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Mother Of Three Says She Wishes She Could Forget Second DUI Arrest: 'I Thought I Only Had One'
Amber, a 24-year-old mother of three, has had two DUIs and does not have a valid license, but she explains that she still drives because she has to do "what I have to do to survive."
Her parents say they fear their daughter has a mental disorder and desperately needs help.
In the video above, Dr. Phil questions Amber about some of her behavior.
"You say, 'I'm driving without a license, just because I don't have that little card,'" Dr. Phil says to Amber. "That little card is a license. That's the law, and to operate a motor vehicle with a suspended license pursuant to two DUIs is a felony."
"I get that," she says.
"That doesn't seem like responsible behavior for a mother," Dr. Phil says. "[Your parents] said you had two DUIs, and you told us adamantly you only had one."
"I thought I only had one," Amber says.
"How do you forget a DUI?" Dr. Phil asks.
"I don't know," she says. "Obviously, I just got the second one, so that would be two then. Great. Yes, sir. Thanks for reminding me. Now I have two."
"You've had two," Dr. Phil points out.
"I get that, but I kind of put that off in my head for a little while. I don't want to think about that right now," Amber says.
After speaking with Dr. Phil, will Amber, who currently does not have custody of her children, reevaluate her behavior and accept the help he offers? This episode, "My Family Thinks I'm Crazy, But I Think They're Crazy!" airs Friday. Check here to see where you can watch.


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50 Watt Solar Panel 12VDC
A 50 Watt Solar Panel that offers reliable battery charging in all Canadian climates. The rugged design makes it a great choice for an RV battery charging system. A 10 year mechanical warranty and a 25 year power output warranty will ensure your solar system delivers power to your load.
HES-50 Solar Panel 50W
Rated Power (peak) 50W Rated
Current (peak) 3.4A
Rated Voltage (peak) 17.2V
Dimensions 26.3" x 21.2" x 1.0"
Weight 11.5lbs
Solar Charge Controller 6A 12VDC PWM
Battery charge controllers serve multiple purposes: protection of batteries from overcharging. Pulse Width Modulation control for accurate battery charging with the goal of maximizing battery life. Combines accurate charge control protection.
Morningstar SS-6
The SS-6 is designed to:
Cable to connect from the solar panel down to the solar controller
The MC-40 is a 40 foot cable that comes with clips on both ends. The clips will connect to the solar panel Junction box leads (negative and a positive) and make a locking water tight connection. The cable will be cut becoming two pair of 20' cables. If the distance is shorter the cable is cut to match the distance to bring the negative and the positive cables from the solar panel down to the solar controller and hardwired in with the cut open ends to the solar controller.Will also include a key if you would ever need to disconnect the cable from the solar panel.
RV Z Mounting Brackets with Hardware:
Solar Panels will have holes in frame for mounting
Roof Mounting Z Brackets with Stainless Steel Hardware and Wellnuts to make a Water Tight Seal.
Kit will also include:
Helpfull install guide
10 feet of cable to connect from the solar controller
Down to the battery(ies)
Ring terminals to connect to the battery(ies) with cable and Butt-Splice Connectors to make an easy install
with an In-line fuse holder and fuse

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An Artist's Haven: The Brewery Art Colony
Artistic Inspiration
In the heart of Lincoln Heights, northeast of the downtown L.A.'s arts district, lies the largest art colony in the world. Easy to miss from the road, the Brewery Art Colony is a thriving, eclectic community that, as the name suggests, was once the old Eastside and Pabst Blue Ribbon breweries.
The Carlson family bought the Brewery in 1979 as an industrial rental property. In 1982, the Artist-in-Residence code was passed in Los Angeles, meaning artists could live and work in industrial buildings, so the family decided to put an ad in the paper for its first "artist loft." The phone rang off the hook, and there was a line around the block. The family realized that they were onto something and immediately began the decade-plus-long process of converting the entire property into artist lofts. The Carlsons still own and manage the Brewery to this day, and though the Artist-in-Residence code has changed substantially through the years, they still only rent to artists.
In July 1997, the LA Weekly called The Brewery "the world's largest artist-in-residence community" and in a March 1999 Los Angeles Times article, the Brewery was quoted as the "world's largest art complex. With 23 buildings covering 16 acres, it's easy to understand why. The industrial buildings are the basis of what is a vibrant and creative community space filled with 500 artists.
The Brewery Artwalk is a free public arts event that allows artists at the Brewery to open their studios to the community. It's been going for 32 years, and more than 100 participating artists join in the twice-yearly event. All members of the public are welcome to view the artists' work, meet the artists and purchase work.
President of the Artwalk and Brewery Art Colony resident Kristine Schomaker is a new media and performance artist and painter and has been living in the Brewery for three years. She loves her unique loft: "My space is over 100 years old and used to be a gumball machine factory." The artistic community makes it a living space like no other, she explains. "There's nowhere else that has this kind of community — my neighbors have my key and vice versa. If I need paint, I can ask the neighbors".
Kristine shares a loft with Wini Johnson Brewer, a 71-year-old working artist who's lived in the Brewery with her husband Bill Leigh Brewer, a photographer, since 1984. "We have lived all over the Brewery, we've had big lofts and now I have my little nest here with Kristine." Despite having a 1,000-square-foot studio in the Californian desert, Winnie says the Brewery keeps her inspired and active. "I really need the Brewery energy. It's like vitamins. We feed off of each other."
The ages of artists in residence is vast, ranging from 18 through to the 80s, including acclaimed painter and sculptor Roland Reiss, whose work has been seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Documenta in Kassel, Germany. But it's not just artists that live at the Brewery: architecture firms, photo labs, galleries, furniture makers, writers, professors, and a restaurant and bar are all within the grounds — as well as a gym complete with a rock climbing wall! Kristine says the sense of creativity and community at the Brewery is unparalleled.
"I can't imagine living anywhere else", she says, "I think I'll live here for the rest of my life."
The Brewery Artwalk is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 25 and 26, 2014. Admission and parking is free. For more information, visit the Brewery Artwalk website (www.breweryartwalk.com).


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Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/28/2018 -- The global solid state lighting market is progressive despite its nascent state. The increasing demand for energy efficient lighting technologies that conform to high durability and improved productivity stipulations for reducing greenhouse gases is the key factor driving growth of this market. The trend is notable in developing economies that are witnessing rapid industrialization and urbanization and are being responsible to adopt energy efficient technologies to reduce emissions that are detrimental to the planet.
Apart from this, the increasing acceptance of LED lighting solutions in the residential sector for energy efficiency and cost effectiveness is also driving adoption of solid state lighting solutions.
The shift of manufacturing to Asia Pacific on account of its rising technical expertise and favorable cost structure is stoking demand for solid state lighting solutions. The integration of Internet of Things with solid state lighting is a strong driver of this growth of this market.
As per a report by Transparency Market Research, the global solid state lighting market, which stood at US$14.48 bn in 2016 is expected to be worth US$30.38 bn by 2025, rising at a CAGR of 8.7% between 2017 and 2025.
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Energy Efficiency Drives up Demand for LED Lighting Solutions
The global solid state lighting market is classified into residential, commercial, industrial, and outdoor lighting depending on sector. The commercial sector segment dominated the solid state lighting market in 2016 and is likely to stay dominant over the forecast period.
In terms of technology, the solid state lighting market is divided into LED, OLED, and others. LED, among them, is expected to hold a significant share over other segments vis-à-vis growth in the solid state lighting market because of the rising popularity of LED lighting solutions across all sectors of the economy.
By end-user, the segments of the solid state lighting market are conventional lighting, consumer electronics, automotive and transport, healthcare, media and entertainment, and others. The segment of automotive and transport is expected to clock considerable growth in the forthcoming years on account of introduction of new and efficient forms of lighting technology.
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Europe is also expected to hold a significant position in the market over the forecast period. The growth of this regional market is backed by the advancement of the healthcare sector, which displays a high demand for solid state lighting for medical lighting needs. Apart from this, growth of the outdoor lighting segment due to changing lifestyle and increasing purchasing power is stoking growth of this regional market.
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Holding 40% of the market in 2016, Asia Pacific stood as an attractive market for solid state lighting. The region is expected to continue its dominance over the forecast period. The growth of this regional market is backed by government initiatives for the development of smart cities.
Leading players operating in the global solid state lighting market include General Electric, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Panasonic Corporation, OSRAM Licht Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Eaton Corporation, NICHI Corporation, Koninklijke Philips N.V., Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd., and Applied Materials Inc.


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Posts tagged 'bailouts'
Whatever Happened To The Debt Crisis?
This week saw headlines appear about the possibility of another debt crisis in Greece. A multi-billion loan repayment to the ECB is due this summer; the European Commission and the IMF – the other two members of the "troika" governing the bailout arrangement – are divided on the scale of deficit reduction required to allow funds to be released; and in the meantime the country has just gone out on a general strike today in protest at any further "austerity".
It feels, rather sadly, just like old times.
Yet things have changed in Greece since the pandemonium over her original bailout and debt restructuring. The governing leftist coalition, Syriza, has learned through bitter experience that it really does have no option but to comply with its creditors' requests. And while books will doubtless continue to be written on the fiscal consolidation undergone by western countries since the Great Recession it is undeniable that Greece has been getting on with the job: the budget deficit there, as a proportion of GDP, has been falling from its 2009 peak of -15.2% at almost twice the pace at which it had grown during the course of Greece's eurozone membership up to that point. This has had the effect of containing the national debt to GDP ratio, which while eye-wateringly high (177% for 2015) has fallen since 2014 despite the suffering brought about as a result of the Greek government's hubris a year ago. Indeed, take out the effect of the debt restructuring in 2012 and last year's fall in this ratio was the first since 2007.
There were also tentative signs of recuperation on the broader economic front too. The European Commission's spring economic forecast was published on Tuesday and the expected contraction in Greek GDP this year was revised down from -0.7% to -0.3%. (Growth of +2.7% is projected for 2017.) The slow turnaround in employment might have halted for now, stuck between 24%-25% over the nine months to January, but with growth beginning to return again this should continue to tick down – and remains below the peak of 28% reached three years ago.
In the meantime, bond markets in Greece and elsewhere on the eurozone periphery are not showing any sign of panic. Ten year Greek government paper is trading down towards its lows for the year to date (just over 8% at present), well short of the over 11% reached during February's market-wide funk. Italian and Spanish bonds have been priced around the 1.5% mark in recent weeks, just like ten year gilts.
It is worth reflecting that five short years ago – when many respected commentators were confidently predicting the demise of the euro – this was unthinkable. Greece might have been in the headlines again but there is absolutely no contagion in evidence today. Today, markets are not even bothering to try taking on Mr Draghi and his "bazooka".
It is also worth reflecting that economic growth in the eurozone as a whole is projected at +1.6% this year and +1.7% next – a breakneck pace compared to the average rate of +0.9% over the last 15 years. And talking of headlines, it drew some attention last week when data emerged to show that the zone's GDP had finally surpassed its pre-Great Recession peak in real terms. Numbers out last month showed its deficit falling as a percentage of GDP for the sixth consecutive year in 2015 to -2.1%, and confirmed that total debt to GDP peaked a year earlier. The unemployment rate might already have dropped back below 10% this month for the first time since April 2011.
There are political risks ahead for Europe but to say that the eurozone as a whole has moved on from the debt crisis is beginning to look like an understatement. It is to be hoped that Greece manages to continue her recuperation. If she does so the "European debt crisis" will soon be history.
Services To Banking
This week's Budget was, of course, highly political. The Chancellor's £250,000 reduction in the lifetime allowance for private pensions deprived his Labour opponents of a funding source nominated for one of their policies; his single announcement on inheritance tax was nothing more than an opportunity to poke fun at the Leader of the Opposition for his tax avoidance twenty years previously; and he devoted much of his speech to refuting high-profile opposition criticism of the government's record and intentions.
There are, however, areas of economic policy over which the Labour and Conservative parties are in total agreement. They compete to paint themselves as the true pursuers of tax avoidance, especially by maleficent multinationals. And they unite in their commitment to bashing Britain's banks.
As is well known, a coterie of lavishly-rewarded financiers were single-handedly responsible for the credit crunch and ensuing Great Recession (forcing those Northern Rock borrowers to take out 125% mortgages, for example, and then compelling investors to purchase these assets at hideously mispriced levels from the originating banks). So the special tax on bank assets which has been running since 2010 is a great moral enterprise as well as a revenue generator, and we should all applaud the Chancellor for increasing it to bring in another £900m per year.
On the other hand, some of the Budget's fiscal arithmetic depends on raising capital from sales of the government's stake in Lloyds Banking Group plc. Indeed, quite a lot of the UK's employment and economic output arises from the financial services industry. It may be some time before the next knighthood is bestowed for services to banking, but despite its present position in public esteem banking does perform a service to the country.
Unfortunately the British government's record in rescuing financial institutions compares poorly to that of the USA, for example, where the subprime mortgage market kicked things off back in 2007. In another piece of news earlier this month we saw Mr Osborne raise £500m from selling the latest slice of the UK's stake in Lloyds. The total raised from such sales to date now amounts to £8.5bn, which may seem impressive. But the size of the Lloyds bailout was £20bn. The government still owns 23% of the bank, a stake worth about £13.2bn at the time of writing. Over the Atlantic, the US Treasury had got out of its $45bn bailout of Citigroup entirely by mid-2011, making a $13bn profit on the original amount and further gains on charging for a default protection facility which was never used. Similarly, while the US government still owns mortgage securitization behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which received a combined bailout of over $187bn in 2008 and still face problems, it has received back more than this amount in dividends from both companies. The UK government still owns 62% of RBS, has not sold any shares and has not received a penny back from its £46bn bailout.
RBS, of course, was not assisted by its various financial and managerial idiosyncrasies in the years preceding the crisis. But policies such as the bank levy have not helped. The great purchase protection insurance compensation bonanza – which has seen RBS alone pay out billions over the last four years – has not helped either. And the crisis-period support afforded by the Bank of England lacked the breadth and scale of the several emergency lending programmes of the Federal Reserve and slew of measures taken by the US Treasury under its Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Predictably, all this has reflected poorly on the very balance sheets whose tax rate the Chancellor has just raised. While the Big Four US banks have seen their provisions for losses on loans fall steadily since mid-2010 to about a third of their peak level, combined loss reserves at Barclays, Lloyds and RBS only started to fall a year later and are still at almost 60% of their peak.
The share of the UK's economic activity accounted for by financial services remains relatively high, at 8%. But it has been falling slightly over the past five years. It is unfortunate, to say the least, that public policy has contributed to this effect.
There is of course an election looming. But it looks as though whatever government takes charge the banking sector can expect more of the same. That is bad for the UK economy. And even in the aftermath of the crash bank shares still make up 12.6% of the value of the FTSE 100. The American approach certainly had its flaws but it has indisputably produced a better outcome and outlook for the financial sector and for US taxpayers than our own.
Deposit Protection Racket
"Nice banking system you got there. Be a shame if something … happened to it."
Obviously this paraphrases the lengthy talks which took place earlier this month between the Cypriot government and the Troika – the biggest, most powerful and most ruthless gang of organised cross-border lenders in the world. But it is the case that the Troika's three bosses (the European Commission, ECB and IMF) have their desperate borrower firmly by its heart and mind. Impertinent Cyprus initially tried to stop the Troika taking a cut of its bank deposits, voting it down in its little parliament on Tuesday. So Cyprus was given the chance to vote again (and get it right this time, or else). We shall see, probably tonight, whether Cypriot lawmakers give up some of their bank deposits in return for being allowed to keep the system as a whole propped up by Troika lending.
The idea of a government-sponsored bank raid might have seemed outlandish a few years ago. What is truly fascinating about the events of recent days, however, is the equanimity which has met them. Like the reaction to the elections in Italy we wrote about last week this surely has something to tell us about the current level of market confidence.
After all, we have been somewhere very similar before. Almost two years ago, scary demands from lenders were emerging about something called "private sector involvement" (PSI) – the idea that holders of Greek bonds should share the pain of bailing the country out with European taxpayers. Initially a German idea, it was approved by Merkozy (remember them?) and in due course officially adopted as part of the restructuring arrangements for Greek sovereign debt last year.
At the time, PSI caused chaos. As this blog observed on 8 July 2011, for example:
… Markets were blindsided on Tuesday by the decision of Moody's, the credit rating company, to junk Portugal. Confidence was creeping back in after Athens took its austerity medicine, securing the release of emergency funds – and then, wham! – a cent off the euro, a down day for equities and a two point jump in Portugal's 10 year yield.
From Moody's full statement it is clear that their main concern is the possibility that private sector creditors may be expected to incur losses in a hypothetical future renegotiation of Portugal's bailout. This concern arises from the possibility that such private sector losses will form part of the renegotiation of the bailout of Greece.
It really was pandemonium: no one knew what was going to happen, and almost everyone was panicking.
This time the background is the same. Deposit-holders have taken the place of bondholders; a dangerous precedent is being set; there is the risk of cross-border contagion in the eurozone and elsewhere; the whole plan was an unexpected surprise. But this time the panic is missing. Peripheral eurozone bond yields have not shot higher, equity markets are not materially weaker and the euro is about where it was a week ago.
Part of the explanation may lie in practicalities. Punishing Greek bondholders was a larger-scale and more arbitrary exercise than going after Cypriot banks. Cyprus is a country half the size of Wales with a population of 1.1m. It has GDP of about €18bn, and less than $1bn in gold and foreign exchange reserves. And yet it has €68bn of bank deposits, about a third of which are estimated to be of Russian origin.
This latter estimate is necessarily imprecise. The attraction of Cyprus as a banking centre lay in a combination of many things: low tax rates, an accommodating approach to offshore investment, a common law heritage which recognises the validity of trusts – and strict rules on banking secrecy. Suspicions of money laundering improprieties were raised months ago and led to an investigation of money laundering controls as a precondition of the Troika's bailout.
Nonetheless, whatever one thinks of the properness of Cypriot banking, the sanguine response to the confiscation of bank deposits in a eurozone country is noteworthy, and especially so in the context of PSI and the reactions to it at the time.
This year's positive start was strengthened again today by better-than-expected data on US employment. Markets have continued to shrug off the messy political situation in Italy and the UK downgrade a couple of weeks ago. For the time being at least, sentiment is taking the relative robustness of America as its example and putting the problems of Europe to one side.
We have been here before. Almost exactly a year ago we saw good data from the US on the one hand and a sovereign default from Greece on the other. At the time this blog asked: who will win the tug of war: the US, or Europe?
The answer – eventually – was the US. Greek elections last spring plunged markets into a familiar state of uncertainty, but 2012 as a whole passed without various long-awaited disasters and constructively for risk assets overall. Part of the reason for this is of course that time is a healer (as well as an essential ingredient in the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy).
In any event it seems an apposite moment to consider a few of the anniversaries we're passing this March.
First of all, 2007. It was at the beginning of this year that movements in something called the ABX index began to draw the attention of a few structured credit professionals. This index – then a new product – tracks the prices of sub-prime mortgage-backed securities. Coupled with occasional news of fraud and other problems in the origination market, it was telling a select crowd of market pariticipants that something was going very wrong. It was a forerunner of a huge slew of CDO and other ratings downgrades in the summer which would begin to widen interest in the subject of American mortgages.
2008. By the spring of this year, some smaller banks were being bailed out (Northern Rock, Bear Stearns), confidence was sagging, recession was dawning and stock markets had begun to suspect that something was amiss. Plenty of complacency still lingered though: oil was rising to new records, RBS was still rated Aa1 and Chancellor Darling announced in his budget speech that "the British economy will continue to grow through this year and beyond."
2009. In March this year we were all doomed. Unprecedented crisis, leading to unprecedented recession, had brought about unprecedented debt and everyone by this stage was feeling a level of pessimism which was utterly without precedent. Those few banks which had not been nationalized had stopped lending. Ratings company staff had gone into hiding. Iceland had gone bust. Stock markets had collapsed through the floor. And then the recession ended, confidence returned and the MSCI World Index ended the year 27% up.
2010. For most of the year's early months, optimism persisted. We knew that various countries were on the verge of posting eye-wateringly abysmal budget deficits for the previous year, but the recession was over! Recovery was on the way! Then the ratings companies, who had suddenly become rather less obliging, began to suggest that it wasn't just little out-of-the-way places like Iceland that were vulnerable to default after all. Shortly after Easter, S&P junked Greece and the first eurozone bailout programme was born.
And now, here we are. It has been an interesting few years. Not wishing to read too much into it, but it is the same markets and observers who were so slow to spot that something was wrong in the first place that have been equally cautious in more recent times of entertaining the idea that things also go right.
The same tug of war we wrote about a year ago is still being played out. The further we get from the financial crisis and its historic events, the closer the contest gets to being decided – in favour of one side or the other.
PIGS Might Fly
That, at least, is one prevalent view: whatever summits are convened and decisions made, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain will leave the eurozone. There are many who think that this is a great idea. In the long run, so they say, devaluation will improve competitiveness and thereby increase growth and employment.
Of course we know what happens to all of us in the long run. And the short run consequences are not likely to be pleasant – indeed, can be terrifying. In Iceland only four years ago, for example, the currency became unsaleable for a period and panic set in over the availability of (mostly imported) food.
There are reasons not to be quite so enthusiastic about the idea closer to home too. In the economic sense at least, Britain is not an island. There are real concerns about the effect on our own prospects that deeper uncertainty on the Continent would have.
Furthermore, there is no reason to suppose that bond markets – the most likely mechanism for triggering another sovereign bailout – would stop at chasing away the PIGS. When financing for Italy looked in greatest jeopardy last November, bond yields in France came under pressure too: ten year French bonds rose from a spread of 0.3% above their German equivalents to almost 2%. To many at the time this seemed the natural way for the crisis to spread.
The problem is that while Greece is a relatively small economy, France and Italy are giants. In absolute terms, the national debt of Greece is substantial, having risen to over €350bn by the end of last year. But for Italy and France, the numbers are over ten times bigger at more than €3.6trn. Writing down the value of debt on that scale – along the lines that Greece did this year – could really lead to "contagion". To put the number into context, it is (on Bloomberg tracking) hundreds of billions bigger than the total writedowns suffered and capital injections required as a result of the financial crisis by all financial institutions, worldwide.
Sticking with the numbers for now, many seem not to realise that it would be nigh impossible to bail such large economies out. Between them they have around €420bn of bond and money market debt to refinance by the end of the year – and that doesn't include the amount required to fund their budget deficits or support existing bailouts. Add in 2013 and that number almost doubles.
At the present time there isn't much in the way of €800bn hanging off the world's trees. The IMF's entire gold reserves, for example, would cover payments until about the end of October – assuming that they could sell the full 2,800 tonnes at the current price. Couple this with the whole of the Fund's emergency lending capacity – US$750bn – and you still wouldn't quite make it to the end of next year, even assuming they would be able to raise all this from their member countries (including the $178bn supposed to be provided by various members of the European Union).
Alternatively, there are a couple of countries that have foreign currency reserve assets big enough to cover the amount – literally a couple: China and Japan. Even if the Chinese were willing to help it's likely that they would insist on unwelcome lending criteria (they have previously insisted on more competitive trading terms with Europe and security over infrastructure, for example). And in Japan the cash isn't really spare. They have their own debt problems, having run budget deficits every year since 1992 – in fact, a bill approved this week will see the nation's sales tax double to 10% in an effort to contain the problem.
Which brings us from the PIGS to the elephant in the room: sovereign debt problems are not confined to Europe. In Britain our banks have about US$300bn of exposure to France – over 12% of UK GDP. We could well become another domino to fall. And as the city of Stockton, California's decision to file for bankruptcy protection this week reminded us (the tenth municipal bankruptcy in the last four years), the US is not immune either.
So, while it must be possible that the PIGS might fly – anything is possible – it is not desirable, no matter what some say. Not least because, when it comes to sovereign debt, there are plenty of pigs beyond the Mediterranean.
Moving On
This morning, Angela Merkel likened the eurozone's struggle to contain its troubles to a marathon:
"Marathon runners often say that a marathon gets especially tough and strenuous after about 35 kilometers," Merkel told lower-house lawmakers in Berlin today … "But they also say you can last the whole course if you're aware of the magnitude of the task from the start."
Nowhere has her analogy proved more apt than in the country which originated the concept: Greece. And while it received negligible attention, the Greeks this week reached another milestone on their long slog towards recovery.
Amid significant popular dissatisfaction, which on Wednesday saw the seventh general strike of the year, the leader of Greece's main opposition party gave a written commitment to the EU Commission, the Eurogroup, the ECB and the IMF that he would support the budgetary measures sought by caretaker prime minister Papademos. As a result, release of the EU component of the nation's bailout money – thrown into jeopardy by former PM Papandreou's referendum call – was agreed on Tuesday night. The IMF is due to approve its €2.2bn share of the €8bn aid tranche by Monday. By January, details of the debt swap with private sector creditors are due to be agreed. The exchange is projected to practically halve Greece's deficit to 5.4% for 2012.
This amounts to quite a lot of news, but of course the Greeks aren't the only ones who have been moving on. The bear consensus has moved on too. Concerns over Greece have in the market's mind long been superseded. The solvency of Italy and Spain has been challenged, as well as that of France. Incredibly, there were even confused reports of a "failed" bund issue in Germany too.
Since then, coordinated action by central banks on Wednesday to improve liquidity in the European banking system has calmed nerves and sent stock markets soaring. And only yesterday, successful bond auctions in France and Spain did the same for government debt. Eurozone bond yields have fallen back substantially over the last couple of days (including, crucially, in Italy.)
Europe's marathon is far from complete. A disappointing EU summit next week, or any number of left field events could plunge us all back into funk and gloom once again. But it is worth reminding ourselves that despite the pitch of fear and associated confidence effects, disaster has yet to strike. And it is just about possible that while the consensus worries about other things (and indeed everything), an exchange of Greek debt is successfully agreed, Greece and the other bailout countries make further progress towards solvency, other eurozone nations go on happily funding themselves with no outside assistance and the global recovery struggles resolutely on.
Like a marathon, this "muddle-through" scenario could prove protracted and painful. But there's one thing it still doesn't appear to be, even after the positive market moves this week: priced in.


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Chive New England November 2016 Survey Results
In early November we asked you guys to fill out a quick survey where we asked a few simple questions. We asked are you a chiver or chivette, which "H" is most important to you, where you are located, which chapters you belong to, if you were to recommend a charity which would it be and we had an option for a freeform feedback.
In total 79 people responded to the survey over the 14 days that it was live, this represented roughly a fifth of the total membership count across all states.
Out of those 79 respondents a third were Chivettes and two thirds Chivers which fell in line with our demographic expectation.
When asked which "H" was more important those Chivers and Chivettes answered that 49% felt "Humanity" was most important followed by "Humor" at 46% and "Hotness" at 5%.
In addition when we break the data down and look at Chivers and Chivettes separately we can then understand which demographic relates to which "H". Doing the analysis with a breakdown to demographic enables us to understand what each genders "H" preference is.
- Chivettes most important "H" was "Humanity" at 85% followed by "Humor" at 15% with 0% for "Hotness".
- Chivers most important "H" was "Humor" at 60% followed by "Humanity" at 32% and "Hotness" at 8%.
We asked each respondent to also attach their zip code to the survey answer, doing this allows us to plot the locations on a map and visualize where the population centers are. As you can see the population or respondents follow major highway routes like i-84, i-90, i-91 and i-95. In addition the bulk of the members are clustered between Hartford and Boston.
Knowing that charity is and will be an important part to the group we asked the survey respondents to suggest some charities. Of the 79 respondents 35 provided charity suggestions or 44% of the replies.
We took the charities and categorized them: Animal, Cancer/Disease, Child Development, Homeless, Hospital, Military, Misc, Special Needs and Support. Charities involving animals and the homeless had the most suggestions with 6 each followed by cancer/disease and special needs at 5 each. Military charities were suggested 4 times directly by respondents but actually accounted for 7 replies as some charitable organizations benefited multiple categories like Homeless and Military.
Of the individual replies Chive Charities, Wicked Ways Foundation and Dogs on Deployment represented charities with more than one suggestion.
The last question was free form, open for suggestions, feedback and anything else. Of the 79 survey replies 20 of those (25%) utilized the open form opportunity.
Below is a summary of the open replies:
- The overarching theme of the open form was that the states should be "ditched" to create one strong group
- A meetup in Worcester would be a welcome middle point to Western MA and Boston.
- Work more with surrounding chapters.
- More volunteer projects (soup kitchens, cleanups).
- Utilize more social media platforms (the newsletter & Twitter).
- Remove the admins that are not willing to work as a team.
- More meetups in the Hartford/Springfield area.
- A large meetup during warm weather.
You guys provided some awesome feedback through the survey, some results were expected and others were not. Keep an eye out for more surveys in the future and to read more about the changes that were a direct result of the survey feedback go here.


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The Panther indoor track teams returned to action at the Bowdoin Quad Meet, competing against WPI, RPI and the host school. Senior Kaitlyn Saldanha (Scarborough, Maine) set a new school record with a win in the 600, finishing with a time of 1:37.82. She also won the 1000 in 3:04.91 and was a part of the winning 4x4 relay team.
Other members of that relay team were senior Katy Magill (Boxford, Mass.) and rookies Victoria Sheffield (Seattle, Wash.) and Morgan Childs (Castleton, Vt.), who finished with a time of 4:13.17. Senior Erin Toner (New Providence, N.J.) won the mile (5:22.49), sophomore Danielle Baker (Glastonbury, Conn.) captured the pole vault (10') for the second week in a row, as did senior Allison Astolfi (Merrimack, N.H.) in the long jump (16'11.25").
First-year athlete Peter Hetzler (Rumson, N.J.) picked up a win in the 400 (51.17) for the victory, while sophomore Stuart Fram (Waterbury Center, Vt.) earned a win in the high jump (6'1.25").


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# My computer died last week and I can only post from my phone until I find the other power cord which I haven't seen since I packed it in February. I wanted to clarify that all of the recipes that I am using are either from Fresh 20, a food menu subscription that I belong to or from the cookbook Weelicious by Catherine McCord. Any who, here are some scenes of what I've been cooking up the last week, sans all the takeout I've indulged in too😉
The above was a Beefaroni take from Fresh20
Roasted Zucchini w/balsamic from Fresh20
I forget the name of this but, basically Chicken Alfredo-Fresh20
Crispy chicken and an apple balsamic salad-Fresh20
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Pneumococcal 7-valent vaccine, diphtheria conjugate (Intramuscular route)
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Brand Names:
- Prevnar
Dosage Forms:
- Suspension
Uses of This Medicine:
Pneumococcal 7-valent diphtheria conjugate vaccine is an active immunizing agent used to prevent infection by pneumococcal bacteria. It works by causing your body to produce its own protection (antibodies) against the disease.
Pneumococcal infection can cause serious problems, such as pneumonia, which affects the lungs; meningitis, which affects the brain; and bacteremia, which is a severe infection in the blood. Pneumococcal infection is also an important cause of ear infections in children.
Unless otherwise contraindicated, immunization against pneumococcal disease is recommended for infants and young children.
Immunization requires 1 to 4 doses of the vaccine, depending on the age at the first dose. This vaccine can be given at the same time as other routine vaccinations.
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In deciding to use a vaccine, the risks of taking the vaccine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this vaccine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
This vaccine is generally well-tolerated and effective in infants. The safety and effectiveness in infants below 6 weeks of age and in children older than 10 years of age have not been established.
Older adults—
This vaccine is not recommended for adult populations.
|Pregnancy Category
|All Trimesters
|Animal studies have shown an adverse effect and there are no adequate studies in pregnant women OR no animal studies have been conducted and there are no adequate studies in pregnant women.
Studies in women suggest that this medication poses minimal risk to the infant when used during breastfeeding.
Other medicines—
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Other interactions—
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Proper Use of This Medicine:
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
The number of injections your child will receive for protection from pneumococcal infection will depend on your child's age at the first dose:
- Children 6 weeks to 6 months of age—4 doses
- Children 7 to 11 months of age—3 doses
- Children 12 to 23 months of age—2 doses
- Children 2 years through 9 years of age—1 dose
- Children older than 9 years of age—Use of this vaccine is not recommended in this age group.
Your doctor will tell you when your child should receive the next dose.
Precautions While Using This Medicine:
If your child has more than one doctor, be sure they all know that your child has received pneumococcal 7-valent diphtheria conjugate vaccine so they can put the information into your child's medical record.
Side Effects of This Medicine:
- Symptoms of allergic reaction
- Difficulty with breathing or swallowing
- hives
- itching, especially of the feet or hands
- reddening of the skin, especially around the ears
- swelling of the eyes, face, or inside of the nose
- unusual tiredness or weakness (sudden and severe)
- Less common
- Fever over 39 °C (102.2 °F)
- Rare
- Collapse or shock-like state
- convulsions
- More common
- Decreased appetite
- diarrhea
- drowsiness
- fever of less than 39 °C (102.2 °F)
- irritability
- redness, soreness, hard lump, swelling, or pain at the injection site
- restless sleep
- vomiting
- Less common
- Skin rash or hives
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Later this year there will be changes to the laws governing data and how organisations protect the data they hold on their members - and this could have implications for supporter organisations up and down the country.
Fear not, however, as our chairman and Information Tribunal member Malcolm Clarke has written a short introduction to the changes and what you need to know.
Most well-run fan groups don't have much to worry about but we reckon it'll be a helpful resource for making sure you and your supporter group are prepared for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May.
We're also consulting with industry experts to produce more comprehensive resources for supporter organisations in the near future - so watch this space!
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Tomatoes are a commonly grown fruit in the home vegetable garden. Tomato gardeners are full of opinions on the correct care, best varieties and habits. Debates are waged on the benefits of a certain fertilizer, staking method and whether or not to prune a tomato. Pruning a tomato is usually limited to pinching off the suckers to encourage bigger tomatoes. Removing suckers is not necessary but keeps the plant from getting crowded and from putting energy into branches that will not produce.
Determinate and Indeterminate
Whether or not you prune off suckers is a personal preference, but it also depends upon what type of tomato you are growing. Determinate types are bushier and rarely require staking because they form flowers at the terminal ends of branches. This stops the plant from growing upward. Indeterminate plants are more lateral in habit and include the older varieties. The indeterminate type are more likely to form suckers that will cause the vines to get leggy and sparse and produce smaller fruit.
What is a Sucker?
A sucker is simply new growth at the "V" where a first leaf comes out of the parent branch. This could be off the main vine or another large branch. The sucker is small and spindly and is easy to pinch or snap off. Leaving the sucker on the plant will not harm the tomato and will produce a bushier plant. This is why some gardeners leave them so there is more foliage to produce plant sugars. The extra growth may crowd the flower buds and resulting fruit, which is why some gardeners remove them. It is up to you which way you cultivate your tomatoes.
Pruning or Pinching
You may use garden shears or pruners, or pinch out the secondary sucker growth by hand. Make certain whatever implement you use is clean to avoid spreading disease and pathogens. You do not need to remove every sucker, but on vines that have a good start it is recommended to allow them to fill out and grow thicker. Vines with little growth may require the suckers to stay on to fill in the foliage. Use your judgment on which and how many suckers to prune out. Cut the sucker where it attaches to the parent branch in the V. Do not cut into the parent or first growth branches.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Walter Cronkite Returns To "CBS Evening News"
Cronkite has done the voice-over intro-ing Katie Couric and the evening news broadcast. They say no decision has been made yet as to whether his voice will be used in the real broadcasts. They'd be crazy not to.
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Irvine Valley men's tennis players Michael Bott and Thallys Santos were recently named 2018 California JUCO All-Americans by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Bott, a freshman for the Lasers this past season, earned the honors in both singles and doubles.
Santos, also a freshman, was picked as JUCO All-American in doubles.
Both players were all-Orange Empire Conference players for IVC.
Bott, who had already been picked as a Player to Watch by the ITA, had a record of 9-5 in singles all at the No. 1 position for Irvine Valley.
And in doubles he went 10-6 with Santos at the No. 1 spot.
Bott and Santos reached the semifinals of the CCCAA State Championship, winning four matches in the event.
Bott made it to the quarterfinals in singles at state.
The duo helped Irvine Valley to a 6-10 overall and a 6-4 mark in conference. IVC also made the Southern California Regional Team Playoffs and ended the year ranked No. 8 in the final Oracle/ITA state poll.
2018 JUCO All-Americans by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association
California JUCO
Men's Singles
Kent Hunter, Cerritos College
Alexey Prokopchuk, Cerritos College
Kyryll Kryvchurn, College of the Desert
Victor Castro, Cerritos College
Kayne Trustfull, Riverside City College
Solal Ceriqui, Ventura College
Michael Bott, Irvine Valley College
Priyank Soni, Ventura College
Alex Hagon, Cypress College
Adrien Etiemble, Ventura College
Men's Doubles
Alexey Prokopchuk/Marcos Paulo Silvestre, Cerritos College
Victor Castro/Kent Hunter, Cerritos College
Alex Hagon/Johan Wennerholm, Cypress College
Michael Bott/Thallys Santos, Irvine Valley College
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Bicycle Touring Toolkit
What does your bicycle touring toolkit look like?
The proper bicycle touring toolkit depends on a number of factors. Am I riding in a group? What type of terrain am I covering? Will there be bicycle shops nearby? A group of bicycle tourists can spread out an extensive bicycle touring toolkit across their panniers quite easily. Credit card bicycle tourists on established routes can get away with a spartan bicycle touring toolkit. Solo remote adventure cyclists may need to carry more or are able to get by with less than a fully operational bicycle. What do you use?
Let's look at a few bicycle touring styles and define what I would bring. One warning is that you need to know your bicycle inside and out and be able to do maintenance on it. If you don't know how to fix it in ideal conditions [work stand and proper tools] you will have no chance at performing maintenance on the roadside during a rain storm. I am assuming you know your bike and you know how to work on it safely and effectively.
Experience is probably your most effective tool you have in your bicycle touring toolkit. Your credit card is perhaps the most used tool even when not touring 'Credit card' style.
I have split up the toolkits into three separate groups. Understand that the remote tourer would carry the complete bicycle touring toolkit = credit card + cross-country + remote. Let's have a look at three , lightweight bicycle touring toolkits:
Credit Card bicycle touring toolkit:
The credit card tourist on an established route can get away with a minimal bicycle touring toolkit. This bicycle tourist will probably be within reach of a bicycle shop every day. If they leave on a bicycle that is well maintained there is no reason to carry an extensive set of tools. They should concentrate on daily prevention and they always are able to whip out the credit card and get a ride to a bicycle shop to tackle serious maintenance.
One should check their tire pressure everyday and closely inspect tires for cuts, thorns, and sidewall rips. Chain lube gets added everyday and anytime the rain kicks up. Flats are going to happen. Patching a tube is second nature.
Basic credit card bicycle touring toolkit:
Cross country bicycle touring toolkit:
Even on extended routes the cross-country cyclist can find themselves on stretches where there are days between bicycle shops and replacement parts. I have ridden my bicycle across the US and Canada three times and never had a major blowup of any bearing related part. When I leave on tour I am sure that my headset, bottom bracket, and both hubs are ready for a 3000 mile journey. The work you do in preparing your bicycle for the road is much more important than the work you will do on your bicycle while on the road.
On two of my tours the only maintenance that I did was preventative: chain lube everyday, tube repair, drive train fine tuning via barrel adjusters, brake tuning via barrel adjusters, tightening rack mounts, and possibly some wheel truing.
If you can switch from index shifting to friction mode you may never need to tighten your derailleur cables. My brake pads lasted all the way across the country on all three trips. A good set of tires with no 'accidents' can get you across the country but I would recommend rotating them about halfway through your trip. You see more wear on the back tire because it is carrying weight.
On one cross-country tour I had a rear rim crack several times around the spoke holes because of the weight I was carrying. I rode the damaged rim for about 50 miles and into the next bike shop I saw to have a new wheel built. It was my first tour and I was carrying too much weight on a 23mm racing tire. Sometimes you cannot fix your bike completely. Fixing your bike may default to making it rideable to the next available bike shop.
Add these items to complete your cross-country bicycle touring toolkit:
Remote location bicycle touring toolkit:
There are routes where one needs to consider carrying a much more extensive bicycle touring toolkit and spare parts. The bikepacking scene puts riders well away from bike shops and in the wilderness. Bicycle touring routes in places like Alaska, the Northwest Territories, and Patagonia come with the built-in feature that there are no bike shops and maybe no help at all. Maybe there is nothing within 5 days ride or longer.
I have never toured in these conditions. The farthest I have ever toured away from services was a three-day stretch. In these 'out of the way' places the conditions are also much more harsh demanding that spare parts be carried.
There are some debatable options. I have never had a shift or brake cable break while riding. I could easily set my derailleurs to one ridable gear with the limiting screws so extra cables might be out. At least one extra tire would be recommended as well as extra patches and tubes.
I worked as a bike mechanic for long stretch and I do all of my bike maintenance. In harsh conditions I would opt to carry the weight of an extra set of allen wrenches, reversible screwdriver, and a crescent wrench.
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Here is something I did this summer when the kids were bored. I taught the oldest how to edit and then he did all of the tedious rotoscoping for the special Fx. I helped him clean everything up and then we both added sound.
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NPR's Ron Schiller caught in video sting
Clarification: An earlier version of this post linked Schiller's departure to the video sting, but NPR denies the connection. "[W]e weren't aware there was a video until this morning," said NPR's Dana Davis Rehm. "He was in discussion with his new employer before the video was produced. He did not know he was being filmed. We did not know he was being filmed."
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- John Proffitt said...
Oh, the hand-wringing on this one will be epic. NPR will try to distance itself from this one, too, but it won't be able to.
Here's the deal... Losing federal funding would be GREAT for NPR in at least one respect: It could finally be direct and honest in its dealings with the world, rather than playing a cowering, self-flagellating apologizer to the Right.
Schiller's right -- there's a ton of racists in the Tea Party and related groups. But now he has to go and NPR may lose the federal battle for station funding. It's nuts.
The truth is that NPR is rabidly centrist, like Obama, and veers right at the slightest hint of controversy. It's made NPR dull and increasingly devoid of actual information.
I don't want to see federal funding drop, but the NPR that's emerged in the last 10 years doesn't feel worth saving.
Except, of course, for all the alternatives in mass media.
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- michvinmar said...
We can't help but watch this train wreck unfold and feel sick to our stomachs. While the fake donors are ridiculous to begin with, Ron Schiller comes off as a parody! Of course this was edited for effect, but it doesn't matter. Schiller embarrasses all of public broadcasting and does terrible damage to its cause.
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Vienna, 10.07.2017 : Schelling plan: eliminate opportunities for international tax flight
The battle against tax fraud and tax avoidance practices has top priority for Austrian Minister of Finance Hans Jörg Schelling. Austria is providing a model at the national level and has already taken a number of steps to prevent tax fraud in previous years.
These are aimed at both minimising corporate profit shifting to foreign countries and providing better information to tax offices for targeted audit measures. This is ensured by requiring companies to provide information.
In addition to licence fees and the account register, a number of other measures have already been implemented to protect honest taxpayers:
- Companies are, for example, audited based on risk-oriented criteria.
- Companies, in particular international corporations, are periodically audited by the Large Company Audit unit. The staff of the Large Company Audit unit will be increased around 8 percent by 2018.
- In addition, a separate audit team of experts specialising in international matters was formed (Task Force Offshore).
- On 1 June 2016, a special unit was established for transfer pricing. It is aimed at preventing profit shifting to low-tax countries by means of value chain shifting, economic goods shifting, intercompany credits, service shifting, loans, research transfer pricing, etc. and implementing uniform standards for intercompany settlement in Austria. It is clear that taxation has to take place where value creation occurs.
- The register of economic beneficiaries has been approved.
However, European and international responses are needed to combat tax flight more effectively. Hans Jörg Schelling has therefore requested that the EU Commission increase the pace of development on a common European strategy. In preparation for the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels, the Austrian Minister of Finance met with Pierre Moscovici, the EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, and provided him a list of measures. These include, for example, plans for a common corporate tax base, virtual permanent establishments and VAT on all mail-order sales.
With respect to virtual permanent establishments, the aim is to record the profits and sales of Internet companies, including those with an online presence but no physical permanent establishments in Austria. The sales generated in our country would be a possible point of reference in this case. Austria will develop detailed recommendations for such a virtual permanent establishment and present them at the EU level and at the OECD. Austria has firmly decided it wants to be an international pioneer in this area and will therefore continue to promote these plans during its EU presidency.


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Writing a running blog when you're not running?
I honestly don't know how Tom from 278toBoston did it. The whole keeping up a running blog when you aren't running business that is. Despite not really running while getting over an injury, Tom kept up his daily posting, and did it in style. I just seem to have closed my WordPress and left it alone…
I just checked my GarminConnect and the last run I did that wasn't part of sport was the 30th of April. The 30th of April! I can't remember the last time I went almost four weeks without a run! That doesn't necessarily mean I've been working a big indent into my couch, I have been on the bike, training for football, playing football, along with trying my hand at a new sport – tag rugby – with the team at my new job. But no running…
I guess if I have to admit it, I've lost my mojo a bit at the moment. I'm keeping fit through other activities, but the 'urge' to go running just isn't there. Even if I wasn't still recovering from an ankle sprain I'd still not be running. The fact I need to heavily strap my ankle to run isn't really an excuse. I mean, I'm doing it for tag rugby and for footy training, so I could do it to go running…
Anyway, I'll need to get back on the horse soon. Training for the Thames Path Challenge 50k is due to start (i.e. should have started), so I will need to start lacing up soon. But, in order to prolong the procrastination, I have ordered a new running backpack so I can start to run to/from work and get used to running with a pack for the race. Hopefully a new toy will motivate me to lace up and get back out there, but until then I'm just hoping that my mojo will return soon and my fitness will have kept up thanks to my other sports.
How do you get through a running slump and get back out the other side? Maybe you can give me a hint so I feel like lacing up and crunching some miles?
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One year ago today I started this blog, while recovering from an injury. I guess I figured if I wasn't running I could at least write about running.
To be honest, at the time I didn't really know how the running was going to pan out, and I had absolutely no idea about how the blogging would go. I'm glad to say that one year on I've completed two marathons and managed some 158 posts with over 16,000 views of my blog along the way.
Interestingly, it's not the marathons that I'm happiest about. It's the blogging. I had no idea what might happen but to say that the blogging community exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. I am humbled by the interest and interaction with my writing, and would like to thank everyone who has liked or commented on my blog and my Facebook page.
Funnily enough, as if in some form of karmic synergy, as I write this 'blogoversary' post I'm injured again. This time though it's nothing to do with running. It's Aussie rules football (again). Nothing major, just a minor inversion sprain of my ankle which I've treated with R.I.C.E and, now that the swelling has gone down, some mobility exercises. Hopefully I'll be back playing next week but for now there's no running going on. We'll see what Thursday brings. I plan to do a bit of a fitness test – calf raises, stability board, one-legged squats and other exercises to see how the ankle is moving and reacting under load. Either way it's looking like solid ankle strapping for the rest of the season to protect the ankle from further injury…
In other news, I started a new job today! Crucially, it's only about 8.5km/6m from home, so running to or from work is on the cards. A simpler way to increase my mileage over the summer and to combine transport with training!
In the meantime, thanks for reading and happy running everyone!
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From Boom to Ban: What did the Kids Company Trustees do wrong?
It has been two years since Kids Company started the dissolution process, but for those once responsible for the charity, the repercussions of its failure continue to reverberate. This week, the former directors of the charity have issued a statement saying that they "wholly reject" the allegations that they were running an unsustainable business model from September 2013 to August 2015.
The statement comes further to the Business Secretary's announcement that his office would issue proceedings against several former directors of the dissolved charity, as well its emblematic former chief executive. If found in the state's favour, the court could disqualify those individuals from acting as a director for up to 6 years. A number of those named in action hold directorships for other companies, and so the decision could have detrimental effects on their future careers.
What is most shocking is that the directors were successful in business long before Kids Company, with their aggregate back catalogue of employment including the BBC, WH Smith, a multinational pharmaceutical and an international Public Relations expert. How could they have reached this point?
As directors of a charitable company, they were also trustees. This gave them ultimate legal responsibility for the charity under their Trustee Act duties, as well as director's duties by the Companies Act. The 2015 report into the collapse highlighted several areas of concern:
Trustee decision-making
One criticism was that the chief executive, who was also the founder, would not communicate effectively – at times acting as a barrier rather than a conduit – and there were also incidences of disengagement with the trustees. Charities need a 'check and balance' mechanism to operate efficiently. If one person or a small group of individuals are exercising excessive control over key decisions, it may mean that your charity is not adequately balanced. Communication between the two arms needs to be maintained.
Trustee and staff suitability
Kids Company harboured an environment of false confidence. People relied on the most vocal, irrespective of that person's skill or knowledge of the subject in question. Key specialisms were missed, although the trustees believed them to be in hand. The most vocal people also happened to be the people who had held office for the longest period. This created a long-standing lack of challenge.
Financial responsibilities
Like all businesses, money is essential to the sustainability of a charity, and again this rests upon the shoulders of trustees. Professional firms instructed by the charity identified matters of concern, but the seriousness of their warnings varied from firm to firm. None of them appear to have reported the scale of risk carried by the charity to the trustees, the Cabinet Office or Charity Commission for example. It is the trustees' responsibility to look at the whole picture, not blindly rely on the professionals. Several factors influenced the loss of money, but the main problem was a lack of either an emergency fund or transparency about the charity's financial position.
The statutory standard states that 'a director must exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence'. Case law will see that any decision will also be based on a three stage process:
- Do the matters relied on amount to misconduct?
- If they do, do they justify a finding of unfitness?
- If they do, what period of disqualification should result?
I would say however that this is going to be harder than it might first appear.
Without doubt that the Business Secretary is making an example of the Kids Company trustees. The buck does, after all, end with them. But, whether you agree or disagree with the forthcoming legal action, it might be worth asking how you would react in the same circumstances. Would you speak up if the culture of the charity dictates that you should merely listen? Does your charity promote a limit to tenure? Would you question your third party professionals?
The reality is that such failings are not beyond the realms of possibility for many charities. It is best to perform an annual audit of your charity's decision-making process to keep on top of those cumulative factors that may in future be detrimental.
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