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Plenty of space for everyone to relax. Comfy sofas, cast iron stove, Bluetooth stereo, TV and DVD.
Owl's House is perfectly placed for enjoying all that West Cornwall has to offer.
Tucked away down a typical Cornish lane this stylishly converted barn combines the pleasure of country life with the ease of modern living.
The accommodation is unusually spacious and has been thoughtfully designed. Much emphasis has been placed on comfort and quality while providing a home full of character.
Owl's House is a single storey, semi-detached barn conversion with 3 bedrooms: 1 double with en-suite, 1 single and 1 twin.
Located in quiet, unspoilt countryside, yet close to Hayle, Penzance and St.Ives.
Awarded 4 stars by the English Tourism Council. Our guests have left some great reviews in the Guest Book and on Owner's Direct.
Our standard week runs Friday to Friday, but we are flexible on short-stays and alternative dates. Get in touch and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Sleeps 5 in 3 bedrooms.
The property features a huge 30ft open plan sitting room and kitchen, featuring open beams and a cast iron stove.
Doors open onto a sunny patio and fully enclosed garden which is not overlooked.
There is a double bedroom with en-suite, a twin and a single. The separate family bathroom has a free standing bath and walk in shower.
The settlement of Treven is first recorded as "Trewyn" in 1327. The name contains the element tre 'estate, farmstead', suggesting a settlement of early medieval origin.
Plenty of space for everyone to relax. Comfy sofas, cast iron stove, Bluetooth stereo, TV and DVD.
The large open plan kitchen dining room opens onto the garden. The kitchen is fully equipped, there is a full sized fridge-freezer, dishwasher and washing machine.
All the Owl's House beds are equipped with top quality comfy mattresses and cotton linen. The en-suite features a large walk-in shower, full size sink and WC.
Full sized beds with quality mattresses, full length wardrobe and drawers. Plenty of space for adults or children.
Full length wardrobe and drawers. Full length single bed. Pretty views on to private garden.
Includes a luxurious roll-top bath, a walk-in shower, and a heated towel rail.
There is plenty of space for your car, your parents car and your friends car. The drive is shared with our house.
Most of our guests find us through Owners Direct, but you can save a little money by booking directly with us as Owners Direct will charge you a fee.
You can book direct with us by cheque or bank transfer. Please send an email to confirm availability. We can answer any questions and reserve your dates.
You can pay the full amount, or a third as a deposit. The balance is due six weeks before arrival.
If you would like to pay by credit card, or if you are at all worried about sending a cheque or making a bank transfer,
we would advise you to go through Owners Direct.
They have various safeguards in place and their fee may be worth your peace of mind.
You can visit Owners Direct here
Please let us know as soon as possible if you need to cancel your booking.
Any money paid can only be refunded if we re-book those dates.
The sooner we know, the better your chance of a refund.
For direct booking we will email you personally after every milestone (payment request, reciept etc).
Owners Direct is an automated system, and sends a variety of emails at various points.
If in doubt, email us through Owners Direct, or directly, or just call us.
We have really enjoyed our week in the Owl House. We loved the space, tranquility, the quality of accommodation and attention to detail. It is so obvious that you have worked hard to ensure that your guests have everything to hand. We are so relaxed we may forget to leave in the morning!
This is our 11th Easter break in a row at Treven Barn & Owl's House. We love it! Neil and Naomi have created a perfect home from home. We always avail of the yoga teacher, Leif ...We return to London full of hope, restored and relaxed.
I really enjoyed my stay at Owl House.
There was everything we needed there...My daughters car bottomed every time we came in and went out of the drive because of the potholes.
REPLY: Thank you. We have now replaced the gravel and created a small, gentle slope into the drive.
Nice location, comfy beds and eggs,milk and biscuits a really nice touch - would come again and reccommend to friends.
Very relaxing week.
Excellent location for all ages.
We've had a fantastic week, brilliant location and brilliant cottage! We definitely will be coming back.
We loved staying at Owls House. It was fab for our 2 year old and 5 month old... Our 2 year olds favourite thing was the beach and the dogs loved the walks nearby.
Had a lovely week...Good base to see lots of lovely places...Certainly going back fitter than I came despite my arthritus!!!
We loved being here and feel lucky to have found Owls House. The beaches, stone circles, standing stones, quoits and everything else were so much fun to explore. We will definitely tell any friends who are considering visiting Cornwall to come here. Thank you!
Lovely accommodation, delightful hosts and a gorgeous dog who has visited just to check we're ok! The barn is spacious, just as described and very well equipped...All the ingredients for a perfect holiday.
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Being a « Shishô» means being a good «Deshi » all through life
Japan has always distinguished itself from other countries in many different areas, but this specific characteristic is fully expressed in all arts, whether they be of Japanese or Western origin.
What makes each «Japanese style» practiced art different, is firstly this particular form of transmission from the Shishô to the Deshi based on very old educational principles. The originality encountered in this human relationship that combines respect and loyalty, can only lead to a form of practice that largely exceeds the purely technical context of the discipline that is being taught, this discipline merely being a support for demands that should be integrated into each individual's life.
Using art as a tool, a means to progress.
Even if changes in the rules of life in society have sometimes enabled considerable progress in terms of improving conditions of daily living, the consequence of these changes has been a deterioration of spiritual values that are the genuine cultural wealth of a country.
The tool has become more important than the object it helped to create
An artist is only recognised through the price that is put on his work and not through the spiritual elevation that he has reached in his pursuit of excellence in the practice of his art. The rules that underlie the relationship between human beings are changing, as are their preoccupations and their objectives of life are evolving. These changes are reflected in the education they give to their children, integrating less and less values that over time shape the culture of a country. The arts have been nurtured with values that are specific to the Japanese soul. It is time that these arts help us to retrieve a taste for lost values through a traditional approach integrated into a fast-moving world.
The basis for these considerations on a daily basis is the will to change our way of being and to participate in a revaluation of human relations.
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The San Jacinto College Performing Arts Company will host Artists for Hope, a fundraising dance concert benefitting cancer research and awareness organizations on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Marie Spence Flickinger Fine Arts Center.
Artists for Hope was developed as a way for artists to help in the fight for the cure of cancer. Houston-based choreographers and professional dance companies will present a variety of dance works featuring a various dance styles including modern, contemporary, and ballet. Artwork from San Jacinto College faculty, students, and guest artists will also be shown and sold.
Participating artists include Randall Flinn, Ad Deum Dance Company; Amy Elizabeth, Aimed Dance; Lydia Hance, Frame Dance; Fuzion Contemporary Dance; Jane Weiner, Hope Stone; JDF Elite Competitive Dance Company; Annie Arnoult, Open Dance Project; San Jacinto College Performing Arts Company; Beth Gulledge Brown, Uptown Dance; and Kelly Ann Vitacca, Vitacca Dance Productions.
Tickets are $17 general admission pre-sale only and can be purchased by visiting: www.eventbrite.com/e/artists-for-hope-tickets-18422134099. All proceeds from ticket and artwork sales will be gifted to cancer research and awareness organizations.
Artists for Hope takes place on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m., in the Proscenium Theatre inside the Marie Spence Flickinger Fine Arts Center, located at the San Jacinto College South Campus at 13735 Beamer Road in Houston. For more information about the dance concert, contact Jamie Williams at email@example.com or at 281-484-1900.
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Winter has come. Along with it comes the dreadful thick layers of ice lying around places you don't want them to be.
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The Human Tissue Act means doctors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can take organs from dead donor card carriers even if families object.
But the All Party Parliamentary Kidney Group (APPKG) said this was unlikely without staff to deal with relatives.
The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) hopes public faith in the system would rise.
'Difficult decision'
The More Transplants, Saving More Lives report said surgeons were unlikely to want confrontation with families unless there were more back-up staff specially trained to deal sensitively with the situation.
It added that even if there were more organs available there were too few transplant surgeons and insufficient laboratory and support facilities.
The APPKG wants to see the number of transplant co-ordinators, who deal with distressed relatives, increased from 12 to 40 who would then pass on training to other nurses.
The National Kidney Federation (NKF) has backed the parliamentarians' report.
Chief executive Tim Statham said: "Despite the provisions of the Human Tissue Act we do not expect surgeons to now ignore the strongly-held wishes of relatives.
"It is more likely that the way in which grieving relatives are approached about transplantation will change.
"It will be important to monitor the impact of these changes on family refusal rates."
There are 6,000 patients on the kidney waiting list but only about 1,800 transplants were carried out in the UK last year.
Organ transplant expert Professor Andrew Bradley, of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, said without clear guidelines for surgeons they were unlikely to ignore the wishes of relatives who objected strongly to donation.
British Transplantation Society trustee Dr Anthony Warrens urged the development of a system that would help grieving families deal with the difficult decision of whether to agree to the use of an organ.
'Beneficial effect'
The HTA is the regulatory body for the Human Tissue Act which came into force on 1 September.
An HTA spokesman said: "We have put systems and guidance in place so that professionals have confidence they are acting within a clear regulatory framework. As a result we hope that public confidence will increase.
"We believe that a beneficial effect of the Act will be an increase in organs available for transplantation. Anything that helps this to be implemented, within the legislation, is welcomed by us."
The report also calls for an increase in efforts to identify suitable donors and transplant patients, and more surgeons to be trained.
It recommends a rise in donations from people whose heart has stopped beating which has only recently been made possible by advances in technology.
The law in Scotland is covered by the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act which also came into effect on 1 September.
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The FBI's Uniform Crime Report released last week listed Los Altos as the second safest community in the Bay Area.
The report, based on 2011 reported crimes, revealed that Los Altos has a crime rate of 20.47 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Those numbers placed Los Altos behind only Hillsborough, which had a reported violent crime rate of zero.
In stark contrast, crime rates in Oakland and Emeryville – the cities with the highest crime rates in the Bay Area – recorded 1,682 and 2,039 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, according to the FBI report.
"Los Altos has historically been a very safe city overall, specifically with crimes against persons," said Los Altos Police Chief Tuck Younis, who noted that he avoids comparing Los Altos to other cities because of varying circumstances within each city's borders.
Los Altos' 2011 crime statistics show a total of 269 property crimes and 36 crimes against people, which includes 32 assaults, two sexual assaults, two robberies and no homicides. Los Altos' 2011 crimes against persons were 7.7 percent lower than in 2010, Younis said.
Still, statistics don't always tell the entire story, Younis noted, adding that some crimes go under-reported, such as domestic violence altercations.
"I've been very upfront in addressing the fact that domestic violence crimes go underreported in our region and in Los Altos," he said. "We're here to reach out to victims being silent to say that we're here to help them."
Younis said that while 2011 was a banner year in terms of low crime numbers, 2012 has seen its challenges, particularly when it comes to home and commercial burglaries. A year-to-date comparison shows a 35 percent increase in burglaries, or 18 more break-ins in 2012 versus 2011. Over the past 10 years, however, the city has averaged 107 burglaries annually, spiking in 2006 at 172.
"We've seen a steady decline since our high in 2006," Younis said. "While we're seeing this increase (in 2012) and are taking measures to address it, those numbers really put it in perspective."
Younis credited Los Altos' 2011 low crime figures in part to the collaborative working relationship his agency has developed with neighboring cities' law enforcement agencies, including the Mountain View and Palo Alto police departments and the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
"Crooks don't know borders, so we have to work together to leverage our resources," the police chief said.
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Hello, i had a long vacation, longer then i wanted too 🙂
After Christmas holiday I started preparing for my exams, had to learn a lot, but it paid off 🙂
Now I'm back and I finished the dungeon map 2 and 3 with new enemies for each new map.
I really need to make a random map generator, it took a loooong time creating it manually.
I don't know how balanced are the enemies, I didn't test it much naturally, but I added a Cheat button which increases life and damage of all characters in your party every time you click on it. Great for testing map 2 and 3 faster.
The game had to be reset again for the new changes.
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MKA Astronomy Club comes to Al-Mahdi Mosque
The newly formed MKA Astronomy Club is coming to Al-Mahdi Mosque this Saturday (29th December) night! This is your chance to learn about amateur astronomy and to try it out for yourself with a telescope-building and a stargazing session with our brand new Celestron telescope (capable of observing planets and nebulae!). For those wondering about the meaning of the universe we even have a discussion forum to satisfy your curiosity.
So don't miss out on this wonder-filled event coming to your region this Saturday. Please note, hot drinks will be provided!
Preliminary Programme
7:30 Isha prayer
8.00 Tilawaat
8.05 Welcome Address (Muddassar Rashid – Astronomy Club President)
8.20 Gravity and Keplers Law (Foaad Tahir – Club Committee Member)
8.40 Practical session: Building Telescopes and Spectroscopes
9.15 Star-Gazing (weather permitting)
9:45 Discussion Forum: Does the universe have a purpose?
Please also note that on Sunday 10 am we have the Majlis Ansar Sultanul Qalam and Amoor-e-Tuluba workshop for all the northern regions at Al-Mahdi Mosque. http://theartofmisinformation.wordpress.com/masq-conference/
Insha'Allah it will be a productive weekend.
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The Meaning of 'Nothing'
The following is an excellent book review of "The Universe From Nothing," by Lawrence Krauss. It is often alleged that the origin of the universe has now been explained by science, with the vacuum states described by models of quantum physics removing the need for an external cause, ie. God. David Albert, in this review of the aforementioned book, examines this idea- and his conclusions are well worth a read. (more…)
Design, or the Illusion of Design?
In his piece, "Our Universe. Order or Chaos?" T. Nasser has already argued against the claim made by Victor J. Stenger in "God: The Failed Hypothesis" that the universe only exhibits pockets of complexity, by pointing out that the uniformity found in the universe indicates design. This article will further deal with the same atheistic arguments, and principles. The extract in question is presented below: (more…)
Bone-chilling science: the scariest experiments ever
Check out some seriously scary stuff… click here.
Our universe. Order or chaos?
In 2007 Victor J. Stenger, an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii and former particle physics researcher published the book 'God: The Failed Hypothesis'. Not only did this book prove to be a hit with other scientific atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, but it quickly jumped into the list of New York Times' bestsellers, proving successful with the public also.
The stated premise of the book is supposedly the rational, scientific (and therefore surely impartial?) analysis of the hypothesis of the existence of a higher power (i.e. God), by examining the information available. The title of the book somewhat gives away the conclusion. Stenger believes that a rational analysis of the universe leaves a person no choice other than atheism.
Smart Materials: Self-healing concrete
Researchers at the Delfth Technical University, Netherlands, have created an experimental concrete that contain harmless bacteria that upon the presence of rainwater activate to repair the concrete slab. Next step, talking concrete? To read more, click here.


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There are way too many different diets out there, and with so many choices, how is a girl to pick the right one or know which ones actually work? Not to mention the diets that keep coming back "in style!" Some of these fad diets don't seem to ever die, and some of them really should just gracefully fade off… We, the avid dieters only encourage all of these diets though, because we keep spending our money on the latest weight loss product, adding fuel to the already blazing fire that is the dieting industry.
When you are trying to choose a diet that will work for you, look for recent research on it and follow what the scientists are saying about it. Don't just blindly believe what the makers of the diet are telling you; you need the advice of an objective third party, which is where researchers come in. Scientists are always working to find an easier way to lose weight and get rid of obesity for good. They always have the public's best interest in mind when conducting their many studies, so you can feel safe trusting the results of their research.
One particular fad diet that has recently been studied by scientists at a small organization called the Heart and Stroke Foundation (kidding!) is the grapefruit diet. Not that the Heart and Stroke Foundation is promoting living off of grapefruits for days on end; they just studied the effects that grapefruit can have on weight loss and heart health.
The results of their research told the researchers that grapefruit has a valuable compound called naringenin that is responsible for burning fat before the body has a chance to store it. This is great news for those who have always been skeptical about the fat burning properties of grapefruit, and a satisfying "I told you so" moment for those of us who have never doubted the powers of grapefruit.
Scientists at the Heart and Stroke Foundation say that there is still a lot of research to be done on the fat burning qualities of grapefruit, but they are hopeful that the fruit will be able to help fight obesity or even lead to a cure for the quickly growing disease. They definitely do not support the grapefruit diets that only allow drinking grapefruit juice or eating the fruit, but they do think that you can add grapefruit to your daily diet to aid in weight loss. However, you still need to eat a healthy diet and get regular exercise to lose weight effectively and keep it off for good.
Researchers warn that anyone who is taking heart medication should consult with their doctor or pharmacist before eating any grapefruit, because this type of fruit can have an adverse effect on some heart meds. You definitely want to be sure on this one! It would be terrible to find out the hard way that your heart meds don't work so well with grapefruit.
Below you'll find the most effective diet products on the market, we determine these products based on 4 key factors: Active ingredients, ability to suppress appetite, fat burning potential, backed by clinical studies. Ultimately, we determined the bottom-line value of each product.


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Stay away from the window, don't go outside when it's storming and, whatever you do, do not touch the orb.
Twelve-year-old Joshua Cooper's grandpa has always warned him about the dangers of lightning, but Joshua never put much stock in his grandpa's rumblings as anything more than the ravings of an old man with a vast imagination. Then one night, when Joshua and his best friend are home alone during a frightful storm, Joshua learns his grandpa was right. A bolt of lightning strikes his house and whisks away his best friend—possibly forever.
To get him back, Joshua must travel the Lightning Road to a dark place that steals children for energy. But getting back home and saving his friend won't be easy, as Joshua must face the terrifying Child Collector and fend off ferocious and unnatural beasts intent on destroying him.
In this world, Joshua possesses powers he never knew he had, and soon, Joshua's mission becomes more than a search for his friend. He means to send all the stolen children home—and doing so becomes the battle of his life.
Playing on Our Fears
by Donna Galanti
Do you love to be scared? I do, ever since I was a kid—as long as I know it's safe. Haunted houses. Hayrides. Adventure rides. Cemeteries at night.
And when I write, I return to the magical—and fearful—worlds of my youth, where monsters and faeries roam the land. Through my stories I can become these characters, good and evil, and wield their powers. My favorite stories as a kid were thrillers that made my heart race and my fingers keep turning the page to see if the good guys would win over the bad guys.
I grew up an only child on a mountain with only nature as a playground, so my time was spent roaming the woods with my notebook and pen. I wrote in secret fields and beside hidden ponds. The woods were my home. My favorite room with a view is still one strewn with fields, rock walls, and looming mountains.
So, you can see that I was never scared to be alone and I think we as readers like to see our beloved characters alone to face scary challenges. It makes us wonder—what would I do in that situation if I were all alone without any help? Would I be too terrified to act or would I face danger head on and conquer it? And these are the kinds of situations I thrust Joshua into in Joshua and the Lightning Road while trying to blend just the right amount of scariness and tension for a children's book. I love it when an author takes my beloved characters to the edge of no return and gives me that spine-tingling rush of "oh, nooo!" This is what I aim for in my own stories.
I am drawn to stories that play on our fears because I am fascinated by how people act when put in dire circumstances. And I love the challenge of writing a tortured hero. It forces me (and the reader) to step out of our safe world for just a bit and be uncomfortable—while in the safe place of a book.
I love to see how much torment we can pile on a character, how lost they become, how near the brink of desperation they reach—and then redeem them or not. We can relate to their pain because they are flawed, like we are all wonderfully flawed—and this reveals our humanity.
So, in reading scary stories, for a short while we can live amongst monsters without the fear of facing them in real life. Our heart pumps. Our fingers grip the pages. Then we close the book and go out again in the sunshine.
Watch the Joshua and the Lightning Road book trailer!
Praise for Joshua and the Lightning Road:
"Vividly imagined characters in a gripping action fantasy that never lets you go until the very last page." —Jenny Nimmo, New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Bone series
Title: Joshua and the Lightning Road
Publication date: May 19, 2015
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Author: Donna Galanti
Publication date: May 19, 2015
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
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Donna is the author of the Joshua and the Lightning Road series and the Element Trilogy. She is a contributing editor to International Thriller Writers' The Big Thrill magazine and blogs at www.project-middle-grade-mayhem.blogspot.com, a cooperative of published middle-grade authors. Visit her at www.donnagalanti.com and www.ElementTrilogy.com. Donna wanted to be a writer ever since she wrote a murder mystery screenplay at seven and acted it out with the neighborhood kids. She attended an English school housed in a magical castle, where her wild imagination was held back only by her itchy uniform (bowler hat and tie included!). There she fell in love with the worlds of C.S. Lewis and Roald Dahl, and wrote her first fantasy about Dodo birds, wizards, and a flying ship (and has been writing fantasy ever since). She's lived in other exotic locations, including her family-owned campground in New Hampshire and in Hawaii where she served as a U.S. Navy photographer. She now lives with her family and two crazy cats in an old farmhouse and dreams of returning one day to a castle.
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Ineffable Plasticity @ MOCCA
Some of the XPACE crew went around the corner last week to check out The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art's most recent exhibition, "Ineffable Plasticity." Here is the first in a short series of posts about some of the work in the show!
Jordan Laura James Maclachlan, Unexpected Subway Living (2010-2011)
Toronto-based artist Jordan Laura James Maclachlan creates a chaotic subway train filled with an array of figures, from a woman giving birth and an ape mating with a lemur, to a baby holding a gun and a man performing open-heart surgery. Her emotionally-charged piece is based on her take on everyday life: "complex, contradictory, exquisite, and oftentimes tragic.†The chaos and detail put into every inch of the 10ft+ work keeps us engaged and each new visit promises the discovery of a detail overlooked the first time.


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Vittorio Colao, chief executive of Vodafone, has sounded a warning to American mobile operators eyeing the European market, telling them that they are unlikely to do a better job than the current players.
The Italian-born executive said on Monday that there was not much that European operators could be taught, and that the only reason Europe lagged behind America in rolling out 4G-services was because of complicated regulations.
"I don't think there is a huge amount of teaching that can be done to the Europeans," he said.
His comments came less than two weeks before the $130bn sale of Vodafone's 45pc in Verizon, the US mobile giant, is due to be finalised. The deal will boost Vodafone's appeal as a takeover target for American telecoms operators looking to expand quickly into Europe.
AT&T, Verizon's biggest competitor, is seen as the most likely aggressor. Its chief executive Randall Stephenson, has said repeatedly that the European market presented major opportunities, and was reportedly waiting for the Verizon-Vodafone deal to close before mounting a takeover offer.
However, it backed off in January after the UK Takeover Panel gave it a so-called "put up or shut up" order, forcing it to make an offer fast or rule itself out for the next six months. Analysts expect it to come back after that deadline has expired.
However, Mr Colao's comments on Tuesday may give Mr Stephenson pause for thought. The Vodafone chief said he learnt a lot as a member of the board of Verizon, the US mobile operator, but that he "didn't find a rabbit out of a hat that would change things" in Europe.
"Don't forget that in Europe, spectrum auctions don't happen at the same time everywhere, and even when they happen they don't get the same frequencies immediately," he said. "As soon as we have 4G, we launched it, we have good results and we have increase of usage.
""From one [Verizon] board to another, they would add a territory the size of France…but at the end of the day, it is one thing to manage a country that has 60MHz of spectrum nationwide, and another thing to manage five here and five there, five dirty, five clean. This is the nature of the beautiful territory called Europe."
The Europe Union has said it will try to ensure future spectrum auctions will happen in a more coordinated fashion, so that all European countries hold their auctions at around the same time, rather than on the piecemeal basis in which 3G and 4G airwaves were sold off.
However, Mr Colao argued that the EU needs to become more co-ordinated across the board.
"If you ask me whether Europe should be more united, more coordinated, I have no doubt that I should say yes. This is a political question, not just one for telecoms," he said. "Better coordination of medical policies, energy policy, banking policy can only be an advantage. I am a pre-European person. I declare it up front.
"Europe is a beautiful territory and has a huge amount of wealth, but quite frankly it does not produce – going forward – enough for being competitive 20 or 30 years down the road."


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Although the trip has been busy and stressful for me, it's also been a huge blessing! I'm so happy that God has been able to work through me and influence the lives of so many kids. One of my favorite memories occurred during the Taipei seminar. There was a boy on my team who always kept quiet and didn't like to participate much. So I was constantly praying that he would be getting something out of the lessons. As the days went on, he slowly started to open up. It was awesome to find out that he spoke English really well! After that, bonding with him became so much easier. It's amazing knowing that God's truth affects even the little ones. The evident change in his life was a huge encouragement to me! It's always incredible to see God work right before my own eyes! So I ask that you pray for him, that he might continue his spiritual growth in the Lord :)
Also, God has been teaching me so much on this trip! One of the biggest things I've been learning is to submit to Him in everything. Which honestly, has been very hard recently. Proverbs 3:5-6 says,
"Trust in The Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
This reminds me I have to have confidence and faith that he knows exactly what he's doing, even though I can't see how things are going to end up. Blind faith is a difficult thing for me, but God promises blessings to those who remain steadfast under trial (James 1:12).
Although the last few weeks have been hard, I've been trying to take every opportunity to submit to Christ, even in the hardest areas. Please pray for all the teachers and interpreters, that we would continue to submit our will and our desires to Christ.
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IT IS perennially interesting that few overtly left wing comedians inspire the kind of vehemently devoted international following so long after their deaths as Bill Hicks.
Perhaps only Lenny Bruce and (perhaps only in the US and among comedy devotees ) George Carlin are spoken with in the same reverence.
AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story, a new movie by British film makers Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas premiers next week at the 53rd BFI London Film Festival.
It promises to be an innovative mix of animation and live stand-up clips which avoids the usual talking heads format used in previous Hicks' documentaries like Totally Bill Hicks.
As well as being chosen for the London Film Festival, it has also been picked for the Sheffield Documentary Festival.
For members of the GM massive who are hoping to attend - sorry it's all booked up, but for those of us in the muddy pool, FACT may come to our big screen aid before it inevitably heads to DVD. (No confirmation yet.
This quote from an Italian fan on the film's message board illustrates Hicks' enduring power:
A friend of mine told me to watch his shows, last November. From that moment, my perception of the world changed and lots of useless thought went right off my mind. Sadly, here in Italy he's not that famous, but I've made my part and told my friends to watch him. I also made a tribute to this great man, on Youtube. He is a great inspiration to me and his words will never pass away. Grazie Bill.
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Special education teacher Regina Baucum wants to change the world, and she's starting with her own elementary school.
Last Friday, Haddon Avenue STEAM Academy held its first ever Special Olympics Unified Field Day in Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Baucum, this amazing event joined together elementary students with and without developmental disabilities in a supportive, fun environment.
I was lucky enough to experience Field Day firsthand, and it was such a blast! The morning was jam packed with sports activities, rousing music, and lots of celebration, all with one main theme — inclusiveness for each and every attendee. The festivities allowed all of the students to play together on the same team, cheer each other on, and have a ton of fun.
One second-grade teacher Stella Hernandez knows just how much this event means to her students, and her enthusiasm is obvious. "Excitement is in the air. The kids are jazzed about coming out and being a part of this activity," she tells Babble.
Various stations were spread across Haddon's playground and included obstacle courses, a javelin throwing corner, and a soccer skills clinic with members of the men's soccer team from California State University, Northridge (CSUN).
All of the sports activities mirrored those played in the Special Olympics, with the same kind of equipment that the professional athletes use. While the kids played, Baucum could be heard passionately shouting over the loudspeaker, "Remember: we're doing this to be inclusive, and have fun!"
As a Field Day participant, I got to encounter a bunch of cool moments, like helping second-grade special needs student Mauricio meet the assistant coach of the CSUN soccer team Jose Luis Garcia. When I found out Mauricio was dreaming of meeting a member of the team, I knew I had to introduce the two of them.
And aren't they adorable together?!
And this was all in thanks to Baucum. Special Olympics Program Specialist Kim Villa attended Haddon's Field Day and commends her organization of this important day. "This was Regina's dream to do this, and it's really a big undertaking," she says.
Villa isn't the only one singing Baucum's praises. Haddon Principal Richard Ramos acknowledges her for being the sole reason the special education community has expanded as much as it has at the school. He commends her for going above and beyond the call of duty for Haddon students.
"Miss Baucum is a unique person. She's done all of these integration efforts. If you come at recess or lunch, you'll see our kids working with Miss Baucum's kids, and that wasn't happening prior to her arrival," he tells Babble.
Ramos has a 59-year-old brother with special needs, so he completely understands just how important Baucum's endeavors are for the Haddon community. His brother grew up going to school separately from him, and it was a lonely experience for both. "I saw that my brother was isolated. He didn't go through the community schools," Ramos says. "He would always get on the bus, leave, and then come back late. So as a principal, I immediately thought about my brother."
He feels it's important that parents reach out to their school community if they have a child with special needs who is being overlooked. For him, each and every kid matters. "I think it's us that have to advocate for that inclusion. We're doing it here at Haddon, thanks to Miss Baucum," he says.
Baucum works with students with moderate to severe disabilities in grades K through second. "Most of them are very medically impacted and they have severe learning needs, but once you unlock that lock in their brain, they're just like any other kid," she tells Babble.
Baucum has taken this sentiment to heart as she works beyond her own classroom to empower and uplift the entire special needs community at Haddon — and with only two years of teaching special ed! She says her two children inspired her to seek out a special education career, as both of them have developmental disabilities.
"They have made me become the super advocate," she tells Babble. "Seeing special education from two different sides of the spectrum, I know how my students' parents feel. To have that same empathy makes our connection a lot better, because we're all just like a family."
She can also relate to her students, having attended resource classes for math and English lit as a child. She thanks one teacher in ninth grade for helping unlock her learning potential and encouraging her to fulfill her dreams. "From there on, I was in all AP Honors courses throughout high school. You just need that one teacher that will do the most for you," she says.
Baucum has a lot more to celebrate beyond Field Day! All of her hard work has allowed Haddon to officially become a Special Olympics Unified Champion School. This esteemed title is the highest honor for any school that embraces educational equality, and is a beacon of hope for families with developmentally disabled children in the community.
It was a true privilege to witness a school so dedicated to making sure every single child belongs. And Regina Baucum is an inspiring force to be reckoned with in the special education community. Rock on Haddon Avenue STEAM Academy for leading the way to a kinder, more empathetic world!


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GaryB82 that is not an option. You can not video call straight from the phone app provided by Samsung. You must download a 3rd party app for video calls. Some exceptions on your part may apply.
What is your model number
Video calling is a Carrier Specific Feature. In order to use Video calling from your Natvie Phone app, the carrier must authorize the feature and allow it as a feature on your account with them. If they don't support the feature, a third party app would be required in order to make video calls.
Samsung should work will all carrier like they did when they standardized on the different names every carrier had for the Samsung Galaxy S product line because they wanted their own flavor. The infrastructure is there, they have to get beyond the politics, people want to use this app beyond individuals that might be on their Carrier network.
Thank you guys for your responses again, but I believe Samsung Cole got it. My S9+ Was under the Carrier of T-Mobile and my S10 plus is under the Carrier of Sprint. I was able on my S9+ to switch from audio calls to video calls. Video calls isn't even an option on my S10+ under my NEW Sprint Carrier for the this device. Thank you again.


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The Compiler Technology and Computer Architecture group was founded by Prof Alex Shafarenko in 2004 with a broad agenda that included research into data-parallel and functional programming languages and systems, and also architecture topics, such as prediction and classification methods in processor design.
Over the years, the focus has shifted more towards high-performance, and, more recently, embedded computing, mainly in regard of programming languages and their implementation. There is also some nascent research into computer architecture now as well.
The major focus of the group is coordination programming. CTCA is the principal source of the programming language S-Net and its implementation. The language S-Net enables an applications programmer to "script" parallel execution of conventional components written in any programming language with only minor modifications. S-Net offers a novel approach to the tasks of communication, synchronisation and concurrency management, which makes it possible to separate the functional and efficiency concerns and to fully engage non-specialist applications programmers in a design of a high-performance, distributed application.
CTCA has also led the development of the array programming language SAC in the years 2005-2011 and it is here that the language went through its major revision and where its implementation acquired the ability to efficiently target GPUs.
The group has successfully completed a number of EU-funded projects and is coordinating European activities in its subject area. Additionally CTCA is the first group at the University of Hertfordshire to successfully bid for JU Artemis funding, which is a business facing, EU supported, research funding scheme for engaging with industry in the area of embedded systems.
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Just checked the Brinkley Farm website (my CSA provider), and they've updated with a short video from the Southern Foodways Alliance interviewing owner Michael Brinkley, third generation North Carolina farmer (and the nicest guy, ever!).
I used to gauge if I wanted to plant a new product if daddy shook his head and said "What in the hell is this?" then it was gonna do pretty good.
Click here for more short videos documenting Southern farmers, restaurants, and other food-related items.


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The posh polish experts over at Butter London recently launched a new color in honor of Prince William and Kate Middleton's upcoming royal addition… and the shade is bloody brilliant! To celebrate the mini monarch, the aptly named "Pitter Patter" is a richly royal aubergine shimmer.
This limited edition lacquer is the latest in Butter's tribute to the crown, following fun shades like "No More Waity, Katie," a lilac glitter polish launched in celebration of the royal wedding.
Both are $15 and available now at butterlondon.com. Cheerio!
[P.S. Don't forget to come back Monday to check out the results from the second round of Allure's Beauty Blogger Awards! If I make it through this round, you can vote for me, Katie McBroom, to help me become Allure Magazine's Beauty Blogger of the Year! Voting will begin again on Monday at 9 a.m. when the new challenge is posted.]


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With the list of sub-£150 electro-acoustics being diminutive to say the least, and the amount of those being left handed even fewer, or close to non-existent, the Redwood RD110CEL Left Handed Electro Acoustic Guitar is a welcome addition. However, it doesn't rely on its scarcity to sell but instead offers quality components to prove a worthy competitor to more expensive alternatives.
The Redwood RD110CEL Left Handed Electro Acoustic Guitar employees the ever-popular guitar shape, dreadnought, for its volume, resonance and ability to be used in most genres. Making up the dreadnought shape is the classic combination of a spruce top and mahogany back & sides. The spruce provides a clear, bright tone, while the mahogany pushes the guitar's natural projection even further, along with bringing extra emphasis to the mid-range.
The body of the Redwood RD110CEL Left Handed Electro Acoustic Guitar is coated with a high gloss, to give it nice sheen and to protect it. It also boasts a 1.5mm ABS binding and a triple ABS rosette.
The Redwood RD110CEL Left Handed Electro Acoustic Guitar sports a nato neck, topped by a composite fingerboard, which is matched by a composite bridge.
Allowing you to hook the Redwood RD110CEL Left Handed Electro Acoustic Guitar up to an amplifier or PA system is an EQ-7545R preamp with pickup. This also gives you onboard control of your tone and volume levels, including: a Volume rotary control, a 3-band EQ comprised of Bass, Middle and Treble sliders, and a Presence slider control. There is also a quick release battery compartment, for easy battery replacement, and a simple push button and LED combination that indicates the battery level.
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Manufacturer Redwood Model RD110CEL Top Material Spruce Back & Side Material Mahogany Neck Material Nato Fingerboard Material Composite Body Shape Dreadnought-Cutaway Pickups EQ-7545R4 Guitar Size Full Number of Strings 6 Pickguard Black Colour Natural
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So i put on 11's which felt better for me. The high harmonic notes had more sustain to them after my restringing.
I did not use the EQ much but it works well got a free pp9 bat as well.
I Had to file down The fret ends As they were sharp ... the neck was straight tuners were okay after stretching the strings Once Again
Overall.. a very nice affordable Electro Acoustic ..Recommended
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Speechcraft Courses
This page is a summary of current and upcoming Toastmasters Speechcraft Courses around New Zealand and has frequently asked questions about Speechcraft. Its intention is to put you in touch with those who run these courses.
Short Course Introduction to Public Speaking
Speechcraft courses are aimed at training and improving your public speaking skills in a short amount of time. A typical Speechcraft course runs for 5-8 sessions, is limited to around 10 participants, and is a cut-down version of the Toastmasters Competent Communication programme.
While the course does not offer the full benefits of the Toastmasters programme, you will sharpen your Public Speaking and Communication skills in ways you never thought possible. Many Speechcrafters join a Toastmasters club on completion of the course to continue their Toastmasters journey.
Speechcraft Course Schedule
This schedule lists upcoming Speechcraft Courses in New Zealand. If you are interested but a course has recently started, please contact the course coordinators for details of future courses, or to register your interest.
Christchurch (Rangiora)
Club: Rangiora Toastmasters
Venue: Meeting room at the Rangiora Library, 141 Percival Street, Rangiora
Please contact as below for details of courses planned for 2020.
Contact: Nicola Green, ph 021-272-2899 or email email@example.com or Louise Davy, ph 0273-640-115 or email email@example.com
Wellington (CBD)
Club: Capital Chatterers
Venue: St Andrews Conference Centre, 30 The Terrace, Wellington
Dates: Course runs on Fridays, 8 weekly sessions, 17 January 2020 to 6 March 2020, 7:00 am - 8:30 am.
Contact: Peter Scholtens 027 5674 381, email email@example.com, or Philip Smith 027 279 7012, email email@example.com
Additional information: A light breakfast will be provided, parking is available on the street. Limited to ten participants. Please download our registration form.
Club: MITe Speakers, South Auckland
Venue: Kolmar Sports Centre, 295 Great South Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland
Dates: Thursdays, 1 August, 2019 - 7 November, 8 sessions, fortnightly, 6.45 pm - 8.,45 pm
Contact: Lance Clark, 021 070 1756, email email@example.com or Rae Clark, 021 241 4805, email firstname.lastname@example.com
Additional information: Please email for a registration form and more information.
Club: Three Kings Toastmasters Club
Venue: Mt Albert Primary School, Sainsbury Road, Morningside, Mt Albert, Auckland
Dates: Mondays, 13 January 2020 - 17 February 2020, 5 weeks, 6.15-9.00 pm (note no session on Auckland Anniversary day)
Contact: Kevin Prohl, 027 4933-186, email firstname.lastname@example.com
Build confidence quickly in this short course and deliver speeches that connect with your audience. Grab their attention and hold it throughout your presentation. See and learn how to use gestures,vocal variety, props and engaging techniques that will have you enjoying speaking to groups and colleagues with confidence.
This very popular course will fill up quickly, secure your spot today and email with your phone contact details or phone direct.
When emailing please include your contact phone number.
Coordinator is a Four time New Zealand Toastmaster of the Year and has a proven track record.
If there are no Speechcraft courses starting in your area and you are interested in organising or participating in a Speechcraft course, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com with your name, contact details (including town or city) and any other information which might help us help you. We will be back in touch with you. Thank you for your interest.
Speechcraft Course Coordinators: Please complete our Online Speechcraft Notification Form to have your next Speechcraft course listed on this page, and fill in the "Suggest Event" on the District 72 Events Calendar or District 112 Events Calendar as appropriate.
Then forward any information flyers and registration forms to firstname.lastname@example.com for linking on this page.
Frequently Asked Questions about Speechcraft
What is a Speechcraft course?
A Speechcraft course is a short practical course in public speaking for the novice speaker. You'll be joining several other people who want to learn the basics of public speaking quickly in a supportive, friendly environment.
Everyone is involved in all the activities each session. You'll make new friends, learn new things, and have a lot of fun! It's a great way to start your public speaking career!
How will I benefit from a Speechcraft course?
A Speechcraft course will help you to:
- Gain confidence in public speaking
- Develop your communication and language skills
- Learn to think quickly and clearly
- Become an effective listener
- Use body language and visual aids
- Advance your social skills
- Improve your job or promotion prospects
How are Speechcraft courses run?
Speechcraft Courses are organised and run by Toastmasters Clubs. Each club may run the Speechcraft course slightly differently depending on the type of club, their meeting times, availability of venues etc. Some clubs run the course on separate nights from their normal club meetings, while others run the course in conjunction with their regular meetings. Regardless, every Speechcraft Course is run by experienced Toastmasters who will bring out skills in you that you didn't think you had.
What does a Speechcraft course cost?
Toastmasters is a non-profit organisation run by volunteers. The cost of a Speechcraft Course depends on the organising Club: their venue hire, overhead, materials, et cetera. You will be surprised how little a Speechcraft Course costs compared to other professional development courses. Please contact the organising Club for details.
What will I have to do?
During this practical course, you'll prepare and deliver several speeches. These are 4 to 6 minutes long on a subject of your choice. You'll also participate in impromptu speaking sessions (known as "Table Topics") and you'll learn how to evaluate other speakers using the criteria in the Speechcraft manual. Experienced Toastmasters will also deliver "educationals", where you'll learn how to prepare your speech, hear tips on delivery techniques, and find out how to evaluate other speakers.
What manuals will I receive?
When you begin the Speechcraft course, you'll be given your own personal Toastmasters Speechcraft manual. This manual sets out the speech projects (or assignments) you'll complete during the course. Each project has set objectives, notes on to how to prepare your speech and an evaluation guide for your evaluator.
For example, you will deliver an icebreaker speech, where you introduce yourself to your fellow Speechcrafters. Other projects include using your voice effectively, using props or body language, speaking with sincerity about a topic, using correct and concise word choice, and organising your speech into a specific format. Each project will challenge you, and the valuable information in the Speechcraft manual will help you prepare your speeches.
Where can I get help if I need it?
Every Speechcrafter is assigned a mentor. Mentors are experienced Toastmasters who are available for advice, help and support during the course. The Speechcraft coordinator is always available for help as well.
What happens at the end of the course?
At the end of the course, you'll "graduate", and receive a Toastmasters International Speechcraft Course Completion Certificate. Most Clubs organise a special graduation night, other Clubs might take a different approach. But regardless, you have completed your Speechcraft Course! Congratulations! You will find that you have become a better speaker than you thought possible!
You can then take up the option to join a Toastmasters club – either the one that ran your course, or another one more convenient for you. You will even be able to "credit" the Speechcraft content towards your first "Icebreaker" speech when you join the Toastmasters club.
Speechcraft is a short course only, and it is not possible to learn everything in just a few weeks. To get the most benefit from the Toastmasters programme, it is likely to be in your best interests to join a Toastmasters Club, so that you can continue your learning by participating in the full Toastmasters Communication and Leadership programme.
Can Speechcraft courses be run for companies or other organisations?
Yes, a Speechcraft Course can be delivered to your organisation. To find out how, please send your details, including the town or city where the course is to be run, to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Here's what past Speechcrafters have said about the Speechcraft course:
- I have found the course excellent. Within a couple of weeks, I looked forward to Speechcraft nights and felt exhilarated after the meeting. The meetings were more "fun" than I expected and not as stressful as I anticipated.
- I gained skills in planning my presentation, talking to points, rather than reading my speech, overall confidence, receiving feedback and doing an evaluation.
- I found the course very educational and rewarding. I gained a great deal, and feel the time was very well spent.
- It was fantastic! I really felt that I became more confident with each speech I gave, and that I was totally supported by the Toastmasters running the course.


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A professional longarm machine quilter for hire and some of the work I've done.
A few days ago, I had another opportunity to work with someone using her smaller quilting machine. She has the Voyager 17.
I usually tell anyone with a smaller machine to buy zippers and change their leaders. Today I'll explain one reason zippers are so helpful for smaller machines. In another post I'll explain other changes made to the leaders that are very helpful too.
The zippers are for more than just taking a quilt off the machine and putting on another one. The zippers are especially helpful when you're working on a very large quilt. See this area? This is one reason the zippers will help.
Why is this area important? Let me show you. I'm using a piece of batting to represent a quilt rolled up on the take up bar. This piece of batting represents a small quilt. She the space left top to bottom?
Ok now for a piece of batting to represent a much larger quilt. See the amount of space you have left?
Ok, the photos are a little off but you get the idea. Add to this you would also have the backing and the quilt top rolled up onto the bar. The area left would be much smaller.
As you quilt more and roll it up more on the take up bar you start to get a drag. In order to keep from "dragging" while quilting you have to raise the bar. The more you raise the bar the steeper the angle of the quilting area. Raising the bar to a higher angle distorts your quilting area. It's like you're quilting while going up and down a hill.
But if you……
Wonderful tutorial as usual!! Did I miss the one on how to make the zipper leaders? I really need that one. Thanks so much for helping those of us with smaller machines!!


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For too long the needs of Aboriginal people with disabilities and their families have been overlooked. Last week, the story of Roseanne Fulton hit the mainstream media. She is a mentally impaired Indigenous woman aged 24, who has been in a Western Australian prison for 18 months without having been convicted of a crime, simply because the Northern Territory health department – in whose care she is – cannot provide proper accommodation and care for her. On Wednesday, after a petition had gathered 100,000 signatures, the Northern Territory health minister Robyn Lambley finally promised that Rosie would be able to return to her home in Alice Springs "as soon as it is practicable" – though she still remains in prison today.
Roseanne is just one of many Aboriginal people with disabilities whose lived experience should be causing a national outcry. They are the victims of a medical model confounded by permanent disability. At the First Peoples Disability Network we continue to encounter situations right across the country where Aboriginal people have medical interventions, but the rest of their needs relating to their disability are largely ignored.
A prime example of this is highlighted by Roseanne's case. In the Northern Territory, responsibility for disability sits within the health department. But disability is fundamentally a social justice issue. There are many untold stories of disability that would explain poor Aboriginal education and employment outcomes.
The foundation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme recognises that it is society which creates the barriers for people with disability, and in the Aboriginal context this is experienced acutely. So, the NDIS certainly provide some hope, but we remain nervous that it will go the way of other major social reforms in Australia's history that left Indigenous people behind.
It is critical and fundamental to the successful implementation of the NDIS in Indigenous communities that Aboriginal people with disabilities lead it. It cannot be intervened, implied or well intended from afar. It must be done sensitively, as in many cases discussing the nature of any person's disability can be an intensely private thing.
It is possible that an appropriately resourced and innovative Aboriginal-led NDIS response could identify the needs of Aboriginal people with disabilities at a young age and hopefully put support in place at that should result in people avoiding the diabolical situation of being "accommodated" in jail simply because they have a disability and the system can't cope with them.
In the meantime we have a more urgent need to address. We have to immediately find a better way to support Rosie and others like her. As someone who has been working in the disability sector for more than 20 years, it is difficult not to be cynical and take the view that Rosie and other Aboriginal people with disabilities don't count because they are so comprehensively disenfranchised that the system doesn't need to concern itself with them.
But I am greatly heartened by the response by many Australians who are outraged by Rosie's treatment. It is a well-worn statement but it resonates so very loudly when it comes to Rosie and other vulnerable Australians, that a true measure of a society is how it supports its most vulnerable. We must never be so complacent to think by designing the NDIS then all of the work has been done.
It says sadly more about our hardened hearts that today Rosie remains in a Kalgoorlie prison. We as a nation need to stop and contemplate that for a moment. She has effectively been jailed because she is vulnerable. Being vulnerable is not Rosie's fault; it is the fault of the system and the wider community that she has not received the appropriate support throughout her life. That is our failure – not Rosie's.


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Guest: Milt's Owner Jeff Aeder and Chef Bryan Gryka
Talking BBQ with Milt's BBQ for the Perplexed
It's MILT's and here I am in the very secret interview room along with Milt's owner Jeff Aeder (center) and Chef Bryan Gryka (right).
We had a great time talking all about BBQ, Milt's, Extra Innings Deli and Jews in Baseball. Both eateries are community focused and enjoyed by lots of hungry folks from the neighborhood and beyond.


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1 March, 2007 • Issue 6.2 • Europe • Fiction • Literature • Writers
Same Again from Martin Amis
Martin Amis
House of Meetings
Jonathan Cape, 2006
208 pages
Martin Amis has always enjoyed playing with names. In Money (1984), widely considered to be his best novel, characters go by such names as Self, God, Fucker, and Shakespeare. Night Train (1997) is narrated by an overweight American female cop called Mike. In Yellow Dog (2003) the protagonist, Xan Meo, is married to a woman called Russia. This enables Amis to deploy pun after political pun. (When Xan rapes his wife, for instance, 'he invaded Russia'.) Russia has been much on Amis's mind over the last few years. In 2002, he published Koba The Dread, a documentary non-fiction work that describes the atrocities committed in the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule. Amis's latest novel, House of Meetings, features a character nicknamed The Americas (other characters answer to Venus, Phoenix, Uglik, and Arbachuk), but its main concern, again, is Russia. The book is about the country's relentlessly murderous twentieth-century: its wars, its camps, its pogroms, its terrorism, and its corruption. It is also about America and the clash of East and West—and their irreconcilable ideologies.
The narrative takes the form of an email. An 86-year-old Russian man prepares to send his memoirs to Venus, his twenty-four-year-old American stepdaughter. His last lines are written from a hospital bed in Russia, where he has arranged to receive a lethal injection. Like many of Amis's previous novels, House of Meetings is a protracted suicide note, in this case a last-minute attempt to make sense of a life shattered by war and the systematic violence of a Soviet labour camp. Before the final moment comes ('Any moment now I will click SEND'), Amis's nameless narrator has a lifetime of crimes to confess: 'When at first I assembled the facts before me, black words on a white page, I found myself staring at a shapeless little heap of degradation and horror.'
Born in 1919 to a Cossack father ('duly deCossackised in 1920'), the narrator fought on the German front during the Second World War. He freely admits that 'in the first three months of 1945, I raped my way across what would soon become East Germany.' This, he explains, was nothing unusual: 'I marched with the rapist army', and 'the peer group can make people do anything, and do it day in day out.' In 1948, he was sent to a Soviet labour camp: 'I was a "socially hostile element", a political, a fascist.' Conditions in the Gulag were horrific, with camp life organised like a human version of Orwell's animal farm: the pigs (guards), the 'urkas' (common criminals), the snakes (informers), the leeches (fraudsters), the fascists (dissidents), the locusts (juveniles), and the shiteaters (who have sunk too low to belong to any group). By the time his younger brother Lev arrives at the same camp, our narrator is in a position to extend some savvy survival tips: 'I told him that the acceptance of murder was the thing that was being asked of him.'
The brothers' relationship is fraught from the first, locked as it is in the most immovable of love triangles. Its third point is Zoya (or The Americas)—a beautiful Jewess whom both brothers love, and whom Lev weds before his arrest. News of the marriage casts a momentous shadow over the brothers' reunion, and their poisonous rivalry dominates the narrative until its final pages.
Lev is his brother's opposite, as is typical in Amis's novels. He is ugly. He is small. He is an 'intelligent'. He has an atrocious stutter. But through gentleness and perseverance, Lev has succeeded where his brother failed: he has found a way to Zoya's philandering heart. Love has transformed him. Behind the barbed wires of the camp, he alone among the prisoners refuses to resort to violence, suffering the worst hardships to protect his love. To his uncomprehending brother, Lev explains his status as a non-combatant: 'That's for her. That's for us.'
By 1956, conditions at the camp have improved slightly. Conjugal visits are allowed. Wives travel across the country to spend a single night with their husbands on the 'northern Eurasian plain, with its extreme temperatures.' Reunions take place in a rudimentary little chalet—the 'house of meetings.' Zoya comes to meet Lev, but what happens between them on 31 July 1956 ('the night of crunch and crux') is only divulged at the very end of the novel. What we do know is that the meeting leaves Lev unaccountably destroyed.
The novel does not end with the release of the prisoners later that same year; it continues to follow the two brothers' lives for decades more. Amis meshes the narrator's recollections of the past with a diary report of his return to the camp's locale in September 2004. This 'Gulag cruise' (1 to 6 September 2004) enables Amis to include a reference to another of the bleakest episodes in Russia's history—the siege of Beslan Middle School Number One by Chechen separatists. The depiction of the carnage is as close as Amis gets to hitting raw emotional nerves in this book. Whereas the scenes set in the brothers' Soviet camp in the 1940s and '50s are drawn in broadly exaggerated strokes (with the result that the characters involved come across as comic-strip grotesques), the descriptions of the children's slaughter in Northern Ossetia recall recent horror without the application of any distorting prism: 'the bomb falls from the basketball hoop and the roof of the gym comes down. And if you were a killer, then this was your time. It is not given to many—the chance to shoot children in the back as they swerve in their underwear past rotting corpses.'
The Beslan siege is but the most recent in a series of major world events to which the novel alludes. In its attempt to tease out the causes of Russia's disastrous past and to set it in a global context, House of Meetings takes in huge swathes of space ('Geography did it') and time ('History did it'). Amis makes mention of a number of twentieth-century disasters in his novel, including not only the two World Wars, the Holocaust, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s, but also recent events such as the Columbine School Massacre in 1999, September 11th, and the siege of the Moscow Dubrovka theatre in 2002. These references to such disparate events weaken the narrative structure too much for the book's own good. In trying to include too much that is 'real', Amis risks dispelling his readers' interest in the fictional plot centred on his main characters, rendering them even more remote than they already seem by virtue of their violent deeds and dangerous values (for the narrator, after all, violence is 'a neutral instrument').
The book's unity is also threatened by Amis's use of his unreliable narrator. Indeed, the opinions the narrator expresses—about Russia and about the world—are noticeably similar to those the author has recently vented in press interviews, and in a recent essay ('The Age of Horrorism', published in The Guardian in September 2006) about what Amis calls 'Islamism'. Amis is a man with a message, and House of Meetings argues his point. The problem is that, occasionally, Amis's own voice is too thinly disguised by his novelistic mouthpiece, which diminishes the character's coherence and credibility. The narrator has two main sets of woes. The first is regarding Russia's tormented past and the state's continuing failure to atone: 'Say sorry, someone. Someone tell me they're sorry.' The second set of grievances concerns the ideology of the West. The narrator connects 'Westernism' with the 'numbness of advanced democracy' and with a crippling political correctness: 'You have a censor living in your head.' What the narrator ultimately advocates, by way of unfortunately massive, if self-conscious, generalizations ('I worship generalizations'), is freedom from any ideology. As the narrator explains to his stepdaughter, 'all your life I've tried to interest you in my ideology: the ideology of no ideology.'
Martin Amis once stated that 'If you read a good novel, things should look a little richer and more complicated.' Amis has managed this brilliantly before. In Time's Arrow (2003), he dealt innovatively and sensitively with the Holocaust from the point of view of a Nazi 'doctor'. In Night Train, he compellingly interwove the dark stories of two female suicides. In both of these earlier novels, Amis experimented with new subjects (state violence, female distress) as well as new techniques (the most striking of these being the inverted timeline). House of Meetings would have benefited from a good dose of novelty. It reads too much like a compendium of all of Amis's earlier novels, in spite of its new subject-matter. Amis's characters are too caricatural to make the world look richer and more complicated. The author seems regrettably wary of arousing emotion, though he has shown—not least in his autobiography, Experience (2000) —that he can do so exceptionally well. The novel's themes, structures, and jokes are all too familiar: there are the ridiculous names, the frequent and overt references to other authors, the fraternal doubles, the amorous triangles, the scatological imperative, the extreme comic-strip violence, the repressed homosexuality, the obsessive sexualisation of everything. Some things have changed, it is true: women, for instance, are portrayed in much more diverse, less misogynistic terms than in earlier novels. Such departures (and there are others in the book) make for some compelling moments, which the reader craves.
House of Meetings gives the impression of an author keen to give us everything we have ever liked about his works in a single book. But the result inevitably makes for a less, rather than more, engrossing read. The novel is less funny, less touching, and less technically dazzling than what readers have come to expect. Amis has a passionate following of readers who want nothing more than to love his novels. What he needs to do, perhaps, is to accept that it might be best not to use all of his dazzling creative skills at once. And he needs to surprise us, as he used to.
Scarlett Baron is a DPhil student in English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. She is writing about the influence of Flaubert on James Joyce.


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How can you not want jim carrey as the riddler.. i mean come on he played hime once and was amazing depp is my homeboy but carrey just has that crazy level i dont think depp is able to reach.
I think that bradley cooper would be a great riddler.
A list actors seem to bring sequals down and after the dark knight if the 3 movie sucks i will be pissed
We will see
No, Michael C. Hall- Has anyone seen him in Dexter.
He's fricking perfect for the riddler!!!!!!!!!
I dont understand why people keep talking like Jim Carrey should play the riddler, This is a DIFFERENT Batman series! the same way that Jack Nicholson didnt play the Joker, he left room for Heath Ledger to come in and do an INCREDIBLE job recreating the role, who wants to see the same old riddler again?!?!? i want to see it reborn through a new actor just like the Joker was. Johnny Depp would have been my first pick for Riddler it would have fit perfectly, Eddie murphy is a ridiculous choice in every way and will probably ruin the whole film


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Spoiled-Food Federalism
When it comes to protecting the food supply, states leave it to Washington. Maybe they shouldn't.
It's been a bad-news year for food, whether it's food wandering around on the hoof, or pre-packaged, or sitting on the shelves of your local produce section. From mad cow to salmonella, E. coli to microbes on lettuce leaves, there's heightened anxiety everywhere about what we eat. The hoof-and-mouth epidemic rampaging across the British Isles, while not dangerous to people, has been disastrous for public confidence in the food production and distribution system.
Now comes a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that seems to confirm some of the anxieties. The gist of the report is that gastrointestinal illness--which in many cases means food poisoning--is 34 percent higher in this country than it was in 1948. According to the CDC, there are 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths due to food poisoning every year.
There are a host of reasons for this. People are eating more raw vegetables and fruits, and some of these carry viruses and bacteria that would be killed if the produce were cooked. Pre-prepared carryout food in deli sections of supermarkets has increased the chance of a bacteria outbreak. But a large part of the problem, according to the CDC, is that the federal government hasn't devoted the resources it should to inspecting food.
You might wonder how the feds got this job in the first place, when it would seem to be an issue of more direct concern to state and local officials. After all, what's closer to home than a sick constituent? Yet food safety (with the one major exception of restaurant inspection) has in modern times been the federal government's job. The effort began with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1947. Then came the Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957, followed by the Poultry Acts of 1967 and 1968. President Clinton signed the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996. All were aimed at standards of food safety and inspection.
But while Congress has lavished all kinds of attention on food safety, it hasn't been quite so generous when it comes to funding the foot soldiers in the fight against tainted food.
On the shortage of resources side, there's the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for the edibility of fruits, vegetables, seafood and cheese--the source, not incidentally, of 85 percent of all food poisoning cases, according to the federal government. A tiny platoon of 400 FDA inspectors is supposed to police food-processing quality in nearly 60,000 manufacturing plants nationwide.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which handles meat and poultry inspection, has 300 inspectors in New York and New Jersey alone. But even that sizable contingent seems challenged in getting the job done. Three meat-processing plants in New York City and northern New Jersey were shut down this spring because of questions about the rigor of the inspections to which they'd been subjected, and overseers swarmed over 50 more facilities because of questions in those plants.
Given such news and such numbers, one might expect that state and local officials would express concern, if not outrage. But despite the plight of the FDA and all the bumbling at the USDA, there's been barely a peep from state and local government.
There are some understandable reasons for this reticence. If state and local regulators moved heavily into the food-inspection business, there would be frequent temptation for a jurisdiction to engage in anti-competitive practices, with one state summarily rejecting another state's box of oranges on a flimsy pretense just because they're a citrus competitor. We've all read about European nations that do that to us; few want it to start happening here as an intramural sport.
Beyond that, there is the cost factor: States and localities aren't too excited about the prospect of having to hire their own armies of inspectors to ensure that the food its citizens are eating is safe.
Then, of course, there is the cynical explanation: Given the size and complexity of the task of ensuring food safety, and the inevitability of food-poisoning incidents, state and local officials would prefer to point a finger at the feds when things go bad, instead of taking the heat themselves.
A few states seem willing to move on the issue. There were hearings in New York recently on the idea of requiring grocery stores to put up labels indicating where produce comes from. This year, the North Dakota legislature debated the safety of genetically modified crops. Whatever you may think about the genetic food issue, the discussion is one we ought to be having.
But it hasn't been extensive enough. On an issue as important as what we all eat, government at every level ought to think about some extensive reassigning and redesigning. For a model, they might consider the intergovernmental system that's been set up to oversee environmental health. The feds could set basic standards for food safety, with states overseeing the inspection. It wouldn't be easy to create, but the improvement in safety might be substantial. The fundamental goal of keeping citizens safe from food poisoning seems worth an experiment.


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"The Big Threecannot be fixed mainly because of their legacy labor cost structure and perhaps their aging factory infrastructure. Grab one of your nearby B-school grads and ask them if the our car industry is going down the same path as our steel industry. I'll bet it is real analogous. Toyota is going to grab their last bastion of defense, the pickup truck. I wouldn't touch a US auto stock with a 10 foot robot." -- Bill K., Oklahoma
"First and foremost, STOP making gas guzzling Monsters. GM, put the Chevy VOLT into production immediately, millions will be sold. Ford and Chrysler, work on hybrids in all classes, shut some plants and get lean and mean. Where is Iaccoa when you need him? We can do this, one of the greatest things about America is that we can shift gears on a dime. Lets get moving!" -- Steve N. Florida
"Leadership - leadership with courage to increase the speed of change - abandon systems that don't work – create innovative relationships with suppliers." -- Marty A.
"Well, first of all they have to start making quality vehicles that can run several hundred thousand reliable miles without constantly being in the shop or getting recalled. The Japanese and the Germans are building reliable, quality cars for less that last longer and are better fuel efficient. If I can get a warranty on a vehicle for 7 years/70,000 miles as opposed to one with 3 years/36,000 miles, I will take the former over the latter. BMW's and Toyota's are maintenance free and in BMW's case they even pay for the maintenance. The same cannot be said of Ford or GM. U.S. carmakers have also got to get their costs down and build some vehicles that Americans really want other than Mustangs and Corvettes. The end of cheap oil is here and the designers and engineers in the U.S. are still living in the past. Good luck!" -- Kyle P.
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