces ambiguity as well. If one person tries to hide the facts it will be caught in the next step and thus detecting the errors in an early stage and trying to mitigate the deficiencies of the duties performed. The IT systems should be protected by a strong password as it will mollify the chances of hacking the system. The user access management should be done properly as everyone should not be provided with the full information which may lead catastrophic effect of data phishing. The system should be strong enough to detect the missing files and report to the management of the department as early as possible. The user access should be privileged and restricted and should be monitored to identify suspicious and unauthorized activity.
Therefore the company should try and rectify the problems as early as possible and should try and resolve the underlying issues for the high audit risk and make the internal control of the IT as strong as possible to nullify any discrepancies.
Audit findings related to IT governance
IT governance provides a structured way to effectively manage the IT systems and identify and rectify any discrepancies at the earliest. It should be aligned to the objectives of the company and should be associated to the management of the company or the persons responsible for the governance of the system. As mentioned earlier it is important to formalize the steps performed in an IT . It should also be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure and identify the emerging risk and rectify, mitigate or nullify the discrepancies as early as possible. The policies and procedures maintained in the system should be consistent to mitigate the ambiguity of an important information. Inconsistent and inappropriate steps should be reviewed properly and should be rectified at its early stages. Segregation of duties is also one of the important aspect to reduce the power of any prominent board members. It increases transparency and the decisions taken are not influenced by a single person.
Analyzing the current audit report 71% of the councils don’t have IT policies over one or more than one areas. There are various areas where IT policies should be kept mandatory. IT security is one of the prominent areas. This can be kept in check by giving limited access to every individual and should be protected by strong passwords which should be updated on a regular basis. IT change management is also one of the most important areas and they have been reluctant and complacent in this area as well. Change management in IT is one of the important functions. The objective of change management is to ensure standardized methods and procedures are used to perform the work effectively and efficiently. Another problem is that of IT incident and problem management. This refers to managing and incident or fixing any loopholes in the system to restore the system as soon as possible. While managing a problem refers to finding the underlying root causes so that incidents doesn’t get repeated. Problem management deals with solving the underlying causes of one or more incidents.
We should always expect the unexpected situations. Natural disaster is one of them which can have a catastrophic effect on any business and thus it is important for any business to have a disaster recovery management where they can restore the data as soon as it is lost and make the system work as early as possible. As per the report there were 73% councils who didn’t have IT policies over one or more of the following issues which has been reduced to 71% which is very negligible compared to the importance of the matter.
It has also been said that 25% of the available IT policies are not being reviewed in line with the councils scheduled review date to ensure that they are up to date. This was 21% of the available IT policies in 2018. This shows that the complacency and negligence of the council.
The risk can be mitigated to a great risk if the councils identify the risk and communicate it to the concerned people who are charged with the governance so that they are aware of the risk and are able to respond appropriately and take actions at the earliest. Therefore every council’s members should have IT risk registers. As per the report 50% of the councils were not having IT risk registers in 2018 this has been reduced to 41% in 2019 which is obviously a positive sign but these needs to be improved further. There is a further segregation which has been recorded of the persons who have communicated regularly the IT risks. Therefore the report shows that out of the 50% who have IT risk register only 34% reports and regularly communicates IT risks to the management or those charged with governance whereas this has been worse in 2019. Out of the 59% who has IT risk register only 22% persons communicate it risks to the management and those charged with governance. For proper functions and detecting the risk at an early stage this needs to be improved.
Audit findings related to IT general controls
IT general controls are controls that can be applied to all systems, components and processes and data for any given organization or IT environment. It can also be considered as the procedures and activities designed to ensure confidentiality and integrity of systems and data. These controls underpin the integrity of financial reporting. IT general control is also included for review in financial audits and relates to key financial systems supporting the preparation of council’s financial statements. This also addresses certain problems like user access management. It signifies the importance of IT which is essential to how councils deliver services. While IT can deliver services, the evolving of technology and the growing decency on IT also exposes companies to certain risks which can be described as unauthorized access and misuse of the system (Zamanifar and Hartmann, 2020). Therefore these problems can be mitigated by certain steps like appropriate approvals for new access and inculcating some policy measures and changes of access on the IT system on a more frequent manner or in a regular manner. The timely removal of access to IT systems can also improve the security of the IT systems. One of the most important aspect and renowned step is keeping a strong password which would mitigate and avoid user access or unauthorized access. It also mitigates the degree of compromise in the IT system. The user should be kept in check and should be reviewed periodically so that if any discrepancies arise or any doubt arise the problem can be saved then and there itself. The system should keep restriction of privileged access to appropriate staff or the staff concerned for that particular job. The implementation of restricted or privileged access will not help they should be monitored regularly or on periodic basis.
As per the audit report there are 40% councils without adequate controls for adding new members, the number was 47 % last year and thus the performance of this segment has been improved. There were 43% councils without adequate user access removal controls which has been reduced by 10% and now the number stands at 33%. There are 43 % of councils without sufficient password controls which remains unchanged this year as well. 48% of the councils do not restrict privilege user access which now stands at 38%. Councils who don’t monitor privilege user account activities remains unchanged. The new focus area which has been implemented in the audit report is of councils who do not conduct periodic user access reviews which stands at 64%.
IT general controls also focusses on program change management and this can also be vulnerable and thus should be monitored. There should be a focus on changes in infrastructure components which needs to be authorized prior the implementation.
As previously been discussed segregation of duties is very important. As per the report 36% of the councils do not have segregation of duties the developer and the implementor of the change which stands unchanged comparing the 2018 figure. The % of councils implementing changes to systems without appropriate approval has seen a 10% surge from 23% to 33%.
Disaster recovery planning is also one the important aspect of generalcontrols. This helps to mitigate the disruption to operations in the event of a major systems outage or other disaster (Hamdi and Junidar, 2018). 31% of the councils do not have formalized and approval DRP. 28% have not been reviewed and 55% of councils with formal DRP have not been tested. Therefore there are many changes that need to be incorporated within the system.
Audit findings related to cyber security management
Cyber security refers to the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, devices and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access (Enaw and Check, 2018). As NSW is embracing and moving forward to digital government strategycyber security has been of paramount importance. These systems protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information. Poor management of cyber security can lead to exposure of the councils and can have a catastrophic effect. There are broad ranges of risks that can arise such as financial loss, reputational damage and data breaches (Patrick, van Niekerk and Fields, 2018). There are many potential impacts that may arise like theft of corporate and financial information and intellectual property. The theft of money can have a financial loss. There can be destruction of data which can be harmful. Huge cost may be incurred on the cost of repairing the affected systems, networks and losses.
Legal action can also arise which will lead to financial loss in terms of legal fees. The audit has been performed very diligent and the risks has been segregated as well.
As per the report 80% of the councils don’t have any formal cyber security policy or framework. 78% of the councils don’t maintain a centralized register of cyber incident. 46% of the councils have not included risk of cyber-attack in their risk register which shows the lack of cognizance about cyber security.
Concluding in the light of above context it can be said that every IT system used by organization had some of the weakness and loopholes that has been identified and this can be mitigated using proper strategies. We recommend to strengthen the governance and security of the IT systems and have a dedicated and efficient cyber security branch.
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Enaw, E.E. and Check, N., 2018, April. Information Systems Security Audits in Cameroon's Public Administration. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (pp. 312-317)
Hamdi, N. and Junidar, J., 2018. Disaster Recovery Planning by Using Cloud Computing Technology. JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2(1).
Patrick, H., van Niekerk, B. and Fields, Z., 2018. Information Security Management: A South African Public Sector Perspective. In Handbook of Research on Information and Cyber Security in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (pp. 382-405). IGI Global.
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Kings Head Hotel - Wimborne50.800198, -1.98844
According to guest reviews, the hotel has been rated as Hotels Recommended by Guests in United Kingdom
The 3-star King'S Head Hotel is situated a mere 10 km away from Poole Old Lifeboat Museum.
BMI The Harbour Hospital is about 9 km from the hotel. A 15-minute drive will take guests to Wareham.
A theater and a cathedral are set within walking distance.
It will take a 20-minute drive to get to Bournemouth International airport.
The hotel comprises 27 non-smoking guestrooms. They also feature en suite bathrooms fitted with a bathtub and a shower.
Eat & Drink
The simple restaurant offers delicious meals.
Guests can benefit from free self parking, a luggage storage and a lift.
Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel for free.
Public parking is possible on site for free.
Year renovated: 2012. Number of rooms: 27.
On-site car park
Bar/ Lounge area
Coffee/Tea in lobby
- Tours/Ticket assistance
- Wake up service
- Bar/ Lounge area
- Coffee/Tea in lobby
- Catering service
- Meeting room
Spa & Leisure
- Barbeque grills
- City view
- Air conditioning
- Tea and coffee facilities
- Ironing facilities
- Direct dial telephone
- AM/FM alarm clock
Rooms and availability
2 Single beds2 Single beds, 1 Double bed
In the Room
1 Double bed and 1 Single bed
1 Double bed
A clean and comfortable stay at the King's Head Hotel. Staff were friendly and the cooked breakfasts very good. Situated in the centre of Wimborne Minster with a variety of restaurants and pubs to choose from.
The windows are old and rattled during some windy nights which, unfortunately, disturbed our sleep.
Good friendly hotel, decent menu served by cheerful staff. Room comfortable.
Staircarpets need renewal
Nice old hotel/pub with parking and right on the town square. Very pleasant staff, good food/ales/wines and sensibly priced.We liked it so much we have already booked to return later this year !
Some of the old window frames need a little tlc ! otherwise all facilities are fine.
Comfortable rooms, good food and friendly staff. As we had to leave hotel before breakfast was available, we were offered a partial refund to compensate. Overall, good value for money compared to similar hotels in Bournemouth, a great alternative if everything else is fully booked!
Staff were friendly and welcoming, good atmosphere in pub, good food in restaurant.
Stairs and corridors to rooms are a bit tired and could do with a facelift.
Good town centre location with good access to surrounding area. Hotel room was fair size and food in restaurant was excellent for the price.
big fluffly towels, bath,evening menu, breakfast
being woken up by traffic noise at 5 30.duvet to heavey for summer, had to sleep without it on the bed
It was good value for money and well located. Set in a very pretty little town. Staff was friendly and the room was a very good size for the price, as well as being comfortable and clean.
Only thing that bothered us were the church bells every so often in the middle of the night!
I booked this hotel as I was visiting family nearby. Excellent location if you don't have a car - bus/taxi just outside in the Square. Very good restaurant - met my family in the evening for dinner. Breakfast very good. Staff cheerful, helpful and atmosphere very good. Other guests seemed to be enjoying their stay - did not hear one bad comment! Room very clean and comfortable. Although based in the Square and bustling with people and traffic there was no noise at night. Shops/attractions are lovely. Wimborne is a very attractive town - everywhere I visited people were friendly.
I booked 2 nights mid-week and thought it was a little expensive. I had a limited view from my bedroom window and there was a family of pigeons nesting in the guttering - I didn't need an early morning alarm call! The room was also very warm even though it was cool outside - kept the window open all the time. Only two electric sockets in the room and this is not enough! One was used for the Television and if you need to charge your phone/laptop, use hairdryer and kettle you have to juggle what you want to use!
The breakfast was excellent - in fact the best we had during our 3 weeks in the uk. However, the kippers were processed supermarket ones and not up to the standard of the other options.
Comfortable bed, spacious room new bathroom polite, friendly, helpful staff on site parking food was excellent
general decor poor in hotel although could see some recent work has been done- had large patches of damp on walls in our room,
The staff were very friendly and helpful. Meals and drinks were excellent quality and at a good price
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Staff very friendly, good value, good location
Found staff evry friendly and the Hotel was clean and comfortable. Location was convenient to relatives we wished to visit..
Staff very helpful and friendly, good location for my visit.
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- Friday, November 4: Philadelphia, PA: Tower Theater
- Monday, November 7: New York, NY: Madison Square Garden
- Friday, November 11: San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham Civic Center
- Monday, November 14: Los Angeles, CA: The Forum
- Sunday, November 20: Seattle, WA: Paramount Theatre
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Temple of the Dog's show dates kick off at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia on November 4th and wrap up with a hometown show at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on November 20th.