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In Search of Disappointment Island I go down the old-fashioned library rabbit-hole to discover the reasons why the Islands of Disappointment were so named. The real story is far more interesting than the Islands' Wikipedia page makes out.
Alberto Manguel Packs His Library Manguel is a guide through many of the odd and sometimes embarrassing feelings of wanting to possess leaves of paper between two covers.
Is it in New Zealanders to be neutral? "The present period of indecision", Frank Corner wrote in an important 1953 letter, "gives us the chance to look again at this question of our commitment, probably the most important policy question facing us…"
The Harsh Clarity of New Zealand Typography I don't really believe in "New Zealand art", or "New Zealand writing". If it's good it's just "art" or "writing" or "a typeface", and the New Zealandness problem solves itself; New Zealand typographers are doing, and seemingly always have been doing, first-rate work.
Printing and Typography in New Zealand: A Short Bibliography The reading list I wish I'd had when I first began learning about printing, publishing and type in NZ. From Yate, Colenso and Coupland Harding to Kris Sowersby.
Don McKenzie and the University "…How blind we are when the variety of our human and natural worlds is obscured by our distance from the objects of study." Thanks to Don McKenzie for the ever-fresh reminder of what we're really at university for.
The Smell of New Zealand Books There was something more to the smell of their pages than simply the knowledge that they were from home, or that the words they contained were significant to me. They smelled like New Zealand, of specifically what I have come to know New Zealand's culture to smell like.
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, by Mathias Enard What if cultures were not as hermetic as we sometimes imagine them to be? What if the modern foundations of "Western culture" were based, in fact, on influences from the "East"—and vice versa?
"I've Lived for So Many Days Now": Rinus Van de Velde at König Gallery, Berlin A review of an exhibition in January 2019. It's testament to how fully Van de Velde constructs these worlds—the coder's lair, the ambiguous expressions, the literary text beneath the images—that we can be drawn ever more deeply into them.
Reading Charles Brasch in Oxford As I sit here in Oxford, "through long damp grey days", reading Brasch's journals and memoirs, Dunedin comes into focus. Dunedin, and all the places and people Brasch visited and wrote of. They become centre and I am living at the margins…
Oceania at the Antipodes A survey of historical international exhibitions of Oceanic/Pacific art. The Royal Academy's 2018 Oceania exhibition seems not so much a marking of 250 years since Cook "discovered" the Pacific, but of perhaps a decade since Britain and Europe opened their artistic sights on the rest of the world.
Ernst Plischke and the Corners A 1959 flat by Ernst Plischke above the garage of diplomats and art collectors Frank and Lyn Corner seems to expand well beyond its four small walls. (Feature article for Home Magazine New Zealand, published in print, September 2018 issue).
Crabbed Age and Youth Cannot Live Together: On Glenn Gould and the Goldberg Variations Bach's Goldberg Variations reflect the nature of a human life, and Glenn Gould's gift was to understand them in this way, leading us along as if we were reading a novel, or philosophy.
What Shall We Do Tomorrow?: An Essay On College We've had almost four years to figure it out: what life do we want? New York penthouse, Concord cabin, Premier House? The life of the soldier, the saint, the sage or the citizen? An essay for the Yale-NUS College class of 2017.
Journey to Oxford For all the talk of distance these days being less tyrannical, a New Zealander in Oxford is still a New Zealander a long way from home. A New Zealander in Oxford is still one who thought our borders too small; he or she still thought the long trip and the goodbyes to be worthwhile.
Bulletpoint Philosophy At a point when technology has changed our means of communication more in the past decade than in the few centuries before, now seems a good time to stop, to assess. Just what are we saying, and how are we saying it?; It is tempting to speak of big-brother-like powers and the forces of authority. But the deadening of the philosophical imagination is far more innocent than all that.
Julianne Thomson's Spin Exhibition at Yale-NUS College As an art student, how do you navigate the perennial tension between the 'rules' you are taught and the thing that drew you to art in the first place—the ability to express yourself creatively? For that matter, how does any student navigate the tension, learning from the past without mindlessly and slavishly copying?
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Ubiquity If what was lost from a work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction was its 'aura', then what is lost today in the age of digital ubiquity? Maybe it's something like spirit—aura, but with feeling and heart.
My Capstone Thesis: Liberal Education Between Self-Cultivation and Citizenship My Yale-NUS College senior capstone deals with liberal education, and how it must manage to reconcile the simultaneous need to educate self-reflective individuals, as well as active and engaged citizens.
On Te Papa's Toi Art / New Zealand's Need for a National Art Gallery Most of us will see the masterworks of our culture just a few times in our lives, and having those works levelled to the same status as the giant squid does no viewer any favours, nor does it do New Zealand any favours in the eyes of foreign visitors.
A Liberal Education is a Self-Reflexive Education: Defining the Liberal Arts I've come to define a liberal education as a self-reflexive education. Self-reflexivity is, to my mind, the heart of a liberal education, its feature that is both timeless and common to all countries' traditions and institutional structures
The Eyes and Times of Frank and Lyn Corner To Frank and Lyn Corner New Zealand was a modern, vibrant, educated Pacific nation. Naturally, their art collection—much of which was bought while they were living overseas (including, notably, McCahon's Landscape Theme and Variations, I and Angus' Storm, Hawkes Bay)—should be informed by such a view.
National Gallery, a Film by Frederick Wiseman: A Brief Review Wiseman's genius with National Gallery is to document the institution, on the one hand, but on the other to demonstrate the experience of being at such a gallery.
The New Zealand Scholar: J. C. Beaglehole's Essential 1954 Lecture 117 years after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his lecture on the nature and aspirations of The American Scholar, Beaglehole delivered his own lecture taking up the same question in the New Zealand context. It might be no less than New Zealand's "declaration of intellectual independence."
The Cornish Connection at the Suter Art Gallery, Nelson There are no easy links or explanations here, but that travel and interaction with international artists in a specific location had a great impact on New Zealand art, we see very clearly.
The Startup Strategy Matrix: Defining the Limits of Lean Startup Methods My International Baccalaureate Extended Essay, completed at Scots College in 2012. A study of the circumstances under which lean startup methods should be used by early-stage internet technology companies.
Rita Angus (New Zealand painter) The art of Rita Angus teaches New Zealanders how by close observation of what is unique about ourselves we might move closer to seeing what is universal.
The Gate of Wisdom: On Education and Democracy in New Zealand, or, Why We Need the Liberal Arts An exploration of the relationship between increasing vocationalism at the undergraduate level and the fragmenting of and disengagement from politics; a case for a system of liberal arts education in New Zealand; a hope that such a system would foster a strong democracy.
Tutira: Herbert Guthrie-Smith and the Story of a Now-Toxic Lake A New Zealand naturalist's 1921 book is New Zealand's answer to Henry David Thoreau; but it also presents us with the reality of just how much our natural environment has changed.
To Spend Time Is To Explore Time: Giorgio Morandi and Edmund de Waal at Stockholm's Artipelag This art aspires not to newness, but to timelessness. Enter this gallery and you exit Modernism's conception of time and progress, leaving behind along with it all that is pre and post, avant-garde and rear-guard…
Design and Living: Architect Ernst Plischke's Manifesto for Housing in New Zealand "A house is a framework for living", wrote Plischke; his 1947 book is at once an architectural primer, exposition of Modernist principles, and handbook for solutions to housing crises.
Summer With Picasso and Giacometti Reconciliation with death is what art—and especially that of Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti—finally offers us. Two European exhibitions of these artists' work could not be more timely.
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr: A Summary [From my 2011 archives] All these technological changes, Carr argues, have side-effects that mostly affect our deep-brain thinking.
Montaigne on the Education of Children The problems Montaigne diagnosed with education in his day, almost five hundred years ago, are really no different to the problems we still see today.
Can New Zealanders and Australians Afford to Study at a US University? People usually think it takes a full scholarship or immense wealth, but they aren't aware of financial aid.
A Guide for Non-Americans: What is "college" and how does it differ from university? An introduction to American higher education and the liberal arts for New Zealanders and Australians considering tertiary study in the US.
What It Means To Be Against Everything: A Brief Review of Mark Greif's Book "I had to show", Greif writes in the introduction to his collection of essays, Against Everything, "how every commonplace thing might be a compromise. The standards universally supposed might not be "universal."
What Makes Someone Wise? The intelligent person is inward-directed; their intelligence exists within themselves, for themselves. The wise person uses the knowledge they have outside themselves, to the benefit of the world.
A Language of Wholeness At high school the goal is to be well-rounded; at university it is to be well-rounded with a bump. Then what? We need a language of wholeness to describe complete human beings.
Seneca on the true purpose of philosophy Some of us have a strong gut reaction to studying philosophy in high school or university; Seneca diagnosed the problem two thousand years ago.
Dubious Lessons of a Well-Intended Education: On Fakework Fakework is the belief that a project's completion depends merely on its impression; yet there are times in life when that isn't enough.
Explaining the Value of Liberal Arts Education in New Zealand A recent argument for arts education in NZ focuses merely on the employability of arts graduates, subordinating the education's value to statistics and practicalities.
Transforming the Gold of Our Lives into the Base Lead of Commerce One lives life and spends money; one cannot live money, nor spend time, though for too long we've pretended we could.
Reflecting A birthday is an appropriate time to look back on a year, to make sense of how we've lived our days. But without a diary, our presentist bias makes reflection impossible.
More—and Better—Liberal Education Fareed Zakaria's defence of liberal education; expanding and improving the liberal arts as a way of fixing its problems. But what exactly are we expanding or improving?
Creative Blindness The creative struggle as the necessity of breaking out of mental silos; Wassily Kandinsky's ideas for how best to do so.
It Is Futile To Write About Liberal Education's Value The paradox confronting liberal education: How to explain the value of something whose value can only be understood by having been felt?
Introduction to Writing Fiction A good paragraph, we are told, must have certain elements; but the essence of good writing is creativity, breaking established rules. The paradox of education, and the paradox of eminence.
What Is Our Time Here For? Redux Studying at a liberal arts college, and having the time and space to build the foundations of a life. A career can rest on those foundations, but the foundations of who you are as a person cannot rest on a career.
The Standard Answer What if there was an environment in which no standard answer existed? What if, whichever answer you imagined, you saw equal praise and resistance?
The Meaning of School Skole in Greek, scola in Latin, meaning leisure, from where we derive the English school, a place of leisure's opposite.
Swimming Upstream at College Colleges "affect horror" that "students attend college in the hope of becoming financially successful, but… offer students neither a coherent view of the point of a college education nor any guidance…"
Commodified Learning in the Flipped Classroom The danger with any educational innovation is that it forgets that the point of education is what happens after class.
Letting It Go Competing in the Cycosports Seletar Aerospace Park Criterium in Singapore; how racing highlights parts of our own natures that in everyday life remain hidden.
Why Do We Commit To Sport? What Haruki Murakami talks about when he talks about running; what sport is in our lives, without needing to achieve anything.
The Man Who Made Yale-NUS Yale-NUS Some might put it as a chicken-and-egg problem: was Austin chosen to work here because he had the qualities they wanted this school to embody, or is Yale-NUS like that today because of Austin Shiner?
The Danger of Becoming the Stories We Tell If we aren't careful—if we spend our time climbing and "applying"—we will come to embody the personal narratives we tell, lacking in humanity and virtue as they necessarily do.
How We Start Our Days is How We Start Our Lives Annie Dillard's masterstroke of a line: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." I offer a slight reformulation, focussing on the first hour of each day.
The Liberal Arts in Global Context Are the liberal arts in decline, or are they experiencing a period of global expansion? The two views cannot both be right; I embark on my senior thesis to better grasp the liberal arts.
Money Costs "The alchemy by which the very gold of our lives is transformed into the base lead of commerce"; how we debase the only thing we really have, and the only thing that money can never buy—time.
Between the Organization Kid and Hippiedom If the Organisation Kid "worked for Save the Children and Merrill Lynch and didn't see a contradiction", the "kid" today sees the contradiction and flips a coin to decide. Knowing more and wanting more, but seeing "easy" and wanting easy. That's us.
Twenty Minutes During a cycling fitness test, seeing the poles of over and under-confidence; wisdom may be seeing the follies one has made in other areas of life and then escaping those two traps by humbling oneself in advance.
"I Could Have Done That" The simplicity and elegance of much great art disguises what really went into it; the necessity of both ideas and work ethic in producing anything of value.
The Readymade Fallacy In our blindness to the hard work that went into success, we fall back on narratives to explain why they could do something that I couldn't. But persistence is a learned mindset, there's nothing innate about it.
It Never Gets Easier, You Just Cope Better A friend spent six weeks meditating at a monastery; all he remembers are the mosquitos that bit him constantly. Learning that all you can change is your response to a given situation.
An Education is a Self-Inflicted Wound The start of a new semester, and an event rich in symbolism; I learn the hard way what an education means.
A Future Without Personal History A lamentation of the loss of personal history through the devaluing of digital communication. My grandparents can look back through their shoebox of letters, but what will we be left with?
Thoughts on New Zealand's School Decile Funding System Socioeconomic need as it relates to equality of opportunity in education is one of the most critical problems a nation can face. School deciles have tried, but they've failed. Time to try something new.
A Vision or a Plan? There's only point having a vision if backed by a plan, and a plan is only worthwhile if it serves some vision. Perhaps what politics really needs is a party willing to risk putting the two together.
The Future of Social Networks The most-read article on my blog in 2011-2012; a model for how online social networks can come to more accurately mimic real life societies.
Satisfied Age and Wisdom Robert Louis Stevenson on Crabbed Age and Youth; one's present views are merely the meeting place of what one was once certain of, and the views that one will come to hold.
Wisdom and Age, Wisdom and Education Wisdom has no necessary relationship to age or profession, despite our banal stereotypes. We do not think of education as being fundamentally about wisdom; but we should.
Drivers and Cyclists, Us and Them Dehumanisation of the other and group mentalities; is it so far a step from the phoney wars between drivers and cyclists and the real political antagonisms sweeping across the United States and Europe?
"What University Should I Choose?" Ask—and ask only of yourself—what you want to get out of university and how you want to spend four important years. Answering that question will define the experience far more than whether the university starts with a Y or an H, an O or a C.
What to do when confronted with two pieces of contradictory advice? When faced with contradictory advice you learn who you are, because you can't hide behind by others' well-meaning opinions.
The Commodification of Learning Economic value is being attached to learning; this is giving the wrong incentives to students. Memorisation is winning over mind-broadening.
Selling the Liberal Arts Are the liberal arts a fast-track to a management career, or about learning how to be free in a deep sense? How the liberal arts are marketed by colleges will affect the kind of education that students end up receiving.
A Sense of Motion Without Moving If you don't believe in moving upwards, forwards, onwards for its own sake, you cannot believe in productivity as we are forced to pursue it.
Peter Sagan and the Paradox of Eminence Greatness is less likely when you play within all the rules, as the sport was practiced and won by its last star; and yet to break those rules risks being rejected by the sport as much as being recorded in its books.
A writer who happens to use a blog as one medium amongst others "Blogging" describes the medium rather than the activity; bloggers are writers as much as a journalist who writes for a newspaper.
Studying Abroad in the Asia Pacific Century If New Zealand is to gain from its proximity to new global economic power, we cannot simply expect the rewards to come to us. Just as we bring bright students from around the Asia Pacific to study at our schools and universities, so too must we send young Kiwis abroad.
You Are What You Read Why I only read news sources I pay for; over longer periods of time we come to subconsciously take on the qualities and attitudes of the information we consume.
The Means and the Ends of an Education Education starts to seem like something that happens to us, rather than something we grab hold of and shape.
Pre-Distraction Distraction In expectation of interruption by our devices, the size of the tasks we take on inevitably diminishes.
The Levelling of Ideas Towards the Pretty But Inane The visibility of liking and disliking in the Internet era; we become trained by the stings of public disapproval and the dopamine of the "like".
The Liberal Arts and Two Visions of the Future Differing views about the usefulness of the liberal arts come down to different visions of a noble future. Recognising which vision for the future we hold dear is the start of knowing what education means to us individually.
Chopping Off Their Heads The Tall Poppy Syndrome; why it occurs in smaller countries but not larger ones; how proximity alters what is expected of equality.
If The Grass Were Greener Idioms often express truths so fundamental that we ignore their real intent. We say "the grass is always greener on the other side" when really what we mean is, it never actually is.
On The Uses Of A Liberal Education: As "Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students" Teacher evaluation day is the catharsis at the end of a semester's tragedy. Mark Edmundson presents a powerful vision for liberal education. The responsibility for it lies directly with students and professors themselves.
Meaning If we come to think outside the places we normally look for meaning—a 9-5 job, a weekend hobby, occasional service work—then we are far more likely to make meaning mean something for us.
On Making Decisions Despite the Instability of Our Future Selves The paradox of how our lives must be planned for a future self that is uncertain. Different takes on this theme of commitment-making under uncertainty, and my own perspective from a college essay.
"War Minus The Shooting"?: The Olympics, International Sport, and Orwell On the Sporting Spirit How people can come to feel closer even if that closeness comes through seeing their nations pushed apart by rivalry.
The Drama and Humanity of Sport: On Stage 19 of the 2016 Giro d'Italia The contrast between the beauty and permanence of the landscapes next to the suffering of humans trying to overcome them is what makes this sport a symbol of humanity.
Robert Louis Stevenson on Escaping the Cult of Busy and the Joys of Doing Nothing Idleness as an education in the art of living; how extreme busyness is a sign of "deficient vitality"; and how success in life isn't what most take it to be.
What Is College For?: David Foster Wallace on Liberal Education and the Trenches of Adult Life The real, no-bullshit value of your liberal arts education is how to keep you from going through your adult life "dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting".
The Time Value of Experience How experiences we have are more valuable the earlier we have them.
On Excellent Sheep: What is College for? Bill Deresiewicz often seems unsure about who to blame for our education system's failure to live up to the promise of the liberal arts. But his immense contribution may be as the person who gave rise to new champions of the liberal arts, standard-bearers who will make the liberal arts cool again.
"Write a story about how school is the biggest trick ever" I rediscover a note I wrote to myself during high school. Ultimately, it is precisely the perilous mixture of ambition and creativity that poses the problem, for one requires conformity and the other its exact opposite.
Why Do We Take Such Great Risks for Sport? If youth is wasted on the young, sport might go some way towards alleviating that waste through the individual recognition that bodies aren't uniform and nor are they infinite. Or; what do the Red Hook Crit, Roger Federer, and Stage 16 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia have in common?
Valls Calls Down Under: Another World Leader Woos the South Pacific In the world of global trade and security nothing is either true or false, but declaring makes it so. French eagerness to assert Pacific identity is a sign of the times.
In Myanmar, Learning What is at Stake in Our Travels A following-the-footsteps journey leads to questions about buying colonial lifestyles; how travel writing was Somerset Maugham's version of the Facebook glamour shot.
Learning How To Do Nothing On "leisure guilt", and how when it comes to productivity, we frequently fill our days with tasks before giving ourselves the space to ask whether those tasks are ones we ultimately want or need to be doing in the first place.
Connecting the Dots of Our Lives We need to be aware of how our personal narratives and the lives they lead to are shaped by the structures of resumes and career thinking; otherwise, well-meaning career advice may hold us back from drawing a constellation between the dots of our lives, forcing us instead to draw an all-too-straight line between them.
The Two Yale-NUS Colleges The focus on the views of everyone other than students at Yale-NUS belies the false premise from which many commentators approach the College; the concerns demonstrate the confusion of liberal values with a liberal arts education, and I for one came to Yale-NUS for the latter.
"Do you think we spend too much time thinking about life instead of living it?" A conversation with a friend on the role of reflection and books in living, learning, and growing up.
A Global Perspective on the Humanities Debate A reply to Nicholas Kristof's "Don't Dismiss the Humanities" article in the Times; how he framed the humanities debate along U.S.-European lines, and in doing so missed core trends in global education.
Why Should We Go Abroad?: On Connecting the Dots of Our Lives We may well want study abroad to be a transformative experience, exposing us to new interests and ways we could live our lives, but taking this approach will make being accepted to the program far less likely; how the structure of a resume dictates the possibilities that are open to us.
Yale-NUS College Class of 2017 A look back at my reasons for attending Yale-NUS College at the time I accepted my offer of admission; the liberal arts in Asia.
Declaring Makes It So: What it Means that the United States Now Thinks it is a Pacific Nation [Fox & Hedgehog] A declaration of national identity in terms of geography is very different from a declaration in terms of ideology or creed; only through believing itself to be a Pacific nation can the United States justify its re-alignment of military and economic structures to focus on Asia.
What Is Our Time Here For?: The Meaning of Yale-NUS College and the Liberal Arts [The Octant] The liberal arts and sciences are not a unique selling point for a resume, or a euphemism for an elite college; they are about having freedom to learn about ourselves and our own minds so that we can approach everything else we do in life with solid foundations, with "inner character".
Reflection on a Grain of Sand Everything that I have consumed my mind with for a decade has been confined to continents and islands and managing the conflicts that flare up in the world. How could humans have possibly exited this atmosphere and looked at the whole of earth at once?
A Conflicted Past: What We Can Learn from the UN Security Council Painting [Fox & Hedgehog] Original research on Per Krohg's painting; the irony is that the permanent members of the Security Council are watched over by a painting that is meant to remind them of their role in maintaining and advancing peace in the post-war world, and instead should remind them of the dangers of being stuck in the past.
If a Goldfish Could Remember Milan Kundera wrote that "Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third or fourth life in which to compare various decisions". It seems to me that Kundera more closely describes goldfish than humans.
What's in a Flag? My opinion on the 2015 New Zealand flag referendum; If what's in a flag are the experiences and aspirations of millions, we shouldn't be surprised that the first four designs we are presented with don't quite cut it. As much as I want a new flag, I'd rather wait for the right one.


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Geneva, 1 July, 2015 (ECA) - In one of the side events organized in the framework of the 5th Global Review of Aid for Trade, Mr. Stephen Karingi, Director of ECA's Regional Integration and Trade Division, was invited to speak as a panelist at a stakeholder consultation on "The Future of the European Union Aid for Trade strategy".
Mr Karingi started his intervention by recalling some of the key findings of a joint ECA-WTO report titled "Reducing Trade Costs to support Africa's Transformation – the Role of Aid for Trade", which contained a detailed monitoring of Aid for Trade flows to Africa. He recalled that it is encouraging to see the increase in Aid for Trade funds to Africa, as well as the focus on countries with special needs (namely Least Developed Countries, Landlocked countries and Small Island Developing States). However, he pointed out that one source of concern from Africa's point of view is that recent growth has not translated meaningfully into structural change and industrialization. Aid for Trade strategies should ideally contribute to redressing this situation; yet, over the 2011-2013 period, industry only accounted for 6 percent of Aid for Trade disbursements to Africa.
A related point emphasized by Mr. Karingi was that African countries show relatively high participation in global value chains, but this is driven mainly by exports of raw materials and intermediate goods embodying limited domestic transformation. Accordingly – he argued – one way in which Aid for Trade could have greater impact is to support the emergence of regional value chains, harnessing the regional market to foster economic diversification and domestic value addition. In this context, the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area and the implementation of the African Union Action Plan for Boosting intra-African Trade warrant the adequate support as key avenues to achieve authentic regional integration in the continent.
Mr Karingi also pointed out the critical role played by the services sector in terms of employment creation and contribution to value addition along the value chain. In line with this consideration, he contended that Aid for Trade should target in a more pronounced way those high-end services which promise to exert positive spillovers on the rest of the economy; that is the case of business and financial services, logistics and distribution, as well as infrastructure-related services such as transport and energy provision.
Touching upon the specific theme of this Fifth Global review – trade facilitation – Mr. Karingi warned against the risk of limiting the trade facilitation agenda to those specific measures that respond to the interests of large traders and transnational corporations. He instead argued that Aid for Trade support to Africa should also focus specifically on the needs of small and medium enterprises, as well as informal traders. Moreover, it should support efforts to streamline procedure while enhancing the effectiveness of custom controls, with a view to strengthen domestic resource mobilization and curb illicit financial flows through trade mispricing.
Echoing some of the concerns raised also in the African region, other panelists noted that there is scope for reducing the volatility and unpredictability of Aid for Trade support, and improving the degree of alignment with recipient countries' development strategies. They also mentioned the need to facilitate access to Aid for Trade funds by harmonizing procedures and strengthening the coordination across donors, as well as enhancing the dissemination of information about funding opportunities.
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Can you tell me a little about yourself and how you got into caregiving?
My name is Virginia. I live in Rohnert Park, California, and I've been a caregiver for over ten years. I started as a driver for a man we call the King of Penngrove, basically found in Penngrove, California. One day I went to visit him on my day off, and I had a key, and he was lying on the floor. So I called 911, and from that day he never wanted me to leave his side again so he asked me to move in. I didn't move in. I kept my own house, but I did seven days, 12-hour shifts. At the end of his life, they brought in hospice, and then I was inspired to do hospice. So when he passed away, I went to CNA school and home health school, and then went straight to hospice.
Who is one of your most memorable clients?
First person that comes to my mind is George, the Kind of Penngrove, the person I just mentioned, because he was awesome. He didn't care. His motto was "Doesn't matter if you have $5 or $5 million, I'm going to treat you the same." Rancher, he was a rancher. Ranchers came to him for advice, stockbrokers came to him for advice, and he was just a solid man. There was no facade there. Some people had Google. I had George. He knew everything. So it's George, of course. I think about him every day. And my second person that I would think about would be this tough Texas gal. She was from Texas, and she was poor as dirt, and she had the hardest life that you've ever heard of. She wouldn't eat, she only weighed 60 pounds, so the nurse would let me take her cheeseburgers even though we weren't supposed to. So I think of her because of how humble she was and how appreciative she was just for the slightest care. So those are my two favorites.
What piece of advice would you give to a new caregiver?
If I could give one piece of advice it would be to go to CNA school and to home health aide school as well because the training-- yes, your heart may be in it and you might just have the best heart in the world, but there're skills that you need that they can teach you, just to make your life simpler and make the patient's life simpler. Transfer skills, bathing skills. Just everything. I just think if your heart-- if you really love caregiving, you should follow through and keep going to school.
What is your proudest moment as a caregiver?
What I'm most proud of as a caregiver is the work that I do. I feel that my attention to detail is like nobody else's. I feel that I have a strong work ethic, old-fashioned. I notice the little things that most other people don't. That's what I like to look for, those little things. And I like to work as a team. I like to report all changes in condition, and I feel like I'm really good at reporting and communicating as a team.


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Over the past seven months, more than 3000 objects have been physically numbered, catalogued and photographed. What an achievement! But de Mortillet was no slouch when it came to collecting and there remains a large number of religious 'medals' or tokens that will be processed in due course.
|Just a few of de Mortillet's many medals or tokens
Meanwhile, the catalogued amulets have been repackaged and boxed up, ready to return to the stores.
|Boxes of amulets in transit to our storage facility
Originally they were in huge, old-fashioned trunks but with much more economic and organised packing, they are now contained within slimmer archival boxes which take up much less valuable space on our very crowded shelves!
|Finding a new home for the amulets
Each amulet has been given a location (a box and shelf number) so will be easy to find should we need to retrieve it for display purposes or a visiting researcher.
We also had to say goodbye to our three contract project staff - Charlotte, Alice and Rosanna. It was a bit of a sad day, despite the copious tea and cake, as they had all become part of the Museum and we will miss them. We wish them well with their future endeavours and hope that they've enjoyed their experience at Pitt Rivers. One thing's for sure - having worked with amulets from around the world to protect against every conceivable disease, misfortune and evil spirit, or designed to bring prosperity, health, fertility and good fortune, there was little need for us to wish them 'good luck'...
|A lucky cuppa © The Moon's Hobby Store and More


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Welcome to Kschowe Designs! I'm happy to share my digital artwork and photos with you!
I create my digital pieces with iPad app Paper by 53. They can be reproduced on gallery-wrapped canvas, along with other mediums. They can also be produced on Luxury Note Cards, e-cards, or digitally downloaded.
My photos are inspired by the beauty of our La Quinta surroundings, and other fascinations. They all can be purchased directly from this website!


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Tainted blocks?
I first heard about the idea of tainted /8 blocks from Tony Hain from Cisco a few years ago (thanks for sharing your ideas). The fear was that some IPv4 addresses were unusable because some equipment vendors, documents and networks would use addresses from those blocks "illegally".
One of the most tainted block could be the 1/8 block (Come on, who hasn't used 184.108.40.206 or 126.96.36.199 in an example in documentation or as an IPv4 for a quick hack). One excellent description of the problem and a study on how tainted those blocks could be can be found in Mark Blachets blog.
Thankfully the problem does not appear to be as severe as initially anticipated. APNIC got the 1/8 block allocated from IANA in January 2010 and started to delegated large chunks of the block in May of 2010 as described here
There are reports about some bogus traffic to a few of the addresses within the 1/8 block. What has happened is that APNIC reserved and trashed a few /24 from the 1/8 block.. Those /24 will probably never be used on the Internet. These blocks in question are 188.8.131.52/24, 184.108.40.206/24, 188.8.131.52/24, 188.8.131.52/24, 22.214.171.124/24 that totaling about 1000 addresses. A whois lookup points them to researchers at APNIC. Most of the rest of the block is now allocated to various APNIC members.
RIPE allocated the 2/8 block from IANA in September 2009. Most of the addresses are used up, for example 184.108.40.206 is delegated to France Telecom. There are no signs of small delegations that are thrown away because of dirtyness in the 2/8 block.
The conclusion that can be drawn is that we do not have to be overly concerned about tainted IPv4 addresses. The problem appears to only affect very specific subnets and IPv4 addresses and not whole /8. I would assume that the same will be seen in other potentially tainted blocks such as 100/8.
Source: http://www.ipv4depletion.com


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Hello. I have two cards to share today. Both using stamps from many years ago. I've often thought I should clear out my old stamps but you know I'm sort of attached to them all. And, as long as I have enough space I will continue to be a stamp hoarder.
And, I'm sorry to say, the names and makers of the stamps are not on the packaging but I think the one above is Daisy and the one below is Longsocks, but I might be wrong! I don't even know if you can still get these anywhere, they might even be crafty antiques! I know at the time Daisy was quite sought after.
I stamped using Versafine and coloured with Zig Real Brush markers and water.


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A Difficult Periodrenae-2 | 03.15.2016 | Assignment Reports, Reports - Womens Studies
This sissy just experienced her 7th visit from Aunt Flo. She had been rather lax in her past few periods, only wearing feminine pads and drinking lots of water for the 5 days. This time she decided to more fully experience what it is like to be a Real Woman by following more of the instructions from Aunt Flo. Early in the morning of the second day, she took two Correctol tablets and was constantly drinking warm water. By noon she was feeling very bloated and starting to have cramps, the laxative was doing its job. She avoided going to the toilet and decided to take the advice in the email from Aunt Flo: "Curl up on the coach with a warm blanky". This was on Sunday, when this sissy is required to do most of her house cleaning chores. When Mistress saw this sissy resting with the kitchen still a mess and the vacuuming not done she demanded to know what why i was not working. This sissy explained that it was her time of the month and that the cramps were very bad. Mistress said that often happens and women have to put up with it and this sissy would also learn to put up with it. Mistress had me complete my chores and gave me extra tasks to do as well, keeping me working until sissy had to prepare dinner. The movement doing the chores, all of the water consumed and the laxative resulting in an accident in my panties. This sissy was glad she was wearing the overnight maxipad. Mistress allowed her to clean up, change he pad, drink more water and then get back to her chores.
While she was working, Mistress demanded that sissy show her the instructions from Aunt Flo on how to experience a period (previously Mistress knew that sissy was following menstruation training from The House but She was not involved with it).
On Monday, Mistress had this sissy take a single Correctol tablet before heading off to work. She handed her a little make up kit that contained 4 overnight maxipads, a small jar of strawberry jam (from a hotel room service breakfast) and two plastic clothes pins. Mistress' said that sissy was to change her pad every 2 hours at work. While in the toilet stall this sissy was to wear the plastic clothes pins on her nipples for at least 5 minutes. At every other pad change, starting with the first one, this sissy was to apply a dollop of the jam to her pad just like the instructions in the email from Aunt Flo. Mistress also reminded me to keep up with the water consumption.
This was one of the most difficult work days this sissy has ever experienced. With all the water consumed and the Correctol, sissy had cramps almost the entire day. It was very difficult to get any work done. It seems like she was spending most of her day in the restroom. Once while this sissy was changing her pad someone came in and used the stall next to hers. She had to wait, with clothes pins clamped to her nipples until they left. The sissy thought that the rustling noise from unwrapping a fresh feminine pad would be too noticeable. The sticky jam left her feeling unclean all day.
When this sissy arrived home she just wanted to go to bed and rest. Mistress insisted that she prepare dinner and do her evening chores. Mistress says if sissy is going to experience what it is truly like to be women, then she will have to learn that sometimes we have very difficult periods with no opportunity to rest and ignore family obligations. Sissy now wishes that Mistress had not read the instructions from Aunt Flo.
Sissy's fourth day was much like the day before but Mistress did not give sissy any Correctol. Mistress did insist that sissy wear a tight bra to work. Wearing a bra to work is always difficult for sissy, she is constantly aware of it and has to make sure it does not show. By the end of the day, although feeling bloated, messy and miserable, sissy was learning to accept her period as something all women must endure.
On the fifth day, sissy's period was almost over. She was only required to wear a light pad. When she came home, Mistress had her use one of her Summer's Eve douches and then take a bath. Sissy finally felt relaxed and clean.
Mistress says she enjoyed helping sissy with her period and wonders if next months will be as difficult as this one. Sissy certainly hopes not. Mistress also mentioned that She wants sissy to be more involved with her own period when it starts in two weeks.
Respectfully submitted, renae


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The Tommy Hilfiger x Gigi Hadid Fall 2017 is a rebellious take on '90s heritage. It's the brand's vision of modern Americana where youth culture and grunge meet prep. Think tradition with a street style twist, statement-making tartans, unexpected proportions and salutes to athletic and skate. Welcome to the ROCKCIRCUS.
"Gigi and I wanted to make this season feel glamorous and a little bit daring, and we really had fun with the designs. I've always believed Gigi to be a fashion icon, and with this third capsule collection, she blurs the boundaries between fashion and rock-and-roll," Hilfiger says in a statement.
The capsule, which features women's sportswear, footwear, and accessories— including watches and sunglasses— premiered during the designer's see-now-buy-now runway show during London Fashion Week.
The offering features a selection of need-it-now pieces that take inspiration from the '90's Rock'n'Roll style and plays with oversized proportions, high-shine leathers, denim, and flannel.
"Collaborating with Tommy has been a great introduction to the world of design, and has also taught me about expressing my individuality and finding inspiration in everything around me," says Hadid, of working with the designer for three consecutive seasons. "As with our previous two capsules I stayed true to my personal style, blending my personal twist with the brand's DNA into every piece of the collection."
Shop the interactive lookbook as you hover over the items of interest and review the details to purchase online.


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In the first month of Barack Obama's second year in the White House, Fox News highlighted a controversy: a photograph showed his feet on the historic Resolute Desk.
"Is President Obama disrespecting the Oval Office?" the Fox website asked.
In the first month of Donald Trump's second year, he has called for the imprisonment of political opponents and taunted North Korea's nuclear-armed leader with threats of annihilation. In a new book informed by extensive White House access, top officials described the president with words like "crazy" and "stupid," depicting Trump as an immature 71-year-old incapable of maintaining attention long enough to process new information or even conduct a serious conversation.
The contrast underscores two things at once: the triviality of attacks on how Obama handled his presidential duties and the gravity of questions about Trump's fitness to handle them now. The latter poses a growing threat for Republicans who seek to maintain their majority in Congress in the 2018 elections while shielding an unpopular president from accountability.
Throughout 2017, Trump's behavior as president was the dominant national story, not much of which has flattered him or his party.
Most Americans disapprove of his job performance, and the tax cut that provided his sole major legislative accomplishment. Trump's alienation of big chunks of the electorate — notably college-educated whites, women and young voters — fueled striking Democratic victories last fall in Virginia and Alabama.


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Plodding OnI can't even imagine how hard it is to think about how to get through this day in Buloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans or one of the other hundreds of communities that endured Katrina. I can pray that God will give them the things they need to physically survive and the mental strenght to keep going. My friend is somewhere in Mississippi working with the Red Cross and trying to help survirors put their lives back together. Please, God, bless all the efforts to aid them.
Several friends and family members are expereincing unsettled times. Please, God, give them the strenght to plod on and know that you can make the unfolding events turn out good even though things look scary right now. Help me to know that and not just type idle words.


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Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles use an electric motor to drive the gearbox and wheels in a car, instead of using a gasoline motor. The electric motor is a tightly wrapped coil of wire that spins inside a magnetic casing. When electricity runs through the coil, it generates power to move the axle to drive the car's wheels and power other vehicle functions. The cars have large batteries instead of gas tanks to store power, so they need to be plugged in to a power source to be charged. Some electric vehicles are charged at home, but more cities now have public and private parking for electric vehicles to provide owners a place to charge their vehicle. The Saint Paul RiverCentre Parking Ramp features 8 electric car charging stations on the plaza level of the ramp. These charging stations offer simple, safe and convenient access to electricity, partially sourced by the onsite solar PV installation. So these vehicle owners are avoiding fossil fuels from gasoline engines and can use even less fossil fuels by plugging in to a solar charging station.
Where can I find electric vehicles?
In the Eco-District, you will find eight car charging stations at the Saint Paul RiverCentre Parking Ramp. Additional Saint Paul charging stations can be found at https://www.stpaul.gov/news/ev-charging-stations.


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This family from Akron, Oh is absolutely adorable. I was so excited to get to photograph yet another one of their precious and might I say adorable baby girls. Little Miss M was so sleepy we knocked this session out in one hour flat including adorable sister shots. We kept the shoot simple with only a few setups and I loved how this session turned out. Here are some of my favorites..
My absolute favorite!She flashed us some big smiles. Happy Girl.Oh those rolls….Purple is definitely her color.Sibling shots at newborn sessions are my FAVORITE. I know parents sometimes dread this part of the shoot, but I find as long as I explain to the kiddos exactly what we are going to do, show them, then do it they listen like rock stars.
If you are interested in a newborn session click HERE for more info


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Ions vs Electrons
There are many differences between electrons and ions; size, charge, and nature are some of them. Electrons are negatively charged micro particles and ions are either negatively or positively charged molecules or atoms. Properties of electrons are explained using "quantum mechanics." But properties of ions can be explained using general chemistry. Electron (symbol: β- or ℮-) is a sub-atomic particle, and it does not have sub-particles or sub-structures. But, ions can have even more complex structures with sub-components.
What is an Electron?
Electron was first discovered by J.J. Thompson in 1906 while he was working with cathode rays that are called electron beams. He found that electrons are negatively charged micro particles. He used to call them "corpuscles." Moreover, he found that the electron is an element of the atom and it is over 1000 times smaller than the Hydrogen atom. The size of the electron is approximately 1/1836 of a proton.
According to the Bohr's theory, electrons orbit around the nucleus. But later, as a result of scientific experiments, it was found that electrons behave more like electromagnetic waves than orbiting particles.
What is an Ion?
As said before, ions are either negatively or positively charged molecules or atoms. Both atoms and molecules can form ions by accepting or removing electrons. They gain positive charge (K+, Ca2+, Al3+) by removing electrons and gain negative charge (Cl–, S2-, AlO3–) by accepting electrons. When an ion is formed, the number of electrons is not equal to the number of protons. However, it does not change the number of protons in the atom/molecule. The gain or loss of one or more electrons has a significant effect on the physical and chemical properties of the parental atom/molecule.
What is the difference between Electrons and Ions?
• Electric Charge:
• Electrons are considered as negatively charged elementary particles but can be either positive or negative.
• Ions with a positive charge are called "positive ions" and similarly ions with a negative charge are called "negative ions." Ions are formed by accepting or donating electron(s).
– Examples of positive ions: Na+, Ca2+, Al3+, Pb4+, NH4+
— Examples of negative ions: Cl–, S2-, AlO3–
• Size:
• Electrons are extremely smaller particles compared to the ions.
• The size of ions varies depending on several factors.
• The size of an electron is a fixed value; it is about 1/1836 of a proton.
• Atomic Structure:
• Electrons are not polyatomic or monatomic. Electrons do not combine with each other to form compounds.
• Ions can be polyatomic or monatomic; monatomic ions contain only one atom whereas polyatomic ions contain more than one atom.
– Monatomic ions: Na+, Ca2+, Al3+, Pb4+
– Polyatomic ions: ClO3–, SO43-
• Particles:
• Electrons are micro particles and possess wave-particle properties (Wave-particle duality).
• Ions are considered as particles only.
• Elements:
• Electrons are considered as elemental particles. In other words, electrons cannot be divided into smaller components or substructures.
• All the ions have sub-components. For example, polyatomic ions contain various atoms; atoms can be further sub-divided into neutrons, protons, electrons, etc.
• Properties:
• All electrons have the similar wave-particle properties, which can be explained using quantum mechanics.
• Chemical and physical properties of ions vary from ion to ion. In other words, different ions have different chemical and physical properties.
Images Courtesy:
- Pair production by Davidhorman (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- An electrostatic potential map of the nitrate ion (NO3−) via Wikicommons (Public Domain)


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Bupa is a private international healthcare group serving more than 14 million customers in over 190 countries. Their services include health insurance and other funding products, hospitals and primary care centres, chronic disease management, home healthcare, dental centres, prevention and workplace health, and care services, including residential and nursing homes and retirement villages.
How to maintain the corporate standards across a diverse business?
Bupa's business is complex, catering for different target audiences with different needs. Their central marketing division faced the challenge of maintaining corporate standards while making sure all divisions were cohesive under the global brand.
When Sue Taylor joined Bupa as Marketing Operations Manager, she soon realised there was a need to standardise processes and coordinate all campaigns centrally. Marketing literature was approved mainly via emails, and it wasn't unusual for an item to circulate 20 - 30 times before it was signed off, often many months later.
The solution to Bupa's problems?
Having previously worked for Co-operative Financial Services, using bethebrand to streamline and manage the delivery of all marketing campaigns and key assets, Sue already had proven results to convince Bupa's management to run a six month pilot scheme to test bethebrand.
bethebrand was first deployed within the Health Funding division and used to manage the process of briefing, creating, approving and storing all marketing literature.
Immediate results
Bupa recognised the benefits of bethebrand straight away. With the online document review functionality, approvers could see each others comments immediately upon being posted. This resulted in dealing with conflicting views earlier in the process, thus eliminating bottlenecks and ensuring quicker resolution of all issues.
Previously, campaigns were often placed on hold when a project manager was out of the office or on annual leave. With bethebrand, these activities can be quickly re-assigned without delays in the process. All campaign activity is stored in one place and the assigned project manager can easily pick up the work without the worry of processes, comments or documents going missing.
Thanks to bethebrand, Bupa's marketing teams now work transparently, following a structured workflow. Managers can quickly see each campaign's progress, their team's workload and identify any unfinished tasks. The reporting capability also highlights bottlenecks, which results in greater efficiencies as processes continuously evolve and improve.
Full speed ahead
The pilot was deemed a success. Bupa fully deployed bethebrand in the Health Funding division and then quickly rolled out the system to the Care Homes group - over 300 care homes with more than 18,000 residents. The main drive for adopting bethebrand into the division was its ability to easily and quickly create marketing materials from pre-designed and pre-approved templates.
Care home managers sign into bethebrand and create print ready PDFs using their own images and copy within minutes, cutting design time and artwork costs significantly. All collateral is approved through bethebrand prior to release to ensure brand consistency and a high quality of work.
The future
The ability to segment the system, so each business area can configure and manage their own workflows and management information was one of the key reasons for selecting be the brand experience as a partner.
Sue Taylor concludes: "I was pleased to see that the new Marketing Management System (as Bupa calls bethebrand) has revolutionised marketing at Bupa. We could see its benefits straight away. It has helped streamline and standardise the way in which marketing collateral is created and taken through Compliance approval. On seeing the benefits, other business areas are keen to adopt bethebrand and the intention is to roll it out across the UK business units as quickly as possible."
If you would like to find out more information about Bupa UK, then please visit the Bupa UK Website
"On seeing the benefits, other business areas are keen to adopt bethebrand and the intention is to roll it out across the UK business units as quickly as possible." Sue Taylor Marketing Operations Manager


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Take a Glance at Some South African Stance
CapeStance specializes in showcasing South African stance in Cape Town, including this bagged and gleaming S2000 project.
Honda's S2000 has found it's way into the heart of many subcultures. The South African stance scene is no exception. If stance is your thing, there are some real beauties. This 2005 AP2 is sitting on a custom built air kit using UAS bags over BC Coilovers.
For the shiny bits, the car has been lovingly given a full respray in Ferrari Red. The owner originally rocked some white 18″ Varrstoen E52's. However, when he wanted something different, he had trouble finding something else due to the offset and pitch circle diameter measurements. Eventually he settled on a set of SSR Professor SP1 wheels.
As you can see in the video, the fitment is tight and CapeStance can pick out a good tune. We're just not sure about using spiked lug nuts with that slick, almost understated, style.
Want to know more about this bagged S2K? Check out this profile feature, right here.


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פסח שמח Peshach Samech my lovlies! Pesach is going to be here in less then an hour and I just wanted to stop by and say Chag Samech! All the preparations are almost done, the sidar plates are ready, the chickens done and looks amazing!, the tables are set up, salads made, the charosets done, hopefully thete will be some left for tonight! Trying to keep my hands out of it! And 'sourie wowie' (my sourdough starters nickname) is all stored and put away in the fridge. Hopefully we will be ready, still need to take a shower and set the table, so I gotta go(:
I love Pesach! I love celabrating being free! We are sons and duaghters of the king of light! We are trully free. How above and beyond fortanate are we?!
Love you all! Have an amazing Pesach!


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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was released from Yerawada Central Jail in Pune on the morning of 25 February at the end of his 42-month prison term - after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case for illegal possession of arms.
Dutt had already served 18 months as an undertrial and then returned to jail in May 2013 to serve the remaining 42 months of his sentence.
His wife Manyata, and their children, the actor's sister and former MP Priya Dutt and her family, Bollywood director Rajkumar Hirani and a large crowd of fans and media personnel thronged the gates of Yerawada jail to receive the actor - amid tight security.
Shortly after he walked out, the actor was driven to Pune airport from where he boarded a chartered plane to Mumbai.
Once in Mumbai, he will head to the famed Siddhi Vinayak temple to offer prayers. He is then scheduled to visit the Bada Kabrastan in Marine Lines to pray at the grave of his mother, the late actor Nargis Dutt.
He is scheduled to interact with the media later in the day.
-- With inputs from IANS


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Reviewed by
Christopher Armstead
Super Scientist James Mayfield is observing the rare occurrence of some meteor flashing past the earth when, without warning, a big chunk of this meteor makes a sudden right turn and collides with the earth. Oddly enough the meteor wasn't big enough to cause one of those Ice Age style blackout situations but it was big enough to slightly knock the earth off its rotation. Now our World Coming to an End disaster movie 'Polar Storm' has its launching point that will lead it into abject and total tedium. Simply Outstanding.
While James is in Alaska running for his life from the backlash of the meteor he was scientifically observing, back home his brand new hot wife Cynthia (Holly Dingard) is trying to deal with obnoxious bratty teenaged son Shane (Tyler Johnston). This whole plot point doesn't have much to do with anything but it does take up some time. Shane has other problems he's dealing with such as a father he feels is neglecting him for his work and his new hot wife, an asshole at school who is giving him problems and the pretty girl who is with the asshole that he wants for himself.
Then the weird stuff starts happening, like people talking on their cell phones and getting their brains fried. That is plenty weird but The President (Roger Cross), despite a plethora of these strange events and the fact that this comet took out a couple thousands of his citizenry, has calmly assured the populace it's all good. Doctor Mayfield however thinks the president is an idiot and is blowing smoke up our collective asses. Doctor Mayfield knows that something is terribly wrong with the polar alignment of our planet and that if this continues at the rate it is going, life as we know it will end and he wants The President to tell The People as much. Yeah, that's a much better idea.
In addition to people with Bluetooth headsets getting their brains fried, which isn't all that bad a thing truth be told, there is all kinds of catastrophic seismic activity going down and most vehicles have all stopped working but the Gub-Ment is still trying to
cover it up. The Prez, as it turns out, is simply
going by the faulty info that he has been given and
now he needs his Chief of Staff, General Mayfield
(Terry David Mulligan), Dr. Mayfield's estranged
father, to bring his son on board to fix the shifting
polar caps before we all drown to death. How exactly
are they going to pull this off? Well if you watch
these World Coming to an End Disaster movies like I
watch these movies you can best bet that Nukes will be
involved. Somehow... Some way.
As a professional bad movie watcher you will find various films of the director of this movie, Paul Ziller, littered throughout this website. Some of Mister Ziller's films that we have seen are pretty damn bad, such as 'Ba'al: the Storm God' and then there are those that weren't so bad at all such as the horror comedy 'Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon' or the stupidly entertaining 'Sea Beast' and don't get us started on the mini-classic that is Android Apocalypse. This movie 'Polar Storm' isn't as bad 'Ba'al: The Storm God' but falls more in line with another Ziller creature feature in 'Swarmed' considering both films are slow moving and lackluster. This film has the added bonus of some seriously suspect science to go along with the tedious boredom it delivers which some lovers of bad science out there just might find entertaining.
For instance, to get the earth back on its proper axis rotation the powers that be have decided we need a bunch of fifty megaton atomic bombs to make this happen, and it needs to be done beneath the sea. Interestingly enough they've loaded these bombs on an airplane with the full knowledge that these 'EM Waves' have been short circuiting anything that has electronics in it. Note how the plane self-destructs when hit by these waves. Now I'm no man of science but four fifty megaton atomic bombs detonating in the atmosphere can't be a good thing, but what the hell would I know. It's actually kind of cool because in lieu of an actual script it they seemed they were making up the fake science as they went along.
Roger Cross should be proud as he follows an impressive list Black presidents; Morgan Freeman in 'Deep Impact', Danny Glover in '2012', Tiny Lister in 'The Fifth Element' and Terry Crews in 'Idiocracy'. Of course they all of one thing in common… the world is ending on their watch. Outstanding.
The performances were functional as Jack Coleman made for a good hostile man of science, basically playing an extension of the dude he plays on heroes, Roger Cross came off as sternly presidential, Holly Dingard has a mighty fine set of hips on her and a special shout out to actress Marsha Regis who did bang up work as Pam, Dr. Mayfield's lifeline of critical bad science info at the control station and I believe she was the only person in this movie that he didn't yell at.
The science is absurd, the pace is slow, the special effects are low and the story is bland so there it is. It is clear to us that making a disaster feature where the main villain is basically a bunch of crooked lines on a computer screen just doesn't work all that well.


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Some of the people around here have come up with a great little tradition of seeing a new movie on Sunday nights at the theater in Shinsaegae (department store/mall in Suji). I went for the first time this past Sunday and we ended up seeing The Kingdom - a movie with Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Cooper that came out in the states a few months ago, but had just recently made its way over to Korea. They don't seem to have many English speaking movies here, but the Korean movies aren't that bad. I recently watched one about a Korean serial killer true life story that was very well done. And more often than not the movies that are in English here, are generally months after they came out at home - case in point - Black Dahlia was playing here last week and that came out a year ago at home.
It was your average movie going experience - except better. When you buy your tickets (for 7 or 8,000W) you pick your seats, almost as if you were buying tickets to a concert or a sporting event. They even come out looking like event type tickets too:
(on top is a ticket I had randomly in my wallet from when I saw Harry Potter in New York, and the bottom is from Shinsaegae)
So a big group of westerners walk up to the counter and just kind of point to what seats they want. They print out a ticket with your seat number and you can be on your way. The concession stands seem to be exactly the same - big sizes, semi-expensive prices, sodas and candies and nachos.
The theater itself was pretty cool... big stadium style chairs that are absurdly comfortable with big arm rests and the screens are as big as the ones I used to watch in Times Square - and excellent quality surround sound too. I'm sure there are some smaller theaters and some run down ones too, but the one I saw was a pleasant experience. I opted out of going to see something tonight, but I'll be back.


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The Kane Shield is back for 2018……..
It's just about time to dust off those swim suits as the 2018 Kane Shield fast approaches. A not to be missed iconic Kaiapoi event. Get your team together and lock the date in your diary for this fun night of good healthy competition. Monday 27th August at the Kaiapoi Aquatic Centre. Doors open at 5.30pm with the first race commencing at 6.15pm sharp. Gold coin entry per person. Raffles available to purchase on the night.
We encourage early registration, however late registrations will be accepted on the night until 5.45pm.
You Me We Us would like to recognise and thank the Kaiapoi Aquatic Centre for their help and support with this great community event.


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Designed to take the hard work out of tank cleaning, the garnet removal system collects used abrasive from the cutting stream via a tray fitted to the bottom of the Waterjet tank.
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The abrasive settles inside the bag while the water is returned to the Waterjet tank.
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Benefits include:
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Bogue Sentence Examples
- He put himself under the tuition of David Bogue of Gosport and carried away deep impressions from his academy.
- The London Hibernian Society asked him to accompany Dr David Bogue, the Rev. Joseph Hughes, and Samuel Mills to Ireland in August 1807, to report on the state of Protestant religion in the country.
- The chief movers in the enterprise were the Congregationalist, David Bogue of Gosport, and the Episcopalian, Thomas Haweis, rector of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire.
- DAVID BOGUE (1750-1825), British nonconformist divine, was born in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire.
- Bogue himself would have gone to India in 1796 but for the opposition of the East India Company.


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SDG provided consulting architect services, teaming with TMP Architects for the new addition to Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School in Detroit. The new addition – part of a $500M Detroit Public Schools bond program – replaced most of the educational facility and preserved the state-of-the art auditorium wing previously designed by SDG in 1980.
In March 2013, the project received LEED ® Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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American Agri-Women is the nation's largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women with more than fifty state, commodity and agribusiness affiliate organizations throughout the country. AAW members have been advocating for agriculture since 1974.
American Agri-Women was founded by four state women's agriculture groups which had formed: Women for the Survival of Agriculture in Michigan; Wisconsin Women for Agriculture; Oregon Women for Agriculture; and the Washington Women for the Survival of Agriculture. Kansas Agri-Women (then United Farm Wives of Kansas) and Illinois Agri-Women (then Illinois Women for Agriculture) joined soon thereafter.
Today, AAW has 50 state and commodity affiliate organizations as well as individual members throughout the country, representing tens of thousands of women involved in agriculture. Throughout the history of AAW, our members have been actively involved and making a difference in legislative and regulatory matters at the local, state, and national levels. They have also been instrumental in student and consumer education about agriculture, having initiated the Agriculture in the Classroom program at the national level are integrally involved in national and state programs still today.
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The Undertaker's WrestleMania Return Was Awesome…But Now He Needs to Retire for Real
- Posted on: April 9, 2018
- By: Matt Fowler
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A bit of business up front: If you haven't already, check out my full WrestleMania 34 live blog, results, and reaction piece-o-rama right here!
For people looking for more of an overall review statement, I thought 'Mania 34 was quite amazing. One of the most entertaining 'Manias in a while. I have severely mixed feelings about Asuka losing, but I'd much prefer it this way than her losing to Rousey. Or
Carmella, which I wouldn't put past them. The fact that it was a stellar match, maybe the best of the night, helped a great deal.
But I'm not here to mark out over Asuka though. I'm here to prattle off some feelings about the Undertaker's big return. Back in the first week of January, I wrote about why I felt Undertaker vs. Cena needed to happen. I needed closure. I wanted to have us all know, ahead of time, that we'd be seeing the Deadman's final appearance. He couldn't just lose to Roman and then hang up, or neatly set down, his garb and surprise us with a final bow.


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This could just be a rumor, but cartoon news site, Nick and More, has a pretty good reputation of being spot on with what they report. Any ways, they are reporting that Cartoon Network has pulled new episodes of Beware the Batman. I thought something weird was going on since it disappeared from the schedule, but then again, cartoons these days seem to take weird mid-season breaks without any kind of warning.
Now this isn't the first time Carton Network has pulled the cord on a DC Nation series, they killed off Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice earlier this year. I hope there is a good reason for Beware the Batman being pulled and we'll see it return soon, the show was really starting to grow on me. (Source: Twitter)
"@AlexionMariano: Hey! I heard today that Beware was pulled from CN and that this week the new episode wont air? new in January. Sorry
— Anthony Ruivivar (@AnthonyRuivivar) October 22, 2013


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Briggs Creek below Alma College
25 bedrock mortars, 8 cupules/anvils
Elevation 795 ft.
In Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve.
Acess currently requires a permit. See Bear Creek Redwoods permits for details.
Joel's research led us out here, but we were darn lucky to find this cool site.
Looking down at the site.
Getting closer to the main kitchen rock.
This is one of the most beautiful mortar rocks we've ever seen.
A closer look at some of the mortars and anvils on the main kitchen rock. Note the variety of sizes and shapes.
Photographs by Bob Bardell
Check out this video by Alexander Kerekes of several sites in the Santa Cruz Mountains including Briggs Creek below Alma College.


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Six pack theory
Every man wants that every woman finds it attractive. The six pack. The six pack abs. But what must happen, so that the racoon abdomen becomes to six pack abs?
This is determined by 3 factors. The genetics, the size of the muscles and the body fat content.
1. The Genetics
Not every six-pack looks the same. In some people, you can rather speak about a four-pack, because on the lower abs shape is simply not enough. Likewise, there is also, though rarely, the eight-pack. Then the lower abs divided once again. Genetics also determines if the Pack is balanced, so that the left side looks exactly like the right. It can also be that a sides looks completely different. Also the photo here in the post shows a slightly unbalanced abdominal muscles.
2. The Body Fat Content
So all the muscles come to the fore, the layer above the muscles, of course, not very thick. What is fat meant.
Only with a relatively low body fat content you will get your six-pack. In men, however, is in the abdominal area tends to be more fat there and it is also the place where it is taken in a diet until the very end. This is also genetically different from person to person.
With some it is the six pack from just 15% KFA (body fat percentage) is visible, in others only at 8%. I would set a benchmark of 10%.
3. The size of the abdominal muscles
A six-pack can only stand out, and of course, if the muscles are trained. Remember: The fitter and more are the abdominal muscles, the greater may be the fat content, so that one can speak of a six-pack.
Conclusion: Since you can not change anything in his genetics, it is important to focus on the remaining 2 factors. That is to train well and reduce the fat content.
How do I train my abdomen?
First of all, we need to understand what not to do: 1000 situps every day.
The abdominal muscle is a muscle just like everyone else. Therefore, it must also be trained as biceps, chest or back and just does not follow the principle of more is more. It is completely unnecessary and counter-productive to train the abdomen more than 2 to 3 times a week. It is important to set a short stimulus. 8 to 10 minutes abdominal workout are perfectly adequate.
What exercises are recommended?
Principle: More free exercises as exercises on the machine. In my opinion, if forcing the body trained in abdominal Machines into an unnatural posture, the body in the long term more harm than good.
Crunches, leg raises, reverse crunches, etc. are the classic of the abdominal exercises.
A workout might look like this:
Crunches 2 x 8 to 12 reps (repetitions)
2 x 8 to 12 reps Leg Raises
2 x 8 to 12 reps reverse crunches
Should I use extra weight?
One can, but need not. Studies have shown that the additional weight of more than 20% of body weight brings no significant advantages. So okay to 20%, everything about it is nonsense.


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Starch Industry
EPCON has long experience in energy efficient evaporation within the starch industry.
EPCON has long experience in energy efficient evaporation within the starch industry.
Evaporation of potato fruit juice.
During production of potato starch it is essential that all equipment is available for production during the campaign.
After grating, the fruit juice is evaporated to recover nutrients and to minimize storage and transportation cost.
In recent years there have been more and more restrictions to the use of fruit juice directly on the fields.
EPCON has experience with evaporation of both native fruit juice, and fruit juice where proteins are separated up front.
Evaporation of steep liquid.
When producing sweeteners from grain or corn, evaporation is required of the steep liquid (for instance CSL and BSL).
This liquid has to be evaporated at low temperature to avoid coagulation of proteins.
EPCON deliveres evaporators for steep liquid from both grain and corn.


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