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Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:36 AM
Decided to write an article or two on my blog about RVB - makes a change from me doing :words: about Ganked.
So to that end I need vidya's, images, a paragraph from you of your experiences, quotes from fleet chat and so on. Good or bad, its all okay.
So post em if you got them
I will give credit to all sources of course.
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I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Posted 22 February 2012 - 02:34 PM
(please dont eve mail me I get a lot of that every day)
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 05:46 PM
RvB has been an interesting experience for me. The first time I played Eve it was with a few co-workers and it was... overwhelming. Mining was about the only thing I understood, so that's what I did. Eventually I got bored and stopped playing. One thing I didn't stop doing, however, was watching the alliance tournament. That's how I was introduced to PvP, and it looked like *fun*. A lot of fun. But the tournament made it seem like PvP was only for the elite. I had some picture in my mind of these players roaming through low sec (I'd never even heard of null sec by that time) stalking their prey like a cat. A space cat. I remember RvB in this tournament. I thought the alliance sounded like a fantastic idea; creating an group whose point was PvP and lots of it. But I still thought this was something I had to work up to. Until one of the co-workers I played with previously, Cameron Zero, told me he had joined RvB. He sent me a free trial and I started a new account. After a bit of training and some re-learning I too joined RvB.
At first RvB seemed scary. Really scary. You had a whole language I didn't understand. Plus, half of you are not from States like I am (bollox this, wanker that), so that didn't help me to understand you all any better. I was intimidated. I was scared. That is, until I joined my first fleet; blew up my first ship. It. Was. GLORIOUS! After that I was hooked.
After a few weeks of this I joined my first ganked. By this time I had come to better understand the difference between high sec and low sec, but this null sec... I was scared again. And I stayed scared up until the first time I was podded. It wasn't so bad! And it gave me a chance to look at some of the kill mails we were getting:
HOLY CRAP WE KILLED HYDRA! I recognized this name from the alliance tournament as well. And his ship cost sooooo much isk (ha). Mine was practically free (my rifters still cost me less than half a million), but by golly I killed me a big one!
Recently I've finally developed the guts to 1v1 on my own, what with the SWOT event. A portion of my bravery is the 300m isk I won designing the ganked board header (which is in honor of my favorite ganked theme, arty thrashers) but most of my bravery is a result of RvB showing me that *I* am the scariest thing in space, because I don't care if I go boom.
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 04:56 PM
Dyeing to Brawling to Finesse
Since joining RvB, I have had some very memorable fights and been involved in some very memorable events.
For most the lure and ease of getting into large fleet fights, which Mangala details here, are of course the bread and butter of what RvB is.
However, for some of us, there is the lure of solo and small gang (sub 5 man) guerilla warfare that really get us going. Yea, I still get in and even FC fleets from time to time, but my favorite thing to do is to go out on my own or with one or two more and see what I can pick off.
Generally, RvB land is rich with viable targets – if you can get in and get out fast. You don't, and you die horribly to the fleet that your target is inevitably tied in with. Learning to cull out people from the pack and then being able to either do a lot of damage fast or call in a few Wolf pack members and bail creates both great fun (for the Wolf pack) and, at times, many tears and moans in local from the target.
I think solo and small gang, IMHO, at least provides some level of survivability for a target over the typical blob mentality. So my sympathy for the target is diminished. However, I am always game for a follow on 1v1 should someone feel the need for retribution. I get a lot of good secondary kills this way as well, and those I lose I typically end up with a 50/50 outcome unless I get greedy.
Small, fast and ganky is the way to go with these guerilla tactics. Tanky will typically just get you killed slower. In a recent fight with a frig and an Arby, our small gang was able to take down the frig quickly, then pop the Arby as two other cruisers jumped in. I was targeted, webbed and scrammed as I finished off the Arby, began to burn out with the AB overheated and break scram. However, I did not burn out far enough and as I realigned to warp out drifted back into scram range and got popped.
Regardless, it was a great fight with only me losing a Rifter and I learned a valuable lesson.
What I have found with both solo'ing and small gang engagements is a level of finesse and skill that I was not learning in larger fleets. My evolution from my early fights where I just died a lot in as heavily tanked frigs and cruisers as I could build, to better brawling skills and handling kiters, to both building ships tailored to a type of fighting style and tactics to the situation at hand.
I also cannot say enough about the massive need for situational awareness. I found as this improved my ability to manage the situation improved. I know that sounds very rudimentary, but it is amazing how exponentially simple situational awareness can improve your fighting skills.
Transfer this situational awareness to the ability to FC and it is more important than any skill your character will train. I fully understand how easy getting overwhelmed in a fleet battle can be. How I realized that this skill had drastically improved was highlighted in a recent fleet fight.
Called upon to switch to my very low SP character in Red Fed to help out FC'ing a 12 man fleet that had on FC, I rounded everyone up and jumped in to engage a Blue fleet. Upon arrival I noticed we were outmanned by about 3 Blue pilots and they had more Dessy's than we did. I had a scout watching them as they jumped into system. We were 0 on gate so options disappeared in an instant.
I quickly told fleet that we would take the Dessy's first and then move on. I demanded focused fire and complete adherence to target calling, which it normally not my style. However, the Dessy's started falling fast as we burned through them with full DPS. Turning to the light frigs and working our way up, enemy forces dropped quickly and we soon owned the field.
We did a quick loot, but I ordered everyone off the field quickly to avoid getting caught being greedy. Effectively, the outcome was a great fight against pitched odds where just staying focused on the task at hand really paid off.
Solo'ing, small gang action and full on fleet have taught me a massive amount in a short time. As I try to pass these tactics along in RvB NoobFleet and get new players to follow an FC the way they should, I am very grateful to those who have taught me (both in Fleet and 1v1 – like Mangala), who make RvB what it is.
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I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Posted 05 March 2012 - 11:15 AM
Give me more.
First article is going up today!
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 10:02 AM
And you too can end up on my blog: http://mangala.rvbganked.co.uk/
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 05:56 PM
Feel free to use my AAR. You can also add anything about fc'ing in RvB if you feel in a writing mode
I shall do fella
Much appreciated.
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 11:09 PM
Summer of 2010 a handful of friends and I decided to try out Eve online. I jumped in with them and started doing missions and ratting for isk. After a couple on month's most of the guys I was playing with stopped playing, I had some things come up and let my account expire. Fast forward after being out of game for about 6 months I was able to convince 1 of the old guys I played with to give it a try again. I picked the game back up and was back at it with mission running and the new thing Incursions.
Boring to sum it up, I needed something to do, my buddy has pirated and done low sec PvPing. I having never really done any PvPing and decided to give it a try, man did I fail. What I really wanted was to find a group of people to play Eve with and be able to get the instant thrill of PvP without what my buddy complains of as the drought of being able to find a fight in low sec. RvB was the thing that came to mind, so I dropped the roles I had in our corporation we formed back in 2010 and applied to Blue.
To this date I have been in Blue Republic for about a month and I have loved every moment of it. I can login and normally within moments join a fleet and start shooting at something. The problem I have now is keeping ships fitted to throw into the fray, but trust me that is a good problem and I wouldn't have it any other way. With the limited combat zone (Lonertek) for RvB I am still able to keep my jump clones and mission ships out there to when needed jump into them and do some missions, but it is not required.
Thanks to RvB I have found the reason why to keep playing Eve, my real life friends may no longer play but I have through RvB found a community that I enjoy flying with. So to all of you out there thinking is RvB for you, give it a try, you can come and go as you please, but remember to have fun and fly dangerously while doing it.
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 02:09 PM
And of course, I really really want my fellow vets to provide me with words.
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Posted 11 March 2012 - 03:20 PM
feel free to use them.
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Posted 12 March 2012 - 09:33 PM
I decided to try a ganked night which proved to be the most fun I have had in my gaming experience until I joined BLUE. During a RL stasis period I was able to play a lot for a period of a month and I must say, I don't think I could have spent it in a better place than RvB. With out a doubt the most fun I have ever had in a video game and I am quite proud of being the Top Loser for February 2012.
What I like most about RvB is the casual nature of it all, just follow some very simple rules and have fun.
I swear, swapping out red crosses for transparent boxes on the overview makes all the difference in EVE.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 10:08 AM
Will get one out later this week instead, so guys keep giving me input here please.
Many of you new guys have now been here a month...
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Dont just read this topic and shirk away.
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Reports say that Apple's new cloud music service may start off free but will end up charging customers as they become hooked to the service.
Apple is mulling over charging $20 a year and Google $25 a year for cloud storage after a free introduction, CNET revealed. This would be in addition to any subscription service monthly fee.
"It's generally accepted that consumers prefer to own their tunes rather than renting them and there are some who suspect that the cloud is a way for the Web stores and the labels to charge consumers to access songs they already own," writes Greg Sandoval.
Amazon is allows a 5GB limit and then starts charging $20 a year. Although it's unknown if Apple (or Google) will follow suit, it seems that downloadable music is becoming a thing of the past -- subscription services like iTunes want you to rent a virtual locker/library and only listen to music there.
Music industry execs want to emulate the Netflix model of an $8 monthly fee and unlimited use of the company's extensive database, but is music really the same as a DVD? Many people, including me, would say no. You follow a certain group or artists because you like their stuff and generally want to keep it. Your goal is to own their songs.
Perhaps this says something about the quality of Hollywood films, but for most DVDs and films, it's just something to consume and throw away.Seriously, how many people really want to own bad B-movie "Skyline," but will rent it on a Saturday night?


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Plastic is everywhere. There isn't a day that goes by that we don't interact with it. Business are now taking this issue seriously with many organisations pushing to become more environmentally friendly. Due to the advancements in technology and more quirkier forms of advertising, the possibilities to stand out from the crowd are endless.
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I really value this quiet morning time, and it was lovely to spend this morning's in the "company" of three of my favorite people. On the metro, I read a Time article by Fareed Zakaria entitled "When Will We Learn?" The piece identifies hard work and good teachers as the two factors most invaluable to an effective education system, and is written in Zakaria's enjoyable, easy-to-read style. I really recommend this six-minute read.
Work today was quite a hustle! Vera is in the process of collecting the components needed to renew Sasha Bruce Youthwork's licensure as a Child Placement Agency. This process is harder than it seems, as the paperwork and documentation is all over the place, and sometimes difficult to locate even once one knows where to find it.
So most of today consisted of running between the office and the admin building fetching files and compiling them into a coherent application. It was a really great insight into how no matter the size of a corporation, paperwork is a must!
At noon, I met with Renee to discuss Papa's World Bank team retreat at Sasha Bruce. (I am SO excited!) It looks like we have a plan for volunteers to help out at the main office, as well as two of the residential programs nearby (one for court-involved boys and one for teen mothers). Can't wait!
Returning from self-declared snacktime up the street, I ran into Jess, whom I had just been texting a few minutes ago! It was great to see my girl and ask her about her day in person before leaving the office.
Once home, I wrote a few more eccentric messages to Laura before contacting 17 of my subscribers to teach them to activate their subscriptions. (To clarify, after entering your email address in the box on the right, you must await an email from "Ratna's 365 Gap Days." After the message arrives, you must click the activation link for your subscription to commence. Thank you for subscribing!)
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Heavy rains in this country have raised concerns among motorists of the risks of their vehicles being submerged in flood water. Despite having to take precautions such as avoiding parking their vehicles in the lower parking levels which are susceptible to floods and avoiding the areas prone to flooding during heavy rains, vehicle owners still face the risk of rising flood waters. It may be worthwhile to ascertain if our motor insurance policies have coverage for claims for flood-related damages.
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CFO Network: Predicting Obama's Last Two Years
Pollsters Bill McInturff and Peter D. Hart discuss how President Obama might fair in his final two years in office. They spoke with WSJ's Neil King at the CFO Network.
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Ian Fleishman is an Assistant Professor of German and the newest member of the standing faculty of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. In May 2013 he completed his doctorate in French and German Literature at Harvard University, having previously studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has published articles and book chapters in German Quarterly, French Studies, Essays in Romanticism, Mosaic, The Journal of Austrian Studies and elsewhere on subjects ranging from the Baroque to contemporary cinema.
His work focuses largely on sex and violence in order to trace the evolution of narrative form and its underlying epistemological shift from modernism to the postmodern. His first book manuscript, An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino is the 2015 winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award. Examining representations of the open wound, his monograph exposes injury to be an essential aesthetic prinicple of twentieth-century narrative in the works of ten exemplary authors and filmmakers: Charles Baudelaire, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Hélène Cixous, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Werner Schroeter, Michael Haneke and Quentin Tarantino.
His next book project seeks to modernize two towering figures of the German-language literary canon, Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Kafka, by examining their influence on the works of Cormac McCarthy and J.M. Coetzee. In other work he intends to investigate formal experimentalism as an expression of sexuality in order to map queer strategies of storytelling in André Gide, Jean Genet, Werner Schroeter, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Xavier Dolan.
Since arriving at Penn, Fleishman has taught, among other courses, both graduate and undergraduate seminars on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and a survey of German cinema. He also helped to organize an international and interdisciplinary (un)conference on the Digital Humanities and the future of German Studies, which took place at the Kislak Center last April. This past summer he served as Resident Tutor and Assistant Director of the Harvard summer program in Munich and Vienna.
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The classic story: The boy came here with a broken heart and found a new love in the land.
By Mike Medberry
When I drove to McCall from Sacramento, I came in expectation and sorrow. I knew there lived a place with salmon and trout teeming in rivers, with elk, deer, and bear clambering through the rugged forests. I had seen those 5 years before! I came because of the deep lake that was Tahoe of a hundred years before, the land that was vast and wild, granitic and familiar, and the beauty of the blue, blue skies and starry, starry nights. I searched for Twain, Thoreau, and Hemmingway. And saw them in McCall. I drove because of a woman that I had loved in California who had shiny, obsidian-rich hair, a certain refined manner with long hands that wanted a ring, and who spoke with a slight Irish lilt. Megan was smart and wise, shapely, original, and entirely lovely. She was inscrutable to me, which made her all the more exotic and desirable. She charmed me. And crushed me, like a bug on the windshield, when she ended our love affair. I was 22 and I was leaving Sacatomato.
Reno was tears. Winnemucca gambled my money away. Western Oregon was parched and lonely. But Idaho—what a silly name–was green and luscious as I drove up the North Fork of the Payette River in late spring. Such a powerful river I had never seen! There were the American, the Sacramento, the Carson, and the Humboldt, but none brought the passion of this quintessentially Idaho river that was mashed in by the railroad on one side and the automobile road on the other. The narrow, car's road wound up and up. It seemed to end a thousand times into the roaring, cascading water. The smell of pine was new to me and wetness in this dry air refreshed my stale soul. Crazy people in kayaks curved around rocks, paddled through a mountain of water, and managed to keep upright through the froth. I pulled over to watch three kayaks jetting downstream: submarines, penguins, and otter-people is what the kayakers were. They disappeared in a wink. I carried a kayak on the roof of my car, but this descent was simply too insane to be believed.
I drove upriver to a lull in the hurrying water—the river slowed to catch its breath before plummeting downhill again–and pulled over just below Smiths Ferry to watch mist wafting across the eddied river. The mist blew and skated above the water. It looked impossible with detail, improbable in form, like a thousand cobras rising up on ice. The calm wideness brought a stunning contrast to the wild river downstream and then a braying sound came out of the mist and two pair of geese turned as they saw me, winged upward, and beyond. This was magic!
In McCall, I lay face down on the grassy park in the center of town, sleeping-off my long drive. When I awoke, I was at the edge of a calm Payette Lake that stretched miles to the north with a sawmill on the east. I woke to the sound of log trucks with their Jake brakes growling discontentedly as each one made a curve at the lakeside. I sat and looked out at the lake wondering what this place would bring.
For days the sky became pure white and then bruised, as Mt. St. Helens blew to smithereens off toward the amorphous northwest. The cloud lingered just north of McCall. It hunkered like a vast genie as it blackened and grew tall. Wandering afoot, I found a crowded camping spot in Ponderosa Park along with dozens of evacuees dropping down from Moscow, Lewiston, and Coeur D'Alene. I listened to people predicting Armageddon as the big explosion to the west dropped inches or a foot of volcanic ash, depending upon the story teller, on the lands and upon windshields, gumming up carburetors, bringing cylinders to a halt, and people to this place. The volcano made for much, much commotion and lively conversation. I went for long runs through the forest, fished in the lake, or read from a novel about infidelity. I loved that mountain for blowing up! It was exquisite! The ash lay in aerodynamic tails on rear bumpers, like the mists on the North Fork. Mount St. Helens had blown its guts apart sending plumes of soot high into the sky. That sounded so right! And it created chaos. My love had blown up about that way, once upon a time, not so long ago. It folded well into my feelings about lost love that lay splattered on my windshield, spread out on the bumper. I fished for fishless days until getting bored with the sterile waters that never produced a single, stinking trout.
Damn, I needed a job and a place to live. It might as well be here, beside this lake, in this mountain town, by the frigging lumber mill with the loud, annoying logging trucks. In a bar near the outlet of the North Fork from Payette Lake, I found both my job and a place to live in only one hour. Talk about luck! I met J.D., an unforgettable curmudgeon, who steered me to the owner of Lardo's and a place where I might live in a tumbleddown cabin beside the lake. JD, a joker, a smoker, a drinker, and a lover, became a very good friend of mine for a time.
As the bartender, I was privileged. I saw drunks and heard their reasons, broke up fights, played matchmaker, served drinks, fired up the potbellied stove every night for two years in winter, and gave away drinks to pretty women for my vanity. One time as I was picking up glasses on the patio, which fronts the main road, several men were snorting cocaine. I noticed the chalk lines disappearing into their hairy nostrils. And I noticed the police driving by on the highway. It seemed, well, it seemed a little foolish for my customers not to notice that the police might just happen to glance at what was going on on the porch and bust the whole lot of them and, well, maybe me as well, and close the bar in the bargain. But it was a pleasant Saturday afternoon with coke and beer, pretzels and laughter; all of us were as high as the blue sky and the police simply didn't look our way.
On weekends the bar was a fine party! Bands played late, people rocked-out till they puked, credit cards were maxed out, and some crept upstairs and did odd, unmentionable things. I closed the bar, counted money, and left one-line jokes on the receipts for one particular accountant to enjoy. That accountant was a woman who I had a big-old-crush on. She worked days and came in to visit the bar at night. I fell in love with the way she smoked her cigarettes, the way we both watched curlicueing smoke, the way she blew the smoke out as if extinguishing a fire. We became friends and laughed about the rowdy, exciting nights; she liked my jokes (I imagined her each morning counting the till, smoking a fag, and smiling or laughing when she found a good one-liner or a sick joke). I liked her looks. But it wouldn't be any more than a courting friendship because she was committed to another man.
But alas, all parties must end and I grew weary of being a bartender. I'd seen too many drunks, too much pitiful cleverness, too many worthless things coveted, too many lives tossed out, and I didn't want to be one of the lost. But I loved living in McCall, it's nearby mountains and streams and wild animals. I'd could fish, hike, build stuff, make trouble, think about Thoreau, become outraged at timber mills, and, as Plato must have said: "build a house, run a marathon, and have a child." These were solid goals. Mostly. No, not so solid. But they were my goals anyway. And McCall could provide me with each of these challenges. I had to make decisions and live with them, as joyous and painful as that might be. I was going to stay in this odd state of Idaho and I'd found this detour, this youthful search, as the way that I found myself: a boy who had begun to recognize in himself a man.
Mike Medberry still lives in Idaho. He is the author of the memoir On the Dark Side of the Moon, which explores the stroke he suffered in teh backcountry of Craters of the Moon National Monument, his recovery, and the fate of wild lands.


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Barclays records P 260 million profits
Publishing Date : 10 September, 2018
Author : REARABILWE RAMAPHANE
Barclays Bank of Botswana announced its financial results for the half year six month ended 30 June 2018, recording P260 million profit before tax mirroring a 4 percent growth year-on-year compared to the half year period ended June 2018.
When briefing its stakeholders and members of the media in Gaborone on Thursday morning, Barclays top brass observed that the performance attributable to growth in income, well contained costs as well as favourable credit losses. Deliberating on the financial figures Barclays Finance Director Mumba Kalifungwa said on a gross basis, interest income went up by 4 percent year-on-year despite the interest rate cut of 50bps in the last quarter of 2017.
Mumba, however highlighted that an increase in the interest cost of funding driven by market trends diluted Net interest income growth in the bank's net interest income resulting in flat figures year on year. Barclays further revealed a satisfactory net and commission income increase of 10 percent year –on –year during the period under review. "This is on the back of our focus on driving innovation through investment and enhancement of our digital channels," explained Finance Director Mumba Kalifungwa.
The Botswana Stock Exchange Limited (BSEL) listed banking outfit registered a 18 percent hike on net trading income attributable to increase in forex sales volumes. Kalifungwa noted that the bank's continued focus on client acquisition and penetration had a positive impact on the net trading income growth. "Operating costs were well contained with business achieving a cost to income ratio of 54 percent which is in line with our strategic target of lower 50 s. Year on year costs grew by 6 percent ,largely driven by an increase in technology spend as part of the separation journey from Barclays PLC," he said.
Barclays Finance chief also revealed that the bank was currently coming up with ways to manage and contain expenses. "We continue to exploit cost saving opportunities through a review in all our cost lines and various supplier contracts in order to identify opportunities for savings," he said.
With regards to the new accounting standards IFRS 9 which was introduced beginning of January this year to replace the old IAS 39 Financial tool, Barclays says so far the new standards bring in a revised impairment model which requires entities to recognize expected credit losses based on unbiased forward-looking information.
"This replaces the existing IAS 39 incurred loss model which only recognizes impairment if there is objective evidence that a loss was already incurred and measured the loss on the most probable outcome, The day 1 impact of this change that was charged to our Retained earnings on the balance sheet amounted to an after tax amount of P129 million," explained Mumba. Despite the more stringent accounting for the credit losses Barclays's expected credit losses/impairments decreased by 12.3 percent in comparison to the prior period.
According to Finance Head the performance is predominantly due to enhanced collections capability and conservative credit extension to high risk sectors especially in the retail segment. Barclays outgoing Managing Director Reinette van der Merwe told stakeholders that the bank 's first 2018 half year results mirrored resilience as the business continues to operate in a highly competitive and modest local banking environment.
"This result were realized in the midst of various external challenges such as the declining credit growth across the sector, low interest rates and a general recovery commodity prices, this did not deter us from our ambition to be the leading financial services partner in Botswana," she said. Van der Merwe noted that Barclays continues to make progress in supporting key segments in various sectors of the economy.
"We are excited to be part of a financial services group that Africa can be proud of, the transition from Barclays Group to Absa brand present a more modern, fast thinking and relevant organization that is truly an African bank that is for the people," she said.
Barclay's balance sheet grew by 12 percent ending the half year period at 16.9 billion pula. According to bank Finance Boss the expansion was influenced by loans and advances to customers which increased by 14 percent year –on –year to 11.4 billion pula.
"The growth was fairly distributed across the segments in line with our strategy and continues to be focuses around prudent lending in our chosen business segments," he said. Customer liabilities increased by 6 percent year on year driven by continued customer focus and penetration across all segments. Mumba noted that the growth compares favourably against the banking industry growth of 4 percent year –on –year.
" We continue to strive to providing world-class customer services and products to existing and potential customers with a view to providing access to finance and various payment solutions, to this end we continue to focus on way of optimizing our balance sheet and the resultant funding sources" reiterated Kalifungwa. He added that given Barclays's strong profitability the bank's return on equity remains solid at 22 percent and compares favourably against the banking industry average of 16.7 percent .
"Our regulatory capital position stood at 2 billion pula representing a ration of 19.4 percent against the regulatory minimum requirement of 15 percent, this is testament to how our balance sheet continues to remain prudently positioned with strong liquidity and capital levels, and sound provisioning for expected credit losses," he said. The bank announced a proposed interim dividend payout of P80 million at 9.38 thebe per share subject to regulatory approval.
Barclays MD noted that in light of continued modest growth in household income as well as restrained economic expansion the bank remains mindful of challenges which call for continued caution while exploring opportunities within chosen segments. She added that the recently declared economic recession in South Africa posts possible challenges that will require close monitoring of expenditure and banking systems to remain operational with strong capital levels and internal capital generation capacity, she however observed that anticipated increased government spending sparks confidence as its likely to open new business opportunities in the market as well as increase house hold spending. "We are committed to deliver on our strategy and through endurance and tenacity, we remain optimistic of the future," she said.
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Marco Silva has been appointed as the new manager of Everton, the Premier League club has confirmed.
The Portuguese was close to being hired last November following the sacking of Ronaldo Koeman, but Everton ultimately turned to Sam Allardyce.
Everton comfortably avoided relegation under Allardyce's stewardship, but the Goodison Park faithful never warmed to the former England manager's brand of football and it was no surprise when he was sacked earlier this month.
Silva, who himself was sacked by Watford in January after a miserable run of results which followed the collapse of his Everton move, is reported to have signed a three-year deal.
'I'm really proud to be the new Everton manager,' Silva told evertontv. 'I'm excited and I'm really happy to take this big challenge for us as a club and for me as a manager.
'Iwant to express my thanks to Farhad, to the Chairman, to the Board of Directors and to Marcel as well for the confidence in my work. I know the huge history of Everton as a club and what the fans expect. I'm sure with everybody working together I will be ready for this challenge.
'We have a lot of work to do in this next month and it is important to prepare everything in the right way. But there will be even more important work to do from the start of pre-season into the first Premier League match of next season.
'I know what our fans expect – they expect results but not only results. I want our fans to be proud when they see our team on the pitch. I want them to feel that we are committed, that we are working hard and enjoying our football because that is important as well.'


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The cable TV news industry at 30 years: time to change the model that changed broadcast news?
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As the cable television news industry enters its fourth decade of existence, are cable TV news broadcasters doing everything they can to hold on to viewers, and prevent losing audience market share to the almost ubiquitous Internet? Framed around the 30th anniversary of the cable television news industry which began in 1980, with the founding of the Cable News Network (CNN), the uniqueness and appeal of 24 hour a day, always on news outlets, has resonated quite well with viewers. The ability of cable TV news outlets to report on "breaking news" at any time of the day from almost anywhere in the world, may be facing increasing challenges with the pervasiveness and ease at which audiences can access news anywhere and at any time via the Internet. Through research data collected from a multi-part survey and T-Test analysis of that data, this study provides results that audiences do watch cable TV news for breaking news, but also want content with greater depth and context that is lacking on these channels.


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Yesterday, I got a little caught up in getting ready for an exhibit I mounted today, a collection of works I call Pieced Reflections. After I got all the quilts trussed and panels safely cradled, I turned to my blog. In my fear and eagerness, I pushed the publish button while I was still editing.
This morning, on the road somewhere between Davis and Santa Cruz, I found out when my friend, Stacey, announced that she'd already received my latest post. "What?!!"
You guessed it; raw, unedited words. So if you ever wondered what a blog post looks like before it's done, you've seen one now. You'll find the edited version + image below.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Time for a New Direction
|Tulips, Alstromeria & Magnolias, ©2012, H. Hunter, 5" x 7 each, watercolor
As I've said, I wanted to consolidate my blog and my website. While I was thinking about this, the image of elementary school and impromptu jump rope games comes to mind. As the jump rope spun round and round, each girl would put her hands out, moving them in rhythm with the rope, waiting for that moment when it was just right to jump in.
I've been waiting for just that moment to change blog sites and it's arrived. My website+blog, http://hannahklaushunterarts.com/ is up and running. I've embarked on a new project; a year of watercolor. Each week I'll be posting fresh images and a few choice thoughts. (Like last week when I was trying to paint tulips and the darn things just blew open on me.)
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Inscribing a circle
I've been drawing circles since I was four, but my fascination with them as an art form dates back to to the 80's in front of an ashram in Oakland, CA, where, just outside the door, I saw a most astonishing drawing done in a rich array of vibrant colors all contained in a circle.
These circles, called rangolis, were done for religious or healing ceremonies. As an artist, I ached to be able to do something like this and after some investigation, came upon the mandala (the Sanskrit word for circle), an art form with a long history across many cultures. Like the rangoli, it is art created created for ritual purposes in a circular form and these days, also employed in art therapy.
So, while I've been painting, collaging, and inscribing these geometric discs for years, nothing could have prepared me for the excitement about the circle that recently burst upon the art scene in the form of Damian Hirst's spots.
I started poking around and pretty soon I discovered that I could make a distinction between a circle and a spot. It's strictly my interpretation, but the way I see it is that the spot is just that: a rounded mark or splotch made by foreign matter. It seems to have arrived in a rather casual manner.
The circle on the other hand is a closed line, something inscribed in which all the points on the line lie at the same distance from the center. It seems intentional, elegant, something that shows up in nature, but also something that 3 and 4-year olds begin drawing as they enter into the world of representation. The circle is one of the early building blocks.
I looked up on my studio wall, where all three current pieces are iterations of the circle, so I tried to dig a bit deeper to see what was so fascinating-- and, what keeps me returning to them as a form decade after decade.
I'm reminded of something that another blogger, Gwyneth Leech, said in a recent post, "Spots Before My Eyes...:""...there is the infinite variety of things, then there is an infinite variation of one thing." A circle suggests eternity (think of a ring), something bigger than myself, time layered upon itself, the pleasure in creating a multitude of variations on a theme.
The idea that each circle can both be the same yet different; it's own infinite, elegant universe is powerful. A 3-year taps into these infinite possibilities without fear or the preconceived notions of adults. When I began this post I thought that I'd be arguing for the integrity of the circle, but now that I've experienced spots and dots á la Hirst (and, for a great post on spots, see Joanne Mattera's "Connecting the Dots), I'm looking to get rid of some of my trepidation and preconceived notions, and hopefully, adopt some of the spot philosophy too.
I know that many of you have had fun in the studio with circles, spots and dots--if you have any stories or images you'd like to share I'd love to hear from you.
|Ritual rangoli done in powdered pigments
|New Years Mandala, ©2008, Hannah Hunter, Collage
I started poking around and pretty soon I discovered that I could make a distinction between a circle and a spot. It's strictly my interpretation, but the way I see it is that the spot is just that: a rounded mark or splotch made by foreign matter. It seems to have arrived in a rather casual manner.
|Spots tossed on a watercolor in the studio, photo by Amelia McSweeny
|Rose Colored Egg, ©1998, Hannah Hunter, Colored pencil
|Rice Bowl, ©2012, Hannah Hunter, Collage
|Zodiac Season, ©2010, Hannah Hunter, Collage
I know that many of you have had fun in the studio with circles, spots and dots--if you have any stories or images you'd like to share I'd love to hear from you.
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While looking for areas to take some photos, this spot opened up as if it were looking for me. The glimpse of the light peeked through the trees while driving past but only for a moment. This was the shot I was looking for. The wooded area was vast and wide but the light beamed through to make way for a safe entrance.
This reminds me of Ephesians 5:8…For you were once darkness, but now you are the LIGHT in the LORD. Live as children of LIGHT…
We, as Christians, draw power from God. We only need a spec of darkness for our light to shine. We live in a gigantic world with countless areas of darkness. I'm sure we all know someone who may need uplifted…a word of encouragement…a hug…laughter…or just a smile. We don't have to appear big to be effective. We just have to be ON and shining for others to see.
Let's be that illuminating influence to someone around us. Let's be the light!
May we Reflect, Renew and Revive
- That little 'LIGHT' (smartnesspersonified2307vany.wordpress.com)


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An ode to one of my favorite finds, the Hedgehouse Throwbed. These things are pretty much the softest most lovely cushions you can imagine and are good pretty much anywhere. My kids love to throw them on the floor and lay on them. I love them on the ends of beds or on sofas.
Or by the pool!
On swings…
And even better all stacked up.
Pretty much the best. And Hedgehouse is offering Look Linger Love readers 20% off orders with the code "LOOK20"! Good on throw beds, mini throw beds, cushions, and their amazing travel towels! Happy Shopping :)


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CHINA - Xian, Dunhuang, Urumqi, Kashgar. KYRGYZSTAN - Bishkek. UZBEKISTAN - Samarkand, Bukhara. TURKMENISTAN - Ashgabad. IRAN - Mashad, Isfahan. TURKEY- Istanbul. ITALY - Rome.
Crowns of honeysuckle and Hathor's horns, or maybe Islam's crescent moon, apsaras or flying celestials, and Buddha with crossed feet - a style that originated in Bamiyan in Afghanistan - or Buddha in graceful draped and flowing robes, a fashion directly borrowed from Ancient Greece. A stele with Arabic script in the Mosque of Xian, which itself looks like a Chinese temple complete with phoenix birds and dragons, balbals or funerary stones, near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, found across the vastness of Asia's steppes from China's Xinjiang province - formerly Chinese Turkestan - to Lake Van in eastern Turkey, the extent of nomadic cultures that used their superior horsemanship to create vast and powerful empires that endured from Genghis Khan until the Moguls.
The phoenix appears again in Bukhara, painted ceramic on the spandrel of the facade of Divanbegi's madrasa next to the peaceful, mulberry tree-fringed pool of Labi Hauz - for centuries Bukhara fell within Persia's purlieu and the pragmatic people of the plateau never did get quite so exercised about iconography even in religious buildings, although it is true that the madrasa was built as a caravanserai - that it is a madrasa is another tale.
Balbal with martini glass.....the first mixologist
Buddhism reached China from the west, from India and Central Asia, Nestorian Christianity went west to Iran and China because of suppression by the Byzantine Church, and Islam went west - not always by the sword, as is so often proclaimed, but largely by wandering sufis who were not always welcome at the courts of the caliphs for their unorthodox views. (Although a Muslim army did roundly defeat the Tang Emperor in 751AD, at the Battle of Talas in modern-day Kyrgystan, taking back Chinese craftsmen who made paper and gunpowder, to Baghdad where the craft spread to Europe.) Slaves and prisoners of defeated peoples were forced both eastwards and westwards and thus did knowledge spread. Manicheism - the state religion of the Uighur kingdom in the 8th century - died out in the 20th century from its beginnings in Iran in the 3rd century AD. Zoroastrianism flourished throughout Central Asia but disappeared except, ironically, in Iran where there is still a minority population with their own seat in parliament. Elements and symbols of all the religions have become intertwined in myth and legend handed down in remembered and forgotten facts, half-truths and memory. There is nothing like traveling the Silk Road to see the fluctuating confluence and overlap between East and West in art, architecture, culture, society and religion.
Ming walls and drum tower, Xian
The beginnings of the Silk Road - a term not coined until the late 19th century by Baron Richthofen, a German nobleman - were due not to trade but to politics, and in a way, it all began with the building of the Great Wall of China by the Qin Emperor Shi Huangdi in 214BC. China was a pastoral society that was constantly threatened by nomadic tribal raiders, excellent horsemen and archers who stormed in, plundered everything they could carry and rode off, and the only way China could defend itself was to build a wall to keep them out.
Although it was marginally effective, China lost so much in the way of men, horses and goods, that less than a century later Han Emperor Wudi realized that China needed more than a wall, it required political alliances to counter the nomads which the Chinese called Xiongdu, generally, if loosely, known as the Huns.
The Xiongdu who infiltrated China's western and northern borders, over time became powerful enough to push out another tribe, the Yuezhi, who became known as the Kushans, who eventually settled westwards in Bactria, or modern Afghanistan. In 138BC, thinking that the Yuezhi might be interested in forming an alliance with China against the Xiongdu, Wudi sent an emissary, Zhong Chan, to meet with them. Dutifully setting out from Xi'an with 99 men, Zhong Chan returned thirteen years later with only one other man and no political alliance, because the Yuezhi pragmatically said China was too far away to be of any use regarding their security since they were separated by the Xiongdu. Yet the efforts of Zhong Chan in opening up the outside world to China was the beginning of the Silk Road, because as he passed through the Ferghana Valley in today's south-eastern Uzbekistan, Zhong Chan discovered exceptional horses, and alfalfa which was excellent feed for them. China desperately wanted these horses to enable their horsemen to ride after the nomads whose horses were of superior quality to Chinese ponies, and to get them China bartered its silk.
Modern camel caravan; a Bactrian camel at the Singing Sands
Xian is a city of more than 10 million people. What I most like about it? The Ming walls, its traditional bell and drum towers, the Big Goose Pagoda, its excellent museum, its jewel of a mosque, and its dumplings for which it is justly famous. Apples and pomegranate orchards line the road to the Terracotta Warriors under a bleary grey sky. How China will tackle its smog may define it because pollution levels in cities are routinely 20 times higher than the accepted WHO level. Their second problem? I am convinced that every Chinese person has a smartphone, and a billion plus people using the internet at once has a dire effect as I discovered trying to open email; you might as well watch paint dry. My phone didn't work. It is all very well for techno-geeks and nerdy billionaires to tell us how connected we are as they roll out the next 'big thing', but we're not, not unless you travel with your own IT specialist - which, come to think of it, is an excellent idea, or are a bit nerdy yourself and with two clicks or screen taps can make it all work.
Dunhuang It is the harvest festival and moon cakes are the order of the day. I like the look of the magenta bean curd one which tastes OK but I confess it will not make me renounce chocolate torte. Still, we have fireworks and dancing girls and a full moon and the desert - twinkling stars in a velvet sky and sharp night air. I wonder how much camels sell for? They have feet the size of chargers and manes you could spin a kilim from and I never understand why people are not as enamored of these strangely lovable beasts as I. You could never just buy one however because who would it follow?
A puce-colored mooncake
Urumqi We come to see the mummies - tall, red-haired dessicated figures from the 3rd centry BC dug up from the desert of Taklamakan. A re-constructed figure, the 'Loulan Beauty', is striking - even now she would be considered beautiful; tall and slender with green eyes. Where did these Indo-European people come from? Xinjiang province or more accurately, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, is surrounded by Mongolia to the north-east, Russia to the north, Kazakhstan to the north-west, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the west, India and Tibet to the south, and the rest of China to the east. The Tien Shan mountains cuts the province in two from west to east, creating the Tarim basin to the south and the Dzungaria Basin to the north where the Altai mountain range forms the border with Russia and Mongolia, the Kunlun range separates it from India and Tibet, the Karakorum mountains separates it from Pakistan and the Hindu Kush separates it from Afghanistan - it is an armchair traveler's dream. Urumqi itself, a modern city of high-rises and 8 million people, has little to commend it although it has the distinction of being the most land-locked city on earth.
Urumqi from my hotel room window
Kasghar was once a desert oasis which becomes ever harder to discern because it is a 'special development area' and growth churns on unabated. The city still has a statue of Mao, the largest mosque in China, the Id Kah, and a vast open-air livestock market where yaks, camels, cattle, bulls, goats and fat-tailed sheep (or as Abdul-Qayyum indelicately named them, 'fat-arsed cheep') are bought and sold to await their fate. Rickety food stalls at the edge of this entreprenurial extravaganza are festooned with tripe, glassy-eyed sheep's heads, ropes of intestines, flanks of beef, loins of lamb and mountains of yellow fat from the pendulous, wobbling buttocks of the afore-mentioned sheep. Next to them are beaded donkey harnesses, woven leather donkey whips, and camel bells shaped like scrotums. Sage grey-beards in long coats and dopa, their traditional little hats, wander around hands behind their back gravely inspecting proceedings.
Kashgar's Sunday Bazzar, the livestock market
The day we left Kashgar a sandstorm hit which followed us all the way to Kyrgyzstan across the Turugart Pass. But the day after that the skies were blue; the whole population of Kyrgyzstan is less than half the population of Urumqi, and the Kyrgyz joke that the Chinese will take them over one day just to breathe clean air.......It's not that funny, the former Soviet Union used to send its party appartachiks to take the warm restorative waters of Lake Issyk-kul, just outside of Bishkek.....


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Langley Drainage Service and Repair
Do you notice large areas of standing water after a heavy rain? Maybe you're thinking about next storm season, and how it's going to affect your home and yard. Regardless, improper drainage can damage your foundation and decrease property value.
The structural integrity of your home can be compromised by drainage-related foundation problems, so it's critical that you implement a proper drainage system to reduce moisture in crawl spaces and avoid severe flooding issues in the basement.
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At High Mark Plumbing in Langley, we can quickly identify and repair your drainage problems. We specialize in professional drainage installation, repair, and services. Our highly-trained team can recognize potential problems early on and offer reasonable solutions to lessen or eliminate the problems completely.
Whether at home or at the office, drainage issues shouldn't be ignored. Give us a call at High Mark Plumbing in Langley, today, and let us address your water and drainage issues before structural damage gets the better of you.


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It is less than 3 weeks until school starts now! Logan will start 2 weeks from Thursday. Next week, we'll get to go see the school for the first time, meet his teachers and learn everything we need to know. Jaycee doesn't start until the second week of September.
Last night, we started putting the kids in bed early. They went to bed last night at 9:00. During the school year it will be 8:30. I got up at 6:00 this morning, which will be my morning time during the school year. I let Logan sleep in until 8:30 this morning. We'll be subtracting minutes each day until he can wake at 7:00 for the school year. He'll be riding the bus for the first time this year and they'll expect us to be out there 10 minutes before the scheduled time (which should be fun once it starts snowing). And he's a bear to wake on most days. Today, he did fine at 8:30.
I read in one of my family/parenting magazines~~unfortunately, I can't remember which one right now~~about having a block party to get kids to wake up early. Everyone on the block wakes up and meets at one family's house and has breakfast. Then they alternate houses each day for a week. They all stay in their pajamas and it's a fun way to get kids back in the "Back to School" spirit! Sounds kind of cool. But, we don't live in that kind of neighborhood anymore.
Do you guys do anything special to help kids get back into the routine for Back to School?


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If your aircraft have a digital flight-data recorder then
it is quite possible for you to use downloads from that device
for your FDM program. However, FDRs can be difficult to
access and the requirement for a download unit (and
specialised training) can make this option impracticable for
daily (or even weekly) downloads.
Please note that it is not
acceptable to use data downloaded from tape-based recorders
for routine FDM since these devices are not designed for
regular download and their use in this way will almost
certainly cause premature failure of the FDR.
If your
aircraft are already equipped with optical or card-based
recorders then you can safely ignore the rest of this
section. Optical QARs have a reputation for poor
reliability and slow download but it is probably better to
delay any hardware purchase until the need arises (i.e. you
start losing too much data or run out of patience waiting for
downloads to complete).
In 90% of cases we have
experienced, clients have opted for one of two so-called
'micro' or 'mini' QAR solutions. These devices are
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Boeing aircraft, they can simply be plugged in to an existing
connector on the flight-deck. For other aircraft, the
suppliers (or Aerobytes) will be able to supply the QARs with
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there are several suppliers of QARs, and the Aerobytes
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Recycled Art Projects on Dolphins for Kids
Dolphins are intelligent marine mammals, ranging in size from 90 pounds to 11 tons, according to Dolphins-world.com 2. There are 36 identified species of dolphins -- 32 of these species live in the ocean while four live in rivers. Introduce your children to this remarkable animal and teach them about recycling by making recycled dolphin crafts 1.
Paper Mache
Make an easy paper mache dolphin from a paper towel tube, toilet paper tube, masking tape and paint. The paper towel tube creates the body while the toilet paper tube create the tail and fins. To make the tail and fins, cut the toilet paper tube in half lengthwise. Flatten both halves of the tube. Draw the tail on one and the fins on the other. Cut the tail and fins from the tube. Tape the tail and fins on the paper towel tube to create a long, skinny dolphin. Paper mache the entire project using a paper mache solution made with one part flour to two parts water. Dip strips of paper in the solution and place them on the dolphin in a criss-cross pattern. Continue to add paper mache layers to create the shape of the dolphin with a long, rounded nose. Paint with gray paint. Add eyes, mouth and a blow hole to complete the project.
Sock Puppet
Make a dolphin sock puppet from an old gray sock and gray felt. Cut the gray felt to resemble the back dorsal fin and the two side fins. Hand sew or hot glue the felt to the sock in similar locations as a dolphin's fins. Hand sew or hot glue black buttons to the toe end of the sock for eyes. An easy way to determine fin and eye placement is to put the sock on your hand. Mark the area for the fins and eyes with a disappearing sewing marker or pencil. When you remove the sock from your hand, the fabric shrinks to the original size. The marks are in the proper location for placement of the eyes and fins.
Make a moving dolphin mobile from construction paper cutouts or ocean pictures from an old magazine. Add eyes and a mouth with a marker. Locate a dolphin shape from a color book, the Internet or draw one of your own. Create a mobile with multiple cut-outs, with a minimum of three. Cut the center from the lid of a large ice cream container. Tie the cut-outs evenly around the rim with string or fishing line. Fishing line will appear invisible and make the dolphins look like they are swimming. Space three strings evenly between the dolphins to create a hanger for the top.
Children will enjoy making a dolphin mask with a round lid from a large ice cream container. Cover the surface with gray paint or gray construction paper. Make the snout with a cone of gray construction paper or the top third of a plastic bottle. Cover the plastic bottle with gray paint or construction paper. Tape or hot glue the nose to the bottom center of the paper plate. Add eye holes and the mask is complete.
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At age ninety-seven, General Kyung-soon Chang, Chairman of the Korea National Senate, is the leader of Korean patriots who took to the streets to save the Republic of Korea from falling into Communist hands. General Chang served as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry From 1961 to 1963, pioneering Korea's world-famous reforestation effort. From 1963 through 1972, he was Vice Speaker of the Korean National Assembly. In 1970, General Chang single-handedly saved his country from mortal danger by thwarting the then US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's covert operation to incrementally withdraw the US troops from South Korea.
General Chang is a distinguished war hero who fought alongside his American brothers-in-arms against Communist China and North Korea in the Korean War. He braved the most dangerous combat zones, believing that it was his destiny to die fighting for his country because God saved him from a meaningless death in China when he was pressed into military service by the Japanese Empire during the Asia-Pacific War, the theater of World War II that was fought in the Asia-Pacific region.
General Chang saved his country from Communism twice. First, on May 16, 1961, General Chang made a decisive contribution to the successful execution of General Chung-hee Park's bloodless coup, which saved his country from the collapse being engineered by South Korean Communist sympathizers after President Syngman Rhee resigned in 1960. General Chang aroused to action General Park who became disheartened after learning that his plan was leaked, mobilized key personnel to join the cause, and persuaded the Chiefs of Staffs of the Korean Armed Forces into supporting the coup.
Upon taking power in the 1961 coup that was supported by a vast majority of the people, General Chung-hee Park, who became the President of South Korea in 1963, launched a series of ambitious and far-sighted economic development plans that lasted until his death in 1979 and that eventually transformed South Korea into one of the biggest success stories of the 20th century. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry under General Park from 1961 to 1963, General Chang initiated the wildly successful reforestation effort that eventually earned Korea the distinction of being "the only developing country in the world that has succeeded in reforestation since the Second World War," according to the 1982 report of FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization).
The second chance for General Chang to save his country came in 1970, when he was the first person to detect a surreptitious and incremental withdrawal of the US troops from South Korea. This plan was hatched by Henry Kissinger, who wanted to hand over South Korea to Communist China, thereby weakening American leadership in the world and eventually subjugating the world populace to tyranny. Accompanied only by his assistant, General Chang flew to America and crushed this sinister attempt by informing and persuading, one by one, the US Congressional leadership who had been blindsided by Kissinger.
General Chang retired from politics right after the assassination of President Chung-hee Park in 1979, but he returned to the forefront of battles against Communism in 2002, when he saw that his country was under attack from within by the Communists headed by Dae-jung Kim and Moo-hyun Roh. General Chang is internationally recognized for his leadership in the fight for protecting freedom in South Korea. On June 28, 2011, General Chang, as President of the Korean National Movement for the Protection of Freedom, spoke at IWP, the Institute of World Politics, on the topic of "The Nuclear Security of the Korean Peninsula and the Expanding Chinese Challenges to US Global Roles." IWP is a graduate school of national security and international affairs in Washington D.C., where U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis gave a speech on May 19, 2018.
Since the fraudulent impeachment of President Geun-hye Park that began in 2016, General Chang has again risked his life to restore liberty and justice being crippled by fake president Jae-in Moon, who usurped power through unconstitutional impeachment and election fraud. General Chang declared Jae-in Moon's fake-presidency and vowed to end the crisis in Korea no matter what. He knows that the very existence of the Korean republic is at stake.
On June 13, 2018, Mr. Jung-tae Kim, a seventy-seven-year-old chief of staff to General Chang, began a fast to awaken Korean conscience, oust fake president Jae-in Moon, and reinstate President Geun-hye Park. As promised at the outset, Mr. Kim not only persevered until July 10, the 28th day of his fast but also made thunderous speeches in a public rally held on the 22nd day. Mr. Kim firmly believes that God will intervene to save his beloved country from destruction. May God save the Republic of Korea, His precious present to the Korean people and, indeed, to the world.


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Monday, April 21, 2014
Moonee Ponds Methodist Football Club, 1914
Recruiting agents typically aimed at young sportsmen to fill their quota, and at least two of these young footballers joined up, and probably others. If you can identify any of the faces in this photo, please get in touch. You can see the present identifications here
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Australian Red Cross Centenary, 2014
|Four lady Red Cross officials at No 5 Australian General Hospital at St Kilda. Australian War Memorial Collection H18704.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Christmas tins at Mena Camp, 1915
Driver Robert Allan Bunning (right) enjoys 7th Inf Bn Christmas Dinner
25 Dec 1914 at Mena Camp. The photographer was Harry Barker.
Australian War Memorial collection. http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/J05573
Nearly 100 years ago, local digger, Robert Bunning of Moonee Ponds sat down to Christmas dinner with a tin of goodies to enjoy. Now Driver Bunning is on the front of a tin of goodies himself. Perhaps the biggest treat back then was a bath, a shave, and a clean set of clothes. It would have been a very mixed celebration in 1915.
Thank you Marilyn for the tip!
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The 9 Baseline Criteria & 3 Behavioral Science Criteria for Adoption, Utilization and Long-term Engagement
In addition to the 9 Baseline Criteria below, I focused on 3 Behavioral Science Factors of Long-Term Engagement.
In addition to the more well-known factors that influence adoption, there are many other lesser-known behavioral factors that are as important – or perhaps more so – to longterm sustained engagement. These factors are less understood and, in most cases, not taken into consideration by companies moving into the wearables space, either with their own devices or with products and services that leverage wearables.
As the market develops and the opportunities and challenges grow, these more nuanced issues will be the ones that can make or break a product. But how can companies know before launch whether a product or service will succeed? The answers to questions about what will encourage or inhibit long-term sustained engagement can be found in the field of behavioral science.
Human behavior is infinitely complex and in many ways, we are just beginning to understand what makes us do what we do. The mechanisms that govern habit formation, motivation, and how we perceive progress are particularly important for sustained engagement.
Key Factor #1: Habit Formation – Sustained engagement with a wearable device or complementary service depends on its ability to help the user form and stick with new habits.
Key Factor #2: Social Motivation – A) Social support B) Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory of Learning C) Health Connections
Key Factor #3: Goal Reinforcement – To achieve sustained engagement, a user needs to experience a feeling of progress toward defined goals.
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You must include user access to the data under the API, not just access to "other services".
Users must have full access to all of their data in a standard interoperable format. Otherwise, it is just a walled garden and of very limited usefulness.


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I had grand dreams of raised beds when I bought my little house nearly five years ago. (Holy moly has it really been that long?! Why, yes, yes it has…)
Then mom and I revamped my "hill garden" (which reminds me–I should take more photos of it! The plants are really taking off!)… and then I thought I was going to sell my house, so why put in beds that I wouldn't be able to enjoy?… and then we decided NOT to sell.
Finally, I figured why not put in some raised gardens?! I wanted to plant some dahlias to use for wedding flowers (and just because I love them… and had a bunch leftover from planting them at my parents') and really want to be able to harvest my own veggies!
I bought the lumber, John dug out the sod and put them together, and we lined them with plastic (to keep the chemicals from the treated lumber from leaching into the soil and eventually our veggies)…
and we had soil delivered (it was a neighborhood event!)…
We planted lots of dahlias in the first bed (maybe too many…), then a row of dahlias in the second (because I couldn't help it) and left room for these seeds we picked up at the Chimacum Corner Farmstand!
Super Savoy Spinach, Lemon Cucumber, Lively Locals Lettuce Mix, Atomic Red Carrots, Sugar Snap Peas, and Chioggia Beets! They're all heirloom seeds, so I should be able to collect some of the seeds to use next year. (I need to read up on that to make sure I do it right.) I also grabbed a zucchini start. The one piece of advice my neighbor gave me: you only need one zucchini plant.
I planted the seeds on Monday morning… I'd take a photo, but it looks a lot like the photo of the beds with dirt. A bit more level, with divots where the dahlias are and tiny ridges for the other seeds… and the lone zucchini start. I still need to figure out something to use as a trellis for the peas to climb.
I am SO EXCITED to harvest my own veggies. It's not a huge garden, but it's a start… five years in the making!