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Diamond Rulers
Designed by quilters, for quilters, these diamond templates are great for all types of projects.
Cut perfect diamonds every time with these clear acrylic templates. Each template includes easy-to-read black markings. Great for creating stars!
- The 45 (degree) has markings to cut diamonds ranging in size from 1" to 4".
- The 60 (degree) has markings to cut diamonds ranging in size from 1" to 4 1/2".
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TÚS is a community placement initiative providing quality, short-term suitable work opportunities for people who are unemployed. It also provides services which benefit local communities.
The Department of Social Protection is responsible for the TÚS programme nationally and Waterford Area Partnership is responsible for the roll out of the programme in Waterford City.
Aims of TÚS
TÚS aims to provide participants with;
- Quality work placements
- The Opportunity to learn new skills
- The Opportunity to build on previous experience
- The Opportunity to work in areas where previous experience and skills exist
- A boost in confidence to get back to work
- The chance to be placed in work areas where previous experience and skills exist
Waterford Area Partnership Ltd is also seeking Community and Voluntary organisations to provide quality work opportunities in the delivery of services. (The participants on the Scheme will be sourced by the Department of Social Protection and must be continuously unemployed for at least 12 months and signing on a full time basis and in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit or Jobseekers Allowance).
Work opportunities within Communities/Organisations will be selected that:
1. Do not displace existing commercial activity or duplicate service provision by another agency
2. Is of sufficient quality
3. Makes a meaningful contribution within communities
4. Supports voluntary effort
Community & Voluntary organisations should contact Waterford Area Partnership Ltd on 051 841740 for further information or download an Expression of Interest Form by clicking here.
This project is supported by the Department of Social Protection, which is funded by the Irish Government.

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Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport terminal maps
Navigate your way around CDG airport,
here you'll find maps with with locations of boarding gates, facilities and services.
Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport has three passenger terminals : T1, T2, T3.
Terminal 2 complex consists of seven sub-terminals (listed 2A to 2G) + the TGV-RER railway station.
If you are not sure which terminal you need visit our terminal info page.
Further information :
Guide for Arriving passengers
Guide for Departing passengers
Maps Terminal 1
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Maps Terminal 2
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Terminal 2C
Terminal 2D
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Terminal 2F
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Italian Level 1A+B
Ciao Brisbane!
New to Italian study? This course is your ticket to learning real Italian! In lessons of this Italian course you will practise everyday conversation, reading and writing. Learn about the Italian-speaking world! Interactive Italian classes and qualified tutors will help you master the basics and prepare for further Italian study.
Course outline
See our Italian Level 1 course outline (PDF).
Course textbook
Bultrini, P. & Graziani, F. New Italian Espresso - Beginner and Pre-intermediate Textbook + DVD. Alma Edizioni. (Units 1-5). (ISBN: 9788861823549)


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A common goal for businesses' is to expand and communicate to larger audiences. One of the best ways to get your message out there is through professional translation services.
It is already challenging enough to understand someone due to language barriers, but when a person who is translating is not professionally trained, the language tends to be much less precise than when a professional is hired. There are several factors that need to be taken into account to effectively appeal to larger audiences, understanding cultural differences, provide certified quality and specialization as well as difficult technical translation. The article below describes the benefits your business will receive from utilizing translation services as a strategic tool for communicating to various audiences effectively.
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Understanding Cultural Differences
Being able to reach a large audience is the first step but being able to understand the cultural differences is a different matter entirely. Simply translating content doesn't mean the message will be the same for different cultures. A professional translation service will be able to provide you with the knowledge and capability to effectively translate the content appropriately to all audiences you are trying to reach. Also, difficulties may occur when trying to provide the correct dialect. For example, Spanish is spoken in a wide variety of countries but a professional company can assign the proper linguists for more specific dialects from Argentina. It's of the utmost important that dedication is taken to ensure content is translated to fit the differences of each culture.
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*full write up on Venice w/ suggestions and itineraries coming soon!
When people think of Florence, they think of art, the Renaissance, the longstanding history of this quaint town, and for good reason! Florence is the home to the Duomo (an unbelievably beautiful cathedral), the Uffizi gallery which holds pieces from Botticelli and da Vinci, and the Accademia which proudly displays the world famous David statue of Michelangelo. A city with world renowned architecture, art, history and of course charm, Florence was the city I was least excited for and surprisingly the city I loved the most. I may not return to Venice and if I return to Rome, I would have to do so many things we didn't have time for the first time, but I will continually live over and over the exact trip we had in Florence and I can't wait to go back and love on this city again.
Being located basically in the countryside, Florence is known for it's rural surroundings and what they can tap into nearby. It went through a phase where it lost all of it's wealth because…well I don't remember…but they weren't sent the nicest foods, so they made do with what they had – i.e. local crops and livestock. Now due to that, Florence is the go-to for steak (known as Florentine Steak), bean soup, chianti wine, and leather bags/jackets/etc, you name it. Definitely the place to invest in a nice leather coat or wallet or original handbag if you want a genuine Italian piece that isn't $2500 from Gucci or Prada. OH and for those pasta lovers (or as I like to call them, humans), this is the city to enjoy some meat sauces/ragu's/bolognese dishes. THE BEST I've had!!! And now I'm salivating.
I would quite literally move to Florence if ever given the chance…
<<Please refer to my page about general Italy travel tips ** COMING SOON ** regarding currency, language, converters, etc. because I won't be outlining these below. I also outline our general trip itinerary if you need to reference that!>>
OK SO let me start out by saying that we took the 11am train from Venice to Florence which took about an hour and a half, totally affordable, beautiful scenic view, and actually impressive food on board for great prices!! Even better were the assigned seats so you knew that no matter what, you had a seat and didn't have to elbow any children in the jaw to sit down. I mean…what?
We got into Florence with a bit of a mist in the air but thankfully I had my waterproof smock to cover my outfit and keep me warm and dry until we got to our Airbnb. WHICH BY THE WAY EVERYBODY SHOULD STAY AT – PERFECT location. PERFECT hosts. GORGEOUS space. AND THEY LEFT US LITTLE BOTTLES OF WINE omg I wanted to move in. Our neighborhood was heaven – it was the coolest little non-touristy area of Florence called Santa Maria Novella which, after some digging, found out that this was actually one of the best parts of Florence to be! Um, score? We were super close to the train station (maybe a 10ish minute walk), right by the city center, close to the Ponte Vecchio – basically we couldn't have been in a better spot. Not to mention some of the best restaurants in all of Florence were on our block OH and that Botticelli used to live on our block too! IM SORRY BUT THAT'S SO CRAZY.
Our first day of Florence, despite the on and off misty "rain", was one planned to be an outdoors one and we hit the ground runnin. We walked over the Ponte Vecchio – a famous bridge with gold/jewelry shops lining the sides with beautiful jewels and gold and views on either side of the bridge of the amazing landscape of Venice.
After the bridge, there's a walkway not far that you follow and arrive at Pitti Palace, which was home to the Medici family in the 1500s. If you haven't read about the Medici family, their rule and their influence, it's fascinating actually (for you history buffs). Think the Kardashians but double the amount of people, 10x the money and actual political control. This family RULED hard for CENTURIES (like, they ruled so hard that they had 4 family members become popes, they were the wealthiest family in all of EUROPE at one point, they had family members marry into royalty all over Europe, etc) and ended up losing everything including their rein, dynasty, etc … as well as their palace.
Today the Pitti Palace (or Palazzo Pitti) houses some of the original paintings, gowns, furniture, etc. that the Medici family owned and is known as one of the largest museums of treasures in the world. With all that wealth, you can imagine the china, the decadent furnishings, the closets that this family has and to know that it's all in this massive estate is unbelievable. It was unfortunately closed the day we went but thankfully, the Boboli Gardens out back were open that we got to visit. And…wow…thank goodness it was misty and chilly or I would have found a way to live in those gardens forever! So beautiful and worth seeing!!!! The grounds are stunning and to think this was a family's backyard makes me overwhelmingly jealous…
After finding out it was just a quick walk over the bridge (on a map it looks FAR!), we walked back over and went to check out the famed Duomo…and oh….my….god. This cathedral is…beyond. After coming from St Marks in Venice, I thought nothing could top it until I saw this building – it was MASSIVE. INSANELY OVERWHELMINGLY MASSIVE. …just like the line to get in…so okay! We saw it and we noted that we will return to the Duomo on a different morning early enough to snag a good spot in line and enter in to see the beauty that is. That night, we took the advice of the locals to find a handwritten Italian menu for a restaurant that is filled with Italians and OH my gosh did we luck out!! We stumbled upon Osteria Belle Donne and, in my opinion, was the best meal of the trip. Details on my food recommendations coming soon.
The next day was one I had been counting down until for WEEEEEKS before leaving. My amazing and wonderful sister + brother in law (I still don't understand how "in law" titles work so idk if that's grammatically correct") bought us an excursion to wine country Tuscany to explore some vineyards in the Chianti region as part of our birthday present and omg this day was HEAVEN. Besides the manic 10 minutes we had trying to find the meeting place for the tour at the bus stop, we had quite the easy time and boarded a bus of another 20 or so English speaking Americans and went on our merry way. And WHOA. I truly honestly don't believe I've ever seen such a beautiful landscape than the Tuscan countryside…insane, honestly. We tried so hard to take pictures for you guys but it's so much more to stand there and see the expansive landscape and take it in, it truly doesn't do it justice, but hope it helps.
We visited a smaller region in Chianti and learned about what truly makes a "CHIANTI" which basically means it has to come from this region (to know it's a certified good one, the label on the front should clearly say D.O.C.G.!!! Just so you know 😊) and sampled some different olive oils. Never in my life have I wanted to drink a glass of oil, but I was tempted. I DIDN'T THOUGH I just wanted to with every cell of my body.
Next we went to the Santa Margherita vineyard and UMMMM THIS IS LIKE ONE OF MY FAVORITE WINES SO I KIND OF HAD A PANIC MOMENT OF EXCITEMENT. They had such a beautiful expansive and massive facility, I was truly impressed! Also, I couldn't believe it but they never heard the Drake song where he says "we got Santa Margherita by the liter" – but now they have, yes everyone who works there, and I really feel as though I've left my mark on this world in a really special way. I've done my job.
Anyway, I've visited wineries, beautiful wineries, but to do so with my momma in Tuscany where Chianti is from and also to see where one of my favorite wines is created ??? Absolute heaven. Best birthday present by far. That night once we got back around 7pm, we headed to the square near our apartment that had outdoor dining (and heaters!! It gets cold at night in April!) and had an okay meal at Trattoria al Trebbio. I say okay because it's not like either of us were floored with our food and they completely forgot about my order. RUDE. Whatever it happens.
THE BEST THING happened though – and not the Limoncello they brought as an apology which I definitely loved. The waiter mayyyyy have been flirting with me a little bit and invited me to come out with his friends to a little pub around the corner. I thought – no way! I'm with my mom! So we headed back, my mom fell asleep almost immediately and I was wide awake and decided…ya know what? I'm going to that pub to find the hot waiter who made out with my face when we took a picture. Evidence:
So I woke up Debs, told her I was leaving, and headed out to find this group of friends and my future husband who lives in Florence. BUT I COULDN'T FIND THIS FREAKIN PUB. So I'm just walkin around like a loser in the streets of Florence, still WIDE awake and though – whatever, I'll just go in this bar, it looks nice and it says "piano bar" so that could be fun?
I walked in and the place is EMPTY except for 3 QUITE older gentleman (2 of which clearly worked there and a man at the bar) in this absolutely beautiful modern place. Navy walls, beautiful mirrored columns, silver bar, glass chandeliers, I felt like I was in a new-age art deco moment…on top of the fact that these three men completely stopped what they were doing when I walked in, making me totally deer-in-headlights. "Ummmmm are you guys open??" all three of them went to work making me a little spot at the bar and the oldest of them Mario spoke very good English for being an Italian. Turns out his wife is from New York City, the older gentleman patron at the bar was from TULSA OKLAHOMA and working in Florence for a bit, and the other man was a bartender. Mario basically opened this bar for fun when he retired and was HYSTERICAL, we became fast friends. He has no idea if the bar even makes money, but he loves to have it and people in the area love it too. We even found out that he lives 2 doors down from where we were staying so we were neighbors! It was fate. I loved him and I stayed for hours talking to these older men about life and growing up and love and travel and … you name it. To be honest, so much better than a bunch of dumb 25 year olds with beers in a pub. This experience was much more special and Louis now my best friend k bye.
On our last day, we had every intention of visiting the Duomo early in the morning to get in line and get in on time, but we needed to sleep in and thought we might be able to stop in on our way to see David at Galleria d'Accademia (since it was on the way from our place) where we had tickets for around noon. Sadly, we found that the line was MASSIVE even pretty early in the morning (like 930ish!) so big note here that you should definitely plan to get there around 8am to forego a line. Since we lost our shot at the Duomo, we decided to drown our sorrows with a massive calzone at 10am (we may have ordered tiramisu also but decided last minute to not…) cause WHY NOT. Let me just say, getting tickets to the David statue was so smart, we literally just walked right in while other people all had to wait in forever long lines in the misty rain and chilly temps. IF I CAN STRESS ANYTHING ABOUT OUR TRIP: BUYING ALL OF OUR TICKETS AHEAD OF TIME SAVED US HOURS UPON HOURS UPON HOURS JUST DO IT I BEG YOU. K I'm done. Seeing David was AMAZING and omgggg I thought it was going to be the lamest thing ever. Why are people so obsessed with a statue? There are plenty in the world? Why is this one so special? Well not only is this carved out of such a difficult-to-use marble that it had been discarded by 4 other artists who wanted nothing to do with it, but it's also beautifully and perfectly done, in regards to proportion and just a general study of the body. I mean, there are like veins and muscles tensed up and all of this done with MARBLE. It's pretty incredible!
After David, we basically had the rest of the day to get lost in Florence! We meandered all around the city getting lost and googling different Wikipedia pages about where we were, what it meant, what the importance was of that place, etc. It fascinated me, well us, that we were just walkin around eatin gelato where emporers and famous people of centuries ago also had been. It's strange to think that someday someone will look back and study our time like what we do is totally archaeic while we think the life we have is so technological and advanced. They may have felt the same and they didn't even have iPhones! idiots. Im kidding clearly.
We decided against the Uffizi gallery, mainly because we were DYING to go to the Piazzelle Michelangelo and we were ready for some pizza and vino and a caprese salad. But also, because you truly need to dedicate a full day to this gallery and neither of us were being pulled heart and soul into it so we moved on. The Piazelle Michelangelo is basically this cliff that overlooks Florence and Momma Debs was not particularly pumped about the trek upward because of the steep stairs and I was being a downer because of the rain. So we stopped in a tiny little café with an Italian man playing American pop music from the 90s who gave us FULL glasses of wine for 3 euros a pop, and we just sat at one of his 2 tables in his teeny tiny spot and had some drinks while we rejuvenated.
Once the rain stopped, and a couple glasses deep, we mustered up the courage to make moves up the hill. It wasn't horrible I swear but Debs was not a fan of my idea to basically work out for 30 minutes before we see this view. I kept reminding her though "THERE IS WINE AT THE TOP. MOVE YOUR ASS WOMAN" and if you know me, you know that I actually did probably say those words lol my mom gave me a lot of "Eff you's" and warned me of all the ways she felt she was going to die while marching up the steep stairs BUT THEY WERENT THAT BAD GUYS I just come from a family of overdramatic people. Oh and also – the view was magnifico. Like stunning. Overwhelmingly beautiful. To be able to see such an expansive view of city and architecture and rolling hills, etc from this height was one of the most memorable parts of the trip. Even if you were in Florence for one day, I would suggest you go – that's how beautiful it was!!
The best part – well 1 of 2 best parts – was that there was a restaurant at the top of this cliff! My initial thought was, "man this place is going to be unbelieeeeeevably expensive to capitalize on all the people who desperately need to eat and don't want to head back down to do so" but it was legitimately the same prices as in town!! Totally affordable, outdoor dining, incredible food with a view you won't ever forget. You MUST eat at the top if you go, because you will never have such an affordable mean in you life with a view like that along with it.
After dinner, I convinced (aka annoyingly begged and poked and prodded) Momma Debs into going back to Gilo with me so that I could introduce her to Mario and my new Florence friends. I walked in and they immediately gave me huge hugs, and remembered EVERYHTING I told them about my mom – her name, that we have the same birthday in a couple days, that shes from St Louis but lives in Raleigh – I couldn't believe it!! We had another bowl of pasta because #yolo and chatted with them for hours … again. We are now family to the Gilo restaurant in Florence so if you ever go back and meet my friend Mario, tell him you know me because I wish I could visit him all the time. (to put a face with a name, he looked kind of like Charlie's grandpa from the original Willy Wonka movie…just don't tell him that…)
The next day we left for Rome! At 6am no less so we definitely didn't have any morning stories I could share with you. Florence was our favorite city and we really should've stayed one more day, but… I guess now we know right? ON TO ROME AND OUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONNSSSSS!!! Not to mention one of the most incredible things I've ever experienced in my entire life….you ready?


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How do I initiate a scanner?
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How do I initiate a scanner?
Last edited by bChEos; February 7th, 2010 at 05:00 PM.
You must create a new Scanner (or use some method to create one for you).
Here's a basic scanner on the console input:
Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);


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Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome to our Frequently Asked Questions page. Here you will find answers to some of the more commonly asked questions from our students and clients. If there are any questions that you have that are not answered below or if you wish to have further clarification on any items then feel free to contact us and one of our friendly staff will be happy to help.
Start Training Locations and Facilities
Start Training have multiple locations around Melbourne. Our primary facility is located at Unit 3, 1825 Ferntree Gully Road, VIC. You can find our building behind Burdens Plumbtec (the large blue building). We conduct Forklift, Order Picker, Working at Heights, Elevated Work Platform and White Card courses at our Ferntree Gully facility.
Start Training Earth Works division is located at 7 Hayward Road, Ferntree Gully, VIC just a short distance from our primary facility on Ferntree Gully Road. We conduct all our earth works training from 7 Hayword Road which is equipped with outdoor facilities that allow us to train the various plant we have.
Our Sunshine West training centre is located at 16 Enterprise Way, Sunshine West and we also conduct Working at Heights, Confined Space, Elevated Work Platform, White Card and Yellow Card courses at our Sunshine West training centre.
We have multiple types of Forklifts available for training our students including gas and battery powered forklifts. We also have Order Pickers, Counterbalance Forklifts and Reach Forklifts ensuring that you get maximum exposure to the many varieties of forklifts available.
At all our locations we offer free tea, coffee, biscuits and a selection of breakfast foods including cereals, toast, fresh fruit and spreads. Our students are welcome to use these provisions free off charge.
Ferntree Gully Facility
A food truck visits Start Training's Ferntree Gully Road facility every weekday (Monday to Friday) at 9.45am. This service offers a wide range of hot and cold food and snacks including sandwiches, pies, fruit, confectionery and drinks.
We have a large fridge that is free to be used by our students if they wish to bring their own food for the time they are with us.
We have vending machines located in our Ferntree Gully Road facility featuring a selection of drinks and snacks. The drinks vending machine serves Coca Cola, energy drinks and coffee milk amongst others and can accept coins, card (pay pass) and notes. We also have a snack machine serving a variety of chips and confectionery which is coin operated only.
There are a number of shops and takeaways within a short distance of our Ferntree Gully facility including bakeries located at the Mountain Gate shopping centre, Red Rooster, On It Burgers, McDonalds, Subway and KFC. If you are unsure about their locations one of our friendly staff can direct you.
Hayward Road Facility
At our Hayward Road facility we have a coin operated chilled drinks machine serving a small selection of soft drinks including Coca Cola.
There is a McDonalds located approximately 5 minutes walk away from our Hayward Road facility and within a short driving distance Mountain Gate shopping centre, Red Rooster, On It Burgers, Subway and KFC.
Sunshine West Facility
At our Sunshine West facility there is a cafe just 50 meters walk from our front door that sells a variety of fresh sandwiches, hot food and drinks at a very reasonable price. You are welcome to keep any food purchases on site within our kitchen facilities and make use of our fridges, kitchen benches and other applicances.
Class Information
Generally our classes begin at 8.00am each day Monday through to Saturday. Some of our classes begin slightly earlier at 7.30am, you will be informed of your class start time via a booking confirmation and a confirmation SMS sent to you a few days prior to your class.
Yes, we offer ample breaks throughout the day. An initial break is provided at 9.45am at which time a food van visits our Ferntree Gully location. Lunch and other shorter regular breaks are provided throughout the day.
We provide all safety equipment necessary for your course including hi-vis vest and hard-hats where applicable. All you need to bring is a sturdy pair of shoes (no thongs please) and adequate clothing. Please note that during winter months the temperatures within our warehouse can be low, please come with sufficient warm clothing on cold weather days.
Yes, once you have been booked in you will receive an e-mail with a workbook and other materials attached. The workbook should be completed prior to attending to ensure maximum time available for practical training.
Yes, you must complete your workbook prior to attending our class. Failure to do so may result you being denied access to your course on the day and a re-booking fee will be applicable. This is to ensure that students get adequate practical training on the machines and that the class isn't being held up by those who haven't completed the workbook.


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2014 – The truth brings all things new
January 2, 2014
It's officially the start of a new year and with it comes a new occasion to leave yet another year behind, especially my struggles, failures and missed opportunities. However, forgetting my successes, triumphs and personal growth shouldn't be part of what gets left behind. The new year brings new hope and a chance for reflection. Why did I fail? How did I succeed? Can I have confidence and peace with all of it moving forward?
Human nature compels me to focus on the worst aspects of myself. Why is it so hard to leave the shame and guilt of past mistakes where they belong–in the past? Or better, how can I forget the hurt that was caused by someone else?
I was reminded of these things from a letter that was written to my wife by a dear friend. She so perfectly stated the truth and reminded me that this validity can't come from this world. The world doesn't offer peace, only fear of myself and of others. I must look to my creator and savior for this understanding and wisdom. She writes:
"I promise you, there will come a day when you will have peace with the past. You'll look at, bleed, scream, shake, mourn – and you will leave what makes no sense at the cross. And there will be a day when all of the sudden, you'll feel so light, so free that it will scare you to be free of the moorings that have suffocated you. You will find God will rush into every crevice, every dip, and the lightness will become Light. And then, my dear girl – beware!!! Everything will look different, smell different / more alive, more vibrant.
And it will scare you enough that you may want to run back and try to shove all that junk back in there, because its safe and known to you. And you will have to look it square in the eye, and walk it back to the cross, where it belongs. Each time, you have to be valiant, because once you give it over to God, you have to keep returning it. It was a long time during which I would have to say "no. You don't belong in my head anymore. You go back to the cross" to those sick, sorry, sad memories.
The day I realized I couldn't even TRY to be wounded by that junk anymore was the day I understood God's love."
When I focus on my hurt, from myself or from others, I can't grow, I can't love, and I can't even use my talents and skills to their potential. Why? Because I lose confidence, ambition and I fail to take risks that allow for progress. As a creative professional, this can be destructive. As a human being, this perspective leaves me with no hope.
Here's what Paul, an apostle of Christ, says about this dilemma in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." This means that at ANYTIME I can choose to be renewed in Christ–leaving my past failures and hurt at the foot of the cross. It, however, doesn't mean that these things will go away, it simply means that I can have peace with it. "Here is a new heart, and a new spirit, and in them new light and life, new affections and desires, new delights and joys; here are new eyes to see with, new ears to hear with, new feet to walk, and new hands to work and act with…"–Gill's exposition. Of course there's some further understanding of this as it pertains to "living in Christ" and I encourage you to read about this and more. Continued readings can be found at BibleHub.com.
Everyday I interact with students who are reinventing themselves. Many struggle with leaving who they were behind and can't embrace who they are becoming. It is a process, it doesn't happen overnight and you have to find some humility in the learning methodology. For some it happens quickly, for others it takes awhile. Yet sadly, I watch still others who never seem to put the effort into what it takes for this kind of growth. I teach the portfolio class for illustrators and designers during their last semester of Nossi College of Art. It is the most rewarding part of my job to see how these students overcame their fears and found confidence to start a new life as a creative professional. It reminds me of how the "student mentality" can achieve great things. We must all carry this same perspective if we are to be successful in life, in faith…in hope.
So, today I can apply this truth to my profession–my willingness to learn and teach others, my relationships, my responsibilities and obedience in Christ, and even how I value myself. I'm leaving 2013 behind and focusing on what 2014 may bring and that's exciting and adventurous! I'm supper pumped about starting off this new year! My hope is to embrace this truth and run, not walk, into 2014.


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A Honolulu newspaper publishes a letter from "Carolina Man" Burke Haywood Bridgers asking about surfing in Hawaii. Bridgers and his friends had tried to ride the waves in their native Wrightsville Beach the summer before, but their equipment wasn't quite up to par. So, Burke wrote a letter to the newspaper in the hopes that Hawaiians would share some of their surfing secrets. Bridgers's letter is considered the first written evidence of surfing in Wrightsville Beach.
At Roanoke Island's celebration of Virginia Dare Day in August, Hawaiian surfer Willie Kaiama and his troupe of performers give surfing demonstrations for the locals, indicating a growing interest in surfing on the Outer Banks.
The town of Wrightsville Beach pays $10 for a Hawaiian surfboard for its lifeguards to use during ocean rescues.
Pioneering Outer Banks surfer Lt. Thomas Fearing of Manteo is killed when his Grumman Hellcat crashes in the South Pacific during World War II. Fearing had built a Hawaiian-style paddleboard for offshore fishing that could hold up to three people.
Onslow Beach at Camp Lejeune becomes known as a surfing spot for the base's Marines, while lifeguards in Carolina Beach begin using hollowed-out plywood paddleboards to surf.
Hatteras Island teens Buddy Hooper and Johnny Conner make and sell their own surfboards from a trailer in Buxton next to the Conner family grocery store.
Wrightsville Beach institutes surfing zones in an attempt to regulate the increased activity along its shore. The same year, surfer Lank Lancaster opens East Coast Surfboards with Harold Petty in Carolina Beach, one of the first local surf shops to design, shape, and build its own boards rather than import them from California.
Surfer runs a photograph of Robert Parker, the magazine's first recognition of a Wrightsville Beach surfer. Bruce Brown's definitive surfing documentary The Endless Summer is shown in Wilmington theaters, inspiring North Carolina surfers to take up the hunt for the perfect wave — but maybe not year-round.
Buxton hosts the Eastern Surfing Association Championships for the first time at Cape Hatteras's Old Lighthouse Beach, establishing Dare County as the competition's permanent home.
A hammerhead shark near the Emerald Isle Pier takes offense to Randy Hall surfing in its corner of the ocean, resulting in the first documented instance of a surfer being bitten by a shark in North Carolina waters.
Mickey McCarthy and Mike Hamil open New Sun Surf Shop across the street from Nags Head Pier, where McCarthy will handcraft boards and mentor young surfers for the next several decades.
The University of North Carolina Wilmington officially charters a club of student surfers, who continue to compete in East Coast surfing competitions today. Ten-year-old Kelly Slater, who would go on to win 11 world surfing titles, refers to the waves at Cape Hatteras as his "Pipeline," after the famous, and at times deadly, Banzai Pipeline at Oahu.
Women of all ages take to the waves at Wrightsville Beach for the inaugural East Coast Wahine Championships in August, the first event run by and designed for female surfers on the East Coast.
One month after Hurricane Floyd makes landfall in Wilmington, health officials in the Cape Fear region give the all-clear for surfers to return to the waves. Up the coast, threats of erosion around the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse force its move inland from Old Lighthouse Beach.
When a chunk of Hatteras Island between the villages of Hatteras and Frisco is washed into the ocean during Hurricane Isabel, a new inlet — and a new surf break — forms. It's only temporary, though: The Army Corps of Engineers has the breach filled within two months.
National Geographic names Wrightsville Beach as one of America's "last best beach towns."
An NC Highway Historical Marker designating Wrightsville Beach as a "Pioneer of East Coast Surfing" is installed and dedicated at the intersection of Waynick Boulevard and Bridgers Street, honoring Bridgers and his fellow surfers for their role in helping establish a long-lasting surfing scene in North Carolina. And in Raleigh, Gov. Pat McCrory proclaims September "Surfing Month" in recognition of the "September rollers" that churn up the surf along our coast.
The Eastern Surfing Association will host the 51st annual Easterns Surfing Championships, gathering surfers from up and down the East Coast at Jennette's Pier in Nags Head in September.


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Danish NGO IBIS confronts 'built-in weaknesses' in Oxfam's global system
Three years after merging with Oxfam, the leadership of Oxfam IBIS in Copenhagen is grappling with "built-in weaknesses" in the international NGO confederation. Becoming part of a global brand has meant losing control over how spending takes place in country offices.Read more >>
Boosts carbon price to 10 dollars per tonne in Colombia climate forest deal
Norway continues to push ahead with REDD+, offering to pay Colombia NOK 2 billion for reduced deforestation by 2025 and increasing the carbon price from 5 to 10 dollars per tonne, while donor partners Germany and the United Kingdom hold back. Colombia failed to meet forest conservation targets set in the first phase of the agreement.Read more >>
Finnish Development Minister Ville Skinnari on 'Nordic power'
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Intense competition among Swedish NGOs for Sida multi-year funding
Responding to a call for proposals from Sida, no fewer than 20 Swedish non-governmental organisations, representing a vast range of causes – from health, culture and peace to LGBT, children and women's rights - have expressed interest in becoming a "strategic partner." Sida will be hard pressed to select one or two.Read more >>
2020 is make or break for NDF. Board prepares for possible capital injection
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Taking stock of the new MDBs
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Advocacy and fundraising: Oxfam Sweden finds its niche
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The new dynamics in Oslo: 3 parties, 3 portfolios, 3 ways of managing aid
A long, drawn-out process has finally led to a revamp of Norway's aid administration and a reorganisation of about 50 jobs in downtown Oslo. The out-going boss of the aid agency Norad is hoping for substantial efficiency gains. But can the new three-track aid portfolio prevent further fragmentation of aid, and will it survive a change of government?Read more >>
After years of neglect, Denmark vows to promote women's role in peace building
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Peace or civil war. Sweden ponders aid to Afghanistan for next 5 years
Will a negotiated solution to the conflict in Afghanistan lead to a ceasefire and peace agreement or will the government in Kabul collapse paving the way for the Taliban to establish an Islamic emirate? In today's precarious and highly unpredictable context, Sida has presented proposals for Swedish aid over the next five years.Read more >>
New government plans to expand Finland's loan scheme by another half billion euros
Finland's former government launched a EUR 520 million development scheme for loans and investments in 2015. The last of this money was committed as a loan to the aid-financed investor Finnfund in early October. The new centre-left government in Helsinki pledges to continue the scheme.Read more >>
Green Climate Fund replenishment ends just shy of USD 10 billion
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Narrow donor base raises doubts about Green Climate Fund's global role
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Norway rewards Guyana, despite increased deforestation driven by gold mining
The Norwegian Climate Ministry has based its final forest payment to Guyana on a Rube Goldberg-type formula – one that uses an excessively complex and impractical method to reach a simple, predetermined answer. Referring to this calculation, Norway is disbursing all its remaining funds, despite high deforestation rates in Guyana driven by gold mining.Read more >>
Global Fund reaches USD 14 billion target. Norway provides last-minute 1% increase
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Foreign Minister tightens grip on aid, leaving little room for Ulstein to make his mark
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Denmark increases aid for Africa and climate, but ODA remains at 0.7% of GNI
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Norway doubles down on climate forest aid as deforestation continues to rise
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Ulstein plans 'substantial scale up' in climate adaptation financing
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Norwegian aid-financed study aims to re-define global narrative on food and land use
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Sweden promises SEK 8 billion for Green Climate Fund
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Swedfund, NDF winners in Swedish budget. Funds for UN at a standstill
Swedfund is the winner in the Swedish aid budget proposal for 2020, which indicates a substantial scaling up in funding for the aid-financed investor and more in coming years. Sweden also wants to revitalise the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) and to make oceans a new focus area for the fund. Core funding of UN agencies is at a standstill next year.Read more >>
Swedish agency agonises over SEK 10m carbon payment to Norwegian forestry firm
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Gavi sets USD 7.4 billion replenishment target for next five years
Gavi aims to increase both the number of vaccines on offer from 11 to 18 and the number of children immunised to 300 million during 2021-2025. This expansion will be made possible in part by massive savings on pneumonia vaccine whose price is expected to drop dramatically.Read more >>
Report - call for massive increase in investments in climate adaptation
A global commission led by Bill Gates, Ban Ki-moon and 20 countries estimates that USD 1.8 trillion in climate adaptation financing would yield seven-fold benefits over ten years. Denmark's representative on the commission, CEO of PKA Peter Damgaard Jensen, explains why investments in adaptation lag so far behind funding for mitigation measures.Read more >>
Sweden postpones carbon payment to Uganda tree farm where locals have been evicted
A planned disbursement of SEK 10 million by the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) for emissions reductions produced by the Kachung plantation in Uganda, owned by the Norwegian company Green Resources, has been delayed due to on-going concerns about the project. Development Today has learned that the Swedes were about to give a green light last week but put on the brakes.Read more >>
Trump aims for deep cuts ahead of Global Fund replenishment
As the Global Fund prepares for its sixth replenishment, the United States could stand in the way of reaching the USD 14 billion target.Read more >>
NOK 3 billion in unspent climate forest aid stranded at Brazilian bank
Since Brazil closed the steering committee of the Amazon Fund, which was set up to channel Norwegian financing of rainforest projects, the bilateral cooperation is in limbo, raising questions about what to do with NOK 3 billion sitting unspent in the fund. A lawyer at Norad says Norway has the right to demand that the money be reimbursed.Read more >>
Finnish budget proposal 2020: slow climb in aid level
UN agencies, Africa and NGOs are the winners as the new Finnish government increases aid after four years of austerity and cuts. Finnish aid will reach 0.42 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) next year, but the long-term goal is to raise aid to of 0.7 per cent of GNI.Read more >>
Brazil forest deal in crisis. Norway says negotiations are still on-going
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New voting rules remove Green Climate Fund deadlock, pave way for donor pledges
The absence of decision-making rules within the Green Climate Fund board has been a sticking point for donors as they consider their pledging levels for the upcoming multi-billion dollar replenishment. Agreement on a "robust and transparent" voting mechanism has cleared away this hurdle.Read more >>
High expectations for new Finnish government's first aid budget
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Oxfam consolidates in the Nordics
At a time of intense competition for funding and shrinking space for civil society globally, large NGO brands have been expanding and consolidating to increase their global clout. International organisations like Plan, Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children have had a presence in the Nordic region for decades.Read more >>
New Gavi strategy targets children receiving no vaccines
In spite billions of dollars invested over 20 years by Gavi in vaccines for the poorest countries, immunisation coverage has stagnated, and millions have been left behind. In its new five-year strategy, Gavi will now focus on children who receive no vaccines at all. For the first time, Gavi is also considering supporting middle-income countries that have fallen behind in immunisation.Read more >>
Norway defends billion-dollar Amazon Fund as Brazilian minister threatens to exit
In response to reports that Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles is considering closing down the Amazon Fund, the centre piece of Norwegian climate forest partnership with Brazil, Norway's Climate Minister Ola Elvestuen has issued a press release in defence of the fund and the partnership.Read more >>
Breakthrough in Norway-Guyana forest deal after eight-year delay
Norwegian aid funds amounting to NOK 600 million, which have been languishing at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), may soon be released to pay for a 30-40 megawatt solar energy project in Guyana. This will be Norway's first payment to Guyana since 2011, as part of a climate forest agreement signed ten years ago. The long delay could cost Guyana over USD 25 million due to the weakened Norwegian currency.Read more >>
Rasmus Prehn is Denmark's new Development Minister
Mette Fredriksen, the youngest-ever Prime Minister in Danish history, has announced her cabinet and selected Rasmus Prehn (Social Democrat) to be her Minister for Development Cooperation. The new Danish government will strengthen "green diplomacy" and develop a new development strategy with a focus on climate.Read more >>
Western NGOs 'must downsize' to let local actors play a bigger humanitarian role
Three years after Western emergency relief organisations agreed that Southern actors receive too small a share of humanitarian funding compared with the formidable work they do, the distribution remains badly skewed. Progress is slow, partly because changing the balance will mean that Western organisations must downsize.Read more >>
Report to Sida: share corruption risk with NGOs, nuance zero-tolerance messaging
A scrutiny of Sida's risk management shows that the agency has more appetite for risk in fragile states but remains protective of its own reputation. The elephant in the room is corruption.Read more >>
Sida to triple multi-year funding for non-Swedish democracy NGOs
Non-Swedish NGOs working om democracy issues can look forward to a substantial increase in long-term funding from the Swedish aid agency Sida. New recipients of multi-year grants will be selected among organisations Sida already knows, and there will be no open call for proposals. In Finland, competition is the general rule.Read more >>
OECD praises Sweden's aid, warns of too many partners and overstretched staff
The OECD calls Sweden an "adept, ambitious and influential" donor, a champion of multilateralism that is generous with the amounts of aid it gives and effective and principled when it comes to humanitarian aid. Sweden does fall short in some areas, however. Swedfund is not integrated into the broader portfolio, Swedish aid is still spread too thinly, and the aid administration is understaffed.Read more >>
Helsinki has no plans to use emissions trading income to boost Finnish aid
There is "huge disappointment" in Finland about the decision not to transfer income from emissions trading to the development budget as a way of boosting the aid level. The new government programme contains no concrete timetable for increasing aid to the UN-recommended target of 0.7 per cent of GNI.Read more >>
New Finnish government steps up aid, but at a slow pace
Finland's new centre-left government promises to add EUR 500 million to the development cooperation budget over the coming four years with increases in financing for humanitarian aid, UN agencies and NGOs, and a renewed focus on rights and fighting climate change. The new government will hammer out a new Africa strategy and make the region the focus of Finnish aid.Read more >>
OECD to Norway: be more pragmatic when fighting corruption in aid
An OECD review recognises Norway's multilateral efforts but warns that too many new global health instruments could undermine the UN and contribute to fragmentation. It also calls for a more "pragmatic and proportionate approach" to corruption, especially in fragile states. (To be updated)Read more >>
Sida opens SEK 1.9b NGO pie for competition
Sida is opening a funding pot worth SEK 1.9 billion to new Swedish NGOs. For almost a decade 15 organisations have had exclusive access to these multi-year grants. Joining this group can be highly lucrative and can mean hundreds of millions of crowns in stable, long-term financing. Access to this money for "new" organisations has only been opened a few times over the past 20 years, and each time it has, the competition has been fierce.Read more >>
Denmark aims to be a 'green pioneer,' but falls short as donor to Green Climate Fund
While Sweden, Norway and Finland have been among the top donors to the Green Climate Fund, Denmark is far behind. In the upcoming replenishment of the fund, Denmark must increase its funding three-fold to cover its minimum fair share, according to an overview by Oxfam.Read more >>
Pledges to put Africa first and to stand firm against special interests
Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway's freshman Development Minister, wants to reverse a decade-long downward trend by increasing Norwegian aid to Africa. To succeed, he will have to say 'no' to other priorities.Read more >>
Government talks are litmus test for scaling up of Finnish aid
Finland's Development Policy Committee, representing all the political parties, calls for an urgent long-term pledge to raise aid to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI). The first test for the plan will be the on-going talks to form a new Finnish government in the wake of the election.Read more >>
Reliance on private capital makes IFU shy away from investments in poorest countries
Due to its heavy reliance on private capital, the Danish aid-financed investment fund (IFU) has shied away from risky investments and prioritised middle-income countries. The first evaluation of IFU in 14 years calls for a stronger focus on poor and fragile states.Read more >>
Billions in Swedish aid at stake as political strife clouds new OECD refugee reporting
As Sweden adopts the new OECD rules for reporting domestic refugee costs as official development assistance (ODA), a struggle within the Swedish government has broken out over how to fill gaps in the fiscal budget. Development Minister Peter Eriksson lost the first battle. Billions of crowns in future aid might be at stake as Sweden adopts new reporting rules for aid.Read more >>
Indian-made pneumonia vaccine is set to break Big Pharma's hold on Gavi funds
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Finnish aid loans to IFC-funded climate projects in Nepal and Senegal
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Funding target for Green Climate Fund still up in the air
There is still no clear picture about a realistic funding target for the upcoming replenishment of the Green Climate Fund. The most optimistic scenario from the World Resources Institute of USD 66 billion assumes that all countries, including the United States, follow Norway's lead. A more sombre assessment suggests it will be hard even to reach the USD 10 billion mark from 2014.Read more >>
ODA in 2018: Decade-long decline in aid for Sub-Saharan Africa continues
Donors' aid to Africa and the world's poorest countries is falling as part of a decade-long trend, says OECD's aid watchdog DAC. Development assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa fell by 4.4 per cent last year. Humanitarian aid is also shrinking.Read more >>
Ambitious plan to grow UN Peacebuilding Fund to USD 500m
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has hosted the first donors' strategic financing dialogue for the UN Peacebuilding Fund aimed at realising UN Secretary General António Gutteres' vision of tripling the size of the fund.Read more >>
UNEP on a tight leash in wake of travel audit
Months after a critical audit of UN Environment triggered the resignation of Executive Director Erik Solheim, donors are positive about his replacement Inger Andersen, but they continue to use the money weapon to ensure that the agency improves practice.Read more >>
Finland breaks new ground with loan for IFAD's core activities
Finland becomes the first Nordic donor to provide a loan to finance a multilateral agency's core efforts. A EUR 50 million long-term Finnish loan will fund the UN's agency for rural and agriculture development IFAD's efforts to support small-scale farmers increase their yields and adjust to climate change.Read more >>
New aid index measuring self-interest of donors gives Nordics mixed score
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has created a new aid index which measures the extent to which donors' self-interest penetrates disbursement of aid. Three Nordic donors rank among the top ten.Read more >>
Nordics await due diligence before deciding on David Malpass as World Bank President
All the five Nordic countries confirm to Development Today that they will not take a position on David Malpass' candidacy as President of the World Bank until the board has completed its due diligence and interview process. Malpass was nominated by President Donald Trump and is the only candidate for the job.Read more >>
Norway rewards Indonesia by leaving out peat burning from carbon accounting
By excluding massive CO2 emissions from peat burning in Indonesia, Norway recently presented a positive carbon tally and granted its first payment to the Southeast Asian forest giant for reduced emissions from deforestation. The NOK 200 million reward coincided with the 10th anniversary of the countries' climate partnership. If emissions from peatlands had been counted, there might be no basis for payment at all, a scrutiny by Development Today shows.Read more >>
US nominee Malpass on track to become new World Bank President
David Malpass, 63, is on track to become the next President of the World Bank. As the deadline for nominations expires, he is the only official candidate for the job. It is now expected that the World Bank board will test his commitment to the Bank's agenda on poverty, climate and multilateralism in the coming weeks.Read more >>
Brazil receives first Green Climate Fund grant for REDD+. Critics warn of 'paper reductions' with no real climate benefits
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a USD 96 million grant for Brazil, a reward for reductions in emissions from deforestation achieved five years ago. NGOs warned of "paper reductions without any real climate benefits." Germany and the US pushed for conditions to be attached, while Norway was keen to send a positive signal.Read more >>
Nordics pressed Trump's candidate for World Bank Presidency on poverty focus
The Trump administration's candidate for President of the World Bank David Malpass met with Nordic-Baltic ministers in Reykjavik this week. He was pressed on issues like climate change, gender and his commitment to multilateralism. For now, Malpass is the only candidate in the race, but so far none of the Nordic countries has expressed their support for him.Read more >>
Replenishment delay has cost Green Climate Fund billions of dollars
Following its 22nd board meeting last week, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) announced it will hold its first replenishment in late October, a year and a half behind schedule. The delay has meant a loss of climate financing amounting to USD 4 billion.Read more >>
Iceland's ex-PM Geir Haarde seizes Nordic-Baltic top position at World Bank
The former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde, 67, assumes the position of the Nordic-Baltic countries Executive Director at the World Bank this summer, a spokesperson at the Foreign Ministry in Reykjavik confirms to Development Today.Read more >>
Humanitarians call for neutral aid and access to mitigate Yemen crisis
Nordic donors pledged USD 67.4 million for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen during a recent donor meeting in Geneva. This amounts to one-tenth of the OECD countries' Yemen aid. Two Arab allies fighting in the war provided the lion's share of funds, raising concerns about impartiality of relief aid.Read more >>
New Danish UNEP boss must regain donors' trust after Solheim debacle
The Dane Inger Andersen has been chosen to restore confidence at UNEP in Nairobi after the former chief Erik Solheim was forced to leave three months ago. An audit revealed that he had travelled excessively and encouraged staff to "wilfully violate" UN rules, "encouraged a culture of impunity ... and weakened the control environment ."Read more >>
Tough competition for donor money: Global health agencies under scrutiny for inflating results
In an environment of fierce competition, global health initiatives like the Global Fund are making grand claims regarding the numbers of lives they can save if donors provide enough money. But in the new, more holistic SDG era, with an ambition of universal health coverage, researchers say that such claims are "misleading." "We have to stop this game of trying to say exactly how many years or months or lives we can buy with one earmarked dollar," says Gorik Ooms at the London School of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene to Development Today.Read more >>
Finnfund eyes record expansion. Doubts about risks and profit
Finnfund might soon receive its largest-ever injection of capital. It plans to focus on high-risk markets, double its investments and triple its impacts, while at the same time maintaining profit levels. An evaluation report warns that Finnfund will be hard pressed to tick all these boxes at once.Read more >>
Mutual distrust between donors and humanitarians, 'opaque' decision making on both sides
Humanitarian aid would stretch farther and respond better to those most in need if donors coordinated their allocations in a transparent manner instead of making funding decisions in isolation, but there is little appetite among donors to do so. This is one of the conclusions of a recent study on underfunded humanitarian appeals commissioned by the Swedish aid evaluation office, EBA.Read more >>
Norway rewards Indonesia by leaving out peat burning from carbon accounting
By excluding massive CO2 emissions from peat burning in Indonesia, Norway recently presented a positive carbon tally and granted its first payment to the Southeast Asian forest giant for reduced emissions from deforestation. The NOK 200 million reward coincided with the 10th anniversary of the countries' climate partnership. If emissions from peatlands had been counted, there might be no basis for payment at all, a scrutiny by Development Today shows.Read more >>
Finnish Development Minister Ville Skinnari on 'Nordic power'
Finland's Development Minister Ville Skinnari is a staunch believer in Nordic cooperation within the aid field. "I think the Nordic model is something worth exporting at a global level," he says in an interview with Development Today.Read more >>


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Telluride Film Festival review: Bullock and Clooney in "Gravity"
"Gravity," the space thriller starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney arrived at the 40th Telluride Film Festival with the white-hot heat of critical praise from its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
A film publicist traveling to Telluride recounted that on the charter flight from L.A. to Montrose, he and others checked their phones for updates from opening night of the renown Italian festival to find out-of-this-world reviews. "In space no one can hear you applaud, but down here on Earth critical acclaim is reverberating for Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity…" began a Los Angeles Times report.
"Gravity" is an achievement. Shot in 3D, with a sound design that underscores the silence of space and the chatter of human endeavors, the movie is a nerve-racking, sensory experience. Director Cuaron ("Children of Men") and his son and co-writer, Jonas, have created a space-thriller that keeps moviegoers riveted and anxious without calling upon alien predators or over-orchestrated disaster. Think of it as subtly, cumulatively catastrophic.
Astronauts Ryan Stone (Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (Clooney) are making repairs to a space station. It is their final fairly routine chore before heading home. What is not routine is the satellite debris headed their way. When it crosses their path, things turn harrowing fast. Though you wouldn't know it from the can-do banter of Kowalski. Clooney's in his comfort zone here. Bullock pushes herself to a new place to find Ryan's terror, grit and gravitas. At 90 minutes, Gravity" is terse and taut. After you shake off its more visceral effects, you may even find yourself pondering the deeper wonders of human achievement and vulnerability. The film is set to open Oct. 4.


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They did such a good job that you can even drive the car!!
Loved this photo booth with the landscape background quilt!
And a pixelated quilt
What a fabulous job!!
There wqs a section of modern quilts with incredible quilting
Loved the weaving effect with these colors
And the stitching that gave such texture to this one!
The theme was Canada 150
With a few quilts in that catagory
A cute little cathedral window
Tons of color....
It was a fun day!
Lunch was spent catching up with all our quilting friends from around the province
Always great to see everyone again!!
Thanks for an awesome day, Lori!
Now...going to get sewing with all this inspiration!


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Learning the Hard Way
-Richard Bach
Knitting On The High Seas
That sweater looks adorable. Can't wait to see the finished product!
Yuck, I hate the hangy yarns. I decided to make a concerted effort to start weaving those things in as I go from now on...we'll see how that goes. Such a cute knit, and I love the color!
I like the color too, it will be really nice when completed; but, I've got to say, I am not so much a fan of seaming and that first shot has some nightmarish qualities to it...in a cute way!
It looks very cute! I love the wee baby things - too bad they don't stay wee for very long.
So cute! I love the color!
I love that color! That's going to be a fantastic gift.
Yeah, I would have had to sew it up too. It's adorable!
So very very cute!
The sweater is turning out so cute! What a lucky baby!
Not sooo hard when the sweater is turning out so cute! I love how cheerful the color is -- not one I'd think to choose, but maybe now that'll change ;-)
I love the colour. That is going to be one cute sweater!!!
I love this sweater! And I'm with you on the weaving ends in--see my blog on those--I still can't finish baby surprise jacket because of them! :)


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Nylite Suede Caramel / Bone
£80.00 £66.67 £40.00 £33.33
- Suede upper
- Rubber outsole
- EcoOrtholite sockliner
- True sizing
Here we have Tretorn's hallowed Nylite canvas pumps. Designed for court-based racket-action… loved by minted preppy types… these beauties have been worn by everyone from Bjorn Borg to Dustin Hoffman – and are a stone-cold classic of the tennis shoe realm. Not bad for a simple combination of suede and rubber.
These ones here have been sharpened up a bit for 21st century wear with some dangerously-comfortable Ortholite sockliners that should be a hearty companion whether you're serving killer slams on the court or bouncing aimlessly around town. And Earth-children can rejoice they've been made under rigid environmentally-conscious conditions.
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Mundet Campus (UB)
Mundet Campus (UB)
The Mundet Campus is located on the site of the former Llars Mundet orphaned children's residence, in the middle of a lush six-hectare forest. The campus is steeped in history and is home to the University of Barcelona's Psychology, Education and Pedagogy faculties. It also features some of the city's most important sports, social and cultural facilities.
A university in a beautiful outdoor setting
In 1995, the University of Barcelona (UB) expanded its operations by transferring several Diagonal Campus faculties to the Mundet Campus in the Montbau neighbourhood. The new campus was located in buildings that used to house the Anna Gironella de Mundet Home, more commonly known as Llars Mundet, which had provided care and services to the needy and to orphaned children since 1954. As the new academic facilitiesoccupy an area of 14 hectares in the Collserola hills - six of which are unspoiled woodland - the university has become a place that embraces nature.
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Other Uses: Boolean Searches in the Martha Rosler Library
Shepherd Steiner
This essay was originally delivered as a lecture at Site, Liverpool, while the Martha Rosler Library was installed there. I was asked by John Byrne, curator of Site, and Paul Domela, Director of the Liverpool Biennial, to talk about close reading rather than simply interpret the Library. As someone who is committed to close reading, I found myself in an extremely delicate situation. Current fashion prescribes that such lectures focus on theory. But I could not. I had accepted an invitation that went against the founding precepts of the practice of close reading as I had come to know it explicitly through use.
Consisting of over 7,700 books drawn from the personal collection of the artist, the Library has been on an extended exhibition tour that began in New York in November 2005 and was variously installed and accessible for public use in Frankfurt, Antwerp, Berlin, Paris, and, most recently, Liverpool and Edinburgh. The problem for me was to talk about close reading and not _the Martha Rosler Library. The problem was that if one is committed to close reading, as I like to think I am, then one would have to speak about close reading _and the Martha Rosler Library_. That "and" is very important for close reading. Close reading is not a theoretical method of reading that one can extract from the practice of reading, abstract from the work at hand, or know in advance. It is a variable approach to reading dictated by the text, object, or image itself. The crucial distinction for me is using theory, rather than applying theory.1 To use theory—and I think that every work of art has a theory of interpretation built into it—one must respond to the singularity of the work confronted and let that determine what is to follow. In so doing, one can potentially perform a reading, something that exists inside interpretation—reading or theory being an event that happens within and beyond interpretation, what we can call interpretation's constitutive act. The point here is that if we want to talk about acts of reading in all their fullness, we must talk about the Martha Rosler Library, since a general theory of textuality (let alone a distilling out of an abstracted version of theory) cannot be separated from the specific textuality of the Library. Thus my title (which shouldn't be taken too literally), "Boolean Searches in the Martha Rosler Library," for with that all-important "and" as well as those "ors" and "nots," we are in the vicinity of what library insiders call the Boolean search.
For those of you unfamiliar with a Boolean search, I should note that a Boolean search is (as the dictionary on my Mac tells me) a "search characterized by a system of symbolic logic that uses combinations of such logical operators as AND, OR, and NOT to determine relationships between entities"—for instance, Rosler and her collaborator on the project, Anton Vidokle. For a "not" we could include the artist's signature, Martha Rosler. In place of this ortho_doxy, Rosler would have us emphasize heterodoxy. As a close reader, I like the sound of this, primarily because close reading presupposes that one is inextricably tangled in the work's system of symbolic logic—we could say part of its system of metaphoric exchange, an economy in its own right. This insideness seriously complicates the position of interpretative mastery, outsideness, or critical exteriority assumed by a majority of theoretical methods, especially those hailing from New York and, ironically, from those critics we imagine to be closest to Rosler, such as Benjamin Buchloh and Rosalind Krauss. I think that acknowledging the importance of being _in the library is crucial to fleshing out the wider stakes of the project that implicate use, the political, and the recuperation of agency, questions that are all easily lost when we simply walk into the library, look around, and just see and experience nothing more than a library—a kind of shabby, regional library at best, at least in its manifestation in Liverpool, and, thus, very different from its other manifesta- tions, say, in Paris, at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, or at the e-flux storefront reading room on Ludlow Street in New York City, where the Martha Rosler Library was first opened to the public in 2005. I remember spending some time in a shabby library not unlike Liverpool's Martha Rosler Library in Horsham, Australia: a skylight made it too hot, the plants seemed to need watering, the space was originally intended for something else, the library monitor was occupied otherwise, a sense of boredom made reading anything more than a dust cover an impossibility. The critical work to be done here is contained within the coordinates of such an imaginative response—obviously one of many such responses given that we all use libraries in very different ways and use or inhabit different libraries differently. Drawing on one's own experience of everyday type places like a library is at the crux of responding to work in the avant-garde tradition; it works upon and with one's experience, grapples with it inasmuch as it is a question of form or aestheticization, something that older notions of the critical and specifically political interpretations of Rosler's work have little if any purchase on.
These few moves—using, inhabiting, responding, pressuring—all involve theoretical questions with huge ramifications for the practice of criticism. Beyond this, speaking about Rosler's or Vidokle's practice alone is not easy: one needs the help of an especially strong search engine, such as the Boolean search, to get on the right track. As is widely known, both artists are extremely articulate; Rosler, especially, is one of those artists who is more articulate about her work than her interpreters. Mainly, I would say that this is because she thinks dialectically, according to a rigourous mode of logic that the relational terms of both a Boolean search and a close reading can help sort out. I would claim, in fact, that if we are to make any sense at all of a project like the Martha Rosler Library we need to be attentive to the structural inversions, substitutions, and displacements that these ANDS, ORS, or NOTS speak to, that happen between the library as object and the viewer as subject, that complicate many of our expectations of what a work should be (for instance, self-reflexive), and finally, that mark the subject (or viewer) as the crucial arena—a post-minimalist arena—for thought and, ultimately, action to take place.
There is a second entry under Boolean in my Mac dictionary that we should mention as well, Boolean algebra: "A form of algebra concerned with the logical functions of variables that are restricted to true and false." I like the sound of this as well, for if we were to push these true and false notions into a theory of language, we would end up close to fleshing out and securing J. L. Austin's original reason for investigating speech acts, which is where our contemporary notion of the performative comes from. One of the things Austin did in the 1950s was to make the important distinction between constative and performative notions of language. He did so in order to isolate performatives (which he thought were nonsense) from constatives, which he defined through their factual or referential function and which he thought the high road to the serious use of language. If constative language reports on true or false things, performative language does not; it only performs an act in saying something. For instance, I uttered a performative when I responded to my hosts in Liverpool, John and Paul, saying I accepted their invitation and promised to talk about close reading. Promising doesn't report on a true or false situation, nor does it have any bearing on a cognitive or an epistemological question. It relates only to the act of uttering the promise, one that I may or may not keep in this essay. For if my argument fails to live up to my original promise of talking about close reading, the original speech act could misfire. This is what Austin describes as an infelicitous performative. And so far it's not looking so good. I've been spending my time cataloguing interpretative difficulties and rehearsing a theory of language rather than speaking about the library or close reading!
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Shepherd Steiner teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Florida. Recent publications include Snow Changes Everything: Unfinished Form in the Filmwork of Ibon Aranberri (Funadcio Tapies, 2009); "(Art and) Democracy | Hegemony (and Anarchy)," in Becoming Dutch (Eindhoven, 2009) and "Curatorial Formalism and Tinkering with the Political on the Far Side of the Subject at Documenta XII" (Journal of Visual Culture, 2008). His curatorial project focussing on American painting and video art, titled Acts of Non-Agression: 1960–76, opened at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, in September 2008. He is currently finishing a book on Modernism titled Mnemotechnical Bodies: Close Readings in Modernist Painting, Sculpture, and Criticism.


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Trivandrum – Mangalore – 625km + boat
(we are averaging a mini 60-65km a day due to the heat.. but we are getting there…:-)
This route starts on the main road (NH17), we then cut down onto the coastal road (though you could do so sooner) after about 15km's. The coast road is beautiful, quiet, and well tarmaced. We stopped for the night in Varkala – which has the universal feel common to traveller haunts across South east Asia and offers home comforts such as muesli for breakfast. From here we stayed on the coast road most of the way to the Amatipuri Ashram – with a section around Kollam on the main road. We stopped for a cheap night at the ashram – and the next day picked up a boat to Allepey – very relaxing, easy peasy to get the bikes on! (and a much cheaper way to see backwater life – men diving for sand etc – than paying for a houseboat)
From Allepey we stayed on quiet roads; first on the east and then on the west (coastal) side of the main road to Fort Cochi. Kerala has the highest literacy rate in India, this was reflected in the number of children on (in an unfathomably constant stream thoughout the day) their way to and from school, on foot, in autorickshaws, and on school busses – in all cases, waving, hollering and shouting hellos at us.
Leaving Fort Cohin we took a diversion inland to visit the a Camillian Brothers HIV/AIDS project (Snehadaan) – we hopped on a ferry and crossed 3 bridges to take us from the peninsula onto the mainland. We cycled along a horrendous main road through the town of Ernakulum. But from the Camillian centre we were on quiet country lanes all the way back to Vypeen Island – where we stopped and rested at the lovely Cherai beach – even getting a swim in the Arabian Sea in!
From Cherai we cycled and ferry hopped north, ferries, never costing more than 6 rupees (about 10 pence), replace bridges to cross the river mouths along the 'beach road' all the way north. The ferries run non-stop from one river bank to the other. On one occasion I was asked where I wanted to go… to which I replied 'the other side' – there really was nowhere else that this ferry was going… perhaps they were after something more from me! The main road snakes inland with its bridges and traffic. But on the beach road, we were joined by plenty of motorcyclists and bicycles with only the very occasional car. We stopped for the night in the pilgrim centre of Guruvayoor and enjoyed listening to Bajans (holy songs) outside the temple. From Guruvayoor we continued along the beach roads (quality becoming more and more patchy) to Vallikunu where we stayed in an aging beach resort, with its faded pavilions and incomprehensibly bumbling staff (who each appeared to be wearing the others suit – one small chap could hardly be seen in his whereas the gangly porter was practically wearing shorts!) it was a far cry from those aimed at westerners.
From Vallikunu we took the beach road to Khozikode where the beach road ended, the coastline no longer flat but starting to become hilly so we were pushed back on to the main road. Which stunk – a pervasive and pervading stench that stuck heavily in the backs of our throats. An absolutely horrendously indescribable smell akin to rotting fish, human excrement, and death – boiled. We have vowed to purchase incense at the first opportunity. The sticks can be stuck to our handle bars to waft patchoolie (or some such delight) back into us as we cycle.
We stayed the night in Costa Malabri south of Kannur (bumpy, hilly ride but worth it)– where we ate the best home cooked Keralan
food from banana leaves and witnessed the annual Theyyam blessing of a local temple.
Kannur to Khanagad was rolling, uneventful, main roads. Khanagad is a basic Indian town; dirty, busy and polluted. We stayed in a cheap hotel with a bed full of creatures, many of whom seemed to hurtle themselves at sporadic intervals from the fan (Catherine was happy! :-*) – fortunately none of which seemed to be bed bugs. We set off the next day tired and hungry and cycled out of Kerala (jumpy jumpy jumpy) – from here we stayed on the main road to Mangalore in Karnataka!


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