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An umbrella company offers an employment facility for contractors who don't want the hassle of running their own limited company. You can relax in the knowledge that all your UK tax and legal obligations are being taken care of by us.
If you're working as a contractor the most tax efficient way of working is to set up a limited company. Becoming the director and shareholder of your own limited company allows you to withdraw funds from your company as dividends, rather than receiving all your income as a salary - reducing the combined tax you and your company pay.
The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) is a piece of EU legislation that was implemented in the UK in October 2011. It has huge implications for temporary work agencies and the contractors, freelancers or temps who find work through them.
An umbrella company offers an employment facility for contractors who don't want the hassle of running their own limited company.
Our umbrella company removes you from the administration and hassle of running you own company. We do everything for you, from invoicing to payroll, leaving you with more time to do what you enjoy.You can relax in the knowledge that all your UK tax and legal obligations are being taken care of by us.
If you want to focus purely on what you do best as a contractor, and not spend you weekends poring over business accounts or filing tax returns, then our umbrella company is the solution for you.Our umbrella company acts as your employer, handling everything from invoicing to UK tax.
~ We handle all your invoicing, accounts, UK tax returns and business administration
~ You'll be fully covered by our Personal Indemnity, Personal Liability and ER insurances
~ As an employee you won't need to worry about IR35 or MSC (Managed Service Companies) legislation
~ Tax-deductible expenses are claimed on your behalf and offset against your income, so you maximise your take-home pay
~ You'll have ongoing access to a dedicated account manager who'll be able to address any concerns and answer all your queries
The Process
~ Signing up with our umbrella company takes less than an hour
~ If you're already with an agency tell us who it is and we'll manage your contract
~ You send us your timesheets and we raise an invoice for your agency on your behalf
~ On receipt of cleared funds we process your payroll and take care of all UK tax payments
~ Your payslip is issued to you
It's simple – no accountancy hassle or tax concerns make it easier for you to leave your work at work
What is an Umbrella Company?
Umbrella companies occupy an important niche in the contracting side of the UK job market and staffing sector, providing a service that even a seasoned professional contractor would find of use. Using an umbrella is the main alternative to setting up your own limited company where you would be a named Director.
The main reason for working through an umbrella company is to serve as an intermediary between the contractor and their end client where they are performing their daily duties, with their principal responsibility being to organise payment for your work.
The main difference between operating via your own limited company and under an umbrella is your employment status. When operating your own limited company, you are a full Director of the business and can take advantage of a variety of methods for minimising your exposure to tax albeit with the the fact you take full responsibility for your financial affairs. When working via an umbrella, you are an employee and will therefore pay slightly more in PAYE and National Insurance contributions, although the bulk of the paperwork and back-office administration is carried out for you.
Working through an umbrella company is straightforward. Once the contract is agreed, you will be required to log your time using a timesheet, which will normally be countersigned by your client. This is then forwarded to the umbrella company (some will want the actual timesheet, while others may offer an online utility where you can upload the details) who will use it to invoice the client. Once the client has settled the invoice the umbrella company will forward payment to you, less their fees and any tax or NI due, usually along with a pay slip that gives full details of how your pay has been calculated.
Different umbrella companies have their own payment schedules – some will forward your funds as soon as they receive the funds from the client, while others pay out on a regular date, with either a weekly or monthly payroll. You should also be clear about the fees you will pay. Umbrella companies will normally deduct their fee (which can be a fixed amount or a percentage of earnings) before tax, which will reduce your tax liability, and it is important to choose one that can offer out of sync pay runs in the case of emergency. Be sure to confirm whether the fee includes all relevant insurances for you being onsite.
It's easy to dismiss the use of an umbrella company as a half-hearted approach to contracting that sacrifices many significant advantages of an independent career and which represents an unnecessary bite out of your profits, however there are many benefits as well – one of the most important being that they will perform most of the administration for you leaving you with time to work on the projects, build up your skillset, CV and more importantly your reputation.
We have received a large number of queries from contractors in relation to the closing of limited companies due to the fact their chosen service provider is in the process of being dissolved or whereby the contractor's provider is based offshore and hasn't been paying employer's National Insurance contributions.
Each individual situation is different however if you decide you no longer need your limited company, Transition will review the most cost-efficient and compliant way to shut down your limited company to ensure you're not hit with a tax bill when you return to New Zealand or Australia.
In some instances contractors have been quoted in excess of £650 to close down their existing limited company!
Assuming the company is not in financial difficulty, a contractor's limited company that has been used only to provide the services of the contractor can be struck off if, in the previous three months it has not:
• Traded; the contractor has issued no invoices and has only paid creditors
• Changed its name
• Engaged in any activity except those required to strike off the company.
If the above conditions are satisfied, Transition can start the process of closing the company and assist with the following:
• Informing HMRC (for corporation tax, payroll and VAT purposes)
• Company accounts prepared to the final date of trading
• Company accounts submitted to the HMRC with a Company Tax Return
• Inspector of Taxes for the company payroll informed, HMRC issue P35
• Ensure the balance of PAYE and NI Contributions are paid
• Contractor to inform HMRC that the company has ceased trading
• Deregistered for VAT along with VAT return
• Informing any co-directors and shareholders in writing (DS01 form)
• Corporation tax, payroll and VAT are all different departments therefore all three must be informed
• Final payments and closing the bank account
• Review remaining assets in the business and pay final dividends
• Review Capital Gains Tax (CGT) liabilities arising from final payments
• Form 652a is submitted to the Registrar at Companies House
• Note any cash or assets left in the business after dissolution automatically goes to the crown
Assuming there are no complications, which will be the case for most contractors who are sole directors and shareholders of their own limited company, the Registrar at Companies House will advertise the dissolution of the company in the London Gazette.
Transition exists to provide Kiwis and Aussies with a professional service at an affordable price, avoiding any surprise tax bills when you return home! The majority of limited companies have been closed for roughly £400, simply e-mail email@example.com for a quote.
Meaning - IR35: The Intermediaries legislation was introduced on 6th April 2000. Being inside or caught by IR35 means that for tax purposes one will be judged as being a disguised employee and thus decidedly pay more tax. IR35 ensures that you pay tax similar to what you would pay if you were employed rather than being a contractor i.e. you have to pay additional tax and National Insurance Contributions.
The aim of the legislation is to eliminate the avoidance of Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) through the use of intermediaries, such as Personal Service Companies or partnerships.
Example of Disguised employment: If a permanent employee leaves the company on Friday afternoon & then returns to work on Monday morning in the same company for the same job position but as a contractor (paid on an hourly/daily rate via invoice) rather than a permanent employee (paid on an annual salary basis).
The aim of the IR35 legislation is to stop people leaving full time employment and then returning to the same job immediately as a contractor working through their own Limited company, in order to reduce their tax liability and their NI payments.
If you are inside/caught by IR35 is there any benefit in trading through my own limited company?
If your contract is inside IR35, then you can still claim: travelling & accommodation expenses, pension payments, business travel, & medical insurance benefits. There is also a provision for intermediary expenses of 5% of a contractor's turnover. IR35 workers also benefit from the VAT flat rate scheme saving around £2,000 a year & receive interest on the funds held within your own company. If we look from a financial view-point then it has significant scope. One more important point to be noted is that if there is any other contract/project work you want to do (for a different client) can also be put through your existing company.
If you are confused whether your contract falls inside or outside IR35 then please get in touch with us and we will look over it for you.
What kind of working practices and contractual conditions are HMRC looking to see if you're inside or outside IR35?
IR35 rules & regulations are very complicated, and while the list below is not an inclusive list, it does provide a few pointers to help you get started:
Control: The first practice to be taken care of is that will you be able to work under your own control which means that you will not be managed by the client.
Financial risk: Although profit share is common place in the employed world, it is without exception in owner managed companies. Also, employees rarely risk financial loss by being employed, whereas if you buy assets such as PC's, laptops, servers, printers, office equipment, or a client fails to pay you as Director of your company you will most definitely experience financial loss.
Substitution: There is also a clause in your contract concerned with substituting someone else to perform the tasks that has been contracted to do by your company.
Provision of equipment: It is also the question of whether you will be using your own equipment during the contract. In the modern day corporate world this can sometimes be difficult as companies have their own security measures and procedures in place which can include the use of personal laptops/equipment to be forbidden.
Right of dismissal: There should be provision in your contract for immediate termination that the client wish to do so. If you have a fixed notice period then the HMRC can and will argue for this being the same as a standard employee contract.
Employee benefits: There are several common employee benefits which you cannot claim which include holiday pay, sick pay, pension contributions, training courses, Christmas dinners, the annual staff summer outing, etc.
HMRC will not only look at the above considerations, they will review every facet of the contract and working conditions in order to establish if you are an employee or a Director managing & controlling your own Limited company.
Many contract professionals who are currently operating in the UK in their relevant sectors, choose to run their contracts via their own Limited Company, of which they are the Director and Shareholder. Operating this way enables you to retain more of your invoiced income due to the responsibilities that come with running your own company, as it has to be fully compliant with the UK Tax office (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs) regulations.
At some point you will need to engage the services of an accountancy practice, of which there are many thousands in the UK, so it is important you choose one that is not only fully competent with what is required of them, but also that they offer you the best possible value for money as well as seeing you as the customer, rather than £££ signs at the end of the email exchanges.
Hidden Costs?
While some accountancy practices will quote what seems like an extremely competitive monthly fee that offers best possible value for money, there will inevitably be extra bills for standard procedures such as Company Formation (setting up/registering the company with Companies House), sending out Incorporation Certificates, setting up of PAYE, Corporation Tax & VAT schemes with HMRC, monthly or quarterly accounts, VAT submissions and then year-end tax returns.
Here at Transition, we have the ability to truly tailor the service to your needs, whether you are looking for us to offer a full concierge service where we can even set up your monthly payments each month and monitor the company account, pay relevant VAT /Corporation Tax at the correct times, to the basic service of processing then submitting your relevant tax returns at the end of each financial year to HMRC. Our main aim is to make the back end process and legal requirements as simple as possible for you, leaving you with the time to concentrate on your professional working hours each week, and then the time to enjoy your hard earned income during your leisure time.
Extracting money from your limited company?
The money sat in the company's bank account is not your money. You can extract this in two ways:
1) Salary – through the PAYE system, you can extract your company's profits by paying yourself a salary as a director of the company.
2) Dividends – as a shareholder of the company you receive dividends as a distribution of the company's profit.
We will work out the best structure to use, which is usually a combination of salary and dividends.
Day to day running of your limited company?
It is essential that you set up a bank account for your limited company in which you can pay in the money you receive from customers and pay out the expenses you incur during the course of your business. You are required to retain records relating to your business including:
There are a number of taxes which you could be subject to through running your limited company:
Corporation tax – the company's profits are subject to corporation tax (the small companies rate is currently 20%).
VAT – if your company is VAT registered, you will have to charge VAT on your sales (the current rate is 20%) and report and pay it over to HMRC on a quarterly basis.
PAYE and National Insurance – if you take a salary (or pay a salary to others) from the your company this will need to be reported to HMRC on weekly or monthly basis and the appropriate PAYE and National Insurance paid over.
As part of our service we ensure that the relevant returns are made on time and that you know what you have to pay and by when, so you can avoid any late fines or penalties.
Avoiding the common pitfalls!
Expenses – keep track of any out of pocket expenses you incur on behalf of the company (including business mileage). Failing to keep a record these will result in an increase in your company's corporation tax bill and could increase your personal tax bill as you can reclaim these from the company tax free.
Taxes – Corporation Tax is payable nine months after your accounting year end, VAT is payable on a quarterly basis. You need to manage your cash to ensure you have sufficient funds to cover these liabilities when they fall due.
Business account – your company's bank account should be used for company receipts and payments only. Using your business account as a personal account will only create more headaches for you and your accountant.
Transparent Quotation
We will discuss all your needs with you prior to putting a quote together that will have the full list of services included that we will not then add to outside of the monthly service charge. The only time there will be an extra cost outside of the monthly fee will be when the time comes to dissolve the company (if you decide to leave the UK or move into permanent employment). As this is a process that takes over 3 months and involves extra work there is an extra charge, which will always be quoted before any work is started.
If this sounds of interest to you or any friends you know that are contracting, please get in touch to arrange a chat so we can provide a free no-obligations assessment and service quote. You can either register at www.transition2uk.com or email us at email@example.com
The majority of our business since we started trading 4 years ago has come through customer referrals. Whilst we are considered a small business compared to the larger accountancy practices, we are experienced enough and agile enough to offer a service that not only offers fantastic value for money, but will also provide true customer service to what we see as a truly valued client.
The Process
If you need to speak outside of the usual office hours (as many of our Health Professional clients need to do), then let us know and we will contact you before or after work at a time that is convenient to you. We do not stick to the normal 9-5 as customer service is central to our company ethos!
Contracting through your own Limited company is the most tax efficient way of working. Basically you can take home more of your hard earned money, any accountant or tax expert will confirm this.
In principle, your company can deduct from turnover any type of expenses which aren't specifically disallowed by HMRC, or capital expenditures. Additionally, you can claim expenses that have a both personal and business elements as long as you accurately apportion the expense and only claim for the business use element.
Here are some typical business expenses you can set off against Corporation Tax:
You should always ensure that you keep all of your receipts and invoices in order to prove that any claims you have made have been legitimate. If you are in any doubt over what you can and can't claim through your limited company, ask your accountant.
How do I set up a company?
Once you've made the decision to contract under your own Limited company, the next step is to form your company. The process takes a few minutes to complete our one page form, following which your company will be formed same day if within normal work hours so all you need to think of is a company name.
You will be surprised at just how little extra work there is to get your company up and running. The team here at T2UK will help you understand how much to pay, invoicing cycles, expenses and completion of tax forms to ensure you comply within the HMRC guidelines.
Why not have a no obligation meeting with Alex, Simon or Kieran from Transition to discuss you potential retained earnings through a limited company? Simply click and e-mail email@example.com for an appointment.
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Sustainable Travel
In line with its Environmental Sustainability Policy, Rhodes University strives to promote opportunities for sustainable travel, including efficient public and communal transport, cycling and walking, in order to minimise greenhouse gas emissions and reduce traffic and parking congestion on campus.
Rhodes University has a student-run car-sharing organisation, RydeAlong. Staff and students are encouraged to share transport wherever practicable. Benefits include spending less money on travel, fewer parking hassles, less congestion on the roads, and a much cleaner environment.
Sustainable Travel Ideas
- Car Sharing - RU has its very own student-run organisation
- Cycling - a great way to stay fit and healthy, and reduce pressure on parking spaces.
- Car Sharing
- Public Transport
- Walking
Car Share Contacts
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Take Action
Go to the Rhodes University ENVIRONMENT front page. Suggestions/Questions? Contact environment(at)ru.ac.za
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Online, East Africans are fighting like family, offline we are living in a Bond movie
Friday January 12 2018
Hello. If the world was run by women, do you think we would be witnessing a situation where two powerful leaders of nuclear capable countries were taunting each other over the size of their... um... "button?"
No, seriously. Just close your eyes and picture your mother right this minute. Okay, now open them. Think about it. Yes, that was a bit of a cheat: Every culture venerates mothers for a reason.
About 72 hours into this new year, and Donald Trump was engaged in a you-know-what measuring contest with Kim Jong Un over exactly this. On a social media platform.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in a James Bond movie! Unfortunately the scriptwriters had a minor stroke while working on our draft so things are a bit off.
What's the saying? Oh, yeah: Every nuclear mushroom cloud comes with a silver lining. I am determined to embrace at least one aspect of this fever dream we're living in: The casualness of it all. As we speed toward extinction, at least in our collective communications with each other the human race is becoming a lot more egalitarian. And along the way we're getting pretty chill too.
You know how much criticism the internet gets, and social media. Rightly so: It has been mutated from its relatively innocent and well-meaning roots to what it is now.
Oh, you know, the usual boring story — first came the money then came the corruption that comes with monetisation and then came the socio-political manipulation blah blah blah now we're here and Vladimir Putin is going to find a way to use it to hold the world hostage or die trying (remember: We're living in a Bond, James Bond movie.)
But on the other side of that, where it is not all fake news and advertising, there is a beautiful communion going on. These platforms are more often used to share more than anything else. So it has been fun to silently observe how the East African Community handles mutual conversation on important social and political matters on the platforms. In our EAC, the past year has been instructive.
The litmus test is always how we regular folks talk about two things: Our Heads of State, and economic matters.
Online, because people aren't forced to kneel and clap and call people "your excellency," it is easy enough to get a sense of how near or far we are to each other.
How we all react to our neighbours talking about our resident Big Men says it all. Better still is what we choose to express about some country or other announcing the building of a port, or a railway line, or the abolishment of work visa requirements.
Lately, East African countries have been fighting like family. Teasing and dissing and hurt feelings all over the place.
None of the formality of that EAC institution with it's trying-too-hard attitude and its completely incurable tone-deafness. But a heck of a lot of knowing or informing each other about the current situations on the ground and their complexities, if you know where to look. It is a contradictory piece of evidence that we might just be getting the community part of things right.
Online we are organic and probably only a few steps away from that ludicrous kumbaya technosocialism I am hankering after. This gentle disappearance of formality is a rather nice effect of globalisation.
I like to think that we were egalitarian societies once, and have watched a few documentaries about pre-technological societies to confirm this cherished bias.
Through the aid of infotech we are going back to that beautiful albeit probably completely romanticised way of life. One that includes drum circles and friendship bracelets.
Offline, though? Not so much. Offline we are very firmly in that Bond, James Bond, world of struggling with the quality of leadership and wondering if seriously in 2018 we're going to still do the generic African despot trope as our contribution to this Bond, James Bond world. Mildly ridiculous.
In the meantime, just to bring up how feminism is seriously needed right now: Has your mother ever compared the size of her button with another woman within earshot of you?
Honestly, we need to talk. This plot could use a refresh.
Elsie Eyakuze is a consultant and blogger for The Mikocheni Report, http://mikochenireport.blogspot.com. E-mail: [email protected]


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Each year, the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 co-sponsor of the Young Architects Program — a contest in which emerging talents compete for the chance to build a temporary structure in PS1's courtyard in Long Island City. The projects remain on-site for the duration of each summer, providing both shade and interactivity for PS1 visitors and attendees of the museum's popular "Warm Up" outdoor concert series.
This year's winner, a scheme called "Hy-Fi" by the New York-based architects The Living, opens to the public on Friday. It's noteworthy not only for its striking design — sinuous branched cylinders that draw heat upward, cooling the air inside — but for its negligible environmental footprint. The bricks that comprise it, created in collaboration with the Green Island, N.Y.-based firm Ecovative, are made of biological material. Ecovative's manufacturing process, which takes place upstate, involves filling molds with shredded corn stalks and adding mycelium, the root component of fungus. Over a period of five days or so, the mushroom matter grows into the in-between spaces, creating a solid, lightweight mass that's structurally similar to tempeh. The bricks are cemented together with organic mortar and supported by wooden rods, and the entire structure — save for the light-reflecting molds, created by 3M, that cover the bricks at the top —will be composted and returned to city soil after the exhibit closes.
Here, the photographer and filmmaker Marissa Kaiser provides an up-close look at the tower and talks with The Living's principal David Benjamin about its genesis.


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Morning Lineup
There's an impressive lineup in the eastern sky at dawn tomorrow. Mars snuggles quite close to the star Regulus, while two brighter lights look on.
Mars and Regulus stand side by side, low in the east about an hour before sunrise. Mars is to the left of slightly brighter Regulus.
Seeing the two so close together really highlights the difference in their color. Mars shines pale orange — the color of the iron-rich dust that coats much of its surface. That color will become more obvious over the coming months as Mars moves closer to Earth, growing brighter as it does so.
Regulus, on the other hand, shines white — the color of the hot gas on its surface. The contrast with Mars, though, may make the star look slightly blue.
The planet Venus stands to the upper right of Mars and Regulus. It's the brilliant "morning star," so you can't miss it. It looks almost pure white — the result of a blanket of clouds that hides the surface from view.
And the planet Jupiter stands about the same distance to the lower left of Mars and Regulus, quite low above the horizon. Only Venus outshines it, so it, too, is easy to pick out. Clouds cover Jupiter as well, in bands of tan, ivory, and similar colors. Seen from Earth, that gives Jupiter a slightly creamy color. And when it's this low in the sky, it looks redder than usual, just as the rising Moon does.
So enjoy the subtle colors of this bright lineup, adorning the eastern sky at dawn.


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City of FresnoMeasure L Charter Amendment - Majority Approval Required
City of Fresno
To learn more about measures, follow the links for each tab in this section. For most screenreaders, you can hit Return or Enter to enter a tab and read the content within.
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Shall the Charter be amended to allow electronic notices and responses through the internet for formal bidding?
Use tabs to select your choice. Use return to create a choice. You can access your choices by navigating to 'My Choices'.


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Epilepsy Channel
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If you have certain types of seizures, you may benefit from Felbatol. This prescription medication is specifically approved to treat partial seizures in adults and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in children. The drug is available in tablet and liquid form, and is typically taken three or four times a day. Some of the common side effects include headaches, constipation, and insomnia.
What Is Felbatol?Felbatol® (felbamate) is a prescription medication used to treat epilepsy. Specifically, it is approved to treat the following conditions:
- Partial seizures in adults, either alone or with other seizure medications
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in children, in combination with other seizure medications.
Felbatol is only approved for use in people who have severe epilepsy that has not adequately responded to other medications.
(Click Felbatol Uses for more information on this topic, including possible off-label uses.)
How Does It Work?Epilepsy is a neurological condition associated with abnormal electrical signaling in the brain. These abnormal electrical signals often lead to seizures. This is why epilepsy is sometimes called a seizure disorder.
Although it is not known exactly how Felbatol works to prevent seizures, it is thought that it works in a similar way as other seizure medications.
Felbatol Medication Information
List of references (click here)
Felbatol [package insert]. Somerset, NJ: MEDA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; 2009 September.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Electronic orange book: approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. FDA Web site. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/. Accessed March 2, 2012.
Briggs GG, Freeman RK, Yaffe SJ. Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation. 8th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008.
National Library of Medicine (US). Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMED). NLM Web site. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. Accessed June 30, 2010.
Written by/reviewed by: Susan Lakey, PharmD, MPH
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Summit Park Happy Hour is Back!
Our lovely neighbors are coming together to bring back Summit Park's neighborhood happy hour!
UPDATED TIME: The first happy hour will be hosted on Friday, August 19 from 7-9pm at 230 Woodland Drive. Please bring an appetizer and/or drinks to share.
After August, the happy hours will happen each third Thursday.
If you're interested in hosting a future event, please get in touch with Rachel: email@example.com
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great idea……if I'm here i'll be there……
but how many of us SP folks know about this web site…..my wish is we all did…..it would be nice if we all took a look now and then
Thanks Megan for posting. I've been trying to get this set up for sometime now; I know that we have a list of SP people on an email listing that Joanna use to send out and I have been trying to get together with her so she could give me the information to access the web page with the list of residents that use to attend. Looks like we finally have someone who is willing to take over. Thanks Rachel.
Awesome. We just moved here!!!
May I suggest sharing this website on your social media pages & tagging and/or drawing attention to your local/neighbor followers so they are aware of this page?


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This journey for the best value steaks in Singapore is fueled by a passion that has lasted for at least two decades. During these 'starting' years, I came across only a handful of places that delivered memorable steak meals. One was Lawry's The Prime Rib and the other, Black Angus Steakhouse.
Fast forward almost twenty years and here I am, seated in the same steakhouse where I enjoyed a remarkable slab of beef. The slightly dimmed, warm lighting and sofa family seats were adding to the building anticipation I was feeling after placing my order with the waiter. After all, few things are better than reliving a pleasant memory, especially one that involves good steak. Things however, didn't go exactly as expected and I'll share more in the following review.
Now, on to the meat.
The Meat
Seeing as how I'm all about value-loving, it was only natural that I gave their set lunch a go. And as most of you would have expected, I chose the Prime Rib of Beef ($23.90) for the main course. It featured a 5 oz. (140 grams) cut of slow-roasted Prime Rib without the bone.
While I ordered a medium-done steak, what I received was almost well-done and any meat-lover knows that cooking a steak all the way through is like turning meat into rubber. Because my family and I already waiting almost 30 minutes for our mains, I didn't have the endurance to send the meat back. So I ended up battling the dark brown piece of beef throughout the meal, sawing tiny bits off one at a time (because I couldn't chew anything bigger than that).
It also lacked the salty brown crust on the outside and I couldn't find the ribeye cap anywhere. Maybe it's a cut that's supposed to look like that? Overall, it was quite possibly the most underwhelming steak I've ever had. Despite being wonderfully priced, I just couldn't find any redeeming qualities.
The fries were decent though and hopefully, it's a one-off thing. I'll withhold my rating for this experience, and perhaps the readers can share their views about this place to reassure me that it's better than I think. Rating: N/A.
Everything Else
The ambiance and decor were mainly about warm lighting and rustic furniture. It feels like a classy steakhouse fused with one of those wild west cowboy bars. The staff were friendly enough and promptly responded whenever called upon.
Should You Try It?
Seeing as how they have a longstanding reputation for great steaks, I think you can give it a shot and let me know how it went. But based on my experience, I can safely say that I will not be coming back any time soon.
Black Angus Steakhouse
1 Tanglin Road,
#01-08 Orchard Parade Hotel,
Singapore 247905
Opening Hours
Mon: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm (Lunch)
Mon: 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm (Dinner)
Tue – Sun: 11:00 am to 11:00 pm
Tel: +65 6734 1181
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Three Wolf Moon
Three Wolf Moon is a meme sparked when a fucking sweet T-shirt featuring three wolves howling at the moon was discovered on Amazon. Did I mention this shirt is a chick magnet, and that it can cure cancer?
The Shirt That Became an Icon
Forged in the fires of Mount Doom on the night of the full moon's magic in the far-off lands of Soviet Russia's Siberia, Antonia Neshev wove this shirt from the golden fleece of the gold-haired winged ram. The imagery on the front of the shirt was delivered to her in a dream by the Archangel Gabriel. Little did she know that the shirt would become a holy relic and an icon for overweight, mullet-wearing, trailer-park-dwelling rednecks the world over.
In 2009, the Three Wolf Moon aired on The Office, making the meme, like many others, less funny because it is now used by tons of 13-year-olds.
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When Brian Govern found this shirt on Amazon.com, he knew he had to purchase such a diamond in the rough. Moreover, he had to tell the world of its magic, aphrodisiac, cancer-curing properties. The review he posted to Amazon.com that fateful day sparked a gold rush. What other magical items could be found on sale on Amazon, E-Bay, or lo, even Craigslist for 15% off?
It turns out that customers who bought this item also bought Keyboard Cats, JPEGs, Teen Wolf, and some fag named Worgen from World of Warcraft.
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(December 5, 2014) Former Accountant-General of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Mr. Ambode has emerged the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state. He polled the highest votes at the party's gubernatorial primaries that lasted till the early hours of Friday (05-12-2014) at Onikan stadium, Lagos Island.
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Manchester United coach Michael Carrick has revealed that he was a matter of days away from signing for Arsenal back in 2004 (via The Times).
It was 2004 and the Gunners were on the lookout for a new central midfielder amid reports that captain Patrick Vieira would be leaving the club.
As it turned out, Arsenal looked across London at then West Ham midfielder, Michael Carrick.
"On the way home (from Portsmouth), we got another call," Carrick recalls in his upcoming autobiography,
"'Arsenal again, asking us to meet Arsene. As it happened we were driving past his home in north London, so we arranged to call in on the way. Within an hour I was sitting in the front room of Arsene Wenger's house, pinching myself.
"We talked for almost an hour about football. Wenger had the Community Shield at the weekend but was spending an hour with me, so surely he had to be interested in signing me? "Let's get Cardiff out the way, and we'll see you Monday," Wenger said as we left. Things were moving so fast I needed a few minutes to put it all into perspective.
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Memorial Day, Labor Day, the Holidays.
The unofficial beginnings and ends of seasons are good opportunities to look back and reflect, and look forward and plan. Since Labor Day still in our rearview mirror, I thought I'd do both.
This summer we had a big trip to England, several parties, and Spencer grew up a lot! In addition to turning a year old, the young man is walking, trying to do some talking and developing nicely overall. At the start of the summer, he seemed very much like a baby: Not very mobile or vocal (except for crying or laughing). Now, his personality has come through: Happy, enthusiastic, determined, curious, and very chatty!
Looking forward to the fall, I have a few things on the agenda.
The first is to go back to the gym. I haven't gone since early May, and for the year before that while Holly was pregnant and we moved, I hardly went at all. It wasn't always that way. For more than half my life, I worked out in a gym, ran, or rollerbladed. If you include all the years I rode a bike, I've been doing some form of exercise since I was about 5 years old. So, after more than three decades, it feels unnatural to suddenly put that part of my life aside. Now, all I have to do is find the time to go.
The other thing I want to do is be more social. I haven't been to New York in months. I have a couple of friends here in Connecticut, but it's as hard to see them as my friends in NYC. I can't just pop out for a beer on a whim anymore. I haven't even been able to plan to pop out for beer. So, I need to make an effort to see friends. And maybe make some new ones too.
Spencer has started day care on a part-time, which means I will (hopefully) be working soon. Taking care of Spencer wasn't the only reason I quit my job when he was born. I took time off from work to figure out what I want to do professionally. What have I figured out and what will I pursue? I don't have all the answers, but stay tuned.
Exercise, more friendship, and a job I like: Is that too much for a parent to ask for?
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Run For President, Have A Beer
I really hate the question, "Which candidate would you rather have a beer with?" It's presented as a litmus test of presidential likeability, but I think the attention the question gets actually demeans the importance of a presidential election. While I may dislike the question, the media and presidential candidates themselves seem to think it's important.
I won't get too political here (if you're into that, you can follow my Twitter feed), but this Daily Beast article caught my attention. In it, David Freedlander writes about how cold frosty brews play a role in presidential politics.
Freedlander contrasts pictures of President Obama and Mitt Romney that were next to each other in the New York Times. Romney doesn't consume alcohol because his Mormon faith prohibits it. In his picture, he carried a hot dog wrapped in foil.
Obama had a beer in his picture.
The president's refreshment looked to be a classic American lager, pulled from a tap, a slight white head just below the lip—the staple of backyard barbecues the nation over, the most American of alcohols.Ahh.. beer. America's official alcohol. (Cue sweeping patriotic music.)
It's not news that politicians campaign in bars to show their likeability. Freedlander cites five campaign stops Obama made at bars this year, as well as the release of two beer recipes from the White House earlier this month. During the Republican primary season, Rick Santorum showed his love and knowledge of beer. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton drank a shot of Crown Royal Canadian whisky (she likes beer, though, too).
Having a few cold ones with voters won't make or break an election. At least, it shouldn't. But all of this alcohol consumption is not just about relating to voters. It's about showing manliness and strength, which some people still think are the same thing, and are qualifications for office. Since men are "supposed" to like certain things - beer, sports, sex - having a beer shows you're "a man," (or at least manly, in the case of then-Sen. Clinton). If a candidate projects manliness by having a beer (or doing other things like hunting, playing a sport, talking tough), then the assumption is they actually are manly and strong, and therefore fit for office.
Of course, part of campaigning is putting on a performance. Drinking beer gives no indication how a candidate will act once they're in office. Drinking beer projects qualities the candidates want to convey to voters: Strength and relatability.
Not any booze will do, though. Some drinks are elitist. Martinis are snooty. And forget about wimpy wine. As Rick Santorum said during his bar hop, "I don't do wine tasting."
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
White House Beer?
This is the last thing I expected to see from the White House.
Over the weekend, the White House Blog posted two beer recipes that were recently brewed there: The White House Honey Ale and the White House Porter. My first thought was, "Don't they have better things to do than brew beer?" The brewing was supervised by Sam Kass, the White House Assistant Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. So, presumably it's his job to do stuff like this. And since he's an advisor on Healthy Food Initiatives, I would hope the beer is relatively healthy, too. (I'd love to get some data on that, though.)
If you do have the time or just want to see the recipes, click here to see them. And watch this White House video to see how they made the beer.
Over the weekend, the White House Blog posted two beer recipes that were recently brewed there: The White House Honey Ale and the White House Porter. My first thought was, "Don't they have better things to do than brew beer?" The brewing was supervised by Sam Kass, the White House Assistant Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. So, presumably it's his job to do stuff like this. And since he's an advisor on Healthy Food Initiatives, I would hope the beer is relatively healthy, too. (I'd love to get some data on that, though.)
My second thought was, "Wow. I've never seen a home brewed beer recipe before." Now that I have, I just need to find some malt, hops and a couple of fermenters. And then I can add that to list of many things I want to do, but have no time see through.
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Maybe they are skewed because of my lenses as a pastor, maybe they are leveraged by the fact that I have spent my entire life in a local church, maybe they are weighted by the fact that God's plan pictured in the New Testament includes a local church advancing the kingdom, maybe it is flavored by the example of Ephesians 4, maybe it is impacted by my personal transformation to Jesus in a musty Sunday School Classroom, maybe it is swayed by pin-drop moments of God invading services, maybe it is indebted by my checkbook's need to give obediently week after week, maybe it is disillusioned by the fact that God's primary vehicle to bring hope is supposed to be followers of Christ, worshipping, praying, studying and gathering together in community in a local church.
Okay all that to say this, we live in an era when technology allows us to pick and choose how we do church. We have a smorgasbord approach to picking what we think is best, excellent, or whatever word describes our need to not gather together and, support, serve and use our gifts to build a thriving group of followers who are advancing the kingdom.
I ran across a blog entry by Kevin Deyoung and he said it much better then I could ever say it..
It's possible the church needs to change. Certainly in some areas it does. But it's also possible we've changed — and not for the better. It's possible we no longer find joy in so great a salvation. It's possible that our boredom has less to do with the church, its doctrines, or its poor leadership and more to do with our unwillingness to tolerate imperfection in others and our own coldness to the same old message about Christ's death and resurrection. It's possible we talk a lot about authentic community but we aren't willing to live in it.
The church is not an incidental part of God's plan. Jesus didn't invite people to join an anti-religion, anti-doctrine, anti-institutional bandwagon of love, harmony, and re-integration. He showed people how to live, to be sure. But He also called them to repent, called them to faith, called them out of the world, and called them into the church. The Lord "didn't add them to the church without saving them, and he didn't save them without adding them to the church" (John Stott).
"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (1 Cor. 13:7). If we truly love the church, we will bear with her in her failings, endure her struggles, believe her to be the beloved bride of Christ, and hope for her final glorification. The church is the hope of the world — not because she gets it all right, but because she is a body with Christ for her Head.
Don't give up on the church. The New Testament knows nothing of churchless Christianity. The invisible church is for invisible Christians. The visible church is for you and me. Put away the Che Guevara t-shirts, stop the revolution, and join the rest of the plodders. Fifty years from now you'll be glad you did.
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Today I listened to Cigna leadership discuss how they are responding to marketplace dynamics and I realized that this change is as cataclysmic as the HMO revolution was in the late 1980s. During that era, the number of insurance companies dwindled down to just a handful and the indemnity market went into a tailspin. Flash… [Read More]
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Change and consolidation continue to sweep the insurance industry. Healthcare represents almost 20% of the U.S. economy. Costs are increasing and almost no one is happy. These are ingredients for change. The retail sales portion of the economy is also under extreme pressure – with thousands of stores closing and wildly-moving stock prices, this market is as ready for drastic… [Read More]
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So the CVS-Aetna deal has been seasoning a bit and I really haven't heard of any major roadblocks to approval. And early integration planning is starting. Not that integration teams are that much of an indication as they didn't portend a good result for the Aetna-Humana or Anthem-CIGNA mergers. It would seem that horizontal integration is… [Read More]
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The announcement this week that CVS would be acquiring Aetna is the latest effort to remake U.S. healthcare. Costs are still spiraling upwards at an unsustainable rate and try as we can, inertia makes efficiency and cost reduction battles difficult to win. "Bigger" hasn't done much to reduce costs. The health insurance market is down to… [Read More]
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Last week, MetLife made an announcement that surely knocked Woodstock off his perch on Snoopy's doghouse. And it probably has many MetLife life insurance policyholders questioning the future stewardship of their policy. The carrier stated that plans are under consideration for the sale or spinoff of their individual life insurance business. When buying a policy that… [Read More]
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It's official – Anthem, the Blue Cross franchise aggregator, will be acquiring Cigna for $54 billion, which would make them the largest health insurer. Earlier this month, Aetna Inc. agreed to buy Humana Inc. for $37 billion, and Centene Corp. announced it would acquire Health Net Inc. for $6.3 billion. My father used to say,… [Read More]


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Frozen Ever After is a boat ride in World Showcase - Norway at Epcot. While it's not the best, it is also recommended.
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I was surprisingly pleased with the conversion of the Maelstrom into Frozen Ever After. The animatronics in this attraction have some of the most realistic movements of any modern WDW dark ride, particularly the skating Olaf. The scene layout, however is where the attraction excels, with a perfect placement of "Let it Go" during the backwards portion of the ride. While the grand plunge into the North Sea has been replaced by a far less grandiose, the overall attraction, while awfully short for a ride many guests will wait over an hour in line to experience, is quite successful, and doesn't make me miss the Maelstrom a bit.
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Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
A lot happens in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and there's plenty there hinting at what we could see unfold in the next chapter, Episode IX, and beyond. Here's how The Last Jedi sets up the future of the franchise.
Snoke's Demise
While Snoke remained alive and in charge as Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren's wings were clipped. Rey felt through her connection to Kylo – established in The Force Awakens and explored in depth in The Last Jedi – that she could turn him back to the Light Side. But when Kylo Ren strikes Snoke down, instead of doing so because he's seen the error of his ways, he does it essentially to enact a coup.
The act saw Kylo Ren with a renewed and sharpened focus on toppling the Resistance, and more importantly, killing his uncle Luke – his former Jedi Master and the man who he sees as turning on him and trying to kill him. The next instalment will likely see Kylo becoming increasingly deranged by the power he's seized, and single-minded and relentless in his war on the Jedi.
Rey's Parentage
If what Kylo Ren says about Rey's parents is true, it should give Rey the resolve to let go her past and find a new place of belonging. She's resisted the Dark Side, despite it being such a powerful influence on her, as we've seen. So, is full-blown Jedi-dom now for her? Yoda's speech, when he says to Luke that they can't lose Rey, recognises her importance and declares that they'll do everything they can to nurture her as a Jedi.
But what if what Kylo Ren says isn't true? Do we trust that he's told her the truth? Or will we find out he lied to her?
"Your parents threw you away like garbage," he says. It would make sense that if he's trying to win her over to rule alongside him that he would prey on her biggest weakness to persuade her.
"Rey, I saw who your parents are," he tells Rey as he takes her to Snoke.
Later, he says, "They're filthy junk traders who sold you off for drinking money. You have no place in their story. You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me. Join me. Please."
We know he's willing to lie to get his way – he tells Hux that Rey killed Snoke. So just maybe…
Luke's Departure
So, grumpy-old-man Luke seems to have died. It looks likely that we'll see him pass over into the Jedi beyond and become a Force ghost like Obi-Wan, Yoda and his father before him. And just like Obi-Wan promised before him, we could see him return more powerful than anyone could possibly imagine. Watch out, Kylo Ren.
The Rebellion Reborn
All signs point towards a re-formed and strengthened Rebellion, growing out of the remains of the Resistance. Luke explicitly says that the Rebellion is reborn and Leia is equally positive. At the end when Rey is talking with Leia, Rey asks, "How do we build the Rebellion from this?"
Leia replies, "We have everything we need."
More Jedi
There's more to Luke's "The Rebellion is reborn today" quote. And it goes like this: "The war is just beginning and I will not be the Last Jedi". A defiant statement of intent. He'll return in one form or another to help the Rebellion no doubt — but there's also Rey, of course.
Not only that, there's the film's coda. Cutting back to casino city Canto Bight and the children who worked with the fathiers, we see the little boy who connected with Rose and facilitated her escape with Finn. As he goes outside, he is shown to be Force-sensitive, pulling a broom towards him using his powers. He looks up at the sky and sees a ship dart across it. The camera lands on the Resistance ring that Rose gave him which he is now wearing, and a shot of him from behind shows him hold the broom up, like a lightsaber.
Whether or not he is significant as a character in the franchise going forward remains to be seen – he could simply be representative of hope, and the notion that the Jedi will continue.
One More Conflict to Extinguish
As of the end of The Last Jedi, Leia, Kylo Ren's mother, is still alive. But, throughout the film, he is constantly banging on about killing the past and will, therefore, need to kill Leia. Just like he did his father, Han Solo, of course, in order to completely free himself and surrender fully to the Dark Side. She represents his last shred of decency, and is the last remaining source of conflict within him. It's Ben Solo's love for his parents that Rey believes she can tap into to bring him over to the Light Side.
So will he kill Leia? We know that she isn't appearing in the next film and that Carrie Fisher, due to her passing, won't be returning to the franchise. But we do know he found it impossible to kill her in The Last Jedi…
A New Dynamic Between Rey and Finn
The start of the film saw a recovered Finn intent on tracking down Rey. He only had one question for Poe after coming round: "Where's Rey?" He made it his singular mission to go and find her.
However, Finn and newcomer Rose bonded on their own adventure and cemented a blossoming relationship by the end of The Last Jedi. Rose even admits that she loves him at the end of the film after she saves his life and he returns the favour.
They have a touching moment later when Finn sits by her makeshift bedside – and Rey looks over with a slight look of jealousy. Finn and Rey were the boy-girl pairing of The Force Awakens and many shipped these two characters. So will Finn and Rose get together romantically? And will Finn and Rey be forced further apart? It seems likely as Rey follows the path that lays out ahead of her.
Rey and Poe's Relationship
These two major characters meet for the first time at the end of The Last Jedi. That's a whole two movies into a trilogy. This suggests that there could be more to their story and relationship than we've seen so far. There's a theory that they could be brother and sister, based on a story involving Force trees and Poe's parents from the comics. It would be interesting to see if this is where the screen story might go. You can read about this theory here:
There's some evidence in The Last Jedi to suggest there's more to their relationship than meets the eye. The two are connected visually when Rey screams as Snoke is attacking her, then it cuts to Poe waking suddenly. It's as if he's felt her pain, or sensed a disturbance in the Force maybe? Connections like this are also seen with Luke and Leia, and, of course, Rey and Kylo Ren.
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Saw him in the campsite. Didn't even have to go very far.
Went Camping with the neighbors.
They <3 the Kona.
Found out you pay more for double campsites,
after setting up the tent.
We fished, caught crawdads, ate lots of beef and a little less gluten, canoed and had a grand ole' time.
Woke up and everything was frosty.


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What's left of the Fox Movie Channel is still plugging along, even airing movies that are new to me. One such movie is Treasure of the Golden Condor, which is on again tomorrow morning at 7:45 AM.
Cornel Wilde plays Jean-Paul, who at the beginning of the movie is actually a young boy living with his maternal grandfather in 18th century France. His paternal grandfather was the Marquis de St. Malo, and his father married his mother on a ship's voyage to the colonies in the Caribbean, where both of them eventually died of tropical diseases, leaving the boy an orphan living with the other grandfather on the ancestral lands. Those or now controlled by Jean-Paul's uncle (George Macready), who is a usurper, and knows it. He's got a plan to get Jean-Paul out of the way though, which involves playing on the illiteracy of young Jean-Paul and his grandfather to present them with a document supposedly legitimizing the familial relatoinship, but in actuality making Jean-Paul a bonded servant.
Fast forward to Jean-Paul's adulthood. Jean-Paul is still working in the St. Malo stables, where he from time to time is met by his cousin the Comtesse (Anne Bancroft). The two fall in love, but there's no way for them to have a real relationship as long as he's a servant. He needs some way to claim his rightful inheritance, which means money to find the proof of the marriage.
Wouldn't you know it, a plan, however cockamamie and unrealistic it may be, shows up, in the form of MacDougal (Findlay Currie). He's a Scot who had lived in the highlands of Guatemala among the descendants of the Mayans, and he's got what is supposedly a treasure map in the old Mayan language, showing the location of wealth beyond anybody's dreams! He can't read it of course, but the one person who can just happens to be the priest in the local parish on the St. Malo lands. Yeah right. Jean-Paul finds out about it, and decides to run away (which is technically highly illegal) with MacDougal to go to Guatemala and get some of that treasure for himself so that he can reclaim the inheritance.
So, we get about a third of the movie set in Guatemala (and partially filmed there, at least the establishing shots) in which MacDougal and Jean-Paul try to get that treasure. Along the way, MacDougal meets his daughter Clara (Constance Smith), who is decidedly against her father's quixotic quest, because she's seen the destruction it's wrought upon her family. Still, what with the whole plot line of Jean-Paul needing the treasure to go back to France, you kind of have to expect that they're going to be successful in getting the treasure so that the rightful climax of the movie can be back in France. You can expect that the good people are going to come out well, the bad guys are going to get their comeuppances, but I won't go into much detail as to exactly how that happens once Jean-Paul gets back to France, so that I won't give away the key plot details. One thing worth adding, though, is that Jean-Paul gets help from financier Dondel, played by Leo G. Carroll.
Although there are some plot twists, Treasure of the Golden Condor is a fairly formulaic movie, with an ending you might be able to see coming from a mile away, as well as some other plot points that are quite telegraphed. But then, you're watching an adventure movie, not something serious. You should know going into it that the point is to be entertained and not edified. In that regard, Treasure of the Golden Condor certainly succeeds. Cornel Wilde is well-suited to this sort of movie; the color cinematography is lovely, both of the Guatemala scenes and the interiors; and the acting from the supporting characters is generally reasonably good. Currie is a treat to watch, even if what happens to his character is a bit unbelievable.
As far as I can tell, Treasure of the Golden Condor doesn't seem to be on DVD.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Treasure of the Golden Condor
What's left of the Fox Movie Channel is still plugging along, even airing movies that are new to me. One such movie is Treasure of the Golden Condor, which is on again tomorrow morning at 7:45 AM.
Posted by Ted S. (Just a Cineast) at 9:21 AM
Labels: Anne Bancroft, Fox, please release me
1 comment:
- Paul Brownsey said...
I am trying to remember a 1950s adventure film in which someone breaks open some kind of hidey-hole in a wall looking for a treasure map and there is a snake inside the hidey-hole. I thought it was Treasure of the Golden Condor, but synopses of the film online make no mention of such an episode. Can you tell me whether the episode was in this film or have I misremembered?
Paul Brownsey. Glasgow, Scotland.
- January 1, 2016 at 8:10 AM


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I spent the Wednesday walking in the shadows of the moon. The brilliant white of the snowpack makes traveling through the forest under a full moon magical. The air is clean and crisp, and sound seems to disappear into the clear winter sky. The world loses its hard edges. Trees become shadow, and distance and scale illusionary. Click on the image for a larger view.
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Photography: Truth or Fiction?
In short, the absence of truth is an unescapable fact of photographic life.
—Geoffrey Batchen
It has become fashionable in the photo art world to label all photography as fiction. This is tossed out like an undisputed fact. It seems the main claim (and there are many sub arguments for the fictitiousness of photography including the Post Photography movement of Geoffrey Batchen) is that photographs can be manipulated and are subjective.
The manipulation argument is strange as it is seen as something new. Ever since the invention of photography, artist have been using it to create fictitious images (just look for the 1857 photograph The Two Ways of Life by Oscar Gustave Rejlander if you think Photoshop was somehow groundbreaking). But that is a bit like saying ever since the Greeks started writing mythologies, writing can only be fiction. But just like mackerel are not all fish, manipulated photographs do not account for all photography. Continue reading
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Three Trees
What is this curious addiction to form humans have? We talk about beauty as if it is a quality of things out in the world. But beauty, as the expression goes, is in the eye of the beholder. That is actually a complex statement. You could take it to simply mean it is a personal opinion, but it is more complex than that: beauty only exists in the beholder. Seeing, or rather experiencing, beauty is an evolved human quality—we are built to create it. But, like most human qualities, we have different capacities to experience it. Eric Kandel in his book The Age of Insight states, "The beauty of an image may recruit not simply a positive emotion, but something more like love, an aesthetic addiction…" Beauty, it seems, lets us fall in love with the world. Click on the image for a larger view.
Some material, like the crystals in this granite sample, is known as birefringent, meaning it has two indexes of refraction so the speed light passes through the material depends on its angle of vibration. If you pass polarized light through this material, an odd thing happens—the material divides the light into two perpendicular vibrating rays. Because the rays have two orientations, they move through the material at two different speeds. If the exiting light passes through a second polarizer, the two rays are combined and the difference in their speed creates either constructive or destructive interference, resulting in changes in brightness and color. On the left is a simple brightfield image of a thin section of granite. The right is a polarized image of the same sample. Click on the image for a larger view.
Magic of Light
Our experience of light is rather simple —we shine light on something and we can see what it looks like. Shining it from one side or the other does not seem to change the object's inherent appearance, but just the shading. One of the neat things about microscopes is because they work at such small scales and with very controlled illumination that they can reveal light's complex nature.
This image is of a tourmaline crystal. The microscope technique is known as a brightfield, meaning if the light striking the sample is not altered by it, you will see an even white field of light. But, because of scattering, absorption, and shifts in phase, the sample modifies the light, decreasing intensity, resulting in an image. This light is parallel to the optical axis. Now, if I took this light and shone it from the side, you would expect a similar result with a few more shadows. Continue reading
Out of Sight
Our vision creates the world. When we look around, we imagine seeing objects in space in front of us. Yet, all we are doing is processing an image projected on the retina of our eyes. The world we see and its external reality is an illusion of our psychology and biology.
We take this vision so much for granted that what we perceive must be the same for everything. We all know about the compound eyes of an insect. Unlike the eyes of a mammal, it does not use a projected image to see. What becomes even more amazing is that many insects do not have just two eyes—spiders have eight. This particular animal has three additional eyes on the back of its head, the clear dome structures. What kind of reality does this creature perceive? Click on the image for a larger view.
Barren Landscape
The dunes along Seawall Beach at Bates Morse-Mountain Conservation Area. Winter holds the landscape in stasis. Click on the image for a larger view.
I have recently been around conversations in art, and in particular, photography. One conclusion I keep taking away about our art world seems to be a boredom with the world and its beauty. Photography seems to echoing our narcissistic times by making statements about itself; declaring itself a fiction and fetishizing this revelation. And when it does look at the world, it is to exploit it as a freak show or to confuse banality with profundity.
Or is our wider culture simply bored with the world? Like adrenaline junkies, we seek out novelty, something weird or strange. If there is nothing that gets our immediate attention, do we move on? Has the norms of advertising conditioned us into wanting instant recognition, instant gratification?
Sand is the detritus of the land. Having been reduced to such a fine state, the wind and water control its destiny. Yet, plants have evolved to exploit this unlikely environment. Invading it. Holding the shifting ground in place. And when dormant in winter, this organic colony continues its grip. Even when it trades its summer green for brown, it is beautiful.
Fish as Big as Dragons
Dragons are creatures of water, dwelling in the ocean, rivers, clouds, and rain. Koi carp are symbols of strength and perseverance. In ancient times, a school of Koi came to a huge waterfall while swimming upstream. The fish tried to jump the falls to continue their journey. Seeing their struggle, a demon made the falls higher out of malice. The fish did not give up. After a year of striving, one fish managed to reach the top. The gods, impressed with its determination, turned it and the fish that followed into a golden dragons. These Koi are in a pond in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Click on the image for a larger view.


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Trial set for man accused of shooting 6 in Del., Md.
A manhunt for a person who police say shot five people in Maryland, killing three, and one man in Wilmington ended with his capture Wednesday night. 10/19/17 John J. Jankowski Jr., Jerry Habraken & Damian Giletto
BALTIMORE – A man accused of fatally shooting three co-workers in Maryland and attempting to kill an acquaintance in Delaware on the same day last fall will face his first trial in May.
The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the trial for Radee Prince is slated for May 8 in Delaware. Authorities say he shot an acquaintance in the head at a used car lot in Wilmington.
The acquaintance survived. Prince faces a possible sentence of life without parole if convicted.
In Maryland, he faces three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Prince shot five co-workers at Advanced Granite Solutions in Harford County. Two co-workers survived.
Authorities say Prince's shooting spree began in Maryland on the morning of Oct. 18.
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An eight month old baby was thrown from her mother's arms after a pick up collided with a guard rail during heavy rain in Lampang on Sunday evening.
The family were going home to Thoen when the father lost control. The little girl was thrown out of the vehicle and landed in a road side ditch. After a frantic search the father found her but she was unconscious, reported Daily News. She later died in hospital.
The accident happened on the Lampang – Tak road in Koh ha district at 7pm. The father Samrerng Khamla of Lampang said that he was driving home with his wife and children, a boy of four and his eight month old daughter who was in her mother's arms. There was heavy rain and when he hit water runoff streaming from a hillside he lost control of his Mazda truck. He found his daughter in a ditch of deep water by the side of the road.
They were all helped to hospital by a driver following up behind but the little girl could not be revived.
Police found the pick-up with a smashed window and understand that the child was ejected from the cab of the truck.
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FCCJ Press Tour to Imperial Hotel Tokyo
In collaboration with Keizai Koho Center, ten Club members toured the Imperial Hotel Tokyo on Oct. 12, the 150th anniversary of the birth of world renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Regarded as a genius for his use of natural materials, Wright used unique Japanese oya stone in building the original Imperial, in 1923. His warm and elegant style, matching the syle of Japanese traditional hospitality, attracted foreign and domestic dignitaries and celebrities.
Media members learned more of the history of the hotel from a special exhibition in the main lobby showing, among other exhibits, examples of Wright's designs of cutlery, tableware and furniture.
From there the group checked out the Old Imperial Bar and the Frank Lloyd Wright Suite. Despite the current campaign against smoking in public spaces, the Old Imperial Bar defiantly permits not only cigarette but also cigar smoking.
In the elegant, wood-paneled Wright Suite the media visitors were attracted by the spacious double ceiling. But any FCCJ members who might have considered making reservations had to entertain second thoughts after hearing the daily rate of US$7,000.


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Bags of Distinction
I was sat in the airport recently, tucking into my meal deal whilst awaiting my flight. Knowingly smug that I'd secured a bargain whilst my fellow travellers succumbed to the sights and smells of fried eggs and assorted pork fancies.
So I'm sat about eating my chicken triple on malted whilst watching people go about their pre-flight business. I like to watch people, not in a son of a butcher way but just sit and observe people as they go about their business.
An airport contains a great mix of people all under one pre-fabricated roof. Businessmen, stag dos, couples, singles, dicks wondering why they can't take half a pound of corned beef to Spain.
People just busying themselves running around buying shite from the shops. They may need some of this shite but largely they could probably do without two, two litre bottles of Evian or a family size fruit and nut that was just a pound with today's Telegraph.
One shop that caught my eye was the luggage shop; I'm willing to make a educated guess that everyone who has reached the departure lounge probably has a suitcase. I'd imagine even the Dutch pancake house had more customers before high rates drove him out of town, but hey life can be crepe sometimes.
Why did people persist with suitcases without wheels for so long? I don't know the history of the suitcase but I'll make a guess that it arrived after the fabled wheel. Now when the suitcase did arrive why didn't someone just see the bloke who invented it lugging it about and just tell him to stick some wheels on the bottom, he could then just pull it about in a slightly camp but ultimately more comfortable manner.
Italians have been using these cases for years, and I think we're all agreed that there are no cooler fuckers than the Italians. Italians can wear body warmers or brown shoes with black pants and not look like a bad dick, effortlessly stylish. And you can say what you like about Berlusconi and his maverick approach to fiscal matters but he looked smart with that bandana on when he went on holiday with Tony and Cherie.
It's taken us years to pick up on suitcases with wheels. Let's lug a big case about, no need for them wheels to make your life better, who needs wheels, people just plodded on lugging their great big cases about whilst the smoother, enlightened foreign folk waltzed past pulling a bag on wheels whilst using the other hand to ruffle their own sleek, long, shiny hair.
Talking of which I saw Roberto Mancini in town the other week and he has got quite lovely hair, his hair shits all over Fergie's and Margy's for that matter, I felt the need to finger his hair. I resisted obviously, mainly because he was with another man who may have been his dad and if there's one thing Italian men cannot abide it's their middle-aged sons having their hair fingered by a well-dressed, good-looking, albeit slightly pasty-complexioned Englishman.
If your reading this you're probably a tad more enlightened than the average man so you've probably been using a bag with wheels for many a year. I've got that many bags with wheels that I left one in the van of one or your newly appointed directors, a man who spends most days carrying a hammer and chisel around graveyards.
Said director often wonders why I've not reclaimed the bag but the chances are it's been used to transport dead/dying bodies around Moston Cemetery, it's my gift to him. The man in question was once owner of the finest micro pin badge I've ever clapped my beautiful blue eyes on, I pestered him and pestered him for it but he never relented.
You should not judge him by the dubious activities he may or may not get up to in and around cemeteries or his pin badge tight bastardness though, he's an OK, if slightly angry man and what's more the fine work that this club will get up to in Moston will more than compensate for any chiselling off that club directors do amongst the headstones.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNC Greensboro women's basketball (7-12, 1-3 Southern Conference) fell to Mercer (11-7, 3-0 SoCon) 71-58 in Fleming Gymnasium Saturday as junior guard Nadine Soliman recorded her second consecutive double-double.
Soliman led the team with 23 points and with 10 rebounds and added two assists, while junior forward Te'ja Twitty recorded 14 points, 10 in the fourth quarter, and six rebounds, shooting 7-for-11 from the floor. Her six rebounds give her 592 career rebounds to tie for 10th most in school history.
Sophomore forward Aja Boyd recorded her second consecutive double-digit scoring effort with 11 points, shooting 4-for-8 from the floor, and added five rebounds, while junior forward Mangela Ngandjui added six points on 3-for-4 shooting from the floor and junior guard Alexis Pitchford added five assists.
Mercer scored 10 of the first 14 points in the first quarter to take a six-point lead, 10-4, with 5:25 remaining in the opening quarter, but the Spartans scored four of the next six points to cut the lead to four points, 12-8, with 4:03 left. The Bears scored the final five points to increase its lead to nine points, 17-8, after the first quarter.
The Bears scored 18 of the first 24 points of the second quarter to increase the lead to 21 points, 35-14, with 2:03 remaining in the first half, but UNCG scored the next four points to cut the lead to 17 points, 35-18, with 1:24 left. Mercer scored the final four points to increase its lead to 21 points, 39-18, at the half.
Mercer scored 12 of the first 19 points of the third quarter to increase the lead to 26 points, 51-25, with 5:42 remaining in the quarter, but the Spartans scored five of the next seven points to cut the lead to 23 points, 53-30 with 17 seconds left. A Mercer three-pointer with three seconds remaining gave the Bears a 26-point lead, 56-30, after the third quarter.
But the Spartans wouldn't give up as UNCG scored 28 of the first 41 points of the fourth quarter to cut the lead to 11 points, 69-58, with 1:22 remaining in the game, but a Bear jumper gave Mercer the 13-point win.
The Spartans finish the three game homestand with Western Carolina Saturday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. in Fleming Gymnasium.


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New Joinees :Prof Gloryson RB Chalil
Who joined XL in the Organisational Behaviour Area
Prof Munish Thakur
Who joined as a faculty in Strategic Management Area
Book Publications :
Prof S Jayapandian
Accounting for Managers: Effective Techniques for Decision Making
Ane Books India
Fr PT Joseph, S.J.
EQ and Leadership
Tata McGraw Hill Publication
Also :Prof Madhukar Shukla joined the Advisory Council of "University Network for Social Entrepreneurship" - a common platform of academics created by Univ of Oxford and Ashoka. The Advisory Council consists of 24 academicians across the globe from Oxford, Harvard, Univ of Colorado, AIM Manila, Cambridge, London Business School, Univ of Sao Poulo, etc… and from XLRI!


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Skirt from Old Gem Vintage
For once I'm wearing neutrals from head to toe. I'm totally still a color lover. BUT lately, I've really been drawn to neutral colors. There's nothing like a good khaki or sage skirt or pant to pair with a crisp white blouse in the summertime. I made my friends chuckle when tried on a divine light brown linen wide-leg jumpsuit and confessed to them that I was secretly starting to already build my retirement wardrobe. I dream of retiring somewhere where I can pull off wearing the chicest yet neutral color palette all year long. Lol!
I kind of just noticed that I now have quite a nice collection of neutral pants, skirts, and dresses. I tend to wear them mostly in the summer though. They are my go to on a hot, summer day. I love pairing them with other neutrals too. I scored this out of this world skirt from Old Gem Vintage. I immediately fell in LOVE with it when I came across it on my Instagram feed. I live for full maxi skirts and started playing dress up in my head with all the ways I could wear this beauty.
Naturally, I rushed over to Old Gem Vintage's Etsy shop and drolled over this skirt some more before adding it to my shopping cart. After a few days of dreaming about it, I finally bought it. It's such a great staple for my warm weather wardrobe and I've already packed it in my suitcase to wear on my trip to Europe. Stay tuned to my Instagram feed and stories to see how I style this awesome skirt on my travels. And just so you know I'm still obsessed with these dad sneakers I scored from DSW. They are oh, so comfy and with the length and fullness of this skirt, I just love them with this look.
Outfit Details: Top - Guru Vintage | Skirt - Old Gem Vintage | Purse - Veer Craft Design | Sunglasses - ALDO | Scarf - Stella Dallas | Shoes - DSW
Thanks so much for reading!!
Leigh <3


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Ningaloo Marine Interactions
Our tours are EDU-TOURS
and draw upon a wealth of knowledge gathered from our very own marine biologist
and over 20 years combined crew experience in the Ningaloo area.
Ningaloo Marine Interactions invite you to join us aboard ?Utopia?. Our shallow, reef
friendly vessel has a spacious fully shaded deck, an air-conditioned cabin and comfy
seating on the fly bridge for optimum wildlife viewing. We offer you the
chance to participate in research and give you the opportunity to name any newly
discovered Manta Rays! It is our mission to pass on our knowledge and encourage all
our guests to join us in protecting our oceans, its reef systems and its inhabitants.
We are located in Shop 12 of the Coral Bay Arcade on the main street. The Arcade is located on your right hand side just after the Ningaloo Club Backpackers.
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Ningaloo Visitor Centre
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PO Box 149
Exmouth WA 6707
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Christmas Day and Good Friday.