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The call comes at 7am. The wind has finally dropped and we can go fishing.
Norfolk Island has only two landing places - on opposite sides of the island - though to call them landing places is rather a misnomer. In fact there are only jetties and launching our boat requires nifty work by the skipper and his helper.
Darren Bates, who runs the fishing arm of Advance Tours, arrives with his 10m NoosaCat hooked up behind a very workmanlike 4WD with mum in the passenger seat. The boat is backed on to the jetty, stops under the derrick, the trailer is unhooked and the 4WD driven 50m back up the jetty and fastened to a steel cable.
Darren attaches the lifting strops on the boat to the hook on the end of the cable, and, as mum slowly drives up the jetty, the boat is lifted off the trailer, swung out over the water and lowered to deck height. The intrepid fishermen clamber aboard, the boat is lowered, the motors start, and we're off.
We head out about 20km to where Darren is sure we'll find the target catch of trumpeter, or sweet lip. He is right. No sooner have lines gone into the water than the catch begins - trumpeter, kingfish, black cod, gold cod and small sharks. None is particularly big, but they are plentiful.
The wind is getting up again and the sea is building, so Darren calls time, and the boat heads back to the jetty.
The launching process is reversed, and the boat and catch are safely deposited back on the trailer.
A small table is set up at the end of the jetty and filleting begins. One of the fisherman is asked to get a bucket of water but returns empty handed. When asked why he didn't just reach over and retrieve the bucket he says, "Because there are a whole lot of bloody big sharks down there."
And there are, about 10 bronze whalers circling round to catch the scraps from the filleting process.
The catch is divvied up between the fishermen, and a fine lunch is guaranteed for all.
Bill Falconer paid his own way to Norfolk Island.


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One of my very favorite weddings last season was Katarina and Peter's celebration at Hotel Vitale in San Francisco. I worked with this lovely couple while they lived in Chicago, and I planned in SF. I didn't even meet them face to face until their ceremony rehearsal the day before the wedding! It was a unique situation and I couldn't be happier with how well everything worked out. Working with clients that put so much trust in me is a professional thrill and being a part of Katarina and Peter's intimate wedding was a true honor. Now they live in San Francisco and I'm looking forward to getting together as friends very soon!
This Allure wedding was shot by Iliana Morton and featured on the Ceremony Magazine Blog. Check it out for more beautiful photos!
Flowers by Anne Mendenhall.
Here is their Facebook gallery on the Allure Consulting page.


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The garden design seeks to create a sustainable tribute to Charlotte, with:
- flower/foliage characteristics that include drought tolerance;
- use of native plants, herbs, daisies, groundcovers, bulbs and wildflowers;
- easy care;
- fragrant tall plants along the sidewalk to provide screening, and between the children's library windows;
- spring to fall continuum of bloom; and a
- tapestry of varied foliage.
See the planting recommendations for a plant list, volunteer contact info, photos, and other details.
Volunteers are needed to help with:
What: Ongoing garden maintenance— (weeding, watering when needed, etc.),
When: Any two weeks over the summer and fall. Two 1-2 hour visits each week are recommended.
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Histopolis Place-of-the-Day
Histopolis features a different cemetery, town, county or other place every day on the Place-of-The-Day.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Histopolis Place-of-the-Day for Sunday, January 30, 2011 is the National Cemetery in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
"Knoxville National Cemetery is located in Knox County, in the northern section of the city of Knoxville, Tenn.
"Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside established the cemetery during the Civil War after the siege of Knoxville and subsequent Battle of Fort Sander.
"Capt. E.B. Chamberlain, the assistant quartermaster, was assigned the task of designing the national cemetery at Knoxville. The first interments were remains exhumed from Cumberland Gap, Concord and many other regional sites. Chamberlain's design and system for recording interments was so effective that, in 1866, Gen. E.G. Whitman, observed that the cemetery had been "the only burial ground of Union soldiers…originally laid out and conducted to the present time in a manner and on a system that render[ed] it suitable to be converted into a national cemetery without material alteration or change, or removal of a single body."
"Knoxville National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
"Memorial and Monuments
"The Union Soldier monument, known locally as the Tennessee or Wilder monument, is an unusual, large Gothic Revival-style memorial that was erected between 1890 and 1901."
Explore National Cemetery on Histopolis now. If you have a place that you would like to see featured as the Histopolis Place-of-the-Day, contact the webmaster to suggest it.
January 2011
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Snugpak Stratosphere (2013)
A big turn-off when it comes to bivvy bags is the feeling of claustrophobia – understandable when many are akin to only slightly more respiration-friendly body bags. The Snugpak Stratosphere sidesteps this by featuring two poles around the head area, which make things within much airier. Not only that, but beneath the rainflap at the back is an open vent with a midge net, and the front zip can be opened so you can look out – making this a great option for those who want the pack size and weight of a bivvy but prefer a little more space. This is a really impressive product for the price and weight: coming in at around 1kg – and that's including a stack of relatively heavy alloy pegs, which you could easily slim down – the packsize is impressively lean. The Snugpak Stratosphere overcomes the usual hurdles of a bivvy in style without breaking the bank (or the back, when carried). If you're not that charmed by the idea of bivvying, you can get tents for a similar weight that obviously offer more space; but not at this price. Exceptional value for money.
Price £120
Weight 1019g
Top fabric 50D nylon
Base fabric 70D nylon taffeta
Packed size 38x14cm
Website www.snugpak.com
The Snugpak Stratosphere was the best bivvy in our test for affordable comfort.
Review by Simon Ingram
First published in Trail magazine September 2013


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On Tuesday, meet Melanie Conn from Common Thread, Groundswell's neighbour and a co-op with demonstrated impact, providing employment to marginalized folks, including immigrants and other local women who need support.
Melanie will share her Common Thread story, her experience and knowledge about co-ops and Community Economic Development, and the nuts and bolts on sustainable social enterprise operations.
See you at Groundswell!
More About our Speaker
Melanie Conn is a feminist and community activist who has been working in co-op and community economic development (CED) in Vancouver since the 1970s. She believes that co-ops are CED in practice, and has worn many hats to implement co-op ideas: founding member and director of the East End Food Co-op, CCEC Credit Union, Plane Jane Construction and the Yew Street Housing Co-op.
As a member of Devco, a co-operative of consultants, Melanie has provided technical and development assistance for dozens of new co-ops. She also designs and delivers train-the-trainer programs and other curriculum related to co-operatives.
She is the Director, Founding Member, & Marketing Manager of Common Thread, an innovative co-op that provides marketing and production coordination for local women who thrive in a flexible work environment. Common Thread upcycles materials such as street banners into unique tote bags, and other beautiful and useful products.
Melanie is a recipient of the Canadian Co-operative Achievement Award in 2013 and the Winner of the Mark Goldblatt Award in 2016.


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The Odgen Estate was established about 1900 by Albert Ogden and his second wife Esther Herdman.
Albert Ogden was born in 1847 in Peel County, and was the son of William and Rebecca Ward. Albert grew up on the family farm but attended Toronto Collegiate Institute and then law school. He was called to the bar in 1876 and worked at a number of Toronto firms before becoming a partner in McMichael, Hoskin and Odgen in the 1880s. Following Mr. Hoskin's death Albert practiced alone for several years before entering into a partnership with Mr. Bowlby. They had their offices at 23 Toronto Street.
Albert was the long-time solicitor for the Salvation Army where he looked after the legal affairs of the organization first in Toronto and later the entire country. He was a leader in the Queen Street Methodist Church, later moving to the Eaton Memorial Church.
Mr. Ogden's first wife was Mary Leadley with whom he had six children. She died in 1895 and he married his second wife Esther Herdman the following year and had two more children. Albert died in 1921. Esther remarried in 1923 to Ebenezer Brock Lauceley.
Their Mimico Beach estate remained until about 1961 when The Landmark apartment complex at 2493 Lake Shore Blvd West was built on the estate.


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Apparently when one becomes an adult, things change. Which, PS!!, I wish they had more classes for these things… not just how to use a condom(which that doesn't seem to have sunk in with a majority of the population), but maybe more tips on how to do taxes, where to buy anti-wrinkle cream that tastes good, and how to budget when watching late night infomercials. Who do I need to write a letter to?!
I have discovered that one of those scintillating changes include acne getting a promoted title… and becoming "adult acne." hawt.
Adult acne, as many of you know, is super fun!
Not really.
It's a huge bitch.
I thought acne would stop when my raging hormone driven outbursts and bi-polar tendencies once a month were leveled out by the coming of age trek through college and into hell. AKA "Adult-dom."
But those seem to be sticking around too.
So basically, being adult is the same as being a kid you just get to have sex legally and make trips to the DMV for fun. My assumption that once I turned 18… or 21… or 25… or…30??… my face would miraculously become the photo shopped- porcelain- envy of all to behold…was apparently ridiculous!! because I'm still applying anything green to anything red on my face like color wheel math or Christmas day is going to save the "situation" on my new adult version skin.
Think again.
I tried Bare Essentials … and it worked real well… but lucky for us they just discovered it is going to give cancer conveniently to the entire female masses… Which what isn't amiright? I'm at the cancer stage where it's not IF I'm gonna get it… it's WHICH one am I going to get (taking bets now) and let's hope either the guy who has the secret recipe to curing cancer gets it before me or I get the kind that goes real fast so I can die with my flaw ridden skin intact and bright red.
I also tried a Clarisonic… I really like it… on my patient days… you know those days when 2 minutes doesn't feel like a year in a Chuckie Cheese at kid happy hour. Both painful.
But THEN my friend invited me to a "makeup" party. Ya know, one of those parties where you wanna go for the free food (and moral support offff coooourse 😉 )but you really don't want to buy anything and it immediately turns into a see-saw of guilt and being a cheap ass for the whole evening, that you just end up drinking the entire booze section of the free table and go ahead and purchase the entire catalog that is offered… waking up the next day feeling as if you've hit rock bottom and promising yourself you'll get your shit together… soon… and keep it in your wallet.
Well SOMETHING like that happened, but my purchase was not rock bottom… it was a ray of light from the heavens.
It's called Jordan Essentials and everyone with sensitive skin, hard to deal with skin, or just skin at all needs to try it. (WARNING: If you don't have skin then this is not for you.)
I got the oatmeal facial bar and am proud to announce I feel like dancing around with an umbrella and pulling my hair back for alllll the world to see.
They have makeup, self tanner, deodorant, lotion… basically EVERYTHING you could EVER want. (Besides anti- depression medication… and triple gallon sized bottles of wine… you have to go elsewhere for that.)
Jordan Essentials products are made with high quality ingredients such as, Shea Butter, Soy, Coconut oil, Dead Sea Salts, Beeswax, and Grapeseed oils. They avoid ingredients such as DEA, isopropyl alcohol, mineral oil, parabens, SLS/SLES and aluminum.
So you're saying there's only a 58.999999923451…% of it giving you cancer? Sign me up!!
Here's the link. http://www.myjestore.com/Nacy/
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Welcome to Buckeye Lake Marina
Family owned and operated for over 48 years
Welcome to Buckeye Lake Marina. On Buckeye Lake there isn't a friendlier or more knowledgeable staff than ours. We're happy to help you find either the perfect watercraft or the parts and service you need. Check out our catalogs to see what we have. If you need help in making your selection, call or stop in—we're always ready to help!
We are family-owned and operated and conveniently located in Millersport, OH. Buckeye Lake Marina. can provide you with the latest and best in watersports products to make your outdoor living more enjoyable. From the most recent in boating technology to the hottest new personal watercraft, we can help you find the recreational vehicle that's made for you. Combine this wide array of selections with our friendly and knowledgeable staff, and we're convinced Buckeye Lake Marina. will become your only stop for all of your on-the-water needs.


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This beaded flower necklace and pouch was made by a Huichol artisan in Mexico. This necklace measures approx. 18 inches by 3 inches at the widest part.
Brings light and illumination to the world. Tayaupa, or Tao Jreeku, is Father Sun, master of the heavens, and his wife is the Eagle, mother of the sky and goddess of life. The Huichols believe all living things receive their power from the sun, and that He guarantees healthy crops and abundant food.
The Moon represents the nighttime, the dark, the dead.
This necklace brings attention to the relationship between the two, sun and moon, light and dark, life and death.
WHITE – Cloud Spirits.
BLUE – The South, Pacific Ocean, water, rain, femininity.
GREEN – The Earth, the Heavens, healing, the heart, grandfather, growth.
YELLOW – A special root from Wirikuta used for face paint in ceremonies.


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The Bakken-Three Forks rig count stayed flat at 182 rigs running across our coverage area by the end of last week. The NDIC notes 192 rigs are active in North Dakota, but around 15 of those are in the process of moving in and rigging up.
In recent Bakken news, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed new rules last week for the testing of Bakken crude and better designed rail cars. Within two years, the DOT proposes phasing out older DOT-111 tank cars for the shipment of packing group I flammable liquids, which includes most Bakken crude.
Read more: DOT Seeks New Rail Car Design and Bakken Crude Testing
The U.S. rig count increased by 12 to 1,883 rigs running by the end of last week. A total of 318 rigs were targeting natural gas (three more than the previous week) and 1,562 were targeting oil in the U.S. (eight more than the previous week). The remainder were drilling service wells (e.g. disposal wells, injection wells, etc.). 184 rigs are running in the Williston Basin across MT, ND, and SD. 178 are in ND alone.
Not all rigs counted in our census are drilling for the Bakken, but it's close. The NDIC estimates 95% or more of activity in this region targets the Bakken and Three Forks formations.
Note: The NDIC reports 192 rigs are active in North Dakota. That is eight more than Baker Hughes reports in the Bakken area, and 14 more than the company reports in North Dakota. The difference is likely accounted for in the number of rigs actually working, rigs that might not be serviced by Baker Hughes AND rigs in areas outside of the Bakken fairway. On any given week, a certain number of rigs are in route to the next well location or idle waiting to drill the next well. The NDIC notes that around 15 rigs are in the process of moving in and rigging up.
Bakken Oil & Gas Rigs
The number of oil rigs stayed flat at 182 rigs running by the end of the week . WTI oil prices decreased by ~$1 from the previous week, trading at $101.99/bbl on Friday afternoon. Williston Basin Sweet crude traded at $88.69/bbl on July 24th. The WTI-Brent opened up a bit, settling at ~$6 by the end of last week.
The natural gas rig count in the region held flat at zero. Natural gas futures (Henry Hub) were trading at $3.78/mmbtu by the end of last week. A little more than 10% of the production stream from the Bakken and Three Forks is attributable to natural gas and roughly half of that is NGLs.
McKenzie County continues to lead development with 66 rigs running. Dunn, Mountrail, and Williams counties are the only other counties with more than 20 rigs running each. View the full list below under the Bakken Drilling by County section.
Activity is dominated by horizontal drilling:
- 171 rigs are drilling horizontal wells
- 11 rigs are drilling directional wells
- 0 rigs are drilling vertical wells
Bakken Oil & Gas News
- DOT Seeks New Rail Car Design and Bakken Crude Testing
- Lightning a Threat to Salt Water Disposal Tanks
Be sure to visit our Bakken Job Listings to search openings and come back weekly for updates or sign up for alerts - Daily or Weekly Email Alerts
Bakken Drilling by County
What is the Rig Count?
The Bakken Shale Rig Count is an index of the total number of oil & gas drilling rigs running across Montana and North Dakota. The rigs referred to in this article are for ALL drilling reported by Baker Hughes and not solely wells targeting the Bakken formation. All land rigs and onshore rig data shown here are based upon industry estimates provided by the Baker Hughes Rig Count.


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Why did no-one tell me about the joys of plastic figures earlier? I spent years of my life that I will never get back making teeny sugar figures and now I discover how brilliant pre bought figurines are.
I temporarily came out of retirement to make little Hugo's cake – He's special enough to me that it was worth it! Actually I really enjoyed having a potter and Cara (Hugo's mum) is a dream to cake for (its a verb you know!) – She gives me complete freedom and even went and bought the figures to put on the cake.
Cake purists among you are probably shouting at the screen about a non-edible medium being used – Sterilise the figures with alcohol (vodka or gin). It will evaporate. Also if you are using sugarpaste to stick the figure to the cake, the blob with come off on the feet of the character so the plastic won't ever touch the cake.
I think I may start the odd session of pottering about with marzipan/sugarpaste but am definitely not about to start the business up again. The thought of taking orders and being responsible for wedding cakes still makes me quiver slightly. Could be something to do with how busy I am being Mum's taxi.
For info, the Scooby Doo Characters are currently £6.99 at B&M – now try to convince me that homemade sugar figures are better!
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The following can result in differences between your invoice and Sales Contract:
Blackbaud is required to have a copy of the "state issued sales and use tax exemption certificate" for your organization on file to avoid charging sales tax on all or a portion of your purchase depending on state law. If Blackbaud does NOT receive a copy of your exemption certificate by the time the invoice is generated, sales tax may be included. For more information, see How do I get taxes taken off my invoice?
Pro-Rated Renewal Periods – Included under "Subscriptions" on Sales Contract
Sales Contracts reflect the cost of annual subscription periods, but if an organization currently has a renewable subscription from Blackbaud, the charges for Year One of new services may be pro-rated to coincide with your current Maintenance Renewal date.
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Credits for migrations and/or upgrades
Normally, all credits reflected on the new sales contract will be prorated from the date the contract is signed and returned. Once an invoice generates the credit reflected may be less than indicated on the sales contract. Please contact your Account Executive if you have any questions about the credit.
T&M – Consulting hours are included in the "New Services" section of your contract.
Consulting hours are billed 3 different ways:
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- T&M (Time & Materials) projects are set up with service hours that are billed as they are delivered.


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Hugh Hefner's ex couldn't face the pressures of the 23ft board
Picture: Kendra Wilkinson - Celebrities train on diving board for new upcoming ABC reality show 'Splash' - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Tuesday 5th...
Kendra Wilkinson quits Splash in a dramatic fashion: the reality star just couldn't cope with the demands of throwing herself head first into a pool of water from a 23ft drop. Love the show or hate it, this is surely what the producers of Splash must have had their fingers crossed for.
People surely don't watch the celebrity TV diving show because they care about whether or not a bunch of half-rate celebrities can actually execute a perfect somersault in the tuck position. They want tears. They want back-stories. They want phobias. They want the smug satisfaction that only comes from being sat on a sofa with a tin of beer and a packet of chips, watching someone fail to do something physically challenging that they have been hitherto unable to do, in their lives.
And so, Kendra Wilkinson is the biggest hero of last week's Splash, as she provided the most entertainment, by quitting. Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend took the walk along the diving platform but the pressure was just too much and she walked back down, crying the whole way and apologizing. "I'm so sorry everybody," she said. "It's bittersweet. One thing I don't do is quit. this is the first time in my life I've quit something. This will haunt me for the rest of my life." Meanwhile, viewers took another slug of beer and muttered… 'at last, a quitter… at last.'
Kendra Wilkinson quit Splash when she couldn't face the 23ft board


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In Orzechowski v. Boeing Company Non-Union Long-Term Disability Plan, 856 F.3d 686 (May 17, 2017), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded the district court's judgment in favor of a disability insurer, finding California law voided the discretionary authority granted under the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") to plan administrators. On remand, the district court is to review Aetna Life Insurance Company's ("Aetna") decision de novo.
Talana Orzechowski, an employee of The Boeing Company, challenges Aetna's decision to terminate her long-term disability benefits under her employer-created plan. The principal plan document, The Boeing Company Master Welfare Plan ("Master Plan"), "provides general information about the various benefit plans Boeing offers" and "has a broad grant of discretionary authority, which has been delegated to a service representative, Aetna." The Master Plan incorporates numerous other documents by reference, including The Boeing Company's Non-Union Long-Term Disability Plan (PN 625) at issue here. Under the terms of the disability plan:
For the first 24 months, "disabled" is defined as the employee's inability to perform "the material duties of [the employee's] own occupation" due to an injury or illness. (Emphasis added). After 24 months, disability is redefined to that an employee is disabled if she is "unable to work at any reasonable occupation for which [she] may be fitted for training, education, or experience." (Emphasis added). There are exclusions or limitations on the payment of long-term benefits. Relevant here, the long-term benefits plan covers conditions for a maximum of 24 months if the "primary cause" of the disability is "mental illness."
Aetna agreed to fund and administer long-term disability benefits under the Boeing plan.
The Policy includes a grant of discretionary authority to Aetna to "review all denied claims," "determine whether and to what extent employees and beneficiaries are entitled to benefits," and "construe any disputed or doubtful terms of the policy." The Policy further specifies that "Aetna shall be deemed to have properly exercised such authority unless Aetna abuses its discretion by acting arbitrarily and capriciously."
In 2004, Orzechowski was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
In January and February 2009, Orzechowski began suffering memory problems and increases in fatigue. Orzechowski suffered from a number of serious symptoms of largely unknown cause, including fatigue, loss of motor control, spinal and joint pain, and loss of cognitive functioning. Some of the symptoms appeared to be psychological in nature, including depression, obsessive compulsions, and suicidal thoughts. Other symptoms were more typical of physical illness, such as profuse sweating, muscle and nerve pains, and lung weakness. She also suffered from a wide range of other physical ailments, including fatigue, headaches, tiredness, extended periods of sleeping, asthma, decreasing muscle tone, and nausea.
In 2009, she applied, and was approved, for short term disability benefits – for the maximum duration of six months. When the six months elapsed, Aetna then approved long-term disability benefits for two years, under the "own occupation" disability standard. Aetna then requested documentation to support her disability claim under the new "any reasonable occupation" standard, and received "substantial medical records prepared by Orzechowski's physicians." Aetna sent the file to two physicians to review: one (a psychiatrist) agreed with Orzechowski's physicians, concluding she could do no work; the other (a neurologist), while "acknowledg[ing] her extensive diagnoses," disagreed, concluding she had no functional limitations and can likely perform her own occupation without limitation or restriction. Aetna denied the claim. Orzechowski's primary physician disagreed, and wrote a formal letter response. Aetna asked the neurologist to review the file again. After a conference with her physicians, the neurologist concluded her symptoms "must be psychiatric in origin because there is no definite evidence of a neurologic diagnosis." "In July 2011, Aetna terminated payment of Orzechowski's long-term disability benefits based on its determination that her disability is caused by a mental condition, more specifically depressive disorder and mood disorder, which falls under the Plan's 24-month mental health limitation. Aetna determined she was physically capable of 'light work.'" Her primary physician again challenged the determination, including Aetna's attempt to evaluate her chronic fatigue through objective evidence. Aetna upheld its decision.
Orzechowski sought district court review under ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1132, of Aetna's determination that she fell into the mental health exception and was not totally disabled, as required for a continuation of benefits under Boeing's long term disability plan. Following a bench trial, the district court ruled in favor of Boeing.
The district court applied an abuse of discretion standard of review to Orzechowski's claim, rather than a de novo standard. Orzechowski argued that California Insurance Code § 10110.6 voided the discretionary clause contained in the Plan. The district court, however, held that § 10110.6 does not apply retroactively, and found that the Master Plan was last issued or renewed January 1, 2011, a year before the statute became effective. Therefore, it held that the statute did not render any provision of the Master Plan void and so abuse of discretion was the appropriate standard of review. Applying that standard, the District Court held that "Aetna's decision to terminate Ms. Orzechowski's [long-term] benefits was supported by substantial evidence in the record and was not an abuse of discretion."
Orzechowski appealed. The Ninth Circuit applied a de novo standard of review to the district court's choice and application of standard of review.
In general, a de novo standard of review applies to a challenge to a denial of ERISA benefits. However, if there is a valid discretionary clause, an abuse of discretion standard is used. The Court "observed that discretionary clauses have been the subject of much controversy" and California Insurance Code section 10110.6 is an example of state legislation limiting such clauses. Section 10110.6 provides, in pertinent part:
(a) If a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement offered, issued, delivered, or renewed, whether or not in California, that provides or funds life insurance or disability insurance coverage for any California resident contains a provision that reserves discretionary authority to the insurer, or an agent of the insurer, to determine eligibility for benefits or coverage, to interpret the terms of the policy, contract, certificate, or agreement, or to provide standards of interpretation or review that are inconsistent with the laws of this state, that provision is void and unenforceable.
(b) For purposes of this section, "renewed" means continued in force on or after the policy's anniversary date.
Section 10110.6 is self-executing, rendering any provision covered by the statute void and unenforceable. Orzechowski argued the district court erred in refusing to apply Section 10110.6; Boeing argues (1) ERISA preempts this California statute, and (2) even if it is not preempted, it does not apply retroactively to Boeing's plan. The Court "conclude[d] that § 10110.6(a) is not preempted and applies to Boeing's Plan; the district court should have reviewed Orzechowski's claim de novo."
ERISA preempts "any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan." 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a). Nevertheless, ERISA also has a saving clause that saves from preemption "any law of any State which regulates insurance, banking, or securities." Id. § 1144(b)(2)(A). So, although ERISA has broad preemptive force, its "saving clause then reclaims a substantial amount of ground." Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran, 536 U.S. 355, 364, 122 S. Ct. 2151, 153 L. Ed. 2d 375 (2002).
No one disputes that the California law comes within the broad terms of the preemption clause because it "relate[s] to any employee benefit plan." 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a). In order to take advantage of the saving clause in § 1144(b)(2)(A), California's statute must satisfy the two-part test set forth in Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans v. Miller, 538 U.S. 329, 342, 123 S. Ct. 1471, 155 L. Ed. 2d 468 (2003). First, the law must be "specifically directed toward entities engaged in insurance," and second, it "must substantially affect the risk pooling arrangement between the insurer and the insured." Id. at 342. Section 10110.6 meets both prongs of the Miller test.
As to the first prong, Boeing asked the Court to read that requirement literally, arguing that Boeing (an aerospace company) is not in the business of insurance. While not illogical, this argument is foreclosed by Miller – which determined that the ERISA savings clause saves laws that regulate insurance, not insurers – and Morrison [Standard Ins. Co. v. Morrison, 584 F.3d 837 (2009)] – which rejected an attempt to distinguish a law directed at insurance companies and a law directed at ERISA plans and procedures, as ERISA plans are "a form of insurance." The Court noted its decision is in line with holdings of other circuits. The Court "conclude[s] that § 10110.6 regulates 'entities engaged in insurance' [ . . . ] even if they are not insurance companies."
As to the second prong:
California's law substantially affects the risk-pooling arrangement between the insurer and the insured, satisfying the second part of Miller. This requirement is aimed at ensuring that the laws in question are "targeted at insurance practices, not merely at insurance companies." Morrison, 584 F.3d at 844.
As we recognized in Morrison, bans on discretionary clauses, such as § 10110.6, clearly alter "the scope of permissible bargains between insurers and insureds." Id. (quoting Miller, 538 U.S. at 338-39). In Morrison, we held that a regulation disapproving of discretionary clauses "substantially affect[ed] the risk pooling arrangement" by narrowing "[t]he scope of permissible bargains between insurers and insureds." Id. at 844-45. Here, as in Morrison, the "disapproval of discretionary clauses 'dictates to the insurance company the conditions under which it must pay for the risk it has assumed.'" Id. at 845 (citation omitted). "By removing the benefit of a deferential standard of review from insurers, it is likely that the [California law] will lead to a greater number of claims being paid. More losses will thus be covered, increasing the benefit of risk pooling for consumers." Id.; see also Fontaine, 800 F.3d at 889 (concluding that "a state law prohibiting discretionary clauses squarely satisfies this requirement"); Am. Council, 558 F.3d at 607 (same).
Section 10110.6(a) satisfies both of the Miller prongs. Having determined that it is saved from ERISA preemption, we must resolve whether the statute applies to Orzechowski's claim against Boeing.
For Section 10110.6 to apply to void the grant of discretion under Boeing's plan, "a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement must have been offered, issued, delivered, or renewed after the statute's effective date of January 1, 2012." (Quotation omitted.) The Master Plan was dated January 1, 2011. However, the Court found it sufficient that Boeing's Policy had an anniversary date of January 1, 2012, and renewed accordingly. The Court found Boeing's Policy "'renewed' when it continued in force beyond its anniversary date of January 1, 2012 and, accordingly, the Master Plan similarly 'renewed' when it continued in force beyond the Policy's anniversary date." The Court rejected Boeing's argument that Section 10110.6 "must refer only to insurance policies and not other plan documents," finding this "is a variation on the proper argument that ERISA's savings clause applies only to insurance companies, and not to insurance provided or funded by other companies."
The Ninth Court remanded for review in accordance with the opinion:
Because California Insurance Code § 10110.6 applies to Boeing's Master Plan and Summary Plan Description, the district court should have voided the discretionary clauses and reviewed Orzechowski's claim de novo. On de novo review, the district court should give appropriate consideration to Orzechowski's fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome diagnoses, which were ignored by Aetna in its denial of benefits based on file reviews. Aetna demanded that Orzechowski produce objective evidence showing that her disability was caused by a non-psychological condition. But as we have previously acknowledged, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are not established through objective tests or evidence. [Citations.]
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The MATS (Make Art That Sells) assignment for this month was a marine mashup of marine life and pattern for a plate design. I focused on the following crustaceans: shrimp, crab and lobster. I researched online, looked in my marine life book, doodled and sketched them first. Part of the instructions in the mini was to illustrate the crustaceans in a dark color and then work on vibrant patterns as well. Even though it is the biggest sin ever to use black watercolor (ivory), I used it for this because I was using it by itself and not mixing with other colors to get a dark shade. I discovered I love working with it and it was fun to work with pure values, black and white.
So once I got that done I worked on my patterns. I used my compass to draw circles and then I painted the backgrounds using cool toned sea-glass colors. Lastly I painted the hand lettering as well. I scanned in all of my elements at 600 dpi and once I got the compositions the way I wanted them, I merged them together in Photoshop. I completed the finishing touches as a mock-up design using this tutorial. I love my final result and if any of my favorite stores like Anthropologie or Crate and Barrel are interested, it would be a dream come true to stock these in your shops. Just sayin'.
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St Leonards the whiting capital of the Bellarine Peninsular saw anglers tangle with bag limit captures of whiting with fish to 40cm on the chew. Anglers found peak times to be first or last light but the whiting did still bite for most of the day. Pippie and tenderised squid worked well on a running sinker rig with enough weight to hold bottom during the stronger running tides. Bourke St the section just out from the St Leonards yacht club was a solid producer but those who ventured further afield also managed excellent bags of whiting and escaped the crowds.
Around the corner Queenscliff kept anglers busy with squid and whiting on the grass beds and Kingfish in the Rip. Although the weather restricted some anglers in the Rip this past week those who found time boated Kingfish to 6kg jigging with 150gram knife jigs. Chris Vasilevski from Gone Fishing Charters again guided his clients onto large numbers of chunky Queenscliff whiting last week. Chris also headed out though the Rip and Offshore where they boated a well-conditioned Mako Shark of about 25kg. Anglers fishing land based at the Queenscliff Pier found reasonable numbers of squid using artificial jigs in size 3 and baited jigs suspended under a float.
Barwon Heads to Torquay saw sensational Southern Bluefin Tuna fishing this past week. Numerous fish to 30kg were boated trolling lures and casting to surface commotion. Anglers keeping an eye out for birds working was key to finding good numbers of fish.
Back inside the Bay and the spoil grounds out from Sands Caravan Park was a hot spot for soft plastic anglers chasing a mixed bag. Pike to almost 1 meter in length along with pinkie snapper and flathead were all boated with Gulp turtle back worm in pumpkinseed a standout. Australian Salmon were at times busting up on the surface between Alcoa Pier and Point Henry, those anglers lucky enough to come across the action found casting small metal slugs like sea iron super sprat and soft plastics, boated salmon to almost 2kg at times. Trolling small white ockie skirts also enticed Australian Salmon at times.
The Barwon Estuary again saw those go to the effort of sourcing live bait landing healthy Black Bream. Anglers fishing the entrance of the system banked whiting to 35cm on pippie fishing from the bank.
Trent Schiller landing some outstanding bream casting grub style plastics during the week with fish to 40cm on the chew. Trent found scented plastics were more effective with mega strike prawn scent the standout.
On the freshwater front Trelly's Geelong's Adam Van Der Lugt and Peri Stavropoulos made the trip down to Lake Purrumbete. Motoring over to the east side of the lake the guys quickly got stuck into the local redfin population racking up large numbers of fish. Adam and Peri found fish arrow soft plastics a real standout. Of note the guys said twice they had massive Chinook salmon swipe and follow their lures almost to the boat.
Wurdee Boluc is still seeing local freshwater fisho's land redfin with the big fish the lake is known for a little elusive.
Carp continue to keep anglers busy along the whole Barwon River with corn kernels rigged on a light running sinker rig. Redfin still snapped up lures worked along the river edge and around snags.
Had an interesting report of some good Trout, Yellowbelly and the occasional Cod caught in the creek that runs under the bridge on the Puckapunyal Road near Seymour on small hard-bodies, and spinnerbaits. Further along the river around Chinamans Bridge towards Tahbilk winery fishing well for Yellowbelly, just tie off the Trees in the deeper water and bob yabbies and worms the best method, also trawling big hard-bodies such as 150mm AC's and the 165mm Coddog in the deeper water towards Mitchellton Winery, will give you a chance of a monster Cod. Kirwans Bridge towards the Weir is producing good numbers of Cod and Yellowbelly on Bassman Spinnerbaits, as well as Scrubworms and Shrimp.
Bright coloured 85mm Codgers accounting for some nice Cod around Murchison, with Rob and Elisha McNally catching plenty of Cod around the 50-65cm and Rob dropping his PB, possible metre fish next to the boat. Elisha has been out fishing the boys on the Yellowbelly with her green 70mm Codger. Toolamba to Arcadia still producing plenty of fish, Pro Staffer Graeme catching 12 Cod, mostly on cheese, scrubworms and bardi grubs at Arcadia, also dropping a 75cm+ Cod beside the boat on an Old Mate lure in the silver/black colour. Young gun Tynan Wellington catching plenty of smaller Cod around 50cm on Cheese in the township of Shepparton near the boulevard. BD Fishing Adventures caught 8 Cod on spinnerbaits such as the Pirates in the Broken River towards Benella. Kialla Lakes fishing well for Yellowbelly on Jackal T/N 60's and worms. Main Eastern Channel producing plenty of small to medium Cod on Bassman Spinnerbaits and Cheese, Bardi Grubs and Scrubworms.
Waranga Basin still fishing well for Redfin, fish are scattered, so finding the schools whilst trawling small hardbodies such as 50mm RMG Poltergeist, 55mm Codgers and size 3 Stumpjumpers, then bobbing Ice Jigs or 65mm soft plastics the best method. Most channels fishing well just before dark, yabbies, worms, shrimp and hogback spinners the best method for catching a feed of Redfin, anywhere around Rushworth, Tatura, Kyabram to Undera.
Clancy Lester and 2 mates have been having a ball catching plenty of Cod around Ulupna Island and Mulwala on a mixture of surface lures, spinnerbaits and medium hardbodies. Last Night 7/3 saw some local Shepp boys catching some monster Cod on the Surface at Mulwala, although they are hit a miss, if you're lucky to get the timing right, some great sessions on offer. Frank Baldi and a few other guys have been catching plenty of Cod, mainly small fish and mainly on the Old Mate colour 9 and the bright coloured 85mm Codgers around Bearri and Piccola. The brighter coloured lures seem to be cleaning up everywhere in the Murray lately so be sure to have one in your arsenal next time.
Next week keep an eye on the spoil grounds for a mixed bag on soft plastics. Tuna anglers try Barwon Heads to Torquay for Southern Bluefin tuna make the most of the local action while it's here. Again Lake Purrumbete is hard to go past with huge numbers of redfin devouring most lures that cross there path. Cod fisho's keep Murchison aera in mind with plenty of Cod around 50-65cm taking Codger 85mm lures.
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As we pass into January the frantic harvesting, packing and shipping of our Satsumas to fill those holiday orders is behind us as another successful year passes into memory. That hectic pace of December has slowed, the weather has cooled, and all of us are ready for our long winter's nap. Our Satsumas have been associated with holidays and gifts, as a special December treat, so it is easy to assume that mandarin season is over too. Many of our customers won't be seen again until next December.
This year however, we have hundreds of pounds of Satsumas still on the trees waiting to be harvested. The cold nights and dry warm days of the past few weeks have provided the ideal conditions for developing the sugar and flavor in the fruit. Many trees had fruit that was "not ready yet" in December, and now that fruit is perfect.
We use a brix refractometer to measure sugar in the mandarins before harvesting, and 12 or above is the Japanese standard for Satsuma. In December, if the fruit reaches 12 and has no green on the skin and tastes good to us we will harvest it to sell. Many of the "late harvest Satsumas" have brix of 13 and above but just finally have turned from green to orange and softened in the acidity. These are some of the best fruit of the season.
Unfortunately these perfect fruit also will not last long on the trees. The rain, wind and cold of January can soften the skins and beat up the fruit and soon it will be too damaged to harvest. We harvested a big pick yesterday and will not be able to pick again until after the storms that are predicted over the next few days. If they survive the wind and rain of these storms, we still anticipate only a few weeks before all our mandarins will be too damaged to sell. Now is the time to taste these "late harvest Satsumas" before they are gone.
Please contact us to arrange a time to pick up your fruit. On the farm we also have Meyer Lemons, Eureka Lemons, Algerian Clementines,Oro Blanco grapefruit and Washington Navel Oranges available for sale.
We also continue to ship boxes of Satsuma mandarins. For more information click here.
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The Lay of the Land(June 17–September 11, 2016) offers a wide variety of contemporary perspectives on the American landscape in its natural, altered, or re-imagined forms. Featuring a range of topographies from cultivated lands to forest and desert, the exhibition highlights new acquisitions, as well as works being displayed for the first time. (More information here.)
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Linda Muehlig, curator of The Lay of the Land, is associate director for curatorial affairs and senior curator of painting and sculpture at SCMA. Over the past four decades she has organized numerous popular exhibitions for the museum, including Sandy Skoglund: Reality Under Siege (1998); Undomesticated Interiors (2003); and Mary Bauermeister: The New York Decade (2015), among many others. She has also overseen the acquisition of many of the museum's historic and contemporary works of art, including several by local artists on view in The Lay of the Land.
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A low-budget L.A. indie, Good Dick has the feel of a messy but meaningful short story, as this first feature from actress/writer/director Marianna Palka offers up portraits of two young, messed-up souls.
Palka's nameless character walks around hunched over, as if her body is trying to shield her from the outside world. With ragged, dirty hair and an apartment to match, she crouches down by her TV, scarfing junk food and watching vintage porn that she rents from the local video store.
Jason Ritter (likewise nameless) is a clerk at said store. His curiosity about this dissheveled, shy customer and her strange taste in erotica develops into a stalker-like obsession.
Stalker-like, but really, he's just convinced he's in love, and that he - a guy with his own addiction issues - can do something for her. And vice versa.
Like In Search of a Midnight Kiss, another low-budget study of lonely Los Angeleno twentysomethings struggling to make connections, Good Dick has its awkward, cliched elements. But Palka and Ritter - a couple in real life - bring grace, humor and emotional honesty to their performances.
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The sequel of the popular Flop Shot Minigolf is here! It might look like a traditional arcade game, without so many graphical enhancements, but it is about playing golf.
Flop Shot Minigolf
Flop Shot Mini Golf is one of the best mini golf flash games, and it even has a sequel! Before playing the sequel, it is a good idea to familiarize with the game, by playing this one.
Eagle Minigolf
Eagle Minigolf is a complicated 3D mini golf game, which takes place in a beautiful natural décor. It is an advanced playing opportunity, where you control the speed and the direction of the ball.
Zombie Golf
You are the defender of your neighborhood, and as you only have your golf skills and cubs at your disposal, you need to kill all the zombies using only those weapons.
Minigolf Islands
How would you like to go on a tour and win fabulous prizes on 4 different islands? You should be running for your suitcases right now. Have fun playing Minigolf Island!
18 Goal Golf
We can define 18 Goal Golf as the simplest, yet most addictive mini golf that you can play. You need to click and drag the ball to kick it, giving it the direction and the speed that you require.
Match Practice Golf
Match Practice Golf is a free online golfing game that makes you understand why it is so hard to put the ball into the ball at every time. Have fun playing Match Practice Golf!
Midi Golf
Midi Golf, as the name may suggest is a free online golfing game that allows you to play a round of golf around a golf course like you would in the real world.
FOG Golf
In this free online game, you get to play golf like a professional. The first thing you need to do is go round the golf course and plot your game.
Mini Golf Fantasy
Mini Golf Fantasy is a free online golfing game where you get to play mini golf in the desert. You are presented with a different challenge at each level.
Marble Temple
So you love golf? Then put on your golfing hat and get into this free online golfing game that is unlike any other that you have ever come across.


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Day of Silence
April 20, 2015
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Friday was the National Day of Silence, a youth movement meant to bring attention to the issue of bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) students. During the day participants remained silent in order to symbolize the silence LGBT students keep daily as they endure abuse due to intolerance. Student who are involved in the event had a card to display to clarify their intention to participate. This did not, however, give students the right to ignore or not respond to their teachers. English II teacher, Sommer Husbands, is the sponsor of the GSA club who put on the Day of Silence.


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When is "dressed up" not really dressed up?!? When it's a long-sleeved tee and a stretchy jersey skirt like this!!
Truly, this look couldn't be more comfortable, and yet it manages to have a decidedly elegant feel, don't you think? The midi length of the skirt (Vince Camuto) makes it very current, but it's the easiest thing to wear…I just pull it on! My T-shirt has a drop-shoulder, slouchy silhouette and this cool distressed texture; and of course the Dijon colour is very "now" too (although I've already been liking it for several years!)
These Guess booties have also been mine for quite a few seasons, and despite the spike heel, manage to be wearable for pretty much a whole day of shopping…my BFF and I were headed to the annual Vancouver Circle Craft Christmas Fair today!
And last – but definitely not least! – the lovely, hand-loomed scarf I have on was a birthday gift from my sister; just the perfect exclamation point for this outfit!!


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Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF)
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (nsf) is a rare disease caused by exposure to gadolinium-based contrast agents
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) was first described in the medical literature in 2000, with the first case of NSF bering identified identified in 1997.
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text: comic relief interlude.... Off topic... Simply just don't read it if you are unable to support the truth even if all truth is not always good to be disclose... This one came from one of my numerous personal e-mail fans but not a regular... 2 times in 3 years he's still in the undisclose section as he's polite with well manners. You know what happens with the other ones... Proceed like this one... Plonk! :0 * ^rom: lucleblanc6 at videotron\.ca /dev/null It's just that easy.... -Steve N1JFU Another one to discuss with the comic relief guy as the one who phone his newspaper editor telling him how he's doing to discard the sport section!!! as he don't want to read it... Is it the definition of a grown man? I pinched myself time to time to see if i'm not dreaming... Again if you don't want to have OFF TOPIC threads JUST Don't READ FURTHER THAN HERE... This way you will not have to comment on it nor you will not mixed up your hormones too much. On 26 Apr 2007 at 23:26, MIKE ZBROZEK wrote: > > > Amsat - > > I am puzzled at this dribble coming out of Quebec. It has nothing to do with > Amsat and satellite operation. Time to make stew of this frog? > > 73 > Mike, K8XF There is different part in this text. When you say " I am puzzled at this dribble coming out of Quebec. It has nothing to do with Amsat and satellite operation" are you refering to the new Dextre NASA robot? If you take time to check on http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php under NASA Image of the Day at the bottom left you will see a lot of space news! Is it related to satellite? If you feel concern about the Croatian part check the following link it will help you understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq Just to refresh your memory Now if you want a receipe for your stew just check this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophonie Croatia observer 2004 Croatian official language French is understood and spoken by 4% of the population A variation for your stew receipe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Are you also considering the missing peoples drama addressed by the International Commission on Missing Persons as frogs too? They are probably buried too... The signing of the Dayton Agreement in Dayton, Ohio by the presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Alija Izetbegovi´c), Croatia (Franjo Tudman), and Yugoslavia (Slobodan Milosevi´c) brought a halt to the fighting, roughly establishing the basic structure of the present-day state. The most recent research places the number of victims at around 100,000 to 110,000 killed (civilians and military) and 1.8 million displaced. This is being addressed by the International Commission on Missing Persons. It is also noticeable that Bosnia and Herzegovina sued Serbia and Montenegro for the act of genocide and that the International Court of Justice ruled that the Serbian state could not be held responsible for the mass killing, or complicity in the act.The ICJ did find them at fault for not preventing the genocide. You see Dayton is coming back again could be the comic relief guy wants me to add this one to make him enjoy more? You want to be part of the comic relief group i guess! Are you? Now read again the fog will vanish. (Not too sure if it will work to dissipate the minds fog) > > > > In croatian. > > > > To expell our sins > > > > http://www.delnice-crkva.org/raspored_misa.html > > > > Nicola had four sons, Nicola, Ivan, Josip and Franjo and they all come from > > Delnice. > > > > They came and choose liberty and freedom of speech.as they where not available > > up there. They where received arms open and they choose our values the human > > rights values strongly defended by those who received them. > > > > There is only on set of values who respect humanity. Is it too much asking them > > to pay back in defending theses values. They are international and not > > restricted by boundaries.. Will you remain arms crossed watching the train pass by or will you choose to make another one aware? Make a self diagnostic this wil help to expell your sins. This one should not produce any gazeous effect but not guaranteed on old fart (Joke) "-" "It is not the class of license the amateur holds, but the class of the amateur that holds the license." Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE


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I managed to last until half-past one before getting bored and doing some research. Although 'research' in this case involves watching flash demos of other people's software, so it's not exactly taxing on my cold-addled brain.
Achoo. And also, stop telling new PhDs not to complain.
Off work with an unpleasant cold, and counting down the hours until I get bored enough to start reading work-related papers anyway. That's what you get for spending a weekend in the bracing sea air, you see? Ill.
My parents have been on holiday here, or at least not too far away from here, for the past week or so. Their hyperactive collie puppy is five months old now. She loved the empty beach, the fact that she could dig big holes in the empty beach, and most especially the fact that she could sometimes find dead hares this way, which is absolutely the best thing a puppy could ever find, and how cruel were we for not letting her keep any of them?
She's not too keen on water that got deeper than she was expecting, though:
The puppy is absolutely their favourite child at the moment. (Second is my boyfriend for fixing their DVD player. Joint third, me and my brothers, who have indeed lost all patience for fixing technological things without a litany of 'DAD, stop MESSING with this! What did you DO?' a long long time ago, but have never to my knowledge dug up a dead hare from a beach and then rolled in it.) Previous dogs have not been allowed on the settee; this dog is not only allowed to sleep there whenever she wishes, but actually has cushions rearranged under her head to keep her comfortable and make sure she doesn't fall off.
Anyway, now I'm home and ill, and catching up on all the unread blog posts that have been stacking up in my reader for the past couple of months, which was what I wanted to talk about in the first place. Most especially, this latest from Rate Your Students about how humanities PhDs should just stop complaining so much, are you people in this for the money or something? I have about five thousand things to say about this insidious annoyance, but for the sake of brevity will cut them down a little.
The argument goes like this:
1. Academic jobs should only go to people who are both very clever and very devoted to their subject.
2. People who are very clever would already know that the academic job market in the humanities is bad.
3. People who are devoted to their subject would enjoy the work in and of itself without needing a payoff in the form of financial security or a guaranteed academic job.
4. Therefore, people who complain about the trials of PhD and post-PhD life as if a) the job market came as a surprise to them and b) 'the hours [they] spend discussing ideas with [their] students, peers, and mentors' weren't rewarding enough to make the whole thing worthwhile shouldn't even be here in the first place.
Okay. No.
1. Academic jobs 'should' go to the people who can do the job. While being relatively bright and interested in the work you're doing are obviously going to be a bit part of that, 'I love my subject!' is never going to outweigh, say, publications on the job market. ("So you've never taught any classes at all?" "No, but I really love talking about literature to everyone else in my office!" Yeah, good luck with that.) Loving your subject - really, truly loving your subject - only seems to be the most important thing in the discussion when the discussion is about telling new academics to just put up with whatever it is they're complaining about. Funny, that.
2. People don't know the job market is this bad. Partly because it's not obvious unless you're looking: senior professors don't know the job market is this bad, for crying out loud. (Before I got the job I'm doing now, I had more than one very smart, very well-established scholar tell me that yes, it was a real shame about the job market, and maybe I should try applying for 1-year posts, as if when I said 'There are no jobs' I didn't actually mean 'There are no jobs.') PhD students? The same PhD students whose only job advice from the people who should know - the academics who are convincing them to stay on for PhDs in the first place - has been 'It's difficult, but if you really love your subject it's worth doing anyway, and the only people complaining are the ones who shouldn't be here in the first place'? Oh, come on. When they find out, it'll be by accident.
3. Hell, yes! Who needs food when you can read Derrida? You philistine mercenaries, with all this talk about 'job security' and 'I can't pay my rent' and 'something is seriously wrong when I'm working 80-hour weeks for below minimum wage and being told that objecting to another pay cut makes me ungrateful'. Tsch. You're in this for love, not money!
4. Therefore, shut up.
Two things non-conducive to getting work done:
1. Google Street View UK going up.
2. Sunshine.
We managed to stay indoors and in front of computers for most of the day - unlike most of the undergraduates in the university, who from half-past eleven were sprawled out on every square foot of grass the campus and surrounding areas had to offer, soaking up sunshine like there wouldn't be any more until August. Which there probably won't, so good for them. And given that half of our morning was spent inching our way around the city as it appears on Street View, there will be no preaching about the virtues of work here. (Best Street View sighting of the day: the arm of our Masters student, playing Guitar Hero in his new flat.)
Some amount of work did get done, most of it involving dealing with the hundred headaches of a badly-OCRed 18th-century religious text. On the one hand, a painfully slow and fiddly proofreading process and transcription, taking hours per document. On the other hand, 'Christ has power to execute the lame.'
This is depressing
Today, me and my office-mate became The People Who Send The Masters Student To Do The Dishes.
He was bored! He doesn't mind! He offered! (Yes, I'm a little disappointed in me as well.)
You betrayed me, Ikea!
Ikea sells stuff which is reasonably cheap when you buy one of it. Not so much when you get a carful. Especially since you have to walk through the whole shop before getting to the checkout (well, you don't have to, but: it's Ikea! it's funky minimalist laminate chic! You have to), so you go in for pillowcases and a draining rack and come out with five hundred plastic things called Skorkopp, which is not so cheap at all.
Still. It's Ikea. It's worth it.
I've also helped to cut down a tree today, to a given value of 'helped' (carrying a saw and then leaning on a dead branch). This took about a minute and a half, to what I'm hoping is the pleased surprise of my boyfriend's grandpa, who gave us a pretty dubious look when we were heading to the tree with the saw. My boyfriend's grandpa - 97, with strong opinions on brandy in coffee and the superiority of the Muppets over this Wallace-and-Gromit nonsense - is brilliant, and not least because he does a fantastic line in well-timed theatrical eye-rolling, something which fortunately appears to be genetic judging by my boyfriend's baby photos. It's kind of wonderful to see a smirk-and-perfectly-raised-eyebrow combination perfected as early as 18 months.
Also, it's strange how simultaneously fascinating and weird it is to see photos of people you love from before you knew them. I've seen old film of my boyfriend as a toddler, trying to drive a bus, which was sweet until the toddler I didn't know looked at me with the same half-sheepish, half-amused expression that I know belongs to someone I've only ever known as an adult. Carol Ann Duffy said it best, to an old photograph of her mother as a teenager; these are other people, almost, not quite.
When you first get contact lenses, everyone is very keen to reassure you that you can't actually lose them in the back of your eye.
This is true. But it turns out that you can certainly misplace them for a little while.
Ick. And ouch. And ick.
All right! I should update this more often. And in honour of that, here's a several-years-belated introduction.
I'm 28. I have a PhD in Victorian literature, earned through blood, sweat, toil, tears, and a conveyor belt of first-year essays to mark. There's a conversation happening across a few academic blogs at the moment regarding the number of people who get the PhD in a fairly pleasant environment with nothing to concentrate on but their own research and the occasional class to teach, and that wasn't my experience, by a long way. There was one year I had four jobs plus the PhD, and I earned £10500 and gave the university £3000 of it for tuition... we're not going to dwell on that, but it's fair to say those weren't the absolute best days of my life in many ways, although they were great in others.
At the moment, I'm a postdoc in a field which both is and isn't within shouting distance of my own. I love my job, my new department, the fact that for the first time in five years I can get all the sleep I need (which turns out to be about six hours when I'm not working the job-juggling schedule from the jaws of hell), and to a growing extent, the city I've moved to, which is huge and confusing and seems to be lacking in hills and woods and wildlife but has some things going for it all the same. And I am determined to learn to love this place.
I live in a little flat with a spiral staircase in an old Victorian school; my bedroom was once the headmaster's office. My much-loved tropical fish live with me, and I am not at all joking when I say that the best way I've ever found to motivate myself to get research done in the past is by thinking of the big reef aquarium I'm going to get when I can afford it. My boyfriend is a scientist, although disappointingly this seems to be all done on computers these days with nary a lab-coat nor a test tube to be seen.
For the first time in four years, I'm not teaching. I can't decide whether I miss it or not.
In non-academic parts of my life, which I am hoping will get a bit more headspace now, I like cameras and horses and sci-fi and far-away places and the idea that the thylacine isn't extinct after all. (I do not like long walks on the beach, because it is hot and there is sand.) And music, and fossils, and Macs. My work schedule for the past few years killed off all my hobbies; I'm hoping to fix that in the future.
Also, my blood group is O+. I find this rather disappointing.
So! How was your Saturday night?
Mine started off with macaroni cheese and ended up with my small, shivering hands clinging to iron railings outside a hotel in the rain, while my boyfriend and my boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend steadied my arms on either side so that I could hop away from the wailing siren of a fire alarm.
Macaroni cheese, people: just say no.
No, to tell the truth, the story behind that isn't anywhere near as interesting as it should be. I did have to sit down with my foot up for an hour watching other people dance (not right, this), but I was allowed to be the only Arts person at a tableful of scientists with only a couple of jokes about loud alarms going 'AWOOGA!', and the ankle managed to lay off most of the stabbingly stabbing pain until the end of the evening, which was a long, slow walk to a taxi rank in the style of Touching the Void.
Anyway! Work. In a segue that I'm sure would be a lot neater if I took a moment to do this properly, the lengthy agonising hobble to get to a taxi queue where there were fifty people and no goddamn taxis reminded me of the whole advising-students-(not-)to-do-PhDs-in-Arts-subjects thing. I was speaking to an MA student at work the other day who can't wait to start his PhD, can't wait to be called doctor, and really really can't wait to be a lecturer, especially because his girlfriend's doing a PhD too and they've already started looking at which universities they could work in to be close together without having to work 'anywhere crap'. Now, he's very smart and the job market in his field is slightly less awful than in mine, but... it's a PhD in the Arts. You'd think somebody would have said something.
I stayed guardedly positive while sharing a few things about the job market that he probably needed to know, so I feel like I've sort of done my duty by being the first person to say that things are really not great. But, honestly? I've heard a lot of people recommend that the advice to such students should be to tell them absolutely not to go into academia unless they're really, really, absolutely dedicated to the point of not even being able to imagine ever being happy doing anything else with their lives, and... I'm fairly sure that bright, keen students like this one wouldn't be at all put off. This student had already been told that, in fact, and was even more determined to be tough enough anyway, and this is because it's effectively useless advice, given to bright twenty-one-year-olds who are already in love with academia. 'Don't do this unless you're prepared to be the best of the best of the best!' 'Don't do this unless you love academia more than all the other students you know!' Come on. How do you think they're going to respond to that?
Forgive me for my pessimism, here, but I don't think that students who believe that they only deserve to be in academia if they're prepared to jump right into it regardless of what horror stories they hear about the job market are going to make the best-thought-out decisions.
These students don't need to be told to prove they're worthy. They need to be given the facts about the job market, preferably in terms of numbers - numbers of candidates, of jobs, of number of applications typically made before one works out, of months/years they can expect to spend doing casual hours of part-time teaching to keep some kind of department affiliation in the meantime, of average monthly income they can expect to have during that time - and then left to make their own mind up based on that. It's just a job! We're not training them to be Jedi, for Christ's sake.
And with that said, me and my ankle are going to watch TV.


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America's Anniversary Garden. Red, White, and Blue in Fall and Winter Gardens
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Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) has developed the America's Anniversary Garden to help individuals, communities, and groups mark America's 400th Anniversary with a signature garden planting. The signature gardens will have red, white, and blue color schemes and will be promoted and marketed throughout the state and beyond.


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Josh Turner Tickets Las Vegas
Josh Turner signed to MCA Nashville Records in 2003 and his hit single "Long Black Train" was his breakthrough single release. Josh is considered a contemporary country music singer and his voice has been compared to the likeness of Randy Travis, both having the same deep, sad yet sensual sound that just resonates in every song either man sings. His sophomore album, Your Man brought Turner his first two number one hits: "Your Man" and "Would You Go with Me". His next release came in 2007's Everything is Fine this album gave Turner a number 2 in "Firecracker". Haywire, released in 2010, accounted for his next two number 1 hits in "Why Don't We Just Dance" and "All Over Me" both earning critical acclaim. 2012 was a stellar year for Turner he released, Punching Bag whose lead single "Time is Love" was called the biggest hit of 2012 according to Billboard Year-End. Also in 2012, Josh released Live Across America, that album was comprised of twelve songs recorded live in concert in different cities and was distributed through Cracker Barrel. Fans are very excited as Turner recently released the lead single from his upcoming sixth studio album, "Lay Low" to country radio on September 1, 2015. It was met with the "Taste of Country Critic's Pick" by Taste of Country's Carrie Horton, who said "with honest lyrics and a perfectly straightforward melody, 'Lay Low' touches on all the things that make fans love country music". Josh Turner puts on a dynamic, high energy show that demands to be seen.


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Bedlington air cadet is flying high
An air cadet from 2522 (Bedlington) Squadron has been invited to attend a Royal garden party at Buckingham Palace.
Friday, 23rd February 2018, 14:30 pm
Saturday, 24th February 2018, 22:35 pm
Nineteen-year-old Matthew Booth, from Cramlington, has been an air cadet for seven years, achieving many accolades including a silver Duke of Edinburgh award, promotion to cadet warrant officer – the highest cadet rank – and most recently being promoted to the Lord Lieutenant's cadet.
There is only one cadet for the county who is awarded this position, with their main duty being to escort the Duchess of Northumberland on Royal visits and engagements.
Through this position, the Duchess has nominated Matthew to attend the garden party this spring – where the Queen will be in attendance.
Matthew is hoping to be accepted into the Royal Air Force police.


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Lenovo is launching its Miix2, an 8-inch ISP 1280x800 Bay Trail tablet with Windows 8.1 that will sell for $299.99. It even has Office preinstalled in this 32GB tablet.
Acer is responding in kind, with the Iconia W4, which features a similar spec and slightly a higher price. Acer plans to sell the Iconia W4 for $329.99. It packs am Intel Bay Trail Atom processor clocked at 1.8GHz and comes with 32GB to 64GB storage. The battery inside should be enough for 10 hours of web browsing or 8 hours of video. Acer didn't forget a micro HDMI, either, and a microSD slot is on board well, along with a two megapixel front camera and a five megapixel rear one. Of course the bigger camera can record 1080p video. The device weighs 0.91 lbs (415 grams) and is 0.42 inch (10.75 mm) thin. There will be a Crunch keyboard that will be able to charge your tablet but currently we don't know the price of this accessory.
Despite the fact that this is a well spec'd tablet, the question remains if the Windows 8.1 is a good choice for touch devices, namely small tablets. We know an OS or two that might be a better choice, but then again if you want a Windows on tablet with decent hardware and full x86 compatibility this might be one of your best bets.
The device should ship this month for $329.99 for 32GB and $379.99 for 64GB version.


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Safe Online Wagering for Beginners
Safe Online Wagering for Beginners The first step to a successful online wagering venture is bankroll management. Your bankroll is the amount of money you deposit into your online casino account. A player should never deposit more money than they are willing, or more specifically can afford, to lose. While playing online casino games, the […]Continue Reading