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Home broadband adoption increased from 47% from March 2007 to 55% in April 2008.
Some 55% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, up from 47% who had high-speed access at home last year at this time. From the March 2006 to March 2007 timeframe, home broadband adoption grew from 42% of Americans to 47%.
The rate from March 2007 to April 2008 was 17%; this compares to the 12% growth rate from March 2006 to March 2007. It is also worth noting that the April 2008 number for broadband adoption at home is little changed from the 54% figure from the Pew Internet Project’s December 2007 survey. With growth in broadband at home, now just 10% of Americans have dial-up internet connections at home.
Growth in broadband adoption was flat among the poor and African Americans.
- 25% of low-income Americans – those whose household incomes are $20,000 annually or less – reported having broadband at home in April 2008. This compares to the 28% figure reported in March 2007 among those living in households whose annual incomes are $20,000 or less.
- African Americans showed slow growth as well, with 43% saying they had broadband at home in April 2008 versus 40% who said this in March 2007.
Broadband growth was strong among older and lower-middle income Americans, as well as rural Americans.
- Among older Americans – those age 50 and over – the growth rate in home broadband adoption from 2007 to 2008 was 26%. Half of Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 have broadband at home. Some 19% of those 65 and older had home broadband access as of April 2008.
- Americans with household incomes between $20,000 and $40,000 annually saw broadband penetration grow by 24% from 2007 to 2008. Some 45% of those in that income range reported having broadband at home in April 2008.
- 38% of those living in rural American now have broadband at home, compared with 31% who said this in 2007, or a growth rate of 23% from 2007 to 2008. By comparison, 57% of urban residents have high-speed connections at home now and 60% of suburban residents have such connections.
Nearly one-third of home broadband users have a premium broadband service that gives them a faster connection to the internet.
When asked whether they subscribe to a premium service that gives them a faster broadband connection or have basic service, here is what home broadband users say:
- 54% of home high-speed users have basic broadband service.
- 29% of say they have a premium service that offers faster speed.
- 16% responded that they do not know.
Monthly broadband bills are 4% lower in May 2008 than at the end of 2005, but monthly dial-up bills have risen.
- Broadband users reported an average monthly bill of $34.50 in April 2008, down from $36 in December 2005.
- The 4% decline is half the decline reported over the February 2004 to December 2005 time interval.
- Dial-up users reported monthly bills of $19.70, up 9% from the $18 figure from December 2005.
- The reported average cost of digital subscriber line (DSL) service ($31.50) continues to be less than cable modem service ($37.50). However, the $6 difference in April 2008 is smaller than the $9 difference in December 2005.
Non-broadband users cite a number of reasons for not using the service – including availability, price, and lack of interest.
- 62% of dial-up users say they are not interested in giving up their current connection for broadband.
When asked specifically what it would take them to get them to switch to broadband:
- 35% of dial-up users say that the price of broadband service would have to fall.
- 19% of dial-up users said nothing would convince them to get broadband.
- 10% of dial-up users – and 15% of dial-up users in rural America – say that broadband service would have to become available where they.
Attitudes about the relevance of information technology also shape the broadband decision for dial-up users, separate and apart from issues such as the price of service. Dial-up users are about half as likely as broadband users to say that information technology helps their personal productivity.
- When asked if they think electronic devices make them more productive, 35% of broadband users strongly agreed that it did compared with 19% of dial-up users.
Non-internet users represent a large pool of potential broadband users, but many are just not interested in getting online.
Roughly one-quarter (27%) of adult Americans are not internet users, and they tend to be older (the median age is 61) and have lower-incomes than online users (non-internet users are more than twice as likely as users to live in low-income households). Some 18% of non-internet users have used the internet in the past, but just 10% of non-internet users say they would be interested in joining the ranks of online users.
When asked why they don’t use the internet:
- 33% of non-users say they are not interested.
- 12% say they don’t have access.
- 9% say it is too difficult or frustrating.
- 7% say it is too expensive.
- 7% say it is a waste of time.
One-third (34%) of all internet users have connected to the internet using a WiFi connection at someplace other than home or work.
Some 34% of internet users have gone online via a wireless connection away from their home or office. This group of “on the go” WiFi users overwhelmingly have broadband at home; some 95% of those who have gone online this way have a high-speed internet connection at home.
Among internet users who have gone online “on the go” from some place other than home or work:
- 58% say they use WiFi at public places such as airports, coffee shops, or restaurants.
- 64% say they generally use free WiFi connections when they connect on the go,
- 32% say their on the go Wifi access is a mix of paid and free access.
- 4% mostly use paid services.
As broadband access becomes differentiated – by either premium service or WiFi access on the go – so does user behavior.
The 34% of online users who have taken advantage of “on the go” access and the 29% broadband subscribers who subscribe to faster premium services are more active online than typical broadband users. When looking across a range of 14 different online activities:
- Premium broadband users do an average 19% more online tasks on the typical day than the average broadband user.
- “On the go” internet users do an average of 26% more online tasks on a typical day than the average broadband user.
It is not too surprising that additional on-ramps to the internet are associated with heavier use. Nonetheless, particularly with respect to “on the go,” the results show that a WiFi-enabled laptop has added “always connected” wireless access to the “always on” broadband connection.

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Shares of Big Yellow Group plc (LON:BYG) have earned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the seven ratings firms that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 878 ($12.31).
Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on BYG shares. Peel Hunt lifted their price target on shares of Big Yellow Group from GBX 700 ($9.81) to GBX 750 ($10.52) and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 21st. Liberum Capital reissued a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 800 ($11.22) target price on shares of Big Yellow Group in a research report on Tuesday, November 21st. Jefferies Group reissued a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 795 ($11.15) target price on shares of Big Yellow Group in a research report on Wednesday, November 22nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a GBX 880 ($12.34) target price on shares of Big Yellow Group in a research report on Wednesday, November 22nd. Finally, Numis Securities raised shares of Big Yellow Group to an “add” rating and set a GBX 885 ($12.41) target price for the company in a research report on Wednesday, November 22nd.
In other news, insider Nicholas Vetch sold 120,000 shares of Big Yellow Group stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 841 ($11.79), for a total value of £1,009,200 ($1,415,030.85).
Big Yellow Group (LON:BYG) traded down GBX 15 ($0.21) during trading on Friday, reaching GBX 832 ($11.67). 588,610 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 277,525. Big Yellow Group has a 12-month low of GBX 666 ($9.34) and a 12-month high of GBX 888.50 ($12.46). The stock has a market cap of $1,320.00 and a P/E ratio of 1,094.74.
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The Indian Navy has acquired the laudable distinction of converting itself from a ‘buyer’s Navy’ into a ‘builder’s Navy’ by dint of steady accretion of design capabilities in warship building since the establishment of the Directorate of Naval Constructions in 1954.
Today all 46 of a wide mix of different-sized warships from aircraft carrier to submarines to fast attack vessels, are being constructed in Indian shipyards.
Its success lies in the culture of commitment to incremental growth that has been nurtured by far-sighted naval constructors.
Hopefully in the decades to come the Naval Design Organisation will be able to provide the leadership in creating what is emerging as fast-intervention platforms that are stealthy, swift and potently armed.
Evidence of its intrinsic orientation became available when it decided to shift systematically from licensed production of the British-designed Leander class frigate to an indigenous program of a ‘stretched Leander’, the Godavari class, wherein even while adding a thousand tonnes in deadweight to the in length and width it was able to achieve a marginally higher speed with the same set of engines. That is innovation.
In fact, such was the zeal of this organization that in the order for six ships of the Leander class the first four followed the blueprint supplied by the British original equipment manufacturer.
But India made significant changes in the design in the last two to incorporate among other things a Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse (RAST) system to ensure safe recovery of an airborne helicopter in choppy seas and heaving deck.
Even as the Leander design was stretched a hangar capable of accommodating two large Sea King helicopters became the hallmark of the succeeding Godavari class of vessels.
It is a commentary on the state of affairs in the Navy that at the moment there are not enough helicopters to be deployed in each ship that has a hangar and operational deployment and ‘show the flag’ exercises require a lot of juggling of the helicopter fleet.
With 46 vessels on the assembly lines of four Defence Public Sector Undertaking shipyards -Mazagon Dockyard Ltd (the oldest in the country)-Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Cochin Shipyard Ltd and Hindustan Shipyard Ltd- it is clear that capacity utilization is at its maximum.
Yet, new ships will, perforce, have to be farmed out to private shipbuilders thereby adding to the general competence building that will take shipbuilding in India to a higher level both in terms of cost-benefit and assimilation/creation of more advanced technology.
The 46 ship order book acquires a specific dimension when taken in the context of plans to raise the Order of Battle of the Indian Navy to 100 fighting vessels by 2020.
There will have to be concerted effort both in the public sector as well as in the private sector shipyards to not just become involved in transfer of technology (ToT)-which is just another form of the trap called licensed production out of which only the Navy Design Organisation has showed the gumption to take India out of its clutches-but an enhancement in research and development and design capability.
In the Naval arena India lost a great deal of expertise by failing to build on the designs and blueprints supplied by the German HDW shipyard for its diesel-electric submarines because of the scandal in kickbacks and sharing of design with South Africa by the German firm.
This disability affected the Scorpene project with France where assimilation was a major drawback and the production was delayed by more than four years.
The first of the six Scorpenes is expected to be commissioned in September 2016 thereby beginning the process of closing a vital chink in India’s maritime defence.
India will also commission the nuclear powered and armed Arihant submarine in early 2016 thereby putting in place, along with the Russian Nerpa class nuclear submarine, the Chakra, a credible nuclear deterrent.
The second of the Arihant class of nuclear submarines-the Aridhaman-is being readied for launch by the end of 2016 and will be in service within two years.
To some extent the dearth of operational submarine fleet will have been covered up.
But the nuclear submarine fleet has to grow and the direction that it should take would be to be able to carrying a larger number of even longer-ranged underwater-launched ballistic missiles with multi-independent re-entry vehicles (MIRV) warheads.
Plans to take a second nuclear submarine on lease from Russia have not as yet fructified. The deal is expected to be signed soon.
The first indigenous aircraft carrier under construction in Cochin Shipyard dry dock the INS Vikrant has been launched and is being fitted out. Sea trials will begin in 2017.
The Indian Navy, which already has the Russian Krivak III in service in the Talwar class of guided missile frigates built under a joint venture has ordered six more of the improved Krivak III from Russia.
Five of these are expected to be built at the Anil Ambani-owned Pipavav Shipyard in Gujarat as part of the Make-in-India scheme indicating a major private sector entry into the Defence sector.
However, this also indicates the extent of continuing dependence on foreign sources for maritime security equipment.
The Naval Design Organisation along with identified private sector players will have to lead the way to new innovative uses of the marine environment for war fighting.
High on the list of future requirements in naval vessels is the need for high-speed platforms packed with multi-role weapons packages for anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and asymmetric warfare use.
This means the whole spectrum of conflict management from anti-piracy, contraband transfers, marine terrorism, conventional warfare and deterrence in the nuclear background.
Indian designers will have to match the speed with which the Indian Navy will be able to reach threats on the edge of the Indian Ocean littoral from a standing start from either Mumbai, or Karwar or Cochin or Goa with the onboard firepower and intrinsic armored protection.
Given the presence of the hypersonic Chinese Dong Feng-21D aircraft carrier killers it is relevant to know how fast an evasive manoeuvre can be executed and what kind of compromises will need to be incorporated in the hull design.
How best to facilitate such interventions by either forward basing or pre-positioning with a minimum of support ships or whether it would be more fruitful, at least in the short term.
Before the new hull designs are proved and existing platforms upgraded, to forward-base the platforms and ensuring rapid and measured support for fuel, food, munitions and other replenishments on new kinds of hulls and propulsion systems.
It will also be of advantage to re-examine the potential of one of India’s major contributions to seafaring-the Tamilian catamaran or the double hulled or outrigger craft.
Shallow of draft and lending themselves to a wider, more stable, beam the catamaran design potential may not as yet have been fully exploited and therefore worth re-examining.
There is also the tri-maran or the triple-hulled vessel. Powered catamarans are known to have achieved a speed of 93 kmph.
And then there is the hydrofoil technology where the requirement to prevent bending of the hydrofoils at high speeds will have to be tackled. It is a challenge that will have to be confronted for the sake of national security in the future.


Answer the following questions
1 The new law set by the Philippine government on domestic helpers working abroad says that:
a. All first-time domestic helpers need to pay a US$144 insurance fee to the Philippine government.
b. Employment agencies should pay the insurance fee for all domestic helpers starting from this year.
c. All first-time domestic helpers should pay their medical coverage of HK$1,350 in order to work in Hong Kong.
d. Employment agencies or employers of first-time domestic helpers should pay for the new insurance fee.
2 Many employment agencies in the Philippines charge domestic helpers despite the fact that it is illegal because:
a. They lack resources to run their businesses.
b. They are not afraid of their government.
c. They know domestic helpers want the job badly and would not refuse to pay.
d. They are ignorant about the law.
3 Holly Allan suggested that domestic helpers who paid the insurance or placement fees by themselves should:
a. take it to the court of Hong Kong.
b. take it to the courts back home.
c. keep it to themselves if they want to continue working in Hong Kong.
d. keep the receipts and seek reimbursement from their government.
4 Michael Vidler and some human rights lawyers think that:
a. Any lawful person should be granted the right of abode after living in Hong Kong for seven years continuously.
b. Concerns about a sudden rise of abode cases as a consequence of Vallejo's case are invalid and ridiculous.
c. Because of their difference in nationality, non-Chinese people should not be allowed permanent residence in Hong Kong.
d. Domestic helpers should be proficient in the Chinese language in order to be qualified for residency here.
1 Do you think domestic helpers should be granted the right of abode after living here continuously for seven years? Why?
2 What would be the advantages and disadvantages of allowing domestic helpers to become permanent residents?
3 Do you think Hong Kong people discriminate against domestic helpers? In what ways? Do you see them as part of society?
1 To ___________________ people ______________________ attending the Nobel Prize ceremony for winner Liu Xiaobo, the central government prevented his wife and some human rights lawyers from leaving the country.
2 _________________ ________ the needs of poor children in Hong Kong, volunteers donate unused books, toys and other materials to charity organisations every year.
3 Some social workers think that adults often forget the rights of children and ____________________________ their views when making important decisions that concern them.
Reading comprehension: 1. d, 2. c, 3. d, 4. a
Vocabulary: 1. deter ... from, 2. Catering to, 3. exclude


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Mexico Remote Control Products-Hobby Market Analysis 2020-2030
Remote control products are electronic devices that are controlled with another small device, known as the remote, that transmits the signal. Popular types of remote-control products-hobby are car, plane, truck, helicopter, drone, and bike among others. The Mexico remote control products-hobby market is anticipated to grow with a CAGR of 2.16% over the forecast period, i.e., 2021 – 2030. Factors such as the growing advancements in radio control toys, followed by the increasing millennial population in Mexico, and the surge in awareness for these toys amongst these age group, are anticipated to drive the market growth. Moreover, factors such as the increasing development of local race tracks which is allowing users of hobby-grade radio control (RC) products to participate in different hobby-based competitions and community games, and the launch of several new RC toys by RC toy manufacturers are also expected to boost the growth of the market in the coming years. The market is estimated to garner a revenue of close to USD 140 Million by the end of 2030, up from a revenue of around USD 110 Million in the year 2020.
The Mexico remote control products-hobby market is segmented by numerous segments, which include segmentation by product, age group, power type, and by distribution channel. On the basis of product, the market is segmented into RC car, RC plane, RC truck, RC helicopter, RC drone, RC bike. The RC car segment, amongst all the other segments, is anticipated to hold the largest revenue of about USD 50 Million by the end of 2030, up from a revenue of over USD 40 Million in the year 2020.
The market is also segmented by age group into below 18 years, 18-34 years, 35-54 years, and above 54 years. By the end of 2030, the 18-34 years segment is expected to attain the largest revenue of near to USD 65 Million. Additionally, the segment is also expected to grow with the highest CAGR of close to 2% during the forecast period.
Some of the prominent industry leaders in the Mexico remote control products-hobby market that are included in our report are Redcat Racing, Kyosho America, Traxxas, Silverlit Toys Manufactory Ltd., Tamiya USA, Artsana S.p.A., DJI, HPI Racing A/S, Horizon Hobby, LLC, and others.

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Marriage series #7: Intimacy Found
God has answered our heart’s cry for love and intimacy by providing His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be our Saviour from sin. Salvation opens the door to true intimacy with God and with His family. The Bible describes salvation as coming to the knowledge of the truth. I Timothy 2:4. It is more than objective, impersonal theological knowledge. It is a personal, intimate knowledge of God.
Jesus said in John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.” Paul expressed his desire for a growing intimate knowledge of God in Philippians 3:10 “That I might know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death.” This knowledge increases as we learn to walk with God. Colossians1:10″That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing; being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”
You can enjoy intimacy with Christ.
Just before Jesus went to the cross to die for our sins, He met in the upper room with His disciples. The conversation is recorded in John 14-17. Here Jesus explained that after His return to Heaven He was going to send His Holy Spirit who would actually live in the believer. This is what enables us to have a deeper, more intimate relationship with Christ than the disciples ever experienced when He walked with them on earth.
Because God is the author of sex and marriage and because He has given us His Holy Spirit, Christians can experience a depth of intimacy in marriage that unbelievers will never know.
What about Heaven? Will there by intimacy in Heaven?
Absolutely! The intimacy will be beyond anything we can experience on this earth. Jesus said in Matthew 22:23-30 that there will be no marriage in Heaven. Will we be male and female? I believe so. Jesus met with His disciples in His resurrected body and He appeared to them as a man. He had flesh and bones, but no blood. Luke 24:39 and John20:27In His glorified body He could pass through closed doors. John20:26 The Bible tells us in Philippians3:20-21 that our glorified bodies will be just like His.
In Heaven there will be no temptation, no sin, no failure, no heartache no sickness, no death. All of that, as well as Satan himself, will be banished from Heaven forever. Revelation 21:4
In our glorified, sinless bodies we will all enjoy a perfect, pure love and intimacy that is beyond our imagination. “For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known.” I Corinthians13:12 Imagine; perfect, pure intimacy with one another forever! May you experience the intimacy of walking with God now and forever.
Intimacy with your Spouse
Unsaved couples can experience physical sexual relationships and even experience a degree of emotional closeness; but it does not begin to match the emotional oneness of a married Christian couple. For the married Christian couple living in fellowship with Christ, the sexual relationship is actually a worship experience itself as we give glory and praise to God during the experience itself.
I believe the intimacy of a Christian husband and wife is a type. a picture, a foretaste of the eternal perfection and joy that every Christian, male and female, will enjoy with Christ in perfection in Heaven forever.
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Winchester is a small suburban town located 8.2 miles north of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States in Middlesex County. It is the 7th wealthiest municipality in Massachusetts and functions largely as a bedroom community for professionals who work in the greater Boston area. The population was 21,374 at the 2010 United States Census.
Winchester Town Hall
Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
|• Type||Representative town meeting|
|• Total||6.3 sq mi (16.3 km2)|
|• Land||6.0 sq mi (15.6 km2)|
|• Water||0.3 sq mi (0.6 km2)|
|Elevation||62 ft (19 m)|
|• Density||3,522.8/sq mi (1,354.9/km2)|
|Time zone||UTC-5 (Eastern)|
|• Summer (DST)||UTC-4 (Eastern)|
|Area code(s)||339 / 781|
|GNIS feature ID||0618247|
The land on which Winchester now sits was purchased from Native Americans by representatives of the settlement of Charlestown in 1639, and the area was first settled by Europeans in 1640. In the early years of the settlement, the area was known informally as Waterfield, a reference to its many ponds and to the river which bisected the central village. In its second century, the area was referred to as Black Horse Village, after the busy tavern and hostelry in its center.
Until the middle of the 19th century, parts of Arlington, Medford, Cambridge, and Woburn comprised what is now Winchester. The movement toward incorporation of what, by this time, was called South Woburn was likely precipitated by the rise of the Whig Party in Massachusetts (History of Winchester, Massachusetts by H. S. Chapman and Bruce W. Stone, 1936, 1975).
The Whigs sought to split a new jurisdiction away from heavily Democratic Woburn and found enough supporters in the burgeoning village to organize a movement toward incorporation. Representatives of the planned new town selected the name Winchester in recognition of Colonel William P. Winchester of nearby Watertown, who pledged $3,000 toward the construction of the first town hall. Upon the signature of then Governor Briggs, the town of Winchester was officially incorporated on April 30, 1850. Colonel Winchester did not live to visit the town that had honored his family name. He succumbed to typhoid fever within months of its incorporation.
The town's early growth paralleled improvements in transportation. Prior to incorporation, the Middlesex Canal, linking the Merrimack River to Boston, was completed through then Waterfield. It flourished from 1803–36, until the Boston and Lowell Railroad completed a line which neatly bisected the town and provided it with two stations. Able to deliver passengers as well as goods, the railroad soon bankrupted the canal and spurred more people to move to the area. The first church was built in 1840, the Post Office followed in 1841, and soon after incorporation town schools were started. Industries small and large followed, including the Beggs and Cobb tannery and the Winn Watch Hand factory which would operate well into the 20th century.
By the time of the Civil War, to which Winchester lent many citizens, the need for a municipal water supply became apparent. Engineers convinced a skeptical public to fund a dam in the highlands to the east of town. The structure blocked the creek which flowed from the Middlesex Fells and produced the first of three reservoirs which continue to provide clear water today.
In the early 20th century, growth continued apace as Winchester evolved from its agri-industrial roots into the bedroom community it is today. A rich mix of immigrants (the Irish in the northern and eastern neighborhoods, a smattering of African-Americans who flocked to the New Hope Baptist Church in the highlands, and finally Italians who came to work in the westside farms and live in the "Plains" to the east) complemented Winchester's Yankee forebears. The constant in these times of change and up to the present day has been the public spirited efforts of all to continue to maintain the innate physical charm of the town.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.3 km²), of which 6.0 square miles (15.6 km²) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.6 km²) is water. The total area is 3.97% water.
The town is roughly bisected by a central valley which is the remnant of the original course of the Merrimack River. After glacial debris effectively rerouted the Merrimack north to its current location, all that remained of its original course through present day Winchester is the Aberjona River and the several ponds it feeds en route to the Mystic Lakes on Winchester's southern border.
On its eastern third, the valley rises steeply into the wooded hills of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, in which lie the North, Middle, and South Reservoirs. The western edge of the valley yields to Arlington and Lexington heights, and the boundaries with those two towns. To the north, the town's longest border is shared with Woburn.
Winchester has several major bodies of water, including the Mystic Lakes, Wedge Pond, Winter Pond, and the Aberjona River, as well as several minor bodies of water such as Sucker Brook and Sachem Swamp.
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Source: United States Census records and Population Estimates Program data.
As of the census of 2010, there were 21,382 people, 7,647 households, and 5,785 families residing in the town. The population density was 3,394.6 people per square mile (1,312.0/km²). There were 7,988 housing units at an average density of 1,267.9 per square mile (490.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 87.1% White, 9.3% Asian, 1.0% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.4% from other races, and 2.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.9% of the population.
There were 7,647 households, of which 40.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.7% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.3% were non-families. 21.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.26.
In the town, the population was spread out with 28.7% under the age of 18 and 16.2% over the age of 65. The median age was 42.7 years. The population was 52.3% female and 47.7% male.
According to a 2008 estimate, the median income for a household in the town was $125,952, and the median income for a family was $200,000+. Males had a median income of $100,000+ versus $70,847 for females. The per capita income for the town was $68,479. The median home value was $838,420, compared to a U.S. average of $180,000. About 1.3% of families and 2.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.0% of those under the age of 18 and 2.3% ages 65 or older.
Overall Winchester is safe with crime well below the U.S. average. The most common crime is property crime, with 62 burglaries reported in 2010. Violent crimes are very low, with five murders and five rapes reported in 10 years.
Winchester has five elementary schools (Ambrose, Lincoln, Lynch, Muraco, and Vinson-Owen) and one middle school, McCall Middle School. Considered one of Boston's elite public high schools, Winchester High School was founded in 1850, at the time was part of present-day Lincoln elementary. Winchester High was rebuilt in a different area in 1972, then renovated in 2016. Winchester public schools have achieved superior performances on the MCAS exams since their inception, and the district is consistently ranked by editorial reviews such as Boston Magazine as one of the best in Massachusetts. The Winchester High School sports teams are known as the "Sachems," which has been somewhat controversial in the town due to its reference to native people. For the 2018-2019 school year, Winchester public schools and Winchester Recreation has developed the WRAP-AROUND program. A program designed to provide supervision for students who are dropped at school a bit early or who need to stay at school later on some days and was created to assist families with the school start time change for next fall. Wrap-around care will be offered at all five elementary schools for students in grades K-5, both before and after school.  The Sachem teams practice and host home games at Knowlton Field. The Winchester Sports Foundation raises money through donations to maintain sports programs in the town and to give financial support, make sports programs accessible to all classes, meet costs of program expenses and preserve and promote the level of WHS sports programs.
Founded in the 1942, the Children's Own School is among the earlier surviving Montessori schools in the United States. The building it occupies, a former farmhouse, is considered locally historic. The school's founder, Ms. Dorothy Gove, was an acquaintance of Maria Montessori, giving her a firsthand opportunity to learn the Montessori concept of learning. Today the school operates as a private, non-religious, Montessori school for children of ages two to six, with classes of up to 20 children. Children's Own School is located at 86 Main Street in Winchester.
Winchester has two parent-led cooperative nursery schools: Neighborhood Cooperative Nursery School and Winchester Cooperative Nursery School. In addition, the Methodist church, Winchester Recreation Department, and Creative Corner all offer preschool classes.
St. Mary's School is a parochial school of St. Mary's Parish, which opened 134 years ago. The school opened in 1914 and has over 200 students in grades pre-K through 5. The school building also serves as the Sunday school for the parish during Sunday services. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Acera School is a small private school founded in 2010 in Melrose which moved to Winchester in 2013. It offers K-8 education in small multi-age classrooms, and focuses on high-ability children, STEM education and fostering creativity.
Winchester has two "Zone 1" stops on the MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line: Wedgemere and Winchester Center. The stops are within easy walking distance of one another. The Lowell Line runs from Lowell to Boston's North Station, where one can connect with the "T", Boston's subway system.
There are bus lines going through Winchester to nearby communities such as Medford, Arlington, and Cambridge. Bus route No. 134 runs between North Woburn and Wellington Station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Orange Line in Medford. Bus route No. 350 runs from the Burlington Mall to Alewife station in Cambridge on the MBTA's Red Line. A commuter express bus runs from Cummings Park in Woburn to Boston during rush hours. Nearby Anderson Regional Transportation Center off I-93 (Commerce Way exit) has Logan Express shuttle bus service to Boston's Logan Airport every 30 minutes, and a paid shuttle service to Manchester New Hampshire Airport (reservations required in advance).
Winchester's town government of Selectmen and Town Meeting members has remained essentially unchanged for most of its existence, until the renaming of the Board of Selectmen to the Select Board in 2018. Since the completion of the past Winchester High School in 1972, with population growth leveling off, town leaders have had more time and funds to devote to maintaining rather than molding Winchester's character. Winchester's flavor has little departed from the place that a 1970s survey listed as "one of the top fifteen suburbs" in the nation (Ladies Home Journal, August 1975).
In December 2010 Winchester was among 18 Massachusetts communities to earn the "Green Community" designation by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (bringing the total number of green communities in the state up to 53). In 2011 Winchester was selected as one of four communities to participate in the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Solarize MASS pilot program. The program provided incentives to home owners to install rooftop solar electric systems. During that year, 35 residents contracted to have solar systems installed, resulting in 165 kW of solar installations. The town's Energy Coordinator, Susan McPhee and the town's Energy Management Committee have received numerous Green Community Grants from the state, which have helped Winchester reduce energy consumption and save the town money. Most recently, in July 2014, Winchester received a $250,000 Green Communities Grant which helped to offset the cost of installing 1668 cobra-head LED street lights. It is estimated that the LED streetlight conversion will reduce the town's electricity costs by $50,000 each year.
Across the Main Street bypass from the high school sits the Jenks Community Center, which offers programs for seniors and other age groups. Wedge Pond, home to Borggaard Beach and Splash Park, is a popular swimming spot which is continually monitored to ensure safe water quality levels. The Kiwanis Club hosts its annual fishing derby on the pond, while the Rotary Club runs its auction nearby. Adjacent to the beach are the Packer Tennis Courts, comprising fifteen clay courts. The Winton Club, founded in 1911, raises funds in support of the Winchester Hospital.
Founded in 1900 as a canoe club, the Winchester Boat Club now serves locals wishing to sail casually or competitively on the Mystic Lakes. In the summer it is a popular meeting place for local families and their children. Likewise, the Winchester Swim and Tennis Club provides a large swimming pool, five hard tennis courts, and bocce courts to members. The Winchester Country Club offers an 18-hole course—open to members only—in the Myopia Hill neighborhood, which was named after the Myopia Club based there in the late 19th century. And every year, as for over a century, thousands of fans attend the annual Thanksgiving Day football contest between Winchester High School and its long-time traditional rival, Woburn.
In 1902, En Ka Society began as an all woman volunteer organization in Winchester. The Society raises funds and financially supports various local organizations around town. A long time tradition for the town of Winchester since 1935 is the En Ka fair, which arrives each spring. The fair and the En Ka Exchange, a shop which began in 1944, bring in a significant source of income for the Society and their doings.
Black Horse Tavern opened on August 9, 2010, in Winchester Center on the former site of the Black Horse Bootery, which was demolished in 1892. According to the Massachusetts Historical Society, the town’s original Black Horse Tavern was built in 1742 and served as an important meeting place during the American Revolution.
Instead of municipal trash pickup in the town, Winchester operates a refuse transfer station and recycling center off Swanton Street. Residents currently pay $225 per family annually for a permit to dispose of their trash at this location, colloquially referred to as "The Dump." A Smart Permit costs $50, in a recycling program where trash bags are purchased for unrecyclable materials.
There are private haulers in Winchester, for residents who wish to avoid bringing their trash and recyclables to the dump.
The site started as a primitive landfill in the 1940s and 1950s. "Going to the dump" was a Saturday ritual for many families that dated back to when it was a real 'dump' or landfill.
In the 1960s, a gas-fired incinerator was built on one side of the property. The remainder of the property was used for noncombustible waste such as appliances and metal. The incinerator was forced to shut down in the 1970s because of environmental concerns about the untreated smoke from the incinerator's furnace. With the closure of the incinerator, the site was converted to the transfer station that is there now.
Other town services include full-time police and fire departments, the Winchester Board of Health, the Town Clerk, the Post Office, Water and Sewer Department, and the Public Works Department.
Winchester also has a Chamber of Commerce located on the platform of the Winchester Center station of the MBTA Commuter Rail.
In the 2012 United States Senate election, Winchester voted 52% for Republican Scott Brown and 48% for Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
The Aberjona River is a 9.3-mile-long (15.0 km), heavily urbanized river in the northwestern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The name is from the Natick language and means "junction or confluence".The river rises in Reading, flows roughly south through Woburn and Winchester, and empties into the Mystic Lakes. It is generally small and heavily channelized, often running through underground culverts, but is quite apparent in Winchester center where it widens into Judkins Pond and the Mill Pond. The river's 25 square mile watershed covers most of Woburn and about half of Winchester, as well as portions of the surrounding communities of Lexington, Burlington, Wilmington, Reading, Wakefield, and Stoneham.
The Aberjona River was first identified by Europeans shortly after 1631, when Captain Edward Johnson explored the area. The name Aberjona appears in the earliest colonial records, but its origins are unknown. By 1865 there were 21 tanneries and currying shops in Woburn, and by the 1870s pollution from tanneries in Woburn and Winchester was affecting both the river and the Upper Mystic Lake (then a public water supply). The Massachusetts Legislature banned the discharge of wastes into Horn Pond Brook (a tributary) in 1907 and into the Aberjona in 1911.
A 1995 study by Spliethoff and Hemond analyzed sediments of the Upper Mystic Lake with industrial records, and determined that high concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and zinc were deposited by chemical and leather industries dating from the early 1900s.
In the 1995 bestseller A Civil Action (and 1998 film starring John Travolta), a 15 acres (6.1 ha) parcel of forest, field, and marshland on the banks of the Aberjona River is recalled by witnesses as the place where workers from abutting industrial plants (owned by W.R. Grace & Co. and Beatrice Foods) dumped trichloroethylene (TCE) and other toxic chemicals into trenches, or "swimming pools", "within a few inches of the water." At one time, the Aberjona River had "run clear and full of fish."
From 1969 into the early 1980s, the Industri-plex site was developed along the river due to its proximity to the I-93 / I-95 junction. Industri-plex manufacturing plants contributed to the area's extensive contamination with chemicals used by the local paper, textile and leather industries, including lead-arsenic insecticides, acetic acid, benzene and toluene, and sulfuric acid. Industri-plex is now a "superfund" site, although substantially remediated.Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT).Brad Whitford
Bradley Ernest Whitford (born February 23, 1952) is an American musician who is best known for serving as the rhythm and co-lead guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith. He has also worked as a songwriter for the group, co-composing well-received tracks such as 1976's "Last Child".Chip LaMarca
Chip LaMarca is a Republican member of the Florida Legislature representing the state's 93rd House district, which includes part of Broward County. Prior to that, he served on the Broward County Commission.Holly Meade
Holly Meade (b. Winchester, Massachusetts, September 14, 1956 - d. June 28, 2013) was an American artist best known for her woodblock prints and for her illustrations for children's picture books.Meade's illustrations for Hush!: A Thai Lullaby (1996, Orchard Books,) by Minfong Ho won a 1997 Caldecott Honor for illustration.John Willy and Freddy McGee (Marshall Cavendish, 1998,) which Meade both wrote and illustrated, was an honoree for the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Creative Writing.Ken Reid (comedian)
Kenneth William Reid (born 1980 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is an American standup comedian based in Boston.Lars Ahlfors
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis.Lyman Bradford Smith
Lyman Bradford Smith (September 11, 1904 – May 4, 1997) was an American botanist.
Smith was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He studied botany during the 1920s at Harvard University and received his PhD from Harvard in 1930. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked for the first time in Brazil. Most of his life's work came to involve the taxonomy of the flowering plants of South America, in particular the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). Smith worked on the Bromeliaceae for the North American Flora published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, volume 19, no. 2 (1938). Smith was a world authority on Begoniaceae and also worked with Velloziaceae and numerous other plant families. He was a curator in the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Botany from 1947 until his retirement in 1974, but continued to work in the United States National Herbarium as an emeritus curator almost until his death in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1997.Mark A. Milley
Mark Alexander Milley (born June 20, 1958) is a four-star general in the United States Army and the 39th and current Chief of Staff of the Army. He previously served as the 21st commanding general of United States Army Forces Command from August 15, 2014 to August 9, 2015. As the Army Chief of Staff, Milley is the highest ranking officer in the United States Army.On December 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Milley to serve as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Middlesex Canal
The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. When operational it was 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) deep, with 20 locks, each 80 feet (24 m) long and between 10 and 11 feet (3.0 and 3.4 m) wide. It also had 8 aqueducts.
The canal was one of the first civil engineering projects of its type in the United States, and was studied by engineers working on other major canal projects such as the Erie Canal. A number of innovations made the canal possible, including hydraulic cement, which was used to mortar its locks, and an ingenious floating towpath to span the Concord River.Middlesex Fells Reservation
Middlesex Fells Reservation, often referred to simply as the Fells, is a public recreation area covering more than 2,200 acres (890 ha) in Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester, Massachusetts. The state park surrounds two inactive reservoirs, Spot Pond and the Fells Reservoir, and the three active reservoirs (North, Middle, and South) supplying the town of Winchester. Spot Pond and the Fells Reservoir are part of the Wachusett water system, one of six primary water systems that feed metropolitan Boston's waterworks. The park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways
The Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways are the roadways within and bordering on the Middlesex Fells Reservation, a state park in the northern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The park includes portions of the towns of Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester. The roads inside the park and around its perimeter have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other portions of some of the roads are covered by more than one listing in the national register; see Fellsway Connector Parkways and Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District.
The Middlesex Fells Reservation is one of the oldest and largest of the parks in the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The reservation was created in 1894 with a gift of 450 hectares (1,100 acres) of land from The Trustees of Reservations to the Metropolitan Parks Commission, predecessor organization to the Metropolitan District Commission and today's Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). By 1897 the park had been expanded to some 3,000 acres (1,200 ha). This area included some existing roadways, which became internal roadways of the park. The border roads that surround the park followed a principle articulated by landscape designer Charles Eliot, who was instrumental in the preservation of the Fells, that such roads clearly delineated the bounds of the park, and provided its neighbors with pleasing views.Mystic Lakes (Boston)
The Mystic Lakes, consisting of Upper Mystic Lake and Lower Mystic Lake, are closely linked bodies of water in the northwestern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts.
The lakes lie at an elevation of 1 meter above sea level, within the towns of Winchester, Arlington, and Medford, Massachusetts. Upper Mystic Lake is fed by the Aberjona River, and drains south, over the Mystic Dam, into Lower Mystic Lake, which in turn empties into the Mystic River and then Boston Harbor.Mystic Valley Parkway
The Mystic Valley Parkway is a parkway in Arlington, Medford, Somerville, and Winchester, Massachusetts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and forms part of Route 16.National Register of Historic Places listings in Winchester, Massachusetts
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Winchester, Massachusetts, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted June 7, 2019.St. Mary's Catholic Church (Winchester, Massachusetts)
St. Mary's Catholic Church is a historic church at 159 Washington Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The church is part of St Mary's Parish, which includes St Mary's School. Both are part of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.Vic Fazio
Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. (born October 11, 1942) is a former Democratic congressman from California.Whitney Smith
Whitney Smith Jr. (February 26, 1940 – November 17, 2016) was a professional vexillologist and scholar of flags. He originated the term vexillology, which refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags. He was a founder of several vexillology organizations. Smith was a Laureate and a Fellow of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations.William I. Fletcher
William Isaac Fletcher (April 23, 1844 – June 15, 1917) was an American librarian, bibliographer, and indexer who served as the head librarian of Amherst College from 1883 to 1911 and the President of the American Library Association in 1891-92. In 1951, he was named by Library Journal to the Library Hall of Fame.
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There are plenty of issues with the AH but let me start by this one. You can put up pages/tomes of training to be sold but you cannot search for them. You can only search for patterns that teach specific rare/unique item crafting to your artisan but not buy regular training tomes. Again... you can SELL them, but not BUY them. Please fix this!
Enlighten me please. What am I missing here? I can't search them on the AH. I can buy them off of trade...
Edited by Narek#1682 on 5/22/2012 1:04 AM PDT
You can purchase the pages and tomes from the crafting menu in the AH but they are listed not under Jewel Crafting or Blacksmith but under Artisan. Choose the the Artisan drop down and you can choose pages or tomes for either profession. When you go under specifically Blacksmith or JC you will only come up with recipes. Just make sure to place in the quantity that you are looking for and hit search. It will automatically give you the lowest option so all you must do is hit confirm beside the listing.
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Android Is Dominant U.S. Smartphone OS, Apple Top Manufacturer
Over a third of devices are now powered by Google's software.
Google’s Android operating system continues to dominate the U.S. smartphone market, according to research by The Nielsen Company. Meanwhile Apple tops the market in terms of hardware share, thanks to the popularity of its iPhone devices.
A survey of over 20,000 mobile subscribers conducted between April and June this year revealed that 39 percent of respondents currently use the Android operating system, installed on devices manufactured by companies including HTC, Motorola and Samsung.
In terms of hardware, however, Apple dominates the market, its iPhone handsets representing 28 percent of all U.S. smartphones followed by HTC devices and RIM’s Blackberry line, which account for a 20 percent share of the market each.


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Girls & boys entering Grades 4-7
July 29 - Aug 2
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Catherine Butler & CMA Artists
One week-long session
Laurel’s Lyman Campus in Shaker Heights and four afternoons at the Cleveland Museum of Art
In collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Laurel School faculty member, Catherine Butler joins teaching artists at CMA to help campers practice thinking like an artist through a variety of fun games and challenges. Campers will see the CMA collection from new perspectives with open-ended gallery activities that will encourage closer looking and critical thinking. Then they will head to the studio, where CMA will provide the resources for students to experiment, take risks and form new ideas all their own. Mondays are spent entirely at Laurel’s Lyman Campus, followed by mornings at Laurel and daily afternoon field trips to the Cleveland Museum of Art on Tuesday through Friday.

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‘Jazz is Creole music’ says Etienne Charles, a young trumpet player born in Trinidad and who later emigrated to the US where he studied music. He is an exponent of a kind of original jazz where Afro-Caribbean influences are all represented: from Calypso to Haitian Voodoo, from rock music to Motown style. He’s already performed with famous musicians like Roberta Flack, Wynton Marsalis, the Count Basie Orchestra amongst others, and has also recorded three impressive albums.
As befitting an artist who excels with such a diversity of musical styles, Charles has performed with a range of musicians, from Roberta Flack, Rene Marie and David Rudder to Wynton Marsalis, Johnny Mandel, the Count Basie Orchestra and Maria Schneider. He also worked with steel pan all-star Len “Boogsie” Sharpe as well as jazz masters Frank Foster and Benny Golson.
Charles was taught by one of his mentors, primo jazz pianist and Florida State professor Marcus Roberts, that “going backwards is the only way to go forward.” So, while the 10-song Creole Soul is steeped in the jazz tradition, the spirit of the Caribbean also drives it. The young trumpeter, in addition to composing six originals, delivers his unique spin on Creole-oriented tunes from past masters, ranging from Bob Marley to Thelonious Monk. The album—at turns, rootsy, spicy and grooving—features at its core Charles’ crisp trumpet intonation and his lucid melodic lines. Joining the leader for the Creole music adventure is Charles’ band, comprised of tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart, alto saxophonist Brian Hogans, Kris Bowers on piano and Fender Rhodes, bassist Ben Williams and drummer Obed Calvaire. Guests include vocalist Erol Josué, guitarist Alex Wintz and percussionist/vocalists Daniel Sadownick and D’Achee.
Etienne Charles Mélange virtuose de styles
Le Jazz est une musique créole, clame Etienne Charles, un jeune trompettiste né à Trinidad et qui a ensuite émigré aux Etats Unis où il a fait des études de musique. C’est l’un des représentants d’un jazz original où les influences Afro-Caraïbéennes se bousculent : depuis le calypso jusqu’au Vaudou haïtien, du rock jusqu’au style Motown. Il a déjà joué avec de très grands noms comme Roberta Flack, Wynton Marsalis, le Count Basie Orchestra et bien d’autres, et a aussi enregistré trois albums impressionnants.


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- White-capped River Chat & Plumbeous Water Redstart, Trisuli River
- Himalayan Tahr, Common Goral & Royal’s Pika possible
- Bay Woodpecker, Red-headed Bullfinch & Mrs Gould’s Sunbird
- Beautiful Niltava & two species of ground warbler
- Chance of Himalayan Honeyguide while inspecting cliff-hanging bees’ nests
- 6-day trek in the Langtang Valley, with fully serviced camping
- Look for breeding Ibisbills, Upper Langtang Valley, Kjangjin
- Led by expert local naturalist guides
About the region
The Langtang circuit is especially unique. It is here that we find Nepal’s diverse forests, and a peace and solitude; that is sometimes hard to encounter on more frequented trails. Though just north of Kathmandu, the route on this tour takes us to some of Nepal’s thinly populated regions, and remains relatively less touristed.
The tour ‘in a nutshell’
A 10-day holiday in search of Nepal’s montane birds including a 6-night trek along the Langtang Valley.
What birds might I see?
In the Trisuli Valley White-capped River Chats and Blue Whistling Thrushes adorn riverbed rocks, while Indian Rollers and mynas echo from the riverside Sal forest. We can expect to spot the colourful warblers, babblers, tits and flycatchers of the Himalayan foothills, and will keep wacth out for the beautiful Pied Ground Thrush and Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon.
As we make our entry into the splendid mixed forest that comprises the lower Langtang Valley we’ll be hoping to find some of the many species of sunbird, rosefinch, woodpecker, flycatcher and warbler that inhabit this area, as well as such forest rarities as Bay Woodpecker, Red-headed Bullfinch, Mrs Gould’s Sunbird, Beautiful Niltava and two species of ground warbler (or tesia). We will also stop en route to inspect cliff-hanging bees’ nests which sometimes have the rare and very mysterious Himalayan Honeyguide in attendance!
We have a good chance of finding breeding Ibisbills in the upper Langtang Valley.
Nepal’s alpine flowers.
Yaks, Himalayan Tahr (a large and shaggy, brown goat), as well as Common Goral and Royal’s Pika are all possible.
Tibetan and Buddhist culture strongly in evidence along our route.

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AO says its strategic focus on profitability is paying off, and it is raising its full-year profit expectations – despite a 17% fall in third-quarter sales.
AO World, parent company of electricals pureplay AO.com, says in an unscheduled third-quarter trading update today that it now expects its full-year adjusted earnings before interest, tax and one-off costs (EBITDA) to come in at between £30m and £40m. That’s ahead of previous expectations of between £20m and £30m.
The increase to its forecast comes as the retailer focuses on more profitable sales and reduces its costs under the leadership of its returning founder, John Roberts. UK sales for the third quarter of its financial year – to December 31 2022 – were 17.2% lower than a year earlier. “However,” says the retailer in today’s trading update, “the actions taken by the business to reduce costs and improve margins, as described in our interim results in November are gaining traction, and profitability is now running ahead of our previous expectations.”
‘Laser focus’ to profits and cash
In November, the retailer said it was taking a “laser focus” to profits and cash when selling – deciding to continue to operate only profitable sales channels and to sell products only at a profit. So far that strategy has meant closing its German business – after digital marketing costs in the market continued to rise even as shoppers returned in-store to buy – ending a trial with Tesco and closing its housebuilding sector business. It now charges for delivery on all of its orders and has cut back on warehousing space.
The November update came as the retailer reported first-half revenues that were also 17% down on a year earlier, and a pre-tax loss of £12m. At the time it said it expected adjusted EBITDA to come in at between £20m and £30m – a forecast that has now been raised once more.
Looking ahead, AO World says in today’s trading update: “We remain cautiously optimistic and yet mindful of the continuing macroeconomic uncertainty and tough consumer environment, whilst also taking into account both the extent to which these and inflationary pressures can impact our contract assets.”
AO is ranked Top500 in RXUK Top500 research.


MP3 Mitzi Cowell - 33
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Mitzi Cowell’s music has its feet sunk deep in the warm rich soil of the Delta blues, with its eyes on the stars. Mitzi’s debut solo CD 33 is a journey through the territory of her heart, from lush guitar layering to stripped-down slide, with honest lyrics addressing the spiritual to the mundane, always honoring the miracle of American roots music from New Orleans to Hawaii to the Sonoran Desert.
A highly respected player in Tucson’s (surprisingly vital) blues scene for many years, Mitzi’s emotional, tasteful guitar style was forged in a variety of blues and R&B bands, including Sam Taylor’s A Band Called Sam, The Visionary Blues Band, and (during her tenure in New Orleans) the Jay Monque’D Blues Band. Since the mid ’90’s this Tucson native has been fronting her own musical projects, working to express her unique musical vision through her original songs and sounds.
"There is a sound - a tone - more fundamental than melody, harmony, songwriting, verse-chorus-verse, rhythm-and-lead, that I’m reaching for. I first heard it as an adolescent in the ’70’s, eloquently expressed by Billy Gibbons in ZZ Top’s bizarre spooky rock, and I followed it back to the blues of the Mississippi Delta, and forward to American roots artists like Tucson’s own Rainer (if you don’t know who he was, check him out right now.) This is the realm of magic, beyond Voodoo, Light making love with the Shadow, accessible through groove, the Sagrado Corazon of the blues (pain conceived in joy / joy birthed in pain), at the precise axis of the crossroads between Spirit and the World. The sound of the experience of being alive. It slithers up into you from between the bricks of New Orleans sidewalks. It rattles your bones and caresses your skin in the Sonoran desert summer night wind. I hack out songs in my spiral-bound notebook and squeeze guitar strings in smoky stinky bars to get back to this elemental place. 33 is my first attempt to calcify some of this experience to share with you. Thanks for listening." - Mitzi
"Cowell was a wonder with her blues guitar, extracting every possible sound out of her strings, riffing and jamming and grimacing with the best of them." - Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly


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Twin Pomegranates Expands Distribution
Published April 4, 2011
TheBusinessJournal.com by Business Journal Staff
Twin Pomegranates, a Madera winemaker that uses the Asiatic fruit in its vino, cut deals to expand its distribution in Save Mart and Lucky’s grocery stores.
Locations that will stock the company’s wine range from Chico to Bakersfield in the Central Valley and stores in the San Diego and Reno, Nevada areas.
“In a little over a year we are exponentially growing our distribution throughout the state,” said Daniel Bonilla, sales manager for Twin Pomegranates. “People are attracted and receptive to a new taste for their palate. There is a bright future for pomegranate wine as it eventually expands its availability.”
The company, which began retail sales about 17 months ago, makes a 100% pomegranate wine, a sparkling version and a white wine blend.

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Kittery, Maine residents are relieved that there has been an apparent resolution to the U.S.S. Miami fire and smaller blaze nearby at the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Town Manager Bob Markel says that the police department was flooded with calls from worried residents who saw the plume of flames rising from the fire stricken sub back on May 23rd. The arrest of one suspect in the fires has brought relief to residents and town officials. Markel says there was widespread belief that the incident and another one weren’t accidents.
"It was not just one fire, there was another small fire several days later. So, from that point onward we suspected that these fires were being set as opposed to just happening because of an electrical failure."
Markel says that, as a result of the U.S.S. Miami fire, the town of Kittery has budgeted funds and hired a private company to provide emergency phone calls to residents during such incidents. He also says that the Portsmouth Navy Yard has been very forthright in communicating with his town and the city of Portsmouth about situations that happen at the Navy Yard.


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***UPDATE (March 9, 2020): OPTIC West has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. Regardless, you should still save your space by registering via Eventbrite to be notified of updates and new dates.***
Lindblad Expeditions and B&H Photo Video have been partnering to bring the photo event OPTIC to New York City for the past five years. I had the privilege of participating in the 2016 events (you can see the program archive here). This year they are branching out to the West Coast and hosting the first OPTIC West in San Francisco from March 22nd-23rd, 2020.
Please join me and keynote speakers Art Wolfe and Frans Lanting, among others, in two days of photography learning ranging from lectures to photo walks. I’ll be speaking about photographing people, one of my favorite subjects.
Participation in these events is free! More information on the schedule and registration can be found on B&H’s website. I hope to see you there!


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There is a standard for call number patterns. School libraries should mirror the public library as much as possible and use the Dewey Decimal System. We are providing our students with an opportunity to become lifelong learners. Lifelong learners use public or academic libraries. These call numbers are similar to those used by New York City public library systems. The Office of Library Services recommends the following as a default:
AUD = for cassettes or other audio materials
AV = for both audio and visual materials, especially the older formats, like slides, transparencies, filmstrips. If any of these materials are current enough to be retained in your library collection, use this call number prefix.
BIO = for individual biographies. Some may want to use 920s for collective biographies or put them in their Dewey subject category. NYC school libraries do not use 92 for individual biographies.
CD = for CD-ROM formats
DVD = for Digital Video Disc
Easy or E = for Easy Books or Early Readers. In elementary this is important. Middle and high schools may want to integrate these books into the regular collection using the appropriate call numbers to avoid insulting our struggling readers.
eBook = for electronic books
FIC = for fiction books
GN - for graphic novels followed by FIC for any books that do not have a true non-fiction number. Manga and comics would use this designation instead of 741.5 for simplification, so a manga book would be (GN FIC KIT). A nonfiction book on ancient civilizations would be (GN 937 FRA) while a biography would be (GB BIO KIN). All fiction, manga and comic titles would call under (GN FIC ABC)
KIT = for multiple formats in a box or bag
MAP = for map collections
MP3 = for electronic media in digital format
SC = for story collections
PIC = for picture books which are not always easy and may be in middle or high school collections
VID = for videos
Nonfiction books should be cataloged according to the Dewey Decimal system with the first three letters of author's last name.
Do not order Reference or Professional books. They are expensive and date easily!
Paperback books should be cataloged under their designated Dewey category (nonfiction, biography, fiction, etc.). Order KAPCO on all paperback books and only order paperback if no alternative is available.
Books in languages other than English should be classified under their Dewey number with the language as the prefix:
SPA = Spanish (ex. SPA FIC PER)
FRA = French
CHI = Chinese
ARA = Arabic
BEN = Bengali
HAI = Haitian Creole
KOR = Korean
RUS = Russian
URD = Urdu
JAP = Japanese

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Yes, I’m a major Lord of the Rings freak! I had to post my favorite character of course. Not sure where I stumbled on this while surfing the net, but loved it all the same.
Speaking of LOTR’s, I can’t wait to begin my elvish gown based loosely on one of Arwen’s. I do believe I’m in the wrong era. I’ve never felt like I belonged here. Perhaps in a world such as Lord of the Rings, middle earth is where I should be. A place of magic, though I do believe magic exists. I think people just forgot and there for it disappeared from site.


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Mortality rates for pediatric rheumatology patients are significantly lower than previously reported, according to the largest study done yet on the topic in the United States.
In the February 2010 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatology, a Cleveland Clinic research team reports that the overall mortality rate in the U.S. for all pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases wasn’t worse or greater than the general population, even in conditions associated with increased mortality.
“Our reaction was obviously satisfaction that we hopefully are improving the outcome of our patients with better therapy. But we still have a way to go in some diseases,” says Philip Hashkes, MD. He was the lead researcher while serving as the section head of Pediatric Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic and now heads the Pediatric Rheumatology Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel.
An estimated 300,000 children in the U.S. have some form of arthritis or rheumatic disease, according to The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA). These diseases result in health risks and limit function and quality of life.
In some previous studies, conditions including juvenile rheumatoid (JRA) arthritis, childhood systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis, various vasculitides, and systemic sclerosis have also been associated with an increase in mortality.
But Cleveland Clinic researchers say these previous studies were small, relied on doctor surveys that were not verified, followed patients for less than 10 years and reported only on specific diseases, centers or regions.
For their new study, which was funded by the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, Cleveland Clinic researchers mined data from the Pediatric Rheumatology Disease Registry. It is the world’s largest rheumatology registry, with information collected from 62 centers on nearly 50,000 patients diagnosed between 1992 and 2001. The scientists then confirmed deaths through death certificates, medical records and referring physicians and reviewed charts and death certificates to determine causes of death.
They discovered 110 deaths among 48,885 patients in the registry. This was two to three times lower than what they expected to find. The entire study group’s survival rate was 99.9 percent at five years and 99.7 percent at 10 years. For juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and all connective tissue diseases, it was 99.8 percent at five years and 99.1 percent at 10.
“The mortality rate for all diseases was lower than previous studies, but was increased compared to the U.S. age and sex matched population for systemic lupus erythematosus, connective tissue disease, dermatomyositis and primary vasculitis. That’s as expected since these diseases involve important organs and the treatment is quite aggressive with potential serious adverse effects,” Dr. Hashkes says.
He continues, “We were most surprised by systemic JRA that was not significantly greater than the general population, and the improved prognosis of kids with pain syndromes compared to the general population with most of their deaths occurring from non-natural causes like motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide.”
“It is possible that improved treatments and protocols during the 1990s and early 2000s contributed to improved mortality outcomes,” Dr. Hashkes says. But he adds, “There still is excess mortality in some of the conditions and we have still have a lot of work to continue and decrease mortality.”
Dr. Hashkes says he hopes his study results will be encouraging to patients and families with the diseases and he hopes it gives doctors more accurate information to pass on about the prognosis of these diseases in children. He also hopes there will be more research using the registry.
“I think this cohort should be followed for mortality trends in the next decade, to monitor especially for the long-term effects of our medications, excess malignancies for example, and to search for cardiovascular deaths similar to that found in adult diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and SLE.”
“I think it’s very interesting to see these things. I wouldn’t say there’s very much that’s surprising about it and in a way that’s reassuring in the sense that the patients who seem to have the most deaths were the patients with the diseases that we know are some of the most difficult to treat,” says Barbara Adams, MD, the Director of Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor. “The general trends are what I expected, but I’m not sure if these numbers really say how many people are really alive because we weren’t able to garner all of it. “
Dr. Adams says this study only involves children who were seeing pediatric rheumatologists. “That’s how the data got into the database. So in a way we’re not looking at the overall survival rate. Just at those people who are already linked up with a pediatric rheumatologist,” she explains. “We know there are people who are left out. I have an outreach clinic in northern Michigan in Traverse City and the people who come there, the kids who have real disease, many of their families have had no idea there’s a specialist in this kind of area.”

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Scott Reviews Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2021
Gartner recently released their Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2021, calling them “Technology trends IT can’t afford to ignore”. Many of the trends are in response to the remote working shift the pandemic has created. Not just Gartner, but many other tech prognosticators are seeing this as a continued shift in how we work.
Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner says, “What we’re talking about with the trends is how do you leverage technology to gain the organizational plasticity that you need to form and reform into whatever’s going to be required as we emerge from this pandemic?” Organizational plasticity reminds me of the remade Disney movie, Flubber, with Robin Williams. I’m not sure that is what Burke had in mind. Whatever words you use, agility, adaptability, or the ability to pivot (I am growing tired of this one.), being able to adjust to our changing world is of heightened importance. We were already in massive innovation cycle with the need to take on change higher than ever before.
Gartner groups their trend predictions into three themes – people centricity, location independence, and resilient delivery. Their prediction is that these trends will impact organizations in a big way over the next five years.
Here is my summary of their Top 10:
1. Internet of Behaviors – This trend, creatively named to follow the IoT acronym, is about your digital persona. To be frank, it’s full of privacy issues and more than a little Orwellian. The idea is that we are leaving digital dust as we interact with systems and technology, and this digital dust will be collected into an IoB profile that is stored about you. This could be thermal imaging of your temperature, camera images that know if you are wearing a mask, location tracking, and other “big data” from whatever technology interactions you have. This may seem a little hard to believe, but China is already doing this by tracking statistics on their people through phone and app usage, social media, and other interactions. This tracking impacts individuals and their ability to gain credit. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 50% of the population will have some sort of IoB profile.
2. Total Experience or TX – Total experience is the concept that interactions with company resources and data should no longer be separated into customer experience, employee experience and user experience. Rather, they should be handled as one total experience, allowing mobile, virtual and distributed access. By combining these experiences into one strategy, there is a single point of innovation. The example Gartner uses is one of a telecommunications company that setup an appointment system via an app, then made it location aware. Whenever a customer was within 75 feet of the store, they received information guiding them through check-in. They would then get an update for how long it would take before they could enter the store maintaining social distancing. They also set up employee’s devices to “co-browse” customer’s devices on request allowing “no-touch” service. Gartner predicts that organizations that move to this TX methodology will outperform competitors over the next three years.
3. Privacy-Enhancing Computation – This trend is a three-part process for protecting data while it is being used. As big data grows, collaboration on large data sets is needed. It allows for a trusted environment, distributed processing, and encryption to secure this data, and yet make it accessible and shareable without compromising security. Not too exciting, unless you are a data analyst, but necessary as data sets and analytics grows.
4. Distributed Cloud – According to Gartner, distributed cloud is the future of cloud, and I would agree. This technology allows cloud services to be distributed physically closer to organizations, reducing latency, data costs, and meeting compliance requirements that data be stored in a particular geographic area (ex. Continental US). It allows the data to be brought to a variety of locations with the public cloud provider still the single point of management, governance, and operation. We will see how this trend progresses, but a hybrid model that in fact even allows mixed local storage is needed for the cloud to be effective for many organizations.
5. Anywhere Operations – This trend was accelerated by COVID, and is really an extension of the remote working, contactless, virtual world we are living in. Gartner predicts this will continue and grow. Many organizations will be born or transition to digital only. For some organizations, there will be no physical space, but rather a virtual network of people conducting business. In other cases, there will be physical space, but most business is conducted virtually. For instance, there may be a physical store or pickup location, but with contactless checkout. Though this model seems very real to all of us after what we have been through this year, we still all crave interacting with others. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over time.
6. Cybersecurity Mesh – The idea of cybersecurity mesh is interesting and challenging at the same time. Until recent years, most of cybersecurity has focused on how to protect our networks within each of our locations. The firewall between each location and the Internet has been the perimeter. There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about the new perimeter being the person or worker. This has been driven by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, as well as remote working. With the sudden explosion of people working from home, the concept of Cybersecurity Mesh is making the perimeter the person or the remote location, and it is a more distributed focus on cybersecurity. People from banks and financial advisory offices are now working from home, and the concept is to provide the same security by focusing on the person, rather than where they are. This is a complex and emerging area.
7. Intelligent Composable Business – The concept of ICB is just making a business extremely adaptable based on the situation. The idea is to intentionally structure business to have the agility to adapt to the circumstances. The focus is to move away from the old means of doing business and place even more emphasis on digital transformation. An organization who has structured itself to do business digitally with automated workflows, digital forms, web-based interactions, with very little reliance on paper, minimal manual processes, and reduced human direction is far more adaptable to change. This trend is somewhat a restatement of what is already happening with digital transformation, and further underlines its importance.
8. AI Engineering – Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, but has often been dealt with as a one-off project. This trend is the moving of AI to the mainstream within an organization. It makes AI part of the engineering, innovation, and governance. This is significant because it reflects the integration of AI into many organizations in less of a “test mode”. AI is maturing and producing significant results and this trend underlines that fact.
9. Hyperautomation – According to Gartner, “Many organizations are supported by a “patchwork” of technologies that are not lean, optimized, connected, clean or explicit.” Hyperautomation is the idea or trend that everything in an organization should be automated. Many of the legacy unconnected systems in organizations are holding them back and automating them produces significant results. Automating from production to back-office processes is more important than ever before!
What does all this mean to us here in the Midwest, working in the manufacturing, construction, professional services, or financial sectors? Well first of all, I hope it means that we will still hold to our strong Midwest values, friendly outlook, and hard work. With that said, these trends are already impacting us, and many of us are already growing and adapting. The impact of exponential innovation is here, and it will continue to drive change in our world at a rapid pace. Let’s wisely learn and grow and accelerate on the path of continuous improvement.
Gartner Article: https://gtnr.it/3jPesba
Scott Hirschfeld is the President of CTaccess, a Brookfield IT support company that has been helping businesses stop focusing on IT and getting back to doing business since 1990. Under his leadership CTaccess provides the business minded approach of larger IT companies with the personalized touch of the smaller ones. Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.


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Originally educated at Ealing School of Art (1968-70), Brenda, after having raised a family, pursued her passion for the arts years later in 1999. She studied at Heatherleys School of Fine Art in 2005 and then at The Prince's School of Drawing. She also studied with Andy Pankhurst and Thomas Newbolt.
Working principally in oils and pastels, her interest lie in life study, portraiture, still life and landscapes, in particular, her favourite landmark, Hammersmith Bridge.
Her paintings have been noted for their unique mood, brush work and colour, and her paintings are currently held in private collections around the globe.
2007 Chelsea Gallery – First solo exhibition
2008 Brignemont Gallery, Haute Garonne. Solo exhibition
2009 Morley Gallery. 'Memory & Light'
2010 Orangery Annual Exhibition
2010 Riverside Studios General works on canvas
2010 Cork Street Open Exhibition
2011 Orangery Annual Exhibition
2012 Riverside Studios. 'Hammersmith' –Solo exhibition
2015 Griffin Gallery. R.G.A. 'West'
2015 Hepsibah Gallery 'Bridges, Bottoms & Blooms'
2016 Hepsibah Gallery 'Gilt & Blue'
2017 Hepsibah Gallery 'Flora'
2017 Hepsibah Gallery 'Blush'
2018 Hepsibah Gallery 'FLORA! FLORA!'
Awards & Honours
2007 The Heatherleys Drawing Prize
2008 Holland Park Art: First Prize for Painting


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I know. I know. I know. It happens to everyone, but you have to admit it has more meaning when it is you who has done the dying. At least that is how I felt. Well actually, the first thing you feel is …light. Not light like Angels and the Glory of God or any other story of light and tunnel you were taught. Nope.
You fell light, as in weightlessness, or freedom from any kind of baggage you might have carried for some imagined sin, slight, or slip up in your life. All of that is gone in an instant. You don’t judge yourself any more, in any way, nor do you have any attachment to regret, shame, guilt, or remorse. You are light. All your burdens both emotional and physical are gone. Especially pleasing is not carrying around that heavy needy sack of flesh you used to be so proud of.
Oh you know you are you- and a little speck of Space-Time folds itself into some shape that resembles a human form the way a tesseract resembles a square…something in common but what?
So that is your first set of feelings. Being light, being transformed, being forgiven of all things. It is truly enlightening. (Sorry for the pun, but old Human Body habits do take a while to shrug off…or so I am told by the Tesseracts floating nearby.) Then the second thing hits you…and you are gobsmacked by it.
You can see every human all at one time. Yep. All seven billion four hundred sixty three million two hundred eighty six thousand four hundred and ten of them…oops eleven..oops twelve…well you get the picture. They look like little crystal cocoons holding all their dreams, feelings, desires, hopes, and loves. You can see each and every one of them. It is mind boggling, hence the gobsmacked look on your now tesseracted face.
Nearby shapes inform you that you see both Humanity and Humans- at the same time. It is disorienting to say the least, because the best (and worst) of both are on display. You can even see the shifting of huge amounts of thoughts as they sway between becoming Authoritarian in Nature, or more mellow. It is like watching surging waves wash over the crystal cocoons, some untouched by being engulfed by a wave of Nationalism, Patriotism, or Populism, others the wave seeps in and darkness the Crystal.
Same with Kindness, tolerance, understanding, and the desire for diversity, it too, washes over the Crystal Cocoons of Humanity, leaving some humans untouched, unmoving and unmoved. But others are filled with that wave as it washes over them, leaving them open to new ideas, different schools of thought, and inclusion of all. It takes a while to turn your attention away from the rippling show of lapping moods licking over humanity. And humans. And that is when the third thing hits you.
You can’t do a thing about it, but watch. Marley the Ghost had it right. You have to be alive to take part in those surging flows of the best and worst of Humanity and humans war with each other in towering waves of time. But you don’t watch with pain, just mere curiosity. Will Humans succeed? Will Humanity Progress? Will love win out over hate? You don’t know. Apparently, neither do they.
Just when you settle into your new existence you get the fourth and final thing to hit you.
You aren’t alone. Nor will you ever be again. For all thoughts are open to you, and yours to everyone else. Because all the baggage stays behind - on Earth- you are free from any burden to have meant something, been someone, or done something of note. You have (for many of us, for the first time) accepted yourself and your life, as it was. As you lived it. And you admire its beauty. Now that you don’t have to care for it, you find yourself at peace.
When I was alive, I thought that “Heaven” was where you went to worship God and adore him. Nope. Heaven is knowing you did your best with that body during that time on Earth. Knowing that all is forgiven now. Knowing that what you called “Evil” only exists on Earth. Up here, among the light almost formless tesseracts, all that matters is that you belong. You are welcomed. You have no needs, you have no wants, you have no power to interact with the Life you left behind.
You are free. There are no more misunderstandings, no more self righteous proclamations, no more seeking validation, glory, success, power, or stuff…all those trappings of having made it, are gone. You made it. Oh you still grow and learn, I mean, after the shock of those four things banging up against your reality - all in a row, you reach a strange place. A calm place. A place where all the stories of the forms around you seep into your form- as you become one among many, but separate. Something a Human, or Humanity could never experience. Yet.
And so you watch the ebb and flow of Life on Earth. Content to know you were there, and are now here. Your first thought becomes your last thought about it all:


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fear of abandonment maybe
did someone betray you? seems like you're scared of giving trust to anyone
you don't feel safe when people get too close. That's the bottom line. Unfortunately, you don't feel loved and appreciated until people get close and really know you, so it's Catch-22 time...
cuz you been ****** over too many times
I do the same, I afraid of hurting and disappointing.

I'm very kind will all people in my area, but I put a lot of red lines not allowing to people to come close to me..
your like me, fear of everything....people that hate you, like you , indifferent to you......

......it's a whacked out world.......god help the youth, i don't envy you, it's not a easy ride.......but i truly wish the best for the young folks(hope ya do a better job than us;-))
fear of intamacy and fear of rejection.


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After deciding to stop making path-traced art I was feeling a little lost as to where I should focus my energy. By some twist of fate an amazing opportunity fell in my lap - to be part of the founding of a new startup.
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