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Client Delivery Manager
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- £80000 - £85000 per annum + Car Allowance
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- 04 Apr 2017
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- Georgina Rosagro
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Job Role: Client Delivery Manager - Systems Engineering/Solution Architecture
Location: Bristol or Gloucestershire
Type: Permanent
Salary/Rate: Up to £85,000 + Car Allowance
Start Date: ASAP
Clearance: DV Clearance or Willing to Undergo
Client Delivery Manager - Permanent - Bristol or Gloucestershire - Up to £85,000
Our client is looking to appoint a technical Client Delivery Manager to join their growing Team. As part of this team the candidate will oversee significant Security and Intelligence architecture and systems engineering portfolio.
Our client is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect or Systems Engineer with a proven track record in providing high quality advice and delivery to demanding clients in complex stakeholder environments.
This role will provide the successful candidate with significant development opportunities that arise through working in a growth area in an expanding team. As well as technical delivery, you will be expected to support development of the capability through, for example, development of propositions and thought leadership and potentially assisting with the development and delivery of training.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- The successful candidate must be experienced in managing multidisciplinary teams and in acting as a senior client interface, technical assurance and point of escalation for the delivery of those teams.
- Our client is looking for someone who can demonstrate a robust knowledge and high quality track record of organisational, information and technology architecture advice and development. You will be an influencer, shaper and comfortable operating in fluid and uncertain environments.
- Our client is particularly interested if you have experience of Information and Technology domains although would expect you to work equally comfortably across strategy, organisational, operational and technology disciplines.
- The role will involve a blend of client-facing consulting, business development, technical assurance and team management. You will also be responsible for developing propositions and thought leadership.
- You will need to demonstrate excellent core competence and experience in EA or Solution architecture and related activities (e.g. systems engineering) along with the experience and skills in developing business relationships at all levels, and leading teams to deliver great work.
You will have a proven track record in some or all of the following areas:
- Leadership, motivation and direction of teams from both a delivery and line management perspective.
- Translating business visions, goals, objectives and high-level requirements into Solution, Organisational or Enterprise Architectures. Developing contextual, conceptual, logical and physical views of architectures, across key architecture domains (including Business, Applications, Information, Security and Infrastructure);
- IT strategy and target operating model development.
- Technical assurance of consulting deliverables and bids.
- Developing technical solutions for large and complex programmes, including defining technical requirements, selecting solutions (COTS and bespoke developments), and ensuring successful delivery.
- Leading reviews of the technologies and architectures employed in existing systems or in-flight projects, and communicating the findings of the review back to senior stakeholders.
- Using industry recognised IT frameworks, such as ITIL, COBIT and SFIA, and industry recognised modelling standards, such as BPMN and Archimate, to accelerate programmes and provide common understanding amongst key stakeholders of architectural concepts and their impacts;
- Experience of significant aspects of related disciplines such as Service Integration, Agile and Digital.
- An ability to influence and communicate with all levels of stakeholder including senior executives, directors, managers and junior staff.
- Good general consulting skills (soft skills, structured thinking, effective report writing and presentations, and stakeholder engagement).
- Comfort in operating in highly fluid and environments characterised by uncertainty.
- An ability to work under broad direction, with a high level of self-initiation.
- Central Government experience is highly desirable, particularly in the Security and Intelligence agencies; some additional wider sector experience (Local Government; Regulated Industry; Private sector) is desirable.
- Knowledge and experience of new technology trends and disruptive technologies, including cloud, government ICT strategy, social, big data and digital services.
Hit the 'Apply now' button to apply and to discuss this role further. We will be delighted to hear from you!
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This week, very late in the game, the big banks revised down their economic growth forecasts. Bloggers (which many times means economists that are not on the paid staff of corporations or the government) have been predicting this for perhaps six months. Of course, getting people to buy financial instruments generally requires a certain optimism.
We are at a point where ordinary policy prescriptions seem fruitless. Take for example this post by Gonzalo Lira, which points out exactly that fact. After a long and commendable preamble, Gonzalo has some suggestions for drastic steps. For example:
If I were absolute dictator of the United States, I would ignore both of these policy "choices". Instead, for the sake of the long term health of the American economy, and the other world economies intimately connected to it, this is what I would do:
•Allow interest rates to float at the whim of supply and demand. The Fed would provide liquidity, but only at market rates, never subsidized.
•Impose a flat tax across the board of 15% for individuals earning any income over the minimum wage, 25% for corporations, a 20% national VAT, and impose a capital gains tax of 40%, with no loopholes, subsidies, tax breaks or tax write-offs—not even amortization or depreciation.
•Cut government spending to the bare bones, until the budget is balanced. Cut military spending to 10% of what it is today.
•Eliminate Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, and impose a private but highly regulated pension and health care system, like the ones here in Chile (which are damned good, BTW, and which were also, unsurprisingly, imposed by a dictator—but are still going strong 20 years after he left)
•Cut the Fed's life-support of the Too Big To Fail banking system, and let those zombies die already. While we're at it, prosecute the banksters.
•Finally—and this is the tough part—let the economy crash: Let the asset prices collapse to sustainable levels, and let aggregate demand collapse to sustainable levels.
If the above measures were imposed, and the U.S. economy were allowed to crash quickly, harshly, unemployment as measured by U-6 would spike to 50% or 60%, and hang around 35% for a good six months before slowly settling to 20% in a year or so—which is where we are now. Half the S&P and all the Too Big To Fail banks would go broke. Imports would evaporate. The idea of America as a consumer society would be gone almost overnight. There'd also be riots and general civil unrest for a year or two, but nothing that terrible—Americans are a remarkably docile people.
What would happen after that? What would the U.S. get for this short-term pain and suffering?
The two thing needed for true long-term prosperity, from where the U.S. economy is today: Asset price levels would collapse. And aggregate demand levels would also collapse.
It would mean that trading—in whatever assets—would cease to be financially beneficial, and instead production would reassert itself as the form of social wealth creation.
It would also mean that mindlessly consuming would also cease to be a macroeconomically beneficial policy priority, much less a personal goal. It might even lead to a truly Green economic mentality—true conservation, as opposed to the pseudo-brand, where buying more and more "green" stuff is supposed to be "helping the environment", when of course it isn't.
These measures would all be very painful—adaptation always is. But this approach—what I would call Free Market Redux—would be the healthiest way to rebuild the U.S. economy, and frankly American society.
While these particular prescriptions are just some of many options, what strikes me is that to implement them requires a disregard of the current powers that be, the First and Second Estates. There would be fallout and it would hit those classes.
Our own Jerry J made another suggestion in a comment a couple days ago, which also strikes at the heart of the current power structure, albeit in a different way.
I am surprised that there were no comments on the obsolete character of the American Third Estate. This relates to the link by 14th to a Salon column by Michael Lind titled " Are the American People Obsolete" by Michael Lind.
Lind sees that Americans will allow outsourcing of employment to their absolute detriment and that Americans no longer have the ability to sustain marketing of goods and services in the US. He is correct but omits a massive parameter. What are the per capita parameters of all US sourced claims on persons , corporations, states and state units? Similarly, what are the same parameters applied to other states that would replace future marketing of goods and services sought by the US population?
No matter what, first estate wealth survival requires the generation of personal income to amortize the claims on these US persons and groups over and above some personal income level to enable the desire to amortize the claims over a number of generations.
The elites destroy themselves. In doing so, they collapse the existing system. If the third estate is obsolete, then the third estate could politically cause all debts to be forgiven as well. Our kind of Terror could be via currency. Easily done constitutionally. Probably as easy as the Weimar Enabling Act of 1933. Congress may grant sums to the citizen. Congress say, authorizes United States Notes again. Grant each citizen United States Notes as universal legal tender. Pick up the money at the post office. How about a grant to natural citizens of $2 million each. The posting of the money at a central point forces issuance of say a mortgage release. The elites and their institutions then have all cash in the form of US Notes they can spend. Almost all are free and clear and own their assets outright. Obsolete is obsolete. Ha Ha, I could not resist this one. Sounds ludicrous? Why, if the natural person American national is obsolete from a discussion point? For years now, the right wing has been saying the US government cannot pay back it's debt when , in point of practical fact,government debt functions as a currency form at the top. All that prevents full circulation is the fact that Treasuries are registered. Registry is only around 35 years old. Before that most Treasuries were bearer as were corporate debentures. Amend the IRC and remove the registry requirement.
Seriously, the always ignored aspect in these types of commentary is that elite wealth almost totally depends on claims from other Americans. Indeed, the shoe is on our foot because we owe trillions to the other nations who would wind up with legal tender too!
The elites are simply destroying themselves in the US: In a fashion that is remarkably close to broad spectrum Marxist expectations.
Comrades come rally…………..?
Again, this prescription defies conventional wisdom. To sum it up, everyone is given a pile of cash with which they then use to repay in full all their indebtedness to the elites. The elites then have a pile of worthless money and everyone else is debt free and has no more house payments. Instead of the Feds inflating its way out of its debt in a way that is carefully formulated to preserve the First Estate, it does so in a way that liberates the Third. Interesting thought experiment. In the resultant turmoil a lot of people get hurt, but it is not only the Third Estate. A lot of people are helped. The reformulation of the economy would create enormous economic activity.
I put these thoughts out only to point out that we have self-limiting economic beliefs that foreclose almost any option other than the slow rot of our system by the protection of the status quo. Economic suckers all, we realize not that our prosperity has already been outsourced by the very transnational companies and their executives that cry out, "Free Enterprise, Free Enterprise!", a sort of revealed wisdom myth that they use to their advantage while ensuring their personal security by looting the system.
Nothing should be done in haste. But Washington should adopt a new credo. Listen to the radicals. Listen to the people. Listen to the elites and then give their point of view no more credence than the others. Standing in the way? Our system of non-representative government where gerrymandered incumbents don't really have to deal with free elections. From our Declaration of Independence:
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Our system of government could restore its promise. In gerrymandering districts our states have done a huge disservice to the people of this nation. The trading off of one minority seat for five majority seats may have once served a purpose, now it has been abused. Brave judges should throw out the principle underlying the design of congressional districts by elites. Every seat should be up for grabs in free and fair elections. If the populace had the opportunity to drive major change in the House of Representatives, perhaps 200 new members instead of 50 with party shifts in 150 districts, then the government would be more responsive to the people. That was how it was designed to be. The Senate provided the term stability. The House was responsive to the current mood of the country. The White House and Judiciary provided checks and balances. Now seats are sold out. Further, hindrances to third and fourth parties should be abolished. A multi party system would bring greater diversity of thought to Washington.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Smoke Up Johnny
I used to even try to make Chaney's dog smoke.
Anyway, I am very proud of myself!
13 comments:
- Alix said...
And I'm proud of you too! Anyone who has ever quit smoking knows how difficult and mind bending it is. Way to go Mamacita! Chicken Little appreciates the sacrifice.
- July 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- Alix said...
PS: I'm calling the ASPCA on you.
- July 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- Lola Nova said...
Congratulations, that is awesome!
- July 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM
MEEEEE to
- July 14, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Joanna@BooneDocksWilcox said...
Next step, y'all need to stay out of the Jeep.
- July 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM
LN did I here a rumor that you are making a Porter Wagner type suit? If CL has one I promise to get him front row at the Marty Stuart show!
- July 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Mom L said...
I am so fantastically proud of you! I smoked only 8 years before quitting before you were created, but it was still hard! That little guy is going to be soooo worth it!
Love you and b/d!!!
- July 14, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- beth said...
yay!! i never thought i'd see it happen!!
now,DONT go back to it!!!
my neighbor quit each time she was preggos and now smokes again?!
her hubby is like wtf?
i dont know why, but i think that is so weird!!
and shes not even european! : )
cause that would make it okay of course.
- July 14, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Savannah Belle said...
Look at the money you have saved!! As well as your health. You won't want to expose CL to second hand smoke so I am sure you won't take up that horrible habit again.
- July 14, 2009 at 4:28 PM
That deserves a little suprise that will be mailed tomorrow. Hint. You'll be seeing spots before your eyes.
- July 14, 2009 at 7:19 PM
- Mom L said...
Forgot to comment on poor Deacon's look - he wanted to know what the hell that smoking stick was and why it was in his face, Aunt Diane!
- July 14, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Reddirt Woman said...
Good for you. I know it's tough, but you've got a great reason to quit.
- July 15, 2009 at 12:52 AM
- Claire said...
Way to gooooo!! Woo hoo!!! That must be a great feeling. I hope you celebrated in some manner other than getting soaking wet on a Jeep ride!
- July 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM


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Friday, April 23, 2010
7 Layer Bars in Carribean Blue
I thought I would post a picture on our recipe site of my awesome new baking dish and the 7 Layer Bars we made. It arrived just in time for our ward talent show. We dutifully washed it and started cooking immediately.
1. 1 cube butter
2. 1 1/2-2 c. graham crackers, crushed
3. chocolate chips
4. butterscotch chips
5. coconut
6. 1 can sweetened condensed milk
7. chopped nuts
Melt butter in pan. Mix the graham crackers in to form crust. Sprinkle with chocolate chips, then butterscotch chips, then the coconut. Pour condensed milk over all. Top with chopped nuts (I used almonds, of course). Bake at 350^ for 30 minutes. Yummy. Thanks Julie.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Bryon & Sarah tied the knot!
Bryon and Sarah had the most beautiful day for their wedding! Surrounded by friends & family! It was an amazing event! It was a laid back day, filled with a calm & warm feelings surrounding them! You can see the fun they have, and the love for each other when they are together. I really enjoyed being a part of their day!!
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Positive vs. Negative
No, this is not some science test or some direction as to how to place the batteries in the flashlight. This is a post about the good times of late and the little things that have put me in a bummed out kinda mood today. Let me start with The Good Stuff. 🙂 (Did y'all recognize that as the title of a Kenny Chesney song??)
The Good Stuff
Well, the Kenny Chesney concert has come and gone but not before leaving me with some fantastic memories. My husband and I had a truly fabulous time! We tailgated before the game and hung with two very nice couples. We drank beer, ate some good snack food, and just overall enjoyed their company. The concert itself was exactly as I had anticipated it. Kenny came out via a hydraulic platform that was strategically placed in the middle of the audience as he sang his hit Summertime. Later on, Uncle Cracker joined him for their duet of "When the Sun Goes Down" and a cover of Kid Rock's "Cowboy". Mike really got into the concert at this point! LOL!! It was a fantastic night; had me singing and dancing with the best of them, so much so that I slept until 11:30am the next morning! I never do that…
Then, this past weekend, my hubby and I went camping at Kerr Lake in central NC where it borders Virginia. The weather couldn't have been more perfect – not too hot during the day or too chilly at night. It was just right. We didn't even need the fly for our tent. It was like we were sleeping under the stars. We fished (actually, he did most of the fishing), sunbathed (and yeah, that was mostly me), I finished the book I was reading (Dan Brown's, Deception Point; highly recommended, btw), and swam. Two days of a short vacation and well worth the trip!
The "Not So" Good Stuff
Well, tomorrow I return back to school for the 06-07 academic year…and I'm sad to say but I'm not looking forward to it. I'm thankful for the school I work at, the people I work with, and even the children I teach. BUT, I have such a hard time with the educational system here in Carolina. It's just so behind the times for the students AND for the teachers. I try to keep a good face about it and remember that teaching is a gift of mine, that I'm working with God's children, molding and shaping them, which I am grateful I get to do. But…….I have to pray each day that my attitude improves. That's sad, I know! Trust me. I know!!
This next one is so miniscule that I don't know why I'm even posting it but it is something that matters to me just the same. It's all about General Hospital. Yeah, the TV Soap Opera. I know. I know. You're probably saying, "You have GOT to be kidding me!" The thing is, I'm not. Every person has a passion about something…or about a bunch of things. I have two – writing and anything to do with entertainment. Break down the second one into categories and it falls under music, movies, & TV. Break it down further and General Hospital ranks right up there for me.
Lately, the show has just plain ole STUNK! GH is the one place I go to escape reality each afternoon. When I get home from work, I go right to my DVR and watch the show, kinda like I used to do when I was a kid only then it was Guiding Light, eating oreos & drinking milk while watching that with my grandma.
Over the last four months…most of the summer, actually…the show has had more twists in turns that it's worse than even the scariest of roller coasters, at least for this fan. I usually don't get sick on roller coasters cuz I love them. Same with GH. Lately, though the regression of storylines is making me almost lose my lunch (or breakfast or dinner – LOL!).
You might say, "Well, then stop watching it!" Yeah, I could do that but I don't want to. Instead, I'm writing letters to The Powers That Be and letting them know just want I think. You see, GH is my one and only vice. It could be worse – I could be addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, co-dependent, what have you. Nope! I just love my GH and I want it to improve. So, sue me (well, don't really)!
Positive vs. Negative. There is more positive then negative in my life that's true. Today, though, I have thoughts on both and, for those that read this, thanks for putting up with my rambling.
Off to enjoy my last day 21 1/2 hours of freedom. Hmmm…I think I feel another letter coming on….
Comments4 Responses to "Positive vs. Negative"
I also meant to say that you are so lucky! I got to see Kenny C in concert about four years ago – well – he's much better now, I'm sure, and he was great then. My dh might take me again if I ask and we can get the weekends right with the kids, or hope it's not on a weekday, but we'll see.
Also just wanted to say I sure do miss you and your zest for life!
I also meant to say that you are so lucky! I got to see Kenny C in concert about four years ago – well – he's much better now, I'm sure, and he was great then. My dh might take me again if I ask and we can get the weekends right with the kids, or hope it's not on a weekday, but we'll see.
Also just wanted to say I sure do miss you and your zest for life!
I couldn't agree more that GH has been pitiful lately! On the rare occassion I get to watch, I don't even want to! It's as if I'm watching someone else's show.
I couldn't agree more that GH has been pitiful lately! On the rare occassion I get to watch, I don't even want to! It's as if I'm watching someone else's show.


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Who says fairy tales don't come true?
Having someone to care for, love and trust, and be loved, cared for and trusted is the reason why we exist in the vast emptiness of this cruel world. (Ay, ano ba yan?)
I met him four years ago. He was a transferee student from a private school in our place. He became my classmate and seatmate. There was nothing special with the friendship we had. Just a nod and few hi's and hello's when passing by each other. Then on my junior years, I came to know him better and we got closer. We hang out on parties and beach outings and we shared common friends. Still, no spark of the thing they called love.
Text messages came from an unknown number. It was his and we started exchanging SMS. During our summer vacation, I invited him to join the youth camp of the religious organization where I belong. He accepted my invitation but as we became closer, I was becoming to recognize the feeling that's starting to grow. FACT: I hated seeing him with other girls and worse, hanging out with them.
Few days later, I began to get self- conscious. I am short for my age, while he's tall. He has white complexion while I don't. He's smart, while I'm not. I know for a fact that he will never see me as a girlfriend material.
Will the happy- go- lucky and aggressive boy cross the borderline of friendship for the bespectacled and shy girl?
Well, some fairy tales do have a happy ending.
My heart soared. Then he told me the magic words.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
My Happy Ending?
Who says fairy tales don't come true?
Posted by Ritch at 5:49 PM 3 comments
Ritch: Reborn... Ha! Ha! Ha!
Blogging is really out of my mind now. Aside from I don't have my personal computer of Sir Noriel and Ms. R's laptop, I prefer to keep my thoughts to myself. Yeah. I keep an old version of diary at home, but unfortunately, I only scribble in it when I am in the mood.
Since Kuya J told us that he'd check our blogs, I am force, obligated rather to update it once again.
I will introduce myself again.
I am Ritch, 50% sensible, 25% palagaylay, and 25% mental . (I learned this word from my third year high school cousin.) Ha! Ha! Ha! This is how the British call a crazy person…
I am 50% sensible. I can talk to people whom I share the same interest with like reading- nonstop! I can also give some not-so-agreeable-but-still-sensible advice. I care for my family and I am proud of it.
I can say that I am a palagaylay type of person. I bet I am nominated or worse, I will win the 'Palagaylay Staffer of the Month'. (Well I certainly hope not!) I am really lazy hunting for news. I only make them when I am being assigned to. I prefer sleeping or reading all day than attending my classes- one form of immaturity. I'll be damned when my pending and my newly-scouted articles and STRIKES are piling up!
NOTE: My notebook intended for my subjects also serves as my reporter's notebook. (Hehe, padungog tah gamay. =>)
Beware. I'm also mental. One may think that I'm a quiet person, butu wait 'til you see my true colors. Ha! Ha! Ha! It is really disgusting! Kidding. Well, it is funny in a way that only smart people like me understands. I give nutty ideas and cracks corny jokes when one of my friends are in a low spirit. Aw?!
And because of this blogging thingy, another work has been added to my list. But it's okay. =)
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Poor Little Snails...
Last night, as I was getting my shoes on the roof that I had washed earlier, I head a crunchy noise under my slippers. At first, I thought it was just a dry leaf that I had stepped on. When I made another step toward the dark, I heard the crunchy noise again. A dried leaf on a wet area? It is impossible.
I turned the light on and what I saw is not a dry leaf, but two little snails crushed to death.
Maybe, it's a father snail and a mother snail looking food for their baby snails. I killed them both with my feet with the body weight of 43 kilograms. They have no match on me. I had no bad intention towards the poor innocent creatures. It was just so dark (I should have seen them if I used a night vision.) and they were so small to notice them.
What will happen to their baby snails now that their mother and father snail were both gone? Will someone (I mean another snail too.) adopt them? Feed and care for them?
Poor snails… They're orphan now.
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As you may know, all four of us B-holes have majored in creative writing. Primarily, my interest has always been in prose. However, I wanted to try something different this summer.
I used to draw all the time. At one point, it was my ambition to become an animator. That passed when I realized that A.) I didn't want to do the type of CG stuff most movies consist of these days, and B.) When I also realized that by doing hand-drawn animation, that would mean I'd be drawing basically the same picture hundreds and hundreds of time for only mere seconds of a movie's screen time. So since then, I've drawn less and less. At some point in the past couple of months, I started to miss this hobby. (I probably drew something and realized how much better I used to be.) Around that time is when I decided I wanted to attempt a new project this summer, one that somehow incorporates my writing with art. I've wanted to tinker with Wacom Tablets for a few years now, and found out that they really aren't that expensive.
So I decided that I want to try my hand at webcomics. Truth be told, I was never all that into comics or graphic novels or anything. I didn't even own one until I decided to check out Watchmen a couple months before that movie came out. (That is, unless we count the free anti-smoking Spiderman comic that was handed out during an assembly in 2nd grade.) I was never that interested in superhero stories, and I guess I always naively assumed that's what all comics were about. That couldn't be further from the case. Over the past month or so, I've been reading and buying up a bunch of different non-superhero stories. The best is by far the Scott Pilgrim series (thanks, Phil!) which I recommend to anyone, regardless of their opinions on comics. So here are my favorite webcomics, in no order:
Balls 2 That
Just a whole bunch of funny, brief, inappropriate scenes with a man, a woman, and a recurring blender.
Devil Bear
The less said about this one, the more you'll enjoy it. However, I must say you have to check out the first "issue" (which is the first 26 pages provided on the site) which features a Winnie the Pooh parody called Winnie the Pimp, who gets sent to hell. Awesome.
No Time For Life
The first one I came across that I couldn't pull myself away from. The scenes are brief, humorous, and all stand alone. And the artwork is so basic that it gives me hope.
On the Edge
It's kind of the most twisted adaptation of Alice in Wonderland you'll ever see, featuring Alice, who's a cop and lives with a demon who is also a therapist.
Penny Arcade
I'm not a gamer. Other than Mario Kart, I haven't really played any games since Grand Theft Auto III for the PS2. And all I did on that game was drive around and kill people. So truth be told, I can't relate to at least 50% of the comics these guys produce. One thing I love about this site, though, is their documentary webseries that shows what life is like at the Penny Arcade offices. (Hint: It's freakin' awesome. This is the kind of laid-back, creative environment we all wish we could work in.) And at one point they mention "We aren't comic book nerds. We're game nerds." I find that interesting and makes me feel less guilty about wanting to dabble in webcomics, even though I haven't been a life long comic book fan.
See what I mean? Those all feature my type of crude humor. And that's inspiring to me.ba


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Thursday, May 18, 2017
New Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Players Gang-Raped Women As 'Bonding Experience'
The players often took photographs and videos as they carried out the gang rapes, the suit alleges. It was filed by "Jane Doe," who says she was raped by four to eight Baylor players in February 2012. Her Title IX suit says the school's "deliberately indifferent response" effectively denied her educational opportunities.
The suit also describes dogfighting at football parties and burglaries carried out by football players, without consequence.
The alleged assaults and other criminal activities took place during former head football coach Art Briles' tenure at the school in Waco, Texas.
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Football is so rewarding and produces such fine young adults.
- May 18, 2017 at 3:29 PM
- Shadow said...
Football has nothing to do with this 3:29- get your head out of your a$$
- May 18, 2017 at 4:18 PM
Football is a fraternity for adolescent thugs to become abusive men in most cases. Look at the number of pros that abuse women.
- May 18, 2017 at 4:43 PM
@4:18 get your head outta your A**!! football has everything to do with it. A bunch of Jugheads that gave been coddled since high school because, wait a minute I got, DA give me DA ball coach, I plays feetsball. A bunch of kids that think they are above all others rules because they've been given preferential treatment. The real problem is they haven't come across the right father that's willing to take things upon himself to seek retribution. F*** these clowns and what they stand for. Case in point Ben Tate playing for Stephen Decatur high school spits in a young lady trainers' face because she didn't stop helping another player when he came to the sidelines. He continued to show the same ignorance in Cleveland now he's found the lord playing in spring league begging for another shot
- May 18, 2017 at 4:52 PM
NFL has more convicted Felons in it than our local jail!
- May 18, 2017 at 5:13 PM
Bull. Get your head out of the sand & Educate yourself.
- May 19, 2017 at 6:12 AM
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Today's Continuity Clinic had a theme, sort of. We had two patients (both very nice) who talked at some length about the stresses placed in their lives by other people. Their reactions to their situations, however, were much different I think.
The first--she was at the visit for something unrelated, but started talking about her mother. She actually started to say "I wouldn't have normally brought this up" (getting ready to tell me the reasoning why she did bring it up--but she was interrupted and never finished the thought--to my disappointment). She talked about how her mother intrudes on every aspect of her life, from how she shops, who she has over in her home, and how she pays her utility bills. She is a 44 yo AAF with one child who is getting ready to graduate high school. She felt overwhelmed by her mother's insistence to be so involved that she actually had seen a counselor before about it, but never went back because the counselor was a white male, and she felt that he wasn't empathetic and couldn't connect to her as an African American and as a female. She went on to say that she was having to hide things around her home, such as liquor and martini glasses to keep her mother from commenting. She was worried that her mother was pumping her 17 year old daughter for information about the goings on in her home. She felt guilty that she was kinda expecting her daughter to lie to her mother about things. She described multiple instances where her mother had called to say "I just went ahead and paid your water/electric/gas whatever bill for you" or said, "I was shopping today and got you this" but would expect her (the patient) to pay her back for the things she didn't necessarily want, need, or like. Our patient told us that this stressed her out so much, because she wanted to tell her mother to back off, but wasn't sure that it would be effective. She talked about the strain it was causing on her relationship with her two sisters, how she couldn't tell them anything for worrying that they would tell her mother. This lady seemed to feel extremely guilty about how all of these familial relationships were arranged, and I honestly feel that her self esteem suffered for it.
Our next patient--when I walked in the room, I was struck by her extreme appearance. Not extreme as in piercings everywhere with tattoos and goth, but extreme in that it was clear that she was a runner and wanted everyone to know. In her early 50s, with salt and pepper hair, I think I could have almost identified every muscle in her upper extremities and torso, along with their attachments. She wasn't anorexic thin, but definitely someone who seemed very focused and set on maintaining herself to look a certain way. She was wearing pants with leg warmers on her calves...on a day that was pretty warm anyhow. She and the doctor had a bit of a disagreement on the plan how to manage some possible tendon strain she was experiencing. The doctor required her to be seen by sports medicine before PT to get cleared for treatment, however, she insisted that she thought she could just go straight to PT without the Sports Med visit. The discussion and discourse went on for about 10 min of the visits. Interspersed throughout this was that she was having tons of trouble with her contacts, wasn't able to drive really, and one more appointment would not be good. But then finally, she said, "Well, you see, I've never been the one controlling the household finances." From there, she talked about how for 26 years, she had to wait to finish the education she so desperately wanted, raised 5 children only allowed to use 25 hours per week of childcare, and tried to take multiple courses throughout that time. Her husband also eventually prevented her from taking her dream job at Cornell. She said her children were great kids, and that's what had kept her in the marriage. What was notable during the interaction with her though was her need to exert herself as a person to us. She talked about her running and being thin, and after we left the room for a short time and came back, she had pulled out this Alumni Feature magazine from her Alma Mater school which featured her.... in the Fall of 2004. I read the article and in it, it mentioned how for 25 years she had to wait to finish to fulfill herself. I was just in awe how this woman, through being repressed by wife and motherhood had to use any way possible to validate herself within the world. She wasn't dislikable, but I pitied/had sympathy for her.
Lesson Learned--My attending said that the above interaction "wasn't that great of a medical learning case, and you'll get plenty of that (psychosocial) in residency"--I tend to disagree--We never know who's controlling the lives of those around us and how it colors their interactions with the environment.
What it's Worth--The worth of the context of the patient and how they deal with problems/people, whether externalizing or internalizing their problems is probably invaluable, and something I won't forget.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
a career?
well, if i had any readers out there, and they acutally knew me, they'd know that i've been see-sawing back and forth over med-peds and family medicine. but this week, i've just been thinking about babies...and how i don't want to give up the possibility of delivering them for the rest of my life. and how i like knowing lots of stuff (which, med/peds people do too) and how i mostly hate the adult inpatient wards...and how much i like thinking about prevention, and how really, family medicine is more "family friendly" than med/peds programs. i really would like to have kiddos before i get to thirty or so, meaning that i'd have to start pretty soon anyhow to get two in during the next 5 years. i just hope that this feeling lasts.......................
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A start.
Well, I've toyed with the idea of blogging...and I guess I'll give it a go. I've never been very good at doing anything on a schedule very well.... other than studying maybe. There are things that I want to talk about, and maybe even have people hear/think about/ponder/argue with... whatever. So. Here goes my first blog. Right now I think I'm mostly just procrastinating having to type up a patient's H&P. I'm a little frustrated at myself (and one of my classmates) over it. I had it about 3/4 of the way done, left my computer without saving (dumb me) and then when I came back, my classmate had turned the computer off because he couldn't log into it, and had to turn it off in order to do so. SO, apparently, Word 2003's document recovery feature doesn't work too well if the computer just abruptly gets turned off? I don't know, it just disappeared. So, I just really really really don't want to have to start typing the stinking H&P again cause it takes forever! Boo!
Learning Point of the day--when the tiny voice in your ear says "you better save now" you might want to listen
What's it Worth?--Obviously, it's worth not having to try to recreate whatever it was from memory, but also, who knows, you could use the time you saved by not doing it a second time for something fun, or a nap.
Learning Point of the day--when the tiny voice in your ear says "you better save now" you might want to listen
What's it Worth?--Obviously, it's worth not having to try to recreate whatever it was from memory, but also, who knows, you could use the time you saved by not doing it a second time for something fun, or a nap.
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Nokia Test: Are you really agile?
I have recently had discussions with several management colleagues about agile and find that most are not really getting far enough to realize the full value of agile. Jeff Sutherland and many other champions for the Scrum model presecribe the Nokia Agile Test as a litmus test to deterimine if a team really is agile. This test was developed by Nokia internally to assess development teams at Nokia and their partners. Nokia has the largest number of certified ScrumMasters in a company in the world today.
Nokia first determines if the team is able to abopt Scrum by determining if they are doing iterative developement.
- Iterations must be timeboxed to less than six weeks
- Software must be tested and working at the end of an iteration
- Iteration must start before specification is complete
Next, the Nokia Scrum Test…
- You know who the product owner is
- There is a product backlog prioritized by business value
- The product backlog has estimates created by the team
- The team generates burndown charts and knows their velocity
- There are no project managers (or anyone else) disrupting the work of the team
I would also add some items to the list…
- The story includes clearly defined acceptance test(s) [validates requirement complete]
- The accpetance test(s) are automated, part of the code base, and run as a regression suite on a regular basis
- The story is not fully complete (implemented) until the acceptance test(s) are automated
The bottom line is that there are many companies that think they are doing Scrum, but aren't really and are plagued by legacy processes and measures. It is fine to take small steps to migrate your organization to agile, but keep going until you really get there.
Agile Lesson Learned: Iterate in the Marketplace
Convoq (a.k.a. Applied Messaging, Zingdom Communications) closed it's doors Nov 30, 2007. I feel very fortunate to work with a very talented and skilled group of professionals in these 5 years. I had a tremendous experience in leadership and management roles that fostered career growth for me. For a timeline of this business and a summary of what happened at Convoq read the blog entry "Convoq and Zingdom – Five Years" by Chris Herot, CTO and co-founder
http://herot.typepad.com/cherot/2007/12/convoq-and-zing.html .
I have to comment on Chris Herot's list of lessons learned…
- I can't say enough about the first bullet in Chris' list of lessons learned: "Iterate in the marketplace and not in the conferenceroom. Agile is the only way to go." Especially in startup companies or divisions, where the need for a product or service is identified, but not yet clear how to meet that need, you have to get working product into the marketplace to fail fast. You need a culture that can work with the learnings and let that drive the iterations priorities, along with the larger strategic goals. This doesn't mean you have to be reactionary to what people are asking for, but rather what people will use and how they use it.
- The second bullet in Chris' list of lessons learned is also important to highlight: "Just because you are using agile methods doesn't mean you don't have to plan. Write your stories before you begin an iteration, but don't waste a lot of time on the details that aren't needed until later." This plays well into my blog entry "Agile peak performance in early startups" https://davidjellison.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/agile-peak-performance-in-early-startups. Not having stories ready and prioritized by the product owner (voice of business and customer) before the beginning of an iteration breaks the cadence that is so critical to consistent agile velocity. Keep the stories written at the requirements level, include the user statement for each use case (As an 'actor', I need to 'task to perform', such that 'goal to accomplish'), include known acceptance tests (key tests that the requirement is built right), and the adjusted priority (1 to 10).
Iterating in the marketplace, and rapidly acting on the findings to adjust the stories and their relative order of priority for the subsequent iteration, allows you to "build the right product."
Hiring Quality Engineers for Scrum Teams
I have frequently been asked "how do you go about hiring good Quality Engineers for an Agile team?" I really feel strongly that there are several proficiencies that needed to round out a strong test group for agile teams. These proficiencies can be enbodied in more than one person, but rarely is any one Engineer proficient in all of these disciplines.
- Domain Knowledge:
- Development Prociency:
- Unit Tests and representative Acceptance Tests in an XUnit Framework — This is a tennant capability for working with the developer on a story to write story acceptance tests first (or during the story development).
- Separation of GUI/Presentation tier from Business Logic tier — This is key to being able to exercise the business logic (where most of the work is accomplished) in tests that reside with the source of that production code. There is no need to drive these test with the overhead of the client presentation tiers involved. The client and presentation tiers need their own representative acceptance test for regression, and exhaustive tests (e.g. different environments).
- Exhaustive Tests through data driven tables — There are several approaches and tools for exercising acceptance tests with many combinations of data sets (e.g. FitNesse or Solenium tables, xml, csv, etc.)
- Test Fixtures — This is key to exposing all of the system for comprehensive story acceptance tests. As a company matures with agile, I prefer to create a Test Automation Architect role who is responsible for oversight and creation of enough test fixture infrastructure to enable the team to develop comprehensive regression test coverage that can run following build and unit tests completion daily.
- Traditional Tests
- Performance Test Automation — This includes both local and load tests as found in traditional waterfall and other iterative SDL's (software Development Lifecycles).
- Manual Tests — There are some test that are purely asthetic or user experience oriented to assure that the application is pleasing to use and accomplishes all the user tasks and goals of each actor identified for the system.
- Process Engineering:
As with any Quality Assurance (Engineering) team, there needs to be enough representation of the customer for each actor (user) of the system. This requires insights into the goals and intended use of of the system, and most likely may be someone hired from the user community.
This is discipline of best practices and well defined procedures that need to be in place for consistency across the team, and to maintain a project cadence. As with software, process can be over-engineered and requires a sensitivity to what is working efficiently, when to turn up the process to improve consistency and predictability, and when to turn down the process to eliminate unnecessary overhead.
The question that usually follows this list is "how do you find a Quality Engineer with a Development Proficiency?" There are talented Quality Engineers with CS and MSCS degrees with years of experience in both development and test engineering. If you can't find them, create them. Find a developer who has an affinity for methodical test coverage in their own work, or who is good at and enjoys testing their own work to step in to a Quality Engineering role. I have been able to convert a few developers to this role and the results are fantastic.


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Binary options demo platform
Every broker has its own binary options demo platform. Luckily, these platforms are like different cars: they might differ a little in the details, but if you can use one of them, you can use them all. This article is your driving lesson. It will teach you what each pedal does and how to handle your car safely.
How your binary options demo platform works
Every binary options demo platform consists of three main parts:
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- The chart analysis area, and
- The investment area.
Let's look at these areas one by one.
1. The option type and asset selection area
The first part of your trading platform that you need to learn is the part where you select your asset and your binary options type. Often displayed at the top or to the left of your screen, most brokers have found intuitive ways to immediately guide your attention to this part of your trading area.
In the option type and asset selection area, the first thing you have to do is select the binary options type you want to trade. Most brokers offer a variation of these binary options types:
- High / low options,
- One touch options,
- Boundary options,
- Ladder options, and
- 60 seconds options.
Depending on which options type you choose, you will see a different list of available assets. Most brokers offer the largest selection of assets for high / low options and 60 seconds options, restricting one touch options, ladder options, and boundary options to more volatile assets that make trading these option types easier.
Klick the asset you want to invest in, and your platform will open this asset's price chart.
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Once you have selected an asset, you can study its past price movements in the chart analysis area. All brokers allow you to display the asset's past price movements over an adjustable time period from a few minutes to hours, days, and weeks.
Some binary options demo platforms also allow you to draw into your chart, offering tools to create lines, price channels, and trading ranges.
Finally, most binary options demo platforms use some form of graphic to display the percentage of traders who are currently investing in rising prices and the percentage of traders who are currently investing in falling prices. This information is especially important for traders who believe in contrary opinion trading.
Based on the information that your platform provides, you can easily make a trading decision.
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Yesterday I was too busy to blog. And the day before. Soz. Sooooooooo….right. Wednesday's challenge was "your latest purchase". Yesterday's is "you and someone wearing matching clothes". I am not going to trawl through facebook to find a pic of a clothes twin, and I am defo not gonna take a new one. Instead, it's gonna be a bumper "newest purchase" and "newest made" post instead. (Today's challenge is "an article of clothing you made or altered" – perfect timing!!)
I mentioned a while back that I was going to try dip dye stuff, so I did a lil tank and a shirt – the shirt, being polycotton, didn't work as well as the tank but I am pleased with the results. I had a bit of a dye disaster earlier in the week, but seeing as I'm an old pro at dealing with dye-lab disasters, I totally sorted it, and the results are no longer blotchy stains! While I was fixing my dye-saster (groan), I rooted through my box of leftover/I-promise-I'l-do-something-with-these-someday fabrics, and tie dyed some jersey. Then I watched some more Breaking Bad…..uhoh….i'm in danger of describing what I had for dinner here…
SYNOPSIS: I made three tops from scratch on Wednesday, customised two, spray painted a pair of shoes and made an apple crumble. You don't care about the apple crumble, but it sounds impressive.
I also went SHOPPING last week. IN A SHOP!!!! I couldn't even believe it myself, the whole experience was so foreign and surreal, it has been that long. However, the lovely folks at Forever 21 had sent me a giftcard to get something nice, and I did just that. The shop still terrifies me a lil bit, it's so big – I didn't do myself any favours by visiting on a Saturday afternoon mind – I am not sure the floor plan shows the stock clearly. I also got the impression that some of the stuff I was admiring on the website wasn't in store, but I have a feeling that they have targeted a certain Dublin market, so I guess man repeller pants are probably not gonna sell so well. 😦
Nevertheless, I sifted through and soon had my hands full of things I wanted to try on. I settled on a lace-backed tribal-print-front tshirt, and a stripey shirt. I was also taken with another navy long sleeved number, and a red, scalloped edged skirt (that didn't have my size, sob….note to self – never try on a really teeny size small for the gas. Gas will not be had).
Forever 21 shirt, I couldn't decide to have it out or in, kinda like it halfsies. Urban Outfitters vintage skirt. Silly face, stylists own.


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A stalwart of sport in East Kilbride for more than 60 years has been honoured for his achievements by being chosen as a Commonwealth Games baton bearer.
Angus McConnell's part in the town's sporting history began in 1947 when EKYM football club was founded.
The 83-year-old, from East Mains, will be among nine bearers from East Kilbride who will carry the baton through the town on Sunday, June 22.
Angus served on the committee of the Scottish Amateur Football League and was rewarded for his efforts with a life membership of the Scottish Amateur Football Association.
He also formed East Kilbride Sports Council 41 years ago and was an executive member of the Scottish Association of Local Sports Councils for 30 years. He was also the first life member of the Scottish Association of Local Sports Councils and still sits on the Scottish Youth Football Association Appeals and Volunteer Committees.
Speaking about this latest honour Angus told the News: "I am over the moon to be a baton bearer.
"I was totally shocked but delighted when I found out a few weeks ago.
"Sport has always played such a big part of my life it is a real honour to be part of the Commonwealth Games and one I share with everyone who has helped me throughout my life and contributed so much.
"I never thought I would be doing something like this and despite everything I have done, it is definitely one of the biggest honours in my life."
Meanwhile, local band 50 Shades of Blue will be part of the entertainment before the opening ceremony.
The folk band, which was formed by Lorna Jane Gracie and her partner Mark Donaldson from Newlandsmuir just over a year ago, will perform as the athletes leave their village and crowds make their way to Celtic Park.
Lorna Jane told the News: "We were told this week we would be playing for the crowds making their way to the ceremony.
"Both Mark and I are really excited to be involved as it is such a monumental event for Scotland."


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Dobermans Are Safer Than Chihuahuas
Anyone that knows me well knows that I am passionate about Doberman's. I am so tired of hearing people that don't know better pontificate about how dangerous Dobies are. Dobies, and all dogs, are only as mean as they are treated. Treat them nice, they are nice.
So, thank God yet again for the British. In today's Daily Mirror, there is a wonderful article discussing how little yappy dogs are so much more dangerous than a Dobie or Rottweiler. Seems that yappy dogs just get tossed out of the way and their attacks are rarely reported. This makes the results of what's really an aggressive dog quite skewed.
So, give your Doberman a hug and a squeaky toy and enjoy reading this article:


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This article in The Onion pretty much sums up how I feel.
I'm neither a detective nor a psychiatrist, so I won't speculate as to why the gunman did what he did. And although I have (very) strong views on the matter of gun control, this isn't the time or the place for politics.
But I can pray, and pray some more, for the families of those who were killed. I can hold the community that is surely reeling from its losses in my heart. I can be thankful that my friends and loved ones, and their own adorable children, are safe and sound tonight.
May we all support, care for, and uplift each other in times of need. This quote from Mr. Rogers has been making the rounds on my Facebook feed, and it's incredibly apropos:


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Gravitational lensing is a pretty sweet phenomena. Basically light that gets emitted from distant objects can be bent because of a large gravity source (like say a galaxy, black hole, quasar, etc). Sometimes, the light can be bent in our direction and it is this phenomenon that we can see some truly spectacular images.
In the picture above, I have carefully illustrated what happens. Normally light will propagate away from the source in straight lines, but if there is a large gravitational presence the light will bend. Depending on how many different directions the light will bend, we can see multiple images of the same source as demonstrated below.
If the source, lens (big gravity thing), and observer (us) are all aligned we can see something really awesome called an Einstein ring. Basically what happens is the light from the source gets warped into a ring shape around the lens. Here is the Wikipedia article about it if you care to learn more.
Stef's research this past summer involved determining characteristics of the lensing objects. The more massive the source, the more cool the lensing effect. She looked through a survey (basically a bunch of crappy images of large portions of the sky, which are only bad because it would take years to get it at a poor resolution) and figured out commonalities of these lenses. I include a presentation she made which has some sweet lens pictures and some of her data.
Gravitational Lensing and Stuff
View more presentations from Anthony Salvagno.
Speaking of surveys, I guess my next post should be about what I did in Puerto Rico... maybe.


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The inevitable and most plain fact about the Panama Papers leak is starting to be grasped by a few folks. Contrary to what the leak seems to confirm at first glance "it's those horribly corrupt third world countries that are at their shenanigans again", the fact is the richest countries in the world are the greatest offenders – since they were the ones who set up this corrupt financial and fiscal system in the first place.
Their legislators and politicians are the ones who crafted it, at the behest of the elites which they serve, often through various kinds of disguised bribes and political quid pro quos.
Their militaries are the ones who move in and murder and plot and bomb any time anyone in a developing country tries to elect into power someone with ethics who is intent on really fighting the destructive, corrupt, crony capitalism that is imposed by the sword on their suffering populations.
And so, among the greatest offenders of fiscal and financial corruption, who do we find? Why, surprise, surprise, the US and Europe (which has a particular nefarious member, the UK).
Thus RT's article: Britain is the heart and soul of tax evasion by Dan Glazebrook.
The British government's claim to be tackling tax evasion is about as credible as Al Capone claiming to be leading the fight against organized crime. In fact, Britain is at the heart of the global tax haven network, and continues to lead the fight against its regulation.
For whilst corruption exists in every country, what enables that corruption to flourish and become institutionalized is the network of secretive financial regimes that allow the world's biggest criminals and fraudsters to escape taxation, regulation and oversight of their activities. And this network is a conscious creation of the British state.
Of the 215,000 companies identified in the Mossack Fonseca documents, over half were incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, one single territory in what tax haven expert Nicholas Shaxson calls a "spider's web" of well over a dozen separate UK-controlled dens of financial chicanery.
In addition, the UK was ranked number two of those jurisdictions where the banks, law firms and other middlemen associated with the Panama Papers operate, only topped by Hong Kong, whose institutional environment is itself a creation of the UK. And of the ten banks who most frequently asked Mossack Fonseca to set up paper companies to hide their client's finances, four were British: HSBC, Coutts, Rothschild and UBS.
HSBC, recently fined $1.9bn for laundering the money of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, used the Panamanian firm to create 2,300 offshore companies, whilst Coutts – the family bank of the Windsors – set up just under 500.
That Britain should emerge as central to this scandal is no surprise. For as Nicholas Shaxson, a leading authority on tax havens put it when I interviewed him in 2011, "The City of London is effectively the grand-daddy of the global offshore system." Whilst there are various different lists of tax havens in existence, depending on how exactly they are defined, on any one of them explains Shaxson, "you will see that about half of the tax havens on there, of the ones that matter, are in some way British or partly British." Firstly, are "Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man: the crown dependencies. They're very fundamentally controlled by Britain." Then there are the Overseas Territories, such as the Caymans, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands, in which "all the things that matter are effectively controlled by Great Britain."
Of course, it suits the British government to portray all these territories as 'autonomous' or 'self-governing' in order to provide itself with plausible deniability about what they are doing. But the reality is they are run by a governor appointed by the Queen on the British government's advice.
Obviously the British government, as well as American and European Union financial and fiscal authorities all know how this system works. They know it perfectly well because they were the ones who crafted it down to every detail:
Casey Gill, one of the earliest lawyers specializing in offshore operations explained how legislation was devised in the Caymans: tax experts and accountants would fly in from all over the world "and say 'these are the loopholes in our system'. And Caymans legislation would be designed accordingly," often by a conglomerate run by Gill, before being sent to the British Foreign Office for approval. Shaxson asked Gill if Britain, who had the power to veto such legislation, ever raised any objections. "No," he said, "Not ever. Never."
The entire UK-controlled web is home to offshore deposits estimated in 2009 to be worth $3.2 trillion, 55 percent of the global total: equivalent to roughly $500 for every man, woman and child on the planet.
Another point underscoring what a failure our so-called modern democracies are. A democratic system cannot work if both its people and its respective authorities are corrupt to the core, which is what we see in the US, the UK, and France, just to name three of the greatest offenders.
What we have is corruption run amok, backed by state or private repression, whenever necessary.
Not only that, this system, as Glazebrook explains so clearly, is the same old, same old colonialism of the past now disguised in a shameless fraudulent cover of independence.
This web emerged In the 1960s. Whilst ostensibly involved in a process of 'decolonization', in fact the UK hung on to a large global network of small, sparsely-populated islands: "The British empire", Shaxson wrote, "had faked its own death." These islands were to serve the same imperial purpose the empire had always had: the projection of British power and the channeling of African, Asian and Latin American wealth into Britain.
Nicholas Shaxson is a leading authority on tax havens, interviewed by Glazebrook. And:
In Shaxson's words, the role of these tax havens is to "capture passing foreign business and channel it to London just as a spider's web catches insects" whilst also acting as a "money laundering filter that lets the City get involved in dirty business while providing it with enough distance to maintain plausible deniability."
When you see pictures of millions suffering starvation and misery, lack of health care and education in African and Latin America, this system provides a part of the key.
In 2008, Global Financial Integrity estimated that flows of illicit money out of developing countries into tax havens were running at about $1.25 trillion per year, roughly ten times the total value of aid given to developing countries by the rich world. Whilst those such as Cameron are more interested in handwringing about 'corrupt African governments' than in examining the system that enabled and promoted this corruption, tax havens are facilitating the plunder, by the London banks, of African wealth. And they are doing so because this is what they were designed to do – to continue the extortion of colonialism, just at the moment Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its formal empire.
Notice that UK and American MSM papers and news producers are not admitting any of this, and continue to spin the story in a way that serves to hide the big picture of Western plunder and corruption.
Let us hope, however, that with the Internet there is a bit of a chance for more people to understand that the root causes for global corruption lie in the West, those with the greatest power. Local corrupt governments in other parts of the world, while also guilty, are only dancing to their masters' tune. Merely putting a few corrupt third world leaders in prison or carrying out assassinations, as the West is so fond of doing now and then, won't change a thing in the overall scheme.


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The bottle tree originated in sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia. The tradition of bottle trees in the U. S. began with Southern slaves who created bottle trees to trap "evil spirits," according to garden author Felder Rushing. While tradition dictates that the bottles should be made of blue glass, current bottle trees are free-form and made from all colours of glass. If you drink wine and do not know what to do with your empty wine bottles, you can create an outdoor wine bottle tree. A wine bottle tree is an eco-friendly recycling craft and adds interest to any corner of your garden.
Collect wine bottles. The number of bottles you need depends on the size of the bottle tree and how dense you want the bottle tree to be. If you don't already have wine bottles saved, you can add to your tree as you drink instead of waiting to collect.
Remove the labels from the bottles.
Select a location for your outdoor bottle tree. Ideal locations will receive full or partial sunlight to show of the colours of your bottle tree. Bottle trees can be set up inside flower beds, among bushes or on a bare piece of ground.
Dig a hole using a posthole digger. The hole should be at least 6 to 12 inches deep. For looser soil or areas with frequent rainfall, deeper is better.
Mix the quick-setting concrete according to manufacturer instructions.
Pour approximately 1 inch of concrete in the bottom of the hole and then set the fence post in the hole. Continue to pour the remaining concrete around the pole.
Allow the concrete to cure according to the manufacturer instructions.
Select a pattern for your bottle tree. Bottles can spiral from top to bottom, group thickly in regular lines, or space randomly over the length of the pole. Use a pencil to mark where you would like to place the nails.
Hammer 3-inch framing nails at a 45-degree angle into the fence post. Only hammer in the first inch. This will give the nail purchase and leave enough visible nail to support the bottle. If you are building as you drink, you can hammer in your nails ahead of time, or add nails as you add bottles.
Place the wine bottle neck over the nail.
For quick bottle trees decorate an existing fence post or porch pillar. Nails placed at a 90-degree angle to the fence post will not support a wine bottle securely. However, you can play with the angle of the nail to vary your design and the number of bottles you can place on the post. Wrap clear or coloured Christmas lights around the fence post while inserting the bulbs inside the bottle necks to create a lighted sculpture.


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Have you noticed that Diagonal lines have become really popular lately. The "visual triangle" used to be the "in thing" on layouts, but watch out for the Diagonal design, because it's setting up it's own territory!! And Love My Tapes is definitely on board with the Diagonal trend, with the awesome Teal Diagonal tape...it is one of my favorites!!! I think it might just be showing up on about 99.9% of my layouts recently...and today is no exception. I used it at the bottom of my page to create a doubled up Diagonal.
I drew a line across the page using a pencil and ruler and then added my first piece of tape on a Diagonal line, to match up with the pencil mark. I continued added the other pieces and just eye-balled the space in between each piece of tape. It helped having the lines on the tape, because I was able to keep them lined up, to help with the look of the pattern. I also used another of my favorite tapes on this one. The With Love tape made a great border at the top of my page and I love that it comes in Gray, which is also a really popular color right now.
Make sure you give this a try on your next layout or project and it will work with any of your Love My Tape pattern designs!!


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Many other college students can agree with me that it's hard to find CUTE cheap clothes. And just so everyone understands that I am not trying to advertise any of these stores I am trying to tell you that you don't need to pay $30 for a shirt you can find the same one at another store for $5, $7, $10. For example I LOVE LOVE LOVE American Eagle Outfitters. But I hate paying $30 for a plaid shirt. I found an American Eagle Outfitters plaid shirt for $10 at this amazing fantastic store called.. Platos Closet. If there's one by you look it up. They take barely used name brand clothing from you, and then lets say like me traded a bunch of clothes in the other day for $50 (it was luck and nice clothes *note* not EVERYONE will get over $20 when they bring items in) So I looked around for some cute stuff. Not knowing I was getting $50 back.
So I found.... a pair of grey AEO jeans, a light pink Aerie hoodie, lace tee, AEO plaid shirt, AEO Striped sweater. All for around $56. The picture in the upper right hand corner is what I got from Platos : ). In reality lets do the math.
Aerie hoodie- $39.99
AEO jeans- $29.99
Lace tee - $29.99
AEO Plaid shirt - $29.99
AEO sweater - $29.99
so lets see... gently used clothing that looks like new and I only paid less than $60 or brand new clothing that I woulve paid around $180 for? I love this store! : D But I do have to admit some of the clothes are considered old school american eagle like the cuts on jeans, the sweater. But the older AEO is my fav lasts longer and made a lot better!
Alright everyone subscribe to my blog and stay tuned for more clothing styles from a broke college student! ; )


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I ordered a cart to store my leveled books in. I also have tons of other books in my classroom library. The books in the library can be looked at whenever my kids are reading in the library. The books in the cart are not to be messed with unless we are switching books. Click here if you are interested in ordering a cart like this. The cute signs above my cart are from Chart Parts by Andrea Knight. I love everything in this set!
|I put cute stickers on the front to label. Easy and it works!
I went through my books and looked them up on Scholastic's Book Wizard. This is a great tool that allows you to type in the title of a book and it will give you the reading level. I printed labels with letters and put them on the front cover of the books as I leveled them. By putting my books in the cart, I was able to see which levels I needed more of. I also stamp all of my books with my name so that they don't get lost.
When school starts, I don't know what level my kids will be, but I want them to practice read-to-self right away. I bought 30 copies of some books that I found in Scholastic's book orders for only $1 each. Before school starts, I stuff the pouches with a whisper phone (which I made out of PVC) and three books. They all have the same three when school starts. We use these to practice the three ways to read.
My goal the first week is to listen to everybody read. I just pull a level C and open to any page and listen to them. I will move them up or down depending on if this level is too easy or too difficult. Once my kids are placed in a level, I let them choose eight good-fit books from the cart to put in their pouches. Eight books for each student sounds like a lot, but in the early levels, the books are so short! Kids that are in level M choose fewer books because they take much longer to read. I always record what level I put them in so that I can monitor their progress. Click here to print this form!
My kids store their book pouches inside their desks. I TRY to get them new books every week, usually it is closer to every other week. Kids get so excited about getting new books for their pouches. Once this system was established, it is really simple to maintain. I love that they are excited about books and they are practicing reading at their individual levels.
Kids reading books makes me a happy teacher!


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Yesterday I've been to the Melkweg in Amsterdam to see Marina & the Diamonds. On very strong recommendation of my sister who's seen her before and adores her. I don't question her taste for one second, in fact, of all the people I know she has the best taste in music. I knew who Marina was, what she looked like and heard her album twice (so don't expect me to know all song titles), but in all fairness I had no idea what to expect. All I knew that she wasn't an airhead like some of the women out there from Britain, supposingly being strong women but only riding the hype. Marina however I noticed, wasn't half as popular than some of them. In all, I was looking forward to it.
Marina, let me tell you something. That was pure alternative pop. That was a woman who stood to her work. That was some good vibes from the stage. That was some good vibes from the audience. Marina, she can sing, she can move, she has the words and she definitely has the looks. She photographes beautifully, which I, by lack of knowing the songs, enjoyed tremendously. With 104 shots I might have overdone it but come on, she moves fantastically, she looks amazing and the joy she brought on stage comes across on the pictures.
And with that last bit I want to say something else. Something that really amazed me. She is real. Whe she says she's amazed by the responds from the audience and is moved by it, you know she means it. She means every word she says and sings. There is nothing fake. This is 100% pure Marina and I like Marina very much. Despite not knowing the songs so well, she got me moving (which is an accomplishment for any band), I enjoyed this and what I also enjoyed was how my sister was enjoying it too. It's always wonderful to see someone genuinely having a good time.
But not just her. Marina managed to get the entire audience involved (balcony included), they were quiet (!! in case you don't know, the Dutch are known for talking all through the gig, not because they are bored but just because that's what they do) where desired and she got the crowd jumping, something my sister correctly explained as 'the last time I saw this happening was with the Kaiser Chiefs, amazing!'. The last time she saw the Kaiser Chiefs was in 2007, when they were still good and enjoyable and fun to jump around to. She was right. It was so much fun to see everyone from front to all the way to the back jump up and down to 'Champaign' (I happen to know that one song title). 'She got me convinced' I told my sister truthfully half way and she welcomed me into the wonderful world of Marina & the Diamonds. Sometimes you need to see it for yourself, I know exactly what the appeal of Marina & the Diamonds is. There's a bit of Tori Amos to it (my sister said), a bit of Kate Bush (that's what I said). Clever lyrics, pure reality, she's humble and funny, she can sing and yes, oh yes, she is drop dead gorgeous.
Marina is not a fake diamond but I real gem and played a new song as well which I also liked a lot (yes yes, I liked her music too) and she got herself a brand new fan, me! Welcome Marina.


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"At not even one year old, he has grown into quite a substantial cat already. He remains the sweetest, most tolerant and unflappable cat I have ever met. The only thing that seems to bother him is dogs - my parents have a mature cocker spaniel who comes with them when they visit for an afternoon now and then, who is actually very neutral towards cats, but Whitten never sticks around to find out. He loves to be with his people and is often found laying on the family room carpet in the middle of a sea of toys, and within a few feet of my rather loud little boy as he plays. If we are sitting out on the porch or eating a meal at the picnic table in the yard, Whitten perches in the closest window and calls to us.
We're very grateful to have had him join our family. I hope you enjoy these pictures. Look at that big, fluffy tail!"
I'm loving these names the kittens are ending up with! It sure sounds like Mr. Whitten Wu scored a happy life.
Stayed tuned. Next week you may get to see another crop of fuzzies. ;)


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Misogyny in YA Books (aka ENOUGH ALREADY! GODDAMN!)
Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater's third book debuted at no. 9 on the NYT Bestseller list and is already generating speculation re: its movie franchise, sequels, and product spinoffs. We are always optimistic when approaching the Next Big Thing of YA; after all, Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy did spectacularly well and is as complex, beautifully written, subversive, and brilliant a triad as any lover of literature could hope for (although DEAR GOD do not subject yourself to the UNFORGIVABLE film version of The Golden Compass, which was so bad we actually walked out in the first half-hour, SHRIEKING (really; just ask the people sitting in front of us, who changed seats to get away from us before we departed the theater in a frenzy of ire)).( Read more...Collapse )
I've never read the book Shiver, so I can't judge the book myself, but I am definitely tired of whiny heroines who have no sense of self outside her dangerous paranomoral hottie boyfriend who she'd die for apparently because he's a dangerous paranormal hottie. I just finished reading Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and almost hurled.
Thoughts, ontd? Can you rec any decent YA books with a kick ass heroine?


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Your wish is granted!
For two reasons:
1) It has become a tradition that the unofficial end date is the day on which I publish the annual author index. This year that will be after Xmas as I will have only sporadic internet access during December.
More importantly
2) The European Literature Network (ELN) is having a German December. Expect more German-language literature reviews, interviews and other such goodies over on their site. They'd also like #germanlitmonth readers to take part. So if you would like to record a 30-second video review of your favourite piece of German-language fiction, please do so.
The review can be based on the original German work or a translation, as long as you have a copy of the book to wave in front of the camera. It can be a novel, a short story collection, a volume of poetry or a play – as long as it's fiction. Please include the title (ideally in English and in German), the author, what it's about and why you love it.
Your video can be as straightforward or creative as you wish. Try these two examples for size.
Let me know in comments by 25.11, if you're likely to participate and I'll send you details of how to send your finished video to ELN.


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I just got home about half an hour ago, and am going for a much-needed shower and then off to bed. Before I do, I thought I'd post two photos I took today of the set construction for the Christmas musical production at Willingdon. First is a panorama shot that I took at the end of the evening and quickly stitched together just now. This should hopefully provide some idea of the scale of the set and the kind of undertaking in which it gets built in just over a week:
|Panoramic shot of the set at Willingdon, Day 2
Below is another shot that I took from the doorway that you can see at the top of the black steps towards the right hand side of the stage:
|The mess on stage and in the sanctuary during this week of set construction
Well, that's it for today. More to come tomorrow. Until then, good night ladies and gentlemen!
- The Wisdom Seeker


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You know what they say about kiddos... they will indeed repeat what they hear and what they see.
On that note, I've been hearing little sweet echoes lately.
Of course, they are echoes of what I apparently say quite frequently.
For the last week or two, I've noticed that Abby will often times call Marilyn, "Sweetie Pie," when she is talking to her. And Marilyn doesn't even think twice when answering her in conversation.
As I've said, I'm almost certain this new lingo Abby has picked up comes from me.
I'm guilty of calling the girls (and Thomas), Sweetie Pie. And now it seems that Abby has become quite comfortable using this term when referring to her sister.
It actually makes me giggle thinking about it.
Her she is, all of 4-years old, with her arm around her sister, talking to her like she is some 34-year old friend offering advise.
It really is a hoot. And precious. And heartwarming all wrapped up in one.
I love sweet echoes.


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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan says federal government has allocated seventy-two billion rupees for uplift of public sector universities in the country.
Addressing the Convocation at Gomal University Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday, he said the government is taking concrete steps to end educational backwardness in the country particularly from far-flung areas.
The Governor urged the University administration to promote research-based education and take steps for character building of the students.
On this occasion, Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan distributed degrees among passing out students for successfully completing Ph.D, MA/MSc and BBA/BCS.
He also gave away gold medals to the students for their outstanding performance.
Earlier, Vice Chancellor Maj Gen Hamid Shafiq (Retd) in his welcome address apprised the Governor and other participants about performance of the University.


text: We also delivered a super hero cake to an adorable little boy! With handpainted super heroes. Enjoy! We also had a very large delivery of 180 mini cakes and cake topper. In the mess of finding the hotel staff that was supposed to assist me, I forgot to photograph them. However, Kayla was in the wedding and there is a chance she snapped some. If so I'll share soon!


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Bombay Mermaids
The Sisters on the Runway NYC show raised over 4K for the non profit Safe Horizon this past weekend (an organization that benefits victims of domestic violence, especially women and children), and I'm so proud that my little brand, ▽ BOMBAY MERMAID ▽ Trading Co, was given the honor of opening both shows on Friday and Saturday.
The goal of my design aesthetic is to infuse a little endless vacay spirit into the wardrobes and lives of anyone who wears it, and according to the feedback I received post-show, that message came across loud and clear. Some backstage snaps are below, and a bunch more can be found here.
Thanks to everyone who helped bring this collection to life, including my amazing models, Raffael Flores-Contreras (who also DJ'd the event in addition to capturing the backstage magic), Blair Morgan Reeves (who organized the whole show), and everyone who helped inspire and motivate me along the way.
If you want to keep up with Bombay Mermaid, you can check out the blog, etsy shop, facebook and instagram for a whole lot of boho love.


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How do you follow up a bachelor/bachelorette party? Putting together baby furniture of course!! On Sunday, we borrowed my parents SUV to pick up the furniture that had finally arrived. Uncle James was on hand once again to help :) I was the official foreman of this job!
The dresser...it was big and heavy apparently
Daddy carrying the dresser upstairs
The crib! Mommy and Daddy put it together pretty quickly.
The dresser
Now that we have the baby furniture in the room it is really starting to feel like our little man is arriving in 11 weeks. Up next, need to start decorating the room-- that is where Aunt Katie comes in.