News and bytes for the local community.
Local bytes (10 April 2023)
South Lantau in the news
South Lantau in the news
News and bytes for the local community.
These Notes show the uses or developments on land falling within the boundaries of the Plan
Many current planning permissions granted for commercial development on South Lantau take advantage of a well known loophole in the Outline Zoning Plan (OZP)
Continue reading “South Lantau Coast Outline Zoning Plan – S/SLC/22”
No protection is afforded to areas zoned “Green Belt” because there is no enforcement mechanism for the OZP scheme.
Authorities can do no more than monitor the ongoing irreversible destruction resulting from the lack of protection to areas zoned “Green Belt” because there is no enforcement mechanism for the Outline Zoning Plan (OZP) scheme.
Reference information for the other south side
Here’s our quick guide to find your way around the other south side of Hong Kong. Continue reading “Quick lnks”
There are so many reasons to shop local and support small businesses
The online shop is for locals to sell online for everyone to see.
The Definitive List of Dos and Don’ts While You’re Travelling
Some occasional retailers, bakeries and different institutions have tip jars on their check-out counters. These became additional current in recent decades and there’s some confusion, even contention regarding them.
On the off chance that you have an escalated stop, mull over a short taking a gander at outing. This especially is shrewd in urban areas with brilliant open transportation decisions, grant numerous opportunity to urge back through security.
Play a game and among the few edges of flight postponements has valuable leisure time constrained upon you. Watch a flick or scenes of an all around preferred network show, or discover that new diversion your youngsters perpetually cite. extravagant the likelihood to like careless, faultless, fun.
Testing maybe a couple of different wines ANd requesting a tidbit is likewise an appreciated break. figuring on the landing strip, you’ll prepared to notice a fabulous spot to possess a glass of wine and a couple of scrumptious snacks.
Everything from dish to truffled waterproof and cheddar. With a waste of time investigation, you’ll have the capacity to locate a dynamic bar or a tranquil table to unwind though holding up. take a gander at the FlyInStyle application from iTunes.
On the off chance that you have an escalated stop, mull over a short taking a gander at outing. This especially is shrewd in urban areas with brilliant open transportation decisions.
With a waste of time investigation, you’ll have the capacity to locate a dynamic bar or a tranquil table to unwind though holding up. Grant numerous opportunity to urge back through security, and keep mind that your voyage may value you prior flight chances to your destination. inside of the universe of standby travel, you need to be blessing to win.
A place for the community to share and discuss their experiences
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
Being in a community, from a scientific perspective, we are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
This got me wondering about coffee and beer and which one would actually help me be more creative and get work done. Hopefully, this will help you decide when it’s best to have that triple shot espresso or ice cold brew.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows.
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
There is something beautiful about walking around the city with a camera
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart.
I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.
I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream.
And, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath
When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but for the last few days in Montreal, no one’s been allowed to drink the water due to a bacteria leakage, which also means, no coffee.
Tiny women carry amazingly large bags, twice their eighty-pound weight. Some of the women carry babies in slings around front. A good adult picker can harvest over two hundred pounds of cherries and earn $8 a day, more than twice the Guatemalan minimum daily wage.
From a scientific perspective, creativity is your ability to think of something original from connections made between pre-existing ideas in your brain. These connections are controlled by neurotransmitters like adenosine, which alerts your brain when you’re running out of energy and reacts.
This got me wondering about coffee and beer and which one would actually help me be more creative and get work done. Hopefully, this will help you decide when it’s best to have that triple shot espresso or ice cold brew.
Adenosine is kind of like your brain’s battery status monitor.
From a scientific perspective, creativity is your ability to think of something original from connections made between pre-existing ideas in your brain. These connections are controlled by neurotransmitters like adenosine, which alerts your brain when you’re running out of energy and reacts.
Every coffee drinker is familiar with the feelings after drinking a fresh cup of java. I know after I’ve had a latte or espresso, I feel more focused. If I’m having a conversation with someone, words seem to flow without pauses, ums, or ahs.
If you decide to drink coffee or beer while you’re working, stick to no more than 2 drinks per sitting and try not to do this more than once or twice per week to prevent dependency. Coffee and beer shouldn’t be thought of as magic bullets for creativity.
It’s really simple. What is one thing today you are really grateful for? What is another? If you can list 3 things a day, you’ll see you have much more going for you than you thought. Soon your list will get so long you’ll be beaming with energy.
We are all human as well and humans are not perfect creatures. When you learn to accept yourself, true happiness quickly arises.
All images are under copyright © Laurent Nivalle
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Some occasional retailers, bakeries and different institutions have tip jars on their check-out counters. These became additional current in recent decades and there’s some confusion, even contention regarding them.
On the off chance that you have an escalated stop, mull over a short taking a gander at outing. This especially is shrewd in urban areas with brilliant open transportation decisions, grant numerous opportunity to urge back through security.
Play a game and among the few edges of flight postponements has valuable leisure time constrained upon you. Watch a flick or scenes of an all around preferred network show, or discover that new diversion your youngsters perpetually cite. extravagant the likelihood to like careless, faultless, fun.
Testing maybe a couple of different wines ANd requesting a tidbit is likewise an appreciated break. figuring on the landing strip, you’ll prepared to notice a fabulous spot to possess a glass of wine and a couple of scrumptious snacks.
Everything from dish to truffled waterproof and cheddar. With a waste of time investigation, you’ll have the capacity to locate a dynamic bar or a tranquil table to unwind though holding up. take a gander at the FlyInStyle application from iTunes.
On the off chance that you have an escalated stop, mull over a short taking a gander at outing. This especially is shrewd in urban areas with brilliant open transportation decisions.
With a waste of time investigation, you’ll have the capacity to locate a dynamic bar or a tranquil table to unwind though holding up. Grant numerous opportunity to urge back through security, and keep mind that your voyage may value you prior flight chances to your destination. inside of the universe of standby travel, you need to be blessing to win.