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Apple's Earnings Disappoint Despite iPhone Sales
Apple's fiscal Q3 earnings fell 22%, registering weaker margins and lower iPad sales, though iPhone sales exceeded estimates. Neil Mawston, Executive Director of Strategy Analytics, has details. Photo: Getty Images.
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Week 9 Matches
Wednesday, Apr 29
RNY - COL 7:30 pm ET
Friday, May 1
HOU - DAL 8 pm ET
RSL - SJE 10 pm ET
Saturday, May 2
PHI - TOR 4 pm ET
DCU - CMB 7 pm ET
NER - RNY 7:30 pm ET
POR - VAN 10:30 pm ET
LAG - COL 10:30 pm ET
Sunday, May 3
SKC - CHI 5 pm ET
NYC - SEA 7 pm ET
Tuesday, May 5
HOU - SJE 8:30 pm ET
Idle: MON, ORL
RNY, COL, HOU, and SJE all have two games this
week. Be sure to have your predictions and lineups
set by Wed at 6:30 EST. Note that the week ends
next Tues and Week 10 starts the next day.
DCU-CMB looks like a good game, as does NER-RNY,
though RNY will be coming off of a Wed game and
cross-country travel. LAG's defense appears to be
settling down. They just keep grinding out
results. Yes they have 3 DP's and spend lots of
money but the supporting cast is good, guys like
Gargan, Husidic, Gordon, Tommy Meyer, all have
contributed. That could be the difference between
them and under-performing Toronto, though they
showed signs of life with a win in Orlando last
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from rancho chevron fc
on Mon 4/27 12:03 ET
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Thanks for the heads up regarding the quick turnaround from Castle Hill Comets
on Mon 4/27 12:18 ET
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Where was Hamid last weekend? from Stormin Union
on Mon 4/27 12:43 ET
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Counting the days until the open cup, channelling the DC
United 2013 season where they were terrible in the league but
won the open cup. We made it to the final last year so now we
need to take the next step.
from Shaolin Mystigods
on Mon 4/27 12:55 ET
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Hamid dealing with a thigh contusion. I expect him
next week myself, fwtw.
from Castle Hill Comets
on Mon 4/27 14:23 ET
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So no big ... theoretically.
Still going with Peneda at home vs COL, rather than Hamid
having to deal with CMB ...
from Stormin Union
on Mon 4/27 17:17 ET
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A message from Westeros to NCL:
Winter has passed and the Knightmare has ended. A Storm is
from Stormin Union
on Mon 4/27 17:18 ET
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Sorry, big Game of Thrones fan so couldn't resist. from Weirder Bremen
on Mon 4/27 17:54 ET
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Is the party over for RSL and J. Morales? They sure
got blown out by NER.
from Shaolin Mystigods
on Mon 4/27 18:28 ET
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could be, but it is material to point out that
absent from the NER blowout were Jamison Olave, Joao
Plata, Sebastian Saucedo, Jordan Allen, Chris
Schuler, Sebastian Jaime and one Javier Morales
from Castle Hill Comets
on Mon 4/27 18:37 ET
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Not to mention Jason Kreis ... from Weirder Bremen
on Mon 4/27 19:25 ET
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Morales supposedly stays in great shape but he's
getting long in the tooth. Maybe he should talk to
Preki. Preki played into his early 40's IIRC.
from cYber warriors
on Tue 4/28 8:02 ET
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Was Valeri on the Portland bench last match? from Weirder Bremen
on Tue 4/28 8:15 ET
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Valeri was on the bench but he isn't listed in the
18. He's practicing though.
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The problem with Portland:
Lacking Valeri the only person that seems to be able to create offense is Nagbe, and if you watch his play he receives the ball and multiple defenders close on him. Foul him and end the play.
Lacking effective wing play, or any other player that can create, the timbers offense has sputtered all year so far.
Watching the Portland Seattle game on the weekend was an eye opener.
Compare against Seattle who have the luxury of three extremely dangerous players Poppa, Dempsey, and Martins. In transition when Seattle is most dangerous it seems when Martins receives the ball (if he does not torch both center backs solo) he opens up space for Dempsey, who, if he gets closed down, opens space for Poppa and Nagle.
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Yep! You guessed it. Floriade is on here in Canberra again. It is a festival of spring time and her floral bounty. The displays this year, as for every year, astound me.
I always wonder how they time everything so beautifully to have the flowers last for the whole time the festival is on. Especially so, as there is always changeable weather in Canberra at this time of year. We can get everything from frosts to very warm dry days, strong winds and heavy rain with thunder storms.
The first pic above his text is of one of my favourite reasons to go to the botanic gardens in Canberra.He is a Gippsland water dragon. The day I took this picture was sunny but cold and I disturbed this little bloke as he was trying to warm himself in the sunshine near the information office and bookshop area. He tried to squeeze himself back between the rocks to hide from me. On warm days and during the summer these dragons are everywhere in the gardens but more prolific around the waterfall area and water features.
The flowers at Floriade are centered around Tulips of all colors, shapes, styles and sizes. each year there is a different theme. The plantings are done in patterns and pictures which can be explored, worked out, if you so wish, and seen better from the heights of the ferris wheel in the park. To tell you the truth, this year I didn't even bother to try and work them out. I just enjoyed the flowers and tent displays.
I thought these white and pink Tulips were lovely. Then again, I liked them all. You can see some of the under plantings in the closer photos. They included Hyacinths, Viola, English daisies, Daffodils , Poppies and Jonquils.
Same bed taken further back. these flowers must have to be some of the most photographed in all of Australia, going by the people there, nearly all if not all of them were clicking away.
This is the lake in the centre of commonwealth park where Floriade is held each year. The bed of Daffodils are finished flowering. Of course you can see that can't you.
Another view of the lake , across one of the tulip beds.
This purple Tulip wasn't sure which color it wanted, so it chose to be both purple and red combined.
A double white tulip.
My hand, I stabbed it with a knife while trying to remove an avocado seed. How stupid, I know very well how to do that and went ahead to do it the wrong way. My fault, but I did have a very sore hand for a few days.Hahaha.
A white fringed Tulip.
The picture below this shows a closer example of the cranes.
Red Tulips. I love red. There were many different shades of red amongst the tulips displayed.
Red red tulips, red English daisies and the smaller red parrot tulips .
These raised beds were in the Bunnings display area. They were planted with edible things, leafy greens, herbs and vegetables. I want these for my new yard when I move. They are a better height than many raised beds that I have seen and of a proportion that allowed you to stand and reach across to tend the plants, without getting down on my haunches and hurting my stupid legs and knees. Because they are metal they would hopefully last for many years as well.
I love Poppies. These ones are either Artists poppies or Iceland poppies. They are tough annuals so will grow easier than the big poppies.
Below is a closer view of a gorgeous poppy. These flowers say "Spring!" to me.
A big bed of little white daisies. Oh my do you think I can remember their proper name?
I know I should but........
A big steam powered Calliope that is at Floriade every year.
The next photo is taken in The Victory Memorial gardens in Wagga's main street.
I think this is called loropetalum?
It was in the sensory garden there.
Sweet Williams in the Victory Memorial Gardens, Wagga.
Orange Calendula. Wagga gardens again.
We sat in the park here at lunchtime and phoned the real estate lady to make an offer on the house we are going to buy. So, another memory made. Another memory to add to times spent in this park over many years of visits during my life.
As a child, feeding the ducks and being scared of the honking geese there.
Of running through here barefoot and grubby, climbing on the trees, putting my bare feet in the lagoon and poking the water with sticks at 10 years old.
Of the possum who made us teenaged girls scream and run when he showed himself in the tree that hung over the bridge in the main street right in our faces, late one night after a rock concert.
Of other photos taken of my own children playing on the play equipment in the park.
Of lunchtime meetings with my husband in the park for lunch, when he worked at the council across the road when my eldest son was a baby.
Of soft serve ice creams that melted and ran down your arms and shirt in the summer heat, bought from the dairy delight shop just around the corner in the main street, now closed.
Or my children, in their teens, laughing wildly as a bird pooped on my head while we had a picnic lunch of Kentucky Fried chicken there.
Of attempts to escape into the shade of big trees on hot sweltering summer days .
Or waiting as a child to stand underneath that huge old pine tree to see the Christmas lights turned on.
Back in Canerra one of my favorite Sunday things to do is go to the Kingston Bus depot markets. They have gourmet foods and plants, craft and arts, buskers, a food hall area, antiques and a junk place out the back.
One of the things I will miss when I move from Canberra is this place.
Kingston markets again. The still warm woodfired bread, antipasto, and strawberries are a highlight.
These next pics are of the orchids at the botanic gardens again. Don't know their names.
The color of this orchid reminds me of little eggs.
And last but not least here are a more few pics of the Gippsland water dragons at the botanic gardens in Canberra. They are great little critters aren't they. This one is medium sized.
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Party Guide: Stylish & Inexpensive Glassware
I'm throwing a party at my apartment in a couple of weeks and I had everything figured out. The food and drinks I'm going to serve, the music, the decor... Then I realized I have about three times as many people coming as I have glasses.
Now in college this would have been a non-issue, plastic red cups to the rescue! Somehow at this point red cups feel a little too, well, college. Sorta like that futon that used to pass as a sofa. Likewise, plastic party supply wine glasses … feel exactly like plastic party supply wine glasses. There's just no getting around it.
So I set out to find a few options, glasses that are inexpensive enough to buy in bulk (and not worry that a few might get broken) yet pretty enough to put on display. Here are a few of the options I came up with, along with a breakdown of what it would cost to buy a dozen.
1. Rustic: Mason Jar, Fresh Preserving Store $.85 each, $10.50 for twelve
Image via Style Me Pretty
A classic with country roots, you won't find a sturdier glass for your money. (This is the option I ended up going with.)
2. Vintage: Fleur-De-Lys Glass, Anthropologie $6 each = $72 for twelve
Perfect for brunch, these glasses look like you picked them up at a Parisian flea market.
3. Utilitarian: Go Anywhere Flute, Go Vino Wine $38.50 for twelve
Shatterproof PBA free plastic glasses with an ergonomic dent for your finger.
4. Pop: Polka Dot Glasses, Fishs Eddy $6 each = $72 for twelve
Tall and slim with colorful polka dots, a great way to add a little color.
5. Modern: Reko Glass, Ikea $.25 each = $6 for twelve
Available in 6 packs these glasses are the cheapest of the bunch, have a clean profile and stack for ease of storage.
Images: As credited above.


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I didn't realize something was going on till just a few days ago and actually this thing is something that really prompted me to renew my Typepad acct. and blog again. I'm praying this thing didn't turn some of you off or cause you to take me off your blog friends list (although I can certainly understand that no new posts in over 4 months could cause someone to do that!). To make a long story short, I Twitter and I added the Widget to my blog where my new Twitter posts would come up over on my sidebar ----->. I post on Twitter sometimes several times per day so I thought this could be another way for blog readers & friends to see what I've been up to. My Twitter name used to be JanaP but then I changed it to my full name so people could find me easier. I thought that things would just continue on the same since I was still using the same acct and all but evidently not. In the meantime, another girl comes along and begins using the name JanaP again and once she did that, HER posts began to appear on my blog rather than my own. Unfortunately for me, JanaP likes to party, drink & curse......not that I haven't been known to do these things on occasion however not to the extent she does and I didn't notice this was happening till just a few days ago. SO.......I'm not sure how long her posts have been turning up here but I truly deeply sincerely apologize if you saw this and it turned you off or offended you in any way. Please know it wasn't me and I don't know that person and if you took me off your "blogs to read" list for that reason, I hope you'll consider adding me back! So, lesson learned here......if you guys Twitter and decide to change your name there for whatever reason, beware because someone else just might come along and use it again!
Yes, indeedy be......Jana is still alive & kickin', I promise! God bless ya for stopping by because Heaven knows I would've given up on me a long time ago. I guess I blame it on last night's Silver Bella '09 registration and all the time I've spent the past couple of days browsing my Bella friends' blogs but now I've determined that I'm ready to begin sharing myself again and you know what? It feels pretty darned good! Speaking of Silver Bella, by the photo you can see that I've already begun browsing local antique stores looking for treasures I can use on projects, in swaps, etc. The baby bonnet and the stack of old papers were probably my favorite finds of the day although I do love it all. I promise to share more pics, more of myself and not to neglect my poor blog like this again, ok?! ;-)
I get daily quotes, scripture and stories sent to me through Heartlight and this quote really spoke to me today:
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. Faith is
the belief that God will do what is right. -- Max Lucado
I really need to remember this. We can ask God for things all we want but if those things are not his perfect will for us, they just won't happen. We need to ask for His will to be done in all situations and then be prepared if His will and our's don't match up. This is my wish for the new year.
Happy New Year my friends! I wanted to post to say hello and wish you all a very happy, blessed, joyous & prosperous new year and then found this in my inbox and thought I'd share it with you since it pretty much sums up the way I feel today as well. Enjoy.....
Holiday Hangover, by Sarah Stirman
Here it is just a few days after Christmas and I've done it again: I'm
suffering from yet another holiday hangover. Not the kind that comes
from indulging in too much alcohol, though the fit of my pants
indicates that overindulgence of something needs to be addressed. I
have the kind of holiday hangover you get from overspending,
overeating, over-scheduling, and overdoing.
Every year I start the season with a deep resolve and an optimistic
plan. I will budget for Christmas for several months so that my family
will not be eating lint-covered Christmas candy from the bottom of our
stockings as a meal by mid-January. I will deck the halls in manageable
stages so that I am not getting out the last of the decorations on
December 24 to put away on December 26. I will limit our family's
activities so that when it comes time to distribute the gifts on
Christmas morning we still recognize each other. Those are always the
plans. Then I wake up, it's December 26, and this Christmas season has
looked like all of the others.
It's the expense of Christmas that gets me every year. The postage for
the Christmas cards, the "one last" decoration we need, the "little
gifts" that add up and add up, even the food we consume this time of
year seems to total a staggering amount. Then my children are out of
school and expect to eat during the day. What's that about? I bought
them Christmas gifts, they expect me to feed them, as well? And
wouldn't it be a lovely Christmas outing for us to go to the movies
together as a family? Kids, I hope you learned something, because we
just spent your first year of college on a two hour movie and one tub
of popcorn. Even with gasoline prices dropping, a 1,000 mile trip isn't
cheap on the fuel tank!
I try not to resent the overwhelming total of this time of year. It is
completely within my power to change what my family spends and every
year I have grand intentions of doing just that. But I seem to simply
take the path of least resistance and most expense, and then gripe
about it.
So here it is the limbo-week between Christmas and New Year's -- time
to look back and look forward. I have a moment to slow down and
evaluate. Financial folks will tell you it's time to make an end of
year evaluation of your finances. Once I've found all the spare change
in the couch, I'm through with that exercise. It's also a good time to
take an overall life evaluation. Is what I'm living reflecting what I
say I believe?
My thoughts turn to the expense of the season. I look back and count
the outrageous cost of this holiday. I repent of my extravagance as I
think about the original cost of this holiday: "For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son ..." (John 3:16 NIV). I
sprinkle the financial blessings God has given me on various things
throughout this season, but God gave all He had for the season. He
allowed his only child to leave his heavenly home and come to this
flawed world. He did that so "... that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). Amazing.
I look toward 2009 with a grateful heart. Thankful for another day,
possibly another year, to live a life of gratitude, possibly a life of
moderation, and share His blessings with the people He puts in my path.
Hello to you, my few & faithful blog readers who continue to check in on me even though I haven't posted much lately! I'm up early with the chickens this morning getting the boys on their way to school and thankfully the much-needed caffiene provided by Starbucks is coursing through my veins and I'm awake enough to form thoughts & sentences before my day jets off to another busy start. It seems I've been on the go since Nov.1 and that my head is now finally above the surface and I can slow down and enjoy the last couple of weeks of the holiday season thankfully. I do this to myself every year......promise myself that I'm going to take time and ENJOY the season yet by the time shopping, wrapping, decorating, cards, school programs, baking, planning and the daily chores are done, it's the 25th! I've had photography biz stuff on top of all of that but hopefully I've managed it all to the best of my ability and as I said, now it's done and I can chillax......for a while anyway! Hopefully you're looking forward to a lovely holiday season this year, I'd love to hear about how you're spending your's. We'll be hosting Christmas here this yr. for my small family, the 5 of us plus my parents & brother but I'm looking forward to it.
It's a dreary foggy cool morning here today and I'm forcing myself not to crawl back under the covers and hibernate for a few days but I just wanted to type a few words and let everyone know I'm still alive & doing fine and I hope you are too. I'm off to get a few more things done today and meet a friend for her birthday lunch later today. Hope you have a wonderful day!
Ok folks, I'm gonna try this once again. I had taken nearly an hour yesterday to blog a big ol' long post all about Silver Bella full of links, photos & stuff when **BAM** Typepad locked up on me and I lost it all. I nearly thought I was going to dissolve into tears but I managed to hold it together and try again this morning. Maybe it's that glittery fog that I'm still in after returning home from Omaha late on sunday? Who knows but all I know is that the Bella hangover I feel once a year is so worth it. Guess I'll start at the beginning of my adventure so here we go! I took of early on thursday morning to fly to Dallas, then Chicago then finally on to Omaha......this was my view that morning somewhere between Dallas & Chicago at around 33,000 feet.
I left warm Texas to arrive to cool rainy Omaha thursday afternoon around 2:30pm. I walked out of the airport terminal and a older man who looked like a perky Santa Claus asked me if I was one of those "Silver Bells" and I said yes and asked him how he knew. He pointed to my Sally Jean charm I was wearing around my neck......ahhhhh I see! I thought the man looked somewhat familiar but I let it go. Come to find out, that was Frank, the "country" designer who used to be on Trading Spaces! I loved him back in the day and now I'm kicking myself that I didn't get a pic w/him! My ride arrived to pick me up.......the fabulous Becca Sutton and the ever sweet Becky Novacek. I hadn't met Becca before and I was SO thrilled that she wanted to come along and hang with us. The 3 of us sat, drank coffee and chatted all afternoon which is just what I needed after a long morning of flying. Wish I had a photo to document our time together but we were too busy chatting. Becky took me to the hotel and I was greeted by "Perenchio!!!!" by one of my favorite women of all time, Cari Kraft and she had Jenni Bowlin w/her.....oh my heck! What a beginning to my Silver Bella weekend!! I met up with my roomies, Shannon, Valita & Heather and got ready for our evening festivities, a buffet supper and group workshop. This was our group project, a cute little stitchery that I did not complete (of course).
We stitched over a rubber stamp image which was so fun & easy. DUH, why haven't I been doing this for a long time now? I have a bajillion rubber stamps! After the workshop those of us who participated in swaps swapped out our goodies with one another. I participated in 4 swaps, 2 ahead of time and 2 to be swapped at Silver Bella because I didn't want to have to haul a bunch of extra stuff home w/me. I promise to take pics of all the charms I recieved from the 2 charm swaps I did, you've already seen a pic of the one I did (in my previous post) and I saw several girls walking around over the weekend with my charm hanging around their neck which made me feel SO good! If they only knew how long I'd obsessed over those darned charms! This was my bag full of soldered charm yumminess:
The next day I had classes taught by the ever fabulous Kim Kwan and someone I've admired and have wanted to meet for a long time, the mega-talented Sally Jean Alexander. Both ladies were super funny and wonderful instructors and I SO enjoyed spending my day with them. It was awesome being able to sit and watch Sally Jean solder, like watching the master at work, and she made it look to easy & effortless.
Kim and me, love this lady.
Then friday night was vendor night where folks can sell their creations and wares to the Bellas and local folks as well. Hate to admit it but this is always my favorite part of Silver Bella since I just can't seem to find great crafts around here typically and you know I'm all about shopping! Each yr. we have a different theme for vendor night and this year's theme was "vintage prom". I searched and searched for the perfect dress to wear but finally gave up. Thankfully my roomies didn't dress up either so I didn't feel like too big of a slug. Here are some of the pretty Bellas who DID dress up that night:
I was pretty enthralled in my shopping & crafting and didn't take nearly as many photos as I should have, I find myself saying this every year, but here are some I did take with a few of my favorite Bellas. Me and the talented, sweet, adorable Danielle Muller:
Valita with Debbie & Shea who are opening up a new retreat in Dallas which is located in an old regal renovated church! I can't wait to visit them there someday!!
With 2 of my roomies, Valita & Shannon:
My other roomie, Heather......God bless her for making the journey to Omaha 8 months pregnant!
The next day began early with an 8:30am class taught by Jenni Bowlin. I've met quite a few of my scrapbooking heroes at CHA but I hadn't ever met Jenni before and I have to say that she did NOT disappoint. She's every bit the sweet southern belle and I just adored her and her class. Of course she's the one instructor I didn't get a pic with, grrrrrrrrr! Here's one of the project from her Tiny Treasures class:
I've got to stop here for now but PROMISE to finish my story and Silver Bella wrap-up later today or tomorrow. I've spent way too much time sitting on my can at my computer between blogging yesterday (that got lost) then again today and all the fun blog-surfing I've done looking at everyone else's Silver Bella pics and oh yea, those other time-suckers called Facebook & Flickr!! I think I need an intervention. Hope you've enjoyed my pics so far (the lighting was horrid in the hotel so I apologize about the crappy pics) but hopefully they're worth sharing nonetheless. Enjoy your day & thanks for stopping by!
Most likely by the time you read this I'll be on my way up to rainy cool Omaha for Silver Bella. I'm not bringing my laptop this time since I can check email on my phone so I won't be checking in here till next week so till then take care and be good. I hope to return with a ton of photos & stories for you although I suspect I'll be hotel-bound most of the weekend since it's raining and cold up there! Heck, we'll have everything we need there anyway so it's all good. Oh, by the way......the photo is of the charms I made for one of the Silver Bella swaps. They were my first feeble attempt at soldering and I must say that although it can be frustrating at times, I really enjoy it! Those are rhinestones that I glued onto the upper & lower edge of the charm. I scored the stones off of an old prom dress I found at Good Will for $4.99 and there's NO way I could've bought all of those yards of sewn-together rhinestones for that price elsewhere. They shimmer like diamonds, they're so pretty so I hope everyone likes their charms!
My name is Jana and I'm a Christian, daughter, sister, wife, photographer, scrapbooker, life-long Duranie & SAHM to 3 boys.


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"I am an innocent man": National president of bikie gang the Rebels, Alex Vella. Photo: Janie Barrett
The national president of Australia's largest bikie gang, the Rebels, has protested his innocence and says he has been unfairly targeted after his visa was cancelled while on holidays in his native Malta.
The Immigration Minister Scott Morrison moved last Friday to cancel the visa of Alex Vella, 60, preventing his return to Australia and to his outlaw motorcycle club.
Speaking from Europe, Mr Vella said he was enjoying a holiday with his son, Alex Jnr, when he discovered the government had cancelled his visa under "the character provisions of the Migration Act."
"I am an innocent man," Mr Vella told Fairfax Media.
"I've just finished settling a tax case after nine months for $1.2 million. I've travelled overseas to visit family and friends and whilst I've left the country with a valid visa they have shut and locked the door behind me."
A citizen of Malta, and dubbed the Maltese Falcon, Mr Vella has lived in Australia for more than four decades but has never applied for citizenship.
His wife and two sons are Australian citizens.
This is not the first time steps have been taken to stop the Rebels boss from re-entering Australia.
He encountered problems in 2007 after flying to Tokyo to watch his middleweight boxer son, Adam Vella.
While in Japan NSW police reportedly prepared a case for the Immigration Department to refuse the multi-millionaire a new visa to return to Australia. He was eventually allowed return.
"What is the reason? What have I done to deserve what they have been doing to me for so many years?," Mr Vella said on Monday night.
"Everyone has a hobby in life and mine is riding motorcycles.
"We are not a criminal organisation despite what the police continue to say about us. We are simply easy targets."
Police disagree, and in 2012 established a national taskforce to target the Rebels, its 70 chapters and more than 2,000 members Australia-wide.
Mr Vella was due in court last month as police sought to shut down the Rebels clubhouse on his property at Leppington in Sydney's south-west.


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A Case Study of Sesame Workshop's Cleaner, Happier, Healthier Intervention in Bangladesh, India, and Nigeria: Reporting on Exposure and Impact
Dina L. G. Borzekowski
The Cleaner, Happier, Healthier hygiene intervention was developed and tested in 2013, featuring the Sesame Workshop characters. Through broadcast television, four public service announcements (PSAs) addressed washing hands with soap, using a latrine, wearing sandals, and drinking clean water. The main audiences were young preschool children and their parents or guardians.
Research occurred in Bangladesh, India, and Nigeria, exploring the reach and impact of these PSAs. Although low percentages, from well-drawn samples of extremely vulnerable populations in these countries, reported awareness and recall of these messages, such percentages can reflect large numbers of viewers. Considering data from the participating children, measures of knowledge and attitudes were associated with engaging in several of the behavioral outcomes. As well, awareness and recall of the PSA messages predicted "all the time" for several of the hygiene behaviors. In contrast, parents' reports of PSA awareness and recall were not associated with reports of children's hygiene behaviors.
Conducting reach studies is extremely difficult, especially in developing countries and communities. Despite the challenges, this study is encouraging. Participants reported seeing the messages, and in several models, this "reach" predicted reports of hygiene and health behaviors. Lessons learned from this case study and research can offer valuable insight into the production of future health PSAs, especially with harder-to-reach populations.
Aging and Organizational Communication
Robert M. McCann
In the last 20 years or so, the field of intergenerational communication as seen from an intergroup perspective has evolved to encompass a wide range of social, cultural, and relational contexts. Research into communication and age in organizations represents one particularly exciting and rapidly changing area of investigation within the intergenerational communication domain. The workplace, by its very nature, is rich with intergroup dynamics, with age in/out group distinctions being but one of many intergroup characterizations. Stereotypical age expectations—by management and coworkers alike—can serve as powerful harbingers to behavioral outcomes such as ageist communication, considerations of (early) retirement and reduced and/or lost training among older workers, and even reduced intentions among young individuals to take up careers involving older people. Ageist behaviors (including communication) are also at the core of many types of discriminatory practices toward older (and sometimes younger) workers. Age diversity strategies, which include intergenerational contact programs, cross-generational mentoring, age diverse teams, and the use of positive symbols of older age, are becoming more common in organizations.
Appeal to Bystander Interventions: A Normative Approach to Health and Risk Messaging
Shawn Meghan Burn
Bystander intervention is a form of helping that occurs when onlookers intercede to provide direct or indirect aid to a victim. When bystanders step in to prevent or reduce harm to others, they act as agents of primary and secondary health prevention. But theory and research suggest the bystander intervention process is complex and multiple social-psychological and situational barriers imperil bystander action. Bystanders are often ill-prepared to intervene when others are at risk for emotional or physical harm. They may not notice that someone needs help due to distraction from self-focus, engagement in social interaction, intoxication, or aspects of the situation like crowding or noise. Due to inadequate knowledge, bystanders may misdiagnose the situation and believe intervention is unnecessary. The negative consequences of nonintervention may be unknown to them such that the situation fails to increase their empathic arousal and motivate their action. Lacking knowledge, they may not recognize the seriousness of the situation and or the potential costs of inaction, and so are insufficiently alarmed. Pluralistic ignorance can arise when multiple uncertain bystanders conceal their concern and hesitate to act, assuming others' inaction means intervention is inappropriate or unnecessary. When there are multiple witnesses, bystanders may assume their help is unneeded, place intervention responsibility on others, or feel less responsible for helping due to diffusion of responsibility. When the victim is not a member of their in-group, or is assumed at fault for their predicament, they may feel less empathy and a reduced responsibility to help. Or, bystanders may assign responsibility for intervention to the victim's friends or fellow in-group members, or to those "in charge" of the setting. Even when bystanders realize help is needed and take responsibility for helping, they may not act if they do not know how or lack confidence in their ability to successfully carry out the actions required to help. When they have the skills, they may not help if they perceive the costs of action to outweigh the benefits of action. Audience inhibition arising from group norms supporting inaction and from bystander worry about what others will think about them if they act unnecessarily or ineptly can prevent bystander action by increasing bystanders' perceived helping costs.
Recognition of bystanders as a potentially valuable public health asset has increased interest in promoting bystander intervention. Bystander intervention promotion and communications empower bystander action by combating intervention- and audience-specific barriers to bystander intervention using targeted information, communications, and skills training. Theory and research suggest that effective promotions and communications foster context-specific attitudes, beliefs, norms, and skills such that bystanders: (1) are able to quickly and accurately identify a situation as intervention-appropriate; (2) experience action-motivating arousal (including empathy) in the face of the event; (3) have positive attitudes towards intervention and perceive the benefits of action as outweighing the perceived costs; (4) are empowered to act and feel confident in their ability to effectively intervene (bystander efficacy); and (5) are resistant to evaluation apprehension and norms contraindicating action. Effective bystander intervention promotion draws on social psychology and communications studies, and best practices for health promotion and prevention programs. The application of social marketing and formative and summative program evaluation methods enhance the potential of bystander intervention promotions and communications to empower bystander action.
Celebrity Politics and Cultural Studies Within the United States and United Kingdom
Mark Wheeler
Celebrity politicians are having a profound impact on the practice of politics within the United States and United Kingdom in the 21st century. With the adoption of social media platforms, celebrity and image candidates have deployed new strategies for attracting constituents. Taken together, the proliferation of celebrity politics and the ubiquity of digital platforms have fostered a unique atmosphere in the contemporary political moment, wherein "outsider" candidates may leverage their fame to launch themselves into the public spotlight. In turn, through their celebrity brands and digital presence both populists such as the U.S. President Donald Trump and left-wing leaders including U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have established an "authenticity" in which they "occupy" a public space to define their candidacies. Consequently, as celebrities and image candidates promote political agendas among target audiences/citizens, it is necessary to reflect upon their significance in election campaigns, policy agendas, and activism.
The Climate of Ecocinema
Sophie Christman Lavin and E. Ann Kaplan
Ecocinema involves the human gaze looking at cinema through the lens of the environment, in a manner analogous to the way feminists provided the cinematic lens of gender in the 1970s. However, as with feminism, enormous differences pertain in regard to how the ecocinema lens is mobilized.
In analyzing films from the late 1800s to the early 21st century, ecocinema studies has evolved to include critical lines of inquiry from perspectives of psychology, feminism, socioeconomics, science, and activism. Research frames used in these inquiries include: setting and landscape in films, ecological analyses of mainstream and independent fictional films, posthuman cinematic representations, transnational and regional, and more recently, trauma in speculative dystopian films. Ecocinema critics analyze films of various types, including Hollywood, independent, transnational, documentary, animated, art cinema, and especially climate fiction ("cli-fi") films.
Ramachandra Guha's transnational typology of environmental ideologies will provide a useful starting place for the mapping of different perspectives in ecocinema. Guha distinguished utopian wilderness environmentalism, pervasive in the United States, from the agrarian focus typical in India. Meanwhile, most developed nations utilize scientific industrial methods to exploit the environment. Oftentimes, these latter approaches are grounded in growth economies and are thus in conflict with the unrealistic ideals of so-called neo-primitivism (NP). Neo-primitivism involves returning to simple, sustainable lifestyles within or close to the natural world—lifestyles that do no environmental damage. NP is beloved by many, but the consensus is that it is idealistic to consider going back to this way of life. A film such as Avatar (produced and directed by James Cameron in 2009) addresses the complexity of diverse constructions of nature by providing examples of utopian wilderness ideology that compete with, and are opposed to, the destructive scientific industrialism that disregards and dominates nature without compunction. Other films, such as Amazon Sisters (Sweeny, 1992), Elemental (Koch, Roshan, & Vaughan-Lee, 2012), Into the Wild (Blocker, Hildebrand, Kelly, & Penn, 2007), or Grizzly Man (Beggs & Herzog, 2005), act as simultaneous celebrations and critiques of wilderness ideologies and deal with gender and racial identities, and thus they have been a central focus of ecocinema scholarship.
Although films from all genres have historically engaged environmental issues, it was rarely in a way that made a self-conscious or critical statement about the human impact on the natural world from the perspective of ecological concerns—this is the focus of ecocinema. See for example, Birt Acres's Rough Sea at Dover (1895), the Lumiere Brothers' Oil Wells of Baku (1896), Thomas Edison's Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, NYC (1903), and the British South Africa Company's Rhodesia To-Day (1912). In the early 21st century, the genre that most often engages with the contemporary politics of climate change is the documentary. Documentaries, such as An Inconvenient Truth (Guggenheim, 2006), Manufactured Landscapes (Baichwal, 2006), Into Eternity (Eskilsson & Madsen, 2010), Chasing Ice (Ahrens & Orlowski, 2012), E-Waste Tragedy (Esteve, Popp, Úbeda, & Dannoritzer, 2014), This Changes Everything (Cuarón & Lewis, 2015), among others, critique human damage to the planet and thus position viewers as ethical witnesses. Such works hope to influence the outcome of our shared anthropocentric future.
The analyses of ecocinema are addressed using two distinct methods—the macro and the micro. The macro method studies how films represent the large-scale processes of earth-based climate systems, and its lens evaluates how films represent climate and environmental dilemmas facing humans as a species. The micro-lens provides enhanced analyses that explore how gender, race, and class figure into the cultural work climate fantasies perform. This lens indexes the ways in which various cultures are often disproportionately impacted by climate systems.1 Oftentimes the macro and micro levels are both incorporated in a single film and reveal the intersection between climate and culture, as seen in Taklub (Trap, Castillo & Mendoza, 2015), a film that portrays Super-typhoon Haiyan and its impact on residents in Tacloban, Philippines. As background to mapping the texts, evolving science discourses will be emphasized as evidence for global warming but with the understanding that this evidence relies on modeling. Although our main concern with this cultural work in ecocinema is how climate change impacts across gender, race, and class, the inequalities revealed also speak to the politics of climate change evident in cinematic treatments of the issue.
Communicating about Genes, Health, and Risk
Roxanne L. Parrott, Amber K. Worthington, Rachel A. Smith, and Amy E. Chadwick
The public, including lay members who have no personal or familial experience with genetic testing or diagnosis, as well as individuals who have had such experiences, face many intrinsic decisions relating to understanding genetics. With the sequencing of the human genome and genetic science discoveries relating genes to cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, the scope of such decisions broadened from prenatal genetic testing related to reproductive choices to genetic testing for contributors to common causes of morbidity and mortality. The decision about whether to seek genetic testing encompasses concerns about stigma and discrimination. These issues lead some who can afford the cost to seek screening through online direct-to-consumer sites rather than in clinical settings. Many who may benefit from genetic testing lack awareness of family health history that could guide physicians to recommend these diagnostic tests. Families may not discuss health history due to genetic illiteracy, with the public's genetic illiteracy increasing their illness uncertainty and decreasing the likelihood that physicians will engage in conversations about personalized medicine with their patients. Physicians may nonetheless order genetic tests based on patients' symptoms, during preoperative workups, or as part of opportunistic screening and assessment associated with a specific genetic workup. Family members who receive positive genetic test results may not disclose them to life partners, other family members, or insurance companies based on worries and anxiety related to their own identity, as well as a lack of understanding about their family members' risk probability. For many, misguided beliefs that genes absolutely determine health and disease status arise from media translations of genetic science. These essentialist beliefs negatively relate to personal actions to limit genetic expression, including failure to seek medical care, while contributing to stereotypes and stigma communication. As medical science continues to reveal roles for genes in health across a broad spectrum, communicating about the relationships that genes have for health will be increasingly complex. Policy associated with registering, monitoring, and controlling the activities of those with genetic mutations may be coercive and target individuals unable to access health care or technology. Communicating about genes, health, and risk will thus challenge health communicators throughout the 21st century.
Communicating Personal and Social Identity in Adolescence
Elisabetta Crocetti and Monica Rubini
A main developmental task for young people is to form a coherent and stable sense of personal and social identity. In fact, in adolescence (from ages 10 to 18), the multiple biological, cognitive, and social changes that occur stimulate young people to rethink about themselves, to reflect on the kind of person they want to become, and to find their own place in the society. Similarly, in emerging adulthood (from ages 19 to 29), young people have the possibility to explore a large array of alternatives in multiple life domains (e.g., education, work, relationships, worldviews) before enacting enduring adult commitments. Process-oriented identity models have been proposed to capture the dynamic process by which young people form and revise their identity over time, committing to relevant life domains, reflecting on their choices, and reconsidering them when they no longer fulfill personal aspirations and/or social expectations.
This dynamic process is strongly intertwined with interpersonal and group communication processes. In fact, youth identity formation does not occur in a social vacuum; rather, young people form their identity by means of continuous interactions with significant others and relevant social groups. In particular, in youth, family, peers, and school represent main social contexts in which communication processes are likely to affect young people's identities. Thus, communication processes are crucial for obtaining identity-relevant information that might foster individuals' reflection on themselves and processes of social comparisons. Furthermore, through communication processes young people can manage their own reputation, striving to achieve and maintain a good reputation within relevant groups. Individuals' efforts to enhance reputation are, indeed, important for gaining symbolic (e.g., satisfaction of esteem needs) and instrumental (e.g., the likelihood to be trusted by others and becoming influential) benefits that are important for youth psychosocial adjustment and well-being.
Communicating Religious Identities
Renate Ysseldyk
Religion encompasses many forms of communication: between groups, within groups, and with God (or other deities). Such communication can be especially powerful when group members highly identify with their religious group and the beliefs therein. Equally, it can be divisive, as evidenced by religion-based intergroup conflict and intolerance (which often overlaps along ethnic or political lines). However, not all religious communication is verbal or explicit. Religious individuals also commonly transmit their beliefs, values, and identities through symbols, physical spaces, and music. Likewise, communication with God is often pursued with silent prayer, meditation, or ritual, which also serve to reinforce one's spirituality alongside religious group boundaries. Taken together, these varying forms of communication have implications not only for religious intergroup relations (e.g., intergroup contact or conflict), but also for intragroup relations (e.g., the strengthening of social ties) and individual health outcomes (e.g., effective communication with health care providers and coping practices). Given the importance of religious identity for many individuals, the benefits for individual well-being and intragroup relations, and yet the intergroup strife that religious group divisions can incite, the ways in which we communicate our religious group identities deserve closer attention.
Communication, Aging, and Culture
Robert M. McCann
Research into age and culture strongly suggests that people of different adult generations, regardless of culture, typically regard others and act in ways that display bias in favor of one's own age group. While people across cultures share some basic patterns of aging perceptions, there is considerable variance in views on older people from one country to the next. Over the past two decades, the tenor of communication and aging research has shifted dramatically. Traditional research into aging across cultures painted a picture of Asia as a sort of communicative oasis for elders, who were revered and communicated to by the younger generations in a respectful and mutually pleasing manner. Compelling evidence now suggests the opposite, which is that (interregion variability in results notwithstanding) elder denigration may be more pronounced in Eastern than Western cultures. Accelerated population aging, rural-to-urban shifts in migration, new technologies, rapid industrialization, and the erosion of cultural traditions such as filial piety, may partially account for these results. Additionally, there are well-established links between communication and the mental health of older people. Specifically, communication accommodation in all of its forms (e.g., over accommodation, nonaccommodation, accommodation) holds great promise as a core predictor of a range of mental health outcomes for older people across cultures.
Communication and Recruitment to Clinical Research Studies
Janice L. Krieger and Jordan M. Neil
Strategic communication is an essential component in the science and practice of recruiting participants to clinical research studies. Unfortunately, many clinical research studies do not consider the role of communication in the recruitment process until efforts to enroll patients in a timely manner have failed. The field of communication is rich with theory and research that can inform the development of an effective recruitment plan from the inception of a clinical research study through informed consent. The recruitment context is distinct from many other health contexts in that there is often not a behavioral response that can be universally promoted to patients. The appropriateness of a clinical research study for an individual is based on a number of medical, psychological, and contextual factors, making it impossible to recommend that everyone who is eligible for a clinical research study enroll. Instead, clinical research study recruitment efforts must utilize strategic communication principles to ensure that messages promote awareness of clinical research, maximize personal relevance, minimize information overload, and facilitate informed choice. This can be accomplished through careful consideration of various aspects of the communication context described in this chapter, including audience segmentation, message content, message channels, and formative, process, and outcome evaluation, as well as the enrollment encounter.


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Captain's ReportBig Attitude Rules on the WaterBy Capt. Ron SvobodaCockpit Features Some other items that the two models share in common is the spacious 8 foot 6 inch beam and 24 foot, 7 inch length that makes for ultra comfy times on the water. The cockpit's seating runs all the way down the port side, across the back, then all the way down the starboard side and ends at the pilot seat. The seating space is phenomenal with room for up to 16 people. A small removable snack table can be inserted near the aft seats for lunch or sunset cocktails. Just aft of the helm seat is a self draining cooler that also illuminated for when the sun goes down. Both port and starboard sides of the boat have ingeniously designed coaming panels that are flush with the seat backs and house 10 drinkholders, grab handles and stereo speakers. Of course each seat conceals generous storage space under each of the cushions, while at the back, a stereo remote allows total control of your tunes.The TowerAbove the cockpit is an aluminum piece of art that Malibu calls a wakeboard tower. This giant, cast aluminum structure is unlike anything else on the scene and can be painted and equipped with all sorts of different speaker and board rack options. When it's time to store the boat or tow to the next location, the tower neatly folds in behind the wraparound windshield by simply pulling two pins. The entire unit is counter balanced, making it possible for only one person to actuate and lower the tower.Just below the tower is the helm and driver's seat that's focused on comfort and cutting-edge marine technology. It all starts with the pilot's ultra supportive bucket seat that includes a thick bolster pad and swivel/forward adjustment operation. The seat can also be equipped with heat for those chilly morning ski runs, something we found to be very handy. Precision Pro Speed ControlThe boat's understated dash panel displays analog gauges driven by digital inputs from the all-electronic engine controls. Centered in the billet aluminum dash panel is Malibu's Precision Pro Speed Control that comes as standard equipment on both the models. The Wakesetter gets the added benefit of the Ballast Monitoring System, this gives digital control over filling and dumping water ballast so each boarder can custom tailor the wake size to their liking. Directly across from the helm is the observer's seat which is wide enough for two. The seatback cushion reveals a storage compartment that provides access to the boat's two batteries and the stereo system's amps and head unit.All the way forward in the cockpit is a fully padded bow seating and lounge area created for maximum comfort. Recessed nooks house stereo speakers and four stainless steel cup holders. Removing all the cushions exposes generous, carpet lined storage and a centerline forward ballast tank.If you are a dedicated water baby with a large entourage or just looking for a fine, family sport platform, and don't mind shelling out 75 grand for something totally unique on the playground then see the 247 LSV first hand, you won't be disappointed.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Malibu Sunscape 247 LSV is 41.8 mph (67.3 kph), burning 23.5 gallons per hour (gph) or 88.95 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Malibu Sunscape 247 LSV is 26.8 mph (43.1 kph), and the boat gets 2.94 miles per gallon (mpg) or 1.25 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 230 miles (370.15 kilometers).
- Tested power is 1 x 400-hp Indmar 383 Hammerhead.
Standard and Optional Features
|CD Stereo
Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Swim Platform
|Tower: Watersports
|Transom Shower
Hull Warranty
Lifetime Limited
Engine Warranty
|Limited 3-Year http://www.malibuboats.com/images/2008warrantymanual.pdf
Powertrain Warranty
Limited 3-Year
Gelcoat Warranty
Limited 2-Year
Accessories Warranty
|Limited 3-Year http://www.malibuboats.com/images/2008warrantymanual.pdf
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BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest 2013 - Retro Summer...
Added Feb 15, 2013
Missoula, Montan...
This project has been a wonderful opportunity to play around with patterns and vintage styling from the new BurdaStyle book. My designs are inspired by the flirty, full-skirted styles of the 1950's sundress. Using bias stripes, contrasting fabrics, and incorporating true vintage details like adorable pockets and a fabric covered belt create an authentic vintage look. Adding modern details like an invisible zipper, a shorter skirt length, and easy-to-wear fabric gives this vintage inspired dress all the modern necessities.
Working at an amazing fabric shop, Selvedge Studio in Missoula Montana, and being a student of Costume Design at the University of Montana, makes it easy for me to incorporate vintage inspired pieces I've made into my everyday wardrobe. I grew up sewing and have been working at Selvedge for three years, helping people pick out fabric and teaching sewing classes. My obsession with all things vintage (from clothes, to hair, to martinis) has grown with my skills in sewing and costume design. Although my major is in Marketing from the School of Business Administration, I spend most of my time on my minor in Theatre and Costume Design.
Thank you for inspiring my creativity, and congratulations on the release of the new book!
Best regards,
Gwen Mann, and Selvedge Studio
Option 3: Create your own variation project using one or more master pattern(s) and/or variation project(s) from the BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern book.
Patterns used:
Bodice: Inspired by 'Greta Day Dress' pattern-darts used instead of princess seams
Skirt: Inspired by 'Louisa Drop-Waist Dress'-used Lower Flounce pattern and extended in length.
Pocket: Inspired by vintage 1950s dress pattern
Fabric: 100% cotton
Trim: velvet ribbon
Closure: tie halter neck/invisible zipper
Worn with petticoat
Shoes: vintage reproduction style made by Remix
Jewelry: vintage screw-back pearl earrings (personal); vintage 3 strand necklace purchased from Leah Morrow (one of the owners of Selvedge Studio)
Material Notes
100& cotton fabric, velvet ribbon trim. Machine washable.
- _Photographer_
Mary Ryan
- _Photo editing_
Sahra Susman
- _Model_
Gwen Mann
- _Hair & Makeup/Styling_
Gwen Mann
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Apr 22, 2013, 07.12 PMby artisvitro23
Gorgeous Dress :)
Feb 17, 2013, 11.32 AMby frkbustad
Lovely shape! I really like the details on the pockets, and colour combination.
Feb 16, 2013, 10.54 AMby asperge11
Amazing! Good job :)
Feb 16, 2013, 01.51 AMby ariation
Very nice retro look! Good luck
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