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Review of 2008
Funding is working well but SMEs need local, one-stop advice shop
The head of the Directorate's T.4 SME unit – Dr Bernd Reichert - reviews the progress that has been made to fund SMEs under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Taking part in FP7 opens the door for an SME to become involved in ambitious, leading-edge projects. A new client-oriented network could also support a one-stop shop for SMEs, providing them with advice locally and matching SMEs up with funding and markets.
It has been a busy year. There is no doubt that FP7 has struck a chord with the European research community, and SMEs in particular throughout 2008. SMEs are increasing their share of the research pie. Research programmes specifically dedicated to SMEs and their associations are on track and appropriate to those applying for funding.
'The whole process of publishing calls, evaluating funding applications and awarding grants to SMEs in FP7 has been a huge success,' says Reichert. 'We have planted the seeds, as it were. The programme has grown and it is now a question of whether the harvest is what we expected. We have to ask ourselves: Is the yield high enough to make what we are doing worthwhile?'
The research outsourcing schemes under 'Research for the benefit of SMEs' remain popular. SMEs can also increase their participation in transnational research through their national funding schemes under projects such as EraSME and CORNET (SME Associations) and Eurostars (see SME Update Issue 2 for further details).
Research policy has also acquired a more regional focus: 'This is the logical way to go. We need to coordinate our networks better so they can deliver a more efficient service to SMEs,' says Reichert. 'This can be achieved by National Contact Points putting them in touch with their more local Enterprise Europe Network representative. Ultimately, they'll be able to explore funding and market opportunities via some kind of web-based facility.'
The new TransCoSME project should improve the way high quality research activities are coordinated for SMEs in the new Member States, so that all NCPs can provide a research service that is harmonised throughout Europe.
Bureaucracy has not been eradicated but there has been a streamlining of processes from FP6 to FP7. 'We have learned lessons about how to organise processes better internally. Clients have also accepted the aim of the new programmes, emphasising the customer-seller relationship and outsourcing research activities from SMEs to research performers,' says Reichert.
- Encouraging competition
- Reaction to funding programmes
- Keep local, go international
- Client-oriented network to provide local support
Transnational opportunities for SMEs
The first source of funding for transnational research projects is being offered through the Community FP7. Our Actions section reports on how SMEs can access an enlarged offer of support for their research and innovation ideas in international partnerships. CORNET II and EraSME² represent an alternative funding route to enter into international R&D cooperation with other organisations via their national and regional funding programmes.
CORNET II aims to improve the impact of collective research programmes by offering them a platform upon which to collaborate and develop a sustainable transnational programme at the European level. Collective research serves the need of a large number of SMEs represented by an Association acting on their behalf. Any knowledge generated through a collective research project is widely disseminated throughout the SME community. The 2nd call for proposals closed on 7 November 2008. Two further calls are planned for 2009 (please refer to the Cornet II website where the call information will be published).
Building on the participating national/regional programmes in the Member States and countries associated with FP7, EraSME² is targeting SMEs with limited or no research capacity which need to cooperate with research and technology organisations (RTOs) to acquire new knowledge for their product development process.
Over the next two years, the EraSME² consortium will launch four joint calls for funding proposals. The next joint call has already been announced and has a submission date of 31 March 2009.
Both CORNET II and EraSME² will work more closely together. As a first step, the two initiatives will establish a common back office which will deal with operations, each initiative keeping however its own identity and target group.
- Contacts:
For CORNET II:
Almut Büchner
Tel: +49 221 37680-33
For EraSME²
Günter Külzhammer
Innovation Europe
Tel: +49 30 310078-180
- Useful links:
Points of View:
Enterprise Europe Network helps SMEs on the ground
The new Enterprise Europe Network has a strong regional foundation, made up of professional business support organisations with extensive experience in dealing with SMEs. Beyond promoting entrepreneurship, its primary mission is to provide an array of customised services to SMEs throughout Europe and beyond via its more that 554 host organisations and even more contact points.
Laurent Volle is Head of the Dijon, France-based CRCI Bourgogne's Enterprise Europe Network partner, one of the first business support organisations to sign up to the Enterprise Europe Network. According to Volle, any SME with questions related to the European market and to market opportunities in Third Countries – whether they be about policy, innovation, or regulations – can contact its local Enterprise Europe Network partner. "They will either provide them with an ad hoc service straightaway, or signpost it to the closest, best suited' partner able to answer its questions," he says.
The Enterprise Europe Network is not just a network of organisations; it is also a network of people. "Colleagues know each other quite well and essentially follow the same objectives. When I help another's Enterprise Europe Network client by providing them with the right information on, say, the French market, or on partnership opportunities, I'm also helping my own clients," adds Volle.
The Enterprise Europe Network framework of professional organisations is delivering services primarily to SMEs in 44 countries including EU 27, candidate countries, EEA and Third Countries. "As network 'clients', Enterprise Europe Network services are generally free of charge for SMEs. Some additional consulting services, participation to missions or events are charged for, but in some regions SMEs may benefit from other funding schemes to cover a part or the whole of these costs," says Volle.
The Enterprise Europe Network is currently composed of former EIC members, former IRC members and nearly 130 enthusiastic newcomers. It is organised in consortia of several partners (up to 20-plus in some cases). Each consortium is managed by a coordinator which has been selected either for its SME expertise or because it is already a leading and efficient coordinating organisation in the region.
Enterprise Europe Network membership also brings many benefits for host support organisations. Says CRCI Bourgogne's Volle: "First and foremost we can rely on a network of colleagues (not just the organisations themselves) to deliver better quality services to benefit our (mainly SME) customers. It's the region's gateway to Europe, with better access to European policies, funding, regulations and markets. Members also occupy a key position in their local area because of this ability to bridge enterprises with the rest of Europe and the Commission. CRCI Bourgogne also benefits itself by being able to benchmark and develop opportunities by carrying out common projects with other Enterprise Europe Network members."
- What kind of services are being offered to SMEs?
- Why and how do business partners become a member of the Enterprise Europe Network?
- Contact:
Laurent Volle
Head of Sector, Enterprise Europe Innovation,
Chambre Regionale de Commerce et d'Industrie (CRCI de) Bourgogne
+33 (0) 3 80 60 40 91
- Useful links:
Success Story:
Marie Curie funds Academy Award-winning partnership
Thanks to Marie Curie Industry and Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) funding, a London-based SME whose software products enhance visual effects for Hollywood blockbusters, and scientists in the Republic of Ireland, are building upon each other's research and application knowledge to create exciting new products.
When your cinematic superhero flies past a backdrop, chances are that The Foundry's software was used to trim away the wires that held him up. Sigmedia's post-production tools and motion estimation technology have also been used for the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Spider Man and Harry Potter.
The two organisations have cooperated successfully for several years and won considerable acclaim for their work, including a highly coveted Scientific and Engineering Award – a technical Oscar – from the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences.
Now, as part of the AXIOM project, Marie Curie Industry and Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) funding is helping research fellows from Trinity College Dublin's Sigmedia (Signal Processing and Media Applications) Group to gain valuable commercial experience in the film post-production industry. Staff from London-based SME The Foundry, have been able to extend their collaborative research into image processing processes and applications.
A leading developer of visual effects and image processing technologies, The Foundry has been able to study TCD's latest research into 3-D image processing, and TCD Sigmedia research fellows have enhanced their understanding of film media and software.
'In the film post-production industry there is a constant hunt for time-saving applications that can remove the repetitive work from the post-production processes yet retain the artistic input from the user,' says Abi Bowman, The Foundry's Project Manager.
The Foundry has also benefited by gaining a deeper knowledge of image sequence processing and training in state-of-the-art image and video processing algorithms which make their software's complex editing processes usable. In turn, TCD's researchers have been able to learn more about post-production workflow. The Foundry's Furnace software tracks the motion of objects from one frame to the next during post-production. This saves time, freeing artists from monotonous manual work and helping them to maintain better continuity.
Adds Bowman: 'Currently, there are big changes going on in the film industry, especially surrounding HD (High Definition) and 3-D. The collaboration with TCD Sigmedia scientists has helped us produce cutting-edge products and compete more effectively in worldwide markets.'
The idea for AXIOM (Automated Extraction of Image Metadata) grew out of four years' collaboration between the two organisations, and the desire to pursue a common goal in specific areas of digital image processing. On ongoing collaboration, AXIOM combines Sigmedia Group's research skills with The Foundry's practical knowledge. 'Academics need good connections with industry to keep their work relevant and TCD's Sigmedia Group gained insight into the post-production industry first hand through its connections with The Foundry,' says Bowman. 'We've been able to learn more about image and video processing technologies through working closely with TCD's experts.'
IAPP funding has financed the researchers' training, living allowance, travel, mobility and a few additional overhead costs. 'It would have been difficult to achieve our objectives without the funding because it enabled research 'space' in an industrial setting and gave us the time to experience each other's approach,' says Bowman.
What are Industry and Academia Partnerships and Pathways?
- Contact:
Abi Bowman, Project Manager
The Foundry
+44 (0) 20 7434 0449
- Useful links:
Policy Update:
NCP network becomes even more SME-friendly
The European Commission's new TransCoSME project should improve the way high quality research services are coordinated for SMEs. It will focus on NCPs identifying and sharing good practices, developing common tools, and supporting benchmarking, joint workshops and training.
National Contact Points (NCPs) have always played a central role in helping SMEs take part in European R&D Framework Programmes, acting as a liaison between the European Commission and SMEs at a national and regional level, therefore facilitating access to EU-funded RTD programmes.
However, it is also well known that there are significant differences in the way various NCP systems operate throughout Europe and in the levels of expertise offered by the NCPs themselves. More co-ordination within the network is needed to foster synergies and exchange experience and best practices with SMEs.
The EUR 2.37 million, three-year TransCoSME (Transnational Co-operation of the SME network) project supports a network of 36 National Contact Points for SME-specific measures. It has set itself several objectives in three main 'areas':
TransCoSME will deliver specialised training, tools and mechanisms to help NCPs supply SMEs with practical ideas and advice more efficiently than before. An electronic portal and bi-annual information days on SME-specific measures will improve communication and suggest new ways of collaborating.
Such measures should lead to service quality being improved throughout the SME NCP network. In turn, this is expected to lead to an improvement in the quality of proposals submitted under the FP7 SME-specific measures.
Worthwhile briefings for the SME community.
We've put together details of a wide range of research conferences and seminars, all of which are geared towards valuable networking, information gathering and getting support for your projects.
BrainNet Europe 2nd International Conference
on Human Brain Tissue Research
10-12 December 2008, Munich (Germany).
This EU-funded 'Network of Excellence' project is focusing the event on the practice of modern brain banking and molecular research using human brain tissue.
- Useful links: www.brainnet-europe.org/conference
Workshop: Environmental Research for SMEs – Technology Challenges and Market Opportunities in Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption
11 February 2009, Brussels (Belgium)
Many SMEs are operating within the renewable energies industry and planning to expand into emerging markets. Running during EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) this half-day workshop focuses on opportunities available for SMEs and SME associations. The aim of the event is to address future trends and needs in key technologies and research in the area of sustainable energy production and consumption. It will focus on the dissemination of knowledge, technology uptake in traditional SME sectors, as well as business opportunities.
- Useful link (for registration): www.eusew.eu
18-20 February 2009, Brussels (Belgium)
The New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) seminar is an international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems. NTTS is being combined with ETK (Exchange of Technology and Know-how) which aims to provide a forum where producers of official statistics and developers of statistical methods and tools can meet, network and identify problems to be solved. They can also inform each other of the different needs for research as well as already available research results coming from FP7 projects.
Research Connection 2009
7-8 May 2009, Prague (Czech Republic)
Are you a scientist, full of new ideas? Or an entrepreneur, looking for solutions or an investment opportunity? Or perhaps a researcher, willing to take the international challenge? Realise your dreams and get support for your projects. Join the biggest European research event of the year. The participation fee will be €50 for the two days. One-day passes will be available for €30.
- Contact:
- Useful links: www.ec.europa.eu/research/rtd-2009
Directorate-General for Research
Communication Unit
1049 Brussels
+32 2 295 99 71
Facts & Figures:
More SMEs sign up for FP7.
The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is designed to support a wide range of participants. Our second research report provides a breakdown of SME participants.
The second progress report on SME participation in FP7, with its primary focus on the Cooperation Programme, supports the initial findings of the first progress report that increasing numbers of SMEs are participating in the various themes of FP7 compared to FP6. In addition, SMEs in FP7 receive increased financial support for their participation versus those in FP6.
The Cooperation programme is that part of FP7 containing the themes, which are strategic areas for ongoing European research and development initiatives. In fact high research performing SMEs are particularly welcomed and to this end a target of 15 per cent of the overall Cooperation budget (worth EUR 32.29 billion) is being made available to SME participants.
As many of the themes have lengthy title descriptions, the more normal course of action is to refer to the various themes by their acronyms which are outlined in Figure 1 below.
|Theme acronym
|Theme description
|Food, agriculture, fisheries and biotechnology
|Information and communication technologies
|Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and production technologies
|Environment (including climate change)
|Transport (including aeronautics)
|Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
|General activities annex iv
A breakdown of SMEs in evaluated proposals in the first calendar year of FP7 (2007) considered for contract negotiation (ie. main-listed proposals) indicates that SME participants by size category are to be found in the various themes of the Cooperation Programme as outlined in Figure 2 below. The SME definition categorises SMEs as: Micro <10 employees; Small <50 employees, and Medium <250 employees.
An examination of the first 732 signed contracts in the Cooperation programme indicates that SMEs received 13.2 per cent of the requested EU contribution. By taking the overall EU requested contribution by SMEs in main-listed proposals and breaking this figure down into its component parts, the themes in which SMEs are making the greatest breakthrough in terms of EU requested contribution are easy to determine from Figure 3 below.

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- Mar 12, 2006Pleasant River Historical Society
The Pleasant River Historical Society is looking for copies of
pictures of the Town of Addison to compile a picture history. They
are looking for old photographs of homes, families, school classes,
veterans, an activity that you participated in or a business that was
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The town consist of areas known as Indian River area, Basin area,
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ANDREW DENTON: Here's a nightmare. Imagine you're a doctor. You go into work one day to find none of your patients can speak or explain what's wrong. Worse, the very sight of you drives some of them into a frenzy. They advance towards you, mouths open, snarling, biting and clawing at your body. That's right, you're a vet. It could be any day of the week. Tonight we have three of their finest with us. Will you please welcome an agricultural vet from south-western Victoria, Matt Makin. The head vet of the Melbourne Zoo, Helen McCracken. And our suburban vet from the suburbs of Sydney, Hugh Southwood. Good to have you here, one and all.
ANDREW DENTON: Hugh. How much did TV vets like James Herriot influence your decision to become one?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: I've got to confess that those vets of my generation are the Herriot...generation, I think. We stood around in Year 12 - 6th form then - having our chocolate milk and straws and things and six of us decided, from my one school, to be vets. Undoubtedly, Herriot was a big influence. We read the books, it was on TV.
ANDREW DENTON: What was it that appealed to you?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: I just think that you felt you'd...earn good money, it'd be a lovely life, you'd marry loyal, strong women...
ANDREW DENTON: (Laughs)
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Lots of things that seemed all plus, plus, plus. Now, I'm married to a loyal, strong woman, but I think it sort of glossed over a lot of the realities of practice. But influential? Hugely influential.
ANDREW DENTON: Matt, you were studying engineering but you didn't want to be indoors. Having grown up on a dairy farm, you went into veterinary science. How different is it from the way it's shown on TV?
MATT MAKIN: : Very, very different. I mean, I think the classic example is Dr Harry. And Dr Harry's show, it's a great show and it's done a lot to educate the community, but it is a long, long, long way from reality. I mean, you never see Dr Harry covered in shit and piss...and all these rotten things.
ANDREW DENTON: You do at the Logies, but that's the only night.
MATT MAKIN: : I'll take your word.
ANDREW DENTON: Helen, you used to collect lots of things to do with animals, didn't you?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : I did. I actually started off collecting teeth. And I started with human teeth. I used to buy teeth from my friends. I paid them the same that they got from the tooth fairy.
ANDREW DENTON: Were these teeth that had fallen out? Please tell me they were.
HELEN McCRACKEN: : They were. I had an egg carton, I had them on cotton wool, labelled. And then, after that, I started collecting animal faeces. And I did that, really, when I was at uni, because I was out bush with some zoologists and learning from them, recognising animals' tracks by their shit, basically... And I found that really, really fascinating. So from both captivity and the wild, I had my own collection.
ANDREW DENTON: Where did you keep the faeces collection?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : It was up in my wardrobe.
ANDREW DENTON: Up in your wardrobe? I mean, how do you store faeces?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Well, they were just in little boxes, again, labelled. Yeah. And...it was very interesting.
ANDREW DENTON: And what was the prize exhibit?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : In the faeces collection?
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm.
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Look, again, no prize, really. It was the whole thing. Yeah. And some little kids I used to baby sit, who had a very demure mother, came to our house one day and knocked on the door and said, "Oh, um, the other kids in the neighbourhood said you've got some really good collections. Can we look at your collections?" I said, "Sure. Come on in." I showed them the teeth and skulls, but I knew she wouldn't like the animal scat, or the animal poo collection. So I didn't show them that. They were leaving, and they said, "Thanks, Helen, but there's another collection we know you have and you didn't show us. Can't we see your dried-out poo collection?" I said, "I didn't think your mum would like it, but OK." It became, you know...
ANDREW DENTON: Became legend in the neighbourhood.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: What a treat.
ANDREW DENTON: "Helen McCracken's got some serious shit."
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Exactly.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: "Let's all go to Helen's place."
ANDREW DENTON: So now you're the head vet at Melbourne Zoo, you've got, I think it's something like 300 animals, 3,000 species. What sort of challenges might an average week entail for you?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Well, we had a wombat that had torn off one of its toenails, and they do that from time to time. That was fairly straightforward, really. But I guess the challenge there... There are always some challenges. And so that's a wombat that's just sired a new wombat baby, and wombats haven't bred much in captivity, so that's exciting. We don't really want to disturb his social grouping, so he needs a bandage on to keep his toenail clean now that he's lost it. But he lives on sand, and he'll dig, being a wombat, so the challenge really is how do we get him to keep that bandage on, how do we keep it clean, without disrupting that social grouping? So we have a lot of chats with the keepers about our options there. So that's the challenge, although the case is reasonably straightforward.
ANDREW DENTON: Matt, unlike Helen, who deals with hundreds of different animals, you're by and large dealing with one - cows. What's so fascinating about cows? What is fascinating about them?
MATT MAKIN: : I think...it's not so much the species, it's the environment that the species is in and what we're expecting them to do. I mean, cows are very much like athletes, in the dairy industry especially, 'cause they are high-performance animals. Um, so that brings along a whole different array of problems that basically is my life...
ANDREW DENTON: You spend a lot of your life - there's only one way to put this - up the backside of a cow. You've brought in one of your gloves. Is that right?
MATT MAKIN: : I have. I have.
ANDREW DENTON: This is a tool of the trade.
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Very nicely done.
MATT MAKIN: : Quite sizeable, as you can see.
ANDREW DENTON: There are parts of Australia where that would cause a riot.
ANDREW DENTON: Wow.
MATT MAKIN: : So...
ANDREW DENTON: How many of those would you go through in a day?
MATT MAKIN: : Uh, at least a dozen or so. Yeah. On a good day.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: If you treat 14 cows.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes. 'Cause you treat many more cows than that in a day, don't you?
MATT MAKIN: : Yes. I mean, much of dairy medicine is on a herd level. I mean, the most common thing we do up the backside of a cow is pregnancy tests, because fertility is a big, big problem in the industry, so we'd go out and stick our arm up, at the busy times, 300 backsides in a session, in a couple of hours...
ANDREW DENTON: Wow.
MATT MAKIN: : ..which is very physically demanding.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah.
MATT MAKIN: : It'd be more demanding for you because you may not reach and you'd probably have to put your head in.
ANDREW DENTON: (Laughs) You're not the first person to tell me to do that, I can tell you. I'm...assuming you have a hands-free mobile.
MATT MAKIN: : Yes, I do. Yes. (Laughs) But, I mean, on that aspect, I guess...many a late night I've got home and crawled into bed and my girlfriend, Kate, has said, "What's that smell?" Only for me to feel under my armpit...and find you know what. So, certainly...
ANDREW DENTON: No, I don't know what.
MATT MAKIN: : Faeces under my arm. So...I guess, you know, I can't smell it 'cause I'm used to it, but...
ANDREW DENTON: If you were married to Helen, this would be a perfect arrangement.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Made in heaven. He brings them home, she collects them.
ANDREW DENTON: That's right.
MATT MAKIN: : Unfortunately, too many vets marry vets, so there's a message there.
ANDREW DENTON: Is that right? More seriously, though, what's up there? I mean, is it often interesting, what's up there?
MATT MAKIN: : It is. You develop a sense. It's almost like braille, when you've got your arm up the back end of a cow. You can feel many, many things. You can feel all the stomachs, the kidneys, the bladder, the ureters and...the ovaries and the uterus and the vagina - all different array of things. Actually, that's the most integral part to making a diagnosis in dairy cattle, is your hand.
ANDREW DENTON: Do you ever find anything really unexpected up there?
MATT MAKIN: : You do. You do. Um...
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: A bottle of VB? (Laughs)
ANDREW DENTON: You keep your life out of this, Hugh. (Laughs)
MATT MAKIN: : I mean, no...objects that you wouldn't...that shouldn't be there, but in terms of, you know, tumours, or lumps and bumps, or tears, big, huge kidneys, that type of thing. So it's always a learning experience and you're always coming across new things up a cow's back end.
ANDREW DENTON: Do farmers ever faint when you do this?
MATT MAKIN: : Not so much, because they see it all the time, and sometimes they do it for their own fun. But more so when you're doing obstetrical work, so that's removing calves from the cow that, you know, the cow can't naturally calve. So...the process of getting a calf out of a cow is quite difficult often and very smelly. And particularly if the calf's been dead for three or four days, it is a fairly putrid thing. Many a farmer has been dry-retching in the corner while I've been trying to get this calf out.
ANDREW DENTON: And again, something they don't show on Dr Harry.
MATT MAKIN: : I wish they did. I should invite him down.
ANDREW DENTON: I think that could be his last show, to be perfectly honest. Hugh, as a suburban vet, you'd see a lot of ordinary stuff - dogs with mange, cats with scratches, goldfish with deep vein thrombosis.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Yeah, that's my area of expertise. I...you know, wouldn't tread on their turf and...
ANDREW DENTON: Do you ever get exotic cases, though?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Exotic cases... My case of 2003, which is going into 2004, is my diabetic mouse. Well, not MY diabetic mouse. I first encountered this mouse... It had presented for respiratory problems, which through very good history taking and intuitive stuff, I found out it went to the ski lodge and picked up a respiratory infection.
ANDREW DENTON: A mouse went to a ski lodge?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: This mouse is a much-loved mouse.
ANDREW DENTON: How much disposable income does this mouse have?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: (Laughs) I don't know. Travelled to Perisher and stayed in the style to which it had obviously become accustomed, picked up a bit of a respiratory thing. So I met the mouse.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Incredibly intelligent family, I must say. But these mice are...really important to them, obviously. They go on holidays everywhere. So the mouse then... Got it over that, which was good. It then re-presented with... They'd noticed it drinking a lot of water. Again, we talked and talked and discovered it had sugar diabetes, diabetes mellitus. Getting a urine sample out of a mouse, Andrew, is a bit of an art.
ANDREW DENTON: What is that art, Hugh?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Put it on your hand and wait for it to piss on you. Then you get the stick and test it.
ANDREW DENTON: I hope you never paint if that's your definition of art.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: (Laughs) That's about all I'm up to. And..then took some more history. Don't want to get the program litigated, but this mouse's diet consisted of a large volume of a very sugar-enriched cereal that we all know. I call it 'iron mouse food'.
ANDREW DENTON: Mm-hmm.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: ...So we changed the diet.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Amended the diet.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: And water consumption fell back to 25 per cent of what it was, and the mouse has gained weight, but there's more, unfortunately. It's now got alopecia, or symmetrical hair loss, and I suspect an adrenal tumour in this mouse, and I think that's going to be stumps. But the mouse is getting to the end of its normal longevity. Now, all of this was done at no cost to the clients. They're just lovely people, love their mouse, so you just do the work, and it's fun for me.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: So I like that.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Mmm. People probably don't realise it, but vets in companion-animal practice, in terms of possums and wildlife and things like that, everything that gets injured gets brought to the local vet, who may or may not be equipped or whatever to treat it, but we'll have a go. And it's really a community service that runs into the...if it was feed out, into the tens of millions of dollars every year.
ANDREW DENTON: You could go skiing with the mouse.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: That'd be nice. If we did bill for it, I suppose people would stop bringing them in, and it certainly makes our life more interesting.
ANDREW DENTON: What about you, Matt? What's the most unusual call you've ever gone out to?
MATT MAKIN: : I guess, when I was first starting out, I went out to this farm - I didn't know what to expect - and the farmer said, "My cow's stuck." And that happens - cows get stuck in positions - but this cow, she was a heifer, so she was a young cow. Huge paddock. All that's in the paddock is two trees, close to each other, and somehow the ditz of a cow, heifer, had got her head stuck in between these two trees. So can you imagine a 400kg cow stuck in this tree, like that? How are you gonna get a cow out of that situation?
ANDREW DENTON: How do you?
MATT MAKIN: : We lifted the cow up with a front-end loader, out of...above the fork, backed the front-end loader out and put her down again and away she went - thanks a lot.
ANDREW DENTON: This begs the question - sheep have the reputation as being the dumbest animals. Would cows be pushing them in that race?
MATT MAKIN: : Whenever you put, I think, any animal in an unusual circumstance, it appears dumb and stupid. And, I mean, if a cow's in the herd, they all do the same thing and you don't have a problem, but many a vet and many a farmer is persistently frustrated with the stupid things that cows can do. Um, anything from standing on their own teats...
ANDREW DENTON: (Laughs)
MATT MAKIN: : That does hurt, I guess.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
MATT MAKIN: : ...Another example is... Dairy farms have a big effluent pond where all the cow shit goes, and these ponds are...they're big dams, basically. And the consistency of shit varies, but usually it's like quicksand, pretty much. And this cow walked out onto the shit dam and then started to sink. And so all you've got is this head.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: (Laughs) Oh, no.
MATT MAKIN: : Trying to breathe above this shit pond, like a big pool of shit.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Where was Dr Harry?
ANDREW DENTON: It's actually... It's like a metaphor for life, actually. And what do you do? Don't tell me you go in there.
MATT MAKIN: : Well, someone has to go in there. Um, and Dr Harry wasn't there, so I'm the... And so I stand on the bank with the farmer and I said, "Are you getting in?" He said, "I'm paying you. YOU get in." So you wade out into this pond and put a chain around her neck and pull her out and then she gets up and runs away too.
ANDREW DENTON: Wow.
MATT MAKIN: : So...
ANDREW DENTON: It's a living, isn't it? When is your job at its most dangerous, Hugh?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Nasty dogs, certainly. I mean, there are some seriously nasty dogs. I've been, you know, pretty severely bitten... I suppose we know body language and we know a vicious dog, so that you don't get bitten all that often, because...there's a predictive thing there that you'll know, and you'll take it, but that dog that's a snake in the grass that'll just sort of wag its tail then nail you, they're a serious hazard.
ANDREW DENTON: What about you, Helen? Is there an animal in the zoo you'd rather avoid?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Mmm.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Heaps. (Laughs)
HELEN McCRACKEN: : No, I was going to say, actually, it's interesting that...the domestic animals that we think of as less dangerous than zoo animals, actually when you're working with them as vets, I think they're more dangerous, because we understand that our animals are dangerous and there's no expectation that we would actually work on them conscious. So there's a real expectation that you work on these animals conscious, because they're in a community, they're in a home, conscious, dealing with people. But we will, you know, inevitably, with a dangerous animal go straight to an anaesthetic. So, generally speaking, I think no. I mean, I'm happy treating anything.
ANDREW DENTON: What is it that makes you passionate about your job, Matt?
MATT MAKIN: : I guess going to a farm and treating an animal and being able to drive away knowing that I've helped the farmer improve their business, and I've alleviated suffering of the animal and that I've made a real contribution to that person's business and that person's life. And then you go down the street... I mean, there's only 900 people in my town, and you go down the street to buy a newspaper and the bloke pats you on the back and says, "Thanks for saving my cow the other day." And that's not something you really get in the cities, because you're not a part of this close-knit community where your mistakes and your successes are known by everyone.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah.
MATT MAKIN: : But the real sense of making a difference, I guess.
ANDREW DENTON: Can I guess that they don't shake your hand that often? I'm sure they do. Helen, what are you passionate about with your job?
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Well, it's very exciting just to be working with such fantastic animals, such, you know, beautiful animals. And beyond that, actually being hands-on involved in conservation projects.
ANDREW DENTON: Plus you must have the most awesome faeces collection by now.
HELEN McCRACKEN: : Well, you know, once you become a vet and you're doing what you really want...
ANDREW DENTON: You don't need to collect anymore. Enough's enough. What about you, Hugh? What are you passionate about with your job?
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: I suppose nature is my god, and it is the wonder of these creatures, and in terms of...choosing to be a companion-animal vet, it's just this unconditional love thing, which is priceless, absolutely priceless... My clients don't lie to me, cheat on me. They're 100 per cent consistent, honest and loyal things. And I'm sure I've met a lot more... Well, I have an expression. "People never fail to disappoint me. Your dog never will."
ANDREW DENTON: Mmm. On that note, we shall leave it. Hugh, Helen, Matt, thank you very much.
HUGH SOUTHWOOD: Thanks, Andrew.
HELEN McCRACKEN, MATT MAKIN: : Thank you.


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The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, from the best-selling author of Apologize, Apologize , introduces Riddle James Camperdown, the twelve-year-old daughter of the idealistic Camp and his manicured, razor-sharp wife, Greer. It's 1972, and Riddle's father is running for office from the family compound in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Between Camp's desire to toughen her up and Greer's demand for glamour, Riddle has her hands full juggling her eccentric parents. When she accidentally witnesses a crime close to home, her confusion and fear keep her silent. As the summer unfolds, the consequences of her silence multiply. Another mysterious and powerful family, the Devlins, slowly emerges as the keepers of astonishing secrets that could shatter the Camperdowns. As an old love triangle, bitter war wounds, and the struggle for status spiral out of control, Riddle can only watch, hoping for the courage to reveal the truth. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns is poised to become the summer's uproarious and dramatic must-read.


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- 20 italian sweet sausage
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1⁄3 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 5 large onions, sliced
- 5 green peppers, sliced
- 2 -4 cups water
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- Brown sausages, drain and cut in quarters.
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- Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer.
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The Standup Economist has a routine that has become a classic:
And of course, there are the economist variants of the lightbulb joke, originating in a 1994 Wharton Journal, as later recapped in Forbes:
Q: How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A1: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself.
A2: None. If it really needed changing, market forces would have caused it to happen.
A3: None. If the government would just leave it alone, it would screw itself in.
A4: None. There is no need to change the light bulb. All the conditions for illumination are in place.
A5: None. Because, look! It's getting brighter! It's definitely getting brighter!!!
A6: None. They're all waiting for the unseen hand of the market to correct the lighting disequilibrium.
tony, December 30, 2015 at 6:12 am
Q: What do you call an economist that makes a prediction?
A: Wrong.
ben, December 30, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Two economists are walking on the street. They notice a pile of horseshit, and the older one says to the younger one: "I'll pay you twenty thousand if you eat that." The younger one ponders for a moment, then agrees and eats it. They walk a bit more and run into another pile of horse feces. So the younger one tells the elder: "I'll pay you twenty thousand if you eat that!". The older economist considers the offer and starts eating. After a while the younger economists stops and asks: "What was the point of this? We both ate a pile shit and neither of us got richer." The older one answers: "What are you talking about? We both produced and received twenty thousand worth in income and services."
GDP. Great deposits of poo.
Clive, December 31, 2015 at 5:41 am
"This economy is really terrible."
"How bad is the economy?"
"The economy is so bad, this year oysters are making fake pearls…"
"The economy is so bad, organised crime just laid off 10 judges…"
(and so on)
Paul Jonker-Hoffrén, December 30, 2015 at 7:27 am
"Knock Knock!"
"Who's there?"
"It's Return to Growth!"
Two years later…
"Knock Knock!"
"Who's there?"
"It's Return to Growth!"
And ad finitum…
Clive, December 30, 2015 at 6:21 am
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Janet Yellen"
"Well there's no need to shout, I heard you knocking"
Joaquin Closet, December 30, 2015 at 7:42 am
The number of economists is the only thing that contradicts the Law of Supply and Demand.
craazyboy, December 30, 2015 at 9:00 am
Q: How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three. A micro-economist to hold the ladder, a macro-economist to rotate the room, and a university economist to develop the math model and forecast how long it will take.
Ulysses, December 30, 2015 at 9:56 am
A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job at an oil company.
The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The mathematician replies "Four." The interviewer asks "Four, exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer hard and says "Yes, four, exactly."
Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The accountant says "On average, four – give or take ten percent, but on average, four."
Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says, "What do you want it to equal"?
Paul Tioxon, December 30, 2015 at 10:02 am
What do you call a cruise ship sinking with 500 PhD economists chained below deck?
A good start.
allan, December 30, 2015 at 10:03 am
Frederic Mishkin.
Yves Smith, December 30, 2015 at 4:32 pm
Oh, that is good!
Blue Meme
An economist is someone who will tell you tomorrow why what they predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
An economist, a physicist, and an engineer are stranded on an island with a can of food, and no opener.
The engineer says, "Let's smash the can open with a rock and eat".
The physicist replies, "Naw, that's going to splatter the food all over the place. Let's light a fire, the expanding gases will force the can to pop open and presto: warm food!"
The economist says, "Bad idea: the can will explode and the food will be all over the place. Now… let's assume we have a can opener…."
A physician, an engineer, and an economist were discussing who among them belonged to the oldest profession. The physician said, "Remember, on the sixth day God took a rib from Adam and fashioned Eve, making him the first surgeon. Therefore, medicine is the oldest profession."
The engineer replied, "But, before that, God created the heavens and earth from chaos, thus he was the first engineer. Therefore, engineering is an older profession than medicine."
Then, the economist spoke up. "Yes," he said, "But who do you think created the chaos?"
fresno dan
The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.
pat b
Pareto's law of optimal economic theory:
an economic theory has reached an optimal state when no other economist can make it wronger
The Third Law of Economists : The two economists theories don't add up.
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
― John Kenneth Galbraith
Joe Hill
JKG has some excellent one-liners. My favourite:
"The trouble with competition is that in the end somebody wins."
"Again, since I'm not an economist I really have no idea what the wrong solution is."
~ @RudyHavenstein
[The financial crisis is worse than thought …]
James Hacker: Bernard, Humphrey should have seen this coming and warned me.
Bernard Woolley: I don't think Sir Humphrey understands economics, Prime Minister; he did read Classics, you know.
James Hacker: What about Sir Frank? He's head of the Treasury!
Bernard Woolley: Well I'm afraid he's at an even greater disadvantage in understanding economics: he's an economist.
– Yes Prime Minister, A Real Partnership
More economist jokes here: http://www3.nd.edu/~jstiver/jokes.htm
Economists: purveyors of fictions upon which the superstructure of organized robbery is raised.
(apologies to Ambrose Bierce)
Q: What do you call an Economist who tells the truth?
A: Unemployed.
If you laid all the economists end to end,
it would probably be a good thing.
They still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
A farmer and two bankers are shipwrecked on an island. Two weeks later help finally arrives. The bankers greet their rescuer who remarks how well they look.
BankerA: "we realised the potential of the natural resources on this island were tremendous".
BankerB: "I created some fiat money, we divided it up. I lent BankerA ten times my share for a coconut farm startup, he invested ten times his share in an accountancy startup."
Rescuer: "well that's amazing, only where is it all, I don't see any produce – how did you actually survive?"
BankerA: "We each used our debt to invest in futures given the fertile land it was clear the land could generate wealth once labour was applied. We both realised significant paper profits. Oh and we ate the farmer"
Bankers live off our backs.
What did the supply curve say to the demand curve?
If you shift a little to the right, I'll give you some more of what you want.
Why did the economist cross the road?
Because his models predicted he would.
"Market Failure" is the name that economists who believe that the market cannot ever fail use when the market fails.
Hmm, it seems you should take your own advice to heart. :-)
What is a person called who claims to predict the future and has a history of 100% failure in predictions?
a) A Charlatan
b) An Economist
c) A prophet
In the same vein:
econ entropy: money invented from hot air evaporates, what do you expect?
"Economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show that they have a sense of humour"
— William Gilmore Simms (https://twitter.com/TheBrowser/status/680887672890589184?s=17)
Minnie Mouse
How many economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Only one, but the lightbulb has to be hanging from the ceiling. Because economists can only screw things up.
James McFadden
It takes one economist to change a light bulb and take the entire power grid down.
"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else." Lyndon Johnson


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Over the past few weeks I have been hearing the longing of the heart of Bridegroom Jesus calling to His beloved Bride to be "made ready"(Revelation 19:7). He is longing for her to come back to a place of "first love" passion for Him above all else! (Rev. 2:4) In a time of prayer on […]Continue Reading
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Later this year, Tau Publishing of Phoenix, Arizona will be publishing two new books of mine. One will feature my Haitian Advent Journal from last December. The other will a book I've been working on for years…it is titled THE CANVAS OF MY SOUL: A Filmmaker's Journey with Saint Francis and Thomas Merton to the Peripheries of Poverty and Prayer.
Last summer Tau Publishing released a revised and updated version of my book The Sun & Moon Over Assisi. They released this new edition of the book in both hardcover and paperback. Writing that book changed the course of my life and led me to create my own ministry of serving the poor through the power of film. The book was published in 2000 and was named the best spirituality hardcover book of the year by the Catholic Press Association. A paperback version was published in 2008. But both the original hardcover and paperback have been out of print for many years. I am thrilled the book has been resurrected…and improved. The mission of Tau Publishing is to promote Franciscan Spirituality and Franciscan authors. They need to sell books in order to continue publishing books. I strongly urge you to visit the following link, and check out The Sun & Moon Over Assisi.
And also take a moment to see other wonderful books published by Tau Publishing, including the recently released spiritual autobiography of Murray Bodo, OFM, who is, in my opinion, the best living Franciscan writer today. Any book by Fr. Murray is worth reading. Speaking about The Sun & Moon Over Assisi, Fr. Murray said, "Straub presents…a Francis and Clare who ring true on every page," adding that the book takes the reader on "a profoundly human pilgrimage."
Peace and blessings,
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A Serenely, Beautiful Family Thanksgiving
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Such a beautiful home, love the table setting!ReplyDelete
Have a fun trip!
Beautiful table setting! In love with that transferware china. Thanks for sharing the pattern.ReplyDelete
So pretty and elegant, a gorgeous Thanksgiving table indeed! Have fun in The Big Easy!! What a fun place to get married:)ReplyDelete
pretty table setting! I have similar china by Johnson Brothers. I found a setting for five a few years ago. its a mismatched set but I love the colors on the china! the pattern is called "game birds" if you want to google it. i love it and can't wait to use it this year as I host my first thanksgiving as a married woman in my new(isn) house!! Its just my husband and i and my parents but it should be fun!ReplyDelete
Your families Thanksgiving table is so lovely and most importantly so meaningful!ReplyDelete
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How beautiful!!! The table setting is gorgeous. Have a great trip.ReplyDelete
Love the espalier outside the dining room window!ReplyDelete
Everything is like a Norman Rockwell painting!!!! Perfect!ReplyDelete
BTW The view is fantastic !
Such a beautiful table setting and this really inspires to buy a nice set Thanksgiving dinner set. XO Have fun at the wedding ;)ReplyDelete
Mary Ann, You ARE blessed because you know exactly what is important in life and don't take it for granted, that in of itself is a true blessing. Enjoy your family wedding!!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing your Thanksgiving table, family and happy moments with us. You created really magic atmosphere for the day. I like very much all of your photos.ReplyDelete
Kind Regards,
Lydia xx
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Beautifully decorated table! What a treat it is to spend the time with family and friends. Thank you for sharing these pretty shots and one of the kind china. I love that is has a story. Enjoy your weekend!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Thanksgiving! Loved reading about it thank you for sharing! oxoReplyDelete
Beautiful table Mary Ann.....nothing better than spending time with family:) Have fun at the wedding!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous Thanksgiving setting, both inside and out.ReplyDelete
Everything looks so beautiful. The table settings are gorgeous. Hope you have a wonderful time at the wedding.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful Thanksgiving table! Seems that during the year, we forget how fortunate we are and to give thanks everyday for the blessings that surround us and for our wonderful friends and family! We will be celebrating Thanksgiving at my nieces home in Zurich Switzerland then onto Florence for a few days before heading to Stuttgart Germany for my other nieces wedding!ReplyDelete
Love the pic of Ally and Tommy with baby Chief! Blessing to you and yours this Thanksgiving.
Love, Gail
Mary Ann- could you do a post on how to set the perfect table? I'd love some pointers. Your table settings are always perfect!!ReplyDelete
Hope you had a great trip to my home state. My dad is actually from Napoleonville, not too far from Donaldsonville. His family owned a sugarcane plantation called Oakley. Great memories. I love the dining room above. xo Travel safely!ReplyDelete
A beautiful family and table, Mary Ann! Gorgeous pictures.ReplyDelete
Houston airport?!?!?! sooo close to me!!!!ReplyDelete


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My name is Mason. I share an apartment with my twin brother, Max. We're fraternal twins. Let me tell you about ourselves.
Mason: I am 6'0", 180 lbs, I have a skinny build with visible muscles (I guess I'm a bit of a twink), and I have a 9" cut cock. I am a deputy at the Seattle PD. I'm gay, although I'm open to bisexual threesomes/foursomes. I'm Caucasian, blonde, I have blue eyes, I have little hair on my body, and I almost always wear my uniform.
Max: He is 6'6", 175 lbs, muscular, with a (don't ask me how I know this) 10" cut cock. He is a fireman at the Seattle FD. He is gay, too, and he has more sex than I do. He has brown hair on his head, and a little on his arms and legs, and he also wears his uniform a lot.
We live in an apartment near the Puget Sound. Every day, we wake up to the sound of sea traffic.
On our 26th birthday, we were going to spend the day by ourselves, maybe change into nice clothes, and go out to dinner at a restaurant downtown, and see a movie.
By the way, I guess I should tell you. I've secretly had a crush on Max since 3rd grade.
We decided to watch a football game (GO SEAHAWKS!) rerun, since we don't usually have time to watch it while we're at work while we ate breakfast, in our uniforms, of course. When we finished, we went over to the couch to finish watching the game.
Suddenly, Max turned to me.
"Mason, I know."
"Why you asked me to move in with you. Why we share a room. Why you always stare at me when you think I'm not looking."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
I hesitated for a few seconds.
"Fine, Max! I've had a crush on you since 3rd grade! It's just... everything about you is so sexy."
"To tell you the truth, I've had a crush on you, too. Why don't we celebrate our birthday the way it was meant?"
He stood up, lifted me, and stood me up. He batted off my hat, and unbuttoned my shirt. He pulled it off, and sucked on my nipples.
We undressed, and I sucked on each of his nipples for 10 minutes each, before getting down on my knees. I kissed his dickhead, and then shoved it in my mouth. He moaned. I went up and down on his throbbing dick, until jet after jet sprayed into my mouth. He did the same to me, but better, and when I let go into his mouth, he stood up, and we made out, so that we could taste our cum together. Then, we got on the couch and 69-ed. Finally, my brother did what I've always wanted him to do. He took his throbbing dick, and shoved it up my butt. I screamed, and Max covered my mouth in fear of the neighbors hearing us. He pulled in and out, each time getting faster. He kept slamming me in the butt until he finally burst into me. Then he got on his knees, and drank his cum from the hole he had widened.
We got dressed again, and watched the last of the game.
We kept doing this almost every night. And when we both got boyfriends, we had sex all together the sexiest ways possible.
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Dallas holds on to down HoustonFeb 13, 2011 - 5:39 AM Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Dirk Nowitzki and Peja Stojakovic scored 22 points apiece, and the Dallas Mavericks got back into the win column with a 106-102 victory over Houston.
The Mavericks were playing for the first time since their 10-game winning streak was snapped in a one-point loss at Denver on Thursday.
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Kyle Lowry scored 26 points to lead the Rockets, who lost for the fifth time in their last eight games despite nearly erasing a 16-point deficit to start the fourth quarter.
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Impostor by Jill Hathaway
Goodreads Summary : Be afraid of your shadow...Vee Bell has witnessed murder. She nearly died trying to track down the killer, all because of her secret condition. She'd tell her best friend Rollins but lately he seems more interested in his colleague Anna than her. Maybe she should confide in her long-lost aunt who's turned up out of the blue? All of a sudden life is happening in reverse: Vee is waking up in weird places not knowing what she's done. The only thing she's sure of is that someone is messing with her. And when a prank goes horribly wrong, this time the hands with blood on them might be hers.
My Rating : 3.5 of 5 stars
My Thoughts : Vee Bell possess a rare gift, or a curse, to slide into the mind of another person and experiencing life, through that person's eyes, taking control of his or her action. After the horrifying incident of witnessing a murder though the victim's eyes, Vee finally solved the mystery. But just as she thought her life was going back to normal, someone else started slid into her in occasions, and made her life more complicated.
Vee Bell was very likable character and she made a promising protagonist. She was analytic, the part I most liked about her. She was emotionally strong (well, some point I found it way too hard- core, a bit lack of feelings. Mind you, I 'm into emotional things.) while dealing with Zane's death and at one point she realized she had insta-love relation with him, and Rollins was the one who always stood by her. I liked how their best-friendship bloomed into love. It was believable and destined. Hey, I knew it would eventually happen, since the author subtly removed Zane out of the story. And Rollins, I love you man.
Last summer when I read Slide, I enjoyed it. The mystery was well written, blended with the story in layer by layer. However, for Imposter, I'm a bit confused. We were acquainted some new characters that had me confused. I pretty much suspected all of them as the villain. In Imposter, the suspense part was done well, but the big revelation was also unexpected but the reason didn't justify the book blurb, where it is clearly stated "What if a killer took control of you?" I find it difficult to express my feelings. I liked almost everything about the story, yet somehow I'm not satisfied.
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"Until the yardsticks which society uses to evaluate progress are changed to capture elements of long-term sustainability, the planet and its people will continue to suffer under the weight of short-term growth policies"
Sir Partha Dasgupta
"Until the yardsticks which society uses to evaluate progress are changed to capture elements of long-term sustainability, the planet and its people will continue to suffer under the weight of short-term growth policies"
Sir Partha Dasgupta
The indicators used in the past to measure human societies' success have proven to be insufficient. Economic production indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI) fail to reflect the state of natural resources or ecological conditions and both focus exclusively on the short term, without indicating whether national policies are sustainable over longer periods of time.
The Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 presents an index that measures the wealth of nations by carrying out a comprehensive analysis of a country's capital assets, including manufactured capital, such as roads and factories; human capital, including education, knowledge and creativity; and natural capital, forests and minerals; and their respective values: the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI).
The preliminary IWR gives an overview on the evolution of some relevant categories of natural capital in a range of countries over a 19-year period. The report compares the decline or increase of natural capital against two other areas: produced capital and human capital. Results indicate that it is possible to trace the changes of the components of wealth by country and link these to economic growth. This highlights the impact of declines or increases in natural capital as an economic productive base.
Results show changes in inclusive wealth from 1990 to 2008 and a comparison to GDP for a group of 20 countries. This report provides policy-makers and planning authorities with a tool to assess the state of a country's productive base and its development over time.
The Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 presents findings from 20 countries over the span of 19 years from 1990-2008.
The Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 presents findings from 20 countries over the span of 19 years from 1990-2008.
70% of countries included present a positive IWI, and are developing sustainably
High population growth caused 25% to become unsustainable
19 of 20 countries had a decline in natural capital
Human capital increased in every country assessed
GDP has given a false positive in 25% of countries assessed
More information about the outcomes of the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012, including more key findings, a country-by-country analysis, and each chapter's key messages can be found in the Numbers section of this website. Go there.
Introduction: Inclusive Wealth: an overview
Chapter 1: Well-being and wealth
Chapter 2: Accounting for the inclusive wealth of nations: empirical evidence
Chapter 3: The significance of the natural wealth of nations
Chapter 4: Measuring inclusive wealth at the state level in the United States
Chapter 5: Are national economic (virtually) sustainable?: an empirical analysis of natural assets in international trade
Chapter 6: Natural capital as economic assets: a review
Chapter 7: The road to wealth accounting
Chapter 8: Ecosystem services and wealth accounting
Chapter 9: Inclusive wealth accounting for regulating ecosystem services
Chapter 10: Accounting for water: stocks, flows, and values
Chapter 11: Safeguarding the future of the wealth of nature
Conclusion: Lessons, findings, and recommendations
The group of authors for this first Inclusive Wealth Report was selected based on their expertise in inclusive wealth and environmental economics. Each has an extensive publication record in the area of natural capital, human well-being, social welfare, and valuation, among others.
Partha Dasgupta
Science Advisor, University of Cambridge
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah
Report Director, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
Pablo Muñoz
Science Director, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
Matthew Agarwala
London School of Economics and Political Science
Giles Atkinson
London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Edward B. Barbier
University of Wyoming
Elorm Darkey
University of Bonn
Paul Ekins
University College London
Pablo Fuentenebro
IHDP Secretariat
Juan Sebastian Lozano
The Nature Conservancy (Colombia)
Kevin J. Mumford
Purdue University
Kirsten Oleson
University of Hawaii
Leonie Pearson
University of Melbourne
Charles Perrings
Arizona State University
Chris Perry
UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC)
Stephen Polasky
University of Minnesota
Heather Tallis
Stanford University
Stacie Wolny
Stanford University
Each chapter of the report was reviewed by a minimum of two external referees, who are each experts in their field with strong academic credentials, and a good publishing record.
John Agnew
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Julia Bucknall
Dabo Guan
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Rashid Hassan
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Alan Randall
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The IWR 2012 was a joint initiative of the United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme (UNU-IHDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) and the Natural Capital Project.
The 2012 Inclusive Wealth Report was featured in a number of news outlets worldwide and was among the most-featured publication in Rio+20 reporting.
The 2012 Inclusive Wealth Report was featured in a number of news outlets worldwide and was among the most-featured publication in Rio+20 reporting.
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I brought in my Toyota for its scheduled service, and as usual was more than happy with everything. I bought my Toyota in Auburn & I live in Tacoma, but I consistently appreciate the service and courtesy at the Puyallup shop, so I go there whenever the other places are booked up. They are always clear about what they are working on, the time frame/wait time, and what future services need to be done. So, I'll be back, I'm sure. Thank you!
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The World Mourns Randy Pausch's Death From Pancreatic Cancer
Last updated: Jul 30, 2008
This week, many of us with cancer in our lives are mourning the death of Randy Pausch, the professor at Carnegie Mellon with pancreatic cancer whose " Last Lecture " about pursuing childhood dreams became a worldwide phenomenon. Pausch died Friday at home in Virginia with his wife Jai, his three children, and close friends by his side. At last count, the lecture, which became a viral Internet phenomenom when students uploaded it to YouTube, had been viewed by more than six million people. A book based on the lecture that Pausch co-authored with Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow has been translated into 30 languages.
I won't go on and on; this is a story that bears exploring for yourself. Pausch's message has had such national resonance that Carnegie Mellon created a special page with all the links you need to follow the story. Please treat yourself to the time to do so.
What I will say is that when you're caring for a loved one with cancer, no matter what the present reality (treatment or no, good news or bad), death becomes a new presence in your life, waiting ahead, around a few bends in the road. Pausch became a hero -- for me and for millions of others -- by talking honestly and openly about what it's like to live day to day with that knowledge.
Professionally, I should also mention that Pausch did much to raise awareness about pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly of all cancers, which has a shockingly low survival rate of 4 percent after five years. In March, he testified before congress on the desperate need for funding for pancreatic cancer research, pointing out that "We don't have advocates for this disease because they don't live long enough. We don't have a Michael J. Fox because people die too fast."
This is the cancer that also made headlines earlier this year when actor Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with it; let's hope the burst of attention leads to more research funding into screening and treatment options for this terrible disease. Pausch actively pursued treatment, continuing to investigate the option of a pancreatic cancer vaccine until just weeks before he died. The Pausch family has asked that donations in his name be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network .
Image of Randy Pausch taken from the "Last Lecture" video.
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