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This looks like an interesting development. Another "new" thing has cropped up. Some regional language movies are doing great – low cost and high revenues – amazing success stories and very high RoI (I mean, return on investment). Many investors are looking at the "alternative" investment to "diversify" their portfolios and at the same time earn very high returns.
Even start ups have come up to help people channelise their money into such ventures.
Regional movies are the buzz at crowd-funding startups
This seems to be great for regional movies, at least. There are many talented movie-makers, who could not compete against the mega-star, big-banner movies with deep pockets. Now, they seem to have found their source of funding.
Well, here is the caveat for the investors. This seems to be another case of "too much money, where to invest?" for the investors. Once one has run out of investment options (psychologically, at least), we start searching for newer options.
If you get success in some early investments, please be even more careful. The chances are that you might simply be lucky. However, we love to attribute all the success to our superior abilities – that is a human tendency. This would build your confidence, which eventually turns into overconfidence.
This overconfidence in one's abilities leads to the search for even more risks. One tends to start looking at something that nobody is looking at – the spirit of adventure in us wants to seize this opportunity. And we leave the shores and dive into the deep seas.
Just as a side note, please check why did you think of investing in movies? Is it because nobody else was doing it and you wanted to take the early-mover advantage? Or is it just that someone told you this was "exclusive"?
The combination of overconfidence, exclusivity and greed lead us to take interesting decisions.
Let us analyse this option from an investment point of view. Do regional movies make money? Well, yes they do. Do all regional movies make money? No. If we are clear on these two answers, any prudent investor should ask the next question: "How can one identify the next many-making movie? Do I have the capability? Or can I hire someone who has the capability?"
If I cannot identify the next money-spinner or if I do not know someone who can, it is imprudent to put my money on the block. That is not an investment, then. It is hope – a really bad investment strategy.
In the event of an investor recognising one's inabilities to spot the right investments, the tendency is to look for what is cheap. This could be another trap.
Be careful. Understand the economics of the business before investing your money. If you don't, stay away. Warren Buffett has famously said, "Invest within your circle of competence. It is not how big the circle is, it is how you define the parameters".
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It seems much of my life has been filled with meaningless activity. In my younger years, without much of me to operate with, I tried to please as I was hoping for value and purpose. I worked at jobs I hated, tried to stay in struggling relationships for the "sake of the children", and was mediocre at parenting.
I was waiting for life to run its course.
Studying for a class later this spring, I read that God is an experience, a cosmic Life Force moving through all things, dark and light. This cosmic Life Force created the entire universe with vibrations and therefore everything is just a holy vibration.
Does this cosmic life force include all of those years of apathy and negativity for me? Does it include the terrorist attacks, this strange and hateful political climate in the US? If this is God, I say to myself, it is indeed a strange one!
Thirty years ago, out of boredom, I began a study of Cosmic Consciousness. I began to see my negativity as a lower vibration, which could never fill me up or make me feel whole. It was a state of being in which all of life is draining.
Focusing on balancing that lower vibration with a higher vibration that many call God, I began to feel excited and engaged in my life and the people I love. I began to know that the lower vibration must be in relation to the Higher Vibration I was adding.
It didn't take very long before I began to feel open, vulnerable and real. Life became a joyful event even though still filled with the mundane of everyday existence. Now life seemed to have a limitless essence filled with purpose and meaning. Endings became simply transitions of this same joyful loving vibration into a different form.
Now I breathe and move through my life on most days with balance and wholeness. Now I can feel the Life Force in my core that never dies.
Here at the School of Self Healing Arts that is our goal. To awaken our student's consciousness to this beautiful inner rhythm that pulses through every living being. When our students see the subtle shift in movement through their bodies and their lives, it becomes a precious gift of newness that explodes into their present lives.
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I have quite a few fond memories of Hanley bus station.
There used to be a bakery in the underpass where my nan would buy warm, crusty bloomer loaves to take home to Bentilee.
I loved the smell and they were a real treat for someone who had been weaned on supermarket own-brand sliced bread.
Chico's nightclub, part of the bus station complex, was also a regular haunt of me and my sixth-form college buddies.
It was here, at the age of 17, where the girl I'd been besotted with through high school first acknowledged my existence.
Hanley bus station was also the place that I returned to on a coach in the early hours of August 20, 1989, drunk with happiness having seen my first live rock concert – Bon Jovi at the Milton Keynes Bowl.
Having said all of that, it's still a dump. It's an embarrassing eyesore – and has been for as long as I can remember.
It is little wonder that a national newspaper chose to use a picture of Hanley bus station to illustrate the infamous "Stoke-on-Trent is the worst place to live in England and Wales" story a few years back.
The story itself may have been nonsense, but who could argue with the image they used to illustrate the point?
Indeed, anyone who arrives in the Potteries on a bus could be forgiven for asking the driver to keep the doors closed and continue his journey.
The dirty great concrete behemoth is hardly a great advert for our city, located as it is just a stone's throw away from The Victoria Hall.
Twenty years ago, I recall writing stories about plans to revamp the area around the bus station.
Numerous council administrations have come and gone since then and yet the city's worst carbuncle remains.
Tom Macartney, managing director of the North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership (NSRP), is pleading that his organisation be given more time to complete projects such as the bus station.
I'm sorry Tom, but we've heard it all before.
The thing is, your average taxpayer in Stoke-on-Trent doesn't differentiate between Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the NSRP.
Many don't have a clue what the NSRP is, or that it even exists.
They don't care who is charged with delivering change to the city's tired infrastructure.
They just want something – anything – to change.
It's not that anyone begrudges you your £150,000 a year salary, Tom.
It's just most people are so jaundiced, so fed up, so disillusioned with the lack of progress in the last two decades (and the grand designs that never materialise) that they have accepted the status quo.
I believe Stoke-on-Trent stands at a crossroads and, irrespective of the financial climate, now is the time to think big.
RENEW North Staffordshire has achieved, not without problems, significant regeneration of the housing stock on some of the city's most deprived estates.
However, since the refurbishment of The Regent Theatre and The Victoria Hall more than a decade ago, little has changed to make more visitors want to go up 'Anley.
The Staffordshire Hoard presents us with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to market and rebrand our city and give our city centre a much-needed makeover.
I'm a huge supporter of The Regent Theatre and The Victoria Hall, but these two venues and a few chairs and tables outside eateries in Piccadilly do not constitute a "Cultural Quarter".
If we have any pretensions of being a city worth the name then I would suggest the area around Hanley bus station has to be regenerated as soon as possible to take advantage of the huge benefits that could come our way via the Staffordshire Hoard.
It is vital that people arriving in the city centre are confronted by clean, modern facilities, top-brand stores and dining opportunities that the people of Manchester and Birmingham take for granted.
At the moment, many theatre-goers must leave Hanley thinking "that was a great show, but what a dump Stoke-on-Trent is".
My beloved nan isn't with us anymore.
The sad truth is, however, that if Ethel Tideswell circa 1990, of Sundorne Place, Bentilee, arrived at Hanley bus station in June 2010 I doubt she'd spot any difference (other than, perhaps, the lack of crusty bloomer loaves).
The time for excuses really has passed.
I'm not that fussed about the new design, but surely we deserve a bus station that doesn't look like the backdrop for an episode of Life On Mars.


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Is the LDS Church just another Christian Churchby Jan
The following is my own opinion, but it is what one Mormon believes, so I think it can still be posted on this website.
We recently got a nice comment from a woman who used to be a member of our Church, but has since becoming involved in another, more mainstream Christian Church. She wrote about her "new eyes and strong desire to help others come unto Christ [the same way that she has]." It was really nice to read, actually. And I'm grateful that she commented because it gave me a chance to think about what she is advocating. As a member of a church that proclaims to be the "only true and living church on the face of the earth" (D&C 1:30) it is sometimes hard to wrap my head around the fact that someone could leave this "fully true" church for a "partly true" church. (Don't get all offended, I'll explain my labels).
There are at least two parts to our church: the human part and the inspired part. The human part is honestly just like any other Christian Church. There are fellowship meetings, get-togethers, sermons by people who have some pet virtue they want to beat into the parishioners heads. Sometimes the church is amazing in this realm. Sometimes people reach out to new people and bring them into their warm circle of friends and fellowship. Sometimes seven different people come up to you during the first 14 minutes of church when you are visiting just to introduce themselves (thank you, Abilene Texas 3rd ward! You guys were awesome!). Sometimes there are incredible choral programs for Christmas and Easter. Sometimes someone's sermon changes your life for good. Sometimes you find your closest friends through the Home or Visiting Teaching programs.
And sometimes, honestly, the human parts stink. People are flawed. And they bring those flaws to the church–especially in the LDS Church where everything is run by the members–a lay clergy, volunteers in every single role from the tiniest nursery tots all the way to the High Priests Group nodding off in the back row. So that means that every person's flaws and weaknesses are somehow incorporated into the functioning Church body (as well as their good qualities, but that observation belongs in the paragraph above). And so, for people like the woman I mentioned above, visiting a warm and welcoming congregation, perhaps with a social following the service and all sorts of ancillary programs to sign up for, may seem like a shocking difference (especially if her LDS ward was the opposite of the Abilene Texas 3rd Ward). And it might seem like that church is more true. More full and lively. And it probably is more full and lively. As far as fellowship and sociality goes, the Mormons don't claim to have a monopoly. Other churches are simply outstanding at uplifting and professional sermons, providing like-minded friends, urging people to lead honest and moral lives. I don't think any Mormon would argue otherwise; and if the human part of our church were the only part, then the answer to my post title is Yes. It is just another Christian Church.
But there is another part to the church: the inspired part. And this is the part that separates it from the "partly true churches" that have great human components. God the Father and Jesus Christ really did restore the Church of Jesus Christ back to the earth through Prophets. The Prophet really does speak to deity. That's an important distinction. The organization of the church below them with Apostles, Seventies, Elders and so on is truly inspired. It works on a small scale and it works globally. I don't think that Joseph Smith could have come up with that one on his own. The temples are also inspired. Probably the most important element of the inspired part–that which makes it the true church–is the performance of saving ordinances: Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, the Sacrament, Temple Endowment, Temple Sealing. These things are HUGE. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't been to an LDS temple why they are so important, but it's like having the map back to heaven, printed in your own language. The temple is the point of having the Church back on the earth at all. This is what makes the LDS Church the "only true and living church on the face of the earth."
However, sometimes even members of the LDS Church miss this. They see only the human parts and if they aren't comparable to the other Christian Churches around their neighborhood then it only makes sense to switch. Being a member of the LDS church matters if those saving ordinances like baptism and temple ordinances are important to you. They are important to me. They give me security and increase my faith in Christ. I know that He will do what He has promised to do because I've covenanted with Him to follow Him and He is always true to His covenants. Those ordinances mean that I have a constant companion all the time: the Holy Ghost. He leads me, comforts me and corrects me. My temple marriage means the world to me because my little family means the world to me: if my road cycling husband were killed in an accident, I have God's promise that we will be together again in the next life. And I trust that. I won't even start to imagine losing one of my cherubic children because its too painful to contemplate, but we will be together for eternity too. And when I die, because of what I have learned in the temple and covenanted to do, I have full confidence that I'll be privileged to meet my Savior. That is so important to me.
Way more important than how successful the ward party was and if today's sermon wasn't given as tactfully as I would have liked it. But that is my preference. Everyone is entitled to their own priorities and I won't condemn you for yours if you don't condemn me for mine.
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Sorry it has taken a while for me to get back to you. The blog I listed above where my story was posted was taken down by the author because she had to take care of some unforeseen health issues w/ her family. I'm not sure why it says that thing about an invitation…maybe a blogspot thing. I decided to repost it at http://robeofrighteousness.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-lds-resume-i-was-raised-in-wonderful.html
"The atonement ended the strictness of the Law of Moses"
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." ~Matt 5:17
God's law is holy. He is holy and pure. In Him is no darkness (1 John 1:5). We can not simply lower God's standard for sin in order to accommodate our shortcomings. We also can not overlook the seriousness of sin either.
"And weeding is not even nearly his main goal. He wants to raise good, productive plants." Does a good crop then justify small weeds?
Speaking of gardens, look at Jesus standard for a garden: "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. " ~Matt 7:18-19
You can't have a mixed garden. It's either good or corrupt. So if a person ever has "evil fruit" (sin), what kind of tree are they?
"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." ~Matthew 5:20
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." ~James 2:10
God is so holy and right and pure that nothing less than a weedless garden or perfect obedience to the law of God is of any significance whatsoever. That means the small omitted facts, the inappropriate thoughts for someone you are not married to, or the least bit of irritation toward your neighbor, or any sin for that matter – it makes no difference.
"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (James 4:17)
That means quiting the bad stuff is only half the battle; you must be doing all good as well.
Sin is not falling short of our mark, but rather His mark.
"Be perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." ~Matt 5:48.
Any attempt to lower the mark to accommodate for our own shortcomings is to deprecate and devalue the very God who defines that mark, disgracing the Father.
Some will object and say, impossible… this standard is too high. There has to be room for compromise, or accommodation (a good crop or at least a willing heart perhaps)… No! Never ever! Only when we start to understand what is the unfathomable awesomeness of true moral perfection can we begin get a glimpse of the God of Israel as He truly is.
Therefore, if the standard really is perfection (according to Jesus'), what is your plan to make yourself right with a holy God? One in whom is no darkness and in whose presence upright prophets have cowered in self abandon; like Isaiah who said, "Woe is me! For I am undone! I am a man of unclean lips" when he beheld the Lord? (Isaiah 6:5)
In all sincerity, this is the one question I pray you will answer: How do you plan to make yourself acceptable before before Him who measures all of creation w/ the span of His hand and at whose name every knee will bow?
forgot what we are talking about – LOL.
I am honestly thrilled that you and I agree on the 2 paths!
Let me try to clarify what may seem to you as a position change. Realizing I wasn't getting through when I was going on and on about point #2 and how it pertains to obedience to the laws and ordinances in connection w/ grace and righteousness from a Christian perspective, I changed the focus. Then, I began asking questions about Mormon verses, hoping you can see what I'm trying to get at by looking at it from a different angel.
In the last post, I was hoping to stress something so crucial before we continued talking about having a good garden crop albeit a few weeds (sins). That is: how high and holy and pure the Lord God Almighty is. How unfathomable is His majesty and perfect are His ways. Righteous men shook in fear when given a vision of Him. When we look at Isaiah of all people, and what he wrote, yet it was he who had, of all things, unclean lips! John, who fell down as if dead (fear); Ezekiel and Daniel both fall face down, on the ground trembling. They all became acutely aware of their own corruption when in His presence and fell hiding their faces with the ground. These are all His prophets too! We can exaggerate about most things, but the one thing we can not exaggerate about is God's majesty.
It is vital we get some glimpse of God's glory when we talk about sin. Disobedience (in your 2 points) is sin. We can't justify sin by making sin seem not that bad by looking at all the good we do in comparison. The goal is righteousness and weeds/sin=unrighteousness. I can tolerate some weeds in my garden, but what is God's standard? Can He tolerate weeds?
1. What are the consequences of weeds/sin as it pertains to your eternal life? I would really appreciate a simple straight forward answer to this critical question. (Romans 6:23; 1 Corin 6:9)
2. Is a Mormon required to be obedient in order to "rely on the power of the atonement of Jesus Christ?"


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I plan to travel into Zurich on Nov. 2 and head down to Lucerne for 4 days. A few questions:
1. Do I rent a car or take public transportation?
2. Should I get the Tell Pass for the Swiss Flex Card?
3. What are the "must see" places in Lucerne
4. Any recommendations for lodging for a family of 4 (kids are in there 20's
5. Is 4 days in Lucerne too many should I take a side trip to Bern?
Any and all recommendations are greatly appreciated
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1. You don't need a car. You would only be able to use it for part your trips as the best spots can't be reached by car. This page might interest you: myswissalps.com/ carversustrain.
2. I'm not sure what you mean by "Tell Pass for the Swiss Flex Card", but just a Tell-Pass (the winter version) would be fine if you stick to the covered area: myswissalps.com/ tellpasswinter.
3. Please see myswissalps.com/ lucerne/activities.
4. Once you are sure you want to stay in Lucerne, please check the hotel section of the Lucerne page. If that does not help you out, please feel free to post that question to the Accommodation forum and add some additional information.
5. That's definitely not too much. You can spend 3 weeks in the area without seeing everything. In November, the options are a bit more limited (high altitude hiking trails will be closed), but still there is plenty to see. Be sure to check the timetable for trips you intend to make. A day trip to Bern is an option as well as it's just an hour away by train.
Thanks for the quick response. Very useful information.
I have one more question. I know the Tell Pass switches from Summer to Winter November 1 and the price drops. Do thing shut down November 1. Am I better going the last few days of October?
Hi bobmoloneygr,
Earlier is better, also weather wise (on average, no guarantees). There is no fixed closure date for mountain transport, but in general things start to close from mid October. You'll have to check the timetable I referred to for specific trips you may have in mind.
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I have never played Memoir 44 and am only vaguely familiar with it, Command and Colors, and Battle Lore which are all adaptions of the theme. Or at least that is how I understand it. I do have a copy of the game Lords & Levies, which I thought I first saw on Rudi Geudens site the Universal General but had to look on the internet archive for the files here. Here is the BGG page.
Anyhow I took Bob's rules and tried to figure out the dice from his AAR. After studying hi pictures I figured that I would "label" my d6 thus: 1-2: infantry, 3: grenade, 4: tank, 5: star, 6: flag.
Next I was going to use the games LotR Risk and Conquest of the Empire for board and pieces. I used the LotR board because I like fantasy. I then used the following pieces: Infantry as Infantry, Mounted as Tank and Monster as Artillery. I thought about using the Catapults from CotE but decided against it, I did use the galleys from CotE.
Ships cost 3 but only had 1 combat die. They could be defeated by two 5(star) results. I also chose to use the leader pieces from LotR and gave them for free with 1 combat die and defeated on three 5(star) results. I also decided that the named fortresses gave an added die on defense.
Next I determined that I would play the combined Mordor/ Harad side and my son elected to play Gondor. My daughter said she would play Rohan, but never even came to the table. I decided to do initial force points by the printed reinforcement bonus for holding a kingdom and the additional bonus for number of territories held. I did the three players as individuals, this decision made it harder for me the evil player. So we came out with Mordor 9pts, Gondor 10pts and Rohan 7 pts. I think I will do it differently next time an use the kingdom bonus and 1pt per province held. Then it would be more like Mordor 16pts, Gondor 17pts and Rohan 9pts (I'm not positive as I didn't write it down.)
I did not remember to take pictures until near the end. It got to be a terrible slog and it seemed that it was only a matter of time till Mordor lost. The good side had a lot of advantages, two reinforcement rolls to my one, two movement rolls to my one, so it was just a matter of time. Perhaps give them a d8 for movement and maybe just keep the reinforcement level based on provinces held.
|I started getting a little loose with the division size.
|Showing the killed units with dice next to them.
|Decided that Gondor should retreat to South Ithilien rather than over stack.
I called it there because my son had lost interest and the kids kept on interrupting me and I couldn't keep it straight what I was doing. Fun but needs a few more tweaks. I'll try again another time.


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Sunday's LAB Choir 2 rehearsal was the last before their debut this Friday night at our Youth Choral Festival. They will be one of six choirs coming on Friday. They will sing three numbers of their own and be part of the combined choirs in Barber's "Sure on this shining night" and Sydney Guillaume's "Kalinda." The day before that, we've invited them to crash our afternoon rehearsal; we look forward to seeing them then and on Friday along with the St. Francis High School Chamber Singers, the Davis High School Madrigal Singers, Jesuiit High School Honors Choir, and Acalanes and Gilroy High Schools' Chamber Singers.
LAB Choir 2 designed its own t-shirt for concert wear, modeled here by Ben. The icons say Sleep, Eat, Breathe Music, and the slogan is: "What we do is not for the faint of heart."
We've been preparing for Friday's Youth Choral Festival too - rehearsing Guillaume's "Kalinda" which is new to us, along with more and more Christmas rep.
It's good to be home for a bit. This time next week we'll be in Sun City, Arizona. We're also taking advantage of at-home time to make some video which we'll be showing you soon!!! Our Label Manager Lisa Nauful is doing some video portraits, and we've also been working on music video versions of the new singles we made this summer, and which are now up on our digital storefront. Exciting stuff!!


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PET's a 1.5 litre plastic drink bottle. It lies discarded in the sand of Pilot Bay – a thirst slaked, now empty and abandoned, job done.
PET – an anacronym for polyethylene terephthalate. PET by name, and indestructible by nature.
Because long after our Pilot Bay PET consumer has come and gone, long after his kids have come and gone, and their kids and their kids' kids, the PET bottle will live on. Perhaps for 450 years, perhaps as many as 1000 years.
That's because as discarded rubbish, the PET will be swept up and dumped in a landfill.
"People should understand what the hell is going on," says Tauranga waste minimisation consultant Marty Hoffart.
New Zealanders use 2.23 billion beverage containers a year. Only 40 per cent are recycled. The rest get swept under the environmental carpet – landfilled or become land and marine litter. "So understand that what the hell is going on is not good."
The planet is in crisis, Marty says, and we don't have time to stuff about. "We need to talk about the world being smothered in plastic. And we can't wait another five years."
And that's the reason, Marty says, it is important, it's responsible to press the issue about CDL – container deposit legislation, or CDS – container deposit scheme.
A redeemable container scheme adds value to trash, 10 or 20 cents, when a beverage container is returned to a collection depot. It keeps that container out of the rivers, streams, oceans and landfills.
And Marty says if the Government can ban plastic bags, they can and should, legislate for a CDS. It's a concept moving like wildfire through Australia – South Australia was the first state to climb aboard and three decades later boasts one of the lowest litter rates in Australia. Both the United Kingdom and Canada are embracing CDSs – as are about 50 other countries, states and provinces worldwide.
"Banning plastic bags wasn't the Government's idea," says Marty. "The Government just jumped on the band wagon, attached themselves to popular opinion. People said: 'Ban them, just get rid of them'. The work was done, the momentum was already there and the Government stepped in."
There's another election in 2020 – that's another opportunity to apply some heat.
But Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage isn't completely sold on the idea. She told The Weekend Sun we all need to take more responsibility for avoiding and reducing waste.
"A CDS is one option well worth considering alongside improving public place recycling, upgrading kerbside collection services and further product stewardship, like industry taking responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products and packaging."
The Associate Minister is also concerned introducing a CDS could affect existing kerbside and commercial recycling collection systems. "We need to ensure they do not become uneconomic if a CDS is introduced. Councils and industry have invested heavily in new infrastructure and services over recent years."
"It has nothing to do with kerbside collections," protests Marty. "If the Associate Minister read the research, it shows bringing in CDL alongside kerbside recycling makes kerbside recycling more valuable."
And how? "Because 15 to 25 per cent of people will still put their beverage containers in their kerbside bins because they can't be bothered driving down the road to the cash deposit depot to redeem their bottles." You see, $20 doesn't make a difference to some people.
"But the thing about a CDL, it's not about the beverages we drink at home," says Marty. "It's about the one billion we drink outside the home, the one's we are stuffing in the council trash bins, the one's we leave on the footpath or in the parks."
PET is case and point – the drink bottle discarded on Pilot Bay. And Budejovicky Budvar – yesterday 300ml of premium imported Czech beer, today an empty bottle in the gutter on Harington St. The label on the beer bottle tells us it's worth 10 cents if redeemed in Australia. But here, worthless. It'll be swept up with the Coke bottle and landfilled.
According to Marty and the research, a CDS should change those behaviours.
"That's what a container deposit scheme does – it ropes in the billion beverage containers that aren't drunk at home and aren't going in the kerbside bin. And, as has been proven round the world, there's no other way to grab those ones than to put a 10 or 20 cent value on them."
Again the Associate Minister is unsold. "The results of these schemes overseas have been good in some areas and mixed in others. We need to ensure if we introduce a CDS here that is made for New Zealand." Also the Ministry for the Environment doesn't have enough staff and its budget is already fully committed.
"I guess what annoys me about the MFE is everything seems to take so long," says Marty. "Why can't it be a priority when 90 per cent of council support the idea and 83 per cent of the population support it?
"If they haven't got the staff, then get some. The Government would have all these containers collected and recycled for nothing. We would do it ourselves, there's no cost. No-one ever goes back, the experience is overwhelmingly positive."
The Weekend Sun will continue its examination of the case for a container deposit scheme early in the New Year.


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A fire in Beaumont on New Year's Eve injured a 62-year-old man, leaving him with burns over approximately 15 percent of his body, Beaumont Fire and Rescue reports.
According to a news release, at approximately 1:45 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2014, Beaumont Fire/Rescue and Beaumont EMS units responded to a call of a burn victim in the 1200 block of Condon Street. When units arrived, they found a resident there with burns about the face and left arm. The victim was reportedly using gasoline in an attempt to light a barbecue pit when his clothes ignited. The victim was able to extinguish the fire himself and then sought help. Family members called 911. Beaumont EMS treated the man on the scene and then met Air Rescue at a nearby school yard.
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Seahawks-Rams: What we learned
SEATTLE -- Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate diverged from his usual path toward the home locker room at CenturyLink Field, cut toward the west side of the stadium and began slapping high-fives with anyone he could find.
He ended up doing a Lambeau Leap-style catapult into the seats and was quickly mobbed by several jubilant fans.
After whiffing on their first two chances at an NFC West title, the Seahawks finally were able to celebrate a season for the ages.
A 27-9 win over the St. Louis Rams finally put a stranglehold on the NFC's top seed for the Seahawks, and the newly crowned NFC West champions secured home-field advantage throughout the postseason.
"The work we put in since our loss against Atlanta (in last year's playoffs) has been incredible," Tate told reporters a few minutes after his celebration in the stands. "We've still got things to do, but we're excited. We're excited to have homefield advantage. It's a nice reward for our season."
Seattle's top-ranked defense stymied the Rams' offense to the tune of 13 rushing yards and 158 yards of total offense while keeping St. Louis (7-9) out of the end zone until the game was well in hand during a hard-hitting affair that featured 19 penalties and one ejection.
Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch gained 97 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries, while quarterback Russell Wilson completed 15 of 23 passes for 172 yards and a touchdown.
"This week was definitely a championship week, and we came out at a high level," Wilson said. "... We were able to come up with a huge win and be NFC West champs."
The Seahawks (13-3) had come up short in two previous opportunities to win the division and lock up homefield. Sunday's win means Seattle, which matched its franchise-high total for wins in a season, will host the lowest remaining seed in the NFC's divisional round on Jan. 11 or 12.
The Seahawks jumped out to a 13-0 halftime lead on linebacker Malcolm Smith's 37-yard interception return touchdown and a pair of Steven Hauschka field goals. Seattle held the Rams to just 54 yards of total offense -- the St. Louis ground game had minus-2 -- during the first 30 minutes.
Smith's touchdown came after his second interception in as many weeks. He appeared on his way to a return touchdown one week earlier but tripped up and fell short of the goal line in a loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
"I wasn't going to let it happen twice," Smith said after scoring his first career interception-reurn touchdown.
The penalty-filled game nearly spiraled out of control with 3:10 remaining in the third quarter. One play after a near brawl broke out between the teams on the Seattle sideline, the Rams were flagged for three consecutive dead-ball, unsportsmanlike penalties between snaps.
Linebacker Alec Ogletree was assessed a penalty for jawing with the Seahawks as the teams came to the line of scrimmage, then Rams teammate Kendall Langford received a 15-yard penalty and game ejection for making contact with an official. Langford inadvertently knocked the hat off back judge Steve Freeman while motioning with his arm before receiving a second flag a few seconds later for throwing his helmet on the field.
Langford jawed with several Seattle fans as he was led into the visiting locker room. The Seahawks, who moved from the Rams' 11-yard line to the 1 after the three penalties were assessed, scored two plays later on a Lynch 2-yard run to take a 20-3 lead.
After the game, Langford said he felt remorseful for the incident but added that he did not agree with the ejection.
"At the end of the day, we can't let ourselves get all these penalties," he said after the Rams were flagged for 12 penalties. "But I'm not going to say that all these penalties were good calls."
During a span of just over a minute, the Rams ended up receiving six personal-foul or unsportsmanlike penalties. For the game, the two teams combined for 12 penalties for personal fouls or unsportsmanlike conduct.
"They were trying to get us into penalties and throw us off our game," Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor said.
Wilson's 47-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate with 9:14 remaining gave Seattle a 27-3 lead.
The Rams' only touchdown came with 4:13 remaining, when tight end Jared Cook caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Kellen Clemens to cap off a 13-play, 71-yard drive. It marked the first time in two meetings this season that the Rams have gotten into the end zone against the Seattle defense.
"It's kind of a stepping stone for something," Cook said of finally scoring a touchdown against the Seahawks. "We have to remember what this (loss) feels like and come back with a vengeance."
St. Louis kicker Greg Zuerlein kicked a 36-yard field goal early in the third quarter to get the Rams on the board.
Clemens completed 21 of 30 passes for 157 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. St. Louis didn't convert a third down until midway through the fourth quarter and was 2 for 11 on third downs for the game.
The Rams' running game was virtually non-existent, thanks to a Seattle defense that kept St. Louis guessing.
"They came out in a defense we weren't really expecting," Cook said. "They were slanting a lot (toward the tight end), and it caught us off guard."
Chancellor said the Seahawks didn't do anything out of the ordinary in preparing for the St. Louis ground game.
"We're disciplined in what we do," he said. "You've just got to be able to stop it."
The win secured Seattle's second NFC West title in coach Pete Carroll's four seasons as head coach.
What the Seahawks said
"This whole thing is a dream. It feels good right now." -- Safety Kam Chancellor, on Seattle earning the top seed for the NFC playoffs.
"Our goal every year is to win the NFC West, and we accomplished that, so we can check that off our list. But we still have a lot to do." -- Quarterback Russell Wilson.
"Whoever we're playing (in the postseason), we're getting ready to go and getting our bodies right back to order. I'm excited to have our games here (at home)." -- Linebacker Malcolm Smith.
"We knew coming in that their offense is pretty much their running game, and on defense we take pride in ourselves being able to stop the run. That was a big focus, and fortunately we were able to slow them down." -- Linebacker Cliff Avril.
What the Rams said
"I don't agree with the call (to eject me from the game), but they made it. It's unfortunate to think I was ejected from the game. ... It was that kind of game." -- Defensive tackle Kendall Langford.
"There are a lot of positives going into this offseason, going into the 2014 season. I am excited to see it, excited to see how guys continue to develop, continue to work." -- Quarterback Kellen Clemens.
"I think every division game we played this year, there was a lot of chippiness. Not as much as this one, but (there) was a lot. That's what happens when you play a division opponent. Things get heated." -- Tight end Jared Cook.
"I wonder where we could have been if we could have had more games left to play. We definitely became a really good team." -- Tight end Lance Kendricks.
"Overall, I can stand up here and be proud of (quarterback Kellen Clemens') efforts since Sam (Bradford) went down -- on the practice field, and in each and every game. He kept this team alive after Sam went down." -- Coach Jeff Fisher.
What we learned about the Seahawks
1. Despite a Pro Bowl quarterback (Russell Wilson) and running back (Marshawn Lynch), Seattle will have to ride its top-ranked defense in the postseason. The defense really came into its own recently, and the impressive performance turned in against the run Sunday may send shivers down the spines of NFC running backs who must to travel to Seattle in the playoffs.
2. CenturyLink Field retains its magic. The Seahawks saw their 14-game home winning streak snapped by the Arizona Cardinals one week earlier, but the 27-9 win over the Rams again showed just how dominant Seattle can be at home. Wilson is now 15-1 at his home stadium, and the thought of playing as many as two postseason home games puts the Seahawks' confidence in overdrive heading into the playoffs.
What we learned about the Rams
1. The team can't afford to give up on Sam Bradford just yet. For all the good backup Kellen Clemens did this season, the Rams' offense was a shell of itself when the running game wasn't working. If Bradford is back and healthy next season, and wide receiver Tavon Austin is ready to contribute on a weekly basis, St. Louis might have something with which to work on that side of the ball.
2. The Rams need to be more disciplined, particularly on defense. Several misconduct penalties on that side of the ball sent Sunday's game spiraling out of control, and things nearly got ugly when defensive lineman Kendall Langford was ejected for making contact with an official. Upon hearing he was ejected, Langford spiked his helmet to the ground and had to be held back from going after the hecklers at Seattle's CenturyLink Stadium.
With a front seven that can match up with just about any in football, the biggest thing keeping the Rams' defense from being really special is discipline.
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"A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling, as well as a thorough and nuanced analysis of an American institution deeply in need of reform...Beam gives [foster children] a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster system can't, or won't: She advocates for them."-New York Times Book Review
"Beam, a foster parent herself, delivers an engaging, narrative-driven investigation that centers on on of the system's most divisive questions: Does separating children from their birth parents do more harm than good?"-NPR.org
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"Beam offers historical background and keen analysis of the social, political, racial, and economic factors that drive foster-care policies...A very moving, powerful look at a system charged with caring for nearly half a million children across the U.S."-Booklist, starred review
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"In this compassionate, rigorous book, Cris Beam describes the failures of foster care, often by way of the moments of light and hope that are inscribed in its brokenness. It is her largeness of heart, manifest on every page, that makes her arguments impossible to ignore, and that informs the deeply engaging stories she so eloquently narrates."-Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-Winning author of The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree
"Packed with messy humanity, To the End of June is an urgent and necessary book. It would break your heart if it were not for the recurring tales of good people trying to do the right thing, and an undercurrent of rage at what life has served up these kids. Cris Beam brings careful listening, unflinching poise, and her own experience as a foster mother to this account of how the state tries to step up when parents can't." -Ted Conover, author of Pulitzer-finalist Newjack and Coyotes
"To the End of June is a clear-eyed and heartfelt look at foster care in America. It will astound you and appall you. Beam has written an extraordinary book about ordinary people trying to save kids' lives. She has cast a ray of light into a dark and hidden place." -Tim Weiner, National Book Award-winning author of Legacy of Ashes


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In this series of tutorials we will learn how to create HDRI environments for 3D lighting and use them in Maya and V-Ray to light a 3D asset.Throughout the training we will cover the whole lighting process and creating a complete shot from scratch. We will start shooting HDRI on set and we will finish the final shot in NUKE, integrating a 3D asset in a real environment.
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Saturday, March 7
Yes it happened! sageproductions is now owned by a domain hijacker. I've been hiding and didn't pay my hosting bill so sageproductions.nl was released into the wild and found a new owner.
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This DVD arrived in the mail yesterday and I haven't had time to watch it yet but I know it is going to be delicious. Daniella is a friendly and inspiring woman who I first met at a conference in Boston. (come to think of it I met her before that when we were both exhibitors in the Bellevue Art Fair). She had been a textile artist for years and combines that now with encaustic. For anyone with a love of wax and textile this is a must see. Oh yeah, the heart is made of Sculpey. Thinking valentines already.
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Writing in 2014, it is easy to view Jewish nationalism as exclusively associated with Zionism. But in the first four decades of the 20th century there were several non-territorial or autonomist Jewish national movements with significant popular support. Two new books by American Jewish historians document much of their history.
Joshua Karlip's The Tragedy of a Generation traces the diaspora nationalist movement's history from approximately 1905 until the Holocaust through the personal lives and ideology of three prominent figures: Elias Tcherikower, a former Menshevik activist who became a leader of Yiddish historiography; Yisroel Efroikin, who led the Jewish Socialist Workers' Party during the 1905 Russian revolution and later the non-socialist Folkspartey (the people's party) following the 1917 revolution; and Zelig Hirsh Kalmanovitch, a famous Yiddishist scholar and leader of the Yiddish Scientific Institute.
They criticised Zionism as utopian and middle class and the Marxist Jewish Labor Bund as inadequately nationalist, though their followers lacked a single political party or movement.
These three figures were in turn influenced by the two original theoreticians of Diaspora nationalism: the historian Simon Dubnov and the socialist Chaim Zhitlovsky. Dubnov's influential Jewish Folkspartey advocated Jewish national autonomy within a multi-ethnic Russian state, while claiming to represent a united Jewish people (klal yisroel). In practice, it consisted of only a small group of intellectuals.
In contrast, the much larger Bund demanded cultural autonomy for the Jewish proletariat, but rejected the concept of a unified Jewish nation. Zhitlovsky's smaller Jewish Socialist Workers' Party sat between the two,campaigning for revolutionary socialism whilst also demanding Jewish national autonomy. Over time their attempt to synthesise socialism with Jewish nationalism developed into a more nuanced approach.
Karlip asserts that Diaspora nationalists rejected religious tradition while drawing inspiration from its nationalist stand against assimilation.
Diaspora nationalism reached its peak in Eastern Europe between 1905 and 1930, Karlip argues, as reflected in the popular growth of modern secular Yiddish culture. Yet this growth stalled when Eastern European states refused to extend formal national rights to Jews despite earlier promises to do so.
Ukrainian pogroms of 1918-20, the Evsektsiia's coercive introduction of an anti-nationalist Yiddishist cultural and educational program in the Soviet Union, the rise of Nazi Germany, growing anti-Semitism and the turn by most Eastern European Jews toward national languages rather thanYiddish for educating their children further halted this rise.
In contrast, Simon Rabinovitch's edited text Jews & Diaspora Nationalism presents the views of key late 19th and early-mid 20th century Jewish nationalists, liberals and socialists such as Dubnov, Zhitlovsky, the famous Yiddish writer Peretz and the Bundist leader Medem on how to preserve Jewish national life in the various centres of the Diaspora.
The editor's introductory essay concurs with Karlip's argument that secular nationalist movements such as Zionism and diaspora nationalism represented a continuation rather than a rejection of Jewish religious texts and traditions. Zionism, not Jewish nationalism, thrived in Western Europe, Rabinovitch argues. There, Jews were more integrated, so Zionism's emphasis on developing a Jewish national state elsewhere was perceived as less threatening than localist demands for Jewish national autonomy.
It is easy to view these ideas as moribund given the virtual disappearance of Yiddish as an everyday language, and the movement's failure to achieve any of its key political aims. But as Karlip notes in his conclusion, the question of how to preserve Jewish identity as a national minority within majority cultures continues to loom large. And the key multicultural values of ethnic and cultural diversity, which influence most Western countries today and seem to underpin Jewish well-being, appear to bear much resemblance to the long-lost ideas of the Diaspora nationalists.
Associate Professor Philip Mendes is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work at Monash University in Australia, and the author most recently of Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)


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Dscoop collaborate with Elite Digital Solutions
This April, Dscoop teamed up with Elite Digital Solutions to offer a series of events to the local print industry in Nairobi, Kenya. Elite Digital Solutions are business partners with HP Indigo and have branches in major cities across East Africa, supplying digital solutions to this region.
As a member of the Dscoop Board of Directors and with over 20 years' experience of cutting edge digital print technology, our very own CEO Jon Bailey was in Kenya offering his expertise. He took part in site visits and networking dinners and delivered seminars, workshops and even gave a masterclass in keeping print relevant. Jon worked closely with Zafir Kurji from Elite Digital Solutions to offer these inspiring and engaging events to their customers and prospects.
The attendees gave some very positive feedback:
"It is very interesting to talk about the future of the industry without focusing on the tech"
"Interesting how ProCo have built such a sophisticated business around the HP Indigo"
"Very well presented, very relevant and interactive seminar and workshop that was enjoyed very much"
"Very useful tools provided by Jon Bailey. Learnt quite a few interesting ideas and need to see how best we can implement and make them relevant and work for our business."
As well as gaining insight from Jon's sessions, the added value for the attendees was the opportunity to engage with each other; by collaborating and sharing best practice and insights they formed new partnerships that will help to grow their business and their industry. And the same can be said for us here at ProCo. Every collaborative event we take part in grows our network, strengthens our industry and gives us something new to think about.
If you would like the opportunity to catch up with Jon and hear him speak, he'll be at Smart Directions on Thursday 25th May 2017 at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Jon will be discussing Profiting through partnership: a look at the benefits of sharing best practice and expertise within your industry, to grow your industry.
If you can't attend this conference and would like to know more, you can send Jon a tweet @ProCoJonBailey #KeepingPrintRelevant #BetterPrinted
The next Dscoop event is EMEA 6 in Lyon on the 7th – 9th June 2017. Find out more and register here www.dscoopemea.org
You can read about their last event, Dscoop Phoenix Imagine, in Jon's blog post.


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OPPO has gained a well-earned reputation for designing and producing DVD players that upconvert standard definition (480i) DVDs to high definition (720p and 1080i) resolutions that playback on HDTVs. With the DV-981HD, OPPO has reached the current pinnacle of upconversion, 1080p.
To take SD programs that have a native resolution of 720 x 480 interlaced and expand that limited information into a 1920 x 1080 progressive, good looking image requires a little alchemy and a lot of muscle. The DCDi by Faroudja video processing technology provides the brawn and the results are quite remarkable.
Before we go any farther, even though the DV-981HD produces 1080p signals, it is not one of the high definition DVD players, Blu-ray or HD-DVD. It can be a little confusing because both Blu-ray and HD-DVD players can read SD DVDs and upconvert them like the OPPO. The difference is that the OPPO cannot play either Blu-ray or HD-DVD discs.
Upconversion can look great. But from our experience, it cannot match the detail and richness of an HD disc played back on a HD-DVD or Blu-ray player. No matter how good the video processor, and OPPO's Faroudja is exemplary, you need to fill in too much picture information to upconvert a 480i image to 1080p. And that synthetic image will always fall a bit short of a native 1080p source.
With that said, an overwhelming majority of DVDs in the marketplace and in your collections are still standard def and probably will be for at least a few years. Until you are ready to jump into the pricier high definition DVD players, the $229 OPPO DV-981HD provides a perfect stepping stone for upconverting SD DVDs. Beyond that, the DV-981HD is extremely flexible in its ability to playback all sorts of CD and DVD formats like PAL, DivX, DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD (SACD), HDCD, WMA, and Kodak Picture CD.
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