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Kyocera Rise (Sprint) Review
Stock Android 4.0; Comfortable physical keyboard; Very affordable; Good call quality
Small, dull display; No 4G ; Poor battery life; Mediocre camera; Pricier overall than Virgin Mobile version
The Kyocera Rise offers Android 4.0 and a comfortable physical keyboard for just $20, but the low-res display and short battery life are turnoffs.
At first glance, the $19.99 Kyocera Rise seems like too good of a deal to pass up. This Android Ice Cream Sandwich handset features a full QWERTY keyboard and decent performance at a bargain basement price. However, given the trade-offs involved, you'll want to think long and hard before making that two-year commitment.
The 3.5-inch display on the front of the device is surrounded by a thick black glossy bezel. Four capacitive buttons (Back, Home, Recent Apps and Menu) sit along the bottom of the bezel. Kyocera decided against adding a front-facing camera, an omission that's understandable given the low price--and the lack of 4G.
The majority of the Rise's rear panel is swathed in glossy gray plastic. The top and bottom panels are panels are lined with more black rubberized plastic. A 3.2 megapixel rear-facing camera, LED flash and mirror sit along the top of the panel above a white Kyocera logo. While the plastic paneling doesn't feel cheap, it is very slippery. We wished the sides of the phone were lined with soft-touch plastic for a better grip.
The 5.5 ounce device slid easily into our pants pocket. However the bulky 4.4 x 2.4 x 0.6-inch frame made a noticeable, unsightly bulge.
Display and Audio
Colors on "Man with the Iron Fists" trailer were rather muted. We had difficulty distinguishing reds from pink in the pagoda scene.
The 343 lux display also fell short of the 380 lux Android phone category average. On the plus side, viewing angles were pretty wide, allowing us to watch the trailer in a variety of angles without significant washout.
The Kyocera Rise delivered loud, clear audio from its rear-mounted speaker. The audio easily filled our small test room and offered crisp dialogue during "Man with the Iron Fists." As we listened to Jamiroquai's "Cosmic Girl," the synthesized instrumentals melded perfectly with lead singer's Jason Kay's distinctive tenor.
The handset also features a stock Android virtual keyboard and a Swype keyboard, complete with strong haptic feedback. Keys on the Swype keyboard are long and closely spaced, perfect for tracing out a message.
Software and Interface
Android purists will find plenty to love on the Kyocera Rise. With a few minor exceptions, the phone shows off Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in all its understated glory. A large digital clock sits on the lockscreen. Instead of a sliding lockscreen, there are icons for lock and camera that you flick upward to activate.
The Rise has five customizable homescreens. A thin light bar near the bottom of the display separates the omnipresent icons (Phone, Contacts, Apps, Messaging and Sprint ID) along the bottom and the rest of the display. A small blue line within the bar shows which page the user is on.
Users that need a little variety can use Sprint ID to spice things up. Sprint ID features a number of ID packs that come bundled with their own skins and apps. For example, downloading the Fantasy Football pack adds a pigskin wallpaper, as well as apps for SportsCaster, CBS Sports Pro Football and Yahoo! Fantasy Football '12.
Third-party apps include YouTube and ICE, which allowed us to create In Case of Emergency contacts.
On the CPU portion of the Benchmark app, the Rise scored 2,060, which is lower than the 2,645 category average and the 2,931 turned in by the faster 1.4-GHz CPU inside the $49 myTouch Q on T-Mobile.
When we ran An3DBench graphics test, the Rise notched 7,275. That showing tops the 6,996 average but was a bit behind the myTouch (7,397).
The Kyocera Rise comes with 2GB of onboard storage that can be expanded to 32GB via the microSD card.
3G and Web Browsing
Those searching for 4G or 4G LTE speeds should look elsewhere; the Kyocera Rise is firmly rooted in the land of 3G. When we ran Speedtest.net test, the Rise delivered an average of 710 Kbps downloads and 610 Mbps upload speeds.
At least the device managed to load mobile sites in a decent amount of time. Loading the mobile versions of NYTimes.com, ESPN.com and CNN.com took 4.3, 7.9 and 8.5 seconds, respectively. The desktop version of Laptopmag.com took considerably longer at 33.7 seconds.
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Call Quality
Making calls with the Rise was a pleasant experience. The handset delivered satisfying results across the board on Sprint's network. Callers on landlines and mobile devices reported clear, loud audio in indoor and outdoor settings. There were only a few instances of distracting background noise. Calls were nice and crisp on our end, although our voice echoed on some mobile-to-mobile calls.
Battery Life
Plans and Value
The Kyocera Rise's $19.99 price tag seems like a steal--before the cost of a two-year plan is factored in. Sprint offers two flavors of its unlimited data plan. The $109.99 version offers unlimited talk, text and data and adds up to a whopping $2,659.75 after two years plus the cost of the phone. The $99.99 version delivers 900 Anytime minutes and costs $2,419.75 over two years, while the $79.99 plan has 450 Anytime minutes and comes to a grand total of $1,939.75.
Virgin Mobile, by comparison, offers the Rise for $99.99 with a $55 no-contract unlimited everything plan, which translates to $1,419.99 over 24 months. That's a savings of $519.76 compared with Sprint's $79.99 plan.
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Anytime a country unexpectedly releases a datapoint early on a Saturday morning (Friday night US time) your ears should probably perk up.
Today China announced that inflation in June his 6.4%, solidly above the 6.2% analysts had expected, clocking in at a 3-year high (according to Bloomberg).
This is one of Beijing's big worries, and it contradicts recent comments from Premier Wen Jiabao that inflation in China had been whipped.
Meanwhile, food inflation is still wild.
Check this out: The price of a kilogram of pork rump stands at 30.58 yuan. Last year during the same period it was 18.14 yuan for the same amount.
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Fans or lovers of Elephants will enjoy this book from author William Louis Gardner.
Hollywood goes to East Africa to make a film but struggles with Africanization, intrigue and murder to save the elephant. The film story is a "Moby Dick" theme that is played out with a great elephant, Ahmed, that captures the adventure and romance of its great cast of characters who find them-selves in the African bush working to save the game, but running into opposition every way they turn.
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"National treasure is a status that won't protect one from greed. "The Games End" is a novel about Ahmed, a massive tusk elephant in Kenya who captivated Hollywood throughout the 50′s through 1970′s. Although he was ordered to be protected from hunters, the allure of this giant prize would not protect him from those who only saw only dollar signs. "The Games End" is a riveting novel of adventure, highly recommended."


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Chocolate Heath Bar Cake
I have a secret, I've committed carbicide with this D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S. Chocolate Heath Bar Cake! Yes, I know it was wrong but it felt so right. I couldn't be stopped...
Do you wanna join the carbicide club? Then here's the recipe...
What you'll need:
1 box German chocolate cake mix
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 jar hot fudge sauce
1 jar caramel ice cream topping
1-8 oz container of coolwhip
1 bag of crushed Heath bars (or 4 Heath bars, crushed)
What you'll do:
Bake the German chocolate cake according to the directions on the box. As soon as it's done baking, poke large holes all over the cake and pour on the sweetened condensed milk. Then, evenly pour on the hot fudge and caramel sauce. Put the cake in the fridge to cool completely. Once cooled, spread the CoolWhip all over the top, then cover with crushed heath bars.
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Sun bears are listed as Vulnerable in IUCN Redlist
The Awareness to Action workshop organized by Releigh International in collaboration with LEAP, BSBCC and Wild and Stoked Productions was held on the 11th - 13th March 2016. The workshop was conducted at the Paganakan Dii
Tropical Retreat and Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC), Sandakan.
One of the main aims of the workshop was to provide young people with perspective skills in going from awareness to action in becoming active global citizens. The 3-day workshop was participated by students from 3 local schools in Sandakan which were SM St. Mary's, SM St. Micheal and SMK Muhibbah.
The activities
On the first day of the workshop, the students were gathered at the Paganakan Dii Tropical Retreat. Before arriving, the students had the opportunity to tour around the WWF-Eco school, SMK Muhibbah, where the school representatives explained about eco-friendly practices implemented at their school. Upon arrival at the Paganakan Dii, the students checked into their dorms and get themselves prepared for their first activity. After an ice-breaking activity called "the name game" was conducted, Raleigh International's Natural Resources Programme Advisor, Don Gordon conducted a session about sustainable development goals, local and global responses to climate change and the threats to Sabah's biodiversity. The session also mentions about initiatives that support biodiversity conservation and sustainable lifestyles throughout the world.
During the 3-day workshop, the students
learned about environmental issues at the local, national and international levels, and discussed on how to solve these problems through eco-friendly practices at home and at their schools. During the session conducted by LEAP and the students were exposed about environmental issues that are threatening wildlife in Sabah. The session also discussed about efforts done by local and international organizations in helping to solve these issues. The finale session was about seeing conservation in action, where students visited BSBCC and Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. We hope this workshop has given an impact among these students to move from awareness of environmental issues to taking action sustainable practices towards a better environment.
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The Fourth Book/Chapter XVIII
How Pantagruel met with a great storm at sea
The next day we espied nine sail that came spooning before the wind; they were full of Dominicans, Jesuits, Capuchins, Hermits, Austins, Bernardins, Egnatins, Celestins, Theatins, Amadeans, Cordeliers, Carmelites, Minims, and the devil and all of other holy monks and friars, who were going to the Council of Chesil, to sift and garble some new articles of faith against the new heretics. Panurge was overjoyed to see them, being most certain of good luck for that day and a long train of others. So having courteously saluted the blessed fathers, and recommended the salvation of his precious soul to their devout prayers and private ejaculations, he caused seventy-eight dozen of Westphalia hams, units of pots of caviare, tens of Bolonia sausages, hundreds of botargoes, and thousands of fine angels, for the souls of the dead, to be thrown on board their ships. Pantagruel seemed metagrabolized, dozing, out of sorts, and as melancholic as a cat. Friar John, who soon perceived it, was inquiring of him whence should come this unusual sadness; when the master, whose watch it was, observing the fluttering of the ancient above the poop, and seeing that it began to overcast, judged that we should have wind; therefore he bid the boatswain call all hands upon deck, officers, sailors, foremast-men, swabbers, and cabin-boys, and even the passengers; made them first settle their topsails, take in their spritsail; then he cried, In with your topsails, lower the foresail, tallow under parrels, braid up close all them sails, strike your topmasts to the cap, make all sure with your sheeps-feet, lash your guns fast. All this was nimbly done. Immediately it blowed a storm; the sea began to roar and swell mountain-high; the rut of the sea was great, the waves breaking upon our ship's quarter; the north-west wind blustered and overblowed; boisterous gusts, dreadful clashing, and deadly scuds of wind whistled through our yards and made our shrouds rattle again. The thunder grumbled so horridly that you would have thought heaven had been tumbling about our ears; at the same time it lightened, rained, hailed; the sky lost its transparent hue, grew dusky, thick, and gloomy, so that we had no other light than that of the flashes of lightning and rending of the clouds. The hurricanes, flaws, and sudden whirlwinds began to make a flame about us by the lightnings, fiery vapours, and other aerial ejaculations. Oh, how our looks were full of amazement and trouble, while the saucy winds did rudely lift up above us the mountainous waves of the main! Believe me, it seemed to us a lively image of the chaos, where fire, air, sea, land, and all the elements were in a refractory confusion. Poor Panurge having with the full contents of the inside of his doublet plentifully fed the fish, greedy enough of such odious fare, sat on the deck all in a heap, with his nose and arse together, most sadly cast down, moping and half dead; invoked and called to his assistance all the blessed he- and she-saints he could muster up; swore and vowed to confess in time and place convenient, and then bawled out frightfully, Steward, maitre d'hotel, see ho! my friend, my father, my uncle, prithee let us have a piece of powdered beef or pork; we shall drink but too much anon, for aught I see. Eat little and drink the more will hereafter be my motto, I fear. Would to our dear Lord, and to our blessed, worthy, and sacred Lady, I were now, I say, this very minute of an hour, well on shore, on terra firma, hale and easy. O twice and thrice happy those that plant cabbages! O destinies, why did you not spin me for a cabbage-planter? O how few are there to whom Jupiter hath been so favourable as to predestinate them to plant cabbages! They have always one foot on the ground, and the other not far from it. Dispute who will of felicity and summum bonum, for my part whosoever plants cabbages is now, by my decree, proclaimed most happy; for as good a reason as the philosopher Pyrrho, being in the same danger, and seeing a hog near the shore eating some scattered oats, declared it happy in two respects; first, because it had plenty of oats, and besides that, was on shore. Ha, for a divine and princely habitation, commend me to the cows' floor.
Murder! This wave will sweep us away, blessed Saviour! O my friends! a little vinegar. I sweat again with mere agony. Alas! the mizen-sail's split, the gallery's washed away, the masts are sprung, the maintop-masthead dives into the sea; the keel is up to the sun; our shrouds are almost all broke, and blown away. Alas! alas! where is our main course? Al is verlooren, by Godt! our topmast is run adrift. Alas! who shall have this wreck? Friend, lend me here behind you one of these whales. Your lantern is fallen, my lads. Alas! do not let go the main-tack nor the bowline. I hear the block crack; is it broke? For the Lord's sake, let us have the hull, and let all the rigging be damned. Be, be, be, bous, bous, bous. Look to the needle of your compass, I beseech you, good Sir Astrophil, and tell us, if you can, whence comes this storm. My heart's sunk down below my midriff. By my troth, I am in a sad fright, bou, bou, bou, bous, bous, I am lost for ever. I conskite myself for mere madness and fear. Bou, bou, bou, bou, Otto to to to to ti. Bou, bou, bou, ou, ou, ou, bou, bou, bous. I sink, I'm drowned, I'm gone, good people, I'm drowned.


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Friday, September 8
Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #56 ~ Anything Goes
14 comments:
- Sanda Reynolds said...
OMG Kim, I love this to bits and thank you very much once again! Hugs, Sanda xxx
- 8 September 2017 at 11:08
- Tracey@Hotchpotchcreations said...
This is spectacular Kim, I love the transprancey within the face and how the stencilled designs show through the hair line. Fabulous colour swatch. I really must take a look at Sandra's Video. Thank you so much for sharing.
Have a smashing weekend.
Hugs Tracey xx
- 8 September 2017 at 13:01
- Jo Nevill said...
Always so amazing and stunning Kim !
Lots of love to you and yours xxxx
Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week.
Jo x
- 8 September 2017 at 14:49
- DeBe said...
This is so beautiful Kim. The layers combine to create a wonderful shadowy effect which really enhances the beauty of both the girl and the whole piece. I will definitely be watching Sandra's video! Thank you for joining us at the Creative Artiste Mixed Media September Challenge. Good luck! Denyse x (DT)
- 8 September 2017 at 20:31
- FIona Kenward said...
Amazing piece http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com.au/
- 8 September 2017 at 22:13
- missgailly said...
AB-SO-LUTE-LY STUNNING! WOW! Thanks for playing along at Use Your Stuff - Gail
- 9 September 2017 at 13:30
- Amanda said...
This is stunning! So very well done! Thanks for joining us this week at Use Your Stuff! Amanda - DT
- 10 September 2017 at 03:55
- Sandra said...
Wow, this is stunning! Love it very much! The colors the layers the bits of patterns you've created. It's all so gorgeous, and so is she. She is a stamp (which I never would have guessed) that you really brought her to live and to do that you need some amazing skills which you most definitely have! Again, Wow! Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra
- 10 September 2017 at 15:36
- The Crafty Bat said...
wow wow wow. This is absolutely stunning piece of art work. Everything about it is stunning.
Thank you for joining us over at Day Dreamer Challenges
Kelly (DT)
- 10 September 2017 at 21:55
- Rupa S said...
Beautiful! Truly, a work of art! Love the color choices and the layers you built up with the stencils!Thanks for sharing this with us at Rhedd's Creative Spirit this month.Good luck, Rupa.
- 12 September 2017 at 05:01
- Team Clark said...
I didn't even know tools existed to build a face like this, how fun! Your layering of colors and patterns is so beautiful! Biggest congrats on being in the SSS spotlight! Hugs, Autumn
- 12 September 2017 at 16:33
- Sandra Wright said...
This is so lovely..the colour palette is so pretty.
Thank you so much for joining in with our challenge this month at Rhedd's Creative Spirit...x
- 12 September 2017 at 19:08
- Rocky said...
I absolutely love the stencil pattern that comes through on her hair and face, it's gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing her with us at Altered Eclectics.
- 14 September 2017 at 15:49
- Elaine aka Ellapu said...
such talent you have there - love it.Such a beautiful hat you have made and love the gothis feel. Thank you for sharing with us over at Altered Eclectics and Rhedd's Creative Spirit this month and hope to see you in future challenges
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- Editorial
- Open Access
Combating infectious diseases of poverty: a year on
© Xia et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
- Received: 25 October 2013
- Accepted: 8 November 2013
- Published: 18 November 2013
The Infectious Diseases of Poverty journal, launched a year ago, is a platform to engage outside the traditional disciplinary boundaries, and disseminate high quality science towards the improvement of health. This paper reviews the milestone achievements during its first year of operation. The journal has filled an important niche, addressing some of the main priorities in the Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty. Highlights include the publication of three thematic issues on health systems, surveillance and response systems, as well as co-infection and syndemics. The thematic issues have foregrounded the importance and innovation that can be achieved through transdisciplinary research. The journal has been indexed by PubMed since April 2013, with the publication of a total of 38 articles. Finally, the journal is delivering to wider range readers both in developing and developed countries with sustained efforts with a focus on relevant and strategic information towards elimination of infectious diseases of poverty.
- Infectious diseases of poverty
- Health system
- Surveillance and response systems
- Coinfection
- Syndemics
Multilingual abstract
Please see Additional file1 for translation of the abstract into the six official working languages of the United Nations.
Infectious diseases are inextricably linked to populations living in the poor conditions[1, 2]. This remains the case with emerging infections and with the re-emergence of infectious diseases for which prevention and cures have been successful in other populations[3, 4]. Challenges persist with the dynamic evolution of our ecology and the disease agents, including pathogens, vectors, as well as biological, social, cultural, political and environmental factors. Although there are rapid technological and scientific developments that propose solutions to some aspects of diseases of poverty, current paradigms in research still struggle with the balance of integration of the knowledge produced by the growing numbers of disciplines that are able to contribute to our understanding of the complexity in health and disease[5–7]. Furthermore, mechanisms for the sharing and translation of knowledge into policies and effective practice needs to be given greater priority, particularly to improve access to low and middle income countries that have the highest endemicity[8, 9].
- (i)
to identify and assess the research base underlying important current and future public health options, choices and decisions;
- (ii)
to highlight information gaps and research gaps;
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to review a wide range of topic areas, methods and strategies in diseases of poverty; and
- (iv)
to facilitate a much needed dialogue between policy makers, public health practitioners, control staff and academic researchers and their donors.
The IDP journal builds on knowledge translation activities initiated by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), especially within the TropIKA.net initiative. In November 2011, the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD) of Shanghai, People's Republic of China, hosted a Consultation on setting up an international Partnership for TropIKA.net as the initiative was being phased out by TDR. The IDP journal was one of the three priority areas identified by the participants and NIPD took the lead in establishing the journal in collaboration with the open access publisher, BioMed Central (BMC)[10].
Issues addressed
The breadth and depth of issues covered
Three thematic issues were published: (i) Health Systems Research for Infectious Diseases of Poverty; (ii) Surveillance and Response to Infectious Diseases of Poverty; and (iii) Co-infection and Syndemics. All of them covered transdisciplinary research, ecohealth approaches, and translational sciences to combat the infectious diseases of poverty.
In the first thematic issue entitled "Health Systems Research for Infectious Diseases of Poverty", the main purpose of the collection was to review the recent progress on the roles of the health systems in combating the infectious diseases of poverty in order to call for more research on health systems[11, 12]. The 12 articles emphasized the essential characteristics of poverty and provided evidence on technical solutions to managing the infectious diseases that afflict poor populations world-wide[13, 14]. The articles discussed treatments, indicating the importance of pharmaceuticals for neglected diseases, as well as delivery strategies to reach impoverished populations, and highlighted the lack of research on (i) innovative programs that provide diagnostics and treatment for infectious diseases to hard-to-reach rural and urban communities, (ii) exploring research on other health system components, and (iii) broadening the evidence base to increase understanding of effective and sustainable interventions to reduce the burden of infectious disease among the poor.
The collection of papers on "Surveillance and Response to Infectious Diseases of Poverty", published 15 articles from traditional neglected tropical diseases to the newly outbreaks of H7N9 flu that make international impact significantly[13, 15]. Based on the innovative and effective "One health - One world" paradigm, six different research priorities were recommended, including (i) dynamic mapping of transmission; (ii) capture of population dynamics; (iii) modeling based on a minimal and essential database approach; (iv) implementation of mobile-health (m-health) and sensitive diagnostics; (v) design of response packages tailored to different transmission settings and levels; and (vi) validation of approaches and responses, all of which were outcomes of the First Forum on Surveillance Response System Leading to Tropical Diseases Elimination, which was held in Shanghai in June 2012[13].
In the third thematic issue, entitled "Co-infection and Syndemics", a total of six articles were published on co-infections or syndemics between HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other neglected tropical diseases, such as intestinal parasitic infections, schistosomiasis, babesiasis, clonorchiasis, and diabetes, etc.[16–19]. In fact, co-infection is of particular human health importance because pathogenic agents can interact within the host, while syndemics refers to the aggregation of two or more diseases in a population, that can be expanded further to situate the occurrence of multiple diseases within the context of poverty and other mitigating factors that support and perpetuate poor health. Given that social conditions can contribute to the clustering, form and progression of a disease at both individual and population levels, it is a great challenge to understand the processes that generate these patterns of co-infection and syndemics.
All three thematic issues have trigged more research on exploring innovative and transdisciplinary approaches, which could be applied in the resource limited settings or in the field of better medical and public health interventions in the poor population.
Achieving the agenda for action proposed by the Global Report
In face of challenges in infectious diseases of poverty for control programmes, the Global Report emphasized the need to break the vicious cycle between poverty and infectious diseases, and to forge an escape for the poor and vulnerable population through the uptake of global health research solutions[1]. A total of five options for action were put forward by the Global Report as high level priorities[20, 21].
Among the 38 articles in the first two issues of Infectious Diseases of Poverty, some articles were responding to those five options for action as advocated in the Global Report[1].
Five actions to break the vicious cycle of poverty and infectious diseases ( from Global Report[1])
Description of actions
Option for action 1
Create and use a new index of infectious diseases of poverty to server as a surrogate marker of national socioeconomic development
Option for action 2
Implement a "One health - One world" strategy in relation to research for infectious diseases of poverty
Option for action 3
Actively promote research ownership with enabling policies by disease endemic countries
Option for action 4
Create an innovation platform to foster a culture of innovation to benefit public health
Option for action 5
Create an online global platform of research resources to inform on strategies, policies and funding commitments
The option for action 2 calls for policy-makers, funders and academic community to embrace a "One health - One world" strategy, in particular, to foster essential multidisciplinary and multisectoral approaches for a full continuum of research. In this regard, four researchers had linked with governments of disease endemic countries that develop intersectoral frameworks and encourage cooperation in the field of zoonosis[19, 27–29], and additional four investigations had highlighted the collaboration across various ministries as well as among medical and veterinary doctors[13, 22, 30, 31].
In the option for action 3, four articles had worked on developing research congruent with the burden of infectious diseases of poverty in their own populations[26, 32–34], three articles demonstrated an increase in research activities and improved research leadership[14, 30, 31], three articles were trying to develop regional partnerships aiming for building research infrastructure, human resources and research capacity[22, 32, 35], and two articles focused on how to create policies and develop plans to guide international investments towards the identified research priorities[13, 36]. However, there is still a significant need to increase national investment for research and the translation of research to strategies for health[31, 35].
Ten reasons to do research on infectious diseases of poverty (from Global Report[1])
Detail description
Break the vicious cycle of poverty and infectious diseases
The interrelationships between health, infectious diseases and poverty are dynamic and complex. Timely, targeted research will prevent infectious diseases from driving more people into poverty
Forge an escape for the poor and vulnerable
Poor people living in the areas most affected by environmental factors are least able to respond to the challenges of environmental and climate change. Interactive, interdisciplinary research can identify ways to mitigate risk factors, establish the potential impact of interventions on the environment and direct future interventions to minimize risk
Tackle multiple problems
Research will help understand both causes and consequences of polyparasitism, coinfection and comorbidities with non-communicable diseases on people, societies and systems. An integrated understanding of the complex relationships underpins effective integrated health system delivery and effective disease control programmes
Commute the life sentence
Many people must live with the long-term debilitating effects of past or current infection. Research can find ways to mitigate the consequences of chronic and persistent lifelong infection and its secondary complications and associated stigma
Be prepared-forewarned is forearmed
Surveillance is essential at all levels to understand patterns of emergence, including the spread of drug and insecticide resistance. Mapping, monitoring and evaluation of these trends are critical. Access to such surveillance data allows us to anticipate and respond to emergent, re-emergent and drug-resistant diseases
Reach the hardest to reach
By identifying ways to strengthen health infrastructure and better deliver services in impoverished areas, we can reach disenfranchised populations who continue to struggle with the burden of poverty and disease. Health systems research can create positive synergies between disease control and wider health systems in poor regions
Prevent loss in translation
Progress along the route from basic research to clinical and public health practice is slow and patchy. Integrated multidisciplinary research programmes should aim to anticipate and avoid potholes along the route to the introduction of more effective interventions
Identify small changes that can make a big difference
Relatively low levels of investment in evidence-based interventions can have a big impact. Small modifications in where and how we deliver treatments and care can achieve dramatic improvements. Effective research that demonstrates positive effects from small modifications should be rapidly scaled up in poor communities
Stay focused on the light at the end of the tunnel
Much has been achieved to date and even the most difficult situations are not irreversible. Significant progress will continue to be made if investment in coordinated research programmes is expanded and sustained
Act quickly on what we know
Policy-makers and global funders need to have access to the right information at the right time to inform decisions that draw on the evidence of what works, and feed "best buys" into health policy, health budgets and the operations of health systems. Research data must therefore be rapidly translated into effective tools for policy-makers
It is interesting to note that the top five highly accessed articles reached more than 3,000 visits for each article, and up to 10,000 visits of the top one. Among the top five articles, three articles are related to the transdisciplinary approaches with targeting cross-cutting issues, such as environmental changes, social determinants and health system[27, 38, 39]. Another two articles put forward the research priorities based on the gap analysis between control programmes and research capacity, in the field of malaria, schistosomiasis, and echinococcosis[24, 34].
Success in editorial process
In the first two inaugural volumes from October 2012 to October 2013, IDP journal attracted strong submissions and developed a readership within the BMC model, including (i) open-access for readers, (ii) high quality of published work, and (iii) a professional and transparent editorial process.
Scientists from 39 countries have submitted their manuscripts to this journal, in which Africa and Asia accounting for 39% and 37% of the total number of submitted manuscripts, respectively, followed by Latin America (10%), Oceania (5%), North America (4%), and Europe (4%). While the visits came from the whole of the world, and the top ten countries for visiting the journal are ordered by following countries: United States, China, India, Nigeria, Australia, United Kingdom, Philippines, Pakistan, South Africa, which indicating 70% of visits from low and middle income countries (Additional file2).
Thirdly, professional editorial process has increased the efficiency in production of all publications. Two special efforts were made by the editorial team. One is that the abstract of each publication was translated into 6 UN working languages. The other one is the short time of efficient peer review for the decision and publication, with average time was about 65 days and 25 days, respectively. Those efforts have been apprased by authors widely. A strong commitment by the editoiral office in China to this work is demonstrated by the waiving of article processing costs in the initial stage of the new journal until the end of 2014, and this is to ensure that researchers who have innovative ideas for transdisciplinary research are able to disseminate their ideas based on the quality of the science and without being hindered by cost restrictions.
The journal fills an important niche, in line with the high-level Global Report put forth by the World Health Organization in 2012[40]. The journal was indexed by PubMed in April 2013, and the next logical step is to obtain an official impact factor through ISI Web of Knowledge. The journal has already established itself as an important outlet and holds promise of becoming a leading and influential journal in the field of global health and infectious diseases in future years. The data from co-authors' institutions indicated the south-south cooperation need to be further strengthen in the future. We look forward to delivering on this promise to our acknowledged authors and wide readers with sustained efforts by professional editorial team. It is expecting more readers to publish their research or review articles on the issues of 10 reasons to do research on infectious diseases of poverty and research solutions for global health, proposed by the Global Report[1].
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Surge in number of people looking for home loans
THERE has been a surge in the number of people who have drawn down a mortgage in the first three months of the year.
A total of 3,425 new home-loans were issued to property buyers in the first quarter, figures out this morning from the Irish Banking Federation show.
This was up 65pc on the number of mortgages drawn down in the first three months of last year, the bankers said.
The value of the new mortgages amount to €568m.
First-time buyers and those moving homes dominate the market, accounting for 86pc of mortgage drawn down.
Irish Banking Federation boss Noel Brett said the level of mortgage draw downs was the highest in almost four years.
"Notwithstanding the fact that the first quarter is traditionally the weakest of the four quarters in any year, the volumes recorded are the highest first quarter figures we have seen since 2010 and the first time we have seen quarter one year-on-year growth since 2006."
The figures provide further encouraging evidence that the market continues to recover, he said
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Posted 9/21/11 (Wed)
By Neal A. Shipman
Farmer Editor
With a young team out for Cross Country this year, Greg Brown, Watford City's head Cross Country coach, knew that this would be a growing year for his athletes. But as this season has unfolded, he is more and more confident that his runners will be ready to compete at the State Meet.
And his confidence only grew as the teams took third place at the Tioga Meet on Sept. 15, and then the girls took eighth and the boys eleventh at Saturday's meet in Bismarck.
"Last week was a tough week with our meet setup," stated Brown. "We ran a hilly course on Thursday in Tioga that also had high winds, and then we ran a flat course on Saturday in Bismarck. Both meets worked really well together to get us prepared for the State Meet."
At the Tioga Meet, Guy Ross was the top finisher for the Wolves with a 22nd place finish in a time of 19:50, while Dustin Kleppen finished in 25th place with a time of 20:02.
Also placing for the boys team was John Meuchel, 35th, 21:05; and Logan Gumke, 36th, 21:07.
In the girls division, Asha Smith took fourth place with a time of 16:58, while Kade Ross came in ninth with a time of 17:37.
Also placing in the girls division was Addison Sundeen, 17th, 18:12; Lea Arndt, 27th, 19:05; Tara Loomer, 30th, 19:23; and Bessie Schmitz, 35th, 19:38.
In the boys junior high division, Devin Schmitz took 24th with a time of 14:55 and Hunter DeFoe took 25th with a time of 14:56.
Bismarck Meet
The Watford City Cross Country girls team finished in eighth place while the boys team came in 11th at the Bismarck Meet on Saturday at the McDowell Dam.
Asha Smith led the girls' team with a 12th place finish with a time of 15:52. Other finishers were Addison Sundeen, 53rd, 17:30; Lea Arndt, 54th, 17:31; Tara Loomer, 71st, 18:07; and Bessie Schmitz, 78th, 18.33.
Guy Ross paced the boys' team with a 56th place finish with a time of 19:04. Other finishers were Dustin Kleppen, 61st, 19:13; Logan Gumke, 79th, 20:16; and John Meuchel, 80th, 20.18.
In the junior high division, Devin Schmitz placed 36th with a time of 13:27 and Hunter DeFoe was 51st with a time of 14:47.
"The athletes are continuing to get better as the season is progressing along," states Brown. "We are starting to see good things happen with both teams. Soon we will start backing off in practices and get their legs prepared for the State Meet, which has been moved to Fargo this year because of flooding in Valley City."
The Wolves will next be competing at the Beulah-Hazen Invite at the Black Sands Golf Course in Beulah on Saturday.


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As masters of your business and financial prosperity, ask yourself 3 questions?
- Have you been aligned to a bank manager that does not understand your business?
- Have you seen bank managers come and go like passing traffic whilst your business demonstrates stability?
- What is the relationship like with your bank?
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Client was confident that they were not getting the most cost efficient borrowing platform for their farming business. Being removed from banking and bank policy they themselves were making very little progress in testing the market and refinancing their business to get a better outcome. RSP was engaged to manage the process for them.
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Their $2,000,000 funding requirements were defined in our credit submission format and tendered to market. A very positive response was achieved which resulted in a new bank, an engaged manager and $65,000 p.a savings in interest alone.
2. Client Position
A farming client was caught in an awkward position of being informed that a pending superannuation liability was due. If this payment was not made then a $248,000 tax penalty would be imposed. Existing bank found it difficult to work around superannuation policy and hence the client engaged RSP to find a solution.
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A significant family farming client was approaching maturity on their facilities as was assured from their existing bank that the new proposed facilities are the "very best" offer available. Their pricing and short term structures were noted. Short term facilities did not suit the client's long term investment horizons. Being an astute operator, the client engaged RSP to test this hypothesis under RSP's tender process.
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Studio Forbes orange 1968 Vespa
Public D8 in orange
Public M8 in white
Public M3 in blue
Public M8 in blue
Our new PUBLIC bikes (prototypes) have been turning up all around San Francisco. We'll have them for sale next month, but you can check them out right now on our PUBLIC website and maybe even win one in our contest.
When we showed our pal Laura Guido Clark our line of bikes, she deemed the colors "lickable". We liked that. Admittedly, we did not have "licking" in mind when we came up with these colors, but Laura makes her living understanding and applying the meaning and value of color to our world; so when she talks we sit up straight.
Our bike colors – ironically – are derived from the world of cars and scooters. The "Milano" orange was inspired by a '68 Vespa we've had in our office. Our robin's egg blue was stolen from a vintage Porsche we spotted on the street. The green and white came from late '60s BMW's. There is also a '50s Thunderbird turquoise we might steal in the future. A lot of older cars were quite lickable.
It is hard to think of cars as being lickable these days. Their colors are predominantly versions of gray, dark gray and darker gray – and a black to keep designers and teenagers appeased. It's probably just as well, because cars are a lot bigger than they used to be, and color makes objects appear larger. A big, honking Lincoln Navigator in our 'Milano' orange would scare just about anyone. Car shapes today are less distinct from each other – it's often hard to tell a Mercedes from a Ford. So painting them with special colors would be an exercise in superficiality. And given the effect of cars on the environment in recent decades, car manufacturers are right to focus on efficiency and safety rather than color.
Car culture as romance and beauty is mostly an exercise in nostalgia. It's hard to imagine a contemporary rock band singing a paean to a Saturn or an Audi the way the Beach Boys or Jan and Dean swooned over the cars of their era. Maybe someday designers will create cars that are so smart and beautiful that they will again deserve special colors (they should talk to Laura), but until then we can give a nod to what was great about cars by moving some of their lickable colors into the future.
We'd just like to see more people on bikes, and pretty colors are one way to help people fall in love with them. Our bikes are also a thrill to ride and the result of two years of research and design. If you are in the Bay Area (and friendly), please stop by and take a spin. Just give us a call at 415.896.0123 to make an appointment. We'll also have our bikes in SOHO, at the Tretorn store by mid May, and elsewhere around the US in coming months.
Rob Forbes
The best way to keep abreast of all our lickable objects and events is bysigning up for the PUBLIC newsletter and on Facebook as we will be writing through these in the near future.
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Although the name is quite misleading, the bamboo train in Battambang is definitely worth a visit for thrill seekers and those who want to view the Cambodian countryside.
When you arrive at the 'train station', in O Dambong, you will be surprised to see that the train isn't a train as such, but slates of bamboo on a square frame, with a gasoline engine at the back. There is a policeman standing there selling you tickets, with the standard price for foreigners being $5 per person, as opposed to $2.50 for Cambodians.
Once you climb onto the rickety train, try to squish towards the middle, as it can be very easy to fall off. Then, hold on as you are in for a bumpy ride!
For the next 7km you will travel down misaligned rails that click every time you pass over a connection. The train goes quite quickly, however if you meet someone along the way of this single track, you will need to stop. The rule is that the train with the least amount of passengers has to get off and dissemble their cart so the train with the most passengers can pass on by. However, your driver will also have to help get the other cart back onto the tracks, so whether or not you are the cart with the most amount of passengers, be prepared to stop.
Once you get to the end of the bamboo train, take a walk to see the old brick kiln, about 50 metres away. It offers an interesting insight into the effort required to make clay bricks. You can even take a walk around the village, though be very careful with inadvertently disrupting the villagers lives.
Once you are ready to head back, you can jump back on your cart and undertake the journey again! You may want to tip your driver, however that is entirely up to you.
There has been talk for years that the bamboo train is going to be shut down, so if you are heading to Battambang, definitely put it on your list!
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John and Kate need to upgrade their vacation property in order to generate more income and create a stable financial future for their family.
Design Theme: Chic Retreat
Purchase Price: $392,000
Realtor Appraisal: $550,000
Increased Property Value: $158,000
Option 1: $55,000 -In the front area remove the kitchen and turn it into a rec room. New floors throughout, gut and expand the bathroom, turn the bedroom into a recessed mudroom. In the other space the kitchen will get a mini facelift and the living/dining areas get a refresh. Estimated rent of $2,500/week ($10,000/month).
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Rivers of Dreams
A project in Queensland's Gulf has brought the ongoing arguments for and against the Northern Australia agricultural development debate, into sharp focus.
PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: For some, northern Australia is farming's final frontier. A field of irrigated dreams just waiting for the right people and the right projects to unleash its full potential.
Yet others are cautious about triggering an unsustainable land and water grab that tramples over the natural and cultural significance of some of the world's largest unspoilt tropical savannah country.
The ABC's rural and regional reporter Pete Lewis headed to Queensland's Gulf, where one single project has brought both sides of this agricultural development debate into sharp focus.
(Graeme Connors "A Little Further North")
SONG: I head a little further north each year. Leave the cities behind, out of sight, out of mind. Up where my troubles all disappear I head a little further north each year.
KEITH DE LACY, I-FED: We believe that this is groundbreaking. This is going to change the way agriculture is carried out in Australia. For the last 50 years we've been talking about developing the north, the food bowl of Asia. We've had white papers and green papers. We've found a way of actually doing it. And the great thing about it, it's absolutely sustainable.
PETE LEWIS, REPORTER: The grand plan is to harness the power of this river in Queensland's Gulf Country for irrigated agriculture on an unprecedented scale.
CSIRO's scientists spent two years and $10 million looking into the land, the water and the climate in the Flinders and Gilbert river catchments and they're not quite so bullish, which some say is just as well.
GAVAN MCFADZEAN, WILDERNESS SOCIETY: We don't want to see the mistakes of the past now characterise future development in northern Australia and we urge decision makers around this project, but also the Federal Government's northern development inquiry, to look at sustainable long-term development options for this region, not the legacy of a failed business and development model of the past.
PETE LEWIS: Over the course of the next year, authorities both state and federal will assess the arguments for and against agricultural developments in northern Australia. Whether to opt for the CSIRO's more precautionary approach to opening up more irrigated projects or a complete game changer, that might not just change the course of mighty rivers up here, but how the water in them is allocated.
So the first line in the sand between those for and against substantially more irrigated agriculture has been drawn here, where a private consortium, Integrated Food and Energy Developments, is seeking Federal Government imprimatur and formal State Government approval for its $2 billion project - and yes, in this case, size does matter.
I-FED is factoring in 65,000 hectares of irrigated crops, mostly sugarcane, fed by two large off-river dams. That justifies investment in a sugar mill, whose by-products in turn would be used to both generate electricity and ethanol to power the mill, as well as stockfeed for beef cattle that will also be processed onsite.
KEITH DE LACY: The message we've got to get across and this is really the breakthrough, is that you've got to have the scale to make this work. The scale that can - so that we can create all of the processing architecture that enables us to grow agriculture in this isolated part of the world. If they allocate water so that we can develop projects to this scale, then you will get enormous times more economic benefit or jobs, if you like, per megalitre.
(Speaking to audience) We'll have 12 months supply of stock, then that justifies...
PETE LEWIS: Keith De Lacy, a former Queensland Labor Treasurer, told the recent ABARES Outlook conference that this project brings him full circle, back to where he grew up, but with a keener sense now of what's possible, honed after careers in state politics and the corporate world.
KEITH DE LACY: (Speaking to audience) I'd just really like to see, as we say, bringing government policy to life. You just have to do it differently than you did it before. Analyse everything that's been done, find out why it didn't work and say, 'Well, is there a way to make it work?' and we believe we've found it.
PETE LEWIS: Someone with a more cautious outlook is CSIRO scientist Dr Peter Stone.
DR PETER STONE, CSIRO: History's shown that capitalising on the north's advantages has its challenges and uncertainties. And this erodes confidence, which in turn can deter investment. So unlocking significant new investment in the north's agriculture requires confidence about the scale of opportunities and the risks that attend them.
(Speaking to audience) A high-level view of what we did and the sorts of results that we found as part of the Flinders Gilbert Agricultural Resource Assessment. I'm a kind sort of person, so I'm not going to take you through 4,000 pages. If you're wanting a little bit more detail, there's the 15 or 16-pager that you're either sitting on or have in your hands. That's where I probably prefer to start myself. It gives a nice high-level overview but also enough information to really wrap your head around what we did.
DR PETER STONE: In the Gilbert catchment, we found over 2 million hectares of soil that is at least moderately suited to irrigated agriculture production. That's a lot of soil. We found sufficient water resources to irrigate 20,000 to 30,000 hectares of that 2 million. To some people, 20,000 or 30,000 hectares sounds like an awful lot of land and to others it doesn't sound like much.
So just to put it into perspective, the Ord River irrigation area currently irrigates about 14,000 to 15,000 hectares. So the 20,000 to 30,000 hectares that we've identified in the Gilbert could increase all of the irrigation area in northern Australia - so, north of the Tropic of Capricorn - by 15 to 20 per cent - that's a big increase.
PETE LEWIS: Any comparisons with the Ord River scheme in Western Australia's east Kimberley tends to stir some sceptics into campaign mode. The Wilderness Society has made a detailed submission to the northern Australian development white paper, arguing less is more.
GAVAN MCFADZEAN: There's two projects already on the drawing board in this catchment which far exceed what CSIRO say is possible. One project, the I-FED project, wants to, at a minimum, take out three times more water and use twice as much land as what CSIRO was suggesting is possible. And that's just one project.
There's another project which has already started land-clearing in the Gilbert and wants to clear up to 100,000 hectares of land.
So both of these projects together result in almost 200,000 hectares of land-clearing and vast extraction of water, far beyond what CSIRO say is possible.
(Sound of heavy machinery)
PETE LEWIS: Third generation Gulf grazier Greg Ryan isn't a fan of I-FED or its super farm either. Indeed, he's not cleaning up land for crops. He's weeding chinee apple out of his floodplain pastures that sprouted after the first decent rainfall here after fires and a long drought.
GREG RYAN, GREEN HILLS STATION: You'd hope we're just at the bottom of the cycle and things will sort of pick up if the weather's kind to us and the markets are kind to us and everything else sort of turns around, well, yes, we'll hopefully start working our way up the cycle to the boom end.
PETE LEWIS: While he's not opposed per se to increased irrigated agriculture here on the Gilbert River floodplain, Greg Ryan says the huge I-FED proposal simply hasn't had the due diligence it deserves and that's split the community.
GREG RYAN: It does concern me. I think everyone would like to see a successful project in the district for the benefit of everyone within the district. But we'll only get one shot at this and we have to get it right, so I think the split clearly indicates that there's not enough information and enough research being done to tell us whether it's a viable sort of project or not.
PETE LEWIS: On neighbouring Forest Home Station, cropping helped get Ken Fry and his family through the big dry. They grew stockfeed for hungry cattle. The family moved up from Queensland's Burdekin region, the engine room of Australia's sugarcane industry, for a crack at irrigated cropping Gulf savannah style.
KEN FRY, FOREST HOME STATION: This was the perfect spot for us at the end. It had irrigation potential, a 400-hectare irrigation licence, farmland, irrigators... Essentially we're cattle people, but I figured we had to be able to diversify and for the last couple of years, it's been keeping us going, being able to grow crops on our country with irrigation.
PETE LEWIS: Today he's checking his emerging guar crop; a legume that's sometimes referred to as poor man's soybean. Guar gum is a thickening agent used in everything from fast food and toothpaste to coal seam gas fracking.
Forest Home Station's rich alluvial soil profile is around 4m deep. They grow everything from cavalcade hay to peanuts and corn and are hopeful they'll get not only approval to clear more scrub, but a crack at more water on the open market against I-FED and others.
Do you think there's enough for all of you?
KEN FRY: Ah... Yes, I wouldn't like to say. I don't really actually know what water, what percentage of water will be released. I don't have those figures. We need a considerable amount. The Gilbert River precinct needs a considerable amount. I-FED's proposal, they're asking for a considerable amount. A lot.
If we're all equal, if we've got to go and put our tenders in for the water or go to auction and bid on it, it will all be fair, but if anything else besides that happens, they get granted water, they will be the biggest water holders and they will hold and they will organise the markets around that.
Saying that, I hope there is enough water here that we can survive and they can survive and it will be so much better for the area if we can both go in tandem.
PETE LEWIS: Huenfels Station was a soldier settler block that's been in John Bethel's family since the 1920s, mainly running cattle. But thanks to an agreement he signed with I-FED, it may eventually boast an expansive water feature, a header dam for the irrigated farm.
JOHN BETHEL, HUENFELS STATION: What is attractive about it is they'll lease it back to us for a peppercorn rental for three years and then you've got the option to lease it back after all the development's done, whatever's left, so probably a godsend really for a lot of people that are under pretty stiff financial circumstances.
PETE LEWIS: And for John Bethel, that's the rub. There just simply aren't a host of development alternatives in this part of the country that could underpin economic growth quite like the super farm.
JOHN BETHEL: One of the things that holds the shire back is it has a very small rate base and projects like these are the only opportunity they've got to grow their rate base, but from my perspective I'm more concerned about the next generation that want to stay on the land and be involved in the area and I think that without these sort of projects, the future looks pretty grim really.
PETE LEWIS: Perhaps not surprising the local council is pretty excited about the potential windfall too. The population projections alone would result in a tenfold increase in Georgetown's 250 residents.
WILL ATTWOOD, ETHERIDGE SHIRE MAYOR: I see that it's going to be good for a town, to grow the economics of our town, the economics of our area. It's going to make a lot of opportunity for people to have businesses around. But we're doing it really tough just at the moment. I mean this is an absolutely huge boost, but really any boost to us at the moment would be great.
(John Denver "A Little Further North")
SONG: Up where there's silence and the night sky is clear I head a little further north each year.
PETE LEWIS: So where is that boost likely to come from?
KEITH DE LACY: Well let me say, we would go to the Australian capital markets first. We would prefer to get the money from Australia. Nevertheless, getting money from offshore is good for Australia anyway.
We expect there will probably be a mix of it, but we've had enormous interest from the United States, from North America, enormous interest, probably the most interest from there, I've got to say that. But, no - we're ecumenical about that. We want to develop this project and we'll raise the funds where we've got to raise the funds.
PETE LEWIS: First they'll need to raise $15 million to get the project to the next stage, and undertake the environmental impact and detailed engineering assessments, before pitching for a half a million megalitres in water entitlements and tree-clearing permits. To say nothing about winning over all the locals.
JOHN BETHEL: I don't think there's ever been a community born where there wasn't polarised views. This community - if I'm any judge of the community sentiment - I'd say there's a small number that are strongly opposed. There's a small number like myself that are very pro. And everyone else is sitting a leg on either side of the fence. And if you're a business owner, you're hoping like hell it's going to go ahead but probably thinking that it's too good to be true. And that's where I think most of the community sit. I'm pretty sure of it actually.


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I love spring... seeing *green* popping up all over, being able to go outside without a big 'ol coat on, listening to kids outside my window riding their bikes. Speaking of bikes...
I had an "ahaaa" moment yesterday. I was looking at my new button dies from PTI and thought "I wonder if the size works with the Everyday Button Bits set?". Sure enough!
(you can click on the image for a close up)
I colored the middle size button with a brown Copic marker, ran it through my mini Xyron and covered it with brown glitter (Martha Stewart). The small, scallop button is covered in pattern paper for the wheel center.
The tag is stamped with Background Basics Text Style in Antique Linen ink (Tim Holtz) and "happy" is from Boo to You.
The papers are all from my new favorite line... Stella and Rose (MME) and the sketch is CPS Sketch #193.
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Family Reunion Forum
Family Reunions in PA, NJ, and DE
Our family reunion is to be held in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or Delaware in the summer of 2005. However, we are having difficulty finding a hotel with reasonable prices for a family group that is large enough to accomodate us (we had 280 at our last banquet, so need to be able to accomodate at least 300). One of the hotels that we talked to would require us to do $14,000 in food and beverage, which we cannot afford. Does anyone have any suggestions as to a city/town or even as to a specific hotel that we might persue?
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