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INVESTING IN PPPS FOR HEALTH
By: Deputy Executive Director Mia Mary G. Sebastian
The health and economic crisis brought by the covid-19 pandemic has thrust a renewed spotlight on the urgent need to invest in health care delivery. In the Philippines, the timely passage of the Universal Health Care Act in 2019 serves as the legislative and regulatory framework for much-needed reforms in the health care system. Responding to this significant development, the PPP Center has identified health as one of its priority sectors for PPP development and implementation. In March 2019, the PPP Center, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, organized a forum on “Fostering Universal Health Care through PPPs”. This event provided greater momentum as the PPP Center assisted various implementing agencies in the continued development and expansion of their health PPP project pipeline.
The World Health Organization defines “universal health care” (UHC) to mean “all people [having] access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. It includes the full range of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care.” As a component of UHC, the government needs to ensure resiliency in health care systems that can adapt to both standard scenarios (i.e. health care system requirements relative to population, demographics, and level of economic development) and emergency circumstances such as outbreaks and pandemics. To achieve this, the government has to formulate effective policy reforms and invest in health care facilities and services.
As investments in health care can entail significant costs to the public sector, PPP is one of the possible delivery mechanisms for the government to achieve UHC and ensure resilient health care systems. The public sector also stands to benefit from the efficiency gains, innovation, and expertise that the private sector can bring to health care systems.
In a PPP scheme, the government can tap the private sector’s financial, operational, and management efficiencies in delivering quality and cost-efficient health services. The PPP scheme is structured to ensure proper alignment of incentives and optimal risk sharing, with the private sector undertaking the construction, operations, and maintenance in a whole-of-life approach. Accountability is then set through performance-based contractual provisions. On the part of the government, strong governance structure, capacity building, and change management are essential given the shift in its role as over-all provider of health care facilities and services to supervision of the private sector’s tasks in a long-term PPP contractual arrangement.
PPP Project Structures
Health PPPs can be structured with general variations on the type of services included in the PPP arrangement, the scope of the tasks of the private sector partner (PSP), the roles retained by the government, and repayment mechanisms to the PSP.
Integrated health PPP or concession PPP. The PSP is tasked to design, build or renovate, finance, operate, and maintain either a new or an existing health care facility. The operations of both clinical and non-clinical services, including the provision of health care workers and the purchase of equipment, and the maintenance of the entire facility are transferred to the PSP.
Infrastructure PPP. The PSP is tasked to design, build or renovate, finance, and maintain either a new or an existing health care facility. In comparison with an integrated health PPP structure, the operations of the clinical services, including the provision of health care workers, remain with the government in an infrastructure PPP structure. The operations of the non-clinical services and the provision of medical equipment can be transferred to the PSP.
Services PPP. The operations and maintenance of clinical and/or non-clinical services can be transferred to the PSP in a services PPP structure. Clinical services pertain to medical, diagnostic (such as laboratory, imaging, and hemodialysis), therapeutic, and emergency services. Non-clinical services include information technology systems, admissions and billing, electronic patient records, and other ancillary services. The PSP can also be responsible for certain capital investment (such as construction, extension, or rehabilitation of facilities) and provision of equipment.
In these PPP structures, the possible repayment mechanism to the PSP includes availability payments from the government and/or revenues from the operations of the health care facility and services. The PSP can also earn from the operations of allowed commercial activities.
Implementing Agencies in Health PPPs
There are various government implementing agencies that can undertake health PPPs as a way to deliver quality and cost-efficient health care services.
Department of Health (DOH) is primarily responsible for the formulation, planning, implementation, and coordination of policies and programs in the field of health. While the Local Government Code provides for the devolution of basic services, including health, to local government units, DOH also operates or supervises certain retained hospitals (e.g. hospitals in Metro Manila that are maintained by DOH’s Personnel Administration Division, specialty hospitals in Metro Manila, and regional hospitals across the Philippines). DOH has already initiated the development of a pipeline of health PPP projects in several retained hospitals.
The PPP Center and DOH (central office and regional hospitals) jointly conducted business cases for the development, operations, and maintenance of hemodialysis centers, including the provision of equipment, via PPP mode in two DOH regional hospitals – the Cagayan Valley Medical Center and the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center. Given this specialized health diagnostic service, the PPP Center and DOH consulted the National Kidney Transplant Institute on its lease arrangement for its hemodialysis services.
The PPP Center’s Project Development and Monitoring Facility (PDMF) also has an approved funding support for the project preparation and transaction advisory for the PPP projects of two DOH regional hospitals – the Mariveles Mental Wellness Center in Bataan and the Bicol Medical Center’s Medical Arts Building and Upgrading of Health Services.
State universities and colleges (SUCs), particularly those which have colleges of medicine and/or health care facilities, can also implement their health infrastructure and services via PPP. The University of the Philippines (UP) is leading the initiative with the development of two health PPP projects in its Diliman and Manila campuses. The UP Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Diliman Project, which is supported by the PPP Center’s PDMF, involves the development of a tertiary care hospital with outpatient services, medical research center, school of medicine, and other ancillary facilities. The UP PGH Manila Cancer Center Project aims to develop and establish the first comprehensive cancer center in the Philippines.
Local government units (LGUs), which are the frontliners in the delivery of health care services to their communities, can undertake PPPs to develop, rehabilitate, and improve the operations and maintenance of primary health care facilities and services (such as barangay and city health centers) and local secondary and tertiary hospitals. With the wide-ranging responsibility of LGUs over health services, they can also consider developing an integrated health care system via PPP with linkages between primary and specialized care.
The covid-19 pandemic illustrates the need for solidarity to ensure effective response against the resulting health and economic crisis. As the government continues to plan for the long-term and invest in sustainable and quality infrastructure, the private sector serves as a critical partner that can provide innovation, technology, and financing to critical health care facilities and services. Thus, engaging the private sector via health PPPs can support the efforts of the government to promote UHC, ensure sufficient investments in the health care system, and implement the path for economic recovery and resiliency. To support these goals, the PPP Center is committed to enhancing the enabling environment for health PPPs, including assisting the implementing agencies in the development and implementation of their priority health PPP projects.

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Ivy Landry is a Abbeville High graduate, turned coach, turned principal who's proud to represent his alma mater.
Principal Landry says over the past few years his staff and students have worked hard, evident by the schools recent upgrade from a 'D' rated school to a 'B' rated school. In moving forward Landry says one of the biggest changes students will see this year will be in technology.
Landry says currently his school does a lot online, on nooks and iPads. And this year they will see more technology in terms of technology in the classroom. Principal Landry has so much to be proud of, and that includes the Abbeville High marching band.
Band director Tim Farnsworth says he has a great group of students this year and they work very hard, something very evident given the dedication of the students and their band leaders. Farnsworth says band members get to band camp at 7:30 in the morning, start band practice at 7:45 sharp and practice in the heat until 4:30.
Farnsworth is looking forward to the upcoming school year which starts August 12th.


I have two friends with the Echo 1 M28 and it is almost impressive I guess you could say. One friends gun was shipped to him and it didn't work right off the bat cause either the gun or (both) mags had a feeding problem. They did send him a new one for free though and that one works alright for now. The other friend had one that worked but broke over time. Sadly, it didn't break the whole gun, just little parts of it that made it the most annoying gun to use in the world. Sometimes it would slam-fire, sometimes the slightest touch of the trigger would shoot it, sometimes the trigger would get stuck and to shoot it you had to push the trigger forward, and sometimes, it wouldn't shoot and you had to pull the safety back and forth and pushing it back into "fire" would make it shoot. Needless to say, when I was using this, it cost me a lot of kills and got me killed more often than I want to admit. Seriously the most annoying thing ever. When it does work though, its an alright gun.


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Ratings for Dr. David S. Eingorn
This will be brief and fair. I USED to dread going to MBO due to wait time. However, lately it seems they are more timely and less over booked. That said, Dr. Eingorn replaced both of my knees. One two years ago, which is TOTALLY pain free and the scar is a beautiful as a scar can be. He did my right knee on 11/20/17 and I am on my way to same results. He is an AMAZING surgeon, and I could not be more pleased. He is also a sweetie, which is a rare find in an orthopedic surgeon! I have had many procedures done over the years, and I know good vs. bad results. He is the best!!!!
Dr. Eingorn is a nice person but needs to start thinking about retirement. I had a Bi Lateral Knee Replacement which he ruined my life. I lost my job became disabled living in pain for a year. Recently I had a revision done by a different surgeon to fix my crooked kner that was put in wrong.
I gave Dr Eignor a punctuality of 3 but its not his fault. Patients need to pay extra money if they are late for an appoinment. Dr Eignorn is very thorough in explaination of you illness and tries to keep you pain free as best he can. He is sopopular it is sometimes diffcult to get an appoinment so forget about the times after work for your convienience. I wouldnt of wanted anyones else to operate on my shoulder but him. He explained in detail what would happen during th eprocedure and what is the actual problem itself. Again, A+ for Dr Eignorn!!
Dr. David S. Eingorn's Credentials
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The US Air Force’s Theater Battle Control Division that manages the Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar Rapid (3DELRR) program has awarded Lockheed Martin an $8.4 million contract to integrate the new ground-based radar as part of the program.
Program officials said the main intent of the integration effort is to develop, test and field interfaces allowing the radar system to transmit data to other command and control nodes.
3DELRR will be the air force’s principal ground-based sensor for long-range surveillance, detection and tracking of aerial targets in support of theater commanders and will replace the AN/TPS-75 currently in service.
The 3DELRR team selected Lockheed for integration after evaluating three commercially available, production-ready, and deployable long-range systems during a series of live-fly demonstrations this past September.
The service announced its decision on April 7 after awarding Lockheed, Northrop Grumman and Australia’s CEA Technologies $500,000 each for the 3DELRR rapid prototyping in May 2020.
“The 3DELRR team is using a middle tier acquisition approach (SpeedDealer) to rapidly procure and field long-range radar systems to the warfighter,” said Col. Michael Harm, the division’s senior materiel leader.
“SpeedDealer” is an acquisition strategy unveiled in January 2020, to take advantage of advances in technology to replace the TPS-75 radar with production-ready systems.
The team is currently evaluating other offers and could award a second integration contract in the coming months if an agreement can be reached that’s in the best interest of the air force, said Lt. Col. Matthew Judge, 3DELRR deputy program manager.
As no procurement funds are currently available, the potential of a second integration award would maintain competitive pressure through the next year until funds are available, the service said.
“If we do award another integration contract, while we intend to award production options to only one of the companies next year, our strategy allows us to award to multiple companies if that makes the most sense,” Judge said. “We are excited to be moving forward with providing the warfighter a radar to detect modern threats.”
The current contract includes production options for up to 35 long-range radar systems.
The 3DELRR program office at Hanscom Air Force Base expects the selected system or systems to be fully deployable by 2024.

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Posted in Our Blog on May 17, 2013
Hats off! to Councilmen James Gray and LaToya Cantrell of the New Orleans City Council, who sponsored a resolution demanding accountability and transparency from Sheriff Marlin Gusman’s office when detaining suspected illegal immigrants in jail longer than necessary. The resolution passed 6-0 and, per Richard Rainey of The Times-Picayune: “…demanded he [Gusman] stop keeping immigrants or suspected immigrants in jail just because federal immigration officials suspect they might be in the country illegally.”
It is simply outrageous that a law enforcement agency could keep somebody in jail after they have posted bond and should otherwise be allowed to leave, if an outside agency suspects they are in the country illegally. Kudos to the City Council for demanding that Gusman and the Sheriff’s Office agree to ignore the legally-perilous wishes of ICE (the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency). Gusman said that he would “consider” the resolution.
Let’s hope that Sheriff Gusman does more than “consider” it, and heeds it, showing proper respect to the City Council and the susepcted-but NOT charged-immigrants being detained. This is a measure that simply makes sense-Sheriff Gusman must either agree to ignore ICE orders for detaining suspected illegal immigrants without charging them of same, OR spell out exactly under which conditions he will detain suspected illegal immigrants. The Council is asking, in essence, for transparency. And that is something we desperately need from our law enforcement officials. That this resolution would also save a substantial amount of public money by not forcing jails to house these individuals would simply be icing on the cake.

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We are proud of our, CEO, James Conlon, as he pledged £10,000 to help Northern Ireland schools with their ‘Holiday Hunger’ school meals during holiday periods. James has urged other businesses and business leaders to get involved.
This follows the Department of Education’s announcement that it was stopping the payments for children entitled to free school meals. The school holiday food grant was to help low-income families with the cost of feeding children. Since July 2020, families of 96,000 children eligible for free school meals have received £27 per child each fortnight during school holidays. The department said that it was ending the scheme “with great reluctance” due to a lack of funding, this means that families will not receive the payments for the Easter school holidays, which are due to begin today in many schools.
Niavac hope that other business leaders follow James’ generosity.


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The Kaduna state Governor Mallam, Nasir El- Rufai, has applauded his state’s success rate in fighting COVID-19.
El-Rufai disclosed this during an executive committee meeting with traditional rulers from the nineteen northern States. The focus of the meeting, which was chaired by the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, 111 was to discuss the security and socio-economic challenges confronting the region particularly in the southern part of the state.
El-Rufai said, “We have a very high success rate in treating COVID-19 patients. Even a 90-year-old person with underlying conditions, diabetes and hypertension was treated successfully in the state.
“The virus has not left us. We may ignore it, but it is still there. We urge you to sensitise our people to protect themselves against this virus, particularly those that are above the age of 60.
“It costs about N400,000 to treat one Coronavirus patient. They have to be isolated and fed. The cost of medicine has increased, even the personal protective equipment that the doctors treating them have to wear. When you add all this up, the average cost of treatment is over N400,000 per person. We have to bear the cost.”
He also called on northern traditional rulers to be at the forefront of campaigns to avoid the spread of the coronavirus in the region, emphasizing that the cost of treating COVID-19 patients is very expensive.


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Fri 20 Mar 2020
COVID-19 – Support for Businesses
The Government has put in place a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19.
This includes a package of measures to support businesses including:
- a statutory sick pay relief package for SMEs
- a 12-month business rates holiday for all retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in England
- small business grant funding of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief
- grant funding of £25,000 for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses with property with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000
- the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme offering loans of up to £5 million for SMEs through the British Business Bank
- a new lending facility from the Bank of England to help support liquidity among larger firms, helping them bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows through loans
- the HMRC Time To Pay Scheme
More information about these measures can be found at:
The measures relating to business rates are being administered by local authorities or in the case of East Cambridgeshire Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP) who collect business rates on the Councils behalf.
Small business grant funding of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief
The government will provide additional funding for local authorities to support small businesses that already pay little or no business rates because of small business rate relief (SBBR). This will provide a one-off grant of £10,000 to businesses currently eligible for SBRR or rural rate relief, to help meet their ongoing business costs.
If your business is eligible for SBRR or rural rate relief, you will be contacted by your local authority – you do not need to apply.
Update 25th March: The Council is currently working with Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP), who collect business rates on the Councils behalf, to compile a list of companies that are eligible for grant funding. A letter will be sent out via email where we have email addresses or post to all potential recipients as they will need to confirm that receiving the grant doesn’t break state aid rules. Once the Council received this confirmation, payments will be processed.
Business rates holiday for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses
A business rates retail holiday for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in England has been introduced for the 2020 to 2021 tax year.
Businesses that received the retail discount in the 2019 to 2020 tax year will be rebilled by their local authority as soon as possible.
Update 25th March: Business Rates bills for 2020/2021 have already been sent out to East Cambridgeshire businesses, but ARP will send out new bills for 2020/2021 as soon as possible to all businesses eligible for the business rates holiday. Businesses do not need to apply or contact ARP to get the relief.
You are eligible for the business rates holiday if:
- Your business is based in England.
- Your business is in the retail, hospitality and/or leisure sector.
Properties that will benefit from the relief will be occupied hereditaments that are wholly or mainly being used:
- as shops, restaurants, cafes, drinking establishments, cinemas and live music venues
- for assembly and leisure
- as hotels, guest & boarding premises and self-catering accommodation
How to access the scheme
There is no action for you. This will apply to your next council tax bill in April 2020. However, local authorities may have to reissue your bill automatically to exclude the business rate charge. They will do this as soon as possible.
You can estimate the business rate charge you will no longer have to pay this year using the business rates calculator.
Cash grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses
A £25,000 grant will be provided to retail, hospitality and leisure businesses operating from smaller premises, with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000.
Any enquiries on eligibility for, or provision of, the grants/rate relief should be directed to:
Or telephone: - 01842 756568

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Why I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Mt. Elbert
There is no direct connection between this book selection and this next mountain. Like Pikes Peak, I’m introducing this book because it parallels where I am at in the inner journey of this year. Starting with Sandstone Peak, I introduced the topics of depression and suicide. I followed this theme on Pikes with the selection of The Bell Jar by an author, Sylvia Plath, who was not able to fight her way out from depression. I picked this first autobiographical novel by one of my personal heroes, Maya Angelou, because it’s the opposite story of a woman who finds her way through devastating life events to become one of the most distinctive voices of our nation. One of Angelou’s most famous poems, And Still I Rise, epitomizes her spirit to overcome seemingly impossible barriers. I have included the full poem at the bottom of this page.
Ms. Angelou’s books and voice have been a beacon to me through the years. So much so, that when I was doing cognitive work on myself, I identified four disruptive, negative behaviors that I repeat. I named these after literary characters so that I could identify with them and I’ve been discussing them in my blogs as the books appear with those characters. I was also advised to then pick a name for my higher self – my best self. The self that overcomes these negative behaviors. I called this self in me Maya. One as a tribute to my connection to the earth (Maya is the Mayan word for Earth). Second, as a tribute to Ms. Angelou. May I aspire to rise as she did each day.
A high moment in my life was getting to shake this amazing woman’s hand at a book signing and having her sign my first edition of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It’s one of my most cherished books, along with the other signed books I have by this outstanding author and woman.
More About I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of the great American writer and poet Maya Angelou. Her unique voice was lost to the world in May of 2014. The first in a seven-volume series, Caged Bird is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.
Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Reviewers often categorize Caged Bird as autobiographical fiction because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, but the prevailing critical view characterizes it as an autobiography, a genre she attempts to critique, change, and expand. The book covers topics common to autobiographies written by Black American women in the years following the Civil Rights Movement: a celebration of Black motherhood; a critique of racism; the importance of family; and the quest for independence, personal dignity, and self-definition.
Caged Bird was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970 and remained on The New York Times paperback bestseller list for two years. It has been used in educational settings from high schools to universities, and the book has been celebrated for creating new literary avenues for the American memoir. However, the book’s graphic depiction of childhood rape, racism, and sexuality has caused it to be challenged or banned in some schools and libraries.
When selecting a title, Angelou turned to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet whose works she had admired for years. Jazz vocalist and civil rights activist Abbey Lincoln suggested the title. According to Lyman B. Hagen, the title pulls Angelou’s readers into the book while reminding them that it is possible to both lose control of one’s life and to have one’s freedom taken from them. Angelou has credited Dunbar, along with Shakespeare, with forming her “writing ambition”. The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy”:
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,
When he beats his bars and would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –
I know why the caged bird sings.
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

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Hopes and dreams are essential aspects of human life. They help us to envision the future we want and motivate us to work towards achieving our aspirations. Having hopes and dreams is crucial to discovering our purpose and fulfilling our potential. This article explores the benefits of having hopes and dreams and provides tips on how to identify and set achievable goals.
Personal Story: How Hopes and Dreams Played a Role in My Life
Growing up, I had a passion for writing and wanted to become a published author. However, as I got older, I started to lose confidence in my abilities due to negative feedback from others. I began to believe that my dream was unrealistic and unachievable. Eventually, I stopped writing entirely.
However, after some time and self-reflection, I realized that I needed to pursue my dream, regardless of the opinions of others. I began to write again and eventually self-published my first novel. This experience taught me the importance of having hopes and dreams as a driving force towards achieving personal growth.
Benefits of Having Hopes and Dreams
Having hopes and dreams has numerous benefits, including:
- Providing motivation and purpose
- Encouraging personal growth and development
- Fostering creativity and innovation
- Developing resilience and perseverance
- Cultivating a positive outlook on life
Setting achievable and realistic goals is crucial in reaping such benefits. Below are some practical tips on goal setting.
Practical Tips for Identifying and Setting Achievable Goals
Take time to reflect on your core values and aspirations. This will help you determine what matters most to you and give insight into what goals you should set.
2. Be Specific
Set clear and specific goals that are realistic and achievable. Avoid broad or vague goals that can be overwhelming or difficult to measure progress.
3. Develop a Plan of Action
Break down your goals into manageable and actionable steps. This will help you stay motivated and accountable towards achieving your goals.
4. Track Your Progress
Keep a record of your progress towards achieving your goals. Tracking your progress will help you celebrate your successes and adjust your plan as needed.
The Role of Perseverance and Resilience
Perseverance and resilience are essential qualities necessary for achieving one’s hopes and dreams. Many accomplished figures in history have faced setbacks and obstacles before achieving success. Below are some examples of individuals who have demonstrated perseverance and resilience:
- J.K. Rowling faced numerous rejections before becoming a best-selling author
- Walt Disney overcame bankruptcy, lawsuits, and other setbacks before creating his media empire
- Oprah Winfrey overcame poverty and adversity to become a successful media mogul and philanthropist
Societal Expectations vs. Personal Aspirations
Society often imposes expectations on individuals that may not align with their personal aspirations. It is essential to differentiate between societal expectations and one’s values and beliefs. Taking control of our hopes and dreams can help us discover our true purpose and passion in life.
The Relationship between Hopes and Dreams and Personal Fulfillment
Personal fulfillment comes from achieving goals that are aligned with one’s values and beliefs. Having hopes and dreams can help guide us towards fulfilling our potential, leading us towards long-term contentment and satisfaction.
Tips for Maintaining a Positive Outlook
Maintaining a positive outlook is crucial when pursuing one’s hopes and dreams. Obstacles and setbacks are inevitable, but a positive attitude can help us overcome them. Below are some tips for maintaining a positive outlook:
- Practice gratitude to focus on the positive aspects of life
- Surround yourself with a supportive network of people
- Take care of your physical and mental health
- Focus on progress, not perfection
- Hopes and dreams are essential for personal growth and motivation
- Setting realistic and achievable goals is crucial for realizing the benefits of having hopes and dreams
- Perseverance and resilience are essential qualities necessary for achieving one’s hopes and dreams
- Society often imposes expectations on individuals that may not align with their personal aspirations
- Personal fulfillment comes from achieving goals that are aligned with one’s values and beliefs
- Maintaining a positive outlook is crucial when pursuing one’s hopes and dreams
Having hopes and dreams is vital to discovering our purpose and fulfilling our potential. Setting achievable goals and developing perseverance and resilience are crucial components of achieving personal growth. By taking control of our hopes and dreams, we can differentiate between societal expectations and our values and beliefs, leading us towards long-term contentment and fulfillment.
Why are hopes and dreams important?
Hopes and dreams provide motivation, encourage personal growth, and help cultivate a positive outlook on life, leading to long-term contentment and fulfillment.
How can I identify and set achievable goals?
By self-reflecting on your core values and aspirations, setting specific and realistic goals, developing a plan of action, and tracking your progress towards achieving them.
How can I maintain a positive outlook when pursuing my hopes and dreams?
By practicing gratitude, surrounding yourself with supportive individuals, taking care of your physical and mental health, and focusing on progress, not perfection.

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We’ve all seen the moon glowing in the sky before, and it has fascinated people since the dawn of humanity.
With its different phases and glowing appearance in the sky, it has featured in many myths, mythologies and art such as poetry, film, painting and drawing.
If you have ever gazed with wonder up at the moon and wanted to immortalize it in your own artwork, you may have wondered just how to capture it properly in your drawing, and this guide is here to show you how.
We created this step-by-step guide on how to draw a moon in just 6 steps to have you drawing one with no hassle!
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How to Draw A Moon – Let’s get Started!
This first step in our guide on how to draw a moon, we’ll start simple with a perfect circle. For this step, we will be using a light pencil to draw it which we will erase a bit later.
Drawing a perfect circle freehand can be pretty difficult, so there are some tools you can use to make it easier.
A drawing compass is the best tool to use if you have one. These tools have a sharp point that you can use to rotate around to draw a perfect circle easily.
Step 2 – Draw a second circle
In this second step of your moon drawing, we shall continue using a pencil as you did in the previous step.
This circle will be mostly within the first one you drew with just a small slice of it outside the original circle.
Using the reference image will be very helpful for the placement of this second circle, and as you can probably see this will be to help us draw a crescent moon a little later on.
Step 3 – Next, start to draw in the moon
In this step of our guide on how to draw a moon, we shall start drawing in some of the final lines.
There’s a moon shape already within the two circles, so in this step you shall erase the parts that won’t be a part of the final moon shape.
Once you’re left with the crescent moon shape as it appears in the reference image, carefully go over the pencil lines in pen and then erase the remaining pencil lines.
Once you’ve drawn in pen, be sure to let the ink dry fully before starting to erase!
Step 4 – Draw in some star details for your moon
Now that you have the main part of your moon drawing, we can start to add some fun details! We shall be drawing in some little stars in this step.
In our example, we drew in three stars around the moon, but you should feel free to draw in as many as you like!
You could also change up the style, size or shape of the stars to look how you’d like them to. There are no wrong answers here and you should do any details that you love!
Step 5 – Now, add in some final touches
Your moon drawing is very nearly complete, so let’s take it over the finish line with some final details in this final step.
In our example, we drew in two small clouds underneath the moon to give it a more atmospheric look.
This is another step where you could get a bit creative with it and change up these details as you like!
You could make the clouds bigger, change the shape or even get crafty and use some cotton balls to stick on and make some 3D clouds!
What fun touches and details do you think you will use to finish up your moon drawing?
Step 6 – Finish off your moon with some color
In this final step of our guide on how to draw a moon, you’ll have the chance to really show us your creativity!
This step is all about adding some beautiful colors to your drawing, and the best part is that there’s no right or wrong way to do this.
You can completely let your creativity flow and use any of your favorite colors! We have shown you one way you can go about it, but it’s just a suggestion and you can use all manner of colors to finish it off.
Choosing the colors is just half of the fun though, however, as you can also have a great time choosing some great art tools and mediums for the colors.
You could use acrylic paints if you want some thick, bright and intense colors. There are also options like colored pens and pencils for more intricate and bright color details that you could use as well.
I also think that some pretty watercolor paints would be amazing to give this image a softer look to it.
These are just a few examples of what you could use, but which fun art mediums and colors do you think that you will use to bring your moon drawing to life?
Your moon Drawing is Complete!
That brings us to the end of our step-by-step guide on how to draw a moon!
Getting the moon shape looking right can be harder than it looks, but we hope that the technique of using two circles within one another was a helpful tip for you to use when drawing some beautiful moons.
The best part is that this technique can be easily modified, so if you want to create a fuller moon or an even thinner one, you can use the same technique but just change the position of the circles a bit.
That’s just one way you could personalize this drawing, though. You could also add in some fun details of your own, such as a nightcap on the mood with a snoring face on it!
Details like this along with your own unique color choices and art mediums used can really help to put your own personal touch on a drawing.
We’ll be very interested to see what you all come up with!
This doesn’t have to be the end of your drawing journey though, as there will be plenty more drawing tutorials that we will be bringing out for you to enjoy.
Be sure to keep checking our site to make sure you never miss out!
We also really hope that you’ll share your finished moon drawing on our Facebook and Pinterest pages for us to enjoy! We can’t wait to see your amazing drawings.

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| 3:52 am on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Amazingly enough, Google and Ebay had IDENTICAL net revenue at $805.9 million.
| 10:11 am on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
well done google. i want a slice of the pie. even if it is a crumb!
| 10:36 am on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
But profit just 52 million. A drop in the ocean for the shareholders who just paid the equivalent of 30 billion for the stock.
| 10:47 am on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
So, when they realized that they will do pretty well in Q3 early October they took care of the long lasting relationship with their publishers at the same time by increasing profit share just a tad, at least it feels that way with my increased EPC.
Although I think that would be a bullsh..t statement, sometimes you are bound to draw conclusions like that, I certainly would have...
And then again: who buys my shares anyway ;-)
| 10:56 am on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
So from this I can figure out how important I am to Google.
Lets assume a 35% revenue share or an after costs revenue share of 50%
I represent a staggering 0.002% of Gs revenue.
I think it about time I gave Larry a call :)
| 11:38 am on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Without the exceptional expenses the profit would have been #200 million, so thats looks promising for the future.
| 12:15 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
right now Goog - bid 169$ so its up 10% in pre trading
Ok now bid 171,30 up 14%
| 12:45 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
|brotherhood of LAN|
| 2:09 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
if any of you can see the live trades, have a look, it's mind boggling.
about 30K trades have went through in an hour, about a billion dollars worth of shares traded. And they started out in a garage? :)
| 2:11 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Record Revenue with NO CASINO ADVERTISING!
Click fraud must have gone up a few notches!
| 2:29 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Remember the 2000 bubble?
| 2:30 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
|if any of you can see the live trades, have a look, it's mind boggling. |
Ain't that the truth. Over 10 million shares traded in less than an hour. This will probably be a record day.
I like to watch to see what the market is doing when big lots are going through versus when they aren't. It gives you a good idea of what the funds are doing versus what the masses are doing. Currently, GOOG is going up with the big lots and drifting down without them. That tells me that the funds are still buying and the masses are profit taking. The profit taking will end soon and the pressure from both the funds and the masses will be upward once again.
| 2:35 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
I look at it live and I do think we can see 200 within a 6 month range, today I think it will end at a plus 8%
| 3:43 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
I'm amazed how much of it AdSense has generated and it still has no real competition.
| 3:45 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
And the fun thing is G has more profit/cash than Yahoo..
| 3:47 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Who else can pay webmasters what Adsense does? First mover advantage.
| 4:02 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
It's funny that they can do this but still Wall Street is dissapointed.
Google misses earnings expectations [infoworld.com]
| 4:44 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
|Over 10 million shares traded in less than an hour. This will probably be a record day. |
Over 22 million shares traded now, breaking the opening day record. And the day's only half over.
GOOG is now at $179, up $30 for the day. Two analysts raised their estimates to $200 this morning and one to $190.
If this keeps up, even I am going to think it's too high. ;)
UPDATE: I'm out at $179.99. I'll probably regret this (then again, what's to regret about a 75% profit in 2 months?), but at least I'll be able to get back to work and quit watching the Level II quotes. ;)
[edited by: MovingOnUp at 4:54 pm (utc) on Oct. 22, 2004]
| 4:49 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
>even I am going to think it's too high
soon, GOOG is going to beat YHOO on Market Cap? That would be real cool. ;)
| 5:22 pm on Oct 22, 2004 (gmt 0)|
This is the most hype I've seen in years on $52 million in profit.
| 8:39 am on Oct 24, 2004 (gmt 0)|
We can bump this in 2 years when it is down to $15.
| 12:13 pm on Oct 24, 2004 (gmt 0)|
$15 is about as likely as $1500. Neither is going to happen. Analysts are projecting a $3.36 EPS next year. At $15, that would be a P/E of under 5.
Personally, I'm projecting a price anywhere from $100 to $300 over the next year or two. That's the main reason I sold Friday--even at the top end of that range, I can find better returns than that elsewhere. The other reason I sold is that this spike was driven largely by momentum day-traders. They drove it up. They'll drive it down. I think it'll be a while before GOOG goes past $180 again. I think it's just too much of a gain to hang on to. I could be wrong, though. It might have the strength to continue rising in the short term.
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| 12:54 pm on Oct 24, 2004 (gmt 0)|
shameless promotion -> bprg, newly listed on the nasdaq
I never knew that pill capsules were coated in gelatin, soon they won't be.
Just to be remotely on topic, I don't see what google's advantage is nowadays in search?
i know if i wanted to see how much "news coverage" a company got, Yahoo is quicker to index news and has more depth.
| 8:04 pm on Oct 24, 2004 (gmt 0)|
I think everyone is sitting there thinking "well the price looks rediculous but I guess the other investors are smarter than me, and they know something I don't".
That's what I was thinking in 1999. Now I know better.
|$15 is about as likely as $1500. Neither is going to happen. Analysts are projecting a $3.36 EPS next year. At $15, that would be a P/E of under 5. |
What is so rediculous about that? If Google is peaking now then a forward PE of 5 is not unbelievable. Why do you think they are doing an IPO? They don't need the money, so it must be because they are cashing in at the peak.
| 11:33 pm on Oct 24, 2004 (gmt 0)|
If you think a P/E of 5 is reasonable, and that GOOG will go to $15 within the next couple years, you should act on it. You can buy "OUPMK.X [finance.yahoo.com]" options for $3.50. If GOOG goes to $15, these options will be worth $40, which would give you over a 1000% profit. If GOOG doesn't go below $55, they'll expire worthless. Obviously the market disagrees with you.
You said it best earlier: "There are just a lot of idiots who don't understand how the stock market works."
| 8:28 am on Oct 25, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Thanks for the tip. I didn't mention earlier I bought puts before in the last bubble. In the end I was right but the expiration date was wrong and I lost all my money.
To me Google looks rediculously over valued but nobody can say when the market will come to its senses. If the price goes to 250$ I may be tempted to buy those puts though :)
| 8:31 pm on Oct 25, 2004 (gmt 0)|
GOOG (@ $187+) overtakes YHOO in Market cap and is paper-worth of $50B+.
| 8:55 pm on Oct 25, 2004 (gmt 0)|
What are people smoking? Is there any possible way there is that much upside ahead for Google?
| 1:54 pm on Oct 26, 2004 (gmt 0)|
Well, I'm one of those *smokers* who bought into it. I just believe these guys know what they're doing and when you combine genius with vision - amazing things can happen. I'm in it for the long haul, I think things are just heating up;) Of course I could be totally wrong and lose it all..
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Culture Shock: Can video games improve more than hand-eye co-ordination?
Last month, an US couple released a video game about their son who died from a terminal illness. Is the artform aspiring to a new maturity?
That Dragon, Cancer: the game offers various perspectives on ‘a journey of hope in the shadow of death’
It’s not easy to imagine video games, which have long rewarded players for being ruthlessly self-centred, as channels for empathy and compassion. The take-away message from early arcade games was rarely that we should sympathise with the space invaders. And, as games entered the home, Super Mario Bros did not encourage many to see things from the sorcerer’s perspective. When Tetris or, a hard blink later, Angry Birds put pacification devices into our hands, few people ever paused to consider the feelings of a brick or a docile green pig.
If video games and morality have been considered in the media, it is usually with the hand-wringing fear that they serve merely to rehearse our worst impulses towards violence and destruction, something that the countless murdered prostitutes in the Grand Theft Auto series are in no position to contradict.
Now that videogames are staggering into middle age, though, just like the first generation to grow up with them, there are signs that the artform is aspiring to a new maturity. When, last week, the collapsing and apparently debt-ridden circus that is Kanye West revealed his new fashion collection and a preview of his new album, you might have missed his new video game, Only One. A trailer screened at Madison Square Gardens revealed a grandiose eschatological theme, in which his late mother ascends into heaven on the back of a winged horse. When the clip drew insufficient appreciation from the crowd, West played it again: “Y’all just be acting like that s**t is regular,” he complained. Perhaps it isn’t, but as the substance of videogames becomes more complex, West isn’t alone in using interactive technology as a memorial.
Last month, a grieving American couple, Ryan and Amy Green, released a video game about their five-year-old son, Joel, who died from a terminal illness. The game, That Dragon, Cancer, is remarkable for many reasons, describing itself as “a journey of hope in the shadow of death”, during which the game offers various different perspectives. It opens with a scene as viewed by a duck on a pond, to whom Joel is feeding bread, and the journey continues along paths both literal and abstract. You hear documentary audio from his anxious parents, dealing with both the heartbreaks and banalities of illness. A hospital gurney is discovered, with a lick of the surreal, on a beach. Transported to a cancer ward, you watch Joel, resting on his father’s stomach, as he receives chemotherapy, but the player’s perspective switches to the father’s eyes – even slipping into his tormented dreams.
As a game, That Dragon, Cancer is deliberately subversive – players often have little control over what’s happening, an emulation of the Greens’ helplessness. “One of the great strengths of video games is that automatically a player goes into a game expecting to have some agency,” Amy Green told the New York Times. “And it felt like the perfect way to talk about cancer, because all a parent wants is to have some agency.” For much the same reason, video games have also been used in recent years to give players a sense of depression, in some cases to help relatives of people with mental health problems to understand that they are not always in control of their responses.
One artful example is called Elude, an elegantly designed platform game, in which you steer a young figure up through rising tree branches, and “power-up” by coming into contact with songbirds. But you are equally likely to find yourself sinking helplessly into a subterranean morass, without much explanation. Another, simply titled Depression Quest, is an online interactive text game about living with depression, created by Zoë Quinn, in which the player’s choices are sometimes brutally inaccessible.
It would be comforting to believe that, if games have increasingly come to programme us – helping us to define ourselves, our goals or our approach to problem-solving – that these games can power-up our better instincts, with a novel-like capacity for seeing the world through the eyes of others. The truth is more complicated, and often more depressing. Zoe Quinn, the designer of Depression Quest, was the earliest target of gamergate, a campaign of anonymous harassment and misogyny which sometimes resembled the “kill screen” for the human race.
Even those who take videogames seriously can be skeptical about any edifying potential. Anna Anthropy, whose memoir game Dys4ia was based on her experience of gender dysphoria and hormone replacement therapy, ultimately doubted the game’s capacity to instil fellow feeling. And the author Michael W Klune’s recent memoir of childhood and adoloescence, Gamelife, structured around 1980s games, concludes with its isolated narrator struggling to reconnect with his analogue acquaintances.
While considering videogames in the context of rave culture, the comedian Marcus Brigstocke famously quipped, “If Pacman had affected us as kids, we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.” Who knows what videogames have primed us for as we progress up the levels? But, now that gamers have equal access to pixelated nostalgia and arthouse offshoots, there has to be a more meaningful benefit than the perfection of hand-eye coordination. Otherwise, game over, man.


2020 has been an eventful year so far. The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has been sweeping across the whole world and has had a devastating impact in every aspect of our society. China was the first country to be confronted with the virus. The SCM China team, who have been doing their best to protect the supply chain and all Siemens employees, now share with us what they have been through since the crisis started.
Imagine it’s the holidays. You are at home, celebrating the coming Chinese New Year’s Eve with your family. Everybody is having a good time. Suddenly you get an e-mail from work, from the Emergency Response Team (ERT), telling you that the outbreak of the new Coronavirus is getting worse. Much worse. And they need your help!
This is exactly what happened to Viya Huang one day before Chinese New Years Eve:
I got an SOS e-mail from the ERT and they asked for an emergency supply of masks for our Wuhan colleagues, who were in the disease epicenter in China. I suddenly felt like the warrior who needs to fight for my colleagues.”-Viya Huang, Commodity manager for Siemens SCM China
Viya Huang starts checking with all her preferred suppliers. Finally, six hours later, she’s done – and thousands of masks and other items of personal protective equipment are scraped together. But now she has to face another challenge: how to transport the material to Wuhan.
“I got a call from Viya asking for transportation support,” explains William Zhang, category manager for Logistics, China. “It was tough. Ground transportation had been severely affected as Wuhan imposed a strict lockdown one day before New Year’s Eve. We started coordinating with our forwarders, and finally, after a whole day of coordination, we identified one with available resources. Our colleagues in Wuhan got the masks and other supplies of protective suits in just two days.”
However, this was just the beginning of the battle.
As the coronavirus continued to spread, the ERT decided to provide masks to all Siemens China employees. Given the surging demand and depleted masks inventory in China, Viya turned to Michael Haendel, head of SCM CN & AA, for urgent help. A task force was quickly established with a clear sourcing strategy: The Services & Goods team went all-in to facilitate the sourcing and order management, while the Logistic teams in China and Germany joined forces to transport the masks as fast as possible. To overcome traffic restrictions and the time gap, a lot of colleagues worked into the night to ensure everything was operational.
It was essential to act fast, have transparency of the situation and be close to our suppliers and internal customers. With the support of our global SCM network, we secured masks for our colleagues from countries where they were still available at the time. Together with BizCos and other functions like SRE, EHS and the ERT, we were able to mitigate risks for our business and promptly distribute enough masks to protect our colleagues.” –Michael Haendel, Head of SCM China & AA
Now, the SCM China team is working on reverse sourcing from China and is not only delivering masks, but also sharing experience with more than 36 countries worldwide to protect the safety and health of our Siemens colleagues.
“Michael Haendel and his team really did a great job stabilizing the whole logistical process. It was a challenge and much more complex than it looked from the outside. Now, mask demand and mask supply are nearly balanced.” – Klaus Staubitzer, CPO and Head of Siemens Operations SCM (during the DigiSofa – SCM PURE )
Safeguarding the Supply Chain
Transparency of the supply chain is always one of the key levers when it comes to fighting a big disruption like COVID-19. That’s why SCM CN immediately installed a task force including Category Heads, Functional Excellence, Local Buying and BizCos’ SCM Heads to create transparency over the situation and to identify the risks that needed to be mitigated.
To provide close collaboration with the BizCos and to understand the priorities of the different OCs, multiple communication channels were established at the start of the crisis:
“We immediately shared all available information to the local and global community via update meetings twice a week and via Yammer groups and WeChat,” explains Michael Haendel. Thus, transparency about the supplier risk level and all the measures in place was ensured for all global business partners.
The Direct Pooling team set a great example: at the earliest stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, they started pushing their top critical suppliers to start countermeasures such as preparing protective gear, ordering raw material and making logistical arrangements. Working together with the Purchasing Council team, they were able to secure a supply from global vendors. At the same time, they were also actively working with different OCs to push for the preparation of a 2nd supplier source and a potential order reschedule. Thanks to all these efforts, not a single production line at any Siemens locations in China stopped.
Making sure all the orders could be successfully delivered by the suppliers was especially important for IT hardware purchasing, as all employees were working from home. But through successful coordination, the SCM IT team ensured that not only the required hardware but also the whole IT infrastructure for the GP carve-out and employee home-office were provided in time.
Travel disruption was another topic the employees had to face amid the crisis. In order to keep employees updated about the latest government policies and airline status, the SCM Travel team used all their available communication channels to provide information, tips and assistance with services and support. This ensured that travelers were always able to make necessary adjustments to their business trip.
Joint efforts make us stronger
One thing we have probably all learned during this ongoing crisis is that working together, and supporting each other, is what matters most. That also applies here at Siemens. For Michael Haendel, who is leading the whole coronavirus response, the most important thing so far has been the internal collaboration with other cross functions like SRE, EHS, Government Affairs and of course the ERT headed by the Executive Management Team.
In the meantime, all activities in China are returning gradually to a normal status.
Author: Veronika Hitzler
One of the many focal points coming out of COVID-19 has been the increasing important role being played by a resilient supply chain. However, as China was the first country to confront with the virus , managing an effective and robust supply chain amid the pandemic is extremely challenging, given the scale of the crisis, the timing of it emerges and the rate at which it is evolving. For the first time, our Siemens China SCM team would like to share with you what kinds of hardest challenges we encountered and how we mastered them. Check it out. @Melisia Beinder #Covid19 CoronaVirus NewNormal


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What's December without Silent Night or Santa Claus Is Coming To Town? Or the Vince Guaraldi Trio's sad-sack ditty, Christmas Time Is Here, featured in the TV classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas? Or Bing Crosby’s iconic White Christmas?
For 100 years, Government House has stood as a symbol of boom and bust, of the tension between political power and political populism. As the sandstone mansion marks its hundredth birthday, we take a look back at its eventful history with a gallery photos from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, the City of Edmonton Archives, the Government House Foundation archives, and the Edmonton Journal’s own collection.

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Miniaturized DRIVE Breaker DB-1, modifyied focusing on distortion degree, EQ range and noise reduse.
DB-1S is adjusted the density of the distortion component while retaining the comfort of the DB-1 so as to correspond to various styles.
Especially noise becomes a problem in DAW and pedal effector,
but realized "no buried" distortion which made it feel vivid even if it distorted more.
It is the birth of a new DRIVE Breaker that supports home DAW and Jazz Chorus which is standard in the live house and the studio.
** The original DB-1 is recommended for intense rhythm guitar and heavy bass sound!
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Not long after her 18-year-old son was gunned down, Deborah Aguilar founded A Time for Grieving, a support group for parents who lost children to violence.
That was in 2003, and ever since, Aguilar has practically become the face of comfort for Salinas families who are victims of murder. Every time a young man is murdered — it is usually a young male — Aguilar runs to the families to offer support. Ten years, at least 10 murders a year — that is at least 100 families she has comforted.
And that is just in Salinas.
Now Aguilar, 53, could use some comfort and a lot of help. Her husband of nearly three decades died last week and she has no money to pay for his funeral.
"I never thought I'd have to ask," Aguilar said. "Honestly, it's an awkward position. I'm not used to asking and putting my life out there, but all the money we had went for his (illness) expenses. All that we had was from what he got from disability. He was planning to go back to work."
Oscar Sergio "Clam" Aguilar, 54, died Oct. 27 at Stanford Medical Center. He was waiting for a liver transplant, but by the time one became available, doctors found he was too sick for the transplant.
"I'm angry a little bit about how things turned out with him," Aguilar said. "I don't know why they did that. They tell you to keep your hopes up and it's like you have a balloon and then they deflate it."
Oscar Aguilar, the family's breadwinner, was sick for a while, so they were surviving on his disability payments. Deborah Aguilar's full-time occupation has been activism for the past few years, but more recently she became her husband's caregiver.
His long illness forced the couple to dip into their savings.
During the weekend, Deborah and her family held a car wash and a bake sale to help with expenses. By late Tuesday, and in spite of the help she received, she was still almost $4,000 shy of covering the funeral expenses.
Although he was never as visible as his wife, Oscar Aguilar was supportive of her community activism, she said. He carried the burden of their son's death and Deborah believes he never fully recovered from it.
A few years after their son died, Deborah was giving an interview in the kitchen of their home. Oscar was nearby, putting together a video game console he just bought for the couple's youngest son.
Suddenly he began talking. Not knowing who killed your child is what eats you up inside, Deborah recalled him saying.
"He said that. It just came out. (The reporter) is just writing and he was just going on, for the first time I heard him say it. That's what he was feeling, that's what was eating him up inside. You don't know who did it, you don't know who to blame, so you start blaming yourself. That's what he felt, that he was responsible."
Like many murders in Salinas, the case of who killed Stephen Aguilar has never been solved.
Attending funerals and memorials has been Deborah's way to support her grieving community and at this time of need, she feels the seeds she planted are bearing fruit. At the car wash this weekend and throughout the past couple of weeks, she has received support and condolences from people that she sometimes has trouble remembering.
"People are saying on Facebook 'She's been there for so many of us,' things like that. I read that and I just start to cry. You don't know how many people you help, you don't take a number, you just keep them in your heart and you pray for all those families. So many Oscars, so many Debbies, and then you know you're not alone."
Claudia Meléndez Salinas can be reached at 753-6755 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Donations and services · Alta Vista Mortuary, 41 E. Alisal Street, Salinas is accepting donations for the funeral of Oscar Aguilar, the husband of community activist Deborah Aguilar. Donations can also be deposited at Rabobank, account 501954746. · Visitation for Oscar Aguilar will be from 1 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Alta Vista Mortuary. An evening service will also be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Alta Vista. Burial will follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, 18200 Damian Way, Salinas.
Donations and services
· Alta Vista Mortuary, 41 E. Alisal Street, Salinas is accepting donations for the funeral of Oscar Aguilar, the husband of community activist Deborah Aguilar. Donations can also be deposited at Rabobank, account 501954746.
· Visitation for Oscar Aguilar will be from 1 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Alta Vista Mortuary. An evening service will also be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Alta Vista.
Burial will follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, 18200 Damian Way, Salinas.


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This is a topic that I’ve struggled with for a long time. On the one side of this debate a woman should be comfortable wearing whatever she wants to on stage or in music videos. It shouldn’t matter whether that be a tiny string bikini or a novelty onsie. On the other side of this debate, however, is the trend toward female musicians wearing less actually detracting from the message of their music?
Lets take the first half of the debate that women should wear whatever, whenever.
This debate is tied in to the whole catcalling idea that women ‘ask for it’ if they wear something provocative (the topic of an entirely new post). But whether a woman is walking down a street or performing to an arena full of people, they should be able to do it naked without fear. In practice this is not encouraged but you get the idea. Women get judged either way, if they wear something too tiny or ‘sexy’ then it’s inappropriate but if they wear something too mundane (like jeans) then they haven’t tried hard enough. There is no way of keeping everyone happy in this world. So should they be trying to keep everyone happy?
I think there’s a time and a place for ‘sexy’ costumes and often female performers fall foul of this. Wearing a ‘sexy’ outfit that threatens to show your breasts or you female area to world at any moment is, I think at least, a tad inappropriate to wear to a daytime family concert. However, that’s not to say that female performers shouldn’t be ‘sexy’ I just believe there’s ways of portraying that without the outfit being revealing. Maybe that makes me a prude and the person with the problem? I don’t know, I just personally feel it sends the wrong message to young girls that for them to feel powerful they must be sexy and in order to accomplish that they need to wear revealing clothes and have their make-up ‘on point’.
The other side of this debate is whether wearing more ‘sexy’ clothes detracts from female musicians overall talent currently.
If a girl has amazing vocal talents, why does that mean they often don’t wear a lot of clothes? Surely, following the previous argument, they should be able to sing the same thing in jeans and a crop top, so why isn’t this often not the case? Why is glamour and sexy now so often linked to smaller items of clothing commonly bedecked in rhinestones? It does raise the question in some cases about whether people watch them for their music or their outfit? That’s not a question that I think should be allowed to be raised. They are musicians, it is about their musical skill but sometimes it does make you wonder and it does make you question.
I’m going to show my age here and hark back to the famous Britney Spears video and her cover of ‘I love rock a roll’. I can remember at the time news presenters joking that men were watching the video with the sound off just to see Britney in a leather jumpsuit on a motorcycle. So a lot of people, it would seem, watched that video not for her skill as a musician or because they liked her as a person, but as an object, an object of sexy.
There’s not an easy answer to that. Was it Britney wearing ‘sexy’ clothes and moving provocatively that got the video that reputation or was its people’s reactions? Is it both? Does it take away from her as a musician to sell her music in that way? Is it appropriate? Or should she be able to because women should be able to where whatever and do whatever?
I think a lot of women in music are perhaps not wearing things because they want to but because it’s the way they think they ought to be portrayed.
Someone who’s glamorous or sexy rather than the girl next door. We’ve all seen the performers in their amazing dresses. That’s why performances like this one from Alessia Cara (whom I adore as a musician) are so powerful:
Look at how much the confidence changes when she’s wearing something she’s comfortable in. Yes, you could argue that she was just worried about the costume change going wrong, but the change in body language regardless is undeniable. Bringing this concept closer to home, how many of you have seen girls start an evening in amazing heels only for them to be carrying them by the end of the night because they’re too uncomfortable? Girls that don’t bring coats on nights out because it won’t look cool and there’s nowhere sensible to store it once you get there? Why do people suffer so much for the sake of fashion, for the sake of beauty? What is beauty anyway? Is it that beautiful pair of shoes or is it that true smile of happiness when a person sees something that makes them happy? Is it obtaining the perfect silhouette or the smile you give someone when you help them with something as little as making them a cup of tea? What is beauty?
So what do you guys think? Should women wear whatever they want? Do ‘sexy’ clothes detract from a performers overall skill? Are women choosing to wear these things themselves or is it what their manager/publicist/general pressure want them to wear?

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Canadian authorities have seized 40 ball pythons at a motel in southern Ontario.
The snakes, which range from 30cm to 137cm long, belonged to guests, a manager of the motel in Brantford said.
The seizure comes 10 days after an African rock python killed two sleeping boys in Canada as they slept.
BBC News reports that the snakes were seized while the owners, a couple, were out.
An inspector with the Brant County SPCA told USA Today: "The snakes have been transported out of the area to reptile experts (in Ontario) the SPCA has good rapport with."
It is illegal to own pythons in Brantford, which is located 65 miles from Toronto.
The owners of the snakes have not been identified.
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Dorset-headquartered Marine-Products-Direct.com is set to stage the UK launch of an innovative new eco propulsion product at the ‘BoatLife Live’ Show, Birmingham NEC, February 17th to 20th.
Marine-Products-Direct.com managing director Andy Scott said they are excited to unveil the French made TEMO electric outboard motor on stand E39. Marine-Products-Direct.com is a marine distribution and technical support specialist for a range of premium marine product brands and was recently appointed the exclusive UK distributor to TEMO.
He said: “We cannot wait to demonstrate this product at Boatlife. TEMO is taking a completely fresh look at how to design an electric outboard motor. The impressive result is an innovative new generation propulsion system. Ultra-light and compact, it combines the lightness of an oar with the effect of an outboard. Think of an electric skull or the famous Thai longtails.
“TEMO has taken the best of both, inspired by urban mobility and electro-portability, as seen in the growth of electric scooters, and the growing drive towards decarbonisation. It is very much a portable eco-friendly product for the times we live in.”
Andy said the Temo team in France is having great initial success in its domestic market and is now looking towards rapid international expansion.
“We believe there is a large market out there as the green drive towards electrification and carbon reduction continues to gather pace,” he said.
TEMO’s innovation is being recognised and it has won several international awards. TEMO·450 was the METSTRADE Connect 2020 DAME innovation winner, the highest European distinction in the maritime industry.
Designed for dinghies, tenders and small boats, the portable system includes a 450W motor, 220V charger, rowlock fitting kit and security device. It weighs just 4.9kg, has a propulsive power of 200W and produces 12kg of maximum thrust from its motor.
Company founder Alexandre Seux began working on the TEMO concept after a round-the-world sailing trip where he witnessed problems surrounding the traditional methods of boat tender propulsion – heavy to transport and hard to store engines and oars which require a great deal of physical effort.
Andy said the Marine-Products-Direct.Com stand will further feature a range of Bennett Marine Trim Tabs, Groco Marine Hardware, Anchor Lift Windlasses, Lasdrop Shaft-Seals, Rocna Anchors and Helly Hansen lifejackets.
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We focus on sourcing the highest quality and innovative marine products. Brands include Temo Electric Outboards, Bennett Marine Trim Tabs, Groco Marine Hardware, EchoPilot Sonar, Helly Hansen Lifejackets, Sailtimer Wind Indicators, Anchor Lift Windlasses, Lasdrop Shaft-Seals and Rocna Anchors. Marine-Products-Direct operates from a 5500 sq foot warehouse maximising stock availability across the whole range.
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