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Reinsurance in a strategic context. Our conversation begins with client goals and challenges. We work to understand your broad financial landscape before making recommendations for a specific solution. We explore potential opportunities as well as the challenges at hand – and those that may be lurking on the horizon. Then we work through the data – oceans of it – and by combining it with the industry's most sophisticated analytics, develop a comprehensive view of the risk and the best way to transfer it in line with your goals and objectives.
A superior result is our business model. New clients are often surprised by the depth of the team we assign to their business. We bring expertise from wherever it resides, whenever it is needed, regardless of our client's size or geographic footprint: Every client gets the A Team every time.
The Guy Carpenter Analytics group helps you anticipate and respond to catastrophic events in real time.
Modeling your portfolio. With an unbiased and longstanding history of using catastrophe models to help our customers make strategic decisions about retaining, mitigating, and transferring risk, we evaluate data and the models, explain divergent model answers, and offer alternative approaches to ensure our customers are the best informed.
GC RealCat* leverages real-time weather and earthquake event tracking to anticipate how an event may affect an insurer's portfolio and help efficiently manage cat response deployment. *patent #7,949,548
CAT-i & RISK-i Reports consolidate the best available information on natural and man-made events likely to result in significant losses. They summarize the situation, map the impact, provide damage estimates and track the flow of claims.
Guy Carpenter's Agriculture Specialty practice develops comprehensive reinsurance solutions for agriculture risks worldwide, helping clients quantify exposures and manage portfolios for profitability.
The practice includes coverage for growing crops, forestry and plantations, livestock and animal mortality, aquaculture and related enterprises. The susceptibility of crops to weather-related perils calls for sophisticated modeling solutions to quantify the risk from these perils. In addition to quantifying weather risks from a reinsurance perspective for clients, Guy Carpenter also assists clients with underwriting and pricing tools that help maximize the profitability of their primary portfolios. Where models are insufficient, or lacking altogether, we have developed our own, including a proprietary fund allocation model and an intra-season predictive model for the U.S.
The Agriculture specialty is also actively involved in collaborating with academic institutions to develop innovative and efficient risk transfer tools for the farming community worldwide.
Guy Carpenter's tool suite enables us to estimate losses for agriculture books of business, and model risks in creative ways, which in turn enables the development of better reinsurance solutions for our clients.
To learn how we can help you improve the performance of your agriculture portfolio, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Aviation and Aerospace practice is widely regarded as one of the best in the world, delivering the most advanced technologies – and vast practical experience.
In a field where pilots' expertise is measured by time in type, the Guy Carpenter team has hundreds of years' experience in every category of flight coverage: balloon, light aircraft, corporate jet, airline, rotor wing, aerospace manufacturers, and satellites, both during launch and in orbit. Guy Carpenter's unique scale, scope and specialization enable us to create bespoke reinsurance solutions for clients of any size, in any geography.
Clients are supported by analytics and contract experts who also specialize in aviation. One-of-a-kind analytic engines are powered by the industry's most comprehensive loss database and exhaustive aircraft-specific data, including usage, routing structures, passenger mix and valuations.
To learn how our team's unique experience can work for you, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Construction/Engineering All Risk Specialty division delivers smartly structured capacity for all classes of engineering and contractor's risks, worldwide.
Our trademark combination of fresh thinking and deep experience in every market has made our team a first choice for start-ups as well as industry leaders around the world. Our London-based team builds both traditional and innovative solutions for single project and annual policy exposures. We place a full spectrum of treaty reinsurance programs, specifically tailored for each individual client, including excess of loss and pro rata treaties in addition to facultative support when needed.
Advanced engineering modeling tools and analytical skills provided through GC Analytics® have enabled us to develop an enhanced understanding of engineering and construction project risks over time. Exposure outputs from these tools can be utilized by catastrophe models and other financial tools to spotlight precisely the effect reinsurance can have on capital (economic, regulatory, Lloyd's RBC) and illuminate the impact that various reinsurance structures can have on underlying pricing, profitability, and risk.
To learn more about how our forward-looking solutions can work for you, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Credit, Bond and Political Risk practice is a global leader in these classes. The team has over 100 years combined experience advising a global client base, providing vital support through the fluid landscape and uncertainties of established and emerging markets.
Our clients benefit from our unique market awareness, born of continuous dialog with all international reinsurers. Guy Carpenter is itself organized for client benefit, with critical know-how shared across every Guy Carpenter office worldwide. We deliberately spread our renewal dates throughout the year, so every client enjoys our complete attention. We pride ourselves on providing genuine value added service to our clients.
Our specialized knowledge, analytic skills and largest market share provide our clients with superior reinsurance intermediation, giving them the confidence they need to grow in a volatile environment. We engineer one-of-a-kind solutions for each client, calibrated exactly to business goals. Through our diverse backgrounds we deliver innovative risk management and capital relief solutions to our clients. We have a long list of satisfied clients for whom our innovative and bespoke product designs have proved optimal. We would be happy to provide you with their contact details for reference purposes.
To learn more about how Guy Carpenter can help you thrive in a dynamic environment, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Cyber Solutions Specialty team helps our clients position themselves for years of profitable growth in this relatively young market.
Guy Carpenter has pioneered and expanded cyber liability solutions since 1999. Our comprehensive knowledge of the space, its market dynamics, and our diversified client base within it, enable us to assist our clients at every phase of product development and reinsurance placement. We can help you add cyber coverage to your existing product suite through our relationships with best-in-class third-party providers, and meet the challenges of obtaining comprehensive reinsurance coverage for a systemic event. Our MetaRisk® capital modeling tool has been customized to consider the systemic and attritional loss exposures inherent in cyber liability.
We have assisted in placing standalone cyber liability treaties for mature portfolios and created innovative solutions for regional and mutual carriers. Guy Carpenter's industry-leading database helps clients understand probable losses in their growing cyber risk portfolios – and price their changing exposures with confidence.
To learn more about how we can help you achieve profitable growth in this expanding arena, please contact:
Within EMEA, Guy Carpenter handles a wide range of Casualty business including Motor, Employers' Liability/Workers Compensation Act (EL/WCA), General Third Party Liability (GTP), Professional Indemnity, Directors & Officers (D&O) as well as highly-specialized classes such as Environmental Insurance Liability (EIL), Cyber Liability, Warranty & Indemnity and Products Guarantee.
Whatever the class of business, the teams at Guy Carpenter are consistent in providing clients with:
Working with our clients in a collaborative way, we empower them to make optimal decisions for their business.
Casualty business within EMEA is conducted in three teams:
Guy Carpenter's Environmental Liability specialty practice helps our clients succeed by reducing reinsurance costs, managing risks – and connecting with new customers.
Customized solutions help Guy Carpenter clients differentiate themselves to reinsurers in a crowded marketplace, thereby realizing better pricing and terms. In addition to customized representation, Guy Carpenter is also innovating reinsurance design. For example, our revolutionary reinsurance structure streamlines recoveries, reduces ceded premiums and expands the available reinsurance market for our clients. An exclusive environmental loss database and powerful analytics allow us to model an expanding range of risks, providing clients with a deeper understanding of their portfolios – and possibilities.
Guy Carpenter's unique market knowledge is a potent asset for carriers entering the environmental field; and our client base provides a global platform for those seeking to grow. We routinely facilitate partnerships that help our clients round out their product offerings and reach potential new customers.
To learn how our team's unique experience can work for you, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's E&S Specialty is a team of dedicated specialists that deliver E&S-specific business intelligence, customized market analysis and peer group data to help clients gain a competitive advantage and achieve profitable growth.
The excess and surplus lines (E&S) insurance carriers in the United States provide an essential market for exposures that fall outside the standard market, especially the most hazardous risks and emerging perils. Guy Carpenter has been the leading E&S reinsurance broker in the U.S. for decades and our knowledge and experience in this market is unmatched. Guy Carpenter's Excess & Surplus Lines Specialty Practice helps a wide range of E&S providers develop and implement innovative strategies to best underwrite and manage the unique high-hazard risks of this segment.
The practice provides clients with dedicated sources of stable capital, including Guy Carpenter's Umbrella and Property Facultative facilities. We also deliver integrated point-of-sale underwriting capabilities and growth analysis. With Guy Carpenter's Rating Advisory team, our practice will provide guidance and solutions that address all A.M. Best and BCAR-related issues now facing clients.
To learn more about how the Guy Carpenter E&S Specialty Practice is uniquely positioned to provide E&S insurers with the strategic advice they need to reach their full growth and profit potential, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Casualty team possesses the technical sophistication and market savvy to create value for our clients wherever they choose to do business.
Guy Carpenter has a profound understanding of how different casualty lines and markets behave. We equip our clients with both the granular knowledge and strategic insights they need to manage capital and achieve profitable growth. Our broking and actuarial specialists are the most technically proficient in the field, with unmatched success in structuring complex casualty transactions. We can provide:
To learn more about how our Casualty specialists can help you realize your business goals, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Healthcare & Life Specialty team offers superior market knowledge and technical resources that have proven to be of tremendous value to our clients.
The U.S. healthcare insurance environment is undergoing rapid and profound change. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act will subject payers and providers to a variety of new exposures and market challenges. New healthcare delivery models are also in vogue in an effort to coordinate care, improve quality, and reduce costs. Are you prepared for these developments?
With the lines between coverages converging and new exposures emerging, Guy Carpenter's Healthcare & Life Specialty Practice is singularly focused on this evolving and specialized market, and is committed to offering clients seamless and innovative coverage solutions across the health, healthcare, life and accident continuum.
-Healthcare provider roles have been redefined, with coverage lines being blurred as they begin to assume financial risk as reimbursements shift from volume-based, to quality of care and pay for performance
-Medical insurers are facing unprecedented changes, as they deal with shifting insured populations, rate compression and potential anti-selection
-Specialty benefits insurers are reacting to tremendous potential changes in how benefits are sold and distributed to insured groups, schools, associations and consumers
-Disability and Life insurers are facing increased competition and pressure on margins while exploring emerging products and new distribution channels including private exchanges
We support all of our clients with world-class experts in the many risks that drive their business results. Our solutions, together with the world's most advanced analytics, help clients face a rapidly changing risk landscape with confidence.
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To learn more about how we can individualize and localize solutions so efficiently, please contact:
After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 mortgage insurers (MIs) and government entities assumed significant financial losses. As global housing markets returned to a sounder financial footing, underwriting conditions tightened, new MI carriers entered the market and alternative mechanisms for credit risk transfer became increasingly prevalent. At the same time, government entities are transferring tens of billions of dollars in credit risk to the capital and re/insurance markets to share credit risk.
Specialized Expertise
Prudent credit risk transfer and solvency management are essential in the home financing market. The Guy Carpenter Mortgage Credit Specialty Practice helps MIs and governmental entities manage their mortgage credit risk, which contributes to the long-term stability of the market and economy. Drawing on resources from across Guy Carpenter and the Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), we offer significant expertise in residential mortgage and other credit risk to our clients. This includes the resources of MMC operating company Oliver Wyman, which was engaged by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to develop a new Mortgage Insurance risk-based capital model for use in the U.S.
The Mortgage Credit Specialty Practices solutions help MIs meet evolving risk, regulatory and economic capital requirements. Including:
Leading the Market
In the wake of the financial crisis, Guy Carpenter has established itself as a leader in this evolving market. Since 2008, professionals comprising the Mortgage Credit Specialty:
Mortgage Analytics
Analytics sit at the center of our client solutions, informing both immediate and far-reaching decisions in risk management, capital and business strategy. With expertise in all major global housing finance markets, the Mortgage Analytics team helps clients take advantage of opportunities and address their most pressing challenges.
We utilize both third party and proprietary models to assess mortgage portfolios:
To learn more about how Guy Carpenter's Mortgage Credit Specialty Practice can help you meet your objectives, please contact one of the specialists below:
Guy Carpenter's Marine and Energy specialty group offers clients an integrated global platform, for more options, more control – and a clearer picture of their business.
Guy Carpenter delivers innovative solutions for all proportional and non-proportional treaties across the Marine & Energy sector. Our global analytical platform enables us to quantify the performance of different solutions across all classes and territories, and measure them against specific business metrics. This analytic consistency helps clients predict portfolio performance with confidence, including assessment of accumulated exposures.
Account and claims management are entirely in-house: Your business never leaves our hands. Tight integration ensures that the full weight of Guy Carpenter is brought to bear should any issues arise. The practice is organized by operating regions: UK Marine, placing London Market Excess Loss (LMX) and global retro; US Marine, responsible for our U.S. clients; and International, placing business emanating from Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean and Canada. Although diverse geographically, the practice is run as one global unit.
To learn more about the advantages of an integrated global approach, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's MGA Solutions Specialty Practice is designed to assist in the development of new and existing MGA opportunities.
Our unique process allows us to define and market the tailored program globally to issuing carriers and reinsurers. MGA Solutions employs its long-term relationships with insurance companies who have program operations in this growing and vibrant marketplace. We work alongside all our specialty practices to bring some of the industry's most knowledgeable professionals to the MGA marketplace.
We also assist MGA clients with a wide variety of program-related information and access to specialty services, highlighted below
To learn more about how our innovations can assist in the development of new and existing MGA opportunities, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Mutual Company Specialty is a team of seasoned professionals who are dedicated to helping mutual company clients protect capital, support profitable growth, and maximize financial results.
Mutual insurers can benefit from Guy Carpenter's unmatched services and long-term commitment to this market. We help our clients consider innovative reinsurance alternatives and obtain the most efficient reinsurance program. Additionally, we have the expertise to help our clients maximize results, manage their portfolios, develop new products, identify valuable opportunities in new lines and territories, manage rating agency and regulatory relationships, and expand their producer network into new geographic regions.
Mutual insurance companies are encountering a more competitive marketplace as they work to improve results while at that the same time seeking to expand their businesses. In an evolving market, Guy Carpenter is uniquely positioned to provide clients with the strategic advice they need to reach their full growth and profit potential. Our product offering for mutual insurance companies ranges from our Regional Account Program (RAP) and Umbrella and Property Facultative Facilities to unique tools such as "Point-of-Sale," BenchmaRQ®, Market Entry, and Rating Agency Advisory.
To learn more about Guy Carpenter's hands-on, collaborative approach to helping mutual companies, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Professional & Management Liability Specialty team is helping clients achieve profitable growth in a crowded marketplace – and new growth in evolving areas like cyber insurance.
Guy Carpenter's institutional leadership in critical disciplines – analytics, business intelligence, technology and cyber risk – helps our clients innovate in increasingly competitive markets. A deeper, more comprehensive view of market dynamics helps Guy Carpenter clients gain competitive advantage in D&O, E&O, cyber, and whole account solutions. Business-specific actuarial models and access to the industry's leading database of loss and rating information enable more confident portfolio analysis in a dynamic environment.
By way of example, our LEAD® Public Directors & Officers liability model is the best available and helps clients with both risk selection and portfolio management.
A dedicated team within our practice can help you assess exposures in cyber security and privacy breaches. As no other organization, Guy Carpenter understands the Cloud's risks for insureds – and its opportunities for carriers.
To learn more about how Guy Carpenter can help you build competitive advantage, please contact:
The Property Specialty focuses Guy Carpenter's global resources and knowledge base coupled with local property expertise to deliver superior results for our clients.
The Property team integrates risk management and advisory services across the full range of risk transfer solutions, including insurance-linked securities, collateralized solutions and index products as well as traditional reinsurance placements. In-market teams in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific tailor innovative local solutions, drawing on industry-leading business intelligence and quantitative modeling tools. Guy Carpenter's ability to analyze the enormous volume of property transactions around the world is a business advantage for our clients wherever they choose to do business.
Guy Carpenter's deep technical expertise assists clients with benchmarking, peer analysis, structuring, pricing, model variance analysis, portfolio management and tool development.
Guy Carpenter clients benefit from the industry's most advanced market assessment process and specialized expertise in critical disciplines, including industrial risk, commercial risk, excess and surplus lines, direct and facultative reinsurance, and residential exposures. We are also the world's leading government pools intermediary, applying this global expertise to directly benefit our government pools clients as well as quantifying the impact these entities can have on the broader marketplace.
To learn how we can help you achieve profitable growth in key classes of business in virtually any market, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Public Sector Specialty Practice is a global unit focused exclusively on the unique risk management needs of government entities. The Practice was created to address the issue of unfunded liabilities by delivering reinsurance and capital market solutions and supporting risk analytics that focus on this gap for governments and other public entities.
Guy Carpenter's broad global experience makes it uniquely positioned to help governments and other public entities find innovative solutions to unfunded liabilities. Guy Carpenter has the expertise and tools to identify, quantify and help predict the magnitude of risk different parties take whether they are reinsurers, consumers, governments or the financial markets.
Guy Carpenter's Retrocessional Specialty helps insurance and reinsurance companies to manage accumulated exposures with innovative solutions. Our focus is to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives by maximizing the efficiency of their reinsurance structures.
Our embedded intelligence capability provides a 360º view of markets, product structures, benchmarking and pricing dynamics. Actuaries and catastrophe modelers work within the reinsurance broking team, utilizing one-of-a-kind software tools that integrate risk and capital modeling – concentrating expertise for our clients and accelerating reaction time.
The ability to model complex deals quickly helps Guy Carpenter clients evaluate multi-class, aggregate coverage and other bespoke structures with confidence.
To learn more about how our innovations can deliver new capacity at better prices, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Structured Solutions Specialty team has the technical expertise to deliver unique solutions – and the sophistication to optimize their value on your balance sheet.
New financial instruments have expanded the toolkit for innovative risk transfer solutions. The team analyzes risk, structures/designs transactions and quantifies the impact of the solution on your company's financial statements and capital models such as the AM Best BCAR model and the NAIC RBC model. The modeling we perform helps you determine the optimal solution to achieve your financial motivation and remain within your risk tolerance thresholds.
We help our clients secure optimal terms and conditions on quota shares, stop loss treaties, loss portfolio transfers, adverse development covers, single and multi-year excess of loss covers and a host of other vehicles. The team has designed structured risk contracts to achieve goals including but not limited to capital optimization, reduced uncertainty in insurance underwriting results, mitigation of earnings volatility, company experience based pricing, management of increased retentions, addressing changes/gaps in underlying reinsurance, providing reserve protection, and achievement of capital and rating agency objectives. The team coalesces the combined resources of Guy Carpenter to provide the best advice and solutions. For example, we work with our rating agency advisory group to ensure that every transaction meets the particular challenge at hand and long-term capital goals.
To learn more about how we can help you optimize success in a dynamic financial and regulatory environment, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Surety and Fidelity Specialty team can help you see more deeply into the drivers of profitability and risk in your portfolio to improve performance.
Actuaries who specialize in surety full time and the industry's premier exposure modeling tools help Guy Carpenter clients minimize risk and maximize returns in global reinsurance and capital markets. Our actuaries work directly with reinsurers to design innovative programs that create competitive advantage for clients.
Uniquely among intermediaries, our broking team has extensive underwriting experience at both the primary and reinsurance levels of the business: A better understanding of our clients' business goals enables us to engineer solutions that are strategic as well as cost-efficient. We provide our clients with timely analysis of economic trends operating in the surety industry, exhaustive market intelligence, and peer comparison studies that help them navigate a dynamic environment.
To learn more about what the world's leading surety team can do for your portfolio, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Terrorism Specialty practice helps clients stay ahead in an arena where the risks mutate and coverage solutions often cross lines of business.
Guy Carpenter offers the industry's most advanced web-based platform to help clients quantify and manage their terrorism risks. Thematically shaded maps and satellite imagery, along with easy-to-understand reports provide detailed accumulation information within a user-defined geographic range, including:
Cluster accumulation: total exposures within geographic areas
Portfolio accumulation: top portfolio accumulations at different radii from an event
Terror accumulations: portfolio terror for all targets by total exposure and zone
Terror target by zone accumulation for global portfolios, using target data from Exclusive Analysis, RMS and Guy Carpenter compiled databases.
The terror practice draws on expertise from Guy Carpenter specialists in property, workers compensation, accident and health, cyber risk and others as needed to tailor comprehensive terror and political violence solutions for our clients. In the United States, we are helping clients structure and secure the largest amount of available terrorism reinsurance capacity to help withstand any potential changes to TRIPRA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act).
To learn more about evolving terror and political violence risks and state-of-the-art solutions, please contact:
Guy Carpenter's Workers Compensation Specialty practice makes data more useful to help clients fine-tune underwriting and portfolio management decisions.
Guy Carpenter aggregates data from every significant market, providing clients with current conditions, market dynamics and pricing trends to inform capital strategies, structures and placement. We place pro-rata/surplus relief, working and catastrophe layer reinsurance, and continuously develop new capacity and one-of-a-kind solutions for our clients. Sophisticated analytics benchmark the performance of traditional and alternative capital structures. We also assist clients with workers compensation-related information technology needs and claims/underwriting audits.
Advanced modeling and quantitative tools make it easier for Guy Carpenter clients to implement comprehensive accumulation management strategies. Our web-based risk management platform integrates data management and risk modeling. Sophisticated analyses, spatial technology and satellite imagery enable clients to instantly convert massive amounts of data into actionable information to make the better-informed portfolio decisions from binding a risk to identifying possible claims.
To learn how our global reach and world-class analytics can help you achieve more profitable growth, please contact:
Jay Woods and John S. Haldeman II talk about how mutual insurance companies of all sizes currently face challenging market conditions where success requires not only focused distribution and operational excellence, but also access to increasingly sophisticated analytics services and products.
Fiscal constraints are increasing across many developed and emerging
economies amid growing catastrophic loss potential brought on by the
geopolitical climate, demographic trends and global climate change.
Guy Carpenter reinsurance brokerage teams work seamlessly with GC Securities to provide our clients with an expanding range of capital solutions, including:
Together with our Analytics colleagues, we model, design, and deliver the best, integrated capital solution for each client.
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*Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the United States through GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities LLC, a US registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/NFA/SIPC. Main Office: 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Phone: (212) 345-5000. Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the European Union by GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd., which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Reinsurance products are placed through qualified affiliates of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC. MMC Securities LLC, MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd. and Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC are affiliates owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies. This communication is not intended as an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any security, financial instrument, reinsurance or insurance product.


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When a child is on the way, it can be one of the busiest and most exciting times in life. What better way to calm the nerves of the mother-to-be by getting friends and family together to celebrate? Parties in Packages has a broad range of decorations and supplies available for purchase online to help share the joy of the impending birth without the hassle or the expense.
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How you go about planning the event can depend on a number of factors, such as your budget, the personal preference of the expectant mother and the gender of the baby. We offer a number of set themes to help you coordinate styles and colour schemes, including Ladybug Fancy, Bumblebee Buzz, Baby Clothes, Happi Tree Owl, Little Man or Little Miss. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Lil Spout Whale. However, you also have the freedom to pick and choose different products to suit your individual needs.
Our stock covers over 15,000 supplies and decorations for any celebration
Baby shower decorations are just the tip of the iceberg — we stock more than 130 different themes with a variety of versatile sets designed to suit a number of occasions at any time of year. Whether it's a birthday, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Australia Day, milestone or a celebration of any other kind, Parties in Packages is the only supplier you need to make it special.
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Kapoor was born in India to parents of Punjabi and Iraqi-Jewish heritage. He moved to London to study at the Hornsey College of Art (1973–77) and the Chelsea School of Art (1977–78). A return visit to India in 1979 sparked new perspectives on the land of his birth. These were reflected through his use of saturated pigments and striking architectural forms in bodies of work such as 1000 Names. Created between 1979 and 1980, this series consisted of arrangements of abstract geometric forms coated with loose powdered pigments that spilled beyond the object itself and onto the floor or wall.
During the 1980s and '90s Kapoor was increasingly recognized for his biomorphic sculptures and installations, made with materials as varied as stone, aluminum, and resin, that appeared to challenge gravity, depth, and perception. In 1990 he represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale with his installation Void Field, a grid of rough sandstone blocks, each with a mysterious black hole penetrating its top surface. The following year he was honoured with the Turner Prize, a prestigious award for contemporary art. Kapoor continued to explore the idea of the void during the remainder of the decade, creating series of works that incorporated constructions that receded into walls, disappeared into floors, or dramatically changed depth with a simple change in perspective.
Kapoor, Anish: "Leviathan" [Credit: Benoit Tessier—Reuters/Landov]In the early 21st century Kapoor's interest in addressing site and architecture led him to create projects that were increasingly ambitious in scale and construction. For his 2002 installation Marsyas at the Tate Modern gallery in London, Kapoor created a trumpetlike form by erecting three massive steel rings joined by a 550-foot (155-metre) span of fleshy red plastic membrane that stretched the length of the museum's Turbine Hall. In 2004 Kapoor unveiled Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park; the 110-ton elliptical archway of highly polished stainless steel—nicknamed "The Bean"—was his first permanent site-specific installation in the United States. For just over a month in 2006, Kapoor's Sky Mirror, a concave stainless-steel mirror 35 feet (11 metres) in diameter, was installed in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Both Cloud Gate and Sky Mirror reflected and transformed their surroundings and demonstrated Kapoor's ongoing investigation of material, form, and space.
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Kapoor's later works include ArcelorMittal Orbit (completed 2011), a 377-foot (115-metre) tower surrounded by a looping lattice of red tubular steel. The structure, commissioned by the city of London for the 2012 Olympic Games, stood in London's Olympic Park, and an observation deck at the top of the tower opened to the public in conjunction with the sporting event.
Kapoor was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2003, and he was named a knight bachelor in 2013. He received the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize for sculpture in 2011.


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Did any other gen X'ers just finish that off with zooma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom? ;-)
My best friend turned 30 yesterday. Incidentally, my birthday is in a couple of days, too. I was at the store looking at 30th birthday cards for my friend and I started thinking about how excited I was about turning 30. This kind of thinking went on all day until I realized that I will, in fact, only be 29. I thought you weren't supposed to forget how old you are until you are in your 80's?
Anyway- so I was a little disappointed. My 20's have been good to me, but in all honesty, I think they can best be described as chaotic. I am looking towards 30 as a great "settling". Hopefully not a settling of gravity taking all my body parts south, but just an overall calming down process in life. I can't wait for my 30's! No celebrating the 2nd anniversary of my 29th birthday in this house. My husband has worked his tail off to build a successful business and in my 30's I think we'd like to just sit back and enjoy it and watch the kids grow up. (Insert tear here)
With another year of age approaching, I've been doing some evaluating. I am pretty sure when I was in high school and I was actually an organized person, I had a list of things I wanted to do as a grown up. Things like travel, and have a nice house and have a great career and a beautiful family. Those are great goals and I've been able to cross a few off. Since I can't ever make up my mind of what I want to be when I grow up, I am pretty sure I can just go ahead and scrap the career goal. My husband on the other hand is that person whose five and ten year plans are saved on our hard drive. As well as a paper copy stored in about every imaginable drawer in our home. And he makes those plans come true. He writes those goals down and he does them, year after year. He married a person who (if she's lucky) *might* take the time to write out a grocery list but then get to the store only to realize that said list is still sitting on the kitchen counter. That's how I roll. And I am quite content to roll that way.
So I've been thinking about how my life goals have changed. There are still a few big things on my "bucket list." I want to write a book and I want to return to the Congo. Aside from those things, I feel like I don't have a darn thing of any substance that I am just dying to do. (I can't tell if I have low ambition or if I have just been so blessed that I am perfectly content. I'm going to chose to believe the latter, since it boosts my self esteem a bit.) My husband takes care of making the big things happen and I LOVE him for that. I am super happy that I married somebody ambitious, even if some days his type A-ness drives me insane. It allows me to focus on the less broadcasted goals. Like someday I would be able to go to the bathroom completely alone without any little toddlers pulling on my legs or handing me wads of toilet paper or trying to grab body parts they shouldn't grab. The same goes for taking a bath. Moms- you know when there are kids at home, you can not under any circumstances lock yourself in the tub while the little ones roam. Which means that when it is time for you to get clean, you are going to have an audience of tiny people. You know- those tiny people who throw all the clean towels and bath toys on top of you while trying to keep your exposure to a minimum and hoping to just get scrubbed quickly before a catastrophe happens? I wonder what kind of different perspective I'd have on life if I could just have 10 uninterrupted minutes in the bathroom every day? I am pretty sure if would be revolutionary.
So to sum it up- in the next year of life, all I really want to do is write a book and pee in peace. I don't think I am asking for too much. Maybe I'll actually be able to cross something off the list this year! Go Me!
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Named second team All-Ivy as a defender ... An Academic All-Ivy selection ... Played in all 16 games this season and all 67 during her four years in Cambridge ... Elected as a co-captain ... Made a momentum-changing defensive save in Harvard's 1-0 win over Holy Cross to open the season ... Scored her first goal of the season on a penalty stroke against Northeastern Oct. 3.
Junior • 2011 • Stats
Named to SGI/NFHCA National Academic Squad ... Competed with the New England squad in USA Field Hockey National Championship ... Scored her first career tally in 3-1 win against Cornell (Oct. 15) ... Logged first point of the season with an assist at Yale (Sept. 17).
Sophomore • 2010 • Stats
Selected to the SGI/National Field Hockey Coaches Association National Academic Squad ... Started all 17 games ... Recorded an assist in season-opening win against Holy Cross (Sept. 4).
Freshman • 2009
Selected to the SGI/NFHCA National Academic Squad ... Started all 17 Harvard games as a rookie ... Made collegiate debut in season opener at Holy Cross (Sept. 5).
Before Harvard
Lettered three years in field hockey at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart … Named captain during senior season … Named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Academic Squad in 2008 … A National Futures Championship selection from 2005-2009 … Junior Olympics selection in 2007 … Received the National Spanish Exam gold medal sophomore, junior and senior year … Volunteered at the Montgomery County Refugee Center.


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For the second Angel Beats figure I will submit for the day, we will be tackling the task of learning "how to draw Naoi", step by step. His full name is Ayato Naoi, but he is called Naoi for short. After Angel or Kanade is demoralized, Naoi becomes Acting Student Council President. Like all males that attend Afterlife, his outfit consists of a pair of black colored pants and a black colored gakuran. Under his gakuran he wears a white polo button up shirt followed by a Mao hat. His eyes are probably one of the most piercing parts on his face. They are green and very intense or serious looking. I would say that Naoi is a very no nonsense type of dude. Angel was a bit more playful than Naoi, but now that she is out of the picture, he is a much more strict president that holds down on the rules. Drawing Naoi is going to be easy, but you novice artists may run into problems when it's time to draw some of his clothes. Either way you will definitely have an awesome time. I have to leave because there is more for me to do before the night is over. Adios people and have fun like always!
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As a regular contributor styling floral arrangements for BH&Gs Country Gardens magazine, I'm thrilled to share the current floral feature with you. It was so much fun to create.
As a designer, I look for inspiration and ideas for projects everywhere. One day while combing through my bins of vintage fabrics for table cloths, this idea came to me.
The idea:
Take inspiration from gorgeous textile designs that use nature as their source. It's a creative approach for those who love floral styling. My wonderful editor, James Baggett, liked it too!
This was an assignment that screamed, "Have fun!":
I took 7 fabrics and went to town making arrangements in a still life
setting which echos the original textile design.
1970's Grandma's Garden
Ive had this fabric forever and at last, I've found a use for it! I used luscious peonies instead of roses in a the soft bed of spirea cluster. The leaves and teal-green hues in the background directed my vessel choice. I used a favorite tray of the same hue as a base to place complimentary vintage bottles and other natural things.
1950's Americana
I love the stylized flowers in this1950's Americana fabric. Climbing Roses, Thistles, Fuschia, Dahlias and Yarrow were the flowers often interpreted in the Pennsylvanis Dutch style designs. The pewter vase echoes the grey blue Liberty bell in the fabric.
1960's Floribunda
The monochromatic color scheme (above) motivated my search for flowers in hues of cream, yellow and white dahlias and assorted varieties of roses. Gathering the objects to create these Dutch style still lifes was an adventure in itself.
Setting the scene: Look for objects that capture the period, style and color hues. The pitchers capture perfectly the yellow-brown used heavily in the fabric giving that deep rich value to the arrangement.
1980's Chintz
Finding the flowers that mimicked this textile was worth the trip to garden center, Delphiniums, Peonies, Honeysuckle, Weigela, Fuschia are some of the blossoms in this arrangement. In the summer your local nursery is the place to go for an enormous choice of flowering blooms. Buy the perennials, cut the blossoms, then pop the remaining plant in your garden for next years color.
Thank you to photographer, Joe Keller, for working with me on this shoot
and for his gorgeous photos. www.kellerkeller.comLook for the entire feature article in the current Spring 2013 Better Homes and Gardens Country Gardens magazine.
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We found this great video that shows the evolution of fashion from 1911 to 2011! Not only do we love seeing all the fashions, but the evolution of dance and music in 100 years is interesting to see as well.
The video can give you little peeps into how things from 25, 50, or even 100 years ago can pop back into fashion today. We spied a lot of lace, the long, flowy boho dresses, and even the boots, blazers, and wedges we still see today.
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Fla. man convicted of second-degree murder in killing of Redskins star Taylor during burglary
MIAMI – A South Florida jury has convicted a 23-year-old man of second-degree murder in the 2007 killing of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor during a botched home burglary.
The jury reached its verdict after deliberating about 16 hours over several days in the case of Eric Rivera Jr.
Rivera was also convicted of armed burglary.
Rivera told police in a videotaped confession he shot Taylor when the Pro Bowl safety confronted a group of young men who broke into his house near Miami.
At trial, Rivera testified the confession was improperly coerced and insisted he never went inside. Rivera sought to blame the slaying on another would-be burglar.
Four other young men were charged, with one pleading guilty. The others face trial later.
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This conference will not be addressing only Cure research, but that will be included. It is open to anyone with an interest in SCI-related research.
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On 6th March 2009, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay gave a very powerful speech.
Ms. Pillay highlighted the major shift in thinking about disability brought about by the treaty. The Convention "requires us to move away from charity-based or medical-based approaches to disability to a new perspective stemming from and firmly grounded in human rights.
To read the full report and speech click here
Who has signed up? For a full list of countries, go to this page
The DAA publishes the following two papers on subjects related to the UN Convention:
The UK Government has not yet ratified the Convention
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1949 Chevy Suspension - Get On Down!
Slamming A '49 Chevy, Courtesy Of Jamco Suspension And A Custom C-Notch.
Let's face it, unless you're building a gasser, any car looks cooler lowered. Back in the day when suspensions moved on from beam axles and buggy springs this was achieved by using lowering blocks, cutting or torching coil springs, removing leaves from springs or reversing the spring eyes. These days the aftermarket offers up any number of lowering kits for most popular vehicles, making the job easier and definitely safer if it eliminates torched coils!
One of the most prolific suppliers of parts to lower old Fords and Chevys is Jamco, which can supply dropped spindles, lowered leaf and coil springs, and lowering blocks. However, anything other than a mild lowering job will bring a car's chassis closer to the suspension components, especially at the rear, where contact between the chassis and the axle itself is commonplace-and not exactly desirable! The solution is to C-notch the frame, essentially raising the part of the chassis above the axle to retrieve full suspension travel with lowered suspension. Why's it called a C-notch? Simply because once completed the resulting arch over the axle looks like a sideways letter C.
Circle City Hot Rods recently lowered a customer's '49 Chevy using Jamco components at all four corners, retaining the stock torque tube rearend and straight-six running gear. With a C-notch as part of the job, we camped out in their workshop with our trusty Canon to show you how it was done.


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WASHINGTON – A system glitch in a pay-by-cell D.C. parking system left a Fairfax, Va., man the victim of an erroneous ticket, a WTOP TicketBuster investigation has found.
Jeff Liang was visiting the Smithsonian when the Jan. 14 ticket was issued for failing to display a multi-space meter receipt in the 900 block of F Street NW. A D.C. Department of Public Works (DPW) employee ticketed Liang at 5:55 p.m.
Parkmobile is a private company that allows drivers in D.C. to pay for a spot over the phone or through a smartphone app. Drivers who use the service do not have to display a dashboard receipt.
The day he received the ticket, Parkmobile records indicate Liang paid for four hours of parking at 5:13 p.m.
"What was strange is that we checked our Parkmobile receipt and the zone number on the ticket matches the zone number on our receipt," says Liang, showing WTOP the citation and receipt.
"So we filed an appeal, and in mid-April we received a response from the DMV saying I was liable."
All tickets in the District are adjudicated through the Department of Motor Vehicles. Hearing examiner Tonia Dansby issued the ruling on April 18.
"The respondent reported that the multi-space parking meter was not operating properly because it would not accept payment or would not issue a parking meter receipt," writes Dansby.
"DDOT (District Department of Transportation) certified to Adjudication Services that no outages were found on the date the violation occurred. The meter report indicated that the meter's internal mechanism was functioning property."
Liang was confused, since he claims he never mentioned anything about the meter itself.
"We thought this would be an easy appeal because I clearly had the receipt with the zones that matched and a time stamp. I sent all of it to them. But it seems like they didn't even read what I said at all," he says.
DMV spokeswoman Vanessa Newton gives WTOP a different account.
"While Mr. Liang provided his Parkmobile invoice that shows he paid for parking; he did not submit the Session Details receipt from Parkmobile," she says.
"Therefore, he was found liable because he did not submit documentation to show where his vehicle was parked and that he had paid."
Liang says that's wrong, but with WTOP's assistance, he sent Newton the information for which she was looking. On May 1, the DMV agreed to dismiss the ticket.
Newton says drivers in a similar situation should submit a "Parkmobile Session Detail" receipt to the DMV, including the following:
- Type of Car
- Zone Number
- Location
- Vehicle Tag
- Start Date/Time
- End Date/ Time
- Duration
- Parking Cost
- Transaction Fee.
Such information, Newton insists, should help other Parkmobile users in a similar situation.
Ticket exposes glitch in the D.C. system
Despite learning he was off the hook on May 1, WTOP wanted to know why the parking enforcement officer didn't notice Liang paid with his Parkmobile app.
When a parking enforcement officer is driving around, a GPS device syncs with the Parkmobile database to list all current transactions on that specific block. In most situations, the officer can't print a ticket if the vehicle is on the Parkmobile list.
So what happened in Liang's case?
The District's Department of Public Works, Department of Transportation and Parkmobile all investigated.
"The ticket to Mr. Liang occurred because the Parkmobile database was in conflict with the signage. As an example, a similar conflict can occur between the price of an item in a grocery store's computer and the item's price that appears on the shelf," says DPW spokeswoman Linda Grant.
She referred all specific questions to Parkmobile and DDOT.
DDOT spokesman Monica Hernandez tells WTOP that Parkmobile had the wrong zone number in the database provided to DPW and the DMV.
The database has since been updated with the correct zone number.
Therefore, the parking enforcement officer saw Parkmobile transactions for the wrong block and Liang's wasn't there.
Hernandez says the error has been fixed, calling it an isolated incident.
Meanwhile, Liang is pleased this is over, but tells WTOP he may consider using Metro from now on.
"Now we're leery of whether D.C. and Parkmobile are on the same page in getting the right information," he says. "How do we protect ourselves from this happening again? Because then it starts this big headache when the driver has done the right thing on his end."
If you think you're the victim of a bogus speed camera, red-light camera or parking ticket in D.C., Maryland or Virginia, WTOP may be able to help you cut the red tape. Email your case – along with documentation – to email@example.com.
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Q: What is the optimum water temperature for my pond, and when should I worry that it's too hot?
Gayle – Syracuse, NY
A: "Room temperature" isn't just for humans. Fish and pond critters prefer particular underwater temperatures, too. In fact, and a high-temp living environment can even affect their health and well-being. Warm water holds less oxygen than cool water, so they'll be literally gasping for breath if it gets too hot.
As the air temperature heats up this summer, the water temperature in your pond will increase, too, so it's critical to keep an eye on it as the mercury rises. Use your Floating Pond Thermometer to test the waters. The best water temperature for your aquatic pals is between 68° and 74° Fahrenheit (pretty close to an ideal air temperature for humans).
If your thermometer tops 85°F, you'll need to cool your water. Here's what we recommend:
- Add Aeration:Make sure you have your aeration system, like the Airmax® PondAir™ or KoiAir™ Aeration System, up and running. It's like an underwater fan for your koi and goldfish. The moving, bubbling water is cooler and loaded with oxygen, making it easier for your fish to breathe.
- Add Plants: Just as you seek out shady spots to shield yourself from the sun's rays, fish will do the same to keep themselves cool. Make sure that about 60 percent of your pond's surface is covered with floating plants, water lilies and other types of shade cover for your pond pets.
- Add Water: Warmer temperatures mean increased evaporation rates, so make sure you top off your pond during hot weather. Doing so isn't a substitute for a water change, but it will cool off the water and ensure your finned friends have enough wet stuff in their pond.
One last tip: Do not feed your fish when water temperatures are above 85°F. They probably won't be hungry. And besides, the uneaten food will just ruin your water quality.
Pond Talk: What's the hottest temperature you've recorded in your water garden?
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So much for a national brand with a music theme, eh?
Last week, Central City officials approved a new signage package for Fortune Valley Hotel & Casino, with the name changed to The Reserve, city manager Alan Lanning said today.
Fortune Valley chief operating officer Dean DiLullo said in June that the new name would be a national brand with a music theme, such as Hard Rock or House of Blues.
"There's too much of the same product on the hill," DiLullo said then. "We are going to offer something that is completely different."
The Reserve is definitely different. But is it necessarily better than what's already up the hill, such as Johnny Z's Casino?


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Build Your Own Barn Door
Assembling a sliding barn door is easier than you may think, and requires only simple tools and a bit of measuring and math. I made this one with a miter box and saw (this one), a cordless drill, some reclaimed fence boards from a neighbor, a scrap of chicken wire for the window and a simple outdoor gate handle (this one). I got the barn door hardware from a farm and ranch supply store (see last page for details).
Since I had some board ends that were cut and looked a little too "new" for my taste, I used a solution of vinegar and steel wool to age those cuts to match the weathered look of the rest of the board. I shredded one super fine (grade 0000) steel wool pad into a glass jar and covered the pieces with vinegar. After sitting for 24 hours, the steel wool dissolved. Then I used a sponge paint brush to dab it onto the cut ends.
Download a PDF of this article - complete with diagrams.
And don't miss the tutorial at the end of this article for a less rustic version of a sliding barn door.
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NOTE: Trim ends of "x" boards at angle to fit flush at top and bottom. Cut one board in half at the angle to match the cross intersection.
These items can be found at some major home improvement stores, but are less expensive at farm and ranch supply stores (which is where I got mine). I paid about $49 for a set of two track rollers (called "box rail hangers"), $38 for a box rail that was 10' long (I cut it down to 7'), and $7 each for the box rail mounting brackets.
I built my barn door over a year ago, and I wish this tutorial for hanging the door had been available back then because it's very thorough and easy to follow. Gail walks you through not only the hardware and installation, but she also has a tutorial for making her sliding barn doors out of pine.
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Treatment for lymphoedema aims to reduce and control swelling, relieve discomfort and prevent more build-up of fluid.
Following treatment, the affected limb or area should become less swollen, be easier to move and feel more comfortable. Sometimes it may take several weeks or months before you notice any real improvement.
Managing lymphoedema
Learning how to manage lymphoedema yourself is a major part of treatment. At first it may seem overwhelming and feel unfair that you have all this to deal with. It's normal to have these difficult feelings from time to time.
Your lymphoedema specialist will explain, and show you, what you can do for yourself. This will involve a combination of skin care, exercises, a simple form of skin massage and wearing a compression garment. Some of the treatments may need to be done every day to give the best results.
Gradually you'll find that you can develop a routine that builds lymphoedema care into your everyday activities. Family and friends often want to help and there may be practical things they can do. They could help with heavy lifting or carrying, or help you with your compression garment or simple skin massage. Taking good care of yourself is also important.
Treatment for lymphoedema affecting an arm or leg
Treatment involves:
- skin care to prevent injury and infection
- positioning and moving your limb to help drain fluid
- compressing the area using compression garments such as sleeves, stockings, special bras, or compression bandages
- exercising and keeping active to improve the flow of lymph
- specialised massage called manual lymphatic drainage (MLD), or self-massage called simple lymphatic drainage (SLD), to help drain fluid
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Credit Union Smashes Industry Average for Mobile Adoption in Record Time
SAN RAFAEL, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 9, 2012) - Monitise plc (
DSFCU also reports that early adopters of its mobile banking solution are two times more profitable than traditional banking members, and are averaging 46 interactions a month with the mobile banking application.
"The demand among our members for a mobile solution has far exceeded our expectations and offers a lesson to other credit unions -- now is the time," said Ron Amstutz, Executive Vice President of Desert Schools Federal Credit Union. "Monitise offers a mobile solution that will allow for future growth and innovation and has played an invaluable part from development, through launch."
Led by Monitise's mobile money platform and adoption services, DSFCU attributes its record-breaking mobile adoption post-launch to delivering a feature rich mobile experience out of the gate, capitalizing on market demand and cross-channel marketing dedicated to mobile conversion. Early adopters of the new channel were primarily from the young-adult and affluent groups. DSFCU reports that these aren't only its most profitable, but the most susceptible to churn -- making mobile a critical channel to future growth.
"Winning the mobile engagement of the consumer is essential to the value proposition and strategy of every financial institution," said Carl Tsukahara, Group Head of Marketing at Monitise. "Desert Schools is a prime example of the high demand for mobile banking and payment services among consumers, and that with the right user experience, content, and adoption planning; initial expectations can easily be exceeded."
DSFCU braced for a spike in customer service calls at rollout, but experienced very little support or service issues from members. Since launch, the DSFCU mobile banking app has enjoyed a 4.5 star rating in the app store. The top requested feature from DSFCU members has been for a remote deposit capture (RDC) offering. DSFCU is currently working with Monitise to offer members RDC and plans to rollout the new feature at the end of the month.
For more information on DSFCU's mobile banking and mobile deposit offerings, please visit the credit unions website here: https://www.desertschools.org/templates/detail/detail.aspx?id=6990
About Desert Schools Federal Credit Union
Desert Schools is Arizona's largest credit union with $3 billion in assets, 320,000 members and more than 50 locations. As a not-for-profit cooperative, Desert Schools has been serving members for more than 70 years with stellar service, innovative products, community outreach and education. Learn more at www.desertschools.org.
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Dec 2011: DECEMBER
Dec 2011: Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
Nov 2011: NOVEMBER
Nov 2011: Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ~ Cathy Allen
Oct 2011: OCTOBER
Oct 2011: We May Not Have It All Together, But Together We Have It All.
Sep 2011: SEPTEMBER
Aug 2011: AUGUST
Jul 2011: JULY
Jul 2011: "Families fill our lives with happiness and laughter leaving us memories to treasure today and forever after"
Jun 2011: JUNE
Jun 2011: Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
May 2011: MAY
Apr 2011: APRIL
Mar 2011: MARCH
Mar 2011: "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other" - Audrey Hepburn
Feb 2011: FEBRUARY
Feb 2011: Each memory we keep with care means future happiness to share.
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Any actor who takes on the role of Superman on film or in television has to wonder: Will playing the iconic superhero launch his career to new heights in a single bound and faster than a speeding bullet? Even so, will the weight of the Last Son of Krypton's cape eventually limit how far and fast he may go?
As Henry Cavill steps into the iconic big red "S" for "Man of Steel," he's poised to become a household name overnight, and in recent years a superheroic role can be a long-term game-changer: Christian Bale went on to win an Oscar after playing Batman, Robert Downey Jr. spectacularly reignited a stalled career as Iron Man and Hugh Jackman has been granted a diverse array of high-profile show biz opportunities after Wolverine. But while Superman has always helped careers take flight, it can also sometimes serve as Hollywood Kryptonite when audiences refuse to see the actor beyond the emblematic suit.
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Soaring to Stardom, or Fortress of Solitude?
"There's a blanket statement that you can make about any actor whose portrayed Superman: they've really all been virtual unknowns," says Jake Rossen, author of the 2008 book Superman Vs. Hollywood. "They weren't established actors, and because of that the audience's first impression and ever-lasting memory has been that they are that character. And it's been very, very difficult to have a vibrant career after taking on that role. That's been the great sacrifice these guys have had to make in order to portray this character."
"He's so iconic, such a part of American mythology and culture that it's very difficult for an audience to look at a guy in that suit flying around, acting earnest, very altruistic, and then see him as a drug dealer in his next movie," says Rossen. "People go 'My God, that's not a drug addict – That's Superman! What's he doing?'"
The first actor to give a face to the Man of Steel was Kirk Alyn, who starred in two film serials in 1948 and 1950. "Alyn was a song-and-dance man," says Larry Tye, author of the 2012 book Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero, "and it was a huge opportunity for him. This is a guy who is basically not really going anywhere as an actor, and he didn't care about being stereotyped. He cared about having a job, and this gave him one – and a high-profile one." Afterward, though, Alyn worked only sporadically in bit parts through the 1950s and 1960s.
More successful, at least initially, was the first TV Man of Steel: actor George Reeves starred in the syndicated "The Adventures of Superman" from 1951 to 1958, a ratings and pop-culture sensation in its day but generally regarded as kiddie fare for a then pre-teen Baby Boomer audience. Reeves' sunny, patriarchal performance made him prominent enough to land a guest spot on "I Love Lucy" – though in character as the caped wonder whose mantle he would be unable to escape. "Reeves was an actor who had played one of the Tarlton twins in 'Gone with the Wind' and had aspirations for doing A-level movies," says Tye. The actor felt he was slumming in the low-budget series and struggled to find opportunities outside the Superman suit, which he ritually burned at the end of each season.
"Justified" actor Jim Beaver has been fan of Reeves since childhood and has been working on a forthcoming book about his hero for several years. "Reeves didn't work again after 'Superman,'" Beaver reveals. "He never had another job after his last episode, and he lived for another two and a half years after they finished the series, so he was definitely struggling. A large part of it was typecasting. In those days, you could do a part like 'Superman,' and nobody would touch you because there was a sense that too many people would believe you as the character and not as the actor."
Frustrated, Reeves attempted to build a behind-the-scenes resume by directing episodes of the series, but he also led a troubled, alcohol-soaked, painkiller-addled personal life – he was involved in a long-term affair with the wife of a notorious studio "problem fixer" that turned obsessive on her part after Reeves broke things off and became engaged to a much-younger party girl. On June 16, 1958, Reeves was found shot to death in the bedroom of his Los Angeles home following a series of still-mysterious events. Debate still continues over whether a despondent Reeves committed suicide – the official verdict – or was the victim of foul play.
Reeves' tale was dramatized in the 2006 film "Hollywoodland," with Ben Affleck portraying the actor. "I think of George as a guy who never really got a fair shake," Affleck said at the time of the film's release. "I think that was the very first beginning of having idols who seemed bigger than everything, and then the perverse thrill was finding out that they weren't really Superman – that in fact they were human and seeing them be destroyed to prove it, and then lamenting them and looking back on the good things that they did."
"That began the so‑called 'Curse of Superman' and the notion of actors being stereotyped and not being able to grow beyond that," says Tye. "But I think it was partly George Reeves' own acting limitations, not just the fact that he had played Superman. If you saw those 1950s shows, you know that the difference between Clark Kent and Superman in them was negligible. It was him putting on and taking off his glasses. It was not changing the timbre of his voice or changing his posture."
Twenty years later, director Richard Donner would cast relative unknown Christopher Reeve in the lavish 1978 film production that would become the new standard-bearer for cinematic interpretations of superheroes. A 25-year-old Juilliard graduate, Reeve's straight-faced earnestness, inherent gravitas and soft-spoken charm – as well as a deftly comic approach to Clark Kent – would perfectly suit Donner's sweeping, epic tone.
"Chris Reeve started out with notions of wanting to have a serious theatrical career," says Tye. "When his dad, who was a professor at Princeton, heard that he was playing Superman, he assumed that it was George Bernard Shaw's 'Man and Superman.' And Chris Reeve initially thought this was something crazy and was just enough money and enough temptation to do it once, but surely never envisioned doing four movies."
While Reeve faced a certain amount of stereotyping post-Superman, he sustained a respectable film career with movies like "Somewhere in Time," "The Bostonians" and "Street Smart." "[Film] wasn't the career he envisioned doing, and he rose higher in it than anybody had ever imagined that he could do," says Tye. "The public was partly more sophisticated and more accepting of somebody outside a role. A lot of people would look and say Superman was the role they were most familiar with him – in the same way as Sean Connery and James Bond – and yet good actors then and now can clearly move beyond it if they're really good at what they do."
In 1995 Reeve, an avid horseman, fell from his mount and suffered a cervical spine injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Rather than retreat from public life, Reeve not only continued to act and direct, he became a tirelessly optimistic and inspirational advocate for the disabled and a proponent of envelope-pushing, mobility-restoring medical techniques until his death in 2004. "He ended up truly embracing the role of Superman after he had his tragic accident," says Tye, "and he saw that his having played Superman let him become an iconic representative of people with brain injuries or spinal cord injuries, and that's what he devoted the rest of his life to."
Big Red Boots to Fill
By 1993 Superman had flown to the small screen: "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" aired for four seasons on ABC and featured clean-cut Princeton grad and brief NFL player Dean Cain as the titular hero, but the show placed greater emphasis on his plucky reporter paramour and their romance, which ultimately led to a wedding. "His Clark/Superman character was second fiddle to Lois and Teri Hatcher," says Tye. Cain's post-Superman career has kept him steadily employed, primarily in small films, TV movies and series guest spots: his latest series, VH-1's NBA cheerleader drama "Hit the Floor," debuted this year.
Tye recently encountered Cain at a comic book convention. "He was embracing his role as Superman, even more than a decade after it ended," he says, "having some fun being acknowledged again as having played an important – but not really central – role in the whole Superman mythos."
The subsequent TV interpretation, "Smallville," aired from 2001 to 2012 on first The WB and then The CW networks, casting ex-model Tom Welling as a pre-flight-powered, pre-costumed Clark Kent finding his way through adolescence. "That happened to him at a young enough age that he was considered a huge success, and he was the ultimate heartthrob for kids," says Tye of the star. "The fact the show's golden rule was 'No tights, no flights' was a good thing for him, because he was there looking like Clark Kent – or Tom Welling – rather than the guy in the uniform."
Like Reeves before him, Welling also ventured behind the camera on his series, taking a producer credit and directing several episodes. He later served as executive producer on The CW's short-lived "Hellcats" and is currently developing a new series for the USA network.
In 2006 the superhero soared back to the big screen for "Superman Returns," a semi-follow-up/semi-homage to the original Donner film. Director Bryan Singer Singer selected actor and former model Brandon Routh in part due to his strong resemblance to Reeve – giving the young performer not just one but two looming legacies to live up to. Routh took on the challenge with aplomb – he became actively involved in Reeve's charitable foundation – but despite respectable notice for his acting and solid box office returns, the otherwise panned film was deemed a disappointment. He moved on to appear regularly in film and television, with genre-adjacent roles in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Chuck" and fanboy/filmmaker Kevin Smith's "Zach and Miri Make a Porno," as well as the recently cancelled CBS sitcom "Partners."
Routh remains proud of his association with the icon. "It means everything – I'm here because of that," he told the website MovieFanatic.com last year. "I trust I would've gotten something else, but it might have been a longer journey to get where I am, so I'm very grateful for it. It's a great honor, and I'm happy to see people all the time who love the movie, and to carry on that spirit and that legacy."
Voice Recognition
Over the years, Warner Animation has produced a steady stream of animated series and films featuring the Man of Steel, voiced by well-known actors including "Private Practice" star Tim Daly ("Superman: The Animated Series"), "Scandal" actor George Newbern ("Justice League") and "White Collar's" Matt Bomer (the direct-to-video "Superman: Unbound"). "Everybody brings their own twist to it," says voice director Andrea Romano, who's cast each new Superman. "It has to do with their own specific view of what they think Superman is, and what they think Clark Kent is."
"He's very straightforward and he believes in what he's doing totally, and I have to lean into that," says Daly. "I'm much more apt in my personal life to have a sense of irony and cynicism. Superman has none of that. He is a straight-and-narrow guy… I feel somewhat removed from it because it's a cartoon and it's not me, but when people recognize my voice I think it's great."
"It's been an incredible job, and an amazing responsibility," agrees Newbern. "The fans are obviously international and rabid and it's been a pleasure and a gift to be able to voice Superman, frankly. And I have a ten-year-old and it's kind of cool that he gets to say 'My dad's Superman.'"
"Everyone would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life," adds Bomer, who is the first openly gay actor to play the role. "He represents what we all hope we could be in the most difficult circumstances, our best self, our best version of us. We'd like to hope that when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing."


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As one of the country's most famous World Heritage sites, Stonehenge is a "must see" for anyone visiting the UK. Entrance is included and complimentary audio guides in a variety of languages are available for the group from Stonehenge (Audio guides are subject to availability at time of arrival, during busy periods, you may not be able to receive one, but you can download a free version to your smartphone using their Wifi)
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- 11:00 Arrival at Stonehenge. First we visit the ancient World Heritage site of Stonehenge (entrance included).
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Join us for the musical double-header of the season as singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky shares the bill with San Francisco Giants third base coach Tim Flannery, an accomplished singer and songwriter in his own right.
Chuck has already made the Baseball Hall of Fame, with 11 of his original songs enshrined in the Sound Recording Library. Chuck and baseball make a great fit because the game is full of stories and Chuck is a storyteller at heart. "What tales this singer-songwriter from Philadelphia has," says the New York Times. "With insight and good humor, he has taken these life experiences and distilled them into old fashioned story songs brimming with wit and compassion." Larry Groce, host of NPR's Mountain Stage, calls Chuck "one of the finest singer-songwriters in America. There are a lot of good ones, but when it comes to the really great ones, it boils down to a select few – he's one of them." Chuck honed his writing and performing skills playing at the Freight in the 1980s and has since recorded 11 albums, including his latest, Subtotal Eclipse, which features a lovely ballad about right fielder and humanitarian Roberto Clemente.
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My hope was to be able to find "Aunt Jane" Norman Cotton in the 1880 census for Garland or Montgomery County, Arkansas. I would start with known surnames associated with her – Norman and Moore – and if I couldn't find her that way, I would look for her by name, age, and state of birth, though I feared that would not narrow down the field enough.
The Puzzle Piece
No need to fear. And no need to even try more than one surname. I found her as a single woman, working as a servant in the household of John L. and Rebecca Moore, listed as Sarah J. Norman – so Norman was her maiden name.
1880 US Federal Census, Lee Township, Garland County, Arkansas, E.D. 75, Page 21, 11 June 1880
Line 1 Dwelling 186 Family 190
Moore, John L. White Male 52 years old Married Farmer GA NC NC
-- Rebecca White Female 45 years old Wife Married Keeping house Cannot write GA NC GA
-- James J. White Male 11 years old Son Cannot read or write AR GA GA
-- Rebecca White Female 7 years old Daughter AR GA GA
-- George A. White Male 5 years old Son AR GA GA
-- Henry F. White Male 5 years old Son AR GA GA
-- Pellie B. White Female 2 years old Daughter AR GA GA
Norman, Sarah J. White Female 18 years old Single Domestic servant Cannot read or write AR MS AR
Simpson, Francis E. White Female 18 years old Single Domestic servant Cannot read or write AR GA GA
Moreover, there was another goldmine on the previous page of the census: a Nancy Norman, single, age 17, working as a servant in the family of William Adner Powell and Mary Elizabeth Moore (a daughter of the John and Rebecca Moore above), and living next door to them, William Henry Monroe and his wife Eliza Ann Monroe, who would marry Zara Lucerne Cotton before Sarah Jane Norman did. And living next to them was the family of Michael T. P. Moore, a son of John L. and Rebecca Moore. His possible involvement in this mystery will be covered in the next installment. One other interesting note: at least two people in these families appear to have been ill with rheumatic fever on the day the census was taken – Nancy Norman and Michael T. P. Moore's son Roland.
If Norman was Sarah Jane's maiden name, her son Jackson may have been illegitimate, and possibly her son Thomas Moore as well. The reason this was important to me was to find out how these Normans might be related to my Norman families.
I figured there was a strong chance that Nancy was Sarah Jane's sister, and I very much wanted to use this information (plus the information from the blog that Jane Norman was from Montgomery County) to see whether I could find them with their parents in previous censuses. However, even before that I wanted to look into some of the Moore family relationships. As people who have studied families in these close communities probably understand, in this little corner of Garland County at this time these large families were closely tied to one another by kinship and intermarriage: Normans, Powells, Moores, Wacasters, Kinseys, Westons, and a few others.
There was no easy way for me to tell who Jackson Norman's father was, but I might find Tom Peat Norman's father by looking into these relationships. Since Sarah Jane Norman had worked as a servant for the John L. Moore family, I decided to see whether or not there was any mention of a marriage of one of the sons to Sarah Jane Norman or of an illegitimate child by her.
One place I could look again was Peak Cemetery on Findagrave, since a lot of family relationships are given there; that information could be correlated with census information. However, to quickly sort out a large family, there is another place that is quicker and easier, though risky: Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project. I decided to check there first to see whether or not anything jumped out at me.
The Sources
John L. Moore household, 1880 U.S. Census, Garland County, Arkansas, population schedule, Lee Township, dwelling 186, family 190; National Archives Microfilm Publication, Roll T9_45; Page 21; Enumeration District 75. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
William A. Powell household, 1880 U.S. Census, Garland County, Arkansas, population schedule, Lee Township, dwelling 182, family 186; National Archives Microfilm Publication, Roll T9_45; Page 20; Enumeration District 75. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
William Henry Monroe household, 1880 U.S. Census, Garland County, Arkansas, population schedule, Lee Township, dwelling 183, family 187; National Archives Microfilm Publication, Roll T9_45; Page 20; Enumeration District 75. Accessed via Ancestry.com
Friday, February 19, 2010
Mystery Normans and Citations – Part 6
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Creamy Pepita and Parmesan Pasta
I sit here in Spring Hill, waiting for a good friend and eating a yogurt I bought instead of a coffee (feeling virtuous), thinking about all the things I have to do at home (feeling delinquent). Half-unpacked suitcases, overflowing recycling bins, and a garage that would give small children nightmares. (It gives me nightmares!) I've got writing to do, and preparations for my first-ever market stall. Ideas crowd my brain, begging for time and money to become - like Pinocchio - real.
But you know what?
This is real.
Spending time with a friend who needs a friend. Going out for a coffee with my daughter. All these little things that don't get put on my to-do list, but which make me - and the people I care about - happy.
And tonight, when I get home, I think I'll open a bottle of red and make this simple but utterly devine pasta dish. And serve up dinner on my salvaged coffee table and remember that life is more than lists. And that it's friends, not papers, that come to share dinner with me.
The time
10 minutes
The ingredients
500 g pasta, cooked to directions
2 organic egg yolks
4 Tbs butter
4 handfuls grated parmesan (+ another for sprinkling)
2 tsp mixed herbs
3 handfuls crushed toasted pepitas* (do it yourself, in a skillet over medium heat till they start to pop)
1 tsp salt, or to taste
*or pumpkin seeds
**Try to use organic ingredients when you can.
The process
1. Simply swirl the egg yolks in the bottom of a large dish, add the cooked, drained pasta - still hot from the stove - and the rest of the ingredients. Mix well.
NOTE: The egg yolks lend this dish a smooth creaminess that shouldn't be missed - and in case the idea of raw eggs freaks you out, they cook slightly as you stir in the hot pasta.
The cost
This should cost you around $2 per serving, if made with all organic ingredients. Outside Australia it'll likely be cheaper.
Amanda xx
15 comments:
This sounds absolutely delish!
Will try this week
- November 9, 2011 at 1:11 AM
Looks delicious! What mixed herbs do you suggest? I want to try this tonight!
- November 9, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- jen @ giftboxology said... [Reply to comment]
i think that it's interesting that you said its cheaper outside of Australia!?
is food just generally more expensive here or just organics? (its been a few years since i've been overseas!)
- November 9, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Kels, hope you love it!
My fave herbs in here are chives ... but I actually made this last night without any herbs at all and it was still *amazing* :)
Jen, I made that little comment 'cos I recently spent so much time in the US, which in general is cheaper in cost-of-living sorts of ways. I found produce cheaper in the UK, too. Not sure why our produce here is more expensive - organic or otherwise ... perhaps it's a subsidy thing? Or the big 2 supermarkets nailing us? Good question.
- November 9, 2011 at 9:22 PM
- Mad River Valley Blog said... [Reply to comment]
How TRUE! Thank you for the reminder.
- November 9, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Paula said... [Reply to comment]
Beautiful looking pasta dish but even more beautiful words.
P.S. good luck with your market stall!
- November 10, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Cheryl said... [Reply to comment]
Gorgeous, and looks like perfect hearty fare for the cool weather we're having. Wait, MARKET STALL? Did I miss an announcement? What are you selling?
- November 10, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks! No announcement *yet* but I will be selling homemade organic moisture bars, lip balms, and kiddie gardening packs :) Very exciting!!
- November 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Nisrine said... [Reply to comment]
This sounds like a wonderful pasta dish. I love the addition of pepitas.
- November 10, 2011 at 6:20 PM
MMMMM,..What a delightful fresh looking appetizing pasta dish! I love pumpkin seeds too! ;)
- November 13, 2011 at 5:15 AM
- Sherilyn @ Wholepromise said... [Reply to comment]
You are so right! I feel like throwing my zillion and one lists in the bin after reading this. Pasta looks sensational. I do love a good dose of parmesan!
- November 14, 2011 at 3:40 AM
- Catherine @ The Spring said... [Reply to comment]
So happy to stumble across the site of another Brisbane blogger! This is my favourite way to make pasta - the creamy egg thing, I mean - and I'm craving this dish tonight!
It's love to *meet* your blog!
Catherine @ The Spring
p.s. I'm running a giveaway on The Spring right now that I think you'd really like... it's all about mason jars, cast iron skillets, and all kinds of traditional, wonderful, kitchenwares!
- November 14, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks for all the lovely comments! And nice to meet you newbies! :)
- November 14, 2011 at 10:23 PM
- Telebrands said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks for showing examples of the types of foods you prepare at your dinner table. Do you have directions on how we can re-create your culinary delights?
- November 30, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- OrGreenic said... [Reply to comment]
It is nice to enjoy the little things in life, especially enjoying time with lvoed ones. This recipe sounds delicious, thank you for sharing.
- August 15, 2012 at 1:42 PM