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A new study centre enabling young people unsure of their next steps to access training and support is being run at Hucknall Library.
Inspire Learning is now offering study programmes for young people aged 16-24 at the dedicated study centre, in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council and the Education and Skills Funding Agency.
Friendly, qualified and experienced staff will provide individual training and support to help young people progress.
Simon Cook, study programme manager at Inspire Learning, said, "We're an Ofsted-rated good provider and we treat our learners as young adults, encouraging them to develop their personal responsibility and independence.
"Our study programmes and traineeships are a great alternative for young people who aren't sure what their next steps are, or don't yet feel ready to make the often daunting move into a big college.
"Our pastoral support is second to none and we have an excellent record of helping young people overcome the barriers to learning that have held them back in the past."
Councillor John Cottee, council communities and place committee chairman, said: "This scheme will provide young people with a brilliant opportunity to develop their employability skills while getting real work experience, giving them the practical skills to help prepare them for working life."
The study programmes offer young people the opportunity to work with Inspire three days a week toward recognised employability qualifications, along with maths and English.
Work experience, providing real, industry relevant work opportunities, is an integral part of the programme.
All students can also further enhance their CVs by taking part in group-based community placements as part of their learning.
Progression from these courses can include employment, apprenticeship or a traineeship, a programme lasting up to six months which focuses on a work placement where students earn as they learn.
Young people can enrol at any time onto the programmes running at Hucknall and Sutton. Courses are also available in Eastwood, Stapleford, Mansfield, Ollerton, Retford, Newark and Worksop.
Inspire pays a bursary to all students and travel costs are refunded.
Inspire is a community benefit society which delivers a range of cultural, art, library and learning services, funded by Nottinghamshire County Council, The Arts Council of England and education and skills funding agencies.
Set up in April 2016, it has charitable aims and status and covers libraries, archives, arts and Inspire Learning, Youth Arts and the Music and Nottinghamshire Music Hub.
The programme is personalised to the students who work at their own pace.
More information can be found atinspireculture.org.uk/learning or on 0115 804 4363.


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Google Inc. (GOOG) has released the Nexus 5 at its Google Play website, using words like "stunning," "powerful," "colorful" and "slim." It is, in other words, like almost every other tablet or smartphone launched into the consumer market since the introduction of the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone in 2007. Unfortunately, it cannot pick the lock and gain share from market leaders Apple and Samsung. Companies with better smartphone design resources, more powerful brands than Nexus and closer relationships with major carriers have stumbled again and again.
Google's run at the smartphone market with the launch of the new Nexus 5 should have more momentum than many other recent releases from competitors. It has the new Android 4.4 KitKat OS. However, it may be hard to explain to the public why this is any better than earlier versions of Android, some of which run on hundreds of millions of smartphones around the world. Android comes in a number of flavors and is used by half a dozen of the market leaders, the most important of which is Samsung.
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There is not much to recommend the Nexus 5 over any others in its class in terms of weight or dimension. Like virtually every other product in the market, this phone has the means to run multimedia entertainment and connect to 4G networks.
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The gating event in terms of the chance that new smartphones have in their early days on the market is the support of large carriers, particularly AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ). The online store run by AT&T promotes the new iPhone and products from Motorola, Samsung, HTC, LG and Nokia Corp. (NOK). Google can only sell a limited number of the Nexus 5 online. Without carrier support it will be a bust. And at the most important moment -- the moment of the launch -- carriers are not behind it.
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The Nexus 5 may be extraordinary in Google's view. From the standpoint of the largest carriers, and probably most customers, it is barely ordinary.
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Petersburg Arts Council Presents The Dustbowl Revival
"Dustbowl reaches across the entire country for inspiration, brewing up a unique sound influenced by Dixieland jazz, Delta blues, New Orleans swing, East Coast bluegrass, and various points in between…[and] rolls those genres into something cohesive, often using traditional songs and old hymns as jumping-off points for the band's own material." –AMERICAN SONGWRITER
Bluegrass. Swing. Hot jazz. Pre-war blues. Southern soul. New Orleans funk. The Dustbowl Revival is what you could call an American roots orchestra with eight full-time members — and they play it all, mashing the sounds of traditional American music into a genre-hopping, time-bending dance party that coaxes new fire out of familiar coal. This isn't a throwback band. It's a celebration of the sounds that have kept America moving for more than a century, performed with all the flair of a medicine show and rooted in the sweat and swagger of a juke joint song swap.
Performing in Petersburg
at the Wright Auditorium
Monday, May 9, 2016
7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Tickets available in advance at Lee's Clothing
And at the door
Band web site: http://www.dustbowlrevival.com/
Their music at Amazon.com


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We sent our MP! photographer Tom Leishman to British Summer Time festival in London's Hyde Park last Friday 8th July and he took along his mum for her birthday. As you would expect, madness ensued.
Tom: Pre-festival daytime drinking on the tube.
Tom: I taught my mom that drinking at a festival is expensive so I smuggled in a bottle of rum inside my hat 😜
Tom: My mom said the festival burgers where good, but not as good as her home made cooking. We had Portobello mushroom, blue cheese and egg burgers with chips 😵😵
Mum: We had a few laughs in the Amazon photo booth dressing up and acting out on stage, then had a few Polaroids taken at another booth. A souvenir of our day.
Mum: The atmosphere started off so chilled even though there were crowds and crowds of people around and later when the bands came on stage it was electrifying!
Mum: Couldn't have chosen a better line up, with two of my favourite bands Alabama Shakes and Mumford & Sons.
Tom: Mum working the crowd during Mumford and Sons set.
Mum: Mumford & Sons put on an incredible show. I'm now a fan.
Tom's final verdict
I think everyone should do something like this with their mums! Such a great bonding session. Festivals bring the best out in everyone.
Mum's final verdict
What a spectacular day! The drinks flowed, the sun shone, I made some fantastic new friends and, to top it all off, I had the privilege of sharing the experience with my wonderful son. I think all mums (and dads) should give it a try at least once in their life. As for me, oh my gosh I loved it so much I want to do it all over again… roll on the next gig!!!


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Kumi Naidoo
Mr. Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
December 17, 2009
Dear Mr. President,
Now is the time to give hope more than a voice. As you depart
for the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, I feel compelled to
express my hope and desire for the role you will play when you join
the other heads of state in reaching an agreement to avert
catastrophic climate change: the role you must play in keeping hope
alive for many millions of people around the world.
My Name is Kumi Naidoo, I am the International Executive
Director of Greenpeace, I am also chair the Global Coalition for
Climate Action (www.tcktcktck.org) and serve as a co-chair of the
Global Call to Action Against Poverty (www.whiteband.org). But,
most of all, like you, I am a global citizen. I am also a child of
Like so many people around the world, I was uplifted during your
presidential campaign. I had great hope as I listened to you speak
to the perils of global warming, and about the promise of a clean
energy economy. I was delighted by the promise that the US would
return to multilateral engagement. After so many years of denial
and inaction by the Bush Administration, you restored my hope that
a fair, ambitious and legally binding climate agreement was
possible. My hope that a deal which would banish the specter of
catastrophic climate change could be struck. I believed and still
believe you could be the leader to ensure that happens.
As a child growing up under apartheid, I learned that it is
possible for a leader seeking change to keep hope alive. I also
learned that, sooner or later, transformative leaders must make
difficult decisions. Tomorrow you will face such a decision. Your
choice could change the course of history.
As you well know, no region or nation is immune to the ravages
of climate change. Melting glaciers, blazing forests, and acid seas
are some of the well-documented ecological impacts of climate
change. But too often, we lose sight of the inextricable link
between the environment and how real people are affected. It is
now estimated that some 300,000 people, mostly the poor and
politically disenfranchised, die every year in our warming
Water, food, and habitable land are becoming scarcer,
compounding human suffering and multiplying political tensions. The
latest figures suggest that if we don't act now, as many as one
billion people will be uprooted by climate impacts by mid-century.
That will inevitably lead to insecurity and conflict. Something
an already unstable world can ill-afford. Already climate impacts,
such as the drying up of Lake Chad, one of the largest inland seas
in the world, have exacerbated the tragedy in Darfur, where water
scarcity and competition for land have destroyed the lives of
millions. Indeed, climate change arguably constitutes the biggest
threat to peace. The costs of inaction will be measured in human
lives, and you well know that women and children, as always, will
bear the biggest burden.
The poor and voiceless will suffer most; they will be hit
hardest and fastest. The unfairness of that pains me. They are the
least responsible for causing climate change.
At home, you have taken important steps to make up for lost time
by enacting policies which will simultaneously limit greenhouse gas
pollution and put Americans to work. From afar, it appears that the
ambition of these plans has been stifled by powerful fossil fuel
and energy corporations. To date, your negotiators have only agreed
to a paltry provisional cut in US emissions of 3 percent on 1990
levels by 2020 - dangerously below the 25-40 percent cut the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says is necessary to
avert catastrophic climate change. The US has also failed to put a
long-term financial assistance package on the table. Long-term cash
injections are desperately needed to allow poor countries to adapt
to the climate impacts they are experiencing and will experience.
They need money to invest in clean energy sources as they develop
their economies.
I feel a responsibility to inform you that this lack of
ambition has profoundly discouraged many of the same people who
were so energized by your promise of hope and pledges to rejoin the
international community in this common struggle.
I cling on to hope, because as you have so vividly demonstrated,
anything is possible. The prospect of personal leadership at the
negotiations allows me to retain some 'audacity of hope' that you
will have both the courage and the vision to make history.
This is not a simple political crisis: it is a moral crisis. I
want to continue to believe in you Mr President. I appeal to your
humanity - please don't condemn the peoples of low-lying island
states and the world's most vulnerable countries to uncertainty.
Do not let them be wiped off the map.
You have given the world hope that we will finally put this
crisis behind us. You have the opportunity to turn hope into action
and into reality.
Those from the most vulnerable states face a clear and present
danger, but let us be clear, all of the world's 6.8 billion people
will suffer from the consequences of unchecked climate change. They
need a leader with the courage and vision to act. I pray and hope
you are such a leader.
I end by reminding you of something you said often during your
campaign. You frequently invoked the powerful words of Martin
Luther King: "The fierce urgency of now".
Sadly, according to the science the urgency of now has become
even more fierce. I humbly appeal to you to reject the voices of
short-term interest, of political expediency and of compromise.
Listen instead to the call of history. Listen to the voices of
those most at threat. Listen to the voices of future generations,
of our children and grandchildren. Of your children. Of your
grandchildren, as yet unborn. Then, please, take the action that
you know is needed.
Kumi Naidoo
Executive Director
Greenpeace International
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The Turnbull Government will accept the recommendation of the Energy Security Board (ESB) for a new National Energy Guarantee to deliver more affordable and reliable electricity while meeting our international commitments.
As our energy system transitions, we must ensure households and businesses have access to affordable and reliable power.
The independent Energy Security Board advises the Guarantee will give certainty to investors and therefore encourage investment in all forms of power. This means electricity bills will be lower than currently forecast and lower than they would have been under a Clean Energy Target.
The Energy Security Board estimates typical household bills will fall by an average of $110-$115 per year over the 2020-2030 period.
The Guarantee is made up of two parts that will require energy retailers across the National Electricity Market to deliver reliable and lower emissions generation each year.
- A reliability guarantee will be set to deliver the right level of dispatchable energy (from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, pumped hydro and batteries) needed in each state. It will be set by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) and Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).
- An emissions guarantee will be set to contribute to Australia's international commitments. The level of the guarantee will be determined by the Commonwealth and enforced by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).
Past energy plans have subsidised some industries, punished others and slugged consumers. The Turnbull Government will take a different approach.
The National Energy Guarantee will lower electricity prices, make the system more reliable, encourage the right investment and reduce emissions without subsidies, taxes or trading schemes. It is truly technology-neutral, offering a future for investment in whatever technology the market needs - solar, wind, coal, gas, batteries or pumped storage.
Unlike previous approaches, we are not picking winners, we are levelling the playing field. Coal, gas, hydro and biomass will be rewarded for their dispatchability while wind, solar and hydro will be recognised as lower emissions technologies but will no longer be subsidised.
Importantly, this plan builds on the Finkel Review, which recommended the creation of the ESB that has now recommended the National Energy Guarantee.
The Government will now work with the ESB and the states through COAG to implement the National Energy Guarantee.
As well as delivering a better deal for households, the plan will support business, particularly emissions intensive, trade exposed firms.
The Guarantee builds on our existing energy policy which involves the retailers offering consumers a better deal, stopping the networks gaming the system, delivering more gas for Australians before it's shipped offshore and the commencement of Snowy Hydro 2.0 to stabilise the system.
We now have an opportunity to break from the climate wars of the past and forge a sensible, sustainable path forward.


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Crash and Burn (Bonus Material)
Let''s assume that your drive has failed or, if you are fortunate, that you have detected the early warning signs and shut your drive down. Unfortunately, this tragedy occurred before you were able to back up the day''s work. You will need to replace the drive, but what about your data?
If the drive has completely failed, then you can''t recover the data yourself. Only a data-recovery professional has the specialized tools, environment, and skills to do the job. There is one possible exception to this, but it''s a long shot (see the section "Chill Out").
If the drive still operates but is clearly about to fail, you can either try to recover the data yourself or turn to a data-recovery company. It''s time to contemplate the importance of your endangered data.
FIG. A: Data-recovery companies employ highly skilled technicians who work on hard drives in contaminant-free clean rooms.
If you were to lose your work completely, would it cause you great emotional pain, financial loss, or damage to your studio business? If so, you need to take your drive to a professional to recover your data. It''s going to cost you—the tab for data recovery can easily be $1,000 or more—but it''s your best hope. A data-recovery engineer will open your wounded drive in a special dust-free environment called a clean room and try to temporarily revive the drive just long enough to recover the data (see Fig. A).
The drive won''t be stable; you can''t put it back in service. The data-recovery pro could have one shot at recovering the data before the repair fails. But a pro is far more likely to recover your critical data than you are, and if you attempt it and are unsuccessful, you will probably further damage the drive, making it less likely that a data-recovery company can help. Attempting to recover the data yourself is a high-risk game.
If you want to salvage the data but don''t want it badly enough to pay for a data-recovery service, then you can try to recover it yourself. Again, that''s assuming the drive is functioning. Your data-recovery software (see the sidebar "Your Utility Belt") might get only one brief opportunity before the drive fails completely.
Above all, do not—I repeat, do not—attempt to open the drive case. The drive is sealed to keep all dust and other environmental contaminants out, and dirt, dust, scratches, or moisture will put an end to any chance of recovery. Hard-drive mechanisms must be repaired in a clean-room environment.
Having put down your screwdriver, install your data-recovery software on a separate drive. If the damaged drive was your boot drive, boot your computer from another drive or install the problem drive and the recovery software on a different computer. You will also need a drive with sufficient capacity to store the recovered data.
FIG. B: Data-recovery programs such as Nucleus Kernel for Macintosh can help you recover lost files—that is, if the drive remains stable long enough.
With drives mounted, launch and run the data-recovery software (see Fig. B). Note that data-recovery software often makes the already damaged drive work hard, so you might not have much time before the drive dies. Do not scan the drive for problems; scanning is hard on the drive, and you''ve already decided that you can''t fix it. Launch the data-recovery routine as soon as you get the drive running, and if you recover your data, back up immediately. If it works, be very thankful.
If the drive has failed and you want to try to recover the data yourself, there is one trick you can try. It is risky and works in only a few situations. You can freeze your drive. Yes, that''s right—put it in the freezer! I haven''t tried this, and most experts recommend against it, but some admit that it might work. If you are attempting to recover data from an older drive that has had a head crash or a spindle failure and you''re desperate, it could be worth trying.
Here''s how it works, in theory. If the actuator arm has fallen out of position but has not yet touched and ruined the platter(s), cooling can cause the metal to shrink enough to bend the arm back into place temporarily. The chilled platter(s) and spindle also shrink, unsticking the platter(s) and pulling the surfaces away from the heads, thus restoring the gap between heads and platter(s). Another situation in which freezing might help is if the spindle bearings are damaged. In theory, freezing the spindle makes the bearings'' sleeve more viscous, and the extra resistance helps the whole assembly stay centered and reduces vibration.
If freezing gets your drive working, it won''t work for long. Freezing is far more likely to cause further data loss and damage to the drive. But if your drive is dead and you''d like to save your data but aren''t willing to pay a data-recovery company, it''s your last-ditch option.
Defragmentation moves file fragments and free space to contiguous blocks so that the read head doesn''t have to jump around to read the files. Optimization goes a step beyond defragmentation by organizing all of the defragmented files in a particular order calculated to maximize performance.
Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Vista automatically defragment to some extent, but they do it in different ways and the results are not always thorough. Therefore, it pays to check your disk periodically and defragment it when needed. Mac users will need third-party software to do this; Windows comes with a defragmenter, but some third-party utilities offer more options and do a more thorough job.
According to Apple, you don''t need to defragment with Mac OS X. In a nutshell, Apple''s key arguments are that because modern drive capacity is large, fragmentation is less of an urgent issue. The Mac OS HFS Plus formatting avoids using space from deleted files. With faster drives and RAM caches, many applications rewrite an entire file rather than continually appending data to existing files, thus reducing fragmentation. Caching also helps the system get around minor fragmentation problems.
In addition, OS X 10.3 (Panther) and later can automatically defragment files using a technology called Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering. However, Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering affects only those files that are less than 20 MB in size, which means most audio and video files are not defragmented. Some types of read-only files are not moved by this technology, whereas some third-party programmers can move these files. The bottom line is that drives still can get fragmented under OS X, and it''s wise to check them periodically with a disk utility that supports defragmentation.
Incidentally, OS X can detect which files you use most and move them to an area on the disk called the Hot Zone in order to improve access time. It''s not exactly optimization, but it''s a step in that direction. (For a full explanation, see the document "About disk optimization with Mac OS X" at support.apple.com/kb/HT1375. Note that this refers to defragmentation, not true optimization.)
XP and Vista have a form of automatic defragmentation and optimization, which works differently than in Mac OS X. If it detects fragmentation, Windows defragments and moves the files every three days, placing the most frequently used files together in a contiguous section toward the outer edge of the disk, therefore reducing seek time.
FIG. C: The Windows XP Disk Defragmenter shows the fragmentation of a drive before and after defragmentation.
Unlike Apple, Microsoft thinks users should still periodically defragment their drives. Therefore, Windows XP and Vista come with Disk Defragmenter (see Fig. C), a stripped-down version of Diskeeper Corporation''s Diskeeper. Windows XP''s Disk Defragmenter can be launched by using Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Defragmenter. Disk Defragmenter moves all the directory information to one spot in the center of the data, reducing read/write head travel. It moves infrequently used files farther from the directory area, and it follows a user-provided table of file descriptions to emphasize or ignore. Finally, it makes the files contiguous.
The Windows Vista version of Disk Defragmenter can run automatically at scheduled times by using Task Scheduler, and it can continue to defragment in the background when the computer is in use. You can''t choose which drives to defragment unless you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1. If the fragments of a file are more than 64 MB in size, the file is not defragmented (Microsoft says doing so wouldn''t noticeably improve performance). On the other hand, Disk Defragmenter can defragment a volume without requiring a lot of free space. (Full defragmentation, including large files, requires at least 15 percent of free space on the volume.)
XP and Vista also include a command-line Defrag.exe utility. The Windows Vista version of Defrag.exe doesn''t require administrative rights and offers more control than Disk Defragmenter. It can defragment user-selected volumes or just analyze volumes like the Windows XP version.
Both Disk Defragmenter and Defrag.exe have limitations that inexpensive third-party defragmentation and optimization utilities can address, so it''s worth checking out the alternatives.
Before you defragment your drive, you should keep a few things in mind. First, defragmentation does carry some risks, so back up your data if you haven''t already done so. Of particular importance to musicians is that defragmenting sometimes wipes out disk-based software authorization. So if your music software uses this sort of copy protection, make sure that you have serial numbers and original program disks or downloadable installers handy just in case. Dongle-based copy protection should not be affected.
Mac OS X only: before defragmenting, use Apple''s Disk Utility to repair permissions. Then use a specialized utility such as MacJanitor to run OS X maintenance tasks. (For more on this, read "Mac OS X: How to force background maintenance tasks" at support.apple.com/kb/HT2319.)
Regardless of your OS, run your disk utility to check and repair the disk directories and general disk structure before you defragment. Then use your disk utility of choice to defragment or optimize. Afterward, run your disk utility again to ensure that there are no more problems. Mac OS X users should also run Repair Permissions one more time.
You already know your drive is going to fail sooner or later, so back up your data often. If you can''t afford to lose the file, back it up absolutely as soon as possible—say, while the band is getting ready for the next song. If you would be sad but not distraught to lose the file, back it up daily. If you don''t back up daily, be prepared to lose work.
Doing a simple backup is fine for most data files. You''ll probably need to back up session files to a large-capacity hard drive or tape drive because those files are so big. You might be able to archive small projects on a few DVD-Rs or Blu-ray discs. But what about the drive containing your applications and application-specific libraries? Sure, you can reinstall applications, Reason ReFills, GarageBand Jam Packs, and so on—but you will want them organized in a specific way (including, for example, application preferences). And trying to replicate that after your main drive crashes can be a nightmare.
One solution is to get a second drive (internal or external) with the same capacity as your working drive and create a mirror image, or clone, of your working drive on it. If you are backing up a boot drive, your clone can be made to be a bootable volume. After creating a clone, continue to synchronize your drives with incremental backup software. (With incremental backup, only files that have changed are copied.) When one drive fails, you can switch to the other and keep working. You probably will still have to reinstall software that has disk-based copy protection, but for the most part, this is a great way to go.
A wide assortment of cloning and backup utilities is available for Mac OS X and Windows, and I''ve listed just a few. A clone is an exact copy of a volume, including invisible files, permissions, metadata, and other data. If you clone your boot drive, you get a bootable copy. The Finder and some backup programs can''t copy all file types (invisible files, for example), but cloning software can. Not all backup utilities can create bootable volumes, so check before you buy.
OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) includes Time Machine, which backs up your files every hour but doesn''t create bootable volumes. If you want to use Time Machine, check out Time Software TimeMachineEditor 1.3.1 (free) at timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor. This program lets you schedule Time Machine backups in case hourly backup is overkill.
You''ll find Windows XP''s Backup utility and Vista''s Backup Status and Configuration program in Accessories->System Tools. Backup is installed by default on XP Pro, but XP Home users must manually install it from the install CD. Backup is a basic backup program and, like its Vista counterpart, can''t make a bootable clone.
For more about backup, including links to software and services, see "Better Safe Than Sorry" in the May 2006 issue.
Mike Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.1 (donation requested)
Econ Technologies ChronoSync 3.3.5 ($30)
EMC Retrospect 7.5 Professional for Mac ($129)
Free Ride Coding SmartBackup 2.2.5 ($23)
Shirt Pocket SuperDuper ($27.95)
Skorpiostech Changes 1.0.4 ($40)
Acronis True Image 11 Home ($49.99)
Drive Snapshot 1.3 ($62.89)
EASEUS Disk Copy 2.0 (free)
EMC Retrospect 7.5 Professional for Windows ($129)
Macrium Reflect 4.2 (partial edition, free; full edition, $39.99)
PC Inspector Clone Maxx (free)
Spotmau WinCare Clone Genius ($39.95)
Symantec Ghost 14.0 ($69.99)
TeraByte Unlimited Image for Windows 2.15 ($38.94)
Batman has a utility belt, and you could use one, too. Here''s a small sampling of third-party disk utility software for hard-drive care and maintenance. (You can easily find many more disk utility programs of all sorts by doing a Web search.) And Windows and Mac OS X come with some utility programs, which are discussed in the main article.
The third-party programs listed here offer a variety of features. Several use SMART to monitor hard-drive performance—including data-transfer rate, access time, error checking, and temperature—and to predict possible drive failure. Some programs handle formatting, defragmentation, and optimization and can do a variety of repairs. Others are focused entirely on data recovery. A few more general-purpose utilities go far beyond drive maintenance.
Alsoft Disk Warrior 4 ($99.95)
Atomic Bird Macaroni 2.1.1 ($9.99)
Coriolis Systems iDefrag 1.6.4 ($34.95)
Brian R. Hill MacJanitor 1.3 (free)
Micromat Tech Tool Pro 4.6.2 ($98); version 5 might be available by the time you read this
Nucleus Kernel for Macintosh ($145)
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery Software 1.0 (download, $129; CD, $149)
Ariolic Software ActiveSMART 2.51 ($29.95)
Diskeeper Corp. Diskeeper 2008 (home version, $29.95; professional version, $49.95)
EFD Software HD Tune (v. 2.55, freeware; HD Tune Pro 3.1, $34.95)
Flobo Recovery Hard Disk Repair 1.0 ($39)
Get Data Recover My Files 3.9.4 ($59.95)
Gibson Research SpinRite 6.0 ($89)
Nucleus Kernel Recovery FAT‑NTFS ($69)
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery 3.0 (download, $99; CD, $119)
URL Toy Software Personal SmartCheck 3.1 ($19.95)
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Patients are to be allowed to pay privately for treatment with expensive drugs without losing their entitlement to NHS care, the health secretary, Alan Johnson, announced yesterday.
But he denied that the government was presiding over a dilution of the founding principles of the NHS, which promises healthcare for all, free at the point of delivery. Any patient who wants to pay for drugs the NHS does not provide must get their course of treatment privately.
Johnson also announced changes to the way that drugs for terminally ill cancer patients are assessed by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, in a radical move intended to reduce the numbers of people seeking expensive drugs the NHS will not pay for.
Nice will not currently approve drugs that cost more than £30,000-£48,000 for a year of good quality life. For cancer drugs that could offer patients a few more months, the ceiling will now be as high as £80,000 a year. The move opens the way for approval of some of the kidney cancer drugs Nice has recently rejected.
Prof Sir Michael Rawlins, president of Nice, made it clear at a joint briefing with Johnson that public outrage over the denial of expensive drugs to those dying of cancer was behind the changes. "Nice has long recognised that society places great value on extending the life of people with life-threatening diseases," he said.
There could be legitimate reasons for the high price set by the manufacturer, he added. Some drugs, such as Herceptin and Avastin, were "targeted" therapies that would work only on certain patients which means the potential market for companies was smaller.
The move by Nice joins a package of reforms laid out by the Richards review that was published yesterday.
Prof Mike Richards, the cancer tsar, was asked to investigate whether patients should be allowed to pay to top up their basic NHS treatment. Johnson yesterday accepted all 14 recommendations of the review, including the compromise proposal on the issue which has excited most public outrage. Patients who take out second mortgages to fund treatment would no longer find themselves excluded from NHS care.
But conscious of the dangers of private top-up payments, the government has embraced reforms which it hopes will reduce the number of people who will feel the need to seek drugs the NHS will not give them. These include:
• Speedier drug appraisals by Nice. In the future a decision should be made on whether to recommend a drug for NHS use within six months of it being licensed.
• Primary care trusts, which decide whether to pay for a non-approved drug on an "exceptional" basis, must have guidance so they all make their decisions on the same basis and the same information.
The Tories accused the government of introducing a two-tier NHS. "They've gone from letting patients lose their NHS care to creating a two-tier NHS, where some patients will get better care simply because they can pay for it," said health spokesman Andrew Lansley. "The bottom line is that the government should be working to ensure patients receive these drugs free of charge on the NHS, rather than forcing people to pay for them."
Case study: Buying time
Two years ago Barbara Moss from Worcester was told by the NHS clinicians treating her bowel cancer that she had three months to live.
Doctors said the only hope was Avastin, an expensive drug that the NHS would not fund. She applied to Worcestershire primary care trust for help, but they turned her down.
Moss, 53, who gave up work as a teacher because of her illness, said that with her 87-year-old mother's help and by dipping into her own pension, she had raised £10,500 for four treatments of Avastin, along with the chemotherapy that had until then been provided free by the NHS. "It worked amazingly. It reduced the tumour right down and I was able to have an operation last October on the bowel and liver."
The NHS paid for the surgery, but the trust refused funding for a second course of Avastin - that would give her the best chance of survival - in spite of the support of Bowel Cancer UK, who provided lawyers, and of her MP.
"The Avastin allowed the operation that gave me two years instead of three months, which is invaluable," she said.


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The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes is packed with tactical tips and strategical insights about how to grow your business.
Below I share my favorite principles from the book. I highly recommend buying the book though, there are a lot of golden nuggets to be found I don't cover in this post.
How To Spend Your Time As a Small Company
Spend at least 2.5 hours growing (cold calling, making deals, selling).
The Pyramid of Ca$h (I took the liberty to rename it)
How do we use this information?
Imagine that you are writing the headline for a workshop,webinar or newsletter you offer potential clients.
You want the headline to appeal to as large portion as possible of the pyramid.
- Headline 1: "The Five Ways Our Office Equipment Can Help You". This headline only address the top of the pyramid "looking to buy" and maybe "open to buy".
- Headline 2: "The Five Ways You Are Wasting Money in Your Administration". Not the most exciting headline, but the whole pyramid is much more likely to want to know more.
Use Market Data, Not Product Data
Chet writes:
"Here's the key to choosing which data to include: market data is way more motivational than product data. Most people think that a shoe is a shoe (product data), but when you learn that your feet connect to every organ in your body, that's market data. It makes your choice of shoe much more important. So think about what market data is there that makes your products or services much more important."
Pre-sell Your Information
While presenting the information about the increase in lawyers, you could say, "And this means you have some serious competition, but the news gets worse when I show you the next point."
Never Thank Clients For Their Time. Never Apologize For Taking Their Time.
[thanking for a clients time] shows that you consider their time more valuable than yours. It suggests that listening to you is far less important than other things they could be doing.
He would start off the meeting saying: "The first thing I want to do is apologize for taking your time. I know you charge for your time, so this is valuable time for you." It was straight uphill from there.
How To Handle a No
Follow up
I) Become top of mind
Constantly and intensely follow up a no with creative gifts and calls.Or, it could happen, as I've seen 100 times, that you keep following up and one of their preferred providers lets them down in some way and, wham, you are the first company they think of because you never gave up.
II) Win their respect
And if you keep contacting the people who hung up on you, you will eventually win their respect. After all, you can't possibly respect someone who goes away after the first rejection"
Help Clients make decisions
It's tough to make decisions, sometimes the client need help.
I finally said to him: "Look, you don't need any more information. You already know as much as you're ever going to know. You just need to make a decision. Do you have what it takes to make the decision?
Because that's where you're at right now." That's a hard-core close, but without it he might have continued wasting his time struggling over the decision when he could have been working with me to improve his business. He said: "You're right. I do know. I want it." And he bought.
I have a tendency to feel pushy when I do this, and therefore avoid it. I might tell myself that "I'm too nice" to push a sale.
But I think the truth is that I'm to scared of being rejected.
If you believe the customer needs what you are selling, then doing everything to get it in the hands of the client is your job.
Use Risk Reversal To Close
It should be easy for the customer to buy. You don't want friction.
Here is a paraphrase from Chets companies offer:
"We're so sure that this program is going to help you, we're going to give you $2,000 in bonus products. Take this program and use it. If you feel it is not more than 1,000 times worth the investment, send it back and get a complete refund. And for your trouble, you can keep the $2,000 in bonus products." When we did this, our sales doubled. And yes, you have that 1 out of 10 who might buy it just to get the bonuses, but you still had nine more sales you would not have gotten if you didn't make the offer in the first place. A money-back guarantee is a great way to take away objections, but the idea of offering a bonus that they can keep soups it up quite a bit"
How can you decrease or eliminate the risk for your customer?
How to handle objections
Customers has objections. Maybe the thing you are selling is too expensive. Maybe it's the same information can be found for free.
You can address objections differently depending on the medium of communication.
"Always agree with an objection. The clients will drop their guard. You might say, "Well, that's certainly a good reason not to invest in this today. [meaningful pause] But let me ask you a question: Is money the only thing standing between you and the purchase of this product?"
"At this point, if there are more objections, they will surface. If not, the client will say, "No, if I could afford it, I'd buy it." This is called isolating the objection.
Do This Now
First — if you liked the post — then go buy the book.
In the meantime, answer these three questions:
- How many hours a day do you spend calling customers?
- When was the last time you pre-sold a slide in a presentation?
- How can you decrease or eliminate the risk for your customer in the buying process?


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After the first decent night's sleep in a fortnight, the team are starting to familarise themselves with their new home, on board the Australian icebreaker Aurora australis, a remarkable red giant that stands proud in the heavy pack ice. It has been an intense last 24 hours. Yesterday we woke to brilliant sunshine and calm on the Akademik Shokalskiy with no immediate news of evacuation. Indeed, we even had the Inaugural Mertz Writer's Festival on the ice, in anticipation of another day locked in. But by 1800, we were in evacuation mode. The Russian crew opted to remain with their vessel until either conditions improve or they are broken out by another vessel capable of reaching them. Captain Igor and his crew were completely unflappable and provided a wonderfully calming influence for everyone else. By midnight we were all safely on board the Aurora thanks to some impressive helicopter sorties by the Chinese from their icebreaker Xue Long (Snow Dragon); round trips between the Shokalskiy and the Aurora were completed in just 25 minutes. Team members, luggage, science gear and samples from the expedition were transported with good grace, humour and professionalism, whilst also bringing food supplies back for the Russians (we only had five day's supply left). Everyone spoke admiringly of how the operation went during and after the evacuation. The Xue Long is now itself working in heavy ice but we hope the Chinese team will also get out soon.
The AAE team have been fantastic. Everyone held together to the end, supporting one another and keeping good humour under very trying conditions. The following can only be a short summary of an incredible team effort. Chris and Greg worked all hours sorting logistics and co-ordinating with the Bridge; the ship's manager Nikki did not seem to sleep, maintaining a daily program of activities for everyone; Brad and Nikki – the ships cooks – served amazing meals on a decreasing amount of supplies; the two Bens helped keep everyone busy with activities while doing essential work around the ship; and Colin and Kerry Lee helped with Chinese translation on the Bridge. Our impressive media team in Alok, Lawrence and Andrew from The Guardian and BBC helped keep our families and friends (and the world) assured we were well while also reporting on the science; not always an easy task given the conditions! Everyone else on the AAE looked after one another, providing leadership when needed, continuing the science work when possible, giving talks, providing lessons in all manner of skills, and being available for a quiet chat at almost any hour. We were very fortunate to have such a remarkable group of people on the AAE.
On board the wonderful Aurora, we were greeted by friendly voices and faces of friends and colleagues. Everyone is well and in good humour – albeit a little relieved. The helicopter voyage over some 14 nautical miles of jagged, broken sea ice just reaffirmed to the team how massive the ice breakout must have been that trapped us. I met the brilliant Captain ('Master') Murray Doyle of the Aurora and personally thanked him for the tremendous effort he and his team undertook to extricate us. The mission with the Chinese went ahead seamlessly and is a testament to the professionalism of all those involved. Murray reiterated that vessels always look out for one another in the Antarctic; 'It's part of the programme of people working down here. We have to rely on each other if something goes wrong. You're too far away from anything else, it's only the people here you can really rely on'. I was greatly relieved to hear from Murray that the disruption to the vessel schedule is likely to be limited. We are now heading west to the Australian base Casey, finish the resupply there and then return to Hobart. If all goes to plan, the Aurora will depart Tasmania for its fourth voyage of the season on schedule.
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4 boneless chicken breast halves (6 oz each)
¼ tsp cracked black pepper
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 each: medium green, red, and yellow bell pepper, julienned
2 garlic cloves
¾ cup diced tomatoes (or 1 can diced tomatoes, undrained)
¼ cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
2 Tbsp fresh basil, minced (or 2 tsp dried)
1 tsp fresh oregano, minced (or ¼ tsp dried)
1. Sprinkle chicken with pepper.
2. In a large non-stick skillet, brown chicken in oil. Remove and keep warm.
3. In the same skillet, sauté peppers until tender. Add garlic & cook 1 minute longer.
4. Add tomatoes, broth, basil, oregano, & chicken. Bring to a boil.
5. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until meat thermometer reaches 170º


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Delivery driver sustains injury due to a manual handling task receives compensation from his employer
A delivery driver is awarded personal injury compensation due to an accident at work caused by manual handling tasks.
Accident Circumstances: Our client was employed as a delivery driver and was asked by his employer to make deliveries of parcels, some that weighed in excess of 30 kg, in a vehicle without a tail lift or step which meant our client had to lift them manually from the rear of his vehicle. On one particular day our client had to lift 12 heavy parcels from his vehicle and following this particular delivery our client started to suffer from back pain.
The following day he was sent out on his deliveries but this time his employer provided help by means of a work colleague but unfortunately this person had a fracture to his hand and could assist in the manual aspects of the job.
The next day our client was given a sack truck to take on his rounds but he still had to manually handle the heavy parcels off his vehicle. It was on this day that our client reported to his manager that he was suffering back pain. Ouir client was advised to see his GP which he did.
What did Hayward Baker Solicitors do to help: One of our personal injury specialists Gary Lee who is a Chartered legal Executive took on the case on a no-win-no-fee basis and sent a letter of claim to the defendant, who initially denied liability on the basis that their parcels were not heavy, however this was disputed by us due to being sent a copy of one our client's employers invoices which showed a range of parcels weighing from 120kg to 229kg.
We replied:-
"As you will be aware, under Regulation 4(1) of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 your insured has a statutory obligation to avoid hazardous manual handling operations so far as reasonably practicable; to assess any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided; and reduce the risk of injury so far as reasonably practicable.
As a delivery driver it is not disputed that manual handling could not be avoided entirely. However, you will note that in order to reduce the risk of injury it is well established that specific training on manual handling is one such method by which the risk of injury can be reduced.
From the correspondence we have had to date it appear to be accepted that our client received no manual handling training on commencing employment with your insured. Bearing in mind the obligations imposed by the Manual Handling Regulations do you agree that to not provide such training is a breach of duty on the part of your insured?"
The defendant eventually admitted liability in full.
We also drafted a schedule of our client's out of pocket expenses so we could claim expenses incurred by a client which were attributable to the accident, the expenses included travel to and from medical appointments. care and assistance, loss of earnings and pain killers.
Resolution: The claim settled for £7,000.00
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So, Carnival lifted the ban and apologized...NOT ENOUGH!!!! Did they give them their $$$$ back for the cruise...did they offer them another free cruise... I'm sure the family had to sign a "secrecy" agreement which would be even more insulting since their names has been all over the boards and media.. Would I be vindictive..YOU BET.. Let's face it.. Carnival owns the majority of the other cruise lines and they are pretty powerful.. Do I sound like I am steaming...well I am.. Oh yes..to set the record straight...after an accident the first day out on a new cruise ship, because of poor design of the jacuzzi, I slipped and suffered a serious Colles fracture on board.. Parrot Pop took pictures documenting the problem and the attempts by the crew daily to rectify it. I was interrogated by the Safety Officer as if I were a criminal and had been drinking at 9:00 a.m...and spent the rest of the cruise in a cast and having surgery within a week or returning home..Oh yes, I sued the line and there was a settlement..btw it was a Royal Caribbean ship..
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Good morning and welcome to Bear Bites, your morning rundown of Bears news. Read up on John Madden and Brian Billick's thoughts on the Bears' personnel, the future of Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs, and a fun Robbie Gould event.
- What does John Madden have to say about Mike Tice and the Bears' GM search? (CSN Chicago)
- Super Bowl-winning coach Brian Billick says elevating Tice was the right move. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- The clock is ticking on the Bears' Pro Bowl linebackers. (Chicago Tribune)
- Looking at a GM from the college scouting side makes the most sense. (CSN Chicago)
- Check out Robbie Gould's charity event coming up in February. (Stimulus Social Club)
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Humanity Lost
The World so vibrant and warm,
Yet I pull away.
Sounds that once brought pleasure
No longer appeal.
Gentle words from those I love
Now only breed deeper ire.
Where has my humanity gone?
Why does the frigged mechanical workings
Of my mind call me?
Help! I drown in the endless Spirals
of my thoughts!
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Welcome to the voting for Poetry Contest #36!
The theme was "Intrigue", as picked by me, the winner of round #35.
The poll should-be self-explanatory. Please vote objectively, and fair.
You are not allowed to vote for yourself.
Please also post your opinions/criticism in the thread.
Previous rounds and winners can be found pinned in the Contest Forum and the Discussion Thread.
Here are the entries for this round:
Spoiler Intriguing My Arse
Spoiler The intriguing agony of guilt
Spoiler The Riddled Sanctuary
Spoiler The Butterfly
Spoiler behind the fan
Spoiler Confused Prom King and Queen
You have two weeks to vote, until the 23rd of January.
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One of the things that often happens with people in the search marketing industry is that after being in the business for a while and attaining a certain level of expertise, it becomes easy to take for granted that not everyone in marketing and business is consuming and digesting as much information. References to strategies and certain tactics do not have the same meaning, because of the dependencies on previous knowledge.
This happens with SEO or search engine optimization pretty easily. Chasing after the next "silver bullet", whether it's SEO and PR, social media, social networking or personalized search, can distract marketers from what's important. The search marketing industry is one that can be counted on to change on a regular basis. Strategies, tactics and best practices will emerge as new channels of distribution evolve and consumer search behaviors change. Just look at the shift from offline news consumption and traditional media to online as an example.
6-10 years ago it used to be that optimizing a web site to achieve the desired visibility within search results, increased traffic and sales involved basic on page modifications and submissions to the search engines. With Google's prominence the notion of link popularity came into play as well as the need to correct indexing issues as a result of complicated URLs from content management systems. Quality, quantity and age of inbound links are important as well the information collected from applications such as toolbars and personalized search.
Best practices optimization now involves a lot more than making code changes, modifying content to certain keyword densities and addressing inclusion issues. Many companies seem to have little real expertise in dealing with creating an overall strategy for marketing online. They often do not know how to integrate online marketing initiatives such as search marketing into their other marketing channels. What are the best practices? How is knowledge shared and how do disparate stakeholders collaborate so business units are not competing against each other for keywords?
While many search marketers stick to textbook SEO, there are an increasing number that have long since moved on from optimizing web sites for better search results to optimizing businesses communications for search. Search happens in many forms and there are many dependencies in order for an organization to take full advantage of the channels available. Just look at all the buzz around social media optimization and marketing that happens to be the SEO tactic du jour. Of course, I'm not knocking SMO, it's a big part of what we do. But it's also just one channel of many.
In order for businesses to take full advantage of the shift to online information consumption, networking and the subsequent marketing opportunities, the notion of "optimization" should be extended to all company communications. This starts with understanding the market, consumers, their pain points as well as the language that market associates with finding solutions. The language insight applied to keyword resesarch and analysis enables organizations to strategically implement keyword messaging across communications both online and offline.
Anyone involved with creating content for an organization should have a current keyword glossary available to them so they can make informed decisions about concepts and words to use which anticipate demand from the target audience. A popular example of this is optimizing press releases. Every time I ask PR professionals, "Wouldn't you like to know what words end consumers and maybe even journalists are using to find the kind of content you're putting out in your press releases?" the answer is an enthusiastic, "Yes!". The key is to find the sweet spot of messaging that satisfies both algorithmic categorization/ranking as well as compelling content for people.
Whether it's landing pages for PPC, landing pages for email campaigns, web pages, press releases, product data sheets, web pages, anything electronic published to the web – keyword messaging applies. Formats are not limited to web pages either. PDF files and MS Word documents published to the web are probably the most often overlooked optimization opportunity for large organizations. Just implementing simple anchor text linking as a best practice can have a measurable impact when hundreds or thousands of documents are involved.
This isn't really anything new and it's not difficult. So why do so few organizations implement properly, if at all? It's because most entities within organizations responsible for site optimization approach it tactically and from a stand point of execution rather than as a part of overall messaging. And can you blame them? With all the politics and agendas within some organizations, marketers need to pick their battles wisely. Budgets are at stake! Also, selling the management team on making revisions to key company messaging is a hell of a lot more difficult than implementing template optimization on a few thousand web pages.
So what do you do? You take it piece by piece. Start with the web site, move on into PR then maybe email marketing and start coordinating with other media and even direct response, keeping in mind measurement all along the way. Winning the small battles makes it easier to make the big pitch on a broader scale when you have the hard data to support it.
Another example of incorporating keyword messaging into company communications involves media training. In this scenario, imagine appropriate areas of a company's web site have been properly optimized for target keyword concepts. An executive is scheduled to be interviewed by a number of prominent industry publications. In PR, it is common for the public relations firm to provide media relations training or at least a journalist briefing prior to the interview. Rather than limiting the focus of that coaching only to questions to be asked, the style of the journalist and their possible agenda, the executive is coached on using keyword concepts in their responses.
What often happens is when the article is run (print, online, radio or TV) it will mention many different companies/concepts. The reader may not remember specifics, but they will remember the topic. When readers go to their favorite search engine to find out more or to recall the interview, they'll search on the topic and if the document itself does not rank well (and often does if it's niche) then the company web site will because content has been optimized for the topic of the interview. Finding the company via search and recalling the name from the original interview generates a much higher quality lead than through search alone.
Depending on the media format and message, the content would be optimized for multiple channels to make it as easy for the intended audience (journalists, end consumers) to find as possible. This includes social bookmark and news sites, video, blog and RSS search engines, news search, local, mobile and any other relevant channel. Running pay per click ads shortly after the interviews is also an excellent compliment to this strategy.
Optimizing business communications for search ties closely into the notion of content distribution networks that I've written about in the past. Not only does each channel offer it's own visibility opportunity, but they also provide relevant "signals" to search engines which can affect standard search engine visibility. In the end, it is the measurement of success that will make or break such efforts. From branding to lead generation, optimizing business communications for search enables companies with a sustainable online marketing strategy that will change as channels of distribution change.


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Following the successful Australian launch of Hedgren's innovative urban bag collection, Connect, Hedgren announces a line extension including FOUR new styles for men and women.
Stylish and functional, Connect is designed for people who need to stay connected whilst on the go. The two style lines, Firm and Crossing, both incorporate innovative features that complement the latest digital lifestyle needs.
With Hedgren Connect, power is in the hands of the people and dying batteries are a thing of the past. The battery packs, which are sold separately, ensure that personal technology like tablets, mobile phones and other accessories, are kept charged and ready for action.
For Hedgren Brand Manager, Pam Weston, due to the overwhelming popularity of the collection launch, making new styles available in Australian was an obvious move.
"The Hedgren Connect collection solves a popular problem for busy people: the need for personal tech to remain functional, at optimal levels throughout the day and night, wherever their work, or play takes them.
"This is a unique range with multiple features, smart design, and clever solutions for a digital life on the go. The collection looks as good as it performs, and shoppers have even more to choose from with the addition of these sleek new styles,' says Weston.
Launching June 2016, NEW Hedgren Connect styles in Australia include:
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§ JUNCTION Backpack 15" in Grey, Black or Navy
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§ OVERPASS Mono Sling Bag 10" in Black/Grey or Black/Green RRP $159
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It's been a while since there was a home for sale in Fusion in the South Bay, the gated townhome community in the Hollyglen area of Hawthorne. Ideally located just east of Manhattan Beach, it's is a fantastic alternative to Redondo, Manhattan and El Segundo. Prices would be exponentially higher if it were located just across the street, but the location still offers residents easy access to the active South Bay lifestyle with the beach, dining, shopping and more close by.
The current unit for sale is a "C" floorplan (see our video walkthrough of a different Fusion C townhome for a sense of the layout) which offers a very open kitchen/dining/living room areas with 2 bedrooms and laundry upstairs. The C floorplan also offers a 2 car attached garage. The ammenities of the complex include pool and spa, small playground, half basketball court and various exercise stations.
Located at 5406 W 149th Place unit #18, (see Fusion South Bay map) it is priced at $499,000 which, in our opinion, is low and would be a good deal for the buyer that purchases the home. Square footage is listed as 1,110 by listing agent Young Kim of Landmark, but in our experience the square footage is actually larger when measured.
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Memento Mori: Lessons from a Decade Among the Dead
Lecture | April 19 | 6-8 p.m. | Latimer Hall, 120 Latimer Hall | Note change in location
Dr. Paul Koudounaris
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
For over a decade, Dr. Paul Koudounaris has traveled the world documenting the display of human remains in religious practice. From the earliest Christian charnel houses to mummy festivals in modern day Indonesia, he found that the taboo we commonly associate with the dead body was anything but universal. In many cultures throughout history and many presently, a literal memento mori--a reminder of death using skulls and bones--was an essential part of spiritual life. His talk will first consider the way we conceive of death in the Western World versus the way death has been conceived of historically, and how the impact that change has had on our relationship with the dead. He will then focus on examples of how even Western culture once had a considerably more open relationship with the dead, as well as current examples of similar relationships in Asia, Africa, and South America. The result will provide insights into magic, faith, and ultimately the connections that bind generations past and future.
About the Speaker: Paul Koudounaris is an author and photographer with a PhD in Art History from UCLA. He specializes in macabre visual culture and has lectured and presented his images throughout the world. His trio of books, Empire of Death (a history of ossuaries), Heavenly Bodies (the sage of Baroque era full bodied jeweled skeletons), and Memento Mori (a global look at the display of the dead) are award winning and have been translated into multiple languages throughout Europe and Asia. He is also a frequent guest on television and radio shows focusing on the macabre and the occult, and his work is foundational in the dark tourism movement.