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PRESS RELEASE: Members of the World Diamond Council (WDC), meeting today in a plenary session at the WDC's eight annual meeting, reaffirmed the diamond and jewelry industry's commitment to eliminating the trade in conflict diamonds, and agreed that the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) should evolve to reflect changes that have taken place since it was first launched in 2003.
In particular, the WDC expressed its support for discussions to widen the conflict diamonds definition in the Core Documents of the KPCS, beyond the current definition which limits its scope to diamonds that finance civil conflict. The plenary session affirmed a proposal that conflict diamonds should cover "diamond-related violence in rough diamond producing and trading areas."
"The World Diamond Council was not established to protect the narrow interests of the diamond and jewelry industries in the evolving campaign against conflict diamonds, although it clearly was in our interest that conflict diamonds be eliminated from the face of the earth," said Eli Izhakoff, the president of WDC. "The WDC was established to articulate our refusal to allow the product, to which we have dedicated our careers, be used as an agent of suffering and oppression. Under no circumstances should the diamond be associated with collective violence against communities."
In her keynote address at the annual meeting, Susan Shabangu, South Africa's Minister of Mineral Resources, also spoke of the need to reassess the KPCS a decade after it was introduced.
"The geopolitical environment within which diamonds are traded is constantly changing. As such, it is important that institutions that oversee the legitimacy of the diamond trade constantly sharpen the efficacy of their tool to be swiftly responsive to such changes in order to remain current and relevant," she stated.
"The challenge to the sustainability of this industry is no longer limited to stemming the trade of conflict diamonds, but today, it also means ensuring that we support the fledgling democracies, and emergent economies previously ravaged by conflict fueled by the illicit trade of this commodity," Shabangu said. "How do we take this commodity, which has been distorted into a symbol of oppression, violence and inequality, into a beacon of hope and prosperity for all? It can only be by ensuring that the citizens of these producer countries enjoy a fair share of the revenues generated from their diamond endowments."
In her address to the plenary session, U.S. Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic, spoke of the need of the Kimberley Process to codify practices that it has already been implementing for several years. She suggested that the definition of conflict diamonds be modified to cover "rough diamonds used to finance, or otherwise directly related to armed conflict or other situations of violence."
"I want to emphasize that this modified definition will encompass situations already encountered and dealt with in ad hoc manner by the Kimberley Process and will include clear guidelines derived from international legal principles that ensure all nations and trading entities know exactly what diamonds must be prevented from entering the supply chain, on a mine-by-mine or site-by-site basis. This new definition of conflict diamond would, like the present one, represent a minimum requirement for certification," Milovanovic stated.
In its resolution, the WDC considered the proposal by the Kimberley Process chair Milovanovic to be a good basis for moving the discussion forward.
Also addressing the plenary meeting was Tung-Lai Margue, the head of the service for foreign policy instruments of the European Commission, which is the agency responsible for overseeing the Kimberley Process in the European Union. He praised the WDC for its contribution to the work of the ad hoc committee on KPCS reform, which was recently met in Brussels. "It is important to emphasize and promote the active role that observers play within the different working groups and committees of the Kimberley Process. They have made valuable, often leading, contributions in the past, and hopefully they will continue to contribute actively and constructively to these groups going forward," he said.
"The WDC has a particular role to play," Margue continued. "The industry has specific responsibilities throughout the diamond supply chain, from the protection of the livelihoods and communities where its resources are coming from to remaining credible in the face of its consumers. In light of this, the WDC should be encouraged to take further steps to ensure that cut diamonds will only be traded if the transformed rough diamonds can be traced back to their Kimberley Process certificate."
In a another vote, the general assembly of the WDC agreed to expand the size of its board of directors from 20 to 25 members.
This eighth annual meeting of the WDC was hosted in Vicenza, by the Fiera di Vicenza. In a special session, which preceded the plenary session, Izhakoff played special tribute the Fiera's president, Roberto Ditri, and its chief executive, Corrado Facco, for their organization's generosity and efforts in making the event possible.


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WASHINGTON -- Gun violence has dropped dramatically nationwide over the past two decades, but nearly three-quarters of all homicides are still committed with a firearm, the Justice Department said in a report released Tuesday.
The report, by the department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, painted an encouraging picture of long-term trends at a time of divisive political debate over guns and legislation to regulate them.
Firearms-related homicides declined 39 percent between 1993 and 2011, the report said, while nonfatal firearms crimes fell 69 percent during that period.
Yet the document also made clear that when people are killed, it is still most likely to be with a gun. In 2011, as in the past two decades, about 70 percent of all homicides were committed with a firearm, and the majority of those firearms were handguns.
The report, which echoes earlier findings of reductions in violent crime from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, comes amid an intense divide over guns, especially since December's massacre of 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Conn.
Newtown thrust gun control to the top of President Barack Obama's second-term agenda, and the White House pushed hard for a series of gun-control measures. But the effort unraveled under pressure from the gun rights lobby, and every major proposal was rejected on the Senate floor.
The biggest setback for the White House was the defeat of a compromise measure to expand background checks for firearms purchases. Gun-control proponents have since mobilized to revive the push for stricter gun laws, but gun rights groups might seize on one finding in Tuesday's Justice Department report to argue against enhanced background checks.
Fewer than 1 percent of state prison inmates who possessed a gun when they committed their offense obtained the firearm at a gun show, the report said. Gun shows were central to the measure recently rejected in the Senate: It would have extended the current background-check requirement for firearms purchases from covering only sales at licensed dealerships to any sale that takes place at a gun show or was advertised in print or online.
About 40 percent of state prison inmates obtained their firearms from illegal sources such as theft or through a drug deal, the report said, while 37 percent got their guns from a family member or friend. Those findings are based on data from 2004.
Overall, the Justice Department report said, firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011, while nonfatal firearm crimes declined from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011. The drop extended to schools: Homicides at schools declined from an average of 29 per year in the 1990s to an average of 20 per year in the 2000s.
Although the rate of firearms homicides for African Americans declined by 51 percent over the past two decades, that rate was still 14.6 per 100,000 people in 2010 -- compared to 1.9 for whites.
In 2010, the South had the highest rate of firearms homicides nationwide at 4.4 per 100,000 people, the report said. That compared to 3.4 in the Midwest, 3.0 in the West, and 2.8 in the Northeast.

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BSD survival relies on software natively available on linux. If all these linux programs require systemd, then BSD is screwed.
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's a good example. They lost GNOME 3 to systemd, but they were lucky enough to have MATE (and it's a question of time until it's Linux-only, too).
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Red Hat certification academies have become pretty much as huge as Cisco certification programs in colleges and polytechnics worldwide. If RedHat say systemd, then systemd is what will be taught to these probably millions of aspiring Linux professional engineers/system admins.
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Its funny to see Puppy on BSD, but.. it is inviable!
Now, a linux system without systemd will be still alive if developers, uses systemd as optional dependency.. if not, is a serious trouble. I think that it is very difficult to maintain a Linux system in this direction. But, "maybe" the union with BSD at least, can share the pain.
BSD migration is not free. Go for BSD implies:
1) A reduction of 60% of current packages that are available on Linux.
2) We need to assume that we losses all systemd dependent software.
3) The current packages that work, maybe 10/15% will be old in the future. Because, some updates can incorporate systemd inside.
4) We assume that BSD port needs work, to make usable as common Linux.
5) And, the worst part.. is that we don't have possitive items to contrarrest 1,2,3,4 points. O no?
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Boycott linux distro because it uses systemd - free linux software - just because it is not suitable for everyone?
The real problem is not systemd but any linux that can not provide optional systemd boot for the user.
Debian for example does the change from sysvinit to systemd by adding init=/bin/systemd to the boot code. Simple and elegant solution suitable for all needs. Maybe impossible to be included in similar way for Puppy but is this systemd fault?
Otherwise anyone who prefer to use systemd should boycott any linux that does not use it.
Boycotting any form of linux just doesn't feel right to me.
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Atleast the slackware developer has a negative attitude towards systemd.
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Last week I asked the SDDM developers to reconsider their decision no longer to support ConsoleKit because Slackware does not have systemd or logind and thus we need to keep using ConsoleKit. The answer could be expected: "answer is no because ConsoleKit is deprecated and is not maintained anymore" and therefore I had to patch it in myself.
Of course, the ConsoleKit successor systemd-logind, written by the same team that gave us all the *Kit crap, depends on PAM which we also do not have in Slackware. One of the fellow core developers in Slackware, who is intimately familiar with the KDE developers community, has heard from multiple sources that KDE is moving towards a hard dependency on systemd (probably because they are going to need the functionality of systemd-logind). We all know what that means, folks! It will be the day that I must stop delivering you new KDE package releases for Slackware. That'll be the day.
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Anyone who had pain because of forced upgrade to Skype and got no sound will know what the days of systemd looks like. As it happens, PulseAudio is also the brainchild of the same person who came with systemd.
I came to a renewed realisation, though. The reason why everything is moving to systemd is simple - because *the developers are paid to do that*. systemd is not a free (as in gratis) work, it is a "paid" work; the guys who work on it are on RedHat's payroll, and *they are paid to work on systemd*. Gnome moves to systemd because ... the devs are on RH's payroll too. I'm not sure about KDE. It probably isn't about conspiracy, but from RH point of view - why should they be funding their staff to work on anything other than systemd (=competitors to systemd), when systemd is the corporate agenda? And from the view point of the staff - why should they spend their hours doing non-billable work to support other systems when they can charge billable hours doing systemd-related work?
If you want support for anything else, then you'll have to do it yourself (or pay someone else to do it - like Ubuntu did with upstart). Same with Gnome - Ubuntu left Gnome and did Unity. That is simply the way the free market work. (Note: Both didn't go too well for Ubuntu, I suppose Canonical doesn't get a decent enough return from its effort while RedHat does, so they abandon the effort and just succumb to whatever RedHat dictates).
You know another company that writes their own init system (I think their init system is called "goldfish" init system)? They aren't troubled about systemd. That same company doesn't really care about Xorg incompatibility, or PulseAudio, or browser incompatibility, or Gnome, or KDE, or Flash, any other problems ... because they happen to have the financial clout to pay people to write replacements for all these, and vertically integrating all the components to deliver a nice, smooth experience (way better than systemd does). I leave it as an exercise to find out which company I'm referring to
(Hint: they use Linux as the kernel too, and just like RedHat, they're getting a good return on their investment, unlike Ubuntu or any other desktop Linux companies).
It's all about the free market. People (myself included) often forget that many of the players in the FOSS are into it not for charity, nor its principles, nor for "good warm feeling you get by doing noble things for mankind" - but for purely commercial reasons. This is true either individually, or as a company. If the effort doesn't put anything back in the book, then it goes for the cutting (e.g: how many products have Google killed lately?).
Welcome to the world of Windows, where one company decides on *everything*.
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Was going to give away the answer but some guessing might be fun.
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UNIX all over again. One Linux class and many books share what FOSS stands for. It doesn't mean free, per se. Nor does it mean something was arrived at 'freely'. Incentives to people is achieved at, via various means. "Money is what Moni wants" for it universal use.
Corporations and governments intend to drive us into specializations usually starting from a generalization.
Systemd, EFI, etc. are mere examples.
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I suppose Canonical doesn't get a decent enough return from its effort while RedHat does
You see Canonical does not have the US army as its big(est) client...
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You know another company that writes their own init system (I think their init system is called "goldfish" init system)?.. I leave it as an exercise to find out which company I'm referring to
I tried googling this but just got stuck in an infinite loop :-]
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jamesbond wrote:
You know another company that writes their own init system (I think their init system is called "goldfish" init system)?.. I leave it as an exercise to find out which company I'm referring to
I tried googling this but just got stuck in an infinite loop :-]
I just don't like android's close binding to java. If I were going to pick the language i least like to program in, Java would be it. The only good thing to come from Java is smarter IDEs... because they have to be, or you couldn't get anything done.
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Security is alien to Java developers.
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I'm so old that I remember plugging wires in a board to get computer to do tasks. Machine language, then to Assembler, then to Fortran, Cobol, RPG, .... to today's languages of which python, Java, HTML, etc exist. In my life, I have heard so many voices about this language or that. A language is a compiler, for the most part and the compiler is written in a former language of some sort. Languages themselves provide an attempt to allow an easy understanding to produce a runnable code.
We, as Linux people,should use caution in "damning" any Language. But, I come to understand that people look for communication tools that they can easily manipulate to express a concept thru and in some language. Thus, a program/utility/compiler/service/subsystem is exactly that...an expression for functionality. Is it "language flawed"...YES! They all are. But, remember and understand its mission. JAVA has a very good mission. So does C. So does Javascript, so does PDP. so does Perl. so does...
Bias aside, one earlier member points out, the industry as a whole is NOT as backward as some would like to think it is because of any singular item. All components, together, constitutes a production. And its never exactly perfect.
At least in this thread, I want to share some additional information for community consideration:
December 2, 2013
If you use an Android phone or tablet, there are a lot of benefits that come from Android's open nature--customization and choice are the most obvious. But an often overlooked benefit of openness is security: by developing in the open, anyone can check Android's code to verify that it's trustworthy or discover areas where it can be improved. Furthermore, the security community can even write code to make Android stronger and protect it against unrealized attacks.
Google has always worked closely with the security industry to make the products you use safer and more secure, and we wanted to highlight a few recent examples of that cooperation on Android:
Android, now part of the Google Patch Reward Program: That's right, Google actually pays developers when they contribute security-related patches to popular open source projects, and Android is now a part of this program. As a user, this means that you have the broader security community looking out for you and preventing possible threats, before they are acted upon.
Security improvements in Android 4.4, from the community: In Android 4.4, we reinforced the Android sandbox (which prevents applications from extending outside of their own area and damaging other parts of a device) by putting SELinux into enforcing mode, providing one of the strongest security systems available. The core of SELinux, as well as many of the Android specific extensions have been contributed by third-parties through open source, an example of real security improvements from the community you can use today.
Pwn2Own Mobile, with Android: Android was a contributor to the bounty in this year's PacSec Security conference, where teams of security researchers tried to exploit popular mobile devices. And while no exploit was found in Android on the Nexus devices provided, we were ready and waiting to create a patch in the event of an exploit!
The Android team works very closely with the security research community at large to foster public discussions and implement improvements such as the ones above. This openness has helped make the Android phone or tablet you carry with you everyday much more secure.
This reference is NOT an endorsement of anything. It is presented as a view of people providing clarity in efforts taken.
Our task can be to contribute, in word or deed, as best we can to advance efforts herein, where we address our overall requirements for a productive environment recognizing that it, too, is never going to be a perfect solution for some/any.
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Craig Platt heads to a rocky retreat rated one of the best hotels in the world.
Where's that next cairn?
I'm standing among the rocks surrounding Bushmans Kloof, a wilderness retreat and game reserve with a reputation for being one of the best hotels in the world. And I'm lost.
Bushmans Kloof sits about three hours' drive north of Cape Town in South Africa, nestled at the foot of the imposing Cedarberg Mountains.
In 2009, the respected Travel + Leisure magazine declared Bushmans Kloof to be the best hotel in the world. More recently, Conde Nast Traveller named it 'Best for food' in its 2012 Gold List of the world's best hotels. With that reputation, I've taken the opportunity to come and experience it for myself.
But right now, I'm wondering how to find my way back to the lodge.
My walk started out easily enough, strolling along one of the many walking tracks that can be found around the 7500-hectare property, which is home to just 16 rooms and suites for guests.
Within a couple of minutes of setting out I've spotted a few large lizards sunning themselves, followed by a mongoose that runs across my path and disappears down a crack in the rocks.
Heading up among the spectacular sandstone formations, the track disappears as I hit bare rock. From this point on, small cairns mark the way forward. I follow them slowly, eventually making my way into a sheltered overhang where I discover to my delight a series of vivid, ancient rock paintings.
Bushmans Kloof is home to more than 130 ancient rock art sites, created by the San people (the 'bushmen' for which the area is named) – South Africa's earliest human inhabitants. Many of the art sites remain in excellent condition and depict humans, elephants and a variety of other wildlife, painted in ochre that has lasted thousands of years. It's considered a highly significant site by archaeologists and researchers are among the regular visitors to the property.
As I move a little further on, with the bright springtime sun shining down upon me, my mind begins to wander. I soon realise I've come off the trail. Looking around me, I can't figure out if a nearby pile of rocks is a cairn or … just a pile of rocks.
After retracing my steps back and forth several times, I realise I'm lost (and feeling a little isolated out here - I'm thankful at this moment that this part of South Africa has no dangerous predators).
After about 20 minutes of wandering around in the increasing heat, an ingenious (I think) solution hits me. I've been so busy taking snaps of the various views and rock formations, I'm able to use the display on my digital camera to guide me back to the path, moving around until I can match my real-life view with those in the photos I earlier took.
Even though, from my position above the retreat, I never lose sight of the property's buildings, I still feel like I've had a little adventurous experience here on the rocks. (It also occurs to me some time later that I was carrying a detailed map of the trail in my back pocket the whole time, which I'd forgotten about.)
"Experiential" holidays are the buzzword in the tourism industry at the moment and Bushmans Kloof fits this mould. Sure, the accommodations are beautiful, with huge private rooms, a wonderful restaurant and excellent service from the attentive and friendly staff, but the retreat offers experiences beyond just comfort in a spectacular setting.
Along with trips out to various rock art sites on the property, where the retreat's guides provide insight into the history and meaning of the ancient paintings of the Bushman for which the valley is named, there are also evening wildlife excursions where we get the chance to check out some of the animals that live on the property, including zebras and springboks among the 35 mammal species that roam the area. There are also aardvarks on the property and, while they are rarely seen, their huge burrows are easy to spot.
As the sun sets over the rocks, we enjoy the traditional South African 'sundowner' drinks and nibbles before heading back to the main lodge for a terrific dinner. The produce is sourced from local farms and from the retreat's own garden, making for fresh and fascinating dishes. I can begin to understand why Conde Naste rated the food so highly.
As I retire, I find my room has been turned down, the lights dimmed, the bed ready and a small piece of paper placed on the pillow. It's a 'bed time story' – a short tale from Beyond the Cedarberg by Peter Slingsby, about some of the local characters from the history of the region.
"If you stand outside your quiet cottage on a star-spangled night and you think you hear the distant bark of the baboons, look up to the hills and contemplate that real baboons, like most people, are asleep in the dark hours…" it finishes, causing me to reflect on what a unique part of the world I'm in.
And so to bed, before I rise in the morning to head back to Cape Town.
After a couple of nights at Bushmans Kloof, can I pass judgment? Is it the best hotel in the world? Without having stayed at all the other contenders, it's impossible to be definitive (perhaps, one day…).
What I can say is that Bushmans Kloof offers a wonderful, unique experience and its setting and historic art set it apart from any other place in the world.
Still, I do recall the bread was a little dry on one of the sandwiches I had for afternoon tea.
Does that sound like nitpicking? Yes, because that's exactly what it is. When you stay at a place like this, nitpicking is the only criticism you can offer.
The writer travelled as a guest of South African Airways, South African Tourism and Red Carnation Hotels.
Getting there
South African Airways flies daily from Sydney and six times a week from Perth to Cape Town via Johannesburg. Return air fares from the east coast (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane) start from about $2236 and from Perth about $2117. See www.flysaa.com
From Cape Town, ground transfers can be arranged by Bushmans Kloof for the three-hour journey via the scenic Pakhuis Pass.
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Room rates at Bushman's Kloof start from R2000 ($A249) per person per night in low season (April 1 to August 31) and R3050 ($A380) in high season (January 8 to March 31, September 1 to October 31). All meals, nature drives, guided rock art tours and several other activities are included. See http://www.bushmanskloof.co.za


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- 10/11/2010 2:36 am
- Betsy B said...
Absolutely beautiful! I love the colours you have used, especially the blue of the cape. I adore the dresses next to the blue cape too but I don't have great legs so really need dresses and skirts to fall just below the knee....if only I had gorgeous legs like the models!
- 10/11/2010 5:01 am
- ElyZa said...
Those clothes are stunning! I'm in love with the dark blue trousers, I hope I'm going to find them in some stores somewhere! :)
- 10/11/2010 8:56 am
- Madelene said...
I love the dresses especially, the prints are gorgeous and timeless but still a bit quirky. I wish I could wear them all :)
- 10/11/2010 10:57 am
- fille de bricolage said...
just founf your collection-so beautiful, congratulations on such great work :)
ps i love the tan brogues with cream laces, where can i get my hands on them to go with my first nadinoo order???
:) m
- 10/11/2010 11:19 am
- Nadinoo said...
Those cute shoes are Kurt Geiger, I ended up keeping them after the shoot. You may be able to get hold of them at Top Shop.
Good Luck!
- 10/11/2010 12:35 pm
oh you made the 3/4-sleeve blouse in pastel blue! lovely! is it still available in peach, please? (:
- 10/11/2010 1:03 pm
- Jessie Fincham said...
Amazing!!! I just love everything Nadia. The little printed leaf dresses are probably my favourite :) Great job! x
- 10/11/2010 2:11 pm
- meredith cheng - munaluna said...
your new collection is absolutely exquisite - every piece is gorgeous! well done!
- 10/11/2010 3:45 pm
- Lo said...
love love love! I will for sure be featuring you on my blog!
Please stop by and check it out!
xo Lauren
- 10/11/2010 5:31 pm
- giselaandzoe said...
absolutely love everything!! favorites are cape shorts and your signature cutesy dress's
- 10/11/2010 6:38 pm
- thisisnaive said...
Looks really, really good, Nadia. Very polished! Like the new logo too.
- 10/11/2010 7:35 pm
- Tracee said...
I was so excited for this and of course you delivered! I love everything you do--just blogged about you!
- 10/12/2010 12:56 am
- anja louise said...
Gorgeous as usual! I love the colors and prints, the dark blue print looks so interesting. I think my two favorite pieces are the blue/white dresses with the cinched waist and the jumper dress with the little buttons at the neckline. It's a wonderful collection, you should be proud!
- 10/12/2010 2:47 am
The blue cape is my favorite !
- 10/12/2010 12:51 pm
- Nadinoo said...
Thank you all so much for the kind feedback, it's so nice to read through your thoughts and find out your favorite pieces.
Please keep them coming!
Love Nadinoo x
P.S. n: We have run out of the Peach silk I'm afraid, but I will keep my eye out for a similar colour.
- 10/12/2010 9:16 pm
- Ashley Ording said...
Oh dear, every single look is my favorite! No joke. This collection is pure girly perfection and I would love nothing more than to run around town in any of those looks. Totally swooning.
Ashley (www.ashleyording.com)
- 10/12/2010 11:56 pm
- Daughter Earth said...
they are all lovely.
I especially love the top right, 2nd one down on right! Really beautiful!
- 10/13/2010 8:21 pm
- saradowle said...
I've been waiting to see your new collection for an idea of what to wear to my cousin's winter wedding!
Where can I make a purchase?
- 10/13/2010 9:51 pm
- Inês Batista {ARAMAR} said...
I'm in love with every thing! The colour choices and the patterns are amazing! :D
- 10/14/2010 3:20 pm
- Audrina said...
These are beautiful pieces. I love the socks showing trend this fall!
- 10/14/2010 6:51 pm
love the cobalt cape and pants, the blue patterned tent dress and that lovely shirt in the Isamu print, I can't wait to put in a big order when they become available. How long before the pop up in the shop?
- 10/18/2010 11:49 am
- Kimia Kline said...
oh my goodness--SO gorgeous as usual. the blue cape is incredible!!!
- 10/19/2010 5:50 am
- Hawk and Fallow said...
I am in love. So much so that I simply had to blog about you ...
A fan forever! Thank you for such beauty, Lisa xxx
- 10/21/2010 7:09 pm
- Flea For Fashion said...
love love love i just can't say more...
- 10/23/2010 8:50 pm
- Belinda said...
wow. what a beautiful collection.
- 10/23/2010 11:55 pm
- Alessandra Sorrentino said...
This collection is simply adorable! I wish I could show off any of these lovely looks here! My favorite, mmm I can't decide between the pixies adventure cape and the tweety dress!
I can't find the first dress second row (the one with belt ad three buttons on the front) in the website, it's too pretty... oh dear :)
- 11/20/2010 8:12 pm
- rockinkez said...
i really love all the looks. so beautiful and quirky. sadly i can't squeeze myself into a medium though! :(
- 11/22/2010 12:31 pm
- Biaa said...
Wow! I love all your clothes! I especially love the blue cape :)
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After using for a long time the Toodledo iPhone application, I decided to enter emoji characters at the beginning of the names of some tasks. To my surprise, after the sync occurs, the entire text (name of the task) has disappeared, giving way to an empty field ... So, I was afraid to continue using emoji characters in the names of tasks and lose information again ... I wonder if these characters are allowed in Toodledo and run the risk of losing information and continue to insist on its use... This is a bug or a normal behavior (emoji is prohibited)? Thank you very much!
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With all signs indicating that Attorney General Martha Coakley is set to announce a run for governor as early as Monday, her popularity among voters would make her a formidable candidate.
But three years after her loss to Scott Brown, Coakley still faces large pockets of resistance from Democratic Party leaders and activists who have not yet forgotten her disastrous performance.
A person familiar with the planning said Coakley is in the final decision stages and could make an announcement first thing next week. Once in the race, Coakley would be expected to quickly move to the front of the pack.
As a two-term attorney general, she is a well-known statewide figure who in the last several years has reinvigorated a political career nearly destroyed by the failed 2010 Senate bid. She would also enter the campaign with the backing of several politically formidable women's groups, including EMILY's List, that will raise huge amounts of campaign cash on her behalf.
For those who saw firsthand the Coakley collapse in the race against Brown, however, the prospect of her leading the 2014 Democratic ticket is cause for concern.
Lou DiNatale, a Democratic strategist and pollster, said that while Coakley has done a remarkable job of politically rehabilitating herself, he picks up a persistent undercurrent of negative chatter that began over the summer when she first signaled her interest in a gubernatorial campaign.
"Even though she dominates in the surveys, the Democratic activists remain concerned about her ability to perform as a candidate in the long run,'' DiNatale said. "They understand she could unravel at any moment in a tough general election race.''
Party activists, both Republican and Democratic, can play a critical role in elections. They are the on-the-ground workers who can create a sense of excitement around a campaign, particularly in the early stages of a race. Deval Patrick focused heavily on courting grass-roots activists, a strategy that gave his insurgent candidacy the energy to pull off an upset in the 2006 gubernatorial primary and a landslide victory in the general election.
Coakley's biggest selling point to party leaders is her standing in the polls. For example, a statewide survey of 500 voters taken by pollster David Paleologos this summer showed Coakley faring far better against the likely GOP nominee, Charles D. Baker, than other potential Democratic nominees, including state Treasurer Steve Grossman. Her favorability rating was 56 percent, statistically tied with Brown and Patrick, who have long been considered the two most popular politicians in Massachusetts.
"It's clear Martha has a lot of supporters,'' said Warren Tolman, a former state senator who ran for governor in 2002. "I think a lot of people have forgiven her for what happened in the Senate race. The question is how many of those people really want to see her head the Democratic ticket next year?"
A broad consensus among party insiders, most of whom did not want to be quoted by name for fear of looking disloyal to a major political officeholder, suggests that the jarring experience in the Senate race is creating ripples of consternation within the ranks.
"I think she's going to get a very chilly reception,'' said one prominent Norfolk County Democrat who did not want to speak publicly about the angst about Coakley's candidacy.
Coakley's only serious courting of the party regulars came in July, at the party's annual convention in Lowell, where she got a warm reception. But, she has for the most part avoided smaller summer conclaves: the barbecues, picnics, and living-room caucuses that mark off-year party activity.
Those events can draw as many as 100 or more activists who are the core of the party infrastructure. Her absence is a perceived slight that has not gone unnoticed.
Norma Shulman, the Democratic state committeewoman from Framingham who is backing Grossman for governor, said that while Coakley's high-profile accomplishments as attorney general since the 2010 race have defused much of the anger that had been directed at her, she still faces hurdles within the party ranks as she ponders another statewide race.
"I know there are activists who are very jaded from the failed Senate race, but there are also activists who are very pleased with the work she is doing as attorney general,'' said Shulman.
Even Democrats who admire Coakley acknowledge there is some lingering unease toward her as a gubernatorial candidate. But they insist that she has worked hard reconstructing a political career that appeared to be on life support after the Brown victory.
One of them — Gus Bickford, a Democratic consultant and former executive director of the state party — said that he finds himself making the case to skeptics. Coakley, he tells them, has burrowed back into her job as attorney general, focusing on a host of important issues such as marriage equality, human trafficking, and domestic violence, subjects that resonate with most of the party's activists.
"Most of those people are willing to give me the benefit of the doubt,'' said Bickford, who added that he had not yet decided whom to support in the race. "I don't think they are a majority at all. I am sure she is going to get a fair shake from the party insiders."
Beyond the 2010 fallout, Coakley faces the same challenges as previous attorneys general who have tried and failed to parlay the job into a successful run for governor. Despite her popularity, she will face a viable Democratic field in the governor's race.
A Coakley run would also mean that Democrats risk losing control of the attorney general's office as hopefuls from the left and the right line up to replace her. Already, Secretary of State William F. Galvin has told several Democratic insiders that he would take a serious look at the race.
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Chock and Spike
I can even start them off wheeking if i imitate them wheeking lol
Just had chock and spike out for a handling session. One by one of corse. Spike needed to be brushed again so out came the salad.he has quite long ish hair does my spikey. Chocks hair is all short and smooth and silky. Spikes hair is slightly rougher in texture from chocks. Its a bit wiry to be honest. thats because he is part abby and part rex coated.
spike also has an afro lol. It looks like someones taken some of my dread wax and put it through his hair. He looks like he has been dragged through a hedge backwards.
Found a nice new house for the pigs today while out shopping. Didnt pick it up as i wasnt really sure about the price for what it actually was. Pets at home really are a rip off. Will probably end up buying it though as it is nice. Its wooden. Not pine or ceder some other wood. plenty big enough for the both of them.
Chocks personality is like his coat, smooth silky soft and he is really placid and layed back. Spike however is a different thing all together. He is very highly strung. Has lots and lots of energy that he never seems to run out of. Chock would make a fantastic theropy pig as he loves nothing more than a good cuddle with any one that will Have him on their knee for some lap time. He falls asleep on my knee all the time. Means he trusts me enough to do that and i am really touched that he does that.
Just done my daily spot clean. Took all the old hay out and replaced it. replaced pelits and water also. Given the pigs a run. Been a little busy bee this morning since i got up at 5.
Goin to the pet shop tomoro morning to get the boys some new toys. A new house if the shop has them in. The pigs dont really need anything but i wanna spoil them big style. Dont think there is anything wrong with wanting to spoil them. brings me and them so much joy when they play with a new lot of toys. i love hearing them play.
given the pigs a nice run. Now their tucking in to a bowl of salad. They will be cleaned out today also. still planning on goin to the pet shop today though so they will be getting spoiled thats for sure.
The pigs have a nice clean house now. Nice to see they are making ajustments to my work lol. Maybe the hay stack isnt to their liking...
Went to pet shop. No houses left. New i should have picked it up when i saw it the other day. On the plus side, the pigs wont run out of hay or substraight for time! They also wont run out of bull rush balls iether as i now have four sitting in the closet and one in use.
I also got another bag of that food with the mint in. And a bag of forage mix that also has mint in. It also has nettle. Willo. Origano. Wild flowers its quite a big bag its made out of paper and tide with string. its made by a company called woodlands
Do you have that kinda thing in the states or anywhere else. Dryed herbs for your pigs that you can buy from the pet shop.
I'm not sure if we have herbs we can by from pet stores in the USA. I order my food and hay online. I do buy my gerbil food at PetSmart. I'll look around next time i'm in the store, if I remember. :)
tell me when your gonna go and i will remind you
Have just done my daily spot clean. The pigs now have a alfalfa hay and normal hay mix for a change. they are rearangeing the hay stack as i write. There i had put it in a nice tidy pyle and now its all over the place. Think they are having a rave in there. Lol
they have been having a rave in there. Went in to change the supplies and you should see the state of the cage!.
Well. Means their having fun in their nice clean house. :) if my pigs are happy then so am i
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Glad your pigs enjoy the dried herbs and having fun re-decorating their cage. My cage is an utter mess as to encourage my senior pig (who also has arthritis) to eat more hay, I have a pile under her stool so she can nibble. Of course the hay bits then gets everywhere around the cage and caught on the fleece.
I also buy the dried herbs from Burgess as a treat and sprinkle that in their hay. However, as it contains a lot of high calcium herbs, I feed it quite sparingly as a treat.
I also buy the dried herbs from Burgess as a treat and sprinkle that in their hay. However, as it contains a lot of high calcium herbs, I feed it quite sparingly as a treat.
Now they in their pen tucking in to some alfalfa timathy kings hay. they love it! They love their pen. Gives them a chance to be pigs and do what they would naturally do in the wild. Forage for hay! Cant forget the hay!
ooo yeh and bight things that they come across in there. cant forget comunity gnaw theropy. When i had my guide dog sometimes i would get sterio gnawing. That use to do my brain in.


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Cikana State Fish Hatchery
Martinsville, IN 46151
(765) 342-5527
Hours: 8 am to 5 pm weekdays.
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Tours can he arranged by contacting the hatchery manager.
- Location
Cikana State Fish Hatchery is located in Morgan County near Martinsville. The hatchery is divided into two units. The north unit is off State Road 37, one mile north of State Road 44. The east unit (main unit) is off State Road 44, one mile east of State Road 37.
- History
The name Cikana (si-kay-na) was derived from an Indian word meaning bass. The hatchery is composed of two separate properties and was purchased by the state in 1966 from Grassyforks Fisheries Inc., a major goldfish producer. The hatchery was acquired during a time when new public fishing waters were being created around the state in the form of reservoirs and impoundments. A centrally located hatchery was needed to boost production of warm-water species such as bass, bluegill and channel catfish. At the time of purchase, the hatchery had 105 ponds (29.5 acres of water) however, only 40 percent held water.
During the late l960s and early 1970s, extensive renovations occurred, including enlarging the ponds, strengthening levees, installing basins, repairing wells and constructing offices and a culture building. By 1975, the east and north units were in full production.
- The East Unit
This 78-acre area contains 22 earthen ponds ranging from three-tenths to 1.7 acres in size. The water surface area totals almost 21 acres. Each pond slopes and drains into its own basin. Four wells on the property supply water to the ponds and a 10,000-gallon reservoir tank that feeds the culture building. The water supplied has a constant temperature of 54 degrees. The reservoir tank may also be filled with pond water through a submersible pump located in pond 21.
The culture building contains 16 rearing tanks and two jar batteries that are used for egg incubation. It also houses a lab, wood shop, crew quarters and hatchery office.
Two other buildings on the east unit are a service building and a small barn with a backup generator. The service building has a two-bay garage and headquarters for the supervisor of hatcheries and the district fish management biologist. Overlooking the property from the south is the property manager's residence.
- The North Unit
This 40-acre property contains 13 earthen ponds ranging in size from three-tenths to nine-tenths of an acre. The water surface totals 7.4 acres. A well supplies water to all the ponds except pond number one, which is spring-fed. Pond one drains into pond two through an overflow pipe, while ponds two through seven drain into a common basin. All other ponds have separate drain basins. Buildings on this area include the assistant manager's residence, a barn and a pole building.
- Production
Cikana Fish Hatchery is a warm-water hatchery using modern intensive and extensive fish culture techniques. Intensive culture carried out in the hatchery building is based on adjusting environmental controls to produce the maximum number of fish per unit. Extensive fish culture in the rearing ponds is essentially a simulation of nature with control over the number of fish per pond and the food source.
Using a water source such as well water makes fertilizing necessary to produce a sufficient amount of zooplankton, or microscopic animals, needed for food by small fish. Additional food sources include commercial fish food and hatchery-raised forage fish such as fathead minnows and goldfish.
The primary species raised at Cikana include walleye, saugeye (a hybrid cross between a female walleye and male sauger), channel catfish and smallmouth bass.
A typical year's production would include 20 million walleye fry, 150,000 walleye fingerlings, 25,000 saugeye fingerlings, 100,000 channel catfish fingerlings (2 to 6 inches long), 50,000 channel catfish advanced fingerlings (8 inches long) and 20,000 smallmouth bass fingerlings. Numbers, sizes and kinds of fish produced will vary yearly depending on fish management requests.
The fish produced at Cikana are stocked in state-managed waters throughout Indiana. Fish are not for sale to the public.
- Volunteer Opportunities
Need a reason to get outside and move? You can volunteer alone or in small groups at this property. Some activities include trash pick-up, basic gardening, painting, and more. Call the property office for details.


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The U.S. Department of Transportation says it's easier for police to spot a motorist chatting on a cellphone than it is to catch someone texting while driving.
The federal government is giving $550,000 to Connecticut and Massachusetts for pilot projects to crack down on people who text while driving.
Each state is getting $275,000 grants to develop "high-visibility anti-texting enforcement programs," which will include stationing police spotters on highway overpasses looking for motorists who can't keep their fingers off the keypad.
"We have come a long way in our fight against distracted driving, but there is still much work to be done," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday in announcing the grants. "Texting behind the wheel is especially dangerous, which is why we're working with states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to address this important safety issue."
The money will be used to develop and train police officers on better methods for spotting texting drivers, and to develop media campaigns that alert the public to the dangers of texting and driving.
The Department of Transportation says distracted driving has become even more dangerous with the proliferation of cellphones. In 2010, more than 3,000 people were killed in distracted driving crashes that included texting, talking on a cellphone, eating and drinking, grooming, and other activities.
The agency cites research that found drivers who use handheld devices are four times more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. Text messaging creates a crash risk 23 times worse than driving while not distracted, according to research.
Thirty-nine states have laws on the books that specifically ban texting, and 10 states have laws that prohibit the use of handheld cell phones while driving, according to federal transportation officials.
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Despite such laws, prior demonstration programs conducted in Hartford, Conn., and Syracuse, N.Y., found that it's more difficult to detect texting drivers than drivers talking on a handheld device, the Transportation Department said. The vast majority of tickets issued under those programs were for handheld phone use – only about 5 percent were for texting violations.
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"While it is relatively easier for law enforcement to determine illegal handheld cellphone use by observing the position of the phone at the driver's ear, the dangerous practice of texting while driving is often not as obvious," said David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in a press release. "These two new demonstration programs will help identify real-world protocols and practices to better detect if a person is texting while driving."
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The grants will help Connecticut and Massachusetts develop anti-texting enforcement protocols and techniques, such as using stationary patrols, spotters on overpasses or elevated roadways and roving patrols. The results will be documented for the benefit of other states.
"I look forward to seeing the results of the new enforcement programs announced today as we work to put an end to this deadly behavior," LaHood wrote Tuesday on the Transportation Department's fastlane.dot.gov blog.
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A Texas couple must have missed my recent blog post with tips on dining out with kids. Eli Gau and Lillian Maliti were at an Applebee's in Katy, Texas, with their sons Ryan, 3, and Ethan, 1, last Sunday night, when the restaurant manager called the police because the children were "overly active."
Gau admitted to KHOU11 News Houston that his boys are high-energy, but he felt their behavior in the restaurant was typical of kids.
The father said the dinner was going well until his oldest son started to wander around and the manager told him the children were making too much noise. The manager called the Harris County Sheriff's Office to complain. Gau in turn called the police to say that he felt threatened. A deputy arrived on the scene and gave the family a citizen's information card, according to Alan Bernstein, the director of public affairs for the sheriff's office.
"I feel heartbroken" about what happened, Gau told the news station.
"I feel disrespected," his wife, Maliti, added. "This has never happened in my life."
Applebee's apologized to the family for the management's behavior, but some diners who were present at the restaurant say the family was out of line.
"This child was not wandering around," Randall Smith, who claims he was at the restaurant, wrote on the KHOU11 Facebook wall. "He was running around the restaurant screaming at guests as they tried to enjoy their meals."
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No portrait or product photographer should ever be without a handheld light meter. The advantages over a camera's internal meter can – and does – fill volumes. Sekonic has taken the handheld meter to a new level with the introduction of the L-478 series, the world?s first meters for photographers and filmmakers featuring a color touchscreen control panel.
With exposure information displayed in large, easy-to-read numbers, changing settings is as simple as a finger tap or swipe. The large 2.7-inch color LCD shows ambient, flash, cine, and other information. Settings are dialed in by simply touching or sliding a finger over the screen. It supports an ISO range of 3 to 409,600 in 1/3-stop increments and apertures from f/0.5 to f/162.2.
The meter lets you exposure profile your camera to ensure the two devices are accurately calibrated to each other. Simply photograph a target, load it into the Sekonic software, and then upload it to the meter via USB. Doing so assures that you have all the detail desired before pressing the shutter. Exposure profiling spans a +/- 10-stop range, assuring it will work with future cameras as dynamic ranges expand. The meter can create and store up to ten profiles made with Sekonic or X-Rite exposure targets.
Comparing ratios of multiple lights is pushbutton simple, a boon for studio photographers. For users of PocketWizard wireless flash triggers, the L-478DR model is compatible with the entire family of PocketWizard radio transceivers and receivers. Dynalite, Lumedyne, Photogenic and Profoto flashes that incorporate PocketWizard's technology are automatically supported. AlienBees, Einstein, Elinchrom, Canon, Nikon, and White Lightning flashes connected to PocketWizard ControlTL products are also compatible with the L-478DR for power control.
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Donald J. Duff
When the Forty-third General Assembly met in 1986 to celebrate the semicentennial anniversary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the church was considering whether to join the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and be received as part of that denomination. This process was known as joining and receiving, or J & R.
The proposal to join the PCA failed narrowly. The General Assembly commissioners voted 78 to 68 in favor of it, but approval required a two-thirds affirmative vote.
As a result of the failure of J & R, several churches (including many "New Life" churches) voluntarily realigned with the PCA. In the years 1987-1990, twelve churches (and most of a thirteenth) left, and overall membership declined from a high of 19,422 in 1988 to a low of 18,164 in 1990. Giving was significantly affected as well.
But since 1990, the trend has been reversed. In recent years, whole congregations have come out of the PCA and elsewhere to join the OPC. By the end of 1995, the total membership stood at 21,056 in 189 churches and 36 mission works.
There were 355 ministers in twelve presbyteries at the end of 1995. From 1985 to 1995, 102 men were ordained in the OPC, 11 of whom are no longer ministers in the church. Sixty-six men were received during the same period of time from other churches, 36 of whom came from the PCA. There was also a loss of 126 ministers. Fifty-five went to the PCA, 10 were dismissed to other churches, 3 were divested, 3 were deposed, 14 demitted, 25 died, and 16 were erased.
All of this loss, as well as growth, has meant that a lot of change has taken place in the OPC in the past ten years. The vote taken in 1986 was crucial. For several years before that, it was unclear whether the church would even continue to exist. Planning for the future was difficult, and a lot of energy was expended on either promoting or resisting the proposed J & R. Then came those four difficult years in which churches and individuals left, sometimes with some bitterness on both sides. J & R is now effectively dead, and it no longer takes up the church's time or energy. With her continued existence no longer in question, the church has been able to move forward.
The last decade has been a time of transition for the OPC. It is hard to analyze recent events, yet certain trends and characteristics may tentatively be put forward and analyzed.
In 1986 the administrative offices were located at 7401 Old York Road in Philadelphia, where they had been since 1960. The building was sold for $500,000 in 1990, and the offices were moved to rented space in Horsham, a suburb north of Philadelphia. Then in December 1994 an office building in nearby Willow Grove was purchased. The offices were moved there in February 1995.
When one reads the Minutes of the general assemblies of 1987-1990, one finds each of the program committees of the church (Christian Education, Foreign Missions, and Home Missions) going through a rough transition period. Two of the general secretaries, the Rev. Lewis A. Ruff, Jr., and the Rev. Roger W. Schmurr, had promoted J & R and attended New Life churches which left for the PCA (although Mr. Schmurr urged his church not to leave). In September 1987, Mr. Ruff suddenly resigned as Home Missions general secretary and soon went into the PCA. In April 1988, Mr. Schmurr resigned as the general secretary of the Committee on Christian Education to work for Great Commission Publications (he has remained in the OPC).
In anticipation of J & R being completed, the financial reserves of the Committee on Home Missions were dangerously depleted. After Mr. Ruff left, the Rev. George E. Haney (his predecessor) took his place until a bout with cancer forced him to step down in June 1990. Later that year, the Rev. Ross W. Graham was installed as the new general secretary. It took these two men and the Committee several years to regain its financial stability, with several mission works and home missionaries undergoing very difficult times.
The Rev. Thomas E. Tyson took the position of general secretary of the Committee on Christian Education in July 1989. Under his leadership, New Horizons has gained wide acceptance, the intern program has been vigorously pursued, and several publications promoting the church and the Reformed faith have been printed and distributed.
The Committee on Foreign Missions and its general secretary, the Rev. Donald G. Buchanan, had to wrestle with some difficult financial problems. This was partly due to the fall of the value of the dollar relative to other currencies. The Committee had to reduce the number of missionaries, and the church had to struggle with how best to raise additional funds to support those who remained. This led to revisions in the concept of the combined budget and ways were invented to get around the cap in that system (which stopped the distribution of undesignated giving to a committee that had reached its goal before the others)ways that are still being used and debated.
In 1990, once the financial situation had stabilized and new methods of finance were in place, Mr. Buchanan returned to the pastorate. In July 1991, Mr. Mark T. Bube, a ruling elder from First OPC in Portland, Oregon, took the position of general secretary. He has been able to aggressively push the foreign missions program of the church. As a result, the OPC now has missionaries in several new fields.
In March 1989, Mr. David E. Haney became the controller of the Committee on Coordination and began to set up a centralized accounting system for the three program committees and the General Assembly Operation Fund.
In June 1992, the Rev. Donald J. Duff became the first full-time stated clerk of the General Assembly. For the first time, the stated clerk was given an office in the administrative office building.
The battle over J & R, like every battle, forced men to take sides and to see things more in black and white. Men on both sides of the issue took stands which should not have been taken and said things which should not have been said. The departure of a goodly number after the battle meant that the church, which had been in the process of broadening, became more narrow. At the same time, however, the church has become more diverse and broad in other respects.
One might expect, as a result of the battle over J & R and the consequent realignment, that denominational loyalty would be strengthened. But such has not been the case. Some, but not many, were forced by the J & R process to ask the question, "What is the OPC? Is it something worth preserving?" Ten more years in the life of the church means that the church is ten years further from its origins. The ranks of her founding fathers have thinned dramatically.
Despite that fact that during those ten years, some work has been done on the history of the church, there are an increasing number of pastors who do not know that history very well. Because men have been coming into the pastorate from diverse backgrounds and because they are not required to study the history of the OPC, there is an increasing lack of knowledge of what the OPC has been or is. This has had an affect on denominational loyalty.
In doctrinal matters, the church has swung to the right and become narrower. At one time the OPC was unique in being conservative, yet allowing for considerable freedom of conscience, practice, and thought. Thus, the church took an early stand for eschatological freedom and for Christian liberty with regard to the use of alcoholic beverages.
Some of this growing conservatism is good. For example, at one time there was an interest among some in the Church Growth movement, but that has largely disappeared.
However, there has also been a rise of what might be called "Reformed fundamentalism" in the church. For example, many candidates for the ministry have in licensure and ordination exams maintained that the six days of creation were twenty-four hours long and that the earth is young. In the past, both this view and other views were allowed in the church. But recently there seems to have developed a dangerous trend toward making the young-earth view an extraconfessional standard. There seems to be an increasing biblicism and an anti-intellectualism that is unwilling to ask the hard questions and face some of the facts of the world around us.
The OPC has from the beginning been very interested in ecumenical matters. In 1986 the OPC was still a member of the Reformed Ecumenical Synod (RES). At the Fifty-third General Assembly (1986), there was considerable discussion of whether or not to stay in the RES. Two years later, the OPC resigned from the RES after nearly forty years of membership. The resignation followed the RES's failure to discipline the GKN (a Dutch church) for allowing homosexual officers.
Immediately the OPC began to look at membership in the newly formed International Conference of Reformed Churches (ICRC). In 1989 the church sent observers to the ICRC, and in 1993 she became a member. In the meantime, the OPC has been active in the North America Presbyterian and Reformed Council.
In recent years, the church's relationship with her close relative (shall we say a dear aunt?!), the Christian Reformed Church in North America, has been the subject of much discussion and tension as the CRC has gone back and forth on the question of having women in church office, and in 1995 opened all offices in the church to women.
From 1985 to 1995, 102 men were ordained as ministers in the OPC, and 66 were received as already ordained. When one looks at the seminary education of these 168 men, one finds that 55 went to Westminster Theological Seminary (in Philadelphia), and 27 to Westminster Theological Seminary in California. Eleven went to Reformed Theological Seminary, 10 to Gordon-Conwell, 9 to Covenant Theological Seminary, 5 to Reformed Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, and 3 to Mid-America Reformed Seminary. The rest went to various other seminaries or, in a couple of cases, to no seminary at all.
When the OPC started, Westminster Theological Seminary had been in existence for seven years. Almost all the original faculty joined the new church, and many of the men in the church then, and for a good many years following, were trained at that seminary. But in the last eleven years, only 49 percent of the men entering the OP ministry have been trained at either Westminster in Philadelphia or Westminster in California.
For well over ten years now, the General Assembly has had a Committee on Revisions to the Directory for Public Worship. In 1989 that committee was reconstituted. Its members have been hard at work, but have reported that they will need to study the regulative principle of worship further before making final recommendations. In the meantime, practice in OP worship services varies greatly from church to church. It seems to this writer that there has been a growing disregard for the Directory of Worship and an increasing experimentation with various forms of worship practices.
Mr. Duff is the stated clerk of the General Assembly. Reprinted from New Horizons, June 1996.
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Patty Andrews, who has died aged 94, was the lead singer and soloist with the Andrews Sisters. The swinging American trio, comprising Patty and her older siblings, LaVerne and Maxene, achieved their greatest success in the 1940s, contributing to the war effort with catchy songs including Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) and, with Bing Crosby, Don't Fence Me In.
The Andrews Sisters performed at military bases and raised money for war bonds; their hits were sung by the troops and by women working in factories. Patty, LaVerne and Maxene accompanied the most popular singers and big bands of the day; enjoyed success not just on radio but also in musical comedy films; and spawned a host of other sister acts – not all of whom were real siblings.
Patricia Marie Andrews was born in Minnesota, the third daughter of a Greek immigrant, Peter (who had anglicised his surname), and his Norwegian wife, Olga. The parents ran a restaurant. Inspired by the success of the Boswell Sisters, the pretty, blonde Patty and her siblings began in vaudeville in the early 1930s. "There were just three girls in the family," she recalled. "LaVerne had a very low voice. Maxene's was kind of high, and I was between. It was like God had given us voices to fit our parts." The sisters toured America with the Larry Rich band and before long were starring at the Hotel Edison in New York with Leon Belasco.
The Andrews family relocated to New York in 1937 and the sisters were offered a recording contract by Decca. Things took a momentous turn when they recorded Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin's revamped version of an old Yiddish standard. It reached No 1 in the US in 1938, establishing Cahn and Chaplin as ace songwriters and making the Andrews Sisters the hottest name in the record business. The song has now come to be emblematic of the age – often used when a film or TV drama deals with the era of jitterbugs and evacuation, to say nothing of Land Girls, who sang it as they stacked the hay.
Further hits followed for the trio – including Beer Barrel Polka and Hold Tight, Hold Tight (both 1939) – and in 1940 they were signed by Universal Pictures and appeared in the film Argentine Nights with the Ritz Brothers. They then made two wartime comedies starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Buck Privates and In the Navy (both 1941), and also appeared in Private Buckaroo (1942), which followed new recruits doing their basic training and included the sisters' patriotic We've Got a Job to Do. The sisters appeared as themselves in the all-star film Hollywood Canteen (1944), about the ever-open cafe for American servicemen, founded by Bette Davis and John Garfield, and where Hollywood celebrities volunteered during the war. The sisters' voices were also featured in the Disney cartoon Make Mine Music in 1946.
After the success of the uptempo Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar and the sentimental ballad (I'll Be With You) In Apple Blossom Time, the sisters accompanied Crosby on a No 1 hit, Don't Fence Me In, in 1944. It was one of several successful collaborations with the crooner, including Pistol Packin' Mama, Jingle Bells, Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma Baby) and Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive. The sisters also appeared with him and Bob Hope in Road to Rio (1947). Danny Kaye partnered them on, among others, The Woody Woodpecker; and with Carmen Miranda, the trio sang Cuanto Le Gusta. By themselves, the sisters had number one hits with I Can Dream, Can't I? and I Wanna Be Loved.
In many ways Patty was the most successful member of the group. Certainly, her solos made her the most prominent sister. In the mid-1950s she broke away from the group, but people still wanted more of the Andrews Sisters and they were soon back together.
It was the death of LaVerne in 1967 that eventually broke up the group. In the early 70s Bette Midler had success with her recording of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and people once more went looking for the original, which had a renewed success. In 1974 Maxene and Patty were back in business, starring in a Broadway musical, Over Here!, about the group's wartime success. The show featured a third "borrowed" sister and ran for almost a year, closing after the sisters had an argument. Patty, who had solo success in Las Vegas and performed on cruise ships, continued to work after Maxene's death in 1995.
In 1947 Patty married Martin Melcher. They divorced in 1950. Melcher then married Doris Day and, in 1951, Patty married Walter Weschler, the Andrews Sisters' pianist, who also became their manager. Weschler died in 2010.
She is survived by her foster daughter, Pam.
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You can either sign up to a one-off workshop or to our full programme. Those who sign up to the full programme will also benefit from one-to-one financial counselling and mentoring, and will receive a certificate of completion at a graduation ceremony.
If you are paying for yourself, workshops are highly subsidised at only $30 per workshop or $150 for the full programme. We ask supportive employers to support our work by sponsoring their domestic worker at $500 per workshop or $2000 for the full programme (this covers Enrich's actual costs of delivering the workshop).
Full programme includes: 27 hours (all 5 workshops) of Financial and Empowerment Education plus a one half-day mentoring session. At the completion of the Full Programme, she will be invited to a graduation ceremony where she will receive a certificate of completion. She will also be able to apply for our long-term Financial Mentoring Programme.
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Randall completely ignores the fact that "Chad" offered to store people's stuff for free and with no problems. That's how "Chad" ended up with a garage full of stuff. That's why the sudden notice that "Chad" was going to sell the stuff upset all those people. The hover text neglects to mention whether or not the people across the street are also offering to store people's stuff for free.184.108.40.206 10:39, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- As well as the difference between leaving a clearly worded (though still rather jerk-y) note and slipping unclear language into the already bloated Terms of Service. - jerodast (talk) 11:53, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- The fact of the matter is, he may be storing the stuff for free, but there's nothing to say that there are "no problems" involved. Effectively, once it's in Chad's house, he owns it. In any case, there's nothing to stop Cueball from not giving Chad any more stuff. --Jimmy C (talk) 14:17, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Please note that a lot of people thought the new ToS allowed Instagram to sell their pictures but this is a misunderstanding of these ToS. This explanation should be slightly reworded in that sense. See http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/18/instagram_privacy_uproar_why_it_s_absurd_in_three_nearly_identical_sentences.html