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Risk, uncertainty, and complexity are challenges common to enterprises across many different industries. Milliman has developed universally applicable techniques for analyzing organizational structures and processes that can reveal and mitigate the financial implications of risk factors and can help any organization to become more resilient.
In this short film, Milliman principals and consultants Neil Cantle, Paola Luraschi, Stephen Conwill, Laurens Roodbol, and Joshua Corrigan discuss how Milliman's breadth of expertise spread across the globe can guide organizations on their enterprise risk management (ERM) journey, from creating an enterprise risk management framework to implementing recommendations, organizing the compliance function, and creating reporting tools.
Stephen Batstone and James Moulder, co-founders of Reunion Asia Pacific, a specialist energy consultancy firm allied with Milliman in the Asia Pacific region, comment on the role of bias and culture, the cost of inefficiencies, the need for better tools, and Milliman's unique expertise in modeling uncertainty and complex systems.
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Neil Cantle (Principal, Milliman): Enterprise risk should really be seen as a journey. I think there's a lot to be gained from taking small steps as well as reaching the final goal. You need to think about making progress towards understanding uncertainty better, controlling your business better, and doing all of those things over a period of time.
Paola Luraschi (Principal, Milliman): The key element is to analyze your business, your processes, the way you are trying to reach the goals of your business, and to try to understand what the factors are that can drive you in a different direction.
Stephen Conwill (Principal, Milliman): So the contribution Milliman has made has been to develop techniques that look at the organization and make sure the organization is resilient, so even though an organization cannot quantify risk, they can still be prepared for it and respond to it.
Stephen Batstone (Co-founder Asia Pacific Reunion): It's a really powerful thing to have someone reflect back to you that the behavior of the market or the behavior of a company is not actually what you thought it was. And that goes to show that the role that biases or perceptions in behavior and culture plays on a whole lot of decisions sometimes does need a bit of quantification and assessment.
Laurens Roodbol (Principal, Milliman): So we are not just doing strategic consultancy or general consultancy. We can help you with implementing; we can help you with organizing the compliance function; we can help you with creating reporting tools.
Joshua Corrigan (Principal, Milliman): Risk and understanding risk is really the common language across a number of organizations and across a number of industries, so those concepts and management approaches are readily transferable from one sector to the other.
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Stephen Conwill: The key point for Milliman is that the techniques that we're developing now are really related to organizational structure and therefore they are transferable from one organization to the next.
Neil Cantle: So one of the interesting things we found moving outside of our traditional sectors is that uncertainty looks pretty much the same wherever it is, and so applying the tools and techniques we've developed in energy or in agriculture or mining, it's exactly the same type of process from our perspective.
Laurens Roodbol: By creating proper performance measurements and risk management, oil companies, the energy sector, these are all markets which we can serve from this perspective, in fact, by doing exactly the same what you're doing for an insurance company. The technical risks are different. But all the economic risks are more or less the same.
Joshua Corrigan: And so being able to understand the dynamics and being able to understand the financial consequences and subsequently being able to mitigate those financial consequences, that is a core part of an organization's risk management program and framework.
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James Moulder (Co-founder Asia Pacific Reunion): At the end of the day any inefficacy in any system is a cost to somebody whether it be priced inefficiencies whereby consumers pay higher costs or externalities like pollution carbon pollution that aren't taken account of. They are things that make society generally weaker. So if we can develop better tools, put them in the hands of the people that are actually running the assets that provide the services that we need today, and one would argue we'll need a lot more of as time goes on, then we're doing a good job.
Joshua Corrigan: There's now a broad understanding at the most senior levels, at the board and at the executive level, as to the value that a properly formatted enterprise risk framework and process can deliver to the organization.
Stephen Batstone: We see a big difference between Milliman and the other management consulting firms we could work with. There is a breadth of expertise spread across the globe that it seems so easy to tap into that I haven't seen before with other big consulting firms. But also when it comes to uncertainty and complex systems, the guys at Milliman tend to live and breathe this stuff every day.
Neil Cantle: I think it is exciting for a lot of Milliman consultants to see that journey from traditional actuarial consulting all the way through to developing thought leadership in healthcare and pensions and now even beyond into energy and mining and other sectors. A lot of that really comes down to the core skills in understanding uncertainty, developing the very best of tools and techniques in helping clients get to grips with that, and then explaining it in a way that they understand.


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KONYA, the medieval Selçuk capital, is a place of pilgrimage for the whole Muslim world, and a city that holds pride of place in the hearts of all pious Turks. This was the adopted home of Celaleddin Rumi, better known as the Mevlâna (Our Master), the Sufic mystic who founded the whirling dervish sect, the Mevlevî; his writings helped reshape Islamic thought and modified the popular Islamic culture of Turkey.
Konya has a reputation as one of the country's most religious and thus conservative cities (while simultaneously holding the title as the single greatest consumer of raki in the nation). That said, most visitors are surprised by its modern and bustling city centre, with monumental landmarks sandwiched between trendy fashion stores and towering flat blocks.
Turkey's seventh-largest city is surrounded by some exceptionally fertile countryside; the region is known locally as "the breadbasket of Turkey". Its many parks – in particular, the central hillock of Alâeddin Parkı – add a splash of green to the ubiquitous light-coloured stone.
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Konya's history is as long and spectacular as that of any Turkish city. The earliest remains discovered date from the seventh millennium BC, and the acropolis was inhabited successively by Hittites, Phrygians, Romans and Greeks. St Paul and St Barnabas both delivered sermons here after they had been expelled from Antioch, and in 235 AD, one of the earliest Church councils was convened in the city – known then, under the Byzantines, as Iconium.
It also took a central role during the era of the western Selçuks, becoming the seat of the Sultanate of Rum. After they had defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, the Selçuks attempted to set up a court in İznik, just across the Sea of Marmara from İstanbul. They were expelled from there by the combined Byzantine and Crusader armies, but still ruled most of eastern and central Asia Minor until the early fourteenth century.
While the concept of a fixed capital was initially somewhat alien to the Selçuks, Konya became the home of their sultans from the time of Süleyman Ibn Kutulmuz, successor to Alparslan, the victor at Manzikert. Alâeddin Keykubad, the most distinguished of all Selçuk sultans, established a court of artists and scholars in Konya early in the thirteenth century, and his patronage was highly beneficial to the development of the arts and philosophy. Many of the buildings constructed at this time are still standing, and examples of their highly distinctive tile-work, woodcarving, carpet making and masonry are on display in local museums.
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Expedition Three Commander Frank Culbertson and Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov completed the external outfitting of the Pirs Docking Compartment on the International Space Station (ISS) this evening, conducting a 5 hour, 4 minute spacewalk outside the orbital outpost.
Culbertson, making his first spacewalk, and Dezhurov, completing his third spacewalk of this Expedition and his eighth overall, opened the hatch on the Pirs compartment at 3:41 p.m. CST (21:41 GMT) and went right to work, successfully hooking up seven telemetry cables between Pirs and the Zvezda Service Module to complete the installation of the Kurs automated rendezvous system, which will be used to guide approaching Russian vehicles for docking to the Pirs in the future. Pirs serves as both a docking port and an airlock for spacewalks out of the Russian segment of the ISS.
Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, who conducted two previous spacewalks in October with Dezhurov, monitored tonight's activities from inside the ISS and operated the Canadarm2 robotic arm, providing television views for flight controllers in Houston and Moscow and lighting for the spacewalkers as they conducted their tasks.
Standing in foot restraints on the Zvezda, Culbertson and Dezhurov also conducted an inspection of a solar array panel on the service module which failed to deploy properly during its launch on July 12, 2000. The stuck panel has had no impact on station operations or the electrical capability of the Russian segment. Culbertson snapped a number of pictures of the array for analysis by Russian engineers.
Culbertson and Dezhurov wrapped up the spacewalk by testing the capability of the newly installed Russian Strela cargo crane, which was attached to Pirs back on October 8. They used a crank to extend the Strela to its fully extended length of some 30 feet, then raised and lowered the crane from an operator's post at the base of the boom. Strela will be used to maneuver cosmonauts and cargo around the Russian modules of the ISS during future spacewalks.
Finally, the spacewalkers reentered Pirs and closed the hatch at 8:45 p.m. CST (2:45 GMT Tuesday) to complete the 29th spacewalk in support of ISS assembly and the fifth conducted from the station itself. In all, ISS assembly spacewalk activity has now spanned 183 hours and 18 minutes.
The crewmembers plan to relax on Tuesday before resuming a busy schedule Wednesday as they start to pack up all of their gear for their return to Earth in December on the shuttle Endeavour at the conclusion of the STS-108 mission, which will bring their replacements, the Expedition Four crew, to the ISS.
Science work aboard the station will resume this week as well following tonight's spacewalk. Oversight of ISS science investigations is the responsibility of the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The Human Research Facility is managed by the Johnson Space Center. Details on ISS science operations can be found on the Web at: http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov
With systems operating normally, the station is orbiting at an average altitude of 247 statute miles (395 km). For additional information on station activities, including sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, visit the Web at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
The next ISS status report will be issued on Wednesday, November 14, or earlier, if events warrant.
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Why spend mere hundreds of dollars on a fancy flight stick for your flight simulator needs when you can spend thousands on Saitek's Procedure Trainer, an insane collection of instrument panels, yokes and rudder pedals?
Mad Catz is showcasing the latest, impressively expensive Pro Flight controller set up from Saitek at CES 2011, a staggering pile of panels, switches and controllers that demands 18 USB ports and costs a cool $5,000 USD. The whole rig, as seen here, supports two flight yokes, up to 10 LCD instrument panels, two radio panels, a backlit information panel, rudder pedals and more for the ultimate in flight simulation at home.
Not included in that $5,000 fee is a TV or PC, however, so dig a little deeper.
Mad Catz's Alex Verrey walks us through the features of the Procedure Trainer while Nicki Repenning lands a Cessna at Las Vegas' McCarran Airport in Flight Simulator X.


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Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom
To cut costs and try to adapt to a changing media marketplace, The Chronicle will trim 25 percent of its newsroom staff by the end of the summer.
"This is one of the biggest one-time hits we've heard about anywhere in the country," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in Washington.
Eighty reporters, photographers, copy editors and others, as well as 20 employees in management positions are expected to be laid off by end of the summer. Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega said Friday that voluntary buyouts are likely to be offered.
Vega declined to say whether the paper is continuing to lose $1 million a week, as Hearst attorney Daniel Wall stated in court in November during a hearing on an antitrust suit filed by San Francisco businessman Clint Reilly.
"We're not getting into any specifics at this point," Vega said. "It's fairly common knowledge that we have had a tough financial row here for several years. As we continue to evaluate our situation, unfortunately continued belt-tightening is necessary."
Some of The Chronicle's production and other non-news departments have been reduced during the past few years, but until now the newsroom has been spared deep cuts.
Analysts predicted the reductions at The Chronicle could have repercussions for readers. While an increasing number of people get news from online aggregators such as Google News and Yahoo, those stories are most often originally reported by print journalists.
"That's not just trimming fat, that's an amputation. That's losing a limb," said Rosenstiel, who grew up in the Bay Area.
He said the effect, even for people who don't read the paper, "is that 25 percent of what goes on in the Bay Area won't be covered. It will happen in the dark. ... Our research shows that there is a lot of information that appears in a daily newspaper that doesn't get covered by TV stations or citizen journalists or bloggers when a newspaper's staff is cut."
With all the free online places to find information, analysts say, it's a great time to be a consumer of news, but a lousy time to be selling a print publication.
While The Chronicle isn't subject to the same quarterly profit pressures from Wall Street investors as publicly held publications -- the paper is owned by the privately held Hearst Corp. -- it is on the precipice of changes in the news business, largely because of its location.
"We're here in the birthplace of (the free online classified site) Craigslist and in the cradle of Silicon Valley, where everyone is wired," said Peter Appert, a media analyst at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco.
Historically, Rosenstiel said, the paper has been hurt by its inability to penetrate its marketplace as much as other major metropolitan papers.
Until Hearst bought The Chronicle in 2000, readers may have been turned off by the paper, Rosenstiel said. "It was underserving its marketplace. That's changed, and it's a lot better now," he said. "But Hearst bought it in 2000, which was a very difficult time to buy a newspaper."
Vega said the layoffs have nothing to do with the cost of Hearst's purchase of The Chronicle seven years ago, nor has the paper felt any impact from the recent purchase of the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times by MediaNews, which gave the Denver corporation control of most other large daily papers in the Bay Area.
Instead, Vega said, the layoffs reflect that revenue from advertising and other sources isn't keeping pace with the cost of running the paper.
But most newspapers are still making money, analysts said, albeit not the average 20 percent profit margins they once enjoyed. In most major cities, Appert said, newspapers are still operating as a monopoly business at a time of myriad competition.
While times may be tough now, "not many papers are losing money," said John Murray, vice president of circulation marketing for the Newspaper Association of America.
Despite possessing one of the nation's most widely read newspaper Web sites -- SFGate.com -- The Chronicle, like its print brethren, hasn't been able to monetize online eyeballs.
"Although online usage is gaining, no one has monetized it on a newspaper basis to the point that equalizes what is happening on the print side," Vega said.
The Chronicle does not charge people to visit SFGate, nor does it ask them to register. Vega declined to say whether that would change.
In a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman Jr. said newspapers create $500 to $900 in revenue per subscriber annually, according to the Inland Cost and Revenue Study. But, Hussman wrote, a newspaper's Web site "typically generates $5 to $10 per unique visitor."
"I actually think it is very progressive and astute of The Chronicle not to charge people or make them register," said Barry Parr, a media analyst with Jupiter Research. "It can't. There's too much competition out there."


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The Franklin County Sheriff's Posse is offering "cold branding" for equine animals. The service will be 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, February 15 in the back of the Sheriff's Posse Arena.
Also called "freeze branding," this service is open to the public at a cost of $25. See the February 13 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for more information.


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Major League Soccer announced the 2013 league schedule on Wednesday, including the Houston Dynamo's 34-game slate for its eighth season in Houston. The Dynamo will play 17 regular season home games in addition to at least three CONCACAF Champions League matches.
The 2012 Eastern Conference champions open their season on Saturday, March 2 with a rematch of the 2012 Eastern Conference Championship against D.C. United at 7 p.m. at BBVA Compass Stadium. The match will be broadcast nationally on the NBC Sports Network.
"We faced a very tough schedule in 2012 due to the stadium opening in May," said Dynamo president Chris Canetti. "This year is a much better situation, and I am very pleased with the schedule. It is more balanced with games spread out over time and fewer mid-summer dates. I think it works well for the team and the fans."
The Dynamo carry a 25-game regular season home unbeaten streak (30 games in all competitions) into 2013, the second-longest streak in league history.
Houston will be featured on national television 13 times in 2013; including three games on the NBC Sports Network, three games on ESPN2, one match on ESPN, five matches on UniMás (Spanish), and the Oct. 27 season finale at D.C. United on NBC.
The home schedule includes two games with Eastern Conference rival Sporting Kansas City (May 12 and Oct. 9) and two games against the New York Red Bulls (Sept. 8 and Oct. 20). Another 2012 Eastern Conference playoff team, the Chicago Fire, will visit Houston twice in 2013 (April 14 and July 27).
The 2013 BBVA Compass Stadium home schedule also features the 2012 MLS Supporters' Shield winning San Jose Earthquakes (March 30). The home slate also includes the following Western Conference opponents: Vancouver Whitecaps, Colorado Rapids, Seattle Sounders and Chivas USA.
The Dynamo will conclude the home schedule with a three-game homestand against Eastern Conference foes – Oct. 4 vs. Montreal, Oct. 9 vs. Kansas City and Oct. 20 vs. New York – before the season finale at D.C. United on Oct. 27.
Major League Soccer will continue to play an unbalanced schedule in 2013. The Dynamo will play each Western Conference team once, seven Eastern Conference teams three times and two Eastern Conference teams (Toronto FC and Philadelphia Union) twice.
While single game tickets are not yet available, fans can purchase tickets to all games via Dynamo season tickets, with 10-game and 5-game plans also available. Full season ticket packages are as low as $400, with partial season ticket packages starting at $115. In addition, the Dynamo are offering a new Family Season Ticket Package for the 2013 season. For every full price adult season ticket purchased for $400, you can purchase an additional season ticket for a child 10 years or younger for just $200, located in the Texas Children's Health Plan Family Section. There are a limited number of seats allocated for this program. To purchase your package or for more information on 2013 season tickets, call (713) 276-GOAL.


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The Chills have never been immensely popular outside their native New Zealand since forming in 1980, but their mysteriously gorgeous new wave music does have its share of fans. Somewhere Beautiful, recorded live at a small venue on their home turf about two years ago, will no doubt delight those loyal followers. It's a career-spanning selection of hits energetically delivered by founding member Martin Phillipps and the latest incarnation of The Chills.
Phillipps and company blast through 20 songs, several of which clock in at under three minutes. Even the early Cat Stevens gem, "Matthew And Son," is swept up in the momentum and given a beefier, sped-up treatment. Some of the live versions, particularly on "Effloresce and Deliquesce" and "Heavenly Pop Hit," lack the elegance of the originals, but still have an impact. Plus, there's a variety of approaches, from the deliriously exotic "Pink Frost" to the more punk-oriented "The Other" and "February."


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Many of you may have heard about "The Heartbreak of Psoriasis." According to Wikipedia, the phrase originated in the 1960s in an advertisement for the coal-based ointment Tegrin. While I could characterize my experience with psoriasis this way, this week I am experiencing "The Heartbreak of Humira." It's not that I want to be melodramatic or overstate my feelings. Rather, I feel a deep sadness not unlike after my girlfriend dumped me in college.
I finally raised the white flag on Humira (adalimumab). You could say my relationship with Humira was strained and complicated at best. While I broke up with Humira on Monday, Humira had been pushing me to the edge repeatedly over the weeks. If I could add to my last entry on taking Humira for 100 days, I would give the whole experience an "F" for a failed treatment. For reasons unknown to me, the eczema rash broke out into thick lesions all over my face, stomach, back, thighs and upper arms. It is itchy beyond belief. Anything I eat makes it itchier; even the rubbing of my shirt on my skin as I move around causes great discomfort. I haven't experienced this level of skin sensitivity and inflammation since 2005 the weeks before I started Neoral (cyclosporine).
My dermatologist is out on vacation so I saw his colleague, Dr. W., who had participated in the decision to start me on Humira back in April. When she called me back this morning I explained my situation to her. I think she could hear the desperation in my voice as I shared concerns about taking my next dose of Humira on Wednesday. She made an exception in her schedule fitting me in at the end of the day. I gladly drove through traffic to see her.
She considered giving me a shot of prednisone to calm the eczema. But a systemic steroid shot could activate a nasty psoriasis flare so we decided against it. Instead, she agreed with me to restart Neoral at three big pills a day for a month and ordered a blood lab to check the creatinine levels for kidney function. We hope the cyclosporine, together with stopping the Humira, will calm the eczema and at the same time suppress a potential psoriasis flare. I somewhat lamented, "Back to square one, right?" She nodded in agreement. She also told me that we need to stop the Neoral soon as we have surpassed the FDA recommended one year use.
While I can make it through today, it is the loss of another promising treatment option that breaks my heart. I had great hopes for Humira. I followed its progress from a distance through the FDA approval process. Now I am on the other side looking back longingly at what could have been—picking up the pieces with generalized eczema, the prospects of returning psoriasis, and no good treatment options.
This one didn't work out, but it doesn't mean I can't or won't try again. Just as I recovered from my college girlfriend, I know I will make it through this difficult time. I am blessed with many people who check in with me and pray for me. Someday I will meet "the one" treatment that has that magical combination of effectiveness with no side effects. Until then, I'll take one day at a time.
(By the way, my experience may be unusual, and it's not even definite the eczema is related to Humira. Many people take Humira with great success and with no side effects. Your experience with Humira or other TNF inhibitors may be quite different.)
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As we prepare to host an exciting exhibit on Western China, one of the main attractions will be two mummies found in the Taklimakan desert. I anticipate that a lot of attention will be showered on the Beauty of Xiaohe and on a child mummy. In this blog I would like to talk about the Tarim Basin and the Taklimakan Desert, backdrop to the mummies and the artifacts in the exhibit.
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Map of the Tarim Basin in Western China
The Tarim Basin is located in China's far western the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and measures 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi). This makes it similar in size to Germany and Switzerland combined or 57 % of the size of Texas.
|Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang Uyghur
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Geography buffs will know that it borders on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India and China-administered Tibet. It is home to the world's third lowest point below sea level, with Lake Assal in the Afar Depression making up the second lowest) and the Dead Sea being the lowest point on Earth.
The Talkimakan (or Taklamakan) desert makes the area one of the driest in the world as well, with an annual rainfall of 0.5 inch. The Taklimakan has an arid continental climate with long cold winters and short hot summers. This is the result of its location in the interior of Asia and near enclosure of the basin by some of the highest snow-covered mountains on Earth. The satellite image below illustrates this point well.
Among these mountain ranges we find (starting in the south and moving clockwise on the first map shown in this blog): the Kunlun Shan, the Pamir and Tien Shan Mountains. The Kunlun Shan mountain range counts four mountains higher than 7,000 m, the Pamir range counts two such mountains and the Tian Shan mountains has one. In comparison, the tallest mountain in the Rocky Mountains is Mount Elbert, at 4402 m above sea level. The tallest mountain in the US, Mount McKinley, is 6193 meters high.
The basin gets its name from the Tarim River, the longest inland river in China and the second largest inland river in the world (second only to the Volga River). Fed by the melting snows from the mountains, the river never reaches any ocean, instead disgorging its waters in the Taklimakan Desert itself . About a century ago, the river reached as far as Lop Nor, now a dry lake and home to the Lop Nor salt works.
Given the remoteness of this area, Lop Nor also served as China's nuclear weapons testing grounds. Our upcoming exhibit, Secrets of the Silk Road pre-dates the nuclear age by several millennia. In a next installment, we will tackle the topic of the Silk Road, starting with "what does Silk Road mean?"


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The Grace
Cushion Cut Topaz in 18ct Gold£1,150.00
A sparklingly bright blue topaz. The cushion cut in 10mm x 10mm helps to perfectly accentuate its vibrant colour and enhances the clarity of the stone. Set in 18ct Gold with an open back to reflect and refract the light. The stone is approximately 4.2 carats in weight.
We can also create bespoke mounts in White Gold, Platinum or Rose Gold. For more information, pricing and any enquiries please contact us.
About My Jewellery
When I started making YouTube videos back in 2011, I had no idea that the rings I was wearing would get almost as many comments as my make up techniques. I've always loved coloured gemstones. It started when I was a child and used to draw intense coloured circles on paper with wax crayons and then add a big drop of water – the wax held the water in a dome shape and create an illusionary jewel. I'm a colour obsessive who spends my days dreaming up colour combinations that I can create on a face and in my mind, makeup and gemstones are all the same - it's about a love of colour.
Having received so many requests over the years about my rings, I decided to turn a hobby into something more and with the help of my stone hunting friend William (with whom I created my engagement ring many years ago), I now bring you my beautifully coloured, hand crafted masterpieces. I hope you will love, and get as many years of enjoyment out of them as I have.
All of my jewellery is handmade at small artisan workshops in the UK.
Jewellery Boxes
My fantasy was to make a scaled up version of a beautiful, round 1920s blush pot I have in my vintage makeup. I also wanted to make it in blush tones of soft, vegan suede. I hadn't realised what a tall order that was as many 'high end' box makers prefer not to make round boxes as they are difficult to do. I finally found in Norfolk a family owned business established in 1967 who were willing to hand make each box with the level of attention to detail I wanted. The beautiful, padded boxes come in a variety of blush tones ranging from a vibrant rouge red to warm rose pink and a delicate lilac.
Outer Box
Each ring box comes in a monogrammed blush pink or dusty violet outer gift box. Handmade from recyclable cardboard and paper in the UK.
My other fantasy was to try to make a replica of the vintage puff which sits inside my vintage blush pot. This was to be the most complicated process of all, as I needed to source vintage jewelry and fabric from all over the world. Each puff is lovingly hand make in Crete by a friends aunt (true story). Every ring box contains a 'blush puff' in a variety of vintage colours, for polishing your stone – and for fun!
Mounts (the actual metal rings)
My ring mounts are handmade in 18ct Gold and Sterling Silver (if you would like Platinum or White gold please drop my team an email on firstname.lastname@example.com).
I wanted the design of the ring to really showcase the gemstone it holds and allow for as much light as possible to surround and pass through the stone. The unique design was made into a mould at our workshop in Cornwall using a technique called the lost wax process which is a modern version of an ancient process dating back to 3700 BC. A master model of our ring design is made by a father and son in our workshop in Cornwall. This model is then sent to a specialist jewellery foundry in Herefordshire where a rubber mould is taken from the master. Wax is injected into this rubber mould and the wax version of the ring is then invested in a special casting or investment sand. This sand is heated to remove the wax leaving a perfect mould of the original master. The precious metal is melted and poured into the sand mould, after cooling the sand is broken away and the excess metal is cut away from the rings. These cast rings are then returned to Cornwall, where they are filed, cleaned up and pre-polished before setting.
Finally, all my rings are sent to an artisan workshop in Mayfair in the West End of London to be set with the gemstones by our very experienced setter (he's one of the best in the world!). They are then given a final polish and are ready to be sent out to you.
A free of charge re-sizing service where required is done in the same workshops.
Firstly, let me say that all the stones are natural. I do not use synthetic stones of any kind or gemstones which have been fracture filled with resin, glass or had any sort of surface coating or treatment that may be unstable.
I've chosen for my first collection, reasonably large, flat, clear stones cut in the 'old style' (simply and without too many facets) to really showcase their colour and natural beauty.
They are cut to my design especially for me in the Bangkok workshop of a very experienced and reputable Swiss gemologist whom I trust and have a personal relationship.
Ethical Practices and Sustainability
My semi-precious stones are sourced from all over the world by a gemologist with 25 years experience and personal 'one on one' relationships with all the suppliers. To the best of my knowledge and based on personal mine and workshop visits by the gemologists I'm working with, plus written assurances from our suppliers, all our stones come from non conflict sources/regions and are free from human rights abuses.
Some of the stones are heated or modified by irradiation to improve and maintain uniformity of colour across the range. These stones are: Citrines, Blue Topaz, Lavender Quartz and Prasiolite. These treatments are widely used and acceptable in the world of gemstones.
Emeralds may be treated with oil to improve clarity.
Within the general industry, most Tourmalines are heated to improve colour and it is very difficult to tell whether this process has occurred or not (even our most experienced gemologist with 49 years experience can't always tell!). While some that we receive will be unheated we have to assume that at least 50% are, unless we have specific information from the supplier that they are definitely unheated.
Our Amethysts, Peridots, Iolites, Garnets and Smokey Quartz are not treated.
Some of the stones display natural inclusions which is a general term for crystals liquid and gas filled cavities enclosed within the gemstone. These inclusions are often highly characteristic of the mineral or gem concerns and form the basis of the distinction between natural and synthetic stones. We do not consider them to be a flaw but part of the natural character of the stone.
I offer one free of charge resizing at my workshop – please click here to see the full terms and conditions.
I've given the rings personal names of dear friends, muses and inspirations.


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Last night we reported that in the encroaching attempt to globalize the fiat ponzi regime, in Japan's latest rush to crushTM(sounds even better than race to debase) its currency it would proceed to monetize even more debt, only not its own debt - a strategy that has failed miserably to stimulate inflation for the past 30 years - but that of Europe.
So far so good, and perfectly expected in a monetary lunatic asylum in which coining money without an appropriate collateral backing is actually considered sound monetary policy by Nobel prize winners.
What gives us some hope that there may be at least one sane voice left in the wilderness is the far less trumpeted news overnight that "Japanese pension funds, the world's second-largest pool of retirement assets after the U.S., will more than double their gold holdings in the next two years as the new government pushes for a higher inflation target, according to an adviser to the funds. Assets held by Japanese pension funds in gold-backed exchange-traded products may expand to 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) by 2015 from less than 45 billion yen at present." The reason for the move is fear that Abe is actually able (unlike last time when his failure was accompanied by an inexplicable case of career-ending diarrhea) to hit his goal of 2% inflation, without in the process sending bond yields so high all tax revenue goes solely to cover interest expense on the JPY 1 quadrillion pyramid of debt and rising. Which, incidentally, according to many traders is the reason for the move higher in gold prices today.
From Bloomberg:
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp., which introduced Japan's first gold ETF in 2010, expects assets held in the product to double over the next several years from 26.2 billion yen as of Nov. 30. Global investors are holding a near-record amount in gold-backed ETPs that are valued at $139.6 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Assets held by corporate pension funds in Japan amounted to 72.24 trillion yen as of March 2012, declining 0.9 percent from a year earlier, according to Yasuo Sugeno, director at Daiwa Institute of Research in Tokyo. Of the total, about 72 billion yen were allocated to commodities including gold through hedge funds, he said Dec. 10.
Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan, the operator of the world's largest pension fund with 113.6 trillion yen, stays away from commodity investment as 67 percent of their assets were allocated to Japanese bonds, Sugeno said.
Japanese pensions oversee $3.36 trillion, according to human-resource and consulting services company Towers Watson & Co. Corporate pension funds in Japan will diversify 72 trillion yen in assets after domestic stocks produced little return in the past two decades, according to Daiwa Institute of Research.
So after the rotation, paper gold holding will double to a whopping... 0.03% of all pension fund assets! Now imagine what happens to the price of gold if Japan does indeed succeed in generating inflation, and pension funds scramble to push 1, 2, 5% or more of their assets into gold. Sure enough:
Perhaps it is time for the punditry and the chatterbox media to start considering what happens not when the much anticipated rotation out of bonds and into stocks, which has not happened for 4 years now, and won't, at least not until the government bond bubble finally pops which will only happen when the central banks finally lose control, but what happens if even a tiny amount of the global pension capital allocated to bonds and/or equities, is rotated into gold.
"Pension money invested in bullion is 'peanuts' at the moment," Toshima said. "If 1 percent of their total assets shift to the metal, the gold market would explode."
Could not have said it better ourselves.


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Whether you like the process that was used or not, the Illinois General Assembly made landmark, sweeping changes to state and some local pension systems on Wednesday.
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Whether you like the process that was used or not, the Illinois General Assembly made landmark, sweeping changes to state and some local pension systems on Wednesday.
These modifications will save the state more than $100 billion if future legislatures act responsibly and don't short the pensions as their predecessors have done.
That is a very big "if." Reckless legislators and governors are the true cause of Illinois' pension crisis, not too-generous benefits for rank-and-file employees and teachers.
Gov. Pat Quinn and legislators were practically breaking their arms patting themselves on the back Thursday after taking such a bold vote. But their work on pensions is not done until they ensure that they and their successors actually pay the bills. If they don't, Illinois will have a pension Groundhog Day, with the same problems popping up every few decades.
Surprisingly, the legislation, Senate Bill 1946, largely mirrored the ideas in a bill put forward by Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont. It's the first time in recent memory that the Democratic majority has embraced a Republican solution to a major problem. It was heartening that, for once, the two bickering parties can get along enough to pass real change.
But they left out one part. In its first paragraph, Radogno's legislation, Senate Bill 2825, had a hammer to ensure the legislature makes the pension payments required by statute. If Radogno's bill passed — creating a second class of pensions for new hires — but the legislature did not make a full payment, pension benefits apparently would revert back to their current state.
"There would be no option. You would have to fund it," said Radogno's spokeswoman, Patty Schuh. "It would be pure chaos. It was a way we could see to lock in full funding."
We don't know whether that's the best method to ensure full funding or whether something simpler, such as requiring a two-thirds supermajority to deviate from the payment requirement, would work better. But given their past behavior, this is one instance in which legislators need to put themselves and their successors in a straitjacket so those payments are made in full and on time.
That's why there are few problems in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. Under state law, local governments have to pay the IMRF, or it simply takes the cash right out of the deadbeat government's coffers.
Legislators should pass and Quinn should insist upon follow-up legislation to ensure that future legislatures and governors cannot again easily sink Illinois into a fiscal abyss.
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Health Minister to look into NHS failures in case of death of baby in NHS Forth Valley hospital & SPSO report whitewash. SCOTLAND'S DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has said she will look into the case of the death of little baby McKenzie Wallace at an NHS Forth Valley hospital after an exclusive report in the Sunday Mail newspaper revealed the baby's grieving parents have fought a long & difficult battle to get answers over why little McKenzie died. The report in the Sunday Mail also revealed NHS Forth Valley FAILED to pick up on a rare heart defect in the couple's baby which should have been detected during a 20 week scan but was missed after the scan, conducted by a trainee under the supervision of an experienced midwife was not properly interpreted. However, a senior consultant obstetrician who later studied the ultrasound pictures from the Stirlingshire hospital found a heart problem was visible and had been missed by both the midwife & the trainee.
On receipt of a further report into the tragedy, the family have accused the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) 'Complaints Reviewer', Eileen Masterman of producing a 'whitewash' report in the SPSO's investigation of their complaints against NHS Forth Valley regarding the deadly failures in the provision of medical services which ultimately led to the death of McKenzie Wallace just five days after she was born.
While the death of baby McKenzie has been a terrible toll in itself for the family to bear, the nightmare continued when their complaints to NHS Forth Valley over the events which led to the death of their child were mishandled, leading to the family using Freedom of Information legislation to uncover more facts not disclosed by NHS Forth Valley during their investigations and ultimately, making a complaint to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman who used an unnamed 'expert' to exonerate the hospital's role in the death of the child.
The files accumulated by the family in their complaint to NHS Forth Valley can be read here : Complaint to NHS Forth Valley - Death of Baby McKenzie Wallace The responses received from NHS Forth Valley can be viewed here : NHS Forth Valley FOI - Death of Baby McKenzie Wallace and the report by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman into the way the hospital handled the case, can be viewed here : SPSO Report - Death of Baby McKenzie Wallace
Former SLCC Chief Executive Eileen Masterman wrote SPSO report which exonerated negligent medical staff at NHS Forth Valley. In what may come as a surprise to many, the author of the SPSO report now branded a whitewash is none other than Eileen Masterman, former Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), who took a six month sick leave from the SLCC and then employed teams of lawyers to negotiate a massive SECRET PAYOFF so large & subject to such a complex agreement, the secret deal was required to be signed off personally by Scotland's Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill. Legal insiders commenting on the case said today they were shocked to see Eileen Masterman show up again at the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman so soon after resigning under a cloud from the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, with an official explanation of "ill health".
FOI investigations by Diary of Injustice revealed Justice Secretary MacAskill personally signed off secret unpublished payment to Eileen Masterman. One Scottish Government insider who now claims he "did not agree with the terms of the settlement as put to Mr MacAskill" said the Justice Secretary was out on a limb over his involvement in the secret payoff to Masterman. The insider called for all details of the negotiations involving Ms Masterman, the SLCC & the Scottish Government along with the amount of the secret payoff to be made public.
The Scottish Government insider said : "Clearly there is a public confidence issue here were someone can resign from the highly controversial and underperforming Scottish Legal Complaints Commission claiming ill health and then go back to work at the highly questionable Scottish Public Services Ombudsman who have similar public confidence issues. There must be full transparency here otherwise there can be no confidence in the SPSO."
One senior solicitor who does not wish to be named has already claimed the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission had been told during the "bitter negotiations" that "Eileen Masterman's health was so bad that she may never work again". It has also been alleged that involvement from Cabinet Secretary for Finance John Swinney, who accused Ms Masterman of lying over secret meetings she took part in with convicted US insurers Marsh who handle the Law Society of Scotland's notoriously corrupt Master Policy protection for negligent solicitors also 'contributed to Ms Masterman's alleged ill health', an issue reported earlier by Diary of Injustice here : SLCC's Eileen Masterman resigns, questions remain on attempt to mislead Cabinet Finance Chief John Swinney over secret meetings with insurers Marsh
However it appears after only a few months of leaving the SLCC, Eileen Ms Masterman was re-employed by Jim Martin, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, whose organisation was savaged last year by Scottish Government Minister Alex Neil during his testimony to the Scottish Parliament's Petitions Committee, which Diary of Injustice reported along with video footage of Minister Neil's testimony, here : Holyrood considers nine petitions against Scottish Public Services Ombudsman as Housing Minister dubbed 'out of touch' over accusations
The Sunday Mail newspaper spoke to the parents about their views of Ms Masterman's report on the death of their baby. The Sunday Mail reported : "The couple have also criticised a report issued last month by Eileen Masterman, of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman. She rejected the view of the Forth Valley doctor. Instead, she agreed with an unnamed expert who said there was no need for a second scan due to the limited nature of what could be seen. She said: "The advice indicated that, even if the scan had been done again, it would have been likely the results would have been the same."
Andrew said: "I have no faith in Masterman. The SPSO have refused to say who the expert is or hand over their report. "McKenzie's death cannot be for nothing. Some sort of lesson has to be learnt."
SPSO refused to issue any comment on Eileen Masterman's report. The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman was asked for media comment on Ms Masterman's position at the SPSO and to explain how she was able to return to work so soon. One of it's Press Officers said : "I am sorry but we are unable to comment on the employment status of individuals. This would be unfair to those individuals and in breach of data protection." Later, the SPSO angrily REFUSED to disclose any material in response to Freedom of Information requests regarding Ms Masterman's apparent speedy return to work at the SPSO, with SPSO officials blocking all further attempts to secure disclosures via Freedom of Information legislation.
Scottish Deputy First Minister & Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon MSP. Deputy First Minister & Scotland's Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon was asked by Diary of Injustice for a comment on the tragic events and the SPSO's handling of baby McKenzie's parents complaints against NHS Forth Valley. Questions put by Diary of Injustice journalists to Ms Sturgeon, which were accompanied by papers relating to the case asked : "Has the Health Minister any comment on how the complaint involving the death of the baby has been handled, the fact this family have received little support in spite of what appears to be a cover up by NHS Forth Valley, and why can one individual who travels between regulators show up again in an old post to carry on her work after claiming she could never work again."
A spokesperson for the Scottish Government replied to the questions put to the Health Secretary, stating : "The circumstances surrounding this event are extremely tragic, and our thoughts are with the parents. Where recommendations are made in an Ombudsman's report, we expect NHS Boards to fully implement all necessary steps to ensure that similar circumstances do not recur."
The spokesperson continued : "The SPSO is an organisation independent of the Scottish Government and as such appoints its own personnel. The circumstances surrounding any appointment of any individual is a matter for the SPSO."
The parents of baby McKenzie have since received a letter from the Scottish Government replying on behalf of Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon. Andrew & Joanne have now been told Ms Sturgeon has agreed to look at the papers relating to the circumstances of baby McKenzie's death, and how Andrew & Joanne were treated by NHS Forth Valley & the SPSO. Ms Sturgeon also offered her condolences in the letter to Andrew & Joanne over baby McKenzie's death. The parents of baby McKenzie have also asked for a meeting with Ms Sturgeon over the case.
Clearly, the tragic case of the death of little baby McKenzie Wallace, just five days into her live is yet another clear demonstration of medical negligence in the NHS and the cover ups which kick in to prevent any justice for the bereaved family. The family deserve answers and the life of a child cannot be lost in an SPSO report or a promise of "lessons will be learned" which are, as we are all now sadly too aware, never learned.
The Sunday Mail reports :
Grieving parents say medics missed tragic toddler's heart problem
Mar 25 2012 Exclusive by Russell Findlay
HEARTBROKEN parents yesterday told how they fear a midwife missed their baby daughter's fatal heart condition because she was in the huff. McKenzie Wallace died just five days after being born because of a heart defect linked to rare genetic disorder Ivemark syndrome.
But mum Joanne Weir, 27, and dad Andrew Wallace, 31, say the condition would have been picked up at a 20-week scan if the midwife had not been annoyed that they asked the sex of their baby. The scan was conducted by a trainee sonographer at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert and was supervised by an experienced midwife, who did not flag up any problems.
But a senior consultant obstetrician who studied the ultrasound pictures from the Stirlingshire hospital found a heart problem was visible. He also stated that "he would have suggested a repeat scan or asked for a second opinion". As a result, the midwife who supervised the trainee was ordered to undergo further training. The couple said that a consultant at Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow, agreed the heart defect – known as right atrial isomerism – should have been spotted.
Joanne, who is due to give birth again in 10 weeks at Edinburgh Royal, said: "It should have been glaringly obvious and was 'too big to miss', according to McKenzie's consultant at Yorkhill."
Fuel tanker driver Andrew, who lost a brother and an uncle to the genetic condition, said: "A trainee carried out the scan but the supervisor was so busy moaning at us for daring to ask if we were to buy blue or pink that she was obviously distracted."Apparently it's all right, though, because she has now been for training – but this should not have happened.
"We had to make the decision not to attempt to treat McKenzie as all options were horrific and had life-extending probabilities of less than a few months. Had we known she had this condition, we may have considered termination early in pregnancy as it was incredibly unfair to put McKenzie through that."
The couple, from Bo'ness, Stirlingshire, also said that another midwife ignored their concern about McKenzie's blue appearance when she was born at Stirling Royal Infirmary. During Joanne's labour, a sewage pipe became blocked below the maternity ward, which caused chaos. Andrew said: "They were distracted. They should have listened to what I was saying about McKenzie turning blue."
It took 24 hours before they admitted any problem and the baby was immediately sent to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill. From there, McKenzie was sent to the Rachel House Hospice in Kinross, where she died in her parents' arms on February 18 last year.
The couple have also criticised a report issued last month by Eileen Masterman, of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman. She rejected the view of the Forth Valley doctor. Instead, she agreed with an unnamed expert who said there was no need for a second scan due to the limited nature of what could be seen. She said: "The advice indicated that, even if the scan had been done again, it would have been likely the results would have been the same."
Andrew said: "I have no faith in Masterman. The SPSO have refused to say who the expert is or hand over their report. "McKenzie's death cannot be for nothing. Some sort of lesson has to be learnt."
The NHS said: "We carried out an internal review and could find no evidence of errors in the clinical care provided by staff."


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Check out the first ever video footage of the new Disney princess, Rapunzel, from their new film Tangled. Can this new lady live up to her legendary Disney predecessors? UPDATE: Now with the new teaser trailer!
This new teaser trailer was released this morning with lots of new footage:
Here's the slightly older teaser:
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Tangled won't be released until November 24, but until then here's some concept art to tide you over:
And finally, here's the basic synopsis:
The long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but when she falls in love with a bandit who was passing by she must venture into the outside world for the first time to find him.
So what do you think? Does she hate "rules" more than Ariel or what? Or has she been locked indoors for so long she has no social skills, much like myself? Either way it's gotta be better than the Frog Prince. We can't wait to read what you all think about her.


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Mass does have a partial advantage, but impact absorbtion is far more important.Vin Stefanelli wrote:Crash tests!
go crash this
more size and weight are a plus in collisions
The lack of crumple zones and the fact that the Hummer frame protrudes form the back of the car
is what heads to it's very poor rear end crash test rating.
When an overly ridgid truch is hit the shock wave is very sudden and is transmited through the driver and passangers body.
Most mortal car accidents are not caused by passangers getting crushed, but by the shock wave that is transmitted through the car and by the sudden deceleration.
This is important because there is very little you can do about rear end collisions.
The reason why the Murano did so well in crash tests is that it combined mass and INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
What's even more funny is that you try to make your point by showing a picture of a piece of crap American School bus..... busses that are well known for bad handling, heavy pollution and terrible safety rating.


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Scarlet Witch is one of my favorite role in MCU Comics. Scarlet Witch is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in The X-Men #4 (March 1964) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. She is first portrayed as a supervillain along with her twin brother Quicksilver as a founding member of the Brotherhood of Mutants. In most depictions she is portrayed as a mutant, a member of a fictional subspecies of humans born with superhuman abilities. Scarlet Witch possesses abilities to alter reality in unspecified ways and is a powerful sorceress. Scarlet Witch is later depicted as a regular member of the Avengers superhero team. She also becomes the wife of fellow superhero and teammate Vision.
Born at the Wundagore base of the High Evolutionary, in proximity to the eldritch energies of the Elder God Chthon; Wanda and her brother Pietro's mother, Magda, fled Wundagore shortly after their birth. Although not known at the time, Chthon formed a mystic bond with Wanda, who, it was later learned, was destined to serve the role of Nexus Being, a living focal point for the Earth dimension's mystical energy.
Kept in stasis by the Evolutionary for decades, the two infants were later placed in the custody of a Gypsy couple named Django and Marya Maximoff. When Wanda and Pietro were teenagers and had already manifested their mutant powers, their family's encampment was attacked, leaving Marya dead; Django survived, but was separated from his children, while the traumatized Wanda and Pietro also fled, believing their foster father to have died. After several months of surviving on their own in the woods, the siblings ventured into a nearby town, where Wanda's powers inadvertently set fire to a house. Set upon by villagers who believed the pair to be "in league with the Devil", they were rescued by the timely arrival of Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism. Magneto was in fact their father, but neither he nor the siblings were aware of this at the time. Exploiting the pair's gratitude, Magneto pressed them into service as part of his anti-human terrorist unit, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Now known as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Wanda and Pietro accompanied Magneto and his fellow mutants in their power-seeking efforts, clashing with the heroic X-Men. After a time, the siblings, disillusioned with Magneto and feeling that their debt to him had been paid, decided to abandon their terrorist activities; alongside the archer and ex-criminal Hawkeye, they joined the Avengers under the leadership of Captain America. As a member of this foursome, the first major reorganization of the still young super-team, the Scarlet Witch served with distinction against such foes as Dr Doom, the Mole Man, Kang, and others.
As the team expanded, the Scarlet Witch, despite her brother's disapproval, became romantically drawn to one of her fellow Avengers, the android known as the Vision. To better control her power, she began taking sorcery lessons from the witch Agatha Harkness, and after both she and the Vision had built their confidence, the couple married. At the time, none of the Avengers realized the Limbo lord Immortus, who sought to arrange events so the Scarlet Witch would never have children whose power would grow to be a threat, had subtly encouraged the marriage.
Not long after their wedding, the old Django Maximoff approached the Avengers. Determined to have his children back, he used a magical amulet known as the Nivashi Stone, the old man trapped the souls of Wanda and Pietro in two dolls shaped like them, which he locked in small bird cages. Rescued by the Avengers, the siblings took pity on the old man and decided to go back with him to Transia. Not long after, Wanda was attaced by the warlock known as Mordred, acting in the service of a mystical entity called Chthon. Chthon was able to possess Wanda's body, and hid in Wundagore Mountain. Pietro rushed to her aid, but was hit by an energy field and rescued by the evolved cow mid-wife Bova who, after healing him, revealed the nature of the sibling's birth to him. The Avengers flew to Transia and managed to save Wanda from Chthon's possession. Sadly, Django Maximoff died during the battle, and Wanda and Vision left active duty.
Some time later, Magneto returned to Wundagore, searching for his past, and casually learned, from the lips of Bova herself, the truth about Wanda and Pietro. Excited to finally know the truth, Magneto traveled to Attilan, home of the Inhumans in Earth's Moon, where Wanda had traveled to in order to meet her newborn niece, Luna. Magneto told the pair the news, and held his granddaughter in his arms.
When the Baxter Building was threatened by the Negative Zone warlord Annihilus, the Scarlet Witch and the Vision returned to active duty. Weeks later, when most of the Avengers were trapped in the Secret Wars, the Vision was named Chairman of the team. He used his position to create a second branch of Avengers, placing them in the West Coast of the United States. Vision's mind was affected by an interface with the Titanian computer ISAAC, and he launched an attempt to take control of the world's computers, an effort stopped by the Avengers. The Vision and the Witch then left active Avengers duty once more. Although the couple sought only to live in domestic peace, they found themselves repeatedly drawn into clashes with several super-villains. During one such encounter, a battle with the sorcerers known as Salem's Seven, the Scarlet Witch used accumulated magic energy to become pregnant by the Vision, and she later gave birth to twin sons, William and Thomas.
When the Scarlet Witch and the Vision choose to return to active duty as members of the West Coast Avengers, a multi-government force called Vigilance, concerned the Vision would again attempt a world takeover, captured and dismantled him; although he was soon rebuilt, his personality was severely altered, greatly distressing the Scarlet Witch. It was later revealed it was Immortus who orchestrated the Vision's dismantling. Her distress was magnified when her sons were reverted into fragments of the demon lord Mephisto's soul and effectively ceased to exist. The Witch suffered a nervous breakdown, which left her open to manipulation by her father, Magneto, who still sought to take control of the world in the name of mutantkind. She was subsequently abducted by Immortus, but was rescued by the Avengers and regained her sanity. Wanda had also reanimated her deceased mentor, Agatha Harkness, through whom she cast a spell to make her forget her children in order to ease her pain. Though Wanda later recalled her loss, she suppressed this memory over the long term. The souls of her twins were separated after Mephisto's defeat. She and the Vision separated, and she became drawn to another fellow Avenger, Wonder Man.
With Agatha Harkness's help, the Scarlet Witch learned of her nature as a Nexus Being and was able to drive off an extradimensional invasion by another Nexus Being, Lore. When the West Coast branch of Avengers disbanded due to internal conflict in the overall team, several members formed a new team known as Force Works, and the Scarlet Witch was appointed leader. During their first mission, her mutant powers interfered with the teleportation of the alien known as Century, bringing him to Earth. Century joined the Force Works team, and did not hide his feelings for the Scarlet Witch, which she seemed to reciprocate. However, the team disbanded before they could actually express their feelings, and Wanda returned to the Avengers. She was among those who were seemingly destroyed by the psionic being Onslaught. In fact, they were transported to an alternate universe created by the powerful mutant Franklin Richards. She and her fellow heroes remained there for months before returning to their home universe. The centuries-old sorceress Morgan Le Fay came across the Twilight Sword of Surtur, and was able to gather the Norn Stones. She then created a series of attacks on the Avengers to capture Wanda in the process. Using Wanda's mutant powers, she was able to pierce the gap between her Celtic magic and the Asgardian magic of the Twilight Sword, with it she remade the world in her image, turning the Avengers into the Queen's Vengeance. Subsequently, while held captive by Morgan Le Fay, the Scarlet Witch, in attempting to summon the other Avengers, inadvertently caused Wonder Man to partially cross over from the world of the dead. Channeling the willpower of the Avengers through Wonder Man, Morgan was defeated and the world returned to normalcy.
While battling the Squadron Supreme, Wanda was once again able to call Wonder Man, and the deceased Avenger was able to return when Wanda was in danger, whether conscious or not. Wanda was also able to feel Morgan's magic within her still, even long after the sorceress had been defeated. Confused, Wanda sought the guidance of Agatha Harkness once more. Agatha revealed it was not Morgan's magic, but her own power that had matured before its time. Agatha then revealed that it was Chthon who had imbued in her the potential to wield magic, if not for his involvement, she would have been a mere energy-wielding mutant like her father. She was linked to Chthon's chaos magic, and that was the true source of her mutant power, though she wielded it in an unschooled manner. Agatha told her she had to control it and guide it, instead of allowing her subconscious to direct her "chaos-grenades", that she needed to understand her full power and subsume it within her, or the results could very well be disastrous. Wanda asked Agatha how she could bring back Wonder Man to life for good, and her mentor laughed saying Wonder Man had held on because he loved her, and all she had to do to bring him back was love him in return. Soon after, Wanda used her powers to bring back Wonder Man to life, as well as Wonder Man's brother, the Grim Reaper. She and Wonder Man began to pursue a romantic relationship.
With Iron Man severely injured, Thor preoccupied with his alter ego, and Captain America missing, the rest of the team appointed her as Deputy Leader, even though she had been considering leaving the Avengers. Wanda led the Avengers in the Captain's absence, focusing her energies on improving the morale and efficiency of the team. During this period, Wanda began using her powers in new ways, fighting diseases, healing wounds and even creating sickness in her enemies.
Wanda's chaos magic, which was revealed to be an uncontrolled aspect of her mutant power, began to wear away at her mental stability. When vague memories of her children resurfaced, she suffered a nervous breakdown and lashed out with her new power, subjecting the Avengers to a series of devastating attacks, apparently killing several team members and ultimately causing the dissolution of the team. She was eventually defeated by the combined efforts of Doctor Strange and the Avengers, ultimately lapsing into a coma. In the ruins of the Avengers mansion, Magneto appeared to the Avengers and spirited her away to Genosha for treatment.
After several months of almost no progress in restoring her stability, The X-Men and the Avengers gathered to decide Wanda's fate. Quicksilver, suspecting that the inevitable conclusion would be to kill her, convinced Wanda to alter reality into a utopian world where all of the heroes and Magneto would have what they wanted. Wanda did, creating a reality where Magneto was the head of a mutant empire and humans were the minority. Eventually the heroes discovered the ruse and, believing Magneto to be responsible, attacked him at his fortress in Genosha. When Magneto learned that Quicksilver was the instigator of the warp, Magneto turned on him in anger. Distressed by all the fighting and her father's hatred of humanity, Scarlet Witch revived Quicksilver and muttered three simple words: "No More Mutants," sending reality back to normal, but reducing the mutant population from millions to an estimated 198. Wanda has since been living on Wundagore mountain in apparent powerless obscurity. Thus far only Hawkeye, seeking closure after his multiple deaths and resurrections at Wanda's hand, has sought her out.
It has been revealed that the Young Avengers members Thomas Shepherd (Speed) and Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) are new incarnations of Wanda's children, William and Thomas. Whether Wanda brought them back or there is another reason for their existence remains to be seen.
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Fabric's primary operations, run and sudo, are capable of sending local input to the remote end, in a manner nearly identical to the ssh program. For example, programs which display password prompts (e.g. a database dump utility, or changing a user's password) will behave just as if you were interacting with them directly.
However, as with ssh itself, Fabric's implementation of this feature is subject to a handful of limitations which are not always intuitive. This document discusses such issues in detail.
Readers unfamiliar with the basics of Unix stdout and stderr pipes, and/or terminal devices, may wish to visit the Wikipedia pages for Unix pipelines and Pseudo terminals respectively.
The first issue to be aware of is that of the stdout and stderr streams, and why they are separated or combined as needed.
Fabric 0.9.x and earlier, and Python itself, buffer output on a line-by-line basis: text is not printed to the user until a newline character is found. This works fine in most situations but becomes problematic when one needs to deal with partial-line output such as prompts.
Line-buffered output can make programs appear to halt or freeze for no reason, as prompts print out text without a newline, waiting for the user to enter their input and press Return.
Newer Fabric versions buffer both input and output on a character-by-character basis in order to make interaction with prompts possible. This has the convenient side effect of enabling interaction with complex programs utilizing the "curses" libraries or which otherwise redraw the screen (think top).
Unfortunately, printing to stderr and stdout simultaneously (as many programs do) means that when the two streams are printed independently one byte at a time, they can become garbled or meshed together. While this can sometimes be mitigated by line-buffering one of the streams and not the other, it's still a serious issue.
To solve this problem, Fabric uses a Paramiko setting that merges the two streams at a low level and causes output to appear more naturally. This setting is represented in Fabric as the combine_stderr env var and keyword argument, and is True by default.
Due to this default setting, output will appear correctly, but at the cost of an empty .stderr attribute on the return values of run/sudo, as all output will appear to be stdout.
Conversely, users requiring a distinct stderr stream at the Python level and who aren't bothered by garbled user-facing output (or who are hiding stdout and stderr from the command in question) may opt to set this to False as needed.
The other main issue to consider when presenting interactive prompts to users is that of echoing the user's own input.
Typical terminal applications or bona fide text terminals (e.g. when using a Unix system without a running GUI) present programs with a terminal device called a tty or pty (for pseudo-terminal). These automatically echo all text typed into them back out to the user (via stdout), as interaction without seeing what you had just typed would be difficult. Terminal devices are also able to conditionally turn off echoing, allowing secure password prompts.
However, it's possible for programs to be run without a tty or pty present at all (consider cron jobs, for example) and in this situation, any stdin data being fed to the program won't be echoed. This is desirable for programs being run without any humans around, and it's also Fabric's old default mode of operation.
Unfortunately, in the context of executing commands via Fabric, when no pty is present to echo a user's stdin, Fabric must echo it for them. This is sufficient for many applications, but it presents problems for password prompts, which become insecure.
In the interests of security and meeting the principle of least surprise (insofar as users are typically expecting things to behave as they would when run in a terminal emulator), Fabric 1.0 and greater force a pty by default. With a pty enabled, Fabric simply allows the remote end to handle echoing or hiding of stdin and does not echo anything itself.
In addition to allowing normal echo behavior, a pty also means programs that behave differently when attached to a terminal device will then do so. For example, programs that colorize output on terminals but not when run in the background will print colored output. Be wary of this if you inspect the return value of run or sudo!
For situations requiring the pty behavior turned off, the --no-pty command-line argument and always_use_pty env var may be used.
As a final note, keep in mind that use of pseudo-terminals effectively implies combining stdout and stderr – in much the same way as the combine_stderr setting does. This is because a terminal device naturally sends both stdout and stderr to the same place – the user's display – thus making it impossible to differentiate between them.
However, at the Fabric level, the two groups of settings are distinct from one another and may be combined in various ways. The default is for both to be set to True; the other combinations are as follows:


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There's the (damn) hawk that perches on a high tree in the woods behind our house and randomly swoops through our yard hoping to sink its talons into something tasty. That (damn) bird knows good stuff can be found here.
We've also discovered a nightly raccoon visitor. It waddles its way onto our back deck and gobbles up any food Fancy has left behind. Last night it was a few corn cobs and some leftover watermelon mush. Tonight it'll clear away a pile of feed Bella poured out, some soggy grapes, and cucumber peels. Raccoons eat chickens, but Fancy is always safely roosting when the bandit comes to scavenge.
And then there's the cat lady up the street. Seriously. The cat situation is so bad that her direct neighbors banded together and simultaneously called Animal Control. The approximate count is 30+ cats and kittens. Here's the fun part -- they are all half-feral outdoor cats and not a single one has been fixed. The adults wind up down here at least once a day ... but there's a bb gun for that.
Fancy's name does her strength and self-preservation no justice. She just eats and lays eggs and chills. But homegirl does not die. (Yes, I am knocking on wood.)


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Scholarships & Aid
Two Types of Financial Aid
We offer two primary types of aid: merit-based aid (where need may or may not be a factor) and need-based aid (where need is the controlling factor). Your need is determined by calculating the Cost of Attendance (COA - which includes allowances for books, travel, and miscellaneous expenses in addition to tuition and fees) and subtracting your Expected Family Contribution (EFC), which you may determine by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Aid is usually awarded for the full year and disbursed equally between the semesters. The financial aid that is offered to you as an incoming student from Covenant is guaranteed for all four years of your education (some scholarships may have a GPA component). Federal aid cannot disburse any sooner than ten days prior to the first day of class. Any missing requirements preventing aid from disbursing are viewable on the student's Banner account.
Federal Aid
We highly recommend that each family complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You may be eligible for federal aid based on your expected family contribution (EFC), which could include the federal Pell Grant. Many people are surprised to learn that they qualify for need-based aid, either federal or institutional. You may wish to download your tax return information directly from the IRS website into the FAFSA. This option is usually available from the FAFSA website 2-3 weeks after you electronically submit your tax return.
The FAFSA can now be submitted on mobile phones via the free myStudentAid app.
If your FAFSA is chosen for the verification process, you will be notified of necessary steps to complete the process. The verification worksheet required for this process is available as a link from the missing requirements of your student's Banner account.
Please note the following:
Normally, neither federal nor institutional aid will be disbursed to the student's account, nor loan processes started, until the entire verification process is complete. Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the financial aid director and may include receiving a late FAFSA. Student employment funds may not be earned until the verification process is completed.
Disbursement of federal aid to the student's account can be expected within 10 business days of the verification process being completed if all other requirements have been met.
At Covenant, we offer over 100 institutional scholarships. Most scholarships are awarded to students based on information we collect during the admissions process; you do not need to submit separate applications for these scholarships. Some scholarships, however, such as music, and some of our most competitive leadership and academic scholarships, do require separate applications. Please see the Applying for Scholarships and Financial Aid page for more information and applications, or contact your admissions counselor.
Georgia state residents may be eligible for Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant with the completion of the application and HOPE Scholarship or the Zell Miller Scholarship based on residency and grade point average.
Federal Direct Loans
Federal Student Loans are available to any student who completes a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The types of Federal Student Loans available are the Federal Subsidized Stafford Loan and Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loan. Once the FAFSA is received, the loan type/s will be determined and included in the award package. If the student chooses to accept any or all of the loans offered, they will need to complete the necessary requirements, such as, the Entrance Counseling and Master Promissory Note. Note: Student, your FAFSA ID will be required to complete the Stafford Loan Master Promissory Note. Parents please do NOT complete these steps for your student. This is their legal requirement in order to receive the loans.
Students are eligible for additional loan funds after advancing from freshmen to sophomore class level, and then from sophomore to junior/senior class level. This eligibility from a change in class level can occur from fall to spring or between years of study. In order to receive these additional funds, please contact the Financial Aid Office at firstname.lastname@example.com to determine your eligibility.
Some very helpful financial literacy information is also available on the Student Aid web site. Please complete the counseling and forward your completion status to Covenant.
Loan information is submitted to the National Student Loan Database System (NSLDS) Student Access which provides a centralized, integrated view of each recipient's Title IV loans and grants for easy access and inquiry by students, guarantee agencies, lenders and schools authorized to use the system. This is the web site for completing the required Exit Counseling upon falling below ½ time enrollment. Enrollment data is submitted to the National Student Clearinghouse by the Office of Records on a regular basis.
The Federal Parent PLUS Loan is available to parents of dependent undergraduate students enrolled full-time. The purpose of this type of loan is to assist with filling the financial gap after all other aid is applied. The amount of the PLUS Loan and all other aid awarded to the student combined cannot exceed the cost of attendance budget. If the parent chooses to take out a Parent PLUS Loan, they will need to complete the necessary requirements, such as, the Master Promissory Note. Note: Your FAFSA ID will be required to complete the PLUS Loan Master Promissory Note.
Non-Federal Private Loans
It is recommended that students exhaust all federal grant and loans available to you before considering a private (alternative) loan. You may qualify for loans or other assistance as Federal Student Title IV Aid and the terms and conditions of these loans may be more favorable than the provisions of private education loans.
Covenant College does not have a Preferred Lender List. There are no special arrangements with any lender nor does it make recommendations for private education loans to our students. Students may receive private education loans from any lender by choosing and applying directly with a lender.
Student Employment
The federal government provides some funding for students to work and receive a paycheck while they are a college student. You may work for our facilities services department, admissions office, or grounds department, for example. You can see our Student Employment Handbook or Work Study FAQ for more information.
Financial Aid for Approved Off-Campus Study Programs
Students who are accepted into approved off-campus study programs and are enrolled as full-time students, taking courses that will transfer into their academic program are eligible to receive financial aid resources (i.e. Federal, State and Covenant College Grants, Scholarships, and Loans). There are limited funds available on a first come basis. However, work-study is not available and some performance scholarships may not be available for off-campus study. All other policies outlined in the Catalog such as deadlines and satisfactory academic progress requirements remain the same for on-campus and off-campus study programs.
The amount of institutional financial aid that can be applied to an approved off-campus program varies depending on the program. Students may be eligible for up to 100% of institutional financial aid and 100% of external financial aid for off-campus study programs directed by Covenant College. Students may be eligible for up to 50% of institutional financial aid and 100% of external financial aid for CCCU and cooperative programs.
Please call or email the Financial Aid Office for more information: 706.419.1126 or email@example.com.


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The FINANCIAL -- Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has appointed Yarub Mohamed Obaidalla as its new General Manager for Oman.
Yarub, an Emirati national, will lead the further development of the airline's commercial strategy in Oman based in Muscat. He will also be responsible for further growing Etihad Airways' relationships with its travel trade and corporate customers, according to Etihad Airways.
Yarub joined the airline in 2009 as Business Development Manager for Hala Abu Dhabi, later serving as Government Sales Manager Abu Dhabi, where he successfully managed the Abu Dhabi Government Employee Travel Programme. He most recently served as Etihad Airways' Sales Manager for Sharjah and Northern Emirates.
Etihad Airways' Vice President - Global Sales, Danny Barranger, said: "Oman is a key market for Etihad Airways, where we currently offer three daily services to its capital, Muscat.
"We are delighted that Yarub, who has an extensive and successful track record across commercial functions, will lead the team into the next phase of development as the Omani market continues to grow. From 15 June, we will be adding a fourth daily flight between Abu Dhabi and Muscat."
Yarub said: "Etihad Airways commenced flights to Muscat in March 2006 and it has remained a key market for us ever since. I am excited about the opportunity to further develop our presence in Oman."
Yarub will report to Etihad Airways' Area General Manager GCC and Yemen, Maen Abdul Halim.


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LATEST: Do you have multiple phones? Extra large batteries? Do you want to keep your phone in its case? Then check out the new adjustable Phonemounter.
Mount your Samsung Z2 on tripods, stabilizers, or other surfaces for steady pictures. PhoneMounter has 2 mounting feet, landscape and horizontal, and each feet has a small plastic 1/4 20 UNC thread (US) that is the default size for tripod quick release plate screws.
Why PhoneMounter?
In addition to PhoneMounter, you will also need the following items (excluded from your Shapeways purchase!):
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Inserting the screw in the UNC thread the first times is somewhat hard as the plastic can be tight due to 3d printing limitations. Over time, this plastic thread can get loose, so you can switch to using the M6 clearance hole with a winged nut.
Incompatibilities with Smartphone accessories