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How much St. Patrick's Day trivia can you share with your children? Probably just that St. Patrick's Day falls on March 17 and relates to the Catholic saint who legendarily chased snakes from Ireland. Enjoy this St. Patrick's Day trivia with your family.
St. Patrick's Day Origins
St. Patrick's Day began as a religious holiday to honor St. Patrick, who brought Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century.
The first parade for the holiday occurred in New York City on March 17, 1762. It featured Irish soldiers who served in the English military.
In 1948, President Harry S. Truman attended the parade. In 1995, Congress proclaimed March to be Irish-American Heritage Month.
Irish in America
36.3 million U.S. residents claimed Irish ancestry in 2008, more than eight times the 4.4 million-person population of Ireland itself. The only ancestry reported more often was German.
Massachusetts residents were twice as likely to claim Irish ancestry as the nation overall, with a rate of 24 percent compared with 12 percent.
Those with Irish heritage were more likely to have higher household income, own their own homes and earn educational degrees. Specifically:
- 32 percent of Irish Americans older than 24 held at least a bachelor's degree and 92 percent held at least a high school diploma, compared with 28 percent and 85 percent for the entire U.S.
- Households headed by an Irish-American received a median income of $59,290 in 2008 compared with $52,029 for all households.
- 71 percent of those Irish-headed homes were owned, compared with 67 percent for all households. The remainder rented.
St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
Those making corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick's Day should find ample supplies in grocery stories. U.S. farmers produced 40.7 billion pounds of beef and 2.5 billion pounds of cabbage in 2008.
Texas produced 6.5 billion pounds of that beef, with 584 million pounds of cabbage coming from New York and 528 million pounds of the vegetable originating in California.
Lime green chrysanthemums are often seen on lapels and on St. Patrick's Day tables. Wholesale sales of potted chrysanthemums reached $35 million in 2008, for operations with $100,000 or more in sales.
Irish-Themed Places
There are 4 towns in the U.S. named after a shamrock, the emblem of Ireland. They are Mount Gay-Shamrock, W.Va.; Shamrock, Tex.; Shamrock Lakes, Ind., and Shamrock, Okla.
9 places are named after Dublin, the capital of Ireland. The most populous are in California and Ohio.
More whimsical Irish-themed towns include Emerald Isle, N.C., and the township of Irishtown, Ill. Townships named Clover exist in South Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Minnesota is also home to Cloverleaf.
Source: the Census Bureau
For more fun facts about the holidays, see the About Working Moms calendar of holiday facts.


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DES MOINES, Iowa — On Friday Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix and Senate President Jack Whitver released the results of an internal review.
Senator Majority Leader Bill Dix and Senate President Jack Whitver made the following statement regarding the release of the internal review:
"Our goal in releasing the review is to balance two competing concerns. The first concern is to be open with Iowans about the workplace issues in the Iowa Senate. The second concern is to protect the confidence of those individuals who shared this information with an expectation of confidentiality. Redactions have been made in consultation with legal counsel to protect confidential and personally identifiable information. In order to improve the workplace culture, employees need to know they can share their concerns without those issues being shared publicly. Publicizing those individuals could have a chilling effect on the willingness of employees to make reports of future incidents.
We will continue to consult with Ambassador Kramer as we work to improve the workplace culture in the Iowa Senate. As this review shows, the workplace culture needs to improve, it can improve, and with a lot of hard work, it will improve."
The internal review and memo from legal counsel may be found at the following link: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/WMD/SenateInternalReview.pdf.
The review follows the sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Kirsten Anderson. Anderson won, and the state settled for $1.7 million dollars.
"The sensitivity is really at the heart of this whole discussion in the first place. It`s ensuring that employees who have a concern, that they have a safe environment and a safe expectation of bringing that complaint forward without fear of any retaliation, and that is my sole purpose and my sole concern as it relates to how we move forward."
Ten days ago Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix expressed concerns about releasing the results of the internal sexual harassment investigation. The governor pressured him to go public.
"I did call the senator and talked to him and encouraged him to really take the steps, so people would feel confident that they were doing the right thing," said Governor Kim Reynolds. "(I) just encouraged him to go ahead and release the report. I thought that was a step in the right direction."
Anderson, the former communications director for the senate republican caucus, sued over sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Following the settlement, Senator Majority Leader Dix ordered an investigation into sexual harassment within the republican caucus.
Among the findings: multiple senator staffers noted that while on the senate floor, senators would make sexually suggestive comments or comments about sexual preferences. The report also says some of the comments occurred during this past legislative session. Prior to the report, Senator Dix said there was one thing all senate staff was clear on:
"Everyone here knows that prior to the trial and even today we have zero tolerance with respect to sexual harassment, we're going to continue that."
However, the report found not everyone was aware of the zero tolerance policy, and that some were confused by what it meant. The report also says both current and past harassment prevention training is ineffective.

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Threat To Close Communities In Western Australia
In 2014 the Federal Government decided that it would no longer accept responsibility for the provision of municipal services to remote Aboriginal communities including, in Tasmania and Victoria, the provision of remote housing. The argument was that such services should be the responsibility of states and local communities.
The reality is money. In Western Australia these services cost approximately $1 billion annually, but the WA Government was offered an extra $90 million over two years. Not surprisingly the WA Government has decided to close communities – nearly 150 of them. It made the announcement in November 2014, then seemed to backtrack with a promise of funding, but has again recently reiterated its threat to close communities.
This has caused enormous stress and anxiety across these communities. In a nutshell the issues are:
• there has been no consultation with Aboriginal people or the organisations which represent them;
• many of these communities exist in places that allow Aboriginal people to stay in touch with their land and their culture. This is another example of forced removal and dispossession (see below). There has been no attempt by government to understand what such forced community closures and movement of people means for people's social, mental, spiritual and physical life; and
• the movement of this many people will put enormous pressure on the communities they go to – housing, education, health facilities, and community relationships. Nothing has been done to plan for and deal with such impacts.
While these are decisions of the WA Government, they arise from decisions of the Federal Government and its attempt to shift the financial responsibility. It is an indefensible attack on the human rights of Aboriginal people.
Some Brief History Of The Communities
People have chosen to live in these small, remote communities as a way of responding to colonial dispossession and an attempt to stay close to the land which is the source of their life.
Aboriginal people had their land taken away from them by force, and the massacres that occurred around the country bear testimony to their determination to defend their belonging to the land. Yet even when they lost control, Aboriginal people continued to live on and live off the land, and many stayed in their country working for pastoralists and farmers. However, in 1968 it became law that they had to be paid wages and when the pastoralists and farmers could no longer afford to pay them, Aboriginal people had to move to town camps.
In addition to the massacres and their dispossession from the land, Aboriginal people have had to deal with the consequences of racism and racist policies including:
• the 1905 Act by the Protector of Aborigines which led to the forced removal of children;
• the men in the Kimberley being 'black-birded' (conscripted) and forced marched in chains to Broome to be pearl divers – many died from the 'bends';
• the sexual and economic exploitation of women as they struggled to find work to maintain their families;
• the abuse of alcohol, drugs and suicide by young people – a direct result of their continued dispossession and disillusionment;
• the imprisonment of people far from their homelands and families; and
• the continuing tragedy of Aboriginal deaths in custody – a tragedy that has touched every Aboriginal family.
In the 1970s there was a movement to allow people to return to their 'country' and communities were established. Some of those are quite small today. Living on community is integral to the identity, health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people. To force Aboriginal people to leave their land is nothing less than an act of genocide.
The rationale for the proposed closure of communities was that they were not economically viable. However, the real purpose of any community is to sustain the people who live in it across all aspects of human life. If 'financial sustainability' was the only measure of the value of a community then quite a few non-Indigenous communities across Australia – in rural and remote areas – could equally be closed. That this would never be countenanced by governments or broader Australian society just highlights the racist nature of this policy.
A Breach Of Human Rights
In September 2007 the United Nations adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It is a non-binding document, but provides a framework for recognising and protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples, based on existing human rights standards. It does not suggest 'new' or 'special' rights for Indigenous peoples, but draws together existing rights from international laws and conventions and explains how they apply to Indigenous peoples. To our shame, Australia was one of only four countries that voted against the adoption of the Declaration, and it took a change of Government for Australia to endorse the document on 3 April 2009.
There are a number of rights breached by this decision to close communities. The Declaration affirms peoples' right to their land, the importance of self-determination and the right for people to control development on their land. It affirms the right of people to participate in decisions that affect their lives:
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves. (Article 18)
It affirms the right to free, prior and informed consent, which means that governments and corporations are expected to negotiate with, and obtain the consent of, Indigenous peoples before taking actions that affect them. Article 19 says:
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.
Not only must governments and corporations negotiate, the expectation is that they will do so in good faith, not simply using the negotiations to explain what they have already decided to do.
Article 8 says, "Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture." Yet this is precisely what this decision to close communities will mean.
Article 8 also says:
States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:
(b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
(c) Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;
(d) Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
Article 10 says:
Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.
Article 25 affirms the right to maintain a relationship with their land, and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations:
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
As noted above, Australia has endorsed the Declaration. We have accepted it as a framework for relationships in this country. It should shape what is happening in WA, remembering that, as Article 43 says: "The rights recognized herein constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world" and, as Article 46.3 says: "The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good governance and good faith."
What Can Be Done?
If you are concerned about this issue and the devastating effects the closure of communities will have on Aboriginal people, please, as a matter of urgency, contact your local Federal member and the office of the Minister for Indigenous, Mr Nigel Scullion, to express your concern about the way funds have been withdrawn from the states. It is unacceptable for the Federal Government to walk away from its responsibilities in this way.
UAICC also calls on governments to change how they relate to Aboriginal people, in particular:
• the Western Australian Government must begin genuine negotiations with the communities and those who represent them;
• the Western Australian Government must immediately undertake a serious analysis of the impact that closures will have on surrounding communities, in consultation with Aboriginal people develop a plan to deal with the effects;
• All governments in Australia must sign a code of conduct for working with Aboriginal people. This code must be developed through sincere dialogue with the people in all Aboriginal communities, and not just those individuals in positions of influence with government and the general community.
Contact the Hon. Colin Barnett, Premier of WA, and express your concern about the lack of genuine consultation with the communities, and encourage the government to start urgent and genuine negotiations with the land councils across WA.
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The perils of devolution in public health
Haringey Council is denying that it has plans to extend the smoking ban to outdoor public places including beer gardens.
The Labour-run council was identified by the Telegraph last week as the protagonist behind a "list of demands from councils and health authorities in London."
When the idea came to light it was criticised by Marcus Jones, minister for local government, who said:
"We already knew that Labour councils charge higher council taxes and levy more red tape.
"Now Labour's municipal killjoys have been caught with a smoking gun, trying to ban adults enjoying their local pub garden. If implemented, these ill-founded proposals would lead to massive pub closures.
"Conservatives in Government will be vetoing these Labour Party plans. Ahead of May's local elections, local voters have a right to know the bad and mad ideas that are being peddled by Labour councillors."
See Smoking ban in beer gardens and al-fresco dining areas rejected by ministers (Telegraph).
Haringey Council has now told the Morning Advertiser it has "no plans" to ban smoking in public places but is looking into how it can "increase the number of smoke-free environments" (Council denies claims it led charge to ban smoking in pub gardens).
According to a spokesman:
It is clear that smoking and inhaling second-hand smoke is one of the biggest contributors to premature deaths in the country, and what we are committed to is looking at all the options for reducing the impact on our residents.
Through our health devolution bid, we hope to carry out detailed research into how increasing the number of smoke-free environments in Haringey and across London could improve the health and life chances of all out residents."
I'm not sure how they intend to increase the number of "smoke-free environments" without extending the smoking ban, so where do we stand on the matter?
One document I have seen – Haringey Devolution Pilot, Prevention Pilot, Outline Business Case, dated January 2017 – argues that:
Devolution will enable partners, employers and residents in Haringey to improve the health of local residents at pace and scale ...
Devolution will enable Haringey to shape a healthier borough to improve residents' choices
and prevent people with health problems dropping out of employment.
According to the document:
Our vision is to fundamentally 'normalise good health' by supporting residents to make healthier choices and reducing unhealthy, risky behaviours.
This includes:
Primary Prevention: interventions through population/borough-level policy in order to shape the places where people live so that the healthier choice is the easier choice for residents.
We want an environment which promotes healthy eating and exercise, and is not dominated by premises that sell tobacco, or alcohol, or contribute to debt through gambling.
Primary prevention is the goal of our prevention pilot's Healthy Environments strand. Local government plays a critical role in this. Devolution enables us to do this more effectively.
The plan proposes to use licensing powers "to create healthier environments" with a specific focus on tobacco and alcohol.
So far so general. However a second (draft) document – London Health and Social Care Devolution: Memorandum of Understanding – is pretty specific:
Some of the prevention policies put forward by the pilots to date would have implications for national policy and legislation [my emphasis] ...
London and national partners should "commit to collaborating on and contributing expertise to establish the opportunities and explore the evidence base for ..."
This is followed by three proposals one of which is:
Granting local authorities the freedom to extend smoke-free areas to include alfresco dining areas of restaurants and pub gardens [my emphasis].
Interestingly the parties to the draft agreement include not only the "London Councils representing the 32 London boroughs and the City of London" but also "national partners", among them the Treasury, the Department of Health and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
Marcus Jones, the minister who spoke out against the plan to extend the smoking ban to pub gardens, works at the DCLG, so what exactly is going on?
Is the Government really opposed to extending the smoking ban to beer gardens or is this just Conservative Central Office making party political mischief ahead of the local elections on May 4?
Meanwhile, while most of the headlines focussed on the Conservative Government allegedly blocking the proposal, some newspapers chose a different angle.
Why smoking could soon be BANNED in pub beer gardens, trumpeted the Leicester Mercury:
Plenty of people in Leicestershire will be heading out to beer gardens this summer to enjoy a pint in the sunshine.
However, if you also enjoy a cigarette in a beer garden, that could soon be outlawed.
A London council has suggested "extending smoke-free areas" in the area to protect public health, Mirror Online reports.
If Haringey Council's plans go ahead, that could mean an end to smoking in pub beer gardens and restaurant terraces.
It is now believed that the approach could be adopted by other councils across the country.
The good news is that Haringey Council has been forced on the back foot. The bad news is that issues concerning public and private health are increasingly being devolved to local authorities and it only takes one or two to get behind a policy for it to develop momentum.
That's what happened before the introduction of the current smoking ban. Regional authorities in London and Liverpool wanted the power to unilaterally ban smoking in enclosed public places.
Councils in other towns and cities (Plymouth, Middlesbrough and St Albans to name a few) then began to explore the issue, inviting witnesses such as Forest to give evidence to various committees.
At one point the Labour government seemed happy to allow local councils to devise their own policies. And that's when the pub industry stepped in, demanding a level playing field across the country.
So that's why, despite Marcus Jones' welcome comment to the Telegraph, it's no time to be complacent.
In fact, anyone who recalls the debate about the tobacco display ban is entitled to remain deeply sceptical of anything any politician says.
As Philip Davies MP wrote, following the Coalition government's decision to implement Labour's tobacco display ban:
In answer to a parliamentary question, Mike Penning, then Shadow Health Minister said, "I have looked long and hard for evidence from around the world that the Government's proposals (to ban displays at the point of sale) are sufficiently evidence-based, but I do not think that they are." Why the sudden change of heart? It is simply to try to appease anti-smoking fanatics who can never be appeased.
Davies' comment hit the nail on the head. It's one thing for Conservative Central Office to try to embarrass Labour councils before local elections, but after the forthcoming elections (national and local) will a Conservative Government be prepared to ignore the fanatical anti-smoking industry or will there be more years of appeasement?
Yes, I'm encouraged by Marcus Jones' comments, and the Government's apparent refusal to bow to the demands of anti-smoking organisations to publish a new Tobacco Control Plan without further delay, but I remain wary.
We've seen what devolution has done in Scotland. My concern is that devolving even more responsibility for 'public' health to local councils would generate more grandstanding policies designed to grab headlines in order that local authorities are seen to be 'doing something'.
Opinion polls are clear. The public does NOT believe that tackling smoking is a high priority for either national or local government.
That's the non-party political message we have to get across ... to all politicians, national and local.


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Monday, September 27, 2010
Well, everyone the time has come. A few weeks ago, my principal offered me an opportunity I just couldn't refuse. I am officially a gifted teacher at my school. I have been wanting this for so long that it's almost unreal. Ever since I was working on my Master's degree under Dr. Frances Karnes, I knew an enrichment setting was where I belonged.
The first four courses I will teach are: All Things Money, Entrepreneurship, Folktales around the World, and Leadership. These enrichment courses are designed to cultivate self-efficacy and global connections. My goal is to create the kinds of learning experiences that expose my students to an array of ideas, themes, and concepts, as well as develop a rudimentary expertise in the subject area. Whether we are exploring world cultures through folk tales and Skype sessions with classrooms around the globe or writing marketing plans for our Entrepreneurship unit, the objective is to integrate literacy and technology into each lesson.
I have been blessed and have enjoyed teaching Spanish these past few years. I will miss my students, especially the little ones in Kindergarten to 1st grade. It almost broke my heart to see them in the hallway when they asked where I was today. As of now, the reality hasn't set in for them or for me. Though it is sad to leave Spanish, I am ready to move on to the next chapter in my career. I invite you on this journey with me to follow what I am doing in the gifted classroom.
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Congratulations on the new position! I'm going to miss your posts regarding Spanish. I especially enjoyed these last couple of ones about classroom management. Will you continue to post about keeping order in the classroom? This is my first year teaching, and setting rules and boundaries for my students has been the most challenging part. I hope you continue blogging!ReplyDelete
Thank you for your kind words! I will continue to blog about Spanish because I will be teaching Spanish in a Saturday enrichment program. Though the bulk of what I write will be about my new journey in gifted, I will write about all aspects of teaching including classroom management, curriculum, and technology integration. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
Thanks for your support,
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 4:27 PM
¡Enhorabuena, Elvira! So sorry I didn't read this post yesterday. I am so happy for you and hope you will find this journey exciting and enriching for you. All the best in your new journey and looking forward to reading your reflections as you begin a new chapter in your career. Saludos!ReplyDelete


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An award-winning journalist for several Front Range print and online outlets including Colorado Community Media and Landmark Publications, Tom Skelley joined the Evolution team in October 2017 to fulfill his goal of making a positive local, national and global impact.
Tom uses the skills he honed as a journalist to create compelling content for clients as well as establishing relationships between clients and media outlets, telling stories that connect the organization to the communities they want to serve. Much of his writing and reporting covered innovations, challenges and pioneers in the healthcare field, another aspect of his experience that complements much of Evolution's client base.
Prior to journalism, Tom worked as a Montessori teacher for 15 years, where he developed a passion for issues concerning children from all backgrounds. Some of his proudest accomplishments happened while working with children in Head Start programs in Denver's Five Points area.
Tom graduated summa cum laude from Metropolitan State University of Denver with a degree in Convergent Journalism, a discipline encompassing writing, photography and public relations. He is an avid photographer and SCUBA diver, but his proudest accomplishment to date is being a father and husband.


text: ERA presented its systems at Electronic Warfare conference EW Europe 2017 in London ERA - as the well-known developer and supplier of unique passive surveillance and reconnaissance system VERA-NG for air defence - participated at one of the biggest events for Electronic Warfare community, i. e. scientific conference EW Europe 2017, held in London in the first week of June. Jakub Thomas, senior sales manager of ERA systems, gave a lecture on ESM Trackers called "Renaissance of Strategic ESM Systems with Tactical Scope" to its participants. EW Europe 2017 has brought together people involved in EW, SIGINT, C4ISR, Cyber EM Activities (CEMA). Speakers such as leaders and operators from the military, government, academia, R&D communities and industry considered the future of EW and EM Operations in the changing light of current and emerging threats, including Hybrid Warfare and Anti Access/Area Denial (A2/AD). The conference consisted of plenary sessions and twin-tracks focusing respectively on operations, capability and defence lines of development and industry inventiveness.


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Southern Baptist Convention Rejects BDS
The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination with an estimated 15.3 million members, passed a resolution this week declaring their opposition to efforts to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) Israel. "We support the right of Israel to exist as a sovereign state and reject any activities that attack that right by promoting economic, cultural, and academic boycotts against Israel," the SBC resolution said. "At this critical time when dangerous forces are mounting up against the nation of Israel, we recommit ourselves to pray for God's peace to rule in Jerusalem and for the salvation of Israel."


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We do our homework on a vendor. We read reviews. We read every word of every contract and correspondence and we communicate clearly. We love the work of the people and companies we have chosen to help facilitate our special day. So what happens when one of these vendors disappoints? How do we handle it? How do we get through the day? How do we seek recourse?
Before It Happens
Be sure to save everything. Get all agreements and changes documented. Use email, contract amendments if one was signed and get signatures where possible. Be sure to look into wedding insurance and what will be covered and read all contracts carefully to be sure you are entitled to getting your money back if something goes wrong.
When It Happens
Most importantly keep your cool. If it is a mistake that can be fixed get someone besides the bride or groom on top of it. If it cannot be fixed make sure the vendor is notified immediately anyway so bad reviews and complaints to come are not a total surprise. If the vendor is a total no show, weigh your options. If it was the DJ or band get someone to load the important songs on an iPod and use the venues sound system. If it was the florist send someone to the grocery and a craft store to tie together make shift bouquets. Some craft stores with floral centers have samples for sale or can quickly throw a few silk bouquets together. A day of coordinator can be very helpful when things go wrong and often have contacts for a last minute fix.
In The Days After
Talk to the vendors before taking any action. Figure out what went wrong and what they are willing to do about it. If they can come to some agreement no further action may be necessary. Depending on your contract you may only be entitled to a certain amount. Be sure to mention how the vendor handles issues in your reviews and update it with final conclusions.
If the issues are small like colors and styles of things many people will not even know besides those intimately involved in planning. There is usually not much to be done. It is important to keep that in perspective and have a good time anyway. The day of the wedding is not the time to worry about getting money back.


text: I'm guilty! I've been away for a long time! Please accept my apology! I've actually planned to do a post to inform you about my plans, but right at the end everything was such a rush and it was actually only after I've arrived in South Africa that I realised that this picture was still to be published! But, since I've prepared the image, I thought I might just as well show it to you anyway. "Het is wel mosterd na de maaltijd!"*, for those of you who knows a little (or a lot) of Dutch, but since I love hippos I thought you might enjoy this lazy bunch with me. I will try to make up for my absence by posting a bit more often in the coming weeks!


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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Despite a tough economy and difficulties with its key General Motors Corp. client, Interpublic Group of Cos. has weathered the storm well so far.
The U.S.-based holding company -- which is the parent of global agency networks such as McCann Erickson and Weber Shandwick and of domestic shops such as Deutsch, Martin Agency and R/GA -- today said it doubled profits in 2008 to $265 million, compared with $131 million in 2007.
In the fourth quarter, net income leapt to $210 million, compared with net income a year ago of $163 million. Quarterly revenue fell 4% to $1.9 billion compared with the same period the year before, but was up 6% from 2007 to $7 billion for the full year. Total debt of $2.12 billion as of Dec. 31 decreased from $2.35 billion as of Dec. 31, 2007.
'Elephant in the room'
During the call, Interpublic Chairman-CEO Michael Roth referred to the holding company's embattled GM client as the "elephant in the room." Despite a standing policy not to discuss exposures tied to specific clients, he provided analysts with an estimate of Interpublic's current exposure to GM, citing it as $150 million.
Among other things, the economy has been challenging for Interpublic's events business, though public relations was a surprising bright spot.
Harris Diamond, head of Interpublic's Constituency Management Group, which oversees the holding company's PR, experiential and sports-marketing agencies, sent a memo to all of its PR agencies alerting them that the sector grew 7% in 2008. (The PR operation of rival Omnicom Group, by contrast, suffered in 2008 with a revenue decline of 0.4%.) He would not identify which agencies performed well, but in this morning's conference call, Mr. Roth said both Weber Shandwick and Golin Harris had very good years.
One shop that Mr. Diamond would not provide any numbers on was Jack Morton, Interpublic's experiential agency, but he said that entire sector is under serious pressure, in particular from Congress.
A 'populist issue'
"It has become a populist issue with politicians when companies have meetings and events," Mr. Diamond told Ad Age in a separate interview. "The problem right now is that politicians frankly don't understand marketing, and in their loud yelps of surprise, there's a little bit of populism run amok. The reality is that events are important for both internal and external purposes, and experiential marketing is one of the better tools by which companies can market their products."
He said he has seen the experiential market start to pick up in 2009. "It was really frozen there for a while," Mr. Diamond said. "We're seeing clients sign contracts and renew programs, commit to new programs, and we're starting to see the meeting business pick up a little bit. It remains under pressure, but it's a little better than it was just barely three weeks ago."
While the company managed to deliver strong results overall, marketing services is now feeling the affect of larger economic forces, which means "limited visibility" for the remainder of the year for Interpublic and its peers, Mr. Roth said.
"There's no doubt that we are operating in a very challenging business environment" said Mr. Roth, who said clients are being very cautious about their marketing spending, particularly when it comes to media buyers asking for lowest rates. "They are looking at agency budgets carefully as well," he noted.
Scrutiny for experimental media
With clients even more focused on return on investment, he predicted a drop-off in spending on "experimental media," though he'd didn't identify what qualifies as experimental.
"Every dollar that is going out the door across the globe is getting greater scrutiny," said Interpublic's chief financial officer, Frank Mergenthaler, and the company is trimming real-estate costs, insurance costs and even salaries.
That also means that Interpublic is holding off on any acquisitions.
"We're very cautious about using our cash and spending our capital in an uncertain environment," Mr. Roth said. Interpublic has been eyeing a couple of companies in the digital space, but any deals are likely to be held off until the latter part of the year. The holding company aims to spend no more than $100 million on acquisitions through 2009.
Interpublic is weathering the economic storm well compared with its bigger competitors. Publicis Groupe reported a 1.1% fall in profit to $580 million in 2008, while much No. 1 Omnicom increased 2008 profit 2.5% to $1.3 billion, though, it did see its worst fourth quarter since the early '90s.


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"I had a fifth grade teacher who would talk about her husband, who was a hospital intern, so I became really interested in science and medicine, and went on to become a doctor myself!"
Bernie Sanders
Fortunately for the people of Vermont, Jan Carney is passionate about preventive medicine and education. For 13 years as the state's Commissioner of Health, she combined the two disciplines in an innovative public health program—Healthy Vermonters—which significantly reduced levels of lead in baby's brains, made early baby visits almost universal in Vermont, cut the rate of infant child abuse, increased childhood immunizations and led to improvements in a number of other serious health issues, such as childhood obesity.
Nominating Carney as Vermont's Local Legend, Congressman Bernie Sanders —Independent— called her a visionary leader during whose tenure "Vermonters experienced extraordinary gains in their health and well being."
When she stepped down as Commissioner, the Burlington Free Press editorialized, "If Jan K. Carney doesn't return to her old profession as a doctor of medicine, she is well qualified to become a doctor of government!; Carney placed Vermont among the nation's leaders in public health and— Thanks partly to Carney's concerted campaigns against such health threats as breast cancer, AIDS and smoking, and by stressing the importance of early childhood preventative care, health indicators of almost every group of Vermonters have improved!"
Extraordinary accolades for anyone, but for Carney, they signified the fulfillment of a dream of making a difference in people's lives as a doctor: "I love public health. When I went to public health school, I remember thinking, "Oh! This is what I intend to do." I had the great opportunity to be in charge of public health for a whole state, to face all those challenges and see where it didn't work so well and try and do it differently, or where our successes were tremendously gratifying."
Carney, who earned her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College, received her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1981. Following medical school, she returned to the Green Mountain State, completing an Internal Medicine residency at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and then serving as Chief Medical Resident the following year. In 1987, she earned a Master's degree in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1988 she was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Health and assumed the top post the following year, serving under Governors Madeline Kunin, Richard Snelling and Howard Dean.
Carney is Board Certified in Internal and Preventive Medicine and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Public Health at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where she is instrumental in educating future physician leaders and providing an essential bridge between public health practice and medicine.
Says Carney, "I think that we really have to work harder to prevent illness. Many diseases are potentially preventable, so I think that prevention is a critical part of health and health care. You can't be a physician in this day and age without hitting public health head on. So I think it's essential for the doctors of tomorrow to understand public health because they'll need to incorporate it into their clinical specialties."
As Vermont's Commissioner of Public Health through three gubernatorial administrations, Dr. Carney created and led the "Healthy Vermonters" program, credited by the Burlington Free Press with helping to "make Vermonters among the healthiest of Americans and certainly among the best educated about the condition of public health in their state."
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In a survey conducted by bricks and mortar agency Haart using 700 people, it found that 82% who sold through a traditional agency were either satisfied or very satisfied with the experience, whilst 88% say having a face-to-face meeting with an estate agent was very important or important to the process.
They say the evidence suggests 4% of people in the UK who have sold a home have used an online agent.
The survey also discovered that most believe using a traditional high street estate agent can add 5% to the value of their home. The top factor for people saying why they would choose a traditional estate agent over an online agent was "Getting the best price"
The survey showed that there was mistaken public opinions on traditional agents' fees. Around 76 % of people believed the fees to be higher than the average 1.0 to 2.0% and one in nine people believed agents are charging up to 10% more.
Haart chief executive, Paul Smith says "Estate agents charge a fee for a skilled service which often includes deployment of expert negotiation skills to keep property chains together – and that fee is much lower than most people believe. It's also not a flat rate with a seller only paying if their home is in fact sold. This means high street estate agents will work really hard and are motivated to achieve the best possible price for their clients".


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Offshore Winter Flounder Spawning Research
Project Title: Investigating Offshore Essential Fish Habitat of Southern New England Winter Flounder
Year: 2015
Principle Investigators: Carl Huntsberger, Liese Siemann, Samir Patel, & Jasper Leavitt
Client: Saltonstall – Kennedy Fund
The primary purpose of this project is to identify coastal spawning locations of winter flounder in the over fished Southern New England (SNE) stock, with the goal of expanding the essential fish habitat (EFH) to encompass all regions critical to winter flounder spawning. This new knowledge can help rebuild the stock.
It has long been recognized that there is an offshore spawning contingent of winter flounder in SNE, yet this has not been incorporated into the management for this region since there is still limited data. This project will consist of a scallop dredge survey using commercial vessels to target adult winter flounder; before, during, and after the spawning season in SNE. This will provide data on how the adult fish are utilizing various habitat areas around the spawning season. A video and egg collection survey will also be conducted using our epibenthic sled to evaluate habitat and confirm spawning offshore with the presence of eggs.
We will conduct surveys in collaboration with commercial fishermen. The following stations were selected using historical data collected by CFF, input from commercial fishermen, and discussions with FSF, RI DEM, and CFRF to best cover the area of interest.
If you have information about concentrations of winter flounder near this sample area, or identify fish in spawning condition please email us at email@example.com with GPS coordinates, depth, and date/time information.


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David Henderson, '93, Pillar of Fairness. After earning a degree from UT-Austin in the Plan Two Honors Program and UT Law School, David Henderson joined the Bexar County District Attorney's office as a Family Justice and Victim Protection Prosecutor for the 379th District Court. In 2010 he won the International Toastmaster championship, outspeaking 30,000 entries from 115 countries. A first generation college graduate from his family, he is most proud of his Independent Study Mentorship as a student at Taft High School where his project was to develop and present a (new) business model for a McDonald's franchise. He also attended Timberwilde Elementary and Zachry Middle School in NISD.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
My New Best Friend
Have a great week. I just got home from work and have two more days to go! 12 hour shifts can be tough. We are expecting some snow showers on Wednesday! WOO HOO! We haven't had snow in a couple of years.
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- Protector of Vintage said...
Thank you for visiting my blog the other day!! I have read through some of your recent posts and will be back to read more!! Your blog is lovely~
- January 26, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Cynthia's Cottage Design said...
Hi Lorri!
Oh I just adore kitchen aid, I can't live without mine either! :)
Thank you for your kind words and your visit! You are so sweet!
Oh and I ADORE that red quilt on the bed, omg! perfect!!
HUgs, Cynthia
- January 27, 2009 at 5:07 AM
- ^..^ Corgi Dog Mama ^..^ said...
I love mine too, but use it mainly during the month of December, when I bake the most, and during the summer, whipping cream for strawberries!
Now...we know....where hubby's 20 lbs. came from......spoiled rotten by all your baking!!
He's much loved.
- January 27, 2009 at 6:34 AM
- Penny @ The Comforts of Home/Lavender Hill Studio said...
What a wonderful mixer! I love the red color. I have always wanted one of them too!
- January 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- FeeBeeKay said...
Hi Lorri! In the spirit of helping me with my aspiration to learn to bake my Mum is lending me her Kenwood Chef - an old mixer she got in the '70's that weighs almost as much as our vacuum cleaner! But she wouldn't be without it. She reckons in 30 years it hasn't turned out one bad cake! I will keep you posted on whether that stays true when it gets to my house!
Have a great week sweetie, and don't be working too hard!
Fiona x
- January 27, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- The Cottage In The Curve said...
Hi there Lorri. I've always wanted one to but probably won't get one. If I buy a Kitchen Aid I'll have to use it and then eat everything I make.
I was so tired again last night that I couldn't get on here. I went to bed and slept 10 hours and still couldn't get up this morning.
I have something to blog about and also have Outdoor Wednesday to post. Come see me later if you have time.
- January 27, 2009 at 3:16 PM


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In a year with some extraordinary books on the short list including the presumed favorite Hilary Mantel's Bringing Down the Bodies, AM Homes has become the 5th American in a row to take home the top prize for her novel May We Be Forgiven.
Actress Miranda Richardson, who cleared her schedule much to the chagrin of her agents, to take on the chair of this prestigious award said this about Homes' book:
It was so fresh and so funny – darkly funny – and so unexpectedly moving…It is a book where we all found ourselves laughing out loud on trains or wherever we were reading…You're laughing in kind of fear or horror as much as anything else. It's relentless, but great.
The judges BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal, journalist Rachel Johnson, and authors Jojo Moyes and Natasha Walter deliberated for four hours before making a decision and picking Homes. The remaining novels on the short list were: Zadie Smith's NW, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette.
Last year Madeline Miller received the top prize which next year will be called the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
AM Homes Wins Women's Prize for Fiction (The Guardian)
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Miranda Richardson- I Hate Our Sneering Attitude Towards Success (The Guardian)
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I was writing earlier today that I am getting really fed to using the same datasets over and over again. Of course using the same data over time with different methods (eg look this) serves really well on a comparison scope but still we can use other data in a web world. For example, you can get interesting sets from BuzzData (or similar services).
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My dear friend Cecilia is an amazing knitter. She has made my children everything from an adorable knit mermaid toy to cozy, Parisian-styled sweaters. This year for her birthday I wanted to give her something thoughtful that I knew she would use. She already has everything she needs to knit, so I thought I could give her something that would help to showcase her work:
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Personalized embossers and stamps make great gifts for crafty friends because it shows that you appreciate their talent and also gives them an easy way to turn their art-form in to a signature gift.
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My name is Bryan Atkinson and I am a composer for film and media. My passion and dream is to work alongside visionary creatives providing compelling music for the world's most impactful art forms. The extent to which music can influence a media production is immense! I have had the privilege to compose music for feature films, documentaries, short films, and much more encompassing a wide variety of genres.
For as long as I can remember, film music has intrigued and inspired me. A classical training in piano performance was the first step in the musical "ladder." I continued to write piano pieces until college, where I received a degree in audio production. This helped propel me into the world of producing and recording music, after which time I supplemented my education with online classes in composition, orchestration, mixing, and similar disciplines.
I am driven by a service-based mindset, a mindset that pays attention to the detail in every note and that puts the story and emotion first. The pages that follow reveal a sample of my work. If you think my services could benefit your project, contact me, and we can talk about the musical needs for your next project.
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One of the best decisions I think Jeremy and I have ever made is to watch Seinfeld, in its entirety, this summer. I first watched it when I was at drama school, so I have a lot of memories of being exhausted, wearing grubby black leggings and eating humus while watching Jerry and his pals get into mischief. It was perfect TV, so comforting and hilarious. It's perhaps the best sitcom of all time, inspiring, and imitated by, so many shows. Including Friends, something I didn't realise the first time I watched it (I was knackered, sorry) but this time round I'm frequently shouting, "Friends did that!" as we rip our way through the episodes.
As always the style of the characters is as interesting to me as any other element of the show, and these guys look great. In 1989 when Seinfeld first aired there wasn't really as much focus on costumes for characters in TV as there is now. So a lot of what they're wearing is inspired by the wardrobes of the actors - Julia Louis-Dreyfus reportedly dressed pretty similarly to Elaine, and I can't imagine Jerry Seinfeld would have ever thought that hard about what he was putting on. Apparently they would always dress Michael Richards in clothes one size too big so he looked loose and casual, and Jason Alexander in clothes one size too small to add to his awkardness. Clever. Anyway, without further ado lets rifle through their wardrobes.
Elaine is the bomb. Her character was based on one of Jerry's real life girlfriends, the model Susan McNabb, and you can read an interview with her about Jerry here. Warning - tabloid questions prevail. She was also partly inspired by comedian Elayne Booster (so that's where they got the name from) who is friends with Jerry and Larry David. In the show Elaine, like her friends, is funny and endearing but also very flawed. She's the type of woman who will dump someone because of their weight, then when he loses said weight after depression caused by not being with her, will suddenly want to date him again. She is beautiful and smart and sees loads of guys, but she's also very neurotic, and that trait means she finds it hard to build long-term relationships. Not that she seems too bothered by that.
Style-wise Elaine likes layers. And she loves cropped jackets boosted with shoulder pads, at least in the first couple of seasons. She isn't that adventurous, you get the feeling she's not that interested in clothes, she has just found a couple of looks and styles she likes and just buys more and more of the same. NORMCORE.
That isn't to say she doesn't look fantastic. Here are some of her jackets, they're usually worn with lacy shirts and blouses buttoned all the way up to the top and drop earrings.
This aztec one above is the stuff of dreams.
She also wears lots of maxi skirts and dresses, always with a busy floral print. And she likes an exciting collar. Two tone shoes are her ideal footwear choice, especially if they're flat. Lace up or loafers - she's not picky, and she's a fan of the white ankle sock. The effect is sort of over-grown highly academic pre-teen girl. Elaine went to a good University (Tufts) and probably hasn't changed her wardrobe since then and is probably quite proud of that, "Look, it still fits!" Obviously while at Tufts everyone would have been secretly in love with her, pining for her across the library.
We should also talk about her hair. I don't know how she gets it so big at the front, backcombing? Is there some sort in internal structure she's wrapping it around? So many questions.
She also has no fear of double denim, especially if the jacket is big and boxy.
And she has great choice when it comes to backpacks.
If Elaine is Normcore, then Jerry is Normcore +1. This man loves his high waisted jeans worn with an array of white Nike trainers. Jerry is a real sneaker head, here is a list of all the shoes he wore during the show. When he did an AMA on reddit at the beginning of the year someone asked him about his collection and why he got so into Nikes, he replied, "It started with wanting to be Joe Namath of the 1969 New York Jets, who at that time was one of the only football players to wear white shoes. And I wanted to be like him, so I always wore white sneakers. Also, Bill Cosby on I SPY always wore white sneakers. And they were my fashion icons".
Note to self, do a style dissection of The Cosby Show.
Below is Jerry in his basic look. The only thing to ever really change is the top half. Different coloured bomber jackets and sometimes he wears shirts buttoned all the way to the top!! Chill out Jerry!
Look how insane this is - Jerry in PLAID!
Obviously some of my favourite Jerry looks are when he has to wear something that pushes him outside his comfort zone. For example when he unwittingly commits to wearing a puffy shirt on The Today Show as a favour for Kramer's girlfriend. (You can pay a visit to this shirt at the National Museum of American History if you have a burning desire to see it in real life). (I do).
Is it bad that I think he looks sort of incredible? Pirate chic.
Or there's the time he has to turn his beautiful suede bomber jacket inside out to protect it from the rain, revealing this amazing pink and white candy striped lining.
Seriously, that bomber jacket is gorgeous.
Jerry's hair stays pretty much the same, although sometimes between cuts it gets dangerously close to being a mullet. Although it never goes as far as his haircut in the flash back scene of him and George in High School. Woah.
Speaking of George..
Oh Costanza, you are your own worst enemy. George is obsessive, paranoid, judgmental and has a short temper. He's Biff Loman, he's petty about money, and I love him utterly and completely. I think we all do - he's so fearless. I also love the way he dresses. As with Elaine there is something quite innocent and child-like about his clothes. Rain macs with the waist tie pulled tight around his tummy and the sleeves a bit too short, thin-soled sneakers, narrow jeans. He loves a checked shirt.
George is very into trying out different looks and styles, though sadly they rarely work out for him. Hats in particular seem to be an area of fashion he desperately wants to be involved in, but he never gets it quite right. Part of this is his insecurity about his baldness - he's worried about meeting a woman while wearing the hat, and then finding it awkward to remove the hat and reveal his lack of hair. If only he realised most women wouldn't care.
I know we're focusing on George here, but Elaine's jacket is superb.
Of course there is also the occasion he decides to go the whole hog and try out a wig. Oh boy.
Or what about George with a moustache instead?
Kind of into it.
George you rock, I wish there were more people like you, does anyone know a real life Costanza? Can I be friends with them?
There is a funny point in Seinfeld about four seasons in when the audience watching the show start spontaneously applauding whenever Kramer walks into Jerry's apartment. I think that is mostly to do with his outfits. Kramer is a "hipster doofus" he has loads of vintage shirts, he's cool and suave. Unlike George, everything comes easily to him, from dating to landing a speaking part in a Woody Allen film. THESE PRETZELS...He's played by Michael Richards, whose tall, slim physique makes pretty much anything look good, and there is a sort of elegance to him, despite his many incredible pratfalls and other physical comedy expertise. His trademark crazy hair, his medallion and his unusual jackets all add to the classic Cosmo Kramer look.
Yeah, he really has some goooooood wardrobe moments. For example his lobster shirt (buy one for yourself here).
His nautical bells shirt.
His...I'm not sure what those are on his shirt below, thistles?
His feather and egg (?) shirt.
When he wore a technicolour dream coat and was mistaken for a pimp.
This fat tie that's just a little bit too short.
Want a Kramer for yourself? You can buy a reproduction of the portrait painted of him on Etsy.
I need to talk about some of the "Oh my god it's them!" moments in Seinfeld, because there are so many, and quite often the actors were dressed in something excellent. Here we have Larry David in a cape.
And the man he's talking to in the pale blue jacket, George Costanza's father, is played by Jerry Stiller. Jerry is an entertainer extrodinare and Ben Stiller's real life dad.
Oh and here is Christine Taylor, one of my favourite comedic actresses, who also happens to be married to Ben Stiller.
That portrait of Kramer I mentioned earlier was painted by Jerry's artist girlfriend Nina, played by Catherine Keener. Here she is looking rad and '90s with super long hair.
Bryan Cranston also makes an appearance, with an extremely impressive beard and sweet tweed jacket.
And Will and Grace star Debra Messing shows up with a huge clip in her immactualtely coiffed shiny hair. I mean, that is just the Rachel cut, isn't it?
And perhaps the BEST ACTRESS OF ALL TIME or at least ONE OF THEM, Tammy Swanson/Karen Walker played a rather shy lady opposite the Seinfeld dreamboats. She looks so Upper East Side in her double breasted jacket and low pony tail.
Oh and here we have the woman who, while appearing in Frasier, was the most highly paid British actress on American TV: Jane Leeves. She played a virgin, and did a wonderful job, too. The screengrab below is from the moment when Jerry has just found out Marla (played by Leeves) has not yet lain with a man, but Elaine doesn't know and is talking about sex. Big time.
Last one, Jeremy Piven plays George in his and Jerry's sitcom "about nothing". And does a mighty fine job. No wonder he went on to be the manager of Selfridges.


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I am writing this text almost at the very moment a Solar Eclipse is taking place on the sky (the one of the 11th July 2010). Since the ancient years Solar Eclipses are related by the astrologers to earthquakes. A couple of years ago I was reading a book on Byzantine literature. In that book I discovered a passage where the author was quoting the words of a Byzantine monk, who on the border of his psalter had written by hand the next: "Today a strong earthquake shook our monastery. A few days ago a solar eclipse took place on the sky"!
So, already from the middle-ages (and way back, from ancient times) people were relating the Solar Eclipses to earthquakes. I personally witnessed the major Solar Eclipse of August 1999 in the city of Athens - Greece (the last visible Solar eclipse in Greece, for many years to come). This eclipse fell almost on the MC of Athens - with this ancient city being on this eclipse's "path". Exactly a Lunar cycle after this spectacular eclipse (both during the Eclipse and the earthquake the Moon was in Leo)a strong earthquake shook Athens (considered till then a low risk area for earthquakes) leaving some 140 victims!
So, there are many critical days in front of us, particularly as we have the infamous T-square on our skies and also taking in consideration the fact that soon Saturn and consequently Mars will trigger even more this omnipotent T-square!


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Another Strong Independent Bid
You may remember a few weeks back that I entertained the idea of a third-party bid from McCain and Lieberman. Now Austin Bay is openly supporting the same idea. Remember, you
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But today, in the wake of Lieberman's narrow defeat, I'm ready to endorse a candidate for Senator from the great state of Connecticut: Jack Bauer.
I'd also like to endorse a candidate to run against Hillary in the less-great (but still great) state of New York: Jack Bauer.
That's right, I think he should run as a write-in candidate in both states.
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In Singapore, VeriSign EV SSL Proves Just the Ticket for SISTIC's Enhanced Security
Singapore, 15th April, 2008 - With e-criminals increasingly luring consumers to imposter Web sites designed to steal sensitive personal details, Singapore's No. 1 ticketing agency is making it easier for its customers to shop with confidence, thanks to advanced security solutions from VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
SISTIC, which sells tickets for more than 90 percent of Singapore's arts, entertainment and sports events and operates in Malaysia, Indonesia and beyond, is deploying VeriSign® Extended Validation (EV) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates. By protecting its online ticket sales portal with VeriSign EV SSL, SISTIC can signal to customers that they have arrived at a legitimate SISTIC page, rather than a fraudulent page created by phishers to illegally capture credit card numbers, passwords and other data.
When a Web site uses an EV SSL Certificate to identify itself, certain browsers including Internet Explorer 7 and the latest beta version of Firefox 3 display easily understood visual cues to provide tangible assurance of a site's authenticity. The address bar turns green, a lock icon appears next to the address, and a new field displays to the right of the URL in the browser. This field contains the name of the organisation that owns the site as well as the security provider that issued the certificate, such as VeriSign.
"We work hard to be recognised globally as a reputable and innovative ticketing company, and protecting our customers from credit card theft is an important part of those efforts," said Shawn Quek, Senior IT Services Manager at SISTIC. "VeriSign EV SSL Certificates allow us to provide customers with the much-needed reassurance that they have reached a safe haven for doing business in the Internet. VeriSign is the most trusted and best-known SSL Certificate provider in Asia Pacific, and so was a natural choice for us as a provider of Extended Validation SSL. When our customers see the VeriSign brand before they make a transaction, they know they're in good hands."
"We're excited that SISTIC, Singapore's top ticketing agency, has turned to VeriSign EV SSL to protect its customers," said Tim Callan, vice president of SSL product marketing at VeriSign. "VeriSign EV SSL Certificates offer an additional layer of protection to thwart increasingly sophisticated e-criminals who relentlessly try to use the convenience and anonymity of the Internet to their advantage. Every minute of every day, VeriSign works with online merchants to preserve the trust they have built with their customers."
As the most respected and trusted SSL authority on the Web, VeriSign is the EV SSL Certificate provider of choice for more than 3,000 Internet domains, representing greater than 75 percent of the entire EV SSL Certificate market worldwide. In fact, over 93 percent of the Fortune 500 - and the world's 40 largest banks - rely on some form of VeriSign SSL Certificate to meet their security needs.


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I have been working at Maalt Transport part-time
good place to work for freshers
nothing to say about the concerns
Advice to Management
in the certification side need to improve
I worked at Maalt Transport full-time
Can't really think of any
Equipment always broke need to do better
Advice to Management
Fix your trucks
I worked at Maalt Transport full-time (Less than a year)
Free housing, automatic transmission(no stick shift)
Poor schedule, poor management, Broken promises
Advice to Management
Appreciate your safe hard-working drivers, because they are becoming YOUR competitors
Good company, built a solid foundation. Good safety record and delivers a good product.
At the mercy of the price of a commodity. Tough to be successful in a down market.
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I worked at Maalt Transport (More than a year)
home most days, accurate payroll
equipment, unfair dispatch, pay scale
They will pay you fairly and on time. The work is a challenge and interesting. you will meet interesting people working there.
It is oil field work. Hot, cold ,dusty, rainy, snowy, muddy, dangerous, dirty, unpredictable, and one of the best jobs in trucking. They slipseat so you better not skimp on your pretrip.. The equipment takes a beating. They have a very high turnover.
Advice to Management
Keep your good employees and let the rest go.
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I worked at Maalt Transport full-time
Good pay and benefits. Truly enjoyed every one of my coworkers and customers.
Upper Management was going through many changes at the time and was very unorganized
Advice to Management
Actually follow through with what you tell your employees you are going to do.
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I have been working at Maalt Transport full-time (Less than a year)
Get treated well by management and other drivers
They lie bout what you'll be making. They advertise that drivers average $1,200-$1,300 a week, in actuality drivers are lucky to average $700 a week. Also, when a well is completed and we're waiting for the next one to start, we don't get paid during that time, which can be upwards of 7 days of no work and no pay, unless you wanna go sit at the terminal and do hardly anything all day for $12 an hour, which means you have to be at the terminal for 10+ hours just to earn the equivalent of one load.
Advice to Management
When in between wells, pay at least $50 a day to keep drivers. You'd keep more drivers if they got at least $350 a week when there's no work versus a $0 check. What I don't get is why the Ohio drivers get $125 a day even in between wells, but you can't get that for the Texas drivers.
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I have been working at Maalt Transport full-time (Less than a year)
love being lied to and cheated
tell u ur going to get 4 loads per 15 hr shift and u get to location wait behind 10 trucks and don't get detention BS!
Advice to Management
stop lying cheating and stealing to get the job done pathetic
I worked at Maalt Transport full-time (More than 3 years)
Not one good to say about this place
Some Management is involved in theft, overtime hours are awarded to those who are willing to sit at home and be friends with the bosses, bosses gives OT hours as long as when payday comes around you give him/her half the OT pay, company moto, snitches get stiches. 4 year's at this place I have seen it all, no raises, insurance is a joke unless you want to give up half your monthly salary. This place is partaking In Illegal activity on the federal, state, Government levels. Stay away!
Advice to Management
Need to realize what is going on in the company and get to know their supervisors and operators, get to know who is making them the millions and not stealing it from under their noses
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So I've been here for a few days now, and I'm not actually sure what I can write about, since not much has really happened.
Yesterday we had food at a Thai buffet. The food was rather bland, but at least they had a large selection (including a few things I had never eaten before). Nom nom.
I bought the first season of Torchwood and the Planet Earth series here, as they are cheaper (and region free). Unfortunately, the other 4 movies I bought that were marked as all regions are actually region 3, so I will likely want to buy an external DVD drive at some point so I can watch them without changing the settings on my laptops' drives.
Turns out that I was right, and the shutter on my D50 is shot and needs replacing. This will run upwards of 5000 baht ($150), so I'm basically going to be getting rid of it once I return to the US and buying a D90. It's not worth the repair cost.
I still find it silly how full-service everything is. Buying something at a department store involves one person to hold the merchandise, one person to scan it, one person to bag it, and one person to take your money and give change. Restaurants aren't much better… one person to refill water, one person to remove plates, one person to take your order, and one person to bring you food (often on a per-table basis), not to mention the people who bring you to your table, park your car, whatever. I guess labor is so cheap here that you can afford to basically hire a 1:1 ratio of staff to customers, but it feels kind of wasteful.
Besides that, we've been driving around getting some legal issues resolved and eating lots and lots of food. Mmm food. Mmm tasty Thai fruit.


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Aloysius, our Executive Director of Sports Information here at Everyone's Entitled to Joe's Opinion, has been a very busy bear lately. First he took a road trip to Alabama to track down Al from Dadeville, the Auburn tree poisoner, and dispense his own brand of ursine justice. Then it was off to the NFL owners' convention to dispense some ursine justice to some people who, for some reason, just can't seem to figure out how to equitably divide $3-billion-plus in yearly revenue.
So now, Aloysius is back at the house, kicking back and chilling with some honey.
Lewis Grizzard on Geraldine Ferraro: "The first time I heard the name Geraldine Ferraro I thought it was Flip Wilson's sports car."
–Aloysius has a certain amount of sympathy toward UCLA (the Bruins–understandable, since he is a bear), and by extension the Pac-10. For this reason, he has expressed concern over a promotional video that the Pac-10 just put out in an attempt to "raise awareness" and "promote its brand" (sorry about the marketing speak) in advance of its expansion to 12 teams. When Aloysius expresses concern over something, I tend to get a little scared. He is a bear, after all. Don't let that cuddly, loveable teddy bear exterior fool you. So I suspect that he may soon be off to the West Coast to dispense some ursine justice to the makers of this video:
–Props go out to Cyndi Lauper.
What ever happened to her career? In one word, "Madonna".
But if you can get past her crazy hair, you will note that she had an extremely strong voice. Take a gander at her performing "Change of Heart" and "True Colors" at the 1987 VMA Awards. Both songs celebrate their 25th anniversary this year.
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images from artreneweal.org and theathenaeum.org.
George Caleb Bingham (1811-18790) was born and spent his early childhood in Virginina, His family moved to Missouri. Trained as a cabinet maker, Bingham found early success as a self taught portrait painting. On the frontier and in most of colonial America portraits were the most common sort of painting.
In 1856 Bingham traveled to Dusseldorf and became part of an expatriate artists community there. He became a friend and was influenced by Leutze. Bingham is another example of an American painter whose work was heavily influenced by the German rather than the French school.
Bingham painted many political scenes and was part of that world himself. He was elected treasurer of the state of Missouri.
Above is Daniel Boone entering Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
George Caleb Bingham, another Dusseldorf connection
Posted by Stapleton Kearns at 10:49 PM
Labels: art history
3 comments:
- MCG said...
Thank you Stape. Learning about these German painters has been interesting.
- October 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM
- MCG said...
Pardon me, I meant to say these painters of the German Academy at Dusseldorf. Accuracy counts :]
- October 14, 2010 at 11:40 PM
- Stapleton Kearns said...
Bingham was an important American painter and I had not covered him yet anyway.
I might go after him some more.
- October 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM
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KUKA research cooperation projects
We have found strong partners and work closely with universities and renowned institutions around the world to jointly implement ground-breaking ideas in the fields of automation technology and robotics.
The shortage of skilled workers, the demographic change, which is accompanied by a decreasing number of trainees, are increasingly presenting companies with challenges. The increasing cooperation between people and robots in production facilities is one way of solving this problem. To enable human-robot collaboration in demanding assembly processes, KUKA is implementing developments that go far beyond conventional industrial robotics in the Hybr-iT joint project.
As part of the BMBF funded project, KUKA will develop various types of mobile systems for a variety of assembly scenarios. This requires the creation of a modular control architecture that supports industry 4.0 standards. The integration of nonproprietary modules allows application-specific adaptation. The focus is on occupational safety.
In this project, KUKA is developing a mobile two-arm robot system based on the LBR iiwa collaboration robot and the KMP 400 mobile platform. This requires the development of new robot/control functionality specifically for the operation and programming of mobile two-arm robots. At the research partner VW, the components and processes developed in the project will be evaluated in industrial assembly scenarios.
BaSys 4.0
Production processes that can be efficiently transformed are one of the central challenges for staying internationally competitive. Products are produced in more and more variants and in smaller quantities. Production costs must be kept low. The BaSys 4.0 project, funded by the BMBF, targets that. It is intended to develop an operating system for production facilities that enables the efficient changeability of production processes.
KUKA is focusing on the integration of robot technology into the architecture developed by the BaSys project. The solution concepts developed with the 15 project partners include the definition and implementation of an architectural model including its robot-specific interfaces as well as the simulation and visualization of versatile production processes. In addition, it is planned to create application modules that can be reused in different production facilities.
KUKA is engaged in a joint research project aimed at developing mass production for composite materials. The goal is to develop manufacturing processes for the mass production of composite parts for use in the automotive and aircraft construction industries. Machine learning methods, intelligent tools, KUKA robots and KUKA Cloud solutions are to be deployed to achieve efficient and resource-conserving production with short cycle times that can also be transferred to other manufacturing processes.
The three-year CosiMo research project, funded by the Bavarian government, began in June 2018 and brings together KUKA, Faurecia, Premium Aerotec, Augsburg University, the German Aerospace Center and eight other partners. Part of the project focuses on research into new technologies for fully automated manufacturing processes for fiber-reinforced plastics, also known as composite materials. The objective is to manufacture components in their final shape in a single process step. This in turn enables the sustainable and cost-effective production of lightweight components in the automotive and aircraft construction industries.
You can find further information about the project here.
euRobotics AISBL – European robotics association
Through the association work in the European organization euRobotics AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif), KUKA promotes research, development and innovation in robotics as well as its positive public perception. As a founding member of the non-profit organization, we have been actively involved and on the board from the beginning. The President of the association is KUKA Chief Innovation Officer Bernd Liepert and the Vice President Industry is Dr. Rainer Bischoff, Head of KUKA Corporate Research.
The non-profit organization euRobotics aims to drive excellence and innovation in robotics forward. To this end, euRobotics leverages the network of its members from the fields of science and industry. The goal here is to foster the exchange of knowledge within the robotics community and to shape the robotics of the future in Europe.
euRobotics AISBL has agreed on a public-private partnership (PPP) with the European Commission for robotics in Europe. As part of the research and innovation program, targets for sustainability have also been formulated – for example, the development of sustainable production methods in industry.
You can find information about euRobotics here.
The application potential for service robots has been deemed significant for years, however market developments still lag far behind expectations. This is due to the unique nature of the service robotics business. Here, robot solutions are developed for medium quantities and usually at very high costs. At the same time, they are to be offered on the market for several customers. Service robotics is thus more of a product business than a project business. On the other hand, service robotics providers are more likely to be compared to system integrators than to robot manufacturers in traditional industrial robotics. The associated technical and financial risks are very hard for the typical start-ups often working in this field to manage on their own.
The [Se]rvice [Ro]bot [Net]work (SeRoNet) sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) aims to develop an open platform geared for growth which will support the development of customer-specific solutions. Here, the previous value chain is to be replaced by a value network in which manufacturers, system integrators and end users are interconnected and cooperate in the development and operation of service robotics systems, sharing the various tasks.
This reduces the development effort for customer-specific solutions by at least 50 percent. It is not only end users and system integrators, but also operating companies and above all small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) without existing sales networks that can benefit from the platform. This enables them to open up new markets, for example.
You can find further information about the project here.
Fast robotics
Today's wireless communication systems often lag behind the needs and requirements of industry. They are, for example, not real-time capable to the extent required or are not in a position to dynamically incorporate devices into the wireless communication network and thus guarantee quality of service in terms of throughput rates, response time and reliability. This is particularly important if mobile robots are to dynamically collaborate among themselves and with other actuators and sensors in cooperative work groups in the future.
In the "fast robotics" project sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), we are therefore working over a period of three years together with the innovative medium-sized companies O&O and R3Coms, the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation and the Technical University of Dresden to develop an innovative control concept in which the robots can reliably communicate via a wireless network not only with each other but also with fixed sensors installed in their operating environment and with mobile end devices.
This is intended to enable both mobile and stationary robots to be monitored, localized, configured and controlled in real time via a mobile telecommunications infrastructure. Cloud services are also used to simplify the integration of further sensors and components. The goal is to use the intelligent networking of robots among themselves and with their environment to provide humans with greater flexibility and functionality, to free them from monotonous and physically strenuous activities and to enable more productive work.
You can find further information about the project here.
Robotics Enabling Fully-Integrated Logistics Lines for Supermarkets – REFILLS
State-of-the-art automation is rarely present in retail businesses such as supermarkets (with the exception of simple garbage compactors or automated bottle return machines). The EU-sponsored research project REFILLS wants to change that. Together with renowned partners from the world of robotics, KUKA and SWISSLOG are working on a robotic solution for automating four traditional logistics steps found in practically every retail store.
A mobile robot system with the properties of a modular system is used. The central unit – a flat transport carrier – can couple to different additional robotic modules and carry out these logistics steps.
Once an initial scan of the inventory has been carried out and the product data have been saved, the incoming goods can be presorted into product categories and then transported in portions to the relevant shelves. The subsequent filling of the shelves is then carried out using a collaborative robot system in the first step. Surplus goods are returned to the warehouse autonomously. From there, the process for REFILLS is carried out in the final step.
The EU research project MURAB has the goal of improving cancer diagnostics. The aim is to improve the precision and effectiveness of biopsies through assistance from the KUKA lightweight robot LBR iiwa. In this manner, the use of expensive magnetic resonance imaging can be reduced and replaced by robot technology which is just as precise.
InRehaRob is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and aims to create a self-adapting robotic assistance system for rehabilitation for the first time. The goal is to provide patients – for example, those who have suffered a stroke – with tailored therapy and enable them to practice movements independently.
With the LBR Med, not only is safe human-robot collaboration (HRC) possible, but – thanks to its adaptability – tailoring to individual patient requirements can also be achieved. This is why research is being carried out in collaboration with medical partners on a holistic safety concept which accounts for technical, medical and regulatory aspects and stipulates the requirements for such a concept. Beyond this, KUKA is developing interfaces specifically for use in the field of rehabilitation as part of this project. These interfaces enable system integrators and medical product manufacturers to integrate the LBR Med into their solutions more easily.
You can find further information about the project here.
Further KUKA research cooperation
ProDok 4.0
The ProDok 4.0 project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), aims to find a digital solution for the mobile, cloud-based documentation of machines in complex industrial processes.
The project is intended to help take advantage of the opportunities that come with digital transformation. A mobile and process-oriented documentation system such as ProDok 4.0 can simplify the operation and maintenance of machines and thus provide a competitive advantage to machinery builders.
Within the project, KUKA is researching the causes of problems in the development of sensitive robot applications using data analytics and machine learning methods. The documentation is then made available by means of KUKA's Xpert@work knowledge database.
The European coordination initiative RockEU ran for three years – from 2013 to 2016. Its objective: to build a strong European robotics community. With the founding of the European robotics association euRobotics aisbl, this has been achieved.
The follow-on project, RockEU2, which is also sponsored by the European Commission, is now building on this success.
The project aims to intensify the cooperation and exchange between international sponsor organizations, decision-makers and users in order to promote scientific developments and robotic innovations while also encouraging standardization. The activities of this European project include high-profile robotics competitions, such as the European Robotics League.
In the EU research project European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC), we are searching all over Europe for the best providers and implementers of ideas in science and industry for three important future areas in robotics:
• Hyperflexible Working Cell: For this task, innovative manufacturing solutions are developed which benefit European industry and serve to advance manufacturing technologies.
• Shop Floor Logistics and Manipulation: The participants develop solutions for the use of mobile robots and for human-robot collaboration in the areas of logistics and manipulation.
• Plant Inspection and Servicing: Where this challenge is concerned, participants search for solutions for the use of micro aerial robots in real situations.
In each of the three competitions, five teams go head-to-head to tackle predefined tasks over a period of two years. In the final project year, the two best teams are allowed to evaluate their systems with an end customer.
The RobDREAM funded project has the objective of increasing the capabilities of robots in their inactive phases in order to process past events and learn from experiences – just as humans do. For RobDREAM, the focus is on these research fields:
- Context-dependent optimization and configuration of algorithms
- Key technologies which improve the navigation, gripping and perception of mobile robots
- System integration and benchmarking
RobDREAM at AUTOMATICA 2016
The projects REFILLS, MURAB, ROCKEU2, EuRoC and RobDREAM are sponsored by the European Union through funding programs for research, technological development and demonstrators.
The projects SeRoNet, fast robotics, InRehaRob and ProDok 4.0 are sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).