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MAREN KLOPPMANN (German, b.1962)
Helical Stack VI, 2019
glazed porcelain, hand-built, elements 17
51" H x 36" W x 10" D
Maren Kloppmann is a ceramic artist renown for her architectonic wall sculptures. Both her large and small-scale installations are a study in the reconciliation of the divergent qualities of natural and man-made structures by creating a visual dialog between the two aesthetic aspects.
Kloppman was born in Germany in 1962 and raised in Veerssen. In 1981, Kloppmann undertook a three-year apprenticeship at Keramik Handwerkskammer for production pottery. Upon receiving her Journeyman degree in 1984, Kloppmann travelled to the United States to pursue a yearlong studio assistantship in Iowa City, and completed several artist-in-residencies in North Carolina and Michigan. She later received her undergraduate degree at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1993, and her master's degree at the University of Minnesota in 1996.
After a 17-year career in functional ceramics, Kloppmann began experimenting with volume and proportion. Taking inspiration from both her urbane working environment, and the austere simplicity of her studio and wooden treadle, Kloppmann describes her style as the "visual confluence between control and serendipity," and it is obvious that each of her sculptures, handcrafted from soft clay slabs, embody a balance between precision in design and the subtlety of the artist's touch.
Kloppmann creates sculptural wall installations and porcelain vessels, employing a combination of techniques that include throwing, slab building and coiling, with an apparent focus on the three dimensional space that the pieces occupy. Her objective developed from utilitarianism into the artistic reconstitution of space, which she achieves through the creation of porcelain sculpture in shapes of definitive relief, depth, texture and color. She also pursues specific means of presentation, such as wall mounting, in which her sculptures appear to manipulate sources of light. This is ultimately how Kloppmann's Shadow Wall Pillow series was conceived.
The resulting artworks are stable, contained shapes, often in modular repetition. The juxtaposition of colored glazes creates soft tensions and unique geometries. Her works can appear at once organic and architectural; they are minimalist studies in the precision of line, volume and form that blur the boundaries between craft design and fine art.
Maren Kloppman currently lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she operates her own studio and gallery. She is a three-time McKnight Fellow, and her awards include a Jerome Fellowship and five Minnesota State Arts Board grants. Her work is represented in numerous museums including the Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento CA, the Frederik R.Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN, the Herberger Museumof Art & Design, Tempe AZ, the Historical Society of Minnesota, St. Paul MN, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO and the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth MN.


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Finally, Sally Mann exhibits in a one-women show at The Photographers' Gallery, which opens on Friday 18th June until September 19th 2010. Unbelievably this is her first UK Solo show- what have we been doing!
The show is, The Family and the Land, and will be a selection of her most powerful, thought provoking series linked back to the title. I am so excited about seeing these works, especially her most recent series, What Remains made between 2000 and 2004 that deals with our attitudes surrounding death and our own morality.
Image, Untitled WR Pa 59, 2001, from the series What Remains © Sally Mann, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

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Eternal Sunshine poem ?
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
i like the poem... if people are stuck on how to get the poem exactly rite lol... there are places tht say the quotes like amazon wen u search for dvds and stuff if u look on trivia... or on imdb has quotes too...
I know i do!! Pen and paper in hand as well!
And i love the poem.. its amazing.. i had it as my msn name for the longest time.
This poem is beautiful... it's actually a 366-line long poem!
This is a link to the whole poem for those interested:
And here a brief story about it (from wikipedia):
"Published in 1717, Eloisa to Abelard is a poem by Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th century story of Eloisa's (Heloise's) illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris, and the brutal vengeance her family exacts when they castrate him, not realizing that the lovers had married.
After the assault, and even though they have a child, Abélard enters a monastery and bids Eloisa do the same. She is tortured by the separation, and by her unwilling vow of silence, arguably a symbolic castration, a vow she takes with her eyes "fix'd" on Abélard instead of on the cross (line 116).
Years later, she reads Abélard's Historia calamitatum (History of my Misfortunes), originally a letter of consolation sent to a friend, and her passion for him reawakens. This leads to the exchange of four letters between them, in which they explore the nature of human and divine love in an effort to make sense of their personal tragedy, their recognizably incompatible male and female perspectives making the dialogue painful for both.
In Pope's poem, Eloisa is in anguish over the powerful, almost orgasmic, sexual feelings she still has for Abélard, especially in her dreams, and by the realization that, now a eunuch — something he regards as a mercy that freed him from the "contagion of carnal impurity," -- he could not return her feelings even if he wanted to; and so she begs, not for forgiveness, but for forgetfulness."
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever." JC
Here you can read the whole poem written by Alexander Pope, but it is REALLY long.
so long...
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever." JC
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|System: PS3, Xbox 360
|Dev: Criterion Games
|Pub: EA
|Release: September 20, 2011
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Cartoon Violence
by Amanda L. Kondolojy
Burnout fans know exactly what to expect from the series: amazing tracks, insane challenges, and slo-mo crashes. But after 2008's Burnout Paradise, the series took a bit of a break. Now it's back with Burnout CRASH!, but this isn't exactly Burnout as you remember it. While you probably won't find something with the depth and replay value of the old Burnout games, CRASH! is an interesting experiment nonetheless, and the results aren't all bad.
Burnout CRASH! takes longtime series mainstay Crash Mode and expands it into a full game. However, instead of head-on slo-mo collisions, the game delivers a top-down world populated with cars, buildings, and objects to destroy with your car. In the game's main mode, your job is to create a four-way pileup in such a manner that no cars are able to get through. You start your approach form a side street, and you'll have to crash strategically into a single area, blowing yourself up every few seconds to continue to cause as much mayhem as possible.
The game's main mode is actually quite challenging, and I was surprised at how quickly things can go wrong. See, the twist here is that if you let more than five cars escape from the intersection, the game is over. And since you need to earn a certain amount of stars by reaching some lofty score thresholds, this mode can be quite frustrating. However, if you can time that first crash just right and cut off as much traffic as possible, you can earn some stars and unlock new modes.
Each course has three modes associated with it, offering a total of fifteen earnable stars. And while you would think that the initial mode would be the most fun, I actually found it to be quite tedious, with the secondary modes taking up most of my gameplay time.
The first of these is a sort of free-play mode that gives you 90 seconds to cause as much destruction as possible. There are no limits as to traffic blocking, and you can completely ignore passing cars and go after buildings and landmarks as you see fit. This mode actually allows you to be strategic rather than forcing you to worry about cars slipping through your blockades, letting you plan how to conquer a map and maximize your score. This mode definitely should have been the game's main mode, as the traffic-blocking initial mode feels more like a "challenge" mode, almost superfluous in comparison.
In addition, there is a third mode that challenges you to destroy as much as you can within a time limit and keep the resulting fires burning for as long as possible afterward. It's not as fun as the timed free-for-all mode, but it's still pretty entertaining—it's a better way to spend your time then fretting about cars that slip through traffic, after all.
Despite my misgivings about the initial mode, Burnout CRASH! as a whole has a sort of addictive charm that compelled me to stay up until the wee hours of the morning to get just one more star. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was sucked into its light-hearted arcade format.


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Might it usher in some blistering, kick-ass songs that are chock full of pungent socio/political commentary?
Our nation's garages are full of aspiring, pimple-faced, axe-wielding loudmouths who need look no further than their television sets for inspiration. They're just waiting to slap on a "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker. Sure, they may suck, but they also might include the next Woody Guthrie or Joe Strummer!
Turn on the News!
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The suspense is too much
The Great Green Greasy Limpopo
Poor Adolf nearly choked when he saw the news.
The seriously nasty David Cunliffe has chosen Nanaia Mahuta as his running mate or Number Two.
Miss Mahuta represents the denizens of the great grey greasy Waikato and is not known for her appeal to the broad community of New Zealanders. Possessing double degrees in one of the 'easy' subjects, she entered parliament at the age of twenty six. Her only asset appears to be the fact she is neither a lesbian nor a unionist.
This move by Cunliffe can only be an attempt by way of subliminal comparison to establish the notion that he himself has charisma.
See if you can spot the difference.
November 30th
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Who Said What?
Friends not foes
Maybe try this.
Apparently There is a hiccup in bringing a resolution of the "occupy" movement's utilisation of Auckland's Aotea Square.
As in Dunedin the Police see a comflict between the Bill Of Rights Act and local authority Bylaws where they, the Police decline to act following the council issuing a trespass notice.
Now the word was a month ago that the protesters would depart following the election but that does not seem to be happening.
Maybe the councils could try lobbying central government to force the occupiers to stay there indefinitly by way of emergency legislation then fence them in.
Might be the cheaper option.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Canada to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol
After round two of Climategate, the flies are slowly being swatted.
Delegates at the conference will also be hammering out the details of a plan to administer the Green Climate Fund, money that is to help poor countries deal with climate change.The fund is expected to grow over the next eight years to eventually distribute about $100 billion a year.However, it is still unclear where all of that money will come from and how it will be distributed.In addition to the usual international development funds from the West, proposals include a carbon surcharge on international shipping and on air tickets, as well as a levy on international financial transactions.
Is there Global Warming here?
An astronomer has captured the first amateur pictures of another solar system from a tiny telescope in his back yard.
The reconstruction of NZ Labour begins.
Following the election where many of the faces from last century survive and much of the promise of the future is dead or wounded, the caucus should examine how the rebuild will begin before who will lead it back is decided.
My pick is David Shearer with Curran as deputy and give the old guard a subtle hint as to their next career move.
The NZRU got away with a reappointment strategy four years ago but this is a Little different,pun intended.
Would make it very different.
Now the Great Helmsman chose not to stand in an electorate and it would have been interesting if he had.
That accepted I will leave him at the top but here is the list as actual voters ranked them as opposed to the Party machine construction, in parenthesis.
1 WRP No electorate (1?)
2 Brendan Horan (6)
3 Raymond Dalman (17)
4 Fletcher Tabiteau (11)
5 Kevin Stone (24)
6 Brent Catchpole (13)
7 Barbara Stewart (5)
8 Edwin Perry (21)
9 Pita Paraone (12)
10 Tracy Martin (2)
11 Helen Mulford (9)
12 Doug Nabbs (25)
13 Bill gudgeon (16)
14 Bill Woods (31)
15 Tamati Reid (29)
16 Ian Brougham (30)
17 David Scott (18)
18 John Hall (23)
19 Randal Ratima (19)
20 Arsenati Taylor (8)
21 Andrew Williams (3)
22 Gordon Stewart (28)
23 Dion Jelly (22)
24 Dennis O'Rorke (7)
25 Kevin Gardener (not ranked)
26 Jerry Ho (15)
27 Taliaoa Ilalio (27)
28 Richard Prosser (4)
29 Brent Pierson (26)
30 Bindra Mahesh (20)
31 Allen Davies (30)
32 Hugh Barr (10)
33 Ben Craven (14)
Simplistic and based on Polling night first count but some interesting facts on the value indicated by the intimacy of the electorate's judgment.
I accept that once on the list there was no incentive to campaign for electorate support as it was only the Party vote that mattered and I have no knowledge of the life outside the campaign of the candidates.
Some who stand out Barr at 32 and 10, Prosser 29 and 4, Williams 21 and 3 and O'Rorke at 24 and 7. Barr is just outside the redline and the others are very safe
Dennis O'Rorke has had significant exposure to the Port Hills electorate voters as a City Councilor who have rejected him on more than one occasion and I guess others may have knowledge of the track records of others.
QUIZ RESULTS For Sun 27th
Sir James Henare Commander of the 28th Battallion and outstanding Maori.
Facade of the Robert McDougal Gallery in Rolleston Avenue in CHCH
Premier House in Thorndon Wellington
Ratana Church Wanganui.
The Stone Store Keri keri.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Here I am and starter for 10
The millionaire founder of the new Conservative Party Colin Craig says he plans to stay in politics until he has displaced the National Party as the country's major party of the right.
Let the good times roll
Opportunity Lost?
I know the the referendum votes cast on election day are not yet counted and the current count is of the early cast papers, some 200 000, and at 54% not to change is probably too high to move below 50% in the final count.
Was the RWC factor, the possibility of an MMP delivered majority party vote and the concerted spend by the Union movement to oppose change too distracting to allow the vote for change to succeed. Notwithstanding the run off may well have delivered MMP again.
Had the referendum vote been held mid term against a backdrop of what MMP was actually delivering rather than the image of what it was possibly delivering with the contemporaneous General Election possibly delivering a govern alone government, would a different outcome have resulted.
Now it would seem the electorate has handed the inmates the opportunity to make the rules for the asylum and thereby leaving the voters peering through the windows as portrayed in the closing chapter of George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
I concur with Cameron Slater's prediction that we are probably witnessing the last National led Government ever as the multitude of ego based single issue minor parties that are more correctly identified as pressure groups, available to be purchased by left of center major parties to fulfill their divine right to rule philosophy.
That a party can win 48% of the vote and be left in opposition to an "Uncle Tom Cobbleigh" coalition of every one but government with all the crazy outcomes that it will produce, confirms my suspicion that MMP as we have it is a NUTJOB system and that is without the travesty of a one man band party with 8 MPs being elected as the "party you can trust" almost gaining a King maker status.
It may still happen 'Napoleon'.
Sheesh John where are Gower and Ambrose
KNOW YOUR COUNTRY Sunday November 27th
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Phil Goof and labours victory speech
Ah, good times
Rant alert force 5
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Keeping them honest.
I have and I am still shaking my head in amazement at the number of people calling up and saying they will be voting for Winston; "Coz he will keep them honest".
Farkin hell.
That would be akin to making the bulimic girl the tuck shop supervisor or Darren Hughes a scoutmaster.
Its all over bar the shouting.
Some random thoughts:
The MSM have successfully made the campaign "their" news, pity about any voter actually seeking information as to policy and the costs that will fall on the dwindling number of wealth contributors.
That some in the Media have succeeded in resurrecting the corpse of Winston First without reminding voters of all the crap he delivered under the cloak of protection of the last Labour Government, is an indictment on their professionalism.
Where's Hager, or will he lob a grenade into the campaign today. A bit late for the book though.
Am I in a minority that thinks the cost of the circus coalition that will bring Goff to PM will make Greece look like the epitome of stability.
If Labour's vote reflects the polls, will any chance of meaningful rebuilding that once proud party be set back 3 more years.
Will ACT rise from the conflagration that Brash ignited with his "last hurrah" with anything resembling a party to the right of National or will that space become the opportunity for Craig and his "fundy" clingons. Gordon f#*king Copeland FFS.
Should the release of Polls be proscribed in the closing days of an election.
Likewise any reality TV effects such as audience polls and worms et al associated with "TV Debates". This manifestation of communicating the message has become the ultimate political infotainment
Should an independent entity be charged with costing of major policy initiatives to increase awareness of potential outcomes among voters becoming increasingly disconnected.
Is the electorate being well served by the ongoing union parallel campaigning.
Do current campaign finance rules create tilted playing fields when manpower is uncounted but finance to purchase such effort is severely curtailed.
Should we have also been polled as to the parliamentary term along with MMP.
Will we ever see the likes of an Oliver Ridell or Hugh Templeton who gave little hint of their Political Hue as they penned their analysis of the political landscape, portraying the reality of what the situation was with little projection of their opinion, again. Probably never as Tabloid Journalism becomes the norm.
Sainsbury, Campbell, Garner, Gower, Soper, Holmes, Espiner, Mutch, Clifton, are all as shallow as a puddle on a runway with their Image driven egotistical approach as to what they see as Political reporting, and that is without their ill-disguised bias.
The sun will still rise on Sunday and we will still hold the Webb Ellis Trophy.
Please no comments after Midnight to comply with electoral law.
Have a great election and be careful what you wish for.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Predictions. Sunday and beyond.
- Horizon polling is shown up to be more inaccurate than a 7 year old boy trying to pee standing up. (I know this will come to pass because I have just received a results email from them into my six different email adresses all showing me the results of their last pre-election poll and they believe National will poll in the low 30's)
- Mediaworks have been poofingered by Garner, Gower, Campbell and Lush. Their shocking bias will see these four frozen out of opportunities to interview senior government figures going forward. Trying to fill the opposition void because Labour are shite is not on.
- Phill Goff will be knifed by Monday morning, despite this gap toothed time serving mong playing the game of his life and carrying all the strain throughout the entire campaign the massive defeat and the fact that he is not a member of the man hating, right on, cardigan wearing suckhole brigade will see him bleeding at home comforted only by his multi million dollar net worth and Trumpesque publicly funded pension.
He is thick!
A political animal of nearly 40 years involvement wants the grenade he tossed last night returned on tonights news with the Pin missing.
Last night on TV one's leaders show, Phil Goff asserted that the police have been directed by the Key Government to cease recruit training next year as a cost cutting action.
John Key replied it was an operational matter, leaving Goff possibly feeling his shot may have grazed the PM.
This morning Hon Judith Collins refuted his assertion while admitting that the January intake was canceled due to high retention rates. That left Goff safe in his foxhole, unwounded and with his dignity more or less intact and his assertion with a small shred of truth.
Police assn president and Commissioner Marshall backed Collins explanation but Goofy was still relatively unscathed and one would expect him to seek another target with all his years of service and the nine years at the feet of the master politician.
Hell no, the man who seems totally unable to admit error and move on even when close enough to the truth to be able to claim a partial hit, leaps out of his foxhole all guns blazing inviting even friendly fire from a startled Press corps.
In a perfect world he would get his wish but with a media obsessed apparently to try to even up what has been throughout a very one sided affair, I will not be holding my breath.
I just may watch though, curiosity you know.
A theory to live by
Too Much Water In The Whitewash
Looks like it's time to put THEM up against the wall and shoot them.
Two years after Climategate hit the deck the sequel emerges and it is ten times worse. Totally and utterly incriminating.
There actually is not a scientific basis for this so-called AGW theory. The whole thing is a hoax.
Here's what a bunch of modern day big time crooks looks like.
Never in the history of Mankind, have so many been conned by so many to enrich so few.
A nightmare or did it happen?
After three years of Cunliffe,aka the fiscal creep, and Parker et al berating the Key Government for the level of borrowing to soften the landing for New Zealanders, did the Philly Goof come out and say the Key Government should have borrowed "more"
Final Prediction
After one of the dirtiest campaigns ever, Adolf has had enough of politics for a while, so here is his final prediction. Some assumptions:-
- National wins Epsom
- National wins New Plymouth
- Dunne loses Ohariu
- Mana wins TTT
- Labour plunges due to dirty tactics in last week, benefiting MP and Greens
- Many Maori electors vote Labour candidate National Party - protest against tactics
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|Party Votes won
|Party seat entitlement
|No. of electorate seats won
|No. of list MPs
|Total MPs
|% of MPs
|Green Party
|Labour Party
|Māori Party
|National Party
My early morning connection to the news.
At around 0620 the program has a segment where the host of Radio Sport, the days News Reader and the host come together to raise issues from their point of view. It is often a bit of a rabble but the Producer (assumed) is a guy called Glen who possesses one of the drollest delivery on the wireless, sometimes intrudes with a voice over.
This morning turned to comedy gold when a discussion of the rubbish of the previos evenings 'debate' was in full swing and 'along came Glen' with:
I was watching it with my son and at about mid session he asked "are they hungry yet".
You had to be there I guess but with his laconic delivery , pure comedy.
Please let it be so
Make the duplitious little old goat stand up to the scrutiny of a bunch of voters who are not living in a fog of dementia affected short term memory loss. Oh Yes Please.
Unless it could be arranged for an electorate consisting entirely of a group of voters tied to a zimmer frame and/or being "assisted to vote" by a group of Winston First electorate workers, he would get his sorry, wrinkled old arse handed to him on an ashtray. Oh Yes Please,bring it on.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wine Writers
It seems people who want apricots go and foolishly buy sauvignon blanc, hoping for a whiff of their favorite fruit. Others, similarly gullible, rush off to buy Cabernet Sauvignon when what they really want is half a kilo of blackberries.
Here's a typical example.
2007 Sauvignon Blanc - 100% varietal, this fruit forward wine is bursting with aromas of sweet apricot and citrus, and a faint hint of mineral. The delicate palate reveals ripe grapefruit, lemongrass, and a gently herbaceous lingering finish. Magnificent with poultry, pasta with red sauce, seafood, and grilled vegetables.
One of my endearing fantasies is to sneak in to a wine competition and spike the cheapest bottles of sauvignon blanc with a couple of drops each of apricot juice.
Then sit back and watch the fun.
What exactly was that Doco on child poverty?
In the rather exercised environment being pursued by Campbell, Garner and Gower during the closing stages of the election campaign, one thing is becoming very obvious. TV3 is in no way being directed by it's parent company Media Works following them having been bought by Nationals "time Payment" for current access to the airwaves.
The Documentary, term used advisedly, was little more than an unauthorized one hour promotion of the NZ Labour Party.
It started with a run down on how the 1950s the frontman, Bryan Bruce, grew up in, had moved from a socialist utopia to a capitalist oligarchy reminiscent of the 19th century.
He received a "free" bottle of milk when he arrived at school and the poor of the 50s relied on various forms of charity in addition to welfare.
BB then moved to Russel St School in East Porirua where the Principal was "forced" to feed her classes , the pupils had to go 2 Kms to access School Dental service, ( Jesus wept I biked two miles to catch a freekin bus), A district nurse could only visit ONCE A BLOODY WEEK, we had a health check once a bloody year.
He then moved to a very dilapidated State Housing Estate where surprise surprise, he found instances of damp, run down, over crowded housing and whole families moved into one bedroom for warmth. My first 10 years were spent in a 70 yo villa with a gap under the back door mice coud traverse, no heating apart from a coal range in the kitchen but it was all Freekin Clean.
We then traversed the "downhill slide" from utopia ( I didn't realise it then) of the fifties when we owned our State owned assets, through the dislocation of the UK joining Europe, The 1973 Oil Shock, Think Big, Muldoonism, Rogernomics and a swift kick for Ruth Richardson to where we are now with such "widespread child poverty".
Not a mention of any socialists apart from that bastard Douglas.
He, the Frontman, wheeled out a procession of activists and 'professionals' who all lamented the terrible state of child health, Susan St John from the Auckland Poverty Action Group and various others calling for more action to deal with "the increasing number of declining child health indicators.
We were then whisked off to Scandinavia where large numbers of healthy children froliced around their classroom in robust pink of good health. No coughing snotty kids with suppurating sores there, a veritable Utopia, yes another one.
Mr Bruce then wrapped up by going back beyond those utopian 50s to where that champion of socialism, Micheal Joseph Savage, rescued the country from the capitalist induced mire of Poverty with "free" school milk, State housing, and the welfare state.
We then had the benefit of the superior intellect of a professor whose name I missed, wearing a suitable dark blue frock, who boldly informed us that Labour always built and upgraded the State Housing stock and National always sold them and let them run down. The prof even managed a kick for poor old Maggie Thatcher to reinforce her point.
Never once did this charade posing as investigating journalism, traverse the destructive elements of welfare, removal of personal responsibility, poor parental choices, why there were double digit people crammed into a small state house, the total amount of welfare being collected on the total occupants, the absence of any men at the house ( in contrast the Swedish group was well represented by FATHERS) or any other of the pertinent facts as to where the carer might be failing.
A very illustrative image near the end for me, was a plastic play house at a play center or similar in Porirua with a large jagged hole in it's wall with a little face framed in it. was there any connection there with that "toy" house and the very decrepit houses portrayed.
Update on the worm
Michele Levine senior exec of Roy Morgan Australia is doing what exactly?
Its time to stand up and be counted
Two ticks National and vote to replace MMP with STV.
My National candidate is Amy Adams and IMO has a good future in national politics.
Communicates well, listens and responds quickly and intelligently when questioned on issues.
My second tick goes to National although frustrated with their timidity on issues such as resource extraction, welfare reform and continuing with a doubtful asset in the form of Simon English with his baggage of double dipping and that 22% tag, I see them as the only option. ACT have lost my support with their appalling performance in leadership, policy tactics and serious lack of political nouse. If Banks is the best Lifeboat they could find then just as happens to a Racehorse with a broken leg get the 12 gauge and do the necessary.
I have consistently opposed MMP for one simple reason, the electorate cannot vote a person out of the legislature no matter how disgusted 90% of the voters may feel, if their party, for whatever reason places them in a high list place and then convinces 5% of the national vote to support them. If I needed any more evidence, the prospect of the odious leader of Winston First at 5% is it.
I will vote for STV where to get to Parliament a candidate must eventually garner the support of 1 vote over 50% of those with the best chance to evaluate the suitability of that person, ie their electorate.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
It can't get any worserer, can it?
That is what I thought were the remains of the Pin Striped Thief, Luigi.
Since the RWC ended an electorate that had pretty much made it's collective mind up has been subjected to a stream of rubbish from many in the MSM to bring back the corpse of Winston First.
Last evening it appears a dodgy 65 "uncommitted" voters had control of a worm in the studio during a "debate" featuring the PM and The Leader of Her Majesties Loyal Opposition.
Farrer, Slater and others have suggested that the "panel of 65" may not have been quite as Kosher as the muppets at TV 3 would have us all believe.
My cynical mind wonders if a team of Political infotainment hacks led by Campbell, Gower and Garner exhibiting a very transparent agenda and having expended considerable effort to manipulate how the electorate views the current Prime Minister, could be trusted to be "fair" with such an easily manipulated reality TV device.
How easy would it be to have the software running the Worm with an inherent bias to give an erroneous projection without resorting to "stacking" the players.
Farrer has posted on the dangers of using such imagery particularly in the closing stages of an election campaign and the result that catapulted Dunne's mob of nonentities into the legislature would seem to support that research from Professor Colin Davis of Royal Holloway University of London, on the matter.
Move Over, Paul Henry
hattip Tim Blair
Election Night Coverage
The link is not yet up but will be in good time for the event.
Go to tvnz.co.nz and look for the link. When it is available I'll put it up here and bump this post to the top of the page.
For me, the fun starts at 4.30 pm when the polls close so I reckon it will be all over by 7.00 pm.
Cripes who wudda thunk that?
That wont happen will it.
The players should manage the Black Caps
The inmates should run the asylum.
And of course the unions should run the education sector.
Separating management and governance is so 19th century.
Monday, November 21, 2011
One easy question
Dadster a strong 4, could possibly see 5 from his answer and wins the elollies.
Hp an ncea credit.LOL
PM of NZ got the Flemington I had in mind, I had never heard of the Asburton one
1 East of Roxburgh, one of many very Scottish placenames of Central Otago.
2 West of Wanstead in Southern Hawkes Bay was the target but will accept the Mid Canterbury one, thanks for the update
3 One of many early townships that never grew, NW of Fairlie on HWY 8.
4 West of Ngatapa in Gisbourne, 600 acres of exotic trees that can be spectacular in an autumn with little wind and cold temperatures, colors just unbelievable. Planted by a slightly eccentric gentleman whose preferred work clothes were the ones he was born in.
5 The highpoint on a limestone escarpment north of Waiau to the East of the Inland Kaikoura Rd. Traditionally a snow indicator for the Amuri Basin, on the boundary of Annandale and Mason Hills Stations
As Good As It Gets
It was superb. Twenty four of the world's best golfers playing a variety of formats, team and individual, over four days.
The Yanks won and deservedly so. Fred Couples and Greg Norman were excellent team captains.
It was very funny listening to the two Aussie commentators Wayne Grady and Jack Newton. They could not help themselves. Kept referring to the international team as 'the Aussies - sorry the internationals.'
It was noticeable that the South Africans and South Koreans did most of the winning for the Internationals while the Aussies did most of the losing.
President Newt?
"Go and get a job, right after you take a bath."
Quick Right Jab
Asked when he was last frightened, Mr Key said "it happens on a daily basis"."It's called picking up the Herald."
A new truth
Sunday, November 20, 2011
KNOW YOUR COUNTRY Sunday 20th Nov
In the spirit of this challenge try without the atlas or google please.
1 Ettrick.
2 Flemington.
3 Kimbell.
4 Eastwood Hill Arboretum.
5 Mt Cookson.
Latest in Green billboard saga
GST now off tripe
It's a huge reason for making some fundamental changes in the way we run our economy, which we have put up our hand and said we're about to do. We know the world is a fragile place at the moment. Today it is the European debt crisis; what happens tomorrow if the Chinese economy slows down? We've got to put our economy on a strong financial basis and that's why we've taken the hard decisions about GST.
What is your policy on GST?
The GST will come off fresh fruit and vegetables - the whole 15 per cent - costing about $300m a year, for the dual purpose of taking a bit of pressure off the budget of families but, more importantly, sending an economic signal about families needing to make healthy choices in their foods.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Labour 24.5% down 1.5%
Greens 13% up 1%
New Zealand First 3% down 1.5%
ACT 1.5% up 0.5%
Maori Party 3% up 1%
Mana Party 1% No Change
The media circus
Friday, November 18, 2011
One of the voters, resplendent in a crimson cap, proudly stated he would vote for the retards party because they oppose National Standards. "Terrific"
This tosser was basing his voting decision on a cloth cap attitude, union based, that was as shallow as a puddle on a fairground and opposed for the main reasons; it came from a National government determined to solve the frightening stats that show a fifth of school leavers are effectively illiterate and without basic numeracy skills and possibily threatened the careers of some who should be looking for another line of work.
In a world that has little opportunity for citizens unable to function in an increasingly demanding environment, successful people see that as condemming that 20% to real adult disadvantage and a life of welfare dependency.
National Standards may not provide all the answers but nine years of socialist education management did absolutely nothing to solve possible one of the most debilitating problems, currently confronting thinking on education outcomes. Yes it may identify some in teaching positions who are not up to it but that is "collateral damage" and no where near the damage being inflicted on that unfortunate 1/5 of our young.
It was revealing to me that the strait jacketed man who had made his life's work in a system that is now shown to be failing, was basing his voting decision on such a symbol of his socialist past and at the same time ignoring the economic stupidity that that same bunh of morons were among other inanities, going to borrow billions of dollars from the Chinese to invest in equities overseas as a hedge against the future cost of Superannuation. A pledge that if accepted, suggests he should be prevented from even voting, for his own protection.
Been on safari for 11 days and thanks to Telecom today is the first chance to get the interwebby via my T Stick on the XT network.
Mcleans Island Rd,
Jones Rd Weedons,
Orari Domain just off SH1,
Lake Tekapo Had a link but couldnt maintain a connection,
Braemar Stn,
Lake Wardell
and finally Omarama Airfield a tenuous link. In other words it holds for about 10 minutes.
Bloody marvellous aye.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Slam Dunc Garner
Colmar Brunton tonight kicked TV3's Pie Eater into touch. All his baiting of the PM has been for naught.
National remains as steady as a rock while Labour has plummeted to an all time low. Of course the best news of all is that the Liar and Thief is a looooooooooong way from five percent. All that remains is for them both to be prosecuted for dealing in an illegally recorded private conversation.
National: down 1 point to 53%
Labour: down another 2 points to 26%
Greens: up 4 points to 13%
New Zealand First: down 0.7 points to 2.2%,
Act: up 0.1 points to 1.6%
Maori Party: 1.6%
Conservative party: 1.4%
Mana: 1.3%
United Future: 0.3%
And to make a bad day worse for the Pie Eater, here's his own channel's poll.
Go For It, Fang Wang & Co
Just in time to reassure Australians about Julia Gillard's carbon tax. The one she said she was not going to have.
The journal:
SCIENCE CHINA, Earth Sciences • October 2011 Vol.54 No.10: 1458–1468
The scientists:
FANG JingYun 1,2*, ZHU JiangLing 1,2, WANG ShaoPeng 1. YUE Chao 1 & SHEN HaiHua 1
1 Department of Ecology, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2 Climate Change Research Center, Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
The conclusions:
Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. More efforts should be made in order to clarify these uncertainties....
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988 to evaluate climate changes and their effects on natural and social systems as well as the possible strategies that may be taken by humanity for the adaptation and mitigation of certain issues.... Up to now, four assessment reports have been published by the IPCC. In 2007, the fourth assessment report (AR4) was finalized by more than 450 lead authors and over 800 contributing authors from more than 130 countries…
For the mechanism of global warming, the IPCC report emphasizes the impact of human activities and the correlation between the CO2 concentration and temperature increase. However, the Earth is a complex dynamic system with various factors affecting each other; great uncertainties exist regarding causes and effects of the climate changes [7].
Therefore, the claims of the IPCC AR4 have been largely questioned. The Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), established in 2007, has introduced a number of controversial and divisive debates [8, 9]. The "Climate-gate" and "Glacier-gate" scandals have especially questioned the public credibility of the report [10, 11].
The IPCC report is no longer the most authoritative document on climate changes, as it is restricted by its political tendencies and some errors and flaws.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Even If I Do Say So Myself
Today, Adolf spotted in Coles some turkey shanks on special - about five bucks a kilo. Two of these wonderful shanks cost about $3.50.
Well, I guess a shank is a shank so let's find a recipe for lamb shanks. Sure enough. So, in went the turkey shanks with white wine instead of red wine and 90 minutes cook time instead of 120 minutes.
To die for. Believe me.
And the other one will do for tomorrow night.
Who said you can't live like a King on the smell of an oily rag?
Look Behind The Obvious
Nobody appears to have thought past the first twenty second sound bite.
Clearly, the tape was made intentionally and illegally. Thus, the publication of any of its contents will render the publisher subject to prosecution and possible jail time.
Now, join some dots.
Winston Peters claims to have been given a copy of the tape. As an aside, I wonder if the passing of the tape to him might in itself constitute 'publication?
My pick is that Peters won't be able to resist quoting publicly from the transcript.
The moment he does that he will be the subject of a prosecution and if convicted will forever be unable to be an MP.
Labour and the media have completely misunderestimated the steely resolve of Prime Minister John Key who has absolutely no time for one Winston Peters, liar and thief.
However, NZ First without Peters might well be a comfortable coalition partner in 2014.
Storm in a Teacup
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Post election prediction. Number 2 in a series.
Post election prediction. Number 1 in a series.
Monday, November 14, 2011
There Goes Another Bunch of Votes
Of course I can't prove beyond doubt that Labour and the unions did the job but I'll be very surprised if this is not found to be the case. This operation was expensive and well beyond the capacity of the Country Women's Institute. Labour will have provided the idea with some foot soldiers and the unions will have looked after logistics - printing, transport, finance etc.
I sincerely hope the Gnats ask the police to investigate. Of course you would not expect Labour to include the expenses of this effort in its electoral returns so I hope the Commission asks them for detail.
What are the penalties for this co-ordinated vandalism? Are there any penalties?
Give That Man A DB
Joshua Drumond, writing in the Waikato Times:-
UnitedFuture is a party of one man, Peter Dunne, notable only because he has a kind of symbiotic relationship with a weasel that lives on his head that can hypnotise people into voting for him. Otherwise useless.
At last, a journalist who simply reports the facts.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Tui Time
The recording, which was made unintentionally, according to the man who made it,.......
Yeah right.
I thought it was very odd that the Herald was very quick yesterday to deny 'it had a free lance' at the meeting. The Herald doesn't 'have' free lances. Free lances are free.
Like Labour, the Herald thinks New Zeealanders are dimwits who'll believe anything.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Labour backs user pays
Leaving aside the question of whether the propaganda figures about the cost/benefit ratio of alcohol use in society are correct (they're not), I find it a curious stance for leftists to take, as they're normally flatly opposed to the kind of "user pays" argument they're using here. An argument predicated on sheeting costs home to those statistically more likely to incur the costs has an initial sense of fairness about it that appeals to right-wingers, but leftists are supposedly meant to think of society in less individualistic and vindictive terms. Still, if we did go down that track, as someone completely lacking all interest in sport I wouldn't feel all cut up about the amount of tax the govt could charge you for picking up a rugby ball...


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Gato Barbieri
Featuring: Gato Barbieri, sax
Lincoln Goines, bass
Charles Blenzig, piano
Vince Cherico, drums
Luisito Quintero, percussion
Mystical yet fiery, passionately romantic yet supremely cool you hear those first few notes from that instantly recognizable tenor, and know youre in the unique musical world of Gato Barbieri. His enduring career has covered virtually the entire jazz landscape, from free jazz with trumpeter Don Cherry and avant-garde in the mid-60s, to film scoring and his ultimate embrace of Latin music throughout the 70s and 80s. Barbieri began playing tenor saxophone with his own band in the late 50s and moved to Rome with his Italian-born first wife Michelle in 1962, where he began collaborating with Cherry. The two recorded two albums for Blue Note: Complete Communion (1965) and Symphony for Improvisers (1966), both of which are considered classics of free group improvisation. He also collaborated with Steve Lacy, Abdullah Ibrahim, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and the Jazz Composers Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira, Chico OFarrell, and Lonnie Liston Smith during this period.
Barbieri recorded a handful of albums on the Flying Dutchman label in the early 70s and then signed with the Impulse imprint, where he recorded his classic Chapter Series: Latin America (1973), Hasta Siempre (1973), Viva Emiliano Zapata (1974), and Alive in New York (1975). While at Impulse, he also composed the Grammy-winning score for the film Last Tango in Paris (1972) an achievement he parlayed into success as a film composer, scoring a dozen international films over the years in Europe, South America, and the U.S. By the mid-70s, Barbieris coarse, wailing tone began to mellow, a change evident on his 70s A&M recordings. However, early 80s dates like the live Gato Para Los Amigos (1984) saw the saxophonist reclaim a more intense, rock-influenced South American sound.
After many years of limited musical activity due to the passing of his first wife Michelle (also his closest musical confidant and manager) and his own triple bypass surgery six weeks later, Barbieri returned stronger than ever with the 1997 Columbia offering Que Pasa, the fourth-highest-selling contemporary jazz album of that year. Since that reemergence, he has continued to release albums, including The Shadow of the Cat (2002), which won Billboards prestigious 2003 Latin Jazz Album of the Year award and garnered a Grammy nomination, and New York Meeting (2010), his latest release.


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Your pregnancy: weeks 28 to 32
Your baby
Your baby's brain and vision are developing very quickly now. The bones are fully formed, but still soft and flexible for delivery. Little fingernails and toenails are growing, lungs are maturing, and the nervous system is almost complete. Your little one has been busy going through so many big changes!
What's happening this week?
28 weeks pregnant
I'm 28 weeks pregnant. My baby's the size of an eggplant.
I'm officially in my third trimester. This is about to get REAL!
- Your baby is the size of an eggplant, a little more than 2 pounds now, and 14 to 15 inches long.
- With lungs almost fully developed, your little one is busy practicing breathing.
- Your baby's skin is becoming less wrinkly and smoothing out.
- The hair on your baby's head is getting longer.
29 weeks pregnant
I'm 29 weeks pregnant.
My baby's the size of a butternut squash.
They say babies start dreaming right about now. I dream about my baby all the time!
- Your baby is the size of a butternut squash — close to 3 pounds and just over 15 inches long.
- Your baby has brain wave activity and rapid eye movements (REM) during sleep. REM sleep is associated with dreaming.
- Buds for permanent teeth are beginning to form.
30 weeks pregnant
I'm 30 weeks pregnant.
My baby's the size of a cabbage.
My little one will gain half a pound every week until delivery day. Farewell, feet! See you in about 10 weeks.
- Your baby is about the size of a cabbage now.
- Brain tissue continues to develop, with wrinkles forming to create more room to hold lots of brain cells.
- Bone marrow is producing red blood cells. They're gearing up to carry oxygen through your baby's body.
31 weeks pregnant
I'm 31 weeks pregnant.
My baby's the size of a coconut.
My little one's starting to have more regular sleeping patterns this week. That makes one of us!
- Your baby is about the size of a coconut, and weighs more than 3 pounds.
- By now, your little one has regular waking and sleeping patterns.
- All 5 senses are working. Your baby can see, hear, taste, and touch, but won't smell anything until delivery day, when he or she starts to breathe air.
32 weeks pregnant
I'm 32 weeks pregnant.
My baby's the size of a bunch of Tuscan kale
They say babies practice crying in the womb in the third trimester. Aw! Makes me want to cry, too!
- Your baby is about the size of a bunch of Tuscan kale, weighing between 3 and 4 pounds and measuring 16 or 17 inches long.
- The lungs are maturing.
- The brain and nervous system continue to develop.
- Your baby is probably in the head-down position by now, so you might notice a change in his or her movement.
Your body
Are you feeling really pregnant these days? As you adjust to a new center of gravity and new symptoms like back pain, it goes with the territory. And so does this: As your body starts to produce breast milk, you may start to notice wet spots. Nursing pads can help — they're designed to fit between your nipples and your bra to absorb leaks. You'll definitely need them once your baby gets here, so stock up and start using them now if you need to.
Now's a good time to pack your hospital bag, just in case you go into labor early. It's also important to keep an eye out for sudden puffiness in your face, hands and feet — or headache and vision changes. Call us right away if you notice any of these signs.
Your to-do list
- Get an estimate of how much it costs to have your baby at Kaiser Permanente.
- Save the address and phone number of your labor and delivery department to your cell phone.
- Start the process of choosing a pediatrician. Need a recommendation? Ask us!
- Keep taking your prenatal vitamins — and continue while you're breastfeeding, too.


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OLED B click carries a 96 × 39 pixel blue monochrome passive-matrix OLED display. This bright display has a wide viewing angle and low power consumption. The SSD1306 controller allows horizontal and vertical scrolling, contrast control, normal or inverse image display, and more.
OLED B click can communicate with your target board's MCU through either SPI (CS, SCK, MOSI/SDI) or I2C (SCL, SDA) mikroBUS lines. You switch between the two by resoldering three on-board jumpers (in SPI positions by default). Both modes also use PWM (A/C) and RST lines.
This small display is ideal for displaying lines of text or icons, because it has low power consumption yet provides a sharp, high-contrast display.
Note: This module uses a 3.3V power supply only.
There's another version of this module with a white display.
You also can connect Click boards to many other popular platforms via these adapters:
In addition, it is royalty-free to add mikroBUS to your own designs. Visit the mikroBUS Category to see the full line of Click boards.


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I'm having some serious trouble with the immersion heater in my apartment. I believe the set up is similar to the one described in this answer, however there is no thermostat to turn the immersion heater off when the water tank gets hot enough.
Consequently, turning the immersion heater on heats the water non-stop, and ultimately leads to an overflow which causes hot water to come out of the cold taps, and for the toilets to fill with hot water also. Finally, water begins to leak from underneath the boiler. Is this a safe setup?
My landlord has blamed me for the leak, saying that I left the immersion heater on for too long (it was on for a little over an hour). He's now saying that I will be held liable for any future leaks.
Can this problem be put down to misuse of the equipment, or does it indicate a flaw in the system?


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The big news revealed by Oprah Winfrey's on her show Monday – she has a long-lost half-sister – certainly packed surprise along with the requisite emotion. But in some respects, the show shouldn't have been all that much of a shock.
After a quarter-century of reunions, self-help segments and weepy confessionals, viewers should hardly be surprised that Winfrey can still pull off a stunner of show – especially when she's sharing a piece of her life.
Winfrey, who said she decided to go public with the news before it could be leaked to the press, also clearly is determined to go out on top when her daytime show comes to an end in September. She's leaving to tend fulltime to her new baby: the Oprah Winfrey Network, which went on the air this month.
It's significant that Winfrey didn't save the reunion for a special on OWN, whose high debut ratings quickly dropped. She certainly knows her old-school platform still wields more clout – and that the publicity can only help her cable outfit.
Winfrey is trying to expand her foothold amid a rapidly changing media and talk show landscape. Larry King is done with CNN and Regis Philbin is on his way out. Like Winfrey, both showed great staying power. Both septuagenarians say they're not retiring, but King's days as a major force in broadcasting are over and Philbin's likely will end with his final signoff on "Live! With Regis and Kelly."
Winfrey, at 56, is determined that her next act will be her greatest as she constantly pushes OWN as our TV-paved path to "self-realization." But the touchy-feely, New-Age-for-the-masses speak belies what Winfrey proved Monday: She's the queen of daytime talk because she knows how to produce compelling TV that gets people talking.
Winfrey, who only recently learned of her half-sister's existence, called the discovery the "miracles of all miracles." That's a bit of an overstatement, but there's little doubt many viewers' heartstrings were plucked during the show, a tearjerker that was handled with class, largely devoid of the stench of exploitation.
"I thought nothing could surprise me anymore," Winfrey said. "But let me tell you, I was wrong."
Monday's show might prove more memorable than her previous most-talked about episodes - Free cars for everybody! We're going to Australia! That's because her program always has worked best not when it turns into a game show, but when it taps into anger, shock, sadness, longing, controlled confrontation and catharsis.
And the show is at its strongest, as it was Monday, when Winfrey's at center stage – which should surprise nobody.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


text: Editor's note: For the younger turks in the congregation, it's hard to fathom a time when everyone didn't have a high-quality digital camera in his pocket that doubled as a telephone, calculator, and video sexting device. But back in the psychedelic '60s and swingin' '70s, real photographers roamed the dragstrips of the great U.S. of A., taking pictures and capturing for posterity a timeless era in Chevrolet racing history—one that would never be repeated. Check out these fabulous photos from one of the legendary lensmen of that era. Come back next month for Part 3. –Jim Campisano


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International Education Week to Feature Global Perspectives
Augustana will celebrate the global perspectives and cultural diversity alive on campus during "International Education Week," Nov. 14-18.
"At Augustana, we often talk about how, in order to really learn about the world, we need to see it. Taste it. Smell it. Feel it. The best way to learn about another culture is to become immersed in the land it calls home. Thanks to the support and guidance of our talented professors and staff, it's what so many of our students do each year," said Rob Oliver, president.
"One in two of our students will study abroad during their time at Augustana. We also know that more students – nearly 80 percent, according to a recent survey – have a desire to study internationally during their college careers."
"Coinciding with our efforts to send domestic students out into the world, we continue to work hard to further globalize our campus. The record number of international students on campus and events like "International Education Week" give the entire community the chance to learn about different cultures, languages, traditions and customs right here at home."
"International Education Week" Schedule of Events:
Monday, Nov. 14
- 10 a.m.: Study Abroad Information Table (Commons Concourse)
- Lunch: Ethiopia- Ethiopian: Vegetable Stew
- Dinner: Hong Kong: Char Siu Pork
- 5-7 p.m: "Skype around the World," 3-in-1 Room
- 5:30 p.m.: Amanda Turner presentation: "Spain"
- 7 p.m.: "Oriental Medicine in its Cultural Context," featuring Alex Rose, 3-in-1 Room
Tuesday, Nov.15
- 10 a.m.: Study Abroad Information Table (Commons Concourse)
- Lunch: Sweden: Kottbullar (meatballs)
- Dinner: Vietnam: Curry Chicken with Lemon Grass
- 5-6:30 p.m.: "Language Blvd," learn a new language in 15 minutes or, at least pick up some new lines, sponsored by the Augustana Language Clubs, 3-in-1 Room
- 6:30 p.m.: "A Montage of Post-Raj India," Global Issues Forum featuring Thad Titze, Halverson Room
Wednesday, Nov. 16
- 10 a.m.: Study Abroad Information Table (Commons Concourse)
- Lunch: Ecuador: Chaulafan (Pork and rice)
- Dinner: Pakistan: Shami Kebab
- 5-7 p.m.: "Skype Around the World" 3-in-1 Room
- 6 p.m.: Melissa Plamann presentation, "Gold Coast, Australia"
- 8 p.m.: National Geographic Photographer Annie Griffiths "Connect with Anybody, Anywhere," Kresge Recital Hall, free with an Augustana ID, $5 for the public
Thursday, Nov.17
- 10 a.m.: Study Abroad Information Table (Commons Concourse)
- 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Passport Issuance: Get your passport photos taken and applications processed
- Lunch: Ghana: Nkraka (Beef and Vegetable Stew)
- Dinner: Germany: Sauerbraten
- 7:30p.m.: Film: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," award-winning documentary, Humanities Building, room 102
Friday, Nov. 18
- 10 a.m.: Study Abroad Information Table (Commons Concourse)
- 11:30 a.m.: "Disorder on the Border," Thought Leader Forum featuring Dr. Cari Skogberg Eastman '96
- Lunch: Norway: Farikal (Lamb and Cabbage Stew)
- Dinner: Salmon in Lemon Sauce
- 3 p.m.: Rendezvous Fashion/Talent Show, Back Alley
- 9-11:30 p.m.: International Trivia, Granskou Hall
Saturday, Nov. 19
- 1-5 p.m.: MODEL UN, GSC 100
- 10 p.m.. - Midnight: International Game Night (Elmen Center)
Kelly Sprecher
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It seems like most things these days, making something yourself is the best way to avoid toxic nasties. Easter is no different and so I'm excited to share some DIY projects inspired by the Dilly Dally Kids display window (for DIY Easter decorating), egg dying, and Easter egg hunt ideas that minimize waste and traditional Easter junk.
Let's start with the display window ideas that got me excited to write this article. When it comes to the wonderful world of Pinterest and DIY I try hard not to take on projects that just aren't obtainable. So when I saw pictures of this feather garland made by Dilly Dally Kids – I knew I wanted to photograph it, write about it and try it. Owners Tyler and Claire hung feathers to twine with clothespins – don't you love the effect? I even collected a few feathers from the beach with the kids so that a memory and real feathers could be included in this decoration.
Also displayed by DDK (Dilly Dally Kids) store owners are beautiful paper mache eggs. And for parents looking to minimize or eliminate purchasing more plastic eggs this year to hold treasures, paper mache eggs would be a great addition to an egg hunt. I found an easy DIY tutorial for this using hodgepodge & tissue paper via Pinterest. Here is the inspiration from DDK's window and look how beautiful the paper mache eggs look nestled in gorgeous nests made from willow branches and a sprinkle of feathers. Imagine a forest walk to collect all of these treasures? This is so inspiring to discover and decorate with pieces of nature gathered to create unique Easter decor!
Can we talk about Easter morning and one easy, Eco way to reduce plastic crap? Get your kids moving and working for their Easter treasures! The hunt my kids have loved over the last few years didn't include little trinkets in each egg for the kids; rather a clue to where the next egg could be found. And at the end of the hunt my kids would find one sustainable gift from the Easter Bunny. Last year the kids found fishing rods and I think this year it will be tennis rackets. Anything that promotes keeping them active and playing outdoors I'm all in favour for. For the younger crowd that still delight in discovering toys – check out these adorable wooden bunnies & chicks from DDK. This line of wooden toys is from Europe, each one handmade and painted. You could create a nest similar to the one featured above (in mini form) and arrange these little friends for your sweeties to find.
Now that my sons are a little older (ages 9 and 10) the Easter Bunny sends them all over the neighborhood Easter morning. Pictures taken from a camera or handwritten clues leading kids from egg to egg to a figure in a neighbor's garden, traffic sign, unique fence/door/garden decoration in the neighborhood is really fun and awesome for the kids. They go running from clue to clue – not thinking about chocolate or candy. They are on the hunt and using their mind, body, and energy to uncover each clue. This is the part of Easter my kids talk about every year and I love it. For my younger kids, the Easter Bunny sets up their hunt in a forest trail. It keeps them safe from traffic and the eggs are scattered along the forest floor and they also lead the kids to a more sustainable Easter gift rather than lots of little trinkets.
My last Easter tip is for parents that have the traditional egg dying craft with kids. With my new found love of using beets to dye icing, play dough, and to eat – I find it easy to dye using vegetables from my fridge. But one drawback to organic colours is sometimes they are not as bright or exciting as artificial. If you are looking for a kit to give you more of a colour spectrum, but still keep the process natural – check out these great egg dying kits! Lucky locals to Vancouver still have lots of time to stop by Dilly Dally Kids on Commercial Drive to pickup thoughtful selections of chocolate, toys, egg dye kits and totally adorable Easter books!


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A Morenci home will be listed in the Real Estate Sampler of Country Living magazine.
Carl and Elaine Patton's historic home at 610 W. Main will be one of five homes shown in the monthly feature.
Lynne Fox of the Coldwell Banker Success real estate office sent a photograph of the home to Country Living more than a year ago, but never heard back from the magazine. During that time, the house was taken off the market.
That changed last week when she received a call from New York City notifying her that the Patton home would appear in the November edition of the magazine, hitting the newsstands in October.
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The current issue features the salt box design and the previous month showed homes with a Spanish influence. The Patton home will appear under antiques—home that are at least 150 years old.


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Decorate your tree with this captivating cross ornament from Waterford. This lead crystal ornament features a classic cross design with wonderful wedge cuts and a ribbon for hanging this beauty on the tree. Keep this adornment for yourself or give it to a loved one this holiday season!
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Timing is everything when it comes to marketing, and none the more appreciative of perfect timing than the biggest name in the I.T. industry, Intel Corporation. Intel grabbed headlines everywhere when it effected a new 'Intel. Leap ahead.' brand identity on the 3rd of January 2006 that sought to position the Intel name around a platform model focusing on four key market segments – digital home, enterprise, health and mobile. Now, all attention is once again converged on Intel as they unveil the new Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology, codenamed 'Napa' platform.
Given the phenomenal marketing success of its Intel Centrino mobile technology after it was introduced in early 2003, this change in corporate identity to go towards being a solutions rather than specific hardware provider is not entirely out of the blue, which for some, could even be argued as predictable. The whole idea behind the creation of Intel Centrino mobile technology was marketing, and this clever branding was exactly what Intel needed to distinguish Centrino powered notebooks from all others that were available. Rather than focusing on the type of processor a notebook has, which was how notebooks were classified in the past, the arrival of Intel Centrino mobile technology meant consumers, for the first time, need only look for one such notebook to be assured of good battery life, performance and mobility. This is because all components in a Centrino notebook were first optimized and tested to operate faultlessly together with mobility as the key proposition of the Centrino platform.
Although the headache of buying a notebook has been significantly relieved with the availability of packaged Centrino notebooks that are well sorted out for mobile computing, there are still notable differences where chipset and processor technologies are concerned. Exactly a year ago when Intel released its second generation Centrino platform codenamed 'Sonoma', the chipset, processor and WiFi controller were all improved and technically different from those found in the first generation models. Yet, despite the clear disparity in components between the two generations, the same Intel Centrino mobile technology branding was reused for the then new notebooks based on the second generation 'Sonoma' Centrino platform. Inescapably, less technically informed consumers soon became confused and unclear whether or not they were paying good money for "old" Centrino (Intel 855 chipset) or "new" Centrino (Intel 915) notebooks.
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Fortunately, the good folks over at Intel has come up with a completely new badge designed from the ground up to satisfy both the recently implemented corporate identity change and its brand new Centrino Duo mobile technology. This is to say the same group of consumers who were previously confused would be confused no more should they decide to step out and purchase the very latest Intel has had to offer (at least for now).
Similar to the two earlier Centrino generations, the new 'Napa' platform is assembled to ensure Intel remains planted in pole position where notebook technology is concerned. And just as with each generation of Centrino platform, the three core components, namely the processor, chipset and WiFi controller, are all supplied by Intel and no other. Intel argues that this unyielding control of components is necessary as the combination of hardware has been designed and rigorously tested in accordance to the four basic vectors of mobility as laid out by Intel for Centrino when it was first launched. That is to say the Centrino Duo mobile technology represents the best in mobile performance, WiFi capability, battery life, and notebook designs and form factors. There are of course other advantages in going with an all Intel solution. Not only do manufacturers get to rely on the strong Centrino branding for notebook sales due to the intense marketing blitz by Intel, they will also be subsidized for marketing Centrino notebooks. Essentially, Intel has created a very attractive win-win situation for its OEM partners, although admittedly, it also explains why notebooks bearing the highly coveted Centrino badge are pretty pricey.
So just how different is the 'Napa' from the older 'Sonoma' platform and what significant technological leap can we expect now that Intel is "leaping ahead"? Let's take a closer examination shall we?
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