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Thank you, Mr Riley. Your excellencies, dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen, all protocols observed… It’s a pleasure to be here. And thank you for the warm welcome and the invitation to speak here today in Curaçao. I’m delighted to be here with all of you in this beautiful destination. Before I begin, I want to also recognize the JetBlue team in attendance – please stand! First I’d like to acknowledge Frank Bisslik, JetBlue’s General Manager for Curaçao and Aruba and the Supervisor of our operation at Curaçao Airport, Cedric Jonis. Thank you for all you do to represent JetBlue and serve our customers so well in this part of the Caribbean.
We also have several members of the team here from JetBlue Getaways, our vacations business, including Umang Gupta, who leads this group, and Wendy Juengerkes and Julia Washington. I hope over the course of the next two days you’ll have a chance to speak with the team to learn more about what makes our offering so unique.
Jeff Goodell is with us today; he is our Vice President of Government and Airport Affairs. We also have Elizabeth Ninomiya and Sebastian White from our communications team. Finally, Dave Clark is in the audience; he’s our Vice President of Network Planning and he is the guy who can make all your route dreams come true. I am sure he will be a popular person today!
By a show of hands, how many of you here have flown JetBlue?
Let me offer a bit of history about our company for those of you who may not be as familiar with JetBlue. This year we’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of our very first flight from New York to South Florida. We’re a relatively young carrier that has always taken pride in innovating and doing things a little different from the rest of the pack.
When JetBlue was being envisioned back in the late 1990s, the original business plan called for an all-coach, all-domestic, single fleet airline. If you think back to that time, flying was, frankly, the pits. Our founders saw an opportunity to create an entirely new kind of airline that would break the mold and restore a bit of the glory of flying. They set a lofty mission for the brand – to bring humanity back to air travel. This required a very different approach than our competitors had been taking – to think of ourselves not just as an airline but a customer service company that happens to fly planes. Today, that focus on people remains the heart of everything we do.
If you look back at how the aviation industry has shaken out over JetBlue’s lifetime, the only constant has been evolution. There has been an incredible amount of churn and change that has reshaped the landscape, particularly in the United States. When JetBlue was founded there were ten major airlines in the US; over time, each one of those carriers merged – some more than once – and today those ten airlines are now four megacarriers that control 80% of the US market. JetBlue, on the other hand, remains a bit of an underdog with just 5% of the market.
JetBlue is the only major airline other than Alaska Airlines that has not gone through bankruptcy or merger since the US industry was deregulated in 1978.When you’re such a small carrier going head-to-head with these goliaths in a landscape that has shifted so significantly, it requires an innovative spirit and a lot of tenacity. For JetBlue, it has also required rethinking WHERE we do business and making the choice to take a leap and do something that wasn’t in the cards when we were being incorporated: serve the Caribbean, and do so in a big way.
JETBLUE IN THE CARIBBEAN
It’s now been 13 years since our first flight to the region – a bit of a humble start with a single route from our home base at Kennedy Airport in New York to San Juan. As an airline based in the Big Apple, with its huge Puerto Rican-born population, this market was a natural fit and maybe a safe bet for us to begin exploring the region. The success of San Juan gave us the confidence to dip our toes a bit deeper in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, if you will, and go international. In 2004, we launched service to The Bahamas and Dominican Republic. From Nassau and Santiago, I don’t think anyone could have predicted just how quickly our Caribbean growth would accelerate and how significant this part of the world would become to our network in the ensuing years.
From day one, JetBlue’s model has been about identifying markets that are underserved, overpriced – or both – and stimulating traffic with lower fares and a higher standard of service. It didn’t take long to see that the Caribbean presented the same sort of growth opening we’d seen in the US domestic marketplace.We’ve added destination after destination to the point that we now serve 27 airports from Bermuda to Barbados and Grand Cayman to Grenada. Our 28th destination – Antigua – will come online two weeks from today. These vibrant, unique communities are so critical to our success. In fact, today one-third of our airline’s capacity is now devoted to serving offshore markets in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Much of this growth has come as a result of Open Skies agreements which allow us to freely add flights and give consumers choice. In addition to our own flying, we also have important relationships with regional partners like Cape Air, LIAT, and Silver Airways, and just yesterday we were delighted to expand our partnership with Seaborne Airlines to a codeshare.
We’ve seen an incredible competitive shift in the region as a result of JetBlue’s growth. We’ve succeeded in places where our legacy competitors had maybe become a bit too complacent, and we’ve also built entirely new markets that had never been flown before. Consumers vote with their wallets and time and again they’ve chosen JetBlue.
We are incredibly appreciative of the support we’ve received across the region. We are also very mindful of respecting the trust we’ve developed over the years. We know we cannot ever take for
granted the business we receive here! JetBlue doesn’t fly to every Caribbean destination – yet – but we DO serve Cuba, one of the hottest topics of the tourism trade. Ever since the US and Cuba eased relations earlier this year, I’ve been asked when we’re going to start flying to Cuba.
Well, we’re already there and we have been since 2011 with charter flights from Florida and as of this summer, from New York, as well. This has given us a tremendous amount of operating experience that will give us a leg up when our countries sign an aviation treaty that will pave the way for scheduled service.
There’s a lot of excitement about Cuba opening up to Americans, but also some concern about what that might mean for the rest of the region’s tourism sector. The Cuban market is sure to expand significantly once regularly scheduled flights from the US begin, but I don’t expect this growth to come at the expense of other islands – it certainly won’t for JetBlue. We’re not going to pick up all our planes and move them to Cuba.
I was in Havana earlier this year on a trade mission with the Governor of New York and other business leaders from our state; it is a fascinating destination with a lot of beauty and intrigue. However, the infrastructure needs to support any influx of tourists are massive. It’s going to be a long time before Cuba’s full potential is realized. These transformations do not happen overnight.
Until then, we will continue our focus on expansion where we see the greatest opportunity – and there is plenty of that across this region. In the next year and beyond, you can expect to see JetBlue enter several new markets. On our most popular routes we’re going to lay on additional frequencies or deploy our larger A321 aircraft which are being delivered at a rate of about one per month. We’re already seeing these new jets in busy markets like Montego Bay and Punta Cana.
Earlier this week we announced plans to bring the 321 to Port-au-Prince and to increase flights from Boston, New York and Fort Lauderdale in response to growing demand for travel to Haiti – and that includes a growing element of tourist traffic. In total, we will increase our service to Haiti by more than 50,000 seats, an increase of 80% since JetBlue initially entered the market two years ago.
Next year we have 10 new aircraft entering our fleet and the year after that, in 2017, we have another 10 coming. We need places to point all those planes and a lot of them are coming south to the Caribbean.
One big difference in our model is our focus on offering ‘fair fares.’ We have a desire and the ability to add capacity when we see fares creeping up. Haiti is a good example of that. By offering more seats, we can offer more low fares and support tourism growth. This is very different to the traditional legacy model of keeping fares high.
I mentioned earlier that international flying was a departure from our original all-domestic business model. Last year we made another tweak to the blueprints of our airline. On select aircraft we added a really innovative business class experience called Mint. It has fully lie-flat seats – some are even semi-enclosed in private suites – plus delicious, interesting cuisine and an unparalleled level of hospitality.
Mint was created to allow us to compete the in premium market on busy transcontinental routes between New York and California by offering much lower fares and better service than our competitors had been offering. This is exactly the same formula we’ve used to expand across the Caribbean with our traditional product. Mint has been a runaway hit so this winter we will bring it to the Caribbean for the first time with service from New York to Aruba and Barbados and from Boston to Barbados. After a great holiday in one of these destinations, our customers will be able to continue the experience onboard with regional dishes like pan-seared flying fish and jerk pork tenderloin.
Since we’re here in the Caribbean and one of my favorite things to do is announce more flights, let’s do a couple – what do you think?!
First off, I’m delighted to share that we’ll be expanding our service between Curaçao and New York with a third weekly flight next year. We have only been here since December but this island has quickly proven to be a big hit with our customers. We are thrilled to join with our friends at Curaçao International Airport to make it even easier to get here.
That’s not all! I am excited to also announce an entirely new market for JetBlue. Beginning in April 2016 we’ll offer daily nonstop service between Barbados and our focus city at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in South Florida. This will be our 75th route between the US and the Caribbean.
Both Barbados and Curaçao are terrific examples of destinations where we have a true partnership with the ministries of tourism and airports. When you’re weighing network decisions, it’s a whole lot easier to choose to grow in communities that truly value and understand the positive impact an airline like JetBlue can have on their market.
In the US, not everyone understands the extent to which commercial aviation drives the economy. For instance, we’re seeing attempts to re-regulate the industry through government mandates for things like baggage fees and seat pitch. We’re closely watching these developments and how they could impact our business.
Regulation factors into our route planning decisions, and so does the tax burden our customers face when buying airplane tickets. There is a wide range of passenger tax regimes across the region. I would encourage those of you who have influence in this sphere to carefully consider how taxies are levied and to use this option sparingly. At JetBlue we are very much thinking about the relative tax burden on our customers as we allocate capacity.
Between US and foreign taxes and fees, travelers can easily be hit with an extra 150 US dollars on top of their airfare – that could be an entire extra hotel night. Contrast that to the average JetBlue airfare for the first six months of this year which was just $171. We would rather customers have more money in their pocket to spend when they arrive in your communities.
Speaking of that – when our customers arrive in the Caribbean, they of course need a place to stay, they need places to eat, they need things to do, and they need local guides. We want to help connect all these pieces of the travel puzzle and that’s why we’re pouring a lot of resources into expanding our vacations business, JetBlue Getaways. Today, we fly nearly 150 trips a day into the Caribbean and Latin America, but only a fraction of our customers have paired their flight with a hotel or other extras through a Getaways package. We think there’s a big opportunity to grow this part of our business. People already trust the JetBlue brand to get them from Point A to Point B, so why not extend that relationship into other areas of their itinerary?
While flying is easier than ever, the rest of the trip can be hard to plan and is sometimes subject to inconsistent service. We already have a culture of hospitality at JetBlue, so we want to use it to create a more personal and helpful travel service. We hope to give our customers the confidence to know that when they book through Getaways their end-to-end journey will be as memorable as their JetBlue flight.
Today, we see far more holiday packages being bundled through online travel agencies than through Getaways and our own lower-cost channel at jetblue.com. Just as the airline industry has consolidated into a few mega players in the past decade, the distribution business is becoming even more consolidated in the hands of a few players. When the deal is sealed on the big merger that’s been proposed, there will be just two players left who combine to control 95% of OTA bookings in the United States.
A big drawback of travel giants is that they give consumers an almost dizzying number of choices when it comes to a holiday. If you go online and do a hotel search for this weekend in either Aruba or St. Maarten, for instance, you’ll find nearly 100 hotel options to wade through. Where do you even start? For a traveler who may not be familiar with a destination, that number is staggering.
As we grow Getaways, we intend to limit the number of properties in our portfolio, to a hand-picked selection that represents the same kind of quality and attention to service that our customers receive in our airports and on our flights. Our aim is to be the preferred partner for hotels and other tourism providers and to seek out the kind of businesses that will ensure our customers have a great 360-degree JetBlue experience.
Another advantage of Getaways is our personalized approach that removes some of the anonymity that travelers face when they book through bigger operators. We want to have our imprint on every step of the journey. And if something goes wrong, we want to be there to make it right.
In a nutshell, the biggest difference between JetBlue Getaways and other tour packagers is relationships – we look at these quite a bit differently than our competitors. We understand that we can’t thrive without solid partnerships with all of you. We need each other in order to be successful. We make a JetBlue promise to our customers and we want to offer the same kind of experience to you as partners.
So why is Getaways growth important to your destinations?
If we can encourage more travelers to book their JetBlue flight through Getaways rather than a competing service, that will help lift the overall profitability of our Caribbean routes. That’s critical
because it will allow us to turn around and add even more capacity to your destinations. Talk about a win-win!
I’ll give you a couple examples.
In June we inaugurated service to Grenada with just two flights per week. Thanks to strong bookings through Getaways and greats friendships with local properties like Sandals and Spice Island, we were able to add a third weekly service in September, after only three months in the market.
It’s interesting that we’re here in Curaçao, because for Getaways, this destination happens to be one of our most successful. In fact, 20% of our customers on the average JetBlue flight to Curaçao are booking their hotel and other elements of their holiday through Getaways. That’s a big reason why we have the confidence to also begin a third weekly trip in this market.
Our goal is to grow JetBlue Getaways to 2 million room night bookings per year by the end of the decade.How are we going to get there?
First, we have some education to do to let travelers even know Getaways exists and show them how it differs from the other guys. Most people flying JetBlue already book their flights directly with us, so why not add a hotel at the same time?
Another lever we might pull is to limit our flight inventory to our own channels, especially during peak holiday periods. On the flip side, our ability to discount seats when there are empty seats and also empty rooms is a positive for all of us. This truly differentiates JetBlue against wholesalers or tour operators.
Second, we are making an investment in account management staff to support our relationships. We want to be fast and responsive to your needs. We are also investing in technology to improve our ability to market to the JetBlue customer base as well as to create innovative new solutions that create a better and more seamless customer experience.
Of course, we’re all ears when it comes to how we can best partner and make JetBlue Getaways your most valued partner. Our team is on site here today. Please do not by shy letting them know how we’re doing, and how we can better serve you and your guests.
Before I come to close, I want to connect our business and presence here with something that is all around us, and yet often overlooked. That is the natural resources of this beautiful region, its beach environment. The Caribbean is your home, and it is also the region we rely on for about one-third of our company’s business. People come from around the globe for the pristine water and the unspoiled beauty of these destinations. At JetBlue, we have a huge stake in ensuring the waters and the landscape is valued and preserved for the long-term.
Unfortunately, too often around the world, governments fail to see the link between cleaning up beaches and oceans and their economic vitality. No one benefits when oceans and beaches are polluted, yet these problems persist around the world. We recently partnered with The Ocean Foundation to explore this idea as it relates to the Caribbean Basin and to try to prove, once and for all, the economic value that results from healthy shorelines. We wanted to connect with hard data the importance of nature to our airline's main economic measure – revenue per available seat mile, or RASM.
By attaching actual dollar values to unspoiled shorelines, we are creating the business case for communities to better protect the ecosystems we depend on and promote the economic importance of shoreline conservation. There appears to be a strong correlation with what the tourism industry considers obvious – the nicer the beach, the nicer the hotel, the more expensive the airline ticket might be. Nothing spurs governments or businesses to action like hard data, but until now, none has really existed on this concept.
On this point, I’ll just add that the concept of the traditional idea of who is an ecotourist is outdated. It’s no longer someone who comes to surf, dive, or explore the rainforest. Indeed, every single person who comes to the Caribbean for its turquoise water and white beaches is an ecotourist. It’s time we make the appropriate investments to protect this revenue stream and invest in the health of our oceans and beaches. Our Sustainability team is working hard to advance this thinking around the region.
To close, I just want to thank you all for having me here today and extend my deep appreciation to all of you for helping power JetBlue’s success across the region over the past decade. We could not have gone from zero to 28 Caribbean destinations without an incredible amount of support and partnership from many of you in this room.
And remember: please don’t hesitate to speak with our team on site this week. I wish you all a terrific conference!


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After an exciting first day at Royal Liverpool, there are 3 players in the lead with a score of 71 – Felix Van Dijk from The Netherlands, Keita Nakajima from Japan and Maja Stark from Sweden.
The Players were battered by strong winds and rain yesterday during the Practice Round, but luckily conditions today were much improved and the sun made an appearance for the majority of the day.
First up on to the tee at 08:00 were Greg Dalziel representing Scotland, Amanda Gudrun Bjarnadottir representing Iceland, and Pranavi Sharath Urs representing India, who all did a fantastic job of opening The Duke of York Young Champions Trophy 2017.
With the weather picking up and the sun shining, Swedish players Maja Stark and Oscar Teiffel both made an early lead, with a joint score of 2 under par on the 5th hole by 10:45.
Stark continued her lead throughout the afternoon, with Van Dijk and Nakajima catching up on the scoreboard.
Junior golfers from 31 countries are taking part in The Duke of York Young Champions Trophy 2017.
The Duke of York will attend the Official Tournament Dinner tonight at Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

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The Uganda Development Bank has announced the commitment of shs150 billion towards supporting and enabling the growth of Ugandan contractors through the Ugandan Contractors Financing Initiative.
This initiative is complemented by Business Advisory and Project Management advice services which will support Ugandan contractors to access bid bonds and guarantees at favorable terms and in a timely manner.
Patricia Ojangole, the UDB Managing Director said that limited access to capital remains a key challenge faced by our private sector including local contractors , prompting the development financing bank to come to their help.
"UDB has a role in trying to identify what the challenges are and providing solutions within the specific role and mandate of the bank. To this end, the bank identified a need to provide targeted financial support to emerging and existing Ugandan contractors so as to aid performance and contractor growth,” Ojangole said.
“The financing difficulties and delays coupled with sourcing funds from unconventional financing sources negatively affects performance and business growth, causes contract delays, and often leads to poor quality work among other challenges.”
According to the UDBL Managing Director, contractors will enjoy benefits like timely access to cheaper and patient capital and Business Advisory on technical and project management skills to enable capacity building for the contractors.
"Lower appraisal fees, grace periods of up to 12 months as well as lower than prevailing market interest rates, Access to bid bonds, performance, and other guarantees at favorable terms and conditions, such as arrangement fees of 0.25%, security cover of between 50 100% of the bond amount, unsecured bid bonds of between 0.5-1 billion, and low commission rates of 0.5% per quarter consideration of outstanding payment certificates as security to enable access of up to 70% of the required credit consideration of security at market value as opposed to forced sale value - where required."
Elizabeth Muhebwa, the Executive Director of UNABCEC one of the partners hailed UDBL for the initiative that aims at alleviating challenges faced by local contractors through providing technical assistance.
"This partnership with UDB exemplifies the shared vision of driving the economic development through construction excellency. This finance initiative stands as a testament to our dedication to the development of the construction industry,”Muhebwa said.
Andrew Muhwezi the president of Uganda Institute Of professional Engineers(UIPE) said that this initiative will help in transformation of the infrastructure sector.
"With this affirmative action in place, we anticipate a positive transformation within the infrastructure sector and with ongoing projects in the country managed by local contractors, the opportunity to cultivate the next value chain of skills becomes even more attainable."
Muhwezi pledged that UIPE will provide leadership and direction in all policies and matters of public interest of engineering nature.
He assured full commitment and delivery on all its obligations in UDB partnership.
According to UDB’s Patricia Ojangole, the Ugandan Contractors Financing Initiative is a new dawn and anchor to infrastructure development in Uganda.
“ I call upon all Ugandan contractors to embrace the initiative as we reshape financing for development in the country.”
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Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love
This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
Meet Felicia, 14-year-old student at the Manhattan Free Children’s School (also known as the Pound). In Felicia's world, she and her best friends, Jess and Kat, like to refer to themselves as the Sex Kittens, and the boys they know as the Horn Dawgs.
Felicia is getting tired of waiting for a Horn Dawg to notice her uniqueness, however. So she devises a project she and the object of her affection, Matthew the Science Brain, can work on together. Felicia is determined to discover the Secret of Love with Matthew while winning both Matthew’s heart and the science fair. But love has other plans.
(Doesn’t it always?)
From the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
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- Category: Coming of Age
- Published: Jan 24, 2006
- Publisher: Random House Children's Books
- Seller: Penguin Random House LLC
- Print Length: 256 Pages
- Language: English

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text: Objective: To investigate microbial contamination and critical control points (CCPs) in the preparation and handling of complementary foods in 120 households in Imo state, Nigeria. Methods: The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) approach was used to investigate processes and procedures that contributed to microbial contamination, growth and survival, and to identify points where controls could be applied to prevent or eliminate these microbiological hazards or reduce them to acceptable levels. Food samples were collected and tested microbiologically at different stages of preparation and handling. Findings: During cooking, all foods attained temperatures capable of destroying vegetative forms of food-borne pathogens. However, the risk of contamination increased by storage of food at ambient temperature, by using insufficiently high temperatures to reheat the food, and by adding contaminated ingredients such as dried ground crayfish and soybean powder at stages where no further heat treatment was applied. The purchasing of contaminated raw foodstuffs and ingredients, particularly raw akamu, from vendors in open markets is also a CCP. Conclusion: Although an unsafe environment poses many hazards for children's food, the hygienic quality of prepared food can be assured if basic food safety principles are observed, When many factors contribute to food contamination, identification of CCPs becomes particularly important and can facilitate appropriate targeting of resources and prevention efforts.

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Asus Chromebook is a pc producer that has created among the hottest laptops in the marketplace in the present day. They’re accessible in a number of completely different variations. These embody the Chromebook C424 and the Chromebook CX3400. These fashions include a wide range of completely different options, corresponding to a touchscreen, an SSD, and a 1.3GHz processor.
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The aim of this research was comparing the personality dimensions, type C and coping strategies in cancer patients and normal groups. The sample of this study consist of 100 participants (50 cancer patients and 50 without cancer). They were selected by using the stratified random sampling method. The normal groups were matched with the cancer group concerning the demographic characteristics (age, sexuality and education). Participants were asked to complete the Eysenck’s personality questionnaire, type C and coping style inventories. Analysis of the data was based on the multiple- analysis of variance (MANOVA). The results revealed that neuroticism, extroversion (P<0/01), psychoticism, type C (P<0/05) and emotional-focused coping(P<0/01) scores of cancer patients significantly were higher than non-cancer individuals. Also, the results revealed that there was no significant difference between both group in problem solving coping.


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Knight Run (Korean: 나이트런) is a Korean webtoon series authored by Sungmin Kim (Korean: 김성민). It is under the space opera genre mixed with fantasy and tragedy elements. Knight Run can be accessed through various media forms.
The Knight Run series is divided into several volumes, colloquially known as "Episodes", that narrate the plot in a successive linear manner. Episodes are further subdivided into the "Main Episodes" and the "Another Episodes". Main Episodes deal with the main plot narrative (centered on Anne Mayer) while the Another Episodes are spin-offs that explore various subplots. Additionally, there are "Opening Episodes" and "Extra Episodes" which serve as prologues/epilogues.
Although the series was originally published as an online webtoon on the Naver/LINE platform, Knight Run was also launched through comic book prints by various artists. The comic books have a distinctly different art style from the webtoon version due to the variety of the illustrating artists but the story remains faithful to the narrative plot line of Sungmin Kim. Only selected chapters of Main Episode-0 Pray and the entirety of Another Episode-1 Father's day are available in comic book prints. No webtoon versions are available for AE-1 as it was released exclusively for the print media. Additionally, an encyclopedic glossary providing a detailed explanation of Knight Run's background history and setting was also included in the comic books. The information provided were penned directly by Sungmin Kim.
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Zander Cannon is best known for his stellar artwork for Alan Moore's Top 10, the story of a superhero police force handling day to day problems in Neopolis, where everyone has super powers.
But over the years, Cannon has become involved with creating graphic novels about factual science subjects. Cannon and longtime collaborator Kevin Cannon (no relation) make up the studio Big Time Attic, with the duo frequently collaborating on these projects. In the course of their science-related work, Zander and Kevin have worked prominent comic book and prose authors Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales, Prince Valiant), Jim Ottaviani (Two-Fisted Science, Feynman), and Jay Hosler (Optical Allusions).
A portion of Zander's work aims to communicate an understanding of biology and biochemistry subjects from a humorous and easy to understand point of view. The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA and Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth provide an excellent foundation on both subjects for a student of any level, while maintaining an accessible entry point. The star of these books is the crown prince of Glargal, a sea cucumber-like alien, who's taught about life on other planets.
Zander and colleagues have also tackled more traditional historical fare, like quarrels between scoundrel paleontologists in Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology. My personal favorite work of theirs, T-Minus: The Race to the Moon, tells the early history of manned space exploration from the point of view of United States and USSR scientists and engineers. Both of these works do a wonderful job of humanizing the protagonists while conveying the facts in a graphic form — arguably a better medium for semi-biographical stories than text.
Zander Cannon took a couple of minutes to talk with us about what drew him to telling science stories in a graphic medium and the link it provides to the next generation of comic book readers, science fiction fans, and scientists.
What first piqued your interest in science and technology?
Zander Cannon: I would have to say it was probably comics in general, funny enough. The pervasive idea of scientists either being heroic or villainous, but always interesting and dynamic, was a way to at least get me thinking about how science and technology was interesting to me.
In addition, my father is a very thoughtful and systematic man, and he and I would sometimes take things apart to find out how they worked, or build simple versions of gadgets to try and understand them. Finally, being a cartoonist, I always wanted to have a sense for how things worked so as to draw them better. If I were drawing a machine, I didn't just want to make it a box, I wanted to make sure that its form followed its function.
You have a long history of telling factual science stories in comic book form, beginning with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sponsored comic, Space Weather. What benefits come along with using the medium of comics to tell science stories?
Zander Cannon: My initial interest in these was that they were an interesting way to make a comic book; the characters could speak directly to the reader and break all kinds of other storytelling laws, since it was all in aid of teaching something. What I found in addition was that by breaking those supposed laws, it made for an enjoyable comic, but also what amounted to a map or a diagram of an idea.
I loved that for me — someone with good spatial skills but not the best attention span — a diagram like this provided a spine of an idea, onto which all new information can be attached. Kevin (Cannon, my drawing partner, but not brother) and I have taken this ideal to heart in all of our educational and non-fiction comics: we want to illustrate an idea to give us something to go back to visually whenever we learn more about the topic.
Is there a desire to introduce kids to comics and science in a single package?
Zander Cannon: Certainly — we all want to be efficient. But I think kids are interested in comics no matter what, if you put it in front of them in an appealing way. Science is a harder sell since there are a lot of parts about it that are boring or forbidding, so choosing your entry point is key.
A visual guide that can be absorbed at the reader's own pace (the thing that sets comics apart from other media) is the perfect thing for difficult-to-understand conceptual information. So I feel that the two are perfectly matched.
What Was It is a series of short interviews co-hosted on io9 and Gizmodo that asks the luminaries of science and science fiction what inspired them to delve so deeply into the only kind of magic we have in the real world - science and technology. What was it that first opened their eyes? Find out more at What Was It?


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Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques. Originally published in 1986, it is the first book of the Redwall series. The book was illustrated by Gary Chalk, with the British cover illustration by Pete Lyon and the American cover by Troy Howell. It is also one of the three Redwall novels to be made into a TV series.
As the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey bask in the glorious Summer of the Late Rose, all is quiet and peaceful. But things are not as they seem. Cluny the Scourge—the evil one-eyed rat warlord, is hell-bent on destroying the tranquility as he prepares to fight a bloody battle for the ownership of Redwall. This dazzling story in the Redwall series is packed with all the wit, wisdom, humor, and blood-curdling adventure of the other books in the collection, but has the added bonus of taking the reader right back to the heart and soul of Redwall Abbey and the characters who live there.
A young mouse named Matthias dreams of times of adventure rather than a life of quiet servitude, but he is counselled to patience by his elders. Redwall is a fixture in the local community, set in the heart of Mossflower Woods, and was designed to be a place of refuge for the beasts of the forest in times of trouble.
Trouble arrives in the form of Cluny the Scourge in the Summer of the Late Rose. Cluny is an evil, infamous rat, owning an extra-long tail with a poisoned barb on the end, and commander of a horde of vermin. He has only one eye, having lost the other in a battle with a pike, which he killed. The foebeasts arrive at the beginning of the book and make their headquarters at the Church of St. Ninian, to the south of Redwall, with the intention of taking the Abbey for themselves. Matthias in the meanwhile begins having visions of the Abbey founder Martin the warrior who guides him. The Abbey inhabitants, who refuse to back down, make ready to defend themselves if necessary; most of the inhabitants of the surrounding area are now within Redwall. None of them are particularly martial, but Redwall folk, and indeed much of the Mossflower population, are generally slow to anger but fierce fighters when roused; they are able to make an effective defence. Matthias, fearing that Cluny will still overrun them, begins a quest to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior, which is supposedly hidden somewhere within the Abbey. He is helped particularly by Methuselah, an ancient and grizzled mouse, who is the abbey recorder. Matthias is a brave-hearted young mouse, if small in stature, and as the story continues, his natural leadership abilities begin to emerge. Cluny, in the meanwhile, has been attempting to gain entrance to the Abbey. He deals with traitors Sela the vixen and her son Chickenhound, Sela is killed while Chickenhound seeks refuge at Redwall, but he ends up accidentally killing Methuselah after being caught stealing, he is driven out of the abbey but ends up being attacked and maimed by the adder Asmodeus who appears as a local legend and terror throughout the novel and picks off wandering creatures, Chickenhound escapes and heals himself (and would later debut as the main villain of the third book).
Clues to the location of Martin's sword, as well as his shield and the sword's scabbard, have been built into the Abbey. Matthias recovers the shield and sword scabbard, and with Methuselah's help eventually divines where the sword is hidden. Unfortunately, it isn't there any longer, having been stolen by a wild sparrow tribe that dwells on the Abbey roof but Matthias discovers that soon after that it was stolen from them by Asmodeus. When trying to escape from the lair of the Sparra tribe with the help of Jess Squirrel, Matthias is attacked by the king of the sparrows. The two of them end up falling from the Abbey roof, resulting in the sparrow's death. After recovering, Matthias continues to the lair of the gigantic snake Asmodeus, acquiring several allies along the way: Log-a-Log, one of a local band of shrews; Basil Stag Hare, wandering do-gooder and general cad, and Warbeak Sparra, the new queen of the aforementioned sparrow tribe. He also befriends Captain Snow, an owl, and Squire Julian Gingivere, a cat. Matthias, Log-a-Log and two other Shrews succeed in retrieving the sword from Asmodeus Poisonteeth's cave but not before the Adder kills the other two, Matthias kills the snake after it tries to hypnotise him, but Martin's spirit guides him, and Matthias rushes back to Redwall to save his friends after being alerted to the fall of the abbey by the Sparra tribe.
Cluny's horde tried to dig a tunnel under the Abbey walls, but Constance the badger pours boiling water into the tunnels. The horde of rats try a battering ram, but Jess Squirrel poured oil on it so the rats cannot grab onto it; Silent Sam threw down a barrel of hornets to chase the rats away. Cluny commands his horde to climb over the walls via a siege tower, but Cornflower throws a lantern on the tower. Cluny calls the flames small, and forces the rats into the fire. The tower topples and is engulfed in flames, which kills all the rats inside. After numerous attempts and failures, Cluny forces Plumpen, a captured dormouse, to open the gate by threatening his family. Plumpen complies and Cluny finally invades the abbey, taking all the Redwallers prisoner. His victory is short-lived, however; soon after he takes over the Abbey, Matthias returns. Matthias, his new allies which are the shrews of Mossflower and the whole Sparra tribe, and the assembled Redwall population turn on their captors. Cluny strikes his poison-barb tail at Abbot Mortimer, and next targets Friar Hugo. Matthias himself defeats Cluny by dropping the Joseph Bell on him, crushing him and cracking the bell in the process. However, a great deal of damage is done and there are many casualties. Abbot Mortimer, who was slashed by Cluny's poisoned barb, dies after proclaiming Matthias Warrior of Redwall and Brother Alf the new Abbot of Redwall.
The novel closes with an epilogue. Matthias has married the fieldmouse named Cornflower and she has given birth to their son, Mattimeo, an abbreviated version of his full name: Matthias Methuselah Mortimer. Also, Brother Alf is now the Abbot, and John Churchmouse, a resident of the Abbey, is now the Abbey recorder. The cracked Joseph Bell was made into two bells: the Matthias Bell, and the Methuselah Bell.
Characters in Redwall
- Cluny the Scourge
- Brother Methuselah
- Friar Hugo
- Constance the Badger
- Jess Squirrel
- Basil Stag Hare
- Silent Sam
- Dunwing Sparra
- Sela the Vixen
- Squire Julian Gingivere
- Captain Snow
- King Bull Sparra
- Warbeak Sparra
- Abbot Mortimer
- Cornflower Fieldmouse
- Brother Alf
As Redwall was the first book set in the Redwall world, many of the defining traits of the world had not yet been hammered out, and are different from all subsequent books in the series:
- Redwall appeared to take place in the real world. Cluny was referred to as a Portuguese water rat at one point. Additionally, Methuselah claimed that one of the accounts of Cluny comes from a town dog. The horse present in the early chapters was the size of a normal horse, and the wagon it pulled was scaled to the same size – an entire army of rats was able to ride in it. Also there was a mention of cows that trampled through a village. However, Brian Jacques did not expect the book to be published, and excluded references to humans and many larger animals in later books.
- Aside from the setting of the story—an Abbey with an abbot but no apparent religious observances—the St. Ninian's Church is the only reference to any kind of religion in any of the Redwall series, implying that at one point the residents of Mossflower practised Christianity. (Although later in the series, it is rumoured that originally, the sign outside the church said "This ain't Ninian's!", and some of the letters wore away.) Jacques firmly stated that the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey practice no religion of any kind. Cluny and his soldiers also mention Satan ("by Satan's nose" or "Hell's teeth"), referring to a belief in Hell. No other religious mentionings have happened in any of the later books. However, evil characters sometimes use the word "Hellgates" as a reference to death or dying. Dark Forest's Gates, or just Dark Forest refers to a place characters' souls go after death.
- Redwall is the only book in the entire series that makes any mention of domesticated animals. Animals mentioned in this book – but never again in the series – include horse, dog, cow, and pig. Additionally, the Abbot mentions a "village where the dog and pigs reside", perhaps implying human habitation. In the books following this, the world of Redwall is inhabited only by wild fauna. However, in Eulalia! an owl refers to a cow in a song he sings. Moreover, various kinds of milks and cheeses are consumed by the inhabitants of Redwall, though no direct description of such farming or manufacture is ever made.
- The beaver in Redwall is the only one to appear in the entire series. Its species has not been mentioned since.
- Bees can communicate in Redwall, indicated by a statement at the end of the book where the Guerilla Shrews learned to speak the bee language so they could trade and argue. This was not noted in other books.
- Foxes are indicated in Redwall as not inherently evil. It is mentioned that Abbot Mortimer used to trade tomes with "wandering healer foxes". Sela the vixen's brood of foxes was referred to as a bad lot, indicating that they were an exception and not the norm. In all later books, foxes are a "vermin" species.
- Brother Methuselah mentions that it was Martin who gave the first Foremole his title; however, in Mossflower, Foremole is already known as such before Martin's arrival, though this is most likely because Mossflower, Martin's debut book, was published after Redwall.
- In Redwall, the cat is scaled to real life compared to Matthias and Constance the Badger is depicted pulling a cart by herself, but in later books, badgers and wildcats are roughly the size of the other animals (if large).
- In Redwall, Guosim was a character, a member of the Guerilla Shrews. In later books, the shrews themselves were referred to as the Guosim, and no mention of the character Guosim was made, even in Mattimeo. The Shrews did not rename themselves after her, either, indicated by the fact that they were referred to as Guosim in books chronologically earlier than Redwall. Furthermore, while the shrews appear in Redwall as an independent tribe with no alliance with the other "good" creatures, in books chronologically earlier they are shown as frequent allies. Log-a-Log, in addition, is always shown as their chief, while he is a mere ferry-shrew in Redwall. The customs of the tribe also changed dramatically: In Redwall the Guosim are democratic and the actions of the tribe are carried out by votes. In the books following, there is no voting, in fact the actions of the tribe fall primarily on the chieftain's decision.
Awards and nominations
- Lancashire Libraries Children's Book of the Year Award
- Western Australian Young Readers' Award
Book divisions (English)
- Book 1: The Wall
- Book 2: The Quest
- Book 3: The Warrior
Select print publications:
- 1986, UK, Hutchinson Children's Books Ltd., ISBN 0-09-165090-9, Pub. Date: October 1986, Hardback
- 1987, USA, Philomel Books, ISBN 0-399-21424-0, Pub. Date: August 1987, Hardback
- 1987, UK, Red Fox, ISBN 0-09-951200-9, Pub. Date: September 1987, Paperback
- 1990, USA, Avon Books, ISBN 0-380-70827-2, Pub. Date: March 1990, Paperback
- 1997, USA, G P Putnam's Sons, ISBN 0-399-23160-9, Pub. Date: September 1997, Hardback
- 1998, USA, Ace, ISBN 0-441-00548-9, Pub. Date: June 1998, Paperback
- 2002, USA, Thorndike Press, ISBN 0-7862-3858-5, Pub. Date: February 2002, Hardback
- 2002, UK, Penguin Putnam Books, ISBN 0-14-230237-6, Pub. Date: September 2002, Paperback
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|Author||Brian Jacques, Stuart Moore|
|Illustrator||Bret Blevins, Richard Starkings|
|4 October 2007|
Redwall has been adapted into a graphic novel titled Redwall: The Graphic Novel.
Redwall was adapted into a musical called Redwall: The Legend of Redwall Abbey.
- (Dutch) De Roodburcht
- De Aanval
- De Zoektocht
- De Krijger
- (Finnish) Soturi Matiaksen Miekka
- (French) Rougemuraille: Cluny le fléau
- Tome 1 : Le Seigneur de la guerre
- Tome 2 : L'Épée légendaire
- Tome 3 : La Vipère géante
- (German) Redwall: Der Sturm auf die Abtei
- Die Mauer
- Die Suche
- Der Krieger
- (Lithuanian) Raudonmüris
- (Polish) Bitwa o Redwall
- (Swedish) Cluny Gisslaren
- (Russian) old version – Рэдволл, new version – Воин Рэдволла
- "Redwall by Brian Jacques | Scholastic". www.scholastic.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- "Redwall.org". Archived from the original on 9 July 2006. Retrieved 4 August 2006.
- Q&A with Brian Jacques, page 3, redwall.org. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
- Q&A with Brian Jacques, page 4, redwall.org. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
- "Brian Jacques at Puffin.co.uk". Retrieved 4 August 2006.
- Redwall: The Legend of Redwall Abbey
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A mammoth seven-month, 470-million-km (292,044-million-miles) journey is about to come to an end — in just a few short hours the Perseverance rover is scheduled to touch down on Mars.
But the hardest part of the journey is still to come. The descent down to the Red Planet, dubbed “seven minutes of terror” by NASA engineers, will see Perseverance slow its descent from a blistering 20,000km/h (12,427m/ph) down to a ‘slow walk’, before gently landing in Jezero Crater.
A NASA illustration showing the Perseverance heat shield separation, which will occur during descent today — Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA Mission Control expects to receive confirmation that it has hit the top of the Martian atmosphere at around 21:48 CET / 15:48 EST / 12:48 PST today. Telemetry collected by Perseverance during the descent will be relayed by an overflying satellite — the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and news of touchdown should arrive seven minutes later at around 21:55 CET / 15:55 EST /12:55 PST.
It’s possible the world might see the first images of Jezero Crater within a few minutes of landing.
We take immense pride in Camunda’s supporting role in space exploration and will be watching with bated breath during this critical phase of Perserverances’s historic mission.
NASA engineers will be closely following proceedings at mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and you can also watch the landing live on a number of NASA’s channels:
NASA: Spanish-language show
NASA JPL Raw: Clean feed of mission control on YouTube
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“Loveable Luke” is a stunning blue/gray pit bull, HW negative, neutered, vaccinated, 8 to 10 months old, and good with other dogs. Very much a silly, playful, active puppy! Please read his story below and like/share his facebook page and fundraising website. We are not a rescue group, so we are just trying to do the right thing for this very deserving pup by spreading the word of his needs!
This puppy was found after he was dumped in Houston, TX. Luke was dehydrated, skinny, and in horrible pain from a severe hookworm infestation that caused painful, ulcerated intestines and bloody diarrhea. Although many people just passed him by—leaving him to eventually die from the worms or get hit by a car on the busy street-- a wonderful man named Mario picked him up off the side of the road and took him to a nearby vet despite not knowing how he would cover the costs of care. Despite his condition, Luke was extremely loveable and friendly to Mario. Mario is an “animal lover” friend of mine, and he reached out to me to join him in helping Luke! Luke stayed at the vet for over a week getting fluids and intestinal support, but he still had lingering rear-end pain from all the trauma and was on several meds as well as stool softeners. Just before he was slated to leave the clinic, he had an extremely painful rectal prolapse from the trauma caused by the hookworms. So, we had a purse string surgery performed.
After post-surgery release from the vet clinic, Luke was quickly adopted. He continued treatment for the hookworms and trauma that lingered in his intestines. Despite treatment, he suffered a second rectal prolapse and adopter had vet perform a second purse string surgery along with more meds to reduce inflammation, more pain meds and continuing stool softeners. Shortly thereafter, the adopters returned Luke with a few days notice. As if finding a foster quickly was not enough of a challenge, we learned that Luke still yelps when he poops and suffers a partial prolapse each time..so, clearly something was still going on inside of him that needed to be resolved before he suffered another full prolapse or something even worse.
Mario rushed Luke to a specialist on Wednesday, June 6th. We knew it would be expensive, but this boy needed an expert to immediately diagnose the issue since 2 surgeries with regular vets and never-ending medicines have afforded little relief. The specialist performed a fecal and conducted an ultrasound. The GREAT NEWS is they did not see anything on the ultrasound, and the specialist thinks that Luke’s chronic problems are due to all the havoc created by the lingering worms, some infection, and the trauma-caused inflammation, and they removed the purse string stitch (guess the stitch was not dissolvable and caused more pain). Luke was sent home with a bag of various medicines, dewormers, stool softeners, and fiber supplements that appear to be helping heal his intestines.
Luke is officially up for adoption. He really is a great, crazy, silly puppy that loves life and people/dogs—he just needs to finish out his medication, stay on his science diet food for intestinal support for a little while longer, and take some daily Metamucil/stool softeners while he heals from the effect of the intestinal worms/parasites.

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We work in partnership with locally-based organisations in Africa and Asia to reduce poverty, injustice and inequality. We have a range of practical ways in which we support our partners, including the placement of international volunteers who share their skills, time and ideas.
Our programmes focus on four areas:
- Health Care– We work to ensure basic health care is implemented in rural areas and to ensure communities have access to health services.
- Education– works to enable marginalized communities to access education and all associated services.
- Sustainable livelihoods– We work to equip communities to meet their basic needs through sustainable livelihood innovations and income generation strategies.
- Active Citizenship – We Empower Individuals, Communities and vulnerable and most at risk populations to contribute towards their sustainable development as an important focus of our work.
- Climate Change – We support rural and urban communities in emergency preparedness, risk reduction and response through building resilience to disasters.
- Research – We strive to generate a pool of evidence to inform programming but also for sharing with stakeholders.

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Choosing the right weight loss foods is important if you are trying to lose weight. It’s important to choose foods that are high in nutrients and low in calories. It’s also important to choose foods that are easy to prepare and satisfy your taste buds.
What drink burns belly fat overnight?
Foods that are high in fiber, like avocados, can help you lose weight. These foods are loaded with fiber, which will stretch your stomach and help you feel full. They also contain unsaturated fats, which are good for your health.
Other foods that contain fiber, such as kale, can help you lose weight. These foods also contain antioxidants, which can help reduce inflammation. These fruits and vegetables contain a lot of vitamins, including vitamin A, B6, C, and E.
Grass-fed beef, chicken, and pork are great sources of protein. They are also rich in vitamins and minerals. It’s important to get plenty of protein to support healthy weight loss.
Broth, which can be made from chicken, beef, or vegetable stock, can be a great source of protein. It can also help you stay hydrated. Broth can contain anywhere from 1 to 9 grams of protein.
Nut butters, like peanut butter, can also provide a lot of protein. They pair well with most fruits.
Kamut, an ancient grain native to the Middle East, is a great weight loss food. It has high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which have been shown to reduce inflammation. It’s also low in calories and cholesterol.
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Date: Friday, 23 June 2017
Start: Camped by the trail at Hat Creek Rim Lookout at Mile 1388.2, 5121 ft
Finish: Burney Mountain Guest Ranch, 0.3 miles from Mile 1407.3, 3327 ft
Daily Miles: 19.1, + 0.3 to Ranch
Total PCT Miles: 867.0
Weather: Hot and sunny
Accommodation: Bunk in dorm (one other resident) at Burney Mountain Guest Ranch
Dinner: Brisket, potato salad, and salad, and ice cream
Aches: Right shoulder still giving me some trouble. I often have to walk with the shoulder strap loose on that side so that my left shoulder and waistbelt are taking all of the pack weight.
Highlight: Surviving the heat across the old lava fields and reaching my goal, the Burney Mountain Guest Ranch, at the relatively early hour of 4:00pm. I didn’t really realise how hot it was until I emerged from the air conditioned office back into the afternoon heat for the walk to my dorm.
Lowlight: The heat.
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Another restless night for some reason. I’m in my new tent, and not using the fly sheet so that I am sleeping under the stars, but I doubt that explains it. I think it may be more an issue of temperature, where it is still quite warm when I retire, but cools rapidly after the sun sets, meaning I am constantly adjusting my sleeping bag to compensate during the night.
Anyway, I was up at 5:45am and on the trail at 6:30am, with the goal of reaching the Burney Mountain Guest Ranch, 19 miles away, where I should be able to get a bed, meals, a shower, and do a load of laundry. The trail had no water available for the first 15 miles (though one report said there was a farm pond after 5 miles), and was to continue along the Hat Creek Rim, before crossing a relatively recent lava field. It was going to be exposed and it was going to be hot, so I knew that I was going to need to just keep plugging away and drinking plenty.
Mistakenly, I decided to trust that I would be able to get water after 5 miles, but when I reached the farm pond it looked extremely unappetizing, with green scum on top and cow tracks all around. I decided to trust that I could cover the next 11 miles on the one litre I had left, and kicked myself for not carrying more from where I was camped. The going was relatively easy, apart from the rocky/dusty surface, and I continued to stumble frequently, but didn’t fall. The trail along the escarpment continued to give good views to Mt Shasta (getting closer) and Lassen Volcano (falling away behind), and across the Hat Creek valley.
In late morning, the trail descended westward from the escarpment, and began crossing an old lava field, with little shade, and occasionally very rocky trail. With the lower elevation came warmer temperatures. But, I was a man on a mission, and despite growing thirst, just tried to keep up a good pace, and was thankful for my new slightly broader-rimmed hat. With 7 miles to go to water, I drank half a litre and decided to drink the rest after another four miles, but two miles later came across two large water containers left by a trail angel. Fantastic! They were in the sun, so the water was warm, but I still drank 1.5 litres and added a litre to my supplies, before continuing on.
With three miles to go, I reached a stream and immediately filled my hat with icy cold water and just poured it over my head and shoulders. Magic! For the last three miles, the terrain changed, and started with a walk past a small hydro power station, and then alongside Baum Lake, which was quite pleasant, apart from the mosquitoes. The last mile or so, though, was climbing away from the lake and it got very hot again. I was very glad to reach the Guest Ranch (which is very Christian-themed……the WiFi password is ‘living4Jesus’) and was welcomed by the owner with a cup of ice cream. As with the last Guest Ranch I stayed at, everything is done on an honesty system with ready access to the small store and keeping your own tab until checkout.
I have a bunk in a small comfortable dorm and have showered and laundered my clothes as well as enjoying the set-meal dinner. It’s going to be hot again tomorrow. There are about ten PCT hikers here, mostly camped in the shade of trees, but I don’t think many of them hiked today. The exception was the Canadian girl from Toronto, who I have met a number of times in the last month, who came in an hour after me.
It’s going to be hot again tomorrow.

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Early wheat endures
Published 04/26/2012, Grand Forks Herald
The earliest spring wheat planted in the region in years looks pretty good, despite enduring below-freezing temperatures for 12 of its first 40 days, including a cool 28 degrees in the early hours Thursday.Word count: 630
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The Enquirer has been answering questions about the Affordable Care Act this year. So has Kaiser Health News, and this one caught our attention – given questions about whether your policy can be cancelled under Obamacare. A reader asked Kaiser’s Michelle Andrews this question: I have a question about the grandfathered status of my health […]
Getting young people to sign up for Obamacare is one of the crucial elements in making the program work, since they tend to be healthy and since a higher proportion of them don’t have health insurance. And there a lot of them. In 2012, 18 million Americans from ages 19 to 34 accounted for 40 […]
Bloomberg is reporting that the Department of Health and Human Services is set to announce that it will change the 2015 open enrollment period for the new federal health-care exchanges. The changes won’t impact the open enrollment that’s under way now and was first launched in October, according to Bloomberg’s report, which has been picked […]
There are more entry points than ever into the $2 trillion health care market – thanks to lots of changes spurred by the Patient Protection and Affordable Act. Enquirer’s Josh Pichler’s piece Thursday highlighted a host of innovators working to capitalize on the health care changes under way. “The ACA created its own opportunities. It’s also […]
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GST Registration Documents
Sole proprietorship firms accounted for 62.5% of the total number of companies operating in India in 2014. A business entity registering for sole proprietorship will have only one individual with ownership rights and carry all the liabilities of the same. It is by far one of the most popular business models in the country, especially among small and medium industries in India.
It’s practically more convenient to register a business for sole proprietorship instead of limited liability companies or other business firms. The business owner has to conform to minimum compliance and can complete the registration process within 10-15 days. It is also relatively less expensive as there are no corporate taxes involved in such businesses.
Starting from 25th June 2017, any sole proprietorship selling goods or services is mandated to complete their GST registration. Business entities that fall under the following criteria will have to register themselves under the Goods and Services Tax-
- If they are selling goods in states other than the registered state.
- Sole proprietorship firms that sell products via e-commerce platforms.
- Distributors of taxable goods and services.
- Businesses that have a turnover of more than Rs. 40 Lakh in a year.
- Proprietorship that trade with manufacturers and suppliers with GSTIN are also required to register for GST. It will allow them to avail input credits against their purchases.
Let’s we take a detailed view on how one can become a proprietor, following these simple steps and what will be the advantages of owning a sole proprietorship.
You May Read: Penalty for Late Filing GST Return
How to become a proprietor?
Any individual selling goods or services can initiate their business with a sole proprietorship. The implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) has further simplified the registration process for such organisations. The owner is not liable to pay service tax, VAT, or any other indirect taxes as all these have been unified under the GST.
An individual can complete the entire application process online through the dedicated GST web portal. Furthermore, the minimum documents required for GST registration of a sole proprietorship firm also helps keep the process streamlined and time-saving. Here is the list of documents required to complete the GST registration procedure in India.
- PAN card of the sole proprietor.
- A cancelled cheque or bank statement copy.
- A recent passport-sized photograph.
- Documents like Aadhaar Card, passport, driving licence, etc. which will act as ID and address proof of the individual.
- No Objection Certificate of the property where the proprietor wants to register the business.
The simple documents required for GST registration makes it easier for new businesses to list themselves as a sole proprietorship in India.
You May Read: Recent Changes on GST Amendment Acts
The registration process for a sole proprietorship firm
After preparing all the documents required for the registration, the proprietor will have to fill up the registration form in the GST web portal. Generally, the GST number will be allocated within 3 to 4 days of application.
Advantages of owning a sole proprietorship
There are several advantages of a business entity that operates as a sole proprietorship. Let’s take a look. But it is necessary to know what actually is the meaning of the term “sole proprietorship”. A sole proprietorship is a business entity that is owned and fully controlled by an individual only. The most common advantages of owning a sole proprietorship is that these kinds of firms are easy to maintain and form as well. However with the advantages some disadvantages are also involved in the concept of sole proprietorship. The biggest disadvantage of owning a sole proprietorship is that as in that kind of business, an owner is personally liable for his/her business, a complete loss by chance could vanish all, while on the other hand, if you own a business in partnership, the loss and profit will not incur more loss on only the one person as you may also understand that 50% investment may not lead 100% loss of your finances. However these disadvantages could be negligible, if one holding sole proprietorship has business mind and know how to deal with these situations if occurs.
- High market credibility – Sole proprietorship are likely to enjoy higher market credibility as they are identified as an organised business by the Government of India. It will allow them to avail raw materials and financing with relative ease.
- Easier taxation – Sole proprietorship firms can avail standard GST rates as well as exemptions. For example, an organisation with less than Rs. 40 Lakh of revenue per year will be exempted from GST, whereas the rest will fall under four tax slabs of 5%, 12%, 18%, and 28% as per the GST Act.
- Availability of better business infrastructure – A sole proprietorship will have to comply with easier regulations to avail better infrastructure for individual ownership. They are also likely to get the GST benefits provided under the MSME Act.
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The standardized GST rate in India allows the business to stay within a pre-set tax slab as well as earn the benefits of the unified taxation system. The increased market credibility also helps businesses ensure their growth during their operation.
Sole proprietorship firms that are registered with GST can enjoy better market credibility, benefit from the unified taxation system and exemptions offered by the GST Act, and avail better business infrastructure and employee hiring benefits in the long run. Even for entities that earn revenues less than Rs. 40 Lakh per annum should register for GST to clearly define their expenses and save money while filing Income Tax Returns.
A business owner can easily list their company thanks to the simple GST registration procedure in India. The simplified online application process and minimum documents required for GST registration make it easier for entities to register their business.

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Operation HOPE and 1MBB are moving like a train, constantly gaining speed, and we’re showing no signs of slowing down. This week, the brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated announced their formal partnership with Operation HOPE’s 1 Million Black Businesses initiative. They have committed to backing, supporting, and standing up 1,000 businesses over the next decade and are in enthusiastic pursuit of that goal.
During the live virtual event which announced the partnership, the international president of Phi Beta Sigma, President Micheal Cristal, explained how spurring entrepreneurship in the Black community is embedded in the very fabric of the organization and has been since its earliest years. The program, which seeks to launch one million Black businesses over the next ten years, aligns with the organization’s purpose, goals, and mandate to help uplift and strengthen Black communities across the nation and help promote the social good of all.
Phi Beta Sigma is the first of the historic and famed Divine 9 Black Greek letter organizations to join our movement. Although they are the first, we are confident and hopeful that they won’t be the last. President Cristal challenged and encouraged other leaders and member organizations of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) to join the 1MBB movement and support it in their own way.
This announcement comes on the heels of our first formal 1MBB partnership with Clark Atlanta University, the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) to align themselves with our mission. The trifecta of the Black church, Black institutions of higher education, and Black Greek letter organizations finding value, worth, and alignment with 1MBB tells the importance and gravity of this moment. As a community, we are beginning to shift the paradigm and thinking from a consumer to a producer.
We are ushering in a renaissance of thought and action towards realizing our potential as a community by betting on ourselves and leveraging the economic opportunity afforded to us by the American capitalist system.
While we have great energy around 1MBB, we want to keep the momentum going. We are always welcoming new institutional, educational, religious, community, and business partners in our endeavor to stand up 1 million Black businesses over the next ten years.
We look forward to you being a part of this community paradigm shift and Third Reconstruction in America.