St Croix Art & Culture Opportunities
Support of the arts and cultural history is an important factor in every successful community. That belief is just as strong here in Paradise as anywhere else. Crucian cultural and artistic and musical expressions are diverse and innovative, as are expressions of a proud heritage. We support local artists and craftspeople by taking culture walks, showing interest in visiting “artist in residence” programs, listening to “scratch” music at authentic pig roasts in the rainforest, and attending concerts in the park at sunset.There are numerous ways to feed your passions for visual art, architecture, music or crafts on St. Croix, with something to please almost every artistic palate. Living here offers a wealth of opportunities to be an active participant in preserving the unique art, music and history of the island. Read on for more information on some activities that can help you learn about St Croix and how it became what it is today.The Whim Plantation Museum is an 18th-century Danish sugar estate located on the western side of the island (stcroixlandmarks.com/index.cfm?MenuItemID=105&MenuSubID=102&MenuGroup=home) in Frederiksted. Explore the ruins of the sugar factory, take a tour of the great house or visit the museum store for a large selection of souvenirs, furniture, and prints on sale.Check out the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts (CMCArts, cmcarts.org), which supports and exhibits cultural art by Caribbean artists. An historic building on the Frederiksted waterfront houses the museum’s exhibit space, working art and pottery studios, gift shop and administrative offices. CMCArts supports and exhibits cultural art by Caribbean artists in the community. The venue is undergoing some renovations, but the building is still open to the public, with beautiful visual artwork on display in the galleries. A must-have from the museum is the “Art and Soul Calendar,” an annual offering since 1974. These amazing tropically-themed collections of hand-painted prints are available for purchase.The Cruzan Rum Distillery offers guided tours of the 300-year old factory to see how rum is made. Complementary rum drinks are served at the end of the tour. (travelvi.com/stcroixUSVI/stcroixUSVI_cruzanRumDistillery.shtml)Art Thursdays in Christiansted gives residents and tourists the opportunity to visit art galleries, restaurants and retail shops until 9:00 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month. The season lasts from November 2008 to June 2009, and encourages art education and continuing support of the thriving Crucian art community.Photographs, handmade jewelry, etchings, oil paintings, and sculpture are among the art forms on display and for sale.Fort Frederik, home to Buddhoe Park, is where island slaves were freed in 1848. Admission to the museum, which is located on the fort’s grounds and features changing exhibits, is free of charge.
(planetware.com/frederiksted/fort-frederik-uvi-sc-ff.htm)I felt it best to quote the St. George Village Botanical Garden website (http://www.sgvbg.org/) for a description-they said it best: “St. George offers island visitors and residents a unique blend of St. Croix’s botanical, historical and cultural heritage.” There are over 1500 varieties and species in the botanical collection on 16 acres.Educational programs are available for children of all ages. There are self-guided tours, with discounts for groups and tour participants. Virgin Islanders even get a special reduced admission rate on Sundays. Don’t miss the Gardens by Moonlight program in October or the Christmas Gala at the Garden.The Lawaetz Family Museum is an 18th century estate house with garden and farm in Frederiksted. It is still owned by the family of the farmer who had it built. Family members still live on the property today, and it is an amazing and magical place!”Jump Up” is a great street festival that takes place four times a year in the streets of downtown Christiansted. Most of the stores stay open late and vendors line the streets with food, drinks and specialty items on sale. Social organizations are also on hand with information on their missions and on what residents and visitors can do to help. Music, Moko Jumbies, local food and beverages, face painting for the kids and more make this a fun night for all.
Online Pharmacies are Making it Possible for Internet Consumers to Acquire Prescriptions Online
Internet Pharmacies are convenient and quick, but some websites selling prescriptions may be putting your health at risk. Consumers must take into account risk factors involved with ordering prescriptions online.Consumers should be careful when ordering their prescription medication online.When acquiring prescriptions online, many safety factors must be considered. One should make sure that the pharmacy is U.S. state-licensed. Unlicensed online pharmacies are more likely to diagnose the consumer with false information. Many online consumers have complained of personal information being stolen from unprotected, unlicensed pharmacies.Some prescriptions sold online could be phony and may contain dangerous ingredients. Unlicensed pharmacies have been found to prescribe expired, unapproved drugs, and drugs that are too weak or too strong. There have also been cases of drugs being labeled and stored improperly, allowing the consumer to receive the wrong prescription. Many of these counterfeit drugs are produced using unsafe production standards.Precautions should be taken when ordering prescriptions online. Use only medicine that has been prescribed by a U.S. licensed physician or online pharmacy. Make sure the source of the online pharmacy is known. Stay away from pharmacies from countries outside the United States. Due to strict medical standards in the U.S., safety is the major concern.http://www.the-online-pharmacy.ws
Why Cloud Storage is a Better Idea for Small Businesses
Like big businesses, small businesses have varied requirements from infrastructure, IT deployment, daily operation, and manpower to data management. However unlike big businesses, small businesses have budget constraints that often limit their scope of expansion and expenditures in the needful projects. Despite the limitations it doesn’t mean that small businesses do not have options. In fact there is a plethora of options available for small businesses to fulfill their wide-ranging business requirements.One of such options is cloud storage, also called as online storage, for data management, which is the biggest need of small businesses. Cloud storage is an answer to all the prayers related to data backup and restore of small businesses which are more prone to data loss/damage as compared to large businesses. According to a survey, 70% of the small businesses shut down within one year of their operations after they suffer major data. According to a survey conducted by Sage North America, about 62% small companies do not have a proper disaster recovery plan in place for safety from catastrophic disasters, man-made debacles, accidental deletions, thefts, power outages, hardware failure. In the same survey, it was concluded that around 33% of the businesses do not have data backup and recovery plans in place because there hasn’t been observed any catastrophic disasters or emergencies in their areas while around 30% said that “have never thought about it”. Around 28% of the participants said that they regularly back up their data because they have major data losses in the past.This is the poorest scenario for any small business that needs to be able to run properly without facing operational hitches which may occur and recue in the absence of a proper data backup and recovery plan. If you run a small business from your home or office, you can understand how vital it is to keep your data organized and safe to be able to meet the tailor-made demands to your clients, protect your business ideas and information from competitors, and from employees who might take advantage of your personal or professional information for monetary purposes among other things.The question that arises here is ‘why small businesses do not pay attention to data backup and recovery plans when they cannot prevent a tornado or other such catastrophic disasters, accidental deletions, thefts, power outages, or hardware failure for that matter from occurring’? Small businesses may be taking this risk because data management is not affordable for them. Besides, regular data backups and recoveries on several devices involve lots of hassles that put them off from maintaining proper data management plans. However with the onset of cloud storage, it has become extremely convenient and affordable for small businesses to maintain data. Businesses can back up their data as many times as they want and access it anytime, anywhere from their computers, Smartphones, tablets, servers, and networks etc. connected to the Internet.Since your data is stored in a cloud server, which is the only place for all your digital possessions viz. emails, contacts, documents, images, family videos, music numbers, social network updates, and bank details etc., the cost of regularly data backups and recoveries drastically come down. It’s is because you don’t have to use multiple hard disks and/or USB devices to store your data. In the cloud server, your data is stored once and forever. You can access, add, delete, edit, re-edit, backup and restore your business data as many times as you want without going through the lengthy and cumbersome procedure.In fact the data stored in a cloud server remains protected and safe from the tactics of hackers. Besides, cloud storage services are scalable as you can store higher volumes of data according to your needs. With cloud storage, it only takes a computer, server or mobile device with an active Internet connection or Wi-Fi to be able to manage the data. Such a flexibility and convenience is absent from the external storage media on which the cost of backing up and recovering data is also very high, in fact the highest.Considering that cloud storage is the only contemporary, affordable, and viable solution for small businesses and users, several major tech giants including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Netgear, and McAfee among others have come up with integrated cloud storage. Cloud storage is around 1,000 times more affordable than the external backup media whose reliability and safety are always at risk due to environment, physical conditions, catastrophic emergencies, accidental deletions, thefts, and other contingencies. Thus, if you own a small business, make sure that you cloud-power your data. It’s your choice to keep spending big money on the external storage media or spend only once and forever with a cloud storage services. It’s your choice if you want peace of mind or want to constantly run around losing business, clients, and money.