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Stuff to do this weekend
We're in the thick of the holiday crazy. If you're not busy shopping or wrapping or decorating or making latkes or caught up in some other holiday tradition, and you're looking for something to do, we've got a list for you after the jump.
If we missed something on your list, let us know about it in the comments. And whatever you're up to have a safe and happy weekend.
Holiday Stuff
Friday: Martina McBride at The Palace
The country star will be singing Christmas tunes. 7:30 pm - $50.50 and up
Friday: Mendelssohn Club holiday concert at The Egg
Christmas choral music. With members of the Upstate Guitar Society, and the Tamarac Elementary Chorus. 7:30 pm - $18
Friday: Classic Theatre Guild production of A Christmas Story at Proctors
A stage version of the Jean Shepherd classic. Opens Friday, runs this weekend and next. various times - $17.50 adults / $14.50 students and seniors
Saturday: Cherish the Ladies at Troy Music Hall
Celtic music group playing classic Christmas carols. 7:30 pm - $20 and up
Saturday and Sunday: Mountain Snow and Mistletoe at The Egg
Annual holiday folk show. $24
Saturday: 8th Step Sing Solstice at Proctors
A concert celebrating "Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukuh, Las Posadas, Santa Lucia, Yule and many more around the world." 7:30 pm - $22 ahead / $24 at door
Sunday: The Nutcracker at The Egg
Annual performance by the Albany Berkshire Ballet. $25 and up
Model trains
miSci (formerly Schenectady Museum) is bringing back its 19x27-foot model train display. Free with admission on Saturday and Sunday.
Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog: a musical by Joss Whedon
Caffe Lena presents Joss Whedon's musical comedy about aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible's effort to take over the world, join the League of Evil, and date the girl of his dreams. Saturday at 2pm - $10
A Chorus Line
The touring company of long running Broadway show A Chorus Line will be at Proctors this weekend. Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. $20-$65
Little Shop of Horrors
Because nothing says happy holidays like a musical about a flesh eating plant, SLOC presents its youth production of Little Shop of Horrors. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm - $18, $22, $28
This Wonderful Life at Capital Rep
Based on the film. "All the pleasure of Frank Capra's classic movie - in only 70 minutes!" Friday at 8 pm, Saturday 3 pm and 8 pm, Sunday 2 pm - $20 and up
Spontaneous Broadway
Mop and Bucket Company's Spontaneous Broadway season opens on Friday night, underground at Proctors. Using only suggestions from the audience, the improv company makes up an entire Broadway musical. Friday 8 pm - $14 Adults, $6 Students & Seniors
Arts and Sciences
Seagull (Thinking of you)
Saturday at MASS MoCA: Seagull (Thinking of you), a "new live performance that works with, against, and beneath Chekhov's The Seagull." It draws on Chekhov's correspondence, different translations of the The Seagull, and facts about the Russia of the author's time. 8 pm - $14
A Bethlehem farmer with Custer
Sunday at the Albany Institute: former State Library associate librarian Peter Christoph will be talking about Gerrit Niver, who grew up in Bethlehem, enlisted in the US Army, and ended up dying at the Battle of Little Big Horn. 2 pm - free with museum admission
The Hobbit opened overnight and it's playing at most local theaters. Hitchcock, Lincoln and Life of Pi are also showing locally. You can also catch Christopher Plummer as John Barrymore in a filmed version of his one-man stage show on Sunday at noon at The Spectrum.
Friday: Blue Factory at Valentine's
Happy hour album release show. 6 pm
Friday: Grainbelt at Caffe Lena
"Beer Battered Twang & Roll." 8 pm - $14
Saturday: Aaron Lewis at Upstate Concert Hall
The guy from Staind, who's gone country. With: Randy Montana. 8 pm - $25 ahead / $28 day of
Saturday: Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens at Helsinki Hudson
Soul. 9 pm - $18 ahead / $22 at door
Saturday: Wholesale Klezmer Band at Caffe Lena
A "traditional klezmer ensemble," in wholesale. 8 pm - $16
Local Holiday Shopping
The Tight Knit holiday craft market will be open in The Atrium in Troy on Saturday during the Troy Farmers Market. Saturday 9 am to 1 pm.
Gifts from the Kitchen-Hands On
German-born pastry chef Corinna Selby hosts a class at Different Drummer's Kitchen one how to make German Lebkuchen, cookies, and mini loaf cakes for holiday gifts. Saturday at noon - $65.
Last Run
Albany's last 5K of the year is Saturday -- registration is full, but you can still cheer on the runners and watch the post-race fireworks. The race starts in front of the Judicial Building on State Street and moves up State and into Washington Park. Also: those streets will be closed to traffic, so heads up. Saturday at 5pm.
Get a tree
If you're still looking to cut your own Christmas Tree, here are some places you can try.
Ice Skating
The Empire State Plaza ice skating rink is open daily from 11 am to 8 pm. Skating is free. Skate rental is free every Friday. The rest of the week it's $4 for adults and $3 for kids. Here are a few other places you might want to try if it's cold enough.
Have a little nog
It's egg nog season. Which one is the best? Here's our taste test from a few years ago. And last year's taste test from Kayla at Foodonia.
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Eucalyptus is providing the core management infrastructure for deployment, while rPath automates many IT management functions. It's all wrapped in a self-service portal created by newScale. The first systems integrator to align with this coalition is MomentumSI.
According to Jake Sorofman, chief marketing officer for rPath, the goal is to allow IT organizations to create a "shopping cart" experience for departments using applications and resources across a shared private cloud computing platform.
The real challenge with cloud computing is managing the demand for shared resources that make up the cloud. There's no doubt that private cloud computing will be more cost effective. But most IT organizations today are built around an IT model where resources are dedicated to specific applications. Unfortunately, most of the end users and the internal IT people that support them never really learned about the value of sharing in the first place. So when you get right down to it, maybe the real value of an "on-ramp" to private cloud computing is that it will finally teach everybody how to really share.
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Guilt by association
John Sullivan, a Democrat from Rushville, was the biggest surprise winner of the 2002 election in Illinois. Political observers still wonder how Sullivan beat Laura Kent Donahue, a popular Republican state senator, in a Republican-leaning district.
Sullivan was a factor in why Senate Republicans refused to cooperate with the Democrats during last year's session: They wanted to force him to vote for the governor's more controversial bills. Democrats hold a slim majority in the Senate, and the GOP goal was to keep all their votes off the big Democratic bills. They hoped that a Democratic split would develop, forcing Sullivan to support his leadership on controversial issues. The Republicans then could use Sullivan's votes against him during his re-election campaign.
But the Democrats held together like a brick wall, and Sullivan was able to vote the politically safe way every time. As a result, there's just not a lot in his voting record to attack. So, when Sullivan's opponent officially kicked off his campaign, Republicans resorted to guilt by association.
Gary Speckhart, a farmer and banker, announced he's running against Sullivan in order to bring western Illinois "values" back to the Senate. According to the Quincy Herald-Whig, the Republican challenger slammed Democrats for considering bills to require sex education for kindergarten students, create a jobs program for ex-cons, and give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. "We need a state senator," Speckhart said, "who fights against the machine. . . who fights for us, one who is a strong voice for the values and priorities of western Illinois."
Across the state, recently appointed state Rep. Bill Grunloh, D-Effingham, has been building a solidly conservative reputation in a Republican-majority district. Not long after being appointed, Grunloh announced that he had worked out a deal to restore funding for a state program that accredits private and religious schools. Then, Grunloh held a press conference in front of a giant cross to unveil a bill that would allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public buildings.
And late last fall, Grunloh introduced legislation that would allow employers to opt out of providing insurance coverage for contraception if it would "abridge or violate" their conscience. Grunloh recently announced plans to sponsor a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.
So, instead of attacking Grunloh, his Republican opponent struck at Gov. Rod Blagojevich for spending $6.5 million on a Chicago community center for "gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders" while not spending money to finish the Grayville state prison. "This is not only offensive to those of us with strong moral values," Reis said, "but an assault on the taxpayers of Illinois."
Are these sorts of attacks effective? Eventually, the Republicans will have to tie their opponents directly to what they portray as a lapse of statehouse morality. That may not work, considering the incumbents' conservatism. But because Sullivan and Grunloh are newcomers, they haven't had a chance to make sure their voters really understand that they aren't like the Democrats who are doing those "immoral" things.
Several downstate Democratic senators have been worrying for months about the impression their newly empowered party is making on their conservative constituents. Many have predicted that the Republicans would do just what they're doing now.
If these attacks are seen as a real threat, any overtly liberal bills (particularly the gay rights bill that's sitting in the Senate) are probably doomed this year. But, as Sullivan's opponent showed, even bills that are introduced and never move an inch could be used as ammunition. There's probably nothing the downstaters can do about that.


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If you would like to contact the Linsdale Singers, please contact Pauline on 01525 371618 or send a message to .
A Milton Keynes based mixed choir of around 100 adults that tackles the larger choral works. Founded in 1975 in the arts centre on Danesborough Hill, above Aspley Guise, between Milton Keynes and Bedford.
The town's large choral society founded in 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain.
Promotes the enjoyment of good music in a friendly atmosphere in Milton Keynes and beyond.
A small Milton Keynes based a cappella choir that specialises in singing renaissance sacred music in a liturgical context.
A small Olney based a cappella choir that performs a wide range of choral music. Formed in 2006.
A talented organist from Birmingham has played for the Linsdale Singers on many occasions for both cathedral visits and concerts. His website contains lots of information about Paul and his busy concert and recital diary.
The premier Internet and email listing service for British and International Choirs.
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Most news and polling sources put the economy as the top election issue this year with taxes, and healthcare costs also amongst the top running positions. Of course, both presidential campaigns are hitting it hard telling Americans how they are going to ease our financial worries. Who isn't aware of each camps big gun financial cures aimed right at middle America.
Obama/Biden '08 touts,
Cut taxes for 95 percent of workers and their families with a tax cut of $500 for workers or $1,000 for working couples. Provide generous tax cuts for low- and middle-income seniors, homeowners, the uninsured, and families sending a child to college or looking to save and accumulate wealth.
while McCain/Palin pushes,
By making the tax code more equitable and transparent, John McCain will give every family a refundable tax credit – cash towards insurance – of $5,000 (Individuals receive $2,500).
No doubt, either of these proposal looks rather appealing for our family of four and probably most average American. Both candidates are right on target. I've got to admit this dirty little secret; even as a clearly conservative guy, it has crossed my mind that if Barack Obama were to win the election, my family might make out pretty good under his tax plan. Yes, it was a scary moment when I found myself being lured towards the Obama/Biden side over the prospect of more money. But you know, John McCain's plan also looks pretty appealing.
However, with money in the forefront of this election, both camps are really loading down the voters with economic proposals, tax proposals, finger pointing, information and misinformation. Right now, I find it next to impossible to choose between the candidates based on how it will effect my wallet. To my great fortune though, I am a Christian. And even though I was lured for a moment to consider how this election might impact my finances; at the behest of God's Word, I have set aside the lure of money and will make my decisions on more important grounds.
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
Hebrews 13:5 NIV
And with the lure of money set aside, the differences between the two presidential candidates is quite stark. I find Barack Obama praising and promoting secularism in our society, promoting love of self over love of children, and preaching the false gospel that all roads leading to God.
All are ideals and acts which seem abhorrent to leaders in the John McCain campaign. Additionally with a value driven person like Sarah Palin in the VP seat, electing John McCain could set the stage for 8 more years of moral driven leadership even beyond the 4 – 8 years of a John McCain presidency.
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IT In Canada: Kount Releases Anti-Fraud Service for Online Payment Processors05-Sep-2014
A new release from fraud and risk management software developer Kount will help put a damper on fraud during the online payment process.
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"Kount has years of experience helping online merchants around the world reduce fraudulent transactions," Brad Wiskirchen, CEO of Kount said in a press release. "With the launch of Kount Central, we're providing our industry-leading protection to stop fraud at the 'choke point,' moving up the payments ecosystem to the payments processor. Now processors can provide added value with proven services that will enable their merchants to increase sales without the fraud risk associated with online payments."
Kount Central will provide e-merchants with three services to combat fraud. Kount Central Enterprise enables sellers to add value to their businesses and retain key customers. The Fraud Manager gives processors the ability to design a dashboard interface tailored to their individual needs and manage risk, without the use of an IT manager. Processors can use the Central Portfolio Manager to protect their transactions and determine where risk lies within their client base.
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From military tattoos to the Ashes, and from Europe's biggest street party to the world's greatest festival of classical music, the events taking place over the coming months in Britain's cities are some of the most thrilling that can be witnessed anywhere. Here's just a pick of the treats on offer in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
July - August
Cardiff Bay Festival
029 2087 2087; www.cardiff-festival.com
Events in July and August include an international festival of food and drink in Cardiff Harbour (July 10-12); WOW on the waterfront, featuring the French theatre company Transe Express (July 24-25); a classic car rally along the seafront (August 16); the Cardiff Harbour Nautical Festival, with tall ships, live music and children's activities; and the Welsh Oyster Opening Championships (August 29-31).
July 17-18
Cardiff Cider Festival
01225 330304; www.ciderfestivals.co.uk
Held in the Great Hall, Cardiff University, this festival is new this year and will feature more than 90 variations of cider plus live music. Tickets from £6.
July 9-25
Welsh Proms
029 2087 8444; www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk
The 19 Proms events held in St David's Hall, The Hayes, include orchestral concerts, Welsh National Opera, jazz, folk, Bollywood and samba performances. For youngsters there's a Children's Prom and Tiddly Prom. Booking is essential; prices vary.
The Everyman Openair Theatre Festival
0844 8700 887; www.everymanfestival.co.uk
Productions being staged in the grounds of St Fagan's National History Museum this summer include Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers (July 8-18), King Lear (July 22 – Aug 1) and Toad of Toad Hall (July 25 – Aug 1). Tickets £7.
July 8-12
1st npower Ashes Test: England v Australia
029 2041 9311, www.glamorgancricket.com
England's attempt to wrest back the Ashes from the Australians after their 5-0 whitewash at the hands of Ricky Ponting's men in the 2006-2007 series begins at Cardiff's Swalec stadium. Expect the vocal Barmy Army to be out in force. Tickets for day five: £25 for adults, £15 for children.
- Read our round-up of the best festivals and events in London, Brighton, Bristol and Liverpool
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Would she risk everything for the father of her son?
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Swimming with the Sharks
Greetings from sunny Florida!
Here you find me in Ft. Lauderdale coming back from a long July 4th weekend. The picture was taken by my fiance, Craig, who just loves to take photos. I decided that I would start getting better pictures of the world of networking as I have experienced over the last decade or so.
Especially in these shaky economic times the last thing any of us need is to form relationships with people who look like dolphins–very sociable and attentive, but end up like sharks–feeding off of our connections for their individual gain. Those of you who regularly visit LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) know that there are more Networlders on there than you thought would ever be in one place at one time.
My suggestion to any of you out there networking is to be discerning. Take your time when first connecting with new people. I have found the adage "listen with your eyes rather than your ears" is a good one. You will actually lose good business or career development time when you hastily build connections rather than take your time over two or three meetings with someone.
It's all about trust and that is something that comes through behavior–what you say you are going to do is what you do. My suggestion would be start with just one, small and simple thing you and the new person you want to network with can do for one another. As I often say in Networlding, "Think exchange." This could look like you sending over a link to some useful information. Now you have done something small and, hopefully, the potential networking partner you have just met will reciprocate or, at the least, respond with a healthy "thank you." If not, you now know more about this person. The bottom line? Seek people who reciprocate and find if they do, first, before you invest too much into the relationship.


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Feeling stressed this week? Take 1 minute to reduce your stress levels with these affirmations. What is an affirmation? In this context, an affirmation is a small gift of encouragement you give yourself to reduce your stress levels.
Take a moment and repeat the following affirmations to yourself or out loud if your work area permits. You can also close your eyes to further relax for the moment.
"I will get through this."
"This stress is only temporary"
"I will do my best."
"I will recognize what is within my control and what is not within my control."
"I will make this day the best I can."
"Today will be a great day."
"I will accomplish my goals."
"I have the skills to take on this challenge."
You can also use any other affirmation that you feel is applicable for your specific challenge or situation . If you are new to using affirmations, it's OK to feel a little silly a first saying these things out loud. Once you see how beneficial this technique can be, that feeling of awkwardness or silliness will turn into a feeling of empowerment. You have the power to conquer the stressors in your life and succeed.
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LATO is a web and mobile software tool designed to support strategy execution and its main aim is to help align the strategic goals and actions throughout the organization.
Who imports the data into LATO?
LATO is a framework for strategy execution in your organization. After the initial setup is done, your team will create the content to LATO since they are the best experts on how to reach the critical goals. Your current strategy will set the main focus areas and your people starting from the Management team will create and insert the required goals and actions.
What is the relationship between strategic themes, goals and actions?
Strategic themes are the broad focus areas often expressed briefly with words. They could be very general such as growth, profitability, new markets or product development. In some companies' vocabulary they are not themes but focus areas, strategic selections or must-win-battles, indicating to areas which are crucial to the success of the company.
Goals are more precise and concrete targets with detailed descriptions. They can be measured with different indicators such as done, not done, numeric limit values or numeric targets to be reached. Goals do not necessarily have to be numeric, but they can be. The same themes or must-win-battles comprise goals in the entire company, but advancing them can produce completely different goals in different business units. For example, one BU needs to enhance profitability by 2% whereas the other needs to take a leap of 10%.
Actions are the most concrete activities or to-do's in order to reach goals. One goal may have none, one or more actions. Actions together compile an action plan to reach the goal. Actions are always at someone's responsibility and the goal owner and the person responsible for the action may update them.
Does LATO offer strategy consultancy?
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How does LATO support internal communication?
LATO is a powerful communications tool when it is well aligned with the strategy process. The goals and actions can be shared directly from LATO, and their status and progress is reported there. No separate emails, powerpoints or excels are needed. When you follow the strategic activities in LATO, you can always also comment, discuss or call the persons directly related to any individual task.
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LATO web browser version is the primary channel for creating and maintaining the structure of strategic themes, goals and actions. As in most browser based software solutions, also LATO Mobile app is built to support the web tool use. LATO Mobile app is designed for updating the goals' and actions' statuses and informing about the latest developments. LATO Mobile app also presents an information feed of the latest updates on the starting page.
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LATO is designed to be a simple, central system for strategy execution data. It does not collect external data or require any imports. LATO users fill in their own goals and required actions and follow-up and report on them on self-service principles. You can attach documents or links to LATO, but the key data is given by the people in your team.
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All you need to use LATO is a relatively recent web browser. For the Mobile app several versions are available, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Do you maintain a backup of our data?
LATO saves backups of your data according to industry standards. In a shorter term data retrieval can be made from a given time stamp. Data handling user activities are logged and daily backups are available for 30 days. Your data is maintained in an Oracle database in a recognized hosting data center.
How safe is my data in LATO?
We take the security of your data extremely seriously and look after it in all possible ways. Data in transfer is encrypted with 256 bit SSL certification. Access to database is isolated and separated by a strict access control. LATO has a sophisticated user privilege management to allow or disallow data edit or access only to persons with approved roles. We will never share your data with any third party unless requested by you for a specific reason.
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We help you get started by opening the customer environment and offering admin training. If you wish, we can make the roll-out together with you and offer user training to a wider group of users. After roll-out we provide help and support when needed. LATO is easy to use and administrate and does not have any specific system requirements. However, further process consulting and technical support is available at hourly rates always when needed.


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Tail Held Erect: Stop
Tail Rippling: Move Forward With Care
Tail Held Erect and Sweeping Slowly from Side to Side: Retreat Silently
Tail Pointing Low, Parallel to the Ground and Sweeping: Spread Out
Tail Flattened: Get Down
Tail Bobbing: Enemy Sighted
Tail Hooked: Danger
Tail Pointed Sharply: Go That Way
Tail Held Erect and Waving from Side to Side: Stay Behind Me
Tail Kinked over Back: Follow Me
Tail Flicking over Back: Leave, but Be Careful
Tail Tip Facing Other Way: Attack
•A bristle and a sharp flick of your tail usually means, "Get over here now! I'm angry with you!"
•A flick and jerking your heard in a certain direction means, "Meet me to the bushes at your left" or "Sneak out of camp with me through the brambles to the right."
•If you call out to someone and their back is to you, they can flick their tail to show that they've heard.
Sticking your tail straight up in the air and flicking it sharply down means, "Sit!"
An eye-roll and a flick of the tail means, "Whatever."
•A marrow of laughter and a flick of a tail means, "That was a good joke."
Saying, "Oh, fox-dung, I gotta go!" and flicking your tail means, "Sorry! Talk to you later?"
Flicking your tail at a she-cat's belly and smiling means, "She's expecting kits!"
•Flicking your tail at someone and making a face means, "What is wrong with him?"
•A sharp flick of your tail during battle can mean two things; it can mean, "Attack!" or it can mean, "Help me!"
•A shrug and a tail flick means, "Oh well."
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Frank Lupi
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource
| Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1222
Telephone: 517/432-3883
Fax: 517/432-1800
E-mail: email@example.com
Selected Publications
English, E., J. Herriges, F. Lupi, K. McConnell and R. von Haefen. 2019. "Fixed costs and recreation value." American J. of Agricultural Economics.
Ansah, E., M. Kaplowitz, F. Lupi and J. Kerr, 2019. "Smallholder participation and compliance with sustainable cocoa certification." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Yeboah, F., F. Lupi, M. Kaplowitz and J. Kerr, 2019. "Households preferences for attributes of Conditional Cash Transfer programmes: A choice experiment in Ghana." Development Policy Review. 37:402-422.
English, E., R. von Haefen, J. Herriges, C. Leggett, F. Lupi, K. McConnell, M. Welsh, A. Domanski, N. Meade. 2018. "Estimating the value of lost recreation days from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill." J. Environmental Economics and Management. 91:26-45.
Nohner, J., F. Lupi and W. Taylor, 2018. "Lakefront property owners' willingness to accept easements for conservation of water quality and habitat." Water Resources Research. 54(3):1533-48.
Yang, H., F. Lupi, J. Zhang, X. Chen and J. Liu, 2018, "Feedback of telecoupling: The case of a payment for ecosystem services program." Ecology and Society. 23(2):45.
Chen, X., F. Lupi, J. Liu, 2107. "Accounting for ecosystem services in compensating for the costs of effective conservation in protected areas." Biological Conservation, 215:233-240.
Hyndman, D., et al. 2017. "Quantifying changes in water use and groundwater availability in a megacity using novel integrated systems modeling." Geophysical Research Letters, 44.
Steinman, A.D., et al. 2017. "Ecosystem services in the Great Lakes." J. Great Lakes Res. 43:161-168.
Palm-Forster, L., S. Swinton, F. Lupi and R. Shupp, 2016. "Too Burdensome to Bid: Transaction Costs and Pay-for-Performance Conservation." American J. of Agricultural Economics. 98:1334-1333.
Yang, W., et al. 2016. "Urban Water Sustainability: Framework and Application." Ecology and Society. 21(40):4.
Garnache, C., S. Swinton, J. Herriges, F. Lupi and J. Stevenson, 2016. "Solving the phosphorus pollution puzzle: Synthesis and directions for future research"American J. of Agricultural Economics, .
Knoche, S., and F. Lupi, 2016. "Demand for fishery regulations: Effects of angler heterogeneity and catch improvements on preferences for gear and harvest restrictions."Fisheries Research, 181: 163-171.
Palm-Forster, L., F. Lupi and M. Chen, 2016. "Valuing Lake Erie beaches using value and function transfers." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review,
Skevas, T., N. Hayden, S. Swinton, and F. Lupi, 2016. "Landowner willingness to supply marginal land for bioenergy production." Land Use Policy, :.
Yeboah, F., M. Kaplowitz, J. Kerr, F. Lupi, and L. Thorp. 2016. "Sociocultural and institutional contexts of social cash transfer programs."Global Social Policy, :.
Liu, W., C. Vogt, F. Lupi, G. He, Z. Ouyang, J. Liu, 2016. "Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China."Journal of Sustainable Tourism, :.
Knoche, S., F. Lupi, A. Suiter, 2015. "Harvesting benefits from habitat restoration: Influence of landscape position on economic benefits to pheasant hunters." Ecological Economics, 113: 97-105.
Melstrom, R., F. Lupi, P. Esselman, R.J. Stevenson, 2015. "Valuing recreational fishing quality at rivers and streams." Water Resources Research, 51: 140-150.
Esselman, P., R. Stevenson, F. Lupi, C. Riseng, M Wiley, 2015. "Landscape prediction and mapping of game fish biomass, an ecosystem service of Michigan rivers."North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 35: 302-320.
Yeboah, F., F. Lupi, and M. Kaplowitz, 2015 "Agricultural landowners willingness to participate in a filter strip program for watershed protection."Land Use Policy, 49: 75-85.
Melstrom, R., and F. Lupi, 2013. "Valuing Recreational Fishing in the Great Lakes. "North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 33: 1184-1193.
Kaplowitz, M., F. Lupi, F. Yeboah, L. Thorp, 2013. "Exploring the Middle Ground between Environmental Protection and Economic Growth." Public Understanding of Science, 22(4): 413-426.
Komarek, T., F. Lupi, M., Kaplowitz, L., Thorp, 2013. "Influence of Energy Alternatives and Carbon Emissions on an Institution s Green Reputation. "Journal of Environmental Management, 128:335-344.
Knoche, S., and F. Lupi, 2013. " Economic Benefits of Publicly Accessible Land for Ruffed Grouse Hunters. "Journal of Wildlife Management, 77(7): 1294-1300.
Sidique, S., F. Lupi, S. Joshi, 2013. " Estimating the Demand for Drop-Off Recycling Sites: A Random Utility Travel Cost Approach. " Journal of Environmental Management, 127: 339-346.
Chen, X., Lupi, F., An, L., Sheely, R., Vina, A., Liu, J. 2012. "Agent-based modeling of the effects of social norms on enrollment in Payments for Ecosystem Services. "Ecological Modelling, 229: 16-24.
Kaplowitz, M., F. Lupi, O. Arrello, 2012. "Local Markets for Payments for Environmental Services: Can Small Rural Communities Self-Finance Watershed Protection? "Water Resources Management, 26(13): 3689-3704.
Ma, S., S. Swinton, F. Lupi, and C. Jolejole-Foreman, 2012. "Farmers Willingness to Participate in Payment-for-Environmental-Services Programs. " Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63(3):604-626.
Kaplowitz, M., and F. Lupi, 2012. "Stakeholder Preferences for Best Management Practices for Non-Point Source Pollution and Stormwater Control." Landscape and Urban Planning, 104: 364-372.
Kaplowitz, M., Lupi, F., Couper, M., Thorp, L, 2012. "The Effect of Invitation Design on Web Survey Response Rates. "Social Science Computer Review, 30(3): 339-349.
Knoche, S., and F. Lupi, 2012. " The Economic Value of Publicly Accessible Deer Hunting Land. "Journal of Wildlife Management, 76(3): 462-470.
Wolf, C., F. Lupi, and S. Harsh, 2011. "Farmer Demand for Financial Record-Keeping System Attributes. "Agricultural Finance Review, 71(2): 259-276.
Komarek, T., F. Lupi, and M. Kaplowitz, M., 2011. "Valuing Energy Policy Attributes for Environmental Management: Choice Experiment Evidence from a Research Institution. "Energy Policy, 39: 5105-5115.
Hoehn, J., F. Lupi, and M. Kaplowitz, 2010. "Complexity in Stated Choice Experiments: The Effect of Information Formats on Estimated Variances and Choice Parameters."Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, 35(3): 568-590.
Horan, R., and F. Lupi, 2010. "Economics of Managing and Controlling Invasive Species. " Resource and Energy Economics, 32(4): 477-482.
Chen, X., F. Lupi, A. Vinas, G. He, J. Liu, 2010. "Using Cost-Effective Targeting to Enhance the Efficiency of Conservation Investments in Payments for Ecosystem Services. "Conservation Biology, 24(6): 1469-1478.
Knoche, S., and F. Lupi, 2010. " Time and Money Invested in Off Season Deer Hunting Activities. "Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 15: 296-298.
Sidique, S., S. Joshi, and F. Lupi, 2010. "Factors influencing the rate of recycling: An analysis of Minnesota counties. "Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, 54(4): 242 249.
Gramig, B., C. Wolf, and F. Lupi, 2010. "Understanding Adoption of Livestock Health Management Practices: The Case of Bovine Leukosis Virus. "Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58: 343-360.
Sidique, S., F. Lupi, and S. Joshi, 2010. "The Effects of Behaviors and Attitude on Drop off Recycling Activities. "Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, 54(3): 163 170.
Chen, X., F. Lupi, G. He, and J. Liu, 2009. "Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services." PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(28):11812-11817
Bruggeman, D., M. Jones, K. Scribner, and F. Lupi, 2009. "Relating Tradable Credits for Biodiversity to Sustainability Criteria at a Landscape-Scale. "Landscape Ecology, 24(6): 775 790.
Fenichel, E., F. Lupi, J. Hoehn, and M. Kaplowitz, 2009. "Split-sample tests of no opinion responses in an attribute based choice model." Land Economics, 85(2): 349-363.
Chen, X., F. Lupi, G. He, Z. Ouyang, and J. Liu, 2009. "Factors affecting land reconversion plans following a payment for ecosystem service program." Biological Conservation, 142(8): 1740-1747
Ortega-Pacheco, D.V., F. Lupi and M.D. Kaplowitz, "Payment for environmental services: estimating demand within a tropical watershed." Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research, 1(2) 189-202. 2009.
Kaplowitz, M., F. Lupi, and D. Bailey, "Wetland mitigation banking: The bankers perspective." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 63(3) 162-172. 2008.
Kaplowitz, M.D., D.V. Ortega-Pacheco, and F. Lupi. "Payment for Environmental Services and Other Institutions for Protecting Drinking Water in Eastern Costa Rica," Chapter 16 in Alternative Institutional Structures: Evolution and Impact. (Sandra S. Batie and Nicholas Mercuro, Editors), London: Routledge Press. 2008
Knoche, S. D. and F. Lupi. "Valuing Deer Hunting Services from Farm Landscapes." Ecological Economics, 64(2)313-320. 2007.
Swain, E., P. Jakus, G. Rice, F. Lupi, P. Maxson, J. Pacyna, A. Penn, S. Spiegel and M. Veiga, "Socioeconomic Consequences of Mercury Use and Pollution." AMBIO, 36(1)45-61, 2007.
Swinton, S. M., F. Lupi, G. P. Robertson, and S. K. Hamilton, "Ecosystem services and agriculture: Cultivating agricultural ecosystems for diverse benefits." Ecological Economics, 64(2)245-252. 2007.
Kotchen, M., M. Moore, F. Lupi, and E. Rutherford, "Environmental Constraints on Hydropower: An Ex-Post Benefit-Cost Analysis of Dam Relicensing in Michigan." Land Economics, 82:(3):384-403, August 2006.
Racevskis, L.A., and F. Lupi, "Comparing Urban and Rural Perceptions of and Familiarity with the Management of Forest Ecosystems," Society and Natural Resources. 19(6):479-495, 2006.
Vista, A., P. Norris, F. Lupi and R. Bernsten, "Nutrient Loading and Efficiency of Tilapia Cage Culture in Taal Lake, Philippines, " The Philippine Agricultural Scientist. 89(1): 48-57, 2006
Swinton, S.M., F. Lupi, G.P. Robertson and D.A. Landis "Ecosystem Services from Agriculture: Looking Beyond the Usual Suspects," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(5), 2006.
Kaplowitz, M.D., F. Lupi, and J.P. Hoehn, "Public Understanding and Perceptions of Michigan Wetlands," In Press, Michigan Academician. 2006.
Shi, et al. "Local Spatial Modeling of White-Tailed Deer Distributions." Ecological Modeling, 190:171-189, 2006.
Horan, R., and F. Lupi, "Economic Incentives for Controlling Trade-Related Biological Invasions in the Great Lakes," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 34(1):75-89, 2005.
Bruggeman, D, M. Jones, F. Lupi, and K. Scribner. "Landscape Equivalency Analysis: Methodology for Estimating Spatially Explicit Biodiversity Credits," Environmental Management, 36(4):518-534, 2005.
Horan, R., and F. Lupi. "Tradable risk permits to prevent future introductions of alien invasive species into the Great Lakes," Ecological Economics, 52(3): 289-304, 2005.
Kaplowitz, M. and Frank Lupi. "Color Photographs and Mail Survey Response Rates." Intl. J. Public Opinion Research. 16:199-206, 2004.
Kaplowitz, M., Frank Lupi, and J. Hoehn. "Multiple-methods for developing and evaluating a stated preference survey for valuing wetland ecosystems." In Questionnaire Development, Evaluation, and Testing Methods, (S. Presser, et al., eds). 503-524. Wiley:New Jersey. 2004.
Lupi, Frank, J. Hoehn and G. Christie. "Using an Economic Model of Recreational Fishing to Evaluate Benefits of Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) Control," Journal of Great Lakes Research. 29: 742-754. 2003.
Hoehn, John P., Frank Lupi, and Michael Kaplowitz. "Untying a Lancastrian Bundle: Ecosystem Valuation in Wetland Mitigation," Journal of Environmental Management, 68(3):263-272, 2003.
Stewart, T.J., J. Bence, R. Bergstedt, M. Ebener, F. Lupi, and M. Rutter. "Recommendations for Assessing Sea Lamprey Damages: Toward Optimizing the Control Program in the Great Lakes," J. of Great Lakes Research. 29: 742-754. 2003.
Lupi, Frank, Michael D. Kaplowitz, and John P. Hoehn , "The Economic Equivalency of Drained and Restored Wetlands in Michigan," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84:1355-1361, 2002.
Horan, R., C. Perrings, Frank Lupi, and E. Bulte, "Biological Pollution Prevention Strategies under Ignorance: The Case of Invasive Species," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84:1303-1310, 2002.
An, Li., Frank Lupi, J. Liu, M. Linderman, and J. Huang, "Modeling the Switch from Fuelwood to Electricity: Implications for the Conservation of Giant Panda Habitat," Ecological Economics: 42(3): 445-457, 2002.
Some other RUM travel cost papers...
Jones, Carol A., and Frank Lupi, "The Effect of Modelling Substitute Activities on Recreational Benefit Estimates," Marine Resource Economics: 14(4): 357-374, 1999.
Chen, Heng Z., Frank Lupi and John P. Hoehn, "An Empirical Assessment of Multinomial Probit and Logit Models for Recreation Demand," in: Valuing Recreation and the Environment: Revealed Preference Methods in Theory and Practice, (C. Kling and J. Herriges, eds.) Edward Elgar, pp 141-162, 1999
Lupi, F. and P. Feather, "Using Partial Site Aggregation to Reduce Bias in Random Utility Travel Cost Models," Water Resources Research: 34(12): 3595-3603, 1998.
And, an old favorite for those interested in validity tests of discrete choice, stated preference methods:
Rubey, L., and F. Lupi, "Predicting the Effects of Market Reform in Zimbabwe: A Stated Preference Approach," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 78:89-99, 1997.


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Athletic and couture are rarely used in the same sentence, but Chanel has combined the two in their new sport collection.
This powerhouse designer label is now bringing style to slopes, seas, courts and courses everywhere with its new line of beautiful sports equipment.
Although Chanel is best known for clothing and accessories, its foray into athletics still exudes the brand's classic style. The golf bags feature Chanel's famous quilted pattern and the same design is mimicked on the smooth front of a snowboard. The simple but bold designs give the equipment a sense of the Chanel timelessness.
The collection includes surfboards, snowboards, golf clubs, dumbbells, tennis rackets and even a boomerang.
These cool and classy designs could make even the clumsiest athlete look good.
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When my wife of 22 years left me I became paralysed. I was so depressed that I didn't even know I was depressed.
I was relieved that the constant fighting was over, but I had no ambition for life.
My usual creative energy was gone, and I was just going through the motions.
I was no longer looking to the future; I was stuck in the past and barely functioning in the present. The only thing that kept me going was my children.
I found purpose in coaching their sports teams, and becoming the leader of their Cub Scout pack.
Those were actions that gave me a sense of accomplishment; and the feeling that I was still important somewhere. Meanwhile my business was at a standstill.
There were innovations I wanted to bring into my business, but I couldn't seem to implement them.
In particular, I wanted to give tele-seminars. They would serve two functions: make my services more affordable to a greater number of clients in a tightening economy; and reduce my travel now that I was a single father.
But I couldn't seem to wrap my brain around the steps I needed to take.
I read several how-to articles, I talked with people who had produced their own tele-seminars, and I learned about the equipment necessary to put one on.
None of this helped.
I finally hired an expensive consultant. In retrospect, he really only showed me what I already knew.
It seemed that the very act of spending a lot of money spurred me to action where nothing else could.
Once again I was productive and moving forward.
It wouldn't, however, last.
Three years later, I found myself in the same situation once again.
Another relationship had crashed and burned; and in the fallout I found that I was paralysed and unable to be the driving force my business needed to stay afloat.
It was then, that I realized I had failed to take a critical beginning step. It was something I should have known.
It was a vital component of creative thinking that I'd been teaching others for years.
I failed to identify the problem.
Innovation is all about solving problems or satisfying needs; and before you can be creative, you need to know why you should be.
To move forward, whether it is in business or in a relationship, you have to identify what is holding you back.
For me, my blocks were both professional and personal.
My business and my relationship were so closely intertwined that I didn't realize I had a problem until I got stuck again.
The innovation technique I share with my clients is to accurately and succinctly state the problem; because the better you do this, the faster you will solve it. Unfortunately, I didn't know what the problem was – just that I had one.
Nevertheless I was determined to find out what it was, so that I wouldn't have to repeat the cycle again.
I made inquiries, read self-help books, journaled, and attended therapy before I could identify it. Once done, however, the process of changing seemed easy by comparison.
Even though I had only identified the problem (not solved it), my creative energy and ambition were back – which meant I knew I would.
I know many of you are feeling stuck because of our languid eco-nomy. Forget the economy for a moment, and ask yourself how you would tackle your problem if the economy were robust.
Sure the economy is a problem, but it is one that is out of your hands. Identify the problem(s) that you do have control over.
Innovation and change – moving forward – involve risk. When you clearly identify the direction you need to go, it makes the risk seem less frightening because you can visualize the rewards.
Slow economies are a great time to initiate change because almost everyone else is paralysed.
They are hunkering down and waiting for times to get better. It's a perfect time for you to take the lead. Times will get better for you when you work to change the things within your control.
– Robert Wilson
• Robert Wilson is an author, humorist and innovation consultant. He is also the author of the children's book, The Annoying Ghost Kid. For info, visit www.jumpstartyourmeeting.com.Posted: Dec 4, 2013


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Sept. 7, 2016 - Clerkships or internships are a necessary career building block for law school students.
Paige Bailey, a 2L student at the University of Houston Law Center, interned this summer for League City's City Attorney Nghiem Doan and Deputy City Attorney Michelle Villareal.
The hands-on experience proved to be more than just a way to occupy time between semesters for Bailey – it also confirmed her decision to attend law school.
"It was amazing," she said. "It was my first legal internship, and it affirmed everything I knew about being a lawyer. It feels good to know that I made the right choice to be at the Law Center.
"Law school isn't easy. Knowing there is work I can do in the law field that I enjoy was really encouraging."
Doan, a 1998 graduate of the Law Center, was named city attorney for League City in 2015. He said providing internships to Law Center students is a small way for him to show appreciation to the school that has helped him so much in his career.
"When I set out to recruit interns, tapping the talent available at the University of Houston Law Center was the obvious move, and not merely because I am a UHLC alumnus," Doan said. "UHLC is a top law school in Texas and has no peer in the greater Houston area."
During her internship Bailey observed what a city attorney does, and how a municipal court operates. Two days a week she worked at the municipal court and learned the duties of a city prosecutor, assisted with pre-trial arraignment hearings, and helped write plea deals for defendants.
She also witnessed several bench and jury trials, spent time working on contract amendments, wrote criminal complaints for the court, worked with League City's city council on ordinances about animal care and sign codes and provided attorneys with critical research and writing assistance on a variety of projects and areas of law.
Bailey, a resident of League City, said working at an institution in her area made the work more gratifying.
"When I picked the job it was about the opportunity to make a difference in my own community," she said. "I got to see some changes that will affect my day-to-day life."
Doan said Bailey showed a work ethic that makes him look forward to working with Law Center students in the future.
"A perfect affirmation of my confidence in UHLC students can be seen in Paige Bailey," he said. "She was by far the best intern that I've ever had the pleasure to mentor. I can only hope that she enjoyed her experience with us as much as we enjoyed having her for the summer."


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Creating things hurts.
Just how much it hurts is the subject of Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary by Canadian filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot. Indie Game has been showing at a small handful of screenings around the world and is about to get a digital, worldwide release on June 12. The film follows three indie videogame makers—Phil Fish, of Fez fame, and Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes of Super Meat Boy—during various stages of creating their videogames. Another designer, Jon Blow, who released Braid in 2008 to great financial success, acts as a fourth, more reflective voice throughout the film, commenting on what he feels now that his game has been out for some time.
When Swirsky and Pajot started shooting Indie Game, work on both Fez and Super Meat Boy was well underway. It is important to note that these two games were not plucked from obscurity by Indie Game's directors, but had already received substantial media attention. Fish had already been making Fez for years. McMillen and Refenes had released an earlier version of Super Meat Boy in 2008.
The weight of this is already obvious at the film's beginning. Fish, in particular, seems quite personally burdened with the pressures of Fez: his expletive-filled outpouring of frustration against internet commenters early in the film has a good-natured humour about it, but it is nonetheless revealing of how high Fez's demands have been.
Indeed, the key factor in this documentary is pain. Fish, quite early in the film, openly admits that he is so emotionally invested in Fez, that, if he failed to finish making the game, he would probably kill himself. The mental health of all designers involved in Indie Game is actually deeply worrying. There seems to be very little happiness or pleasure involved in making an indie videogame.
Perhaps there is some pleasure at the end of the film, where we see overwhelming critical and financial success for Super Meat Boy, but even then it is tempered with sadness. Super Meat Boy's programmer, Refenes, cries when the release of his game emotionally sinks in, and it is not with happiness: this is the end of his life as he has known it for the last two years. Similarly, Jon Blow, in a revealing sequence, admits to going into a depression when Braid was released. Despite the financial and critical success the game brought him, he felt that very few people understood his creation. He did not find the artistic connection he was looking for.
Swirsky and Pajot have chosen their subjects well. The three designers come across in Indie Game as indelibly more fallible and human than their reputations (largely cemented after the release of their games) would suggest. Fish is a quiet and thoughtful young man with a soft French-Canadian accent, prone to deep, deep frustration. McMillen is goofy but stoic, and seems to cope with the pressures of game-making the easiest. He and his wife, Danielle McMillen, are an appealing couple, and much of the film's warmth comes from his relationship with her.
In this sense, Indie Game is a film that is about four creative people. It is really only incidentally about videogames. It could be about artists in virtually any other media form, save for the technical complexity at hand and the instant feedback and fan networks provided by the internet. This may seem like a criticism of the film, but it is the opposite: not only does it make Indie Game more accessible, it implicitly makes the argument for understanding games as a cultural form. The creative medium here is incidental, as the concerns are shared.
The film is at its weakest, however, when it does focus on the videogames themselves and the designer's artistic motivation. The search for meaning in Super Meat Boy and Fez is largely confined to the retelling of childhood memories: these designers loved these kinds of games when they were children, and so they want to make similar games now. This is all well and good as auteur myth-making, but it does not give much insight into videogame culture as a whole. There is also a slightly distasteful focus on the money-making possibilities of indie videogames throughout the film. Although it is wonderful that the years and years of work for the designers was financially rewarded and validated, money-making is rarely a very interesting thing to talk about, especially in discussions of culture.
Yet the core of Indie Game remains the pain of creation, and more pressingly, the pain of putting your creation in public. All of Indie Game's designers must face the fierce, inarticulate criticism of videogame culture. This criticism is usually not very insightful, but bombastically loud.
The most interesting question asked by the film, then, is whether this pain is the creator's fault for not having a thick enough skin, or videogame culture for being so harsh and unrelenting? It is easy to leave a one-sentence comment on a YouTube video that cuts deeply; it is substantially more difficult to make the game that prompts the comment.
There is, of course, no easy answer, and as a critic myself, I do not believe that giving out pass marks for making anything at all is a useful route to go down. But perhaps there is space for understanding how deeply personal the creation of things—games, documentaries, even reviews—can be.
Creating things hurts. Coming to terms with their public reception is a much more difficult thing indeed.
DISCLAIMER: I supported Indie Game: The Movie's Kickstarter campaign in mid-2011, and therefore, my name is in the (very elongated) credits. This was well before I was writing for Crikey and I do not feel it has coloured my opinion of the film.


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Apples, desks, teachers or even the school caretaker! Activity Village colouring pages section has a wide and varied selection of colouring topics suitable for back to school but also has a wonderful selection of resources of colouring pages for any occasion or special event.
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The 'Going for Gold' campaign was a hugely successful one for Australian netball in 2014, but the next 12 months is going to be one of the biggest years ever.
And I really can't wait for it to begin.
For the first time in more than 20 years Australia will host the Netball World Cup and the eyes of the netball world will be focused on Sydney in August.
People still talk about the tournament when it was last played Down Under in 1991 and some of the names of that Australian team led by captain and current Diamonds assistant coach Michelle den Dekker, Shelley O'Donnell, Roselee Jencke, Simone McKinnis and Carissa Dalwood are now part of the folklore.
Hopefully, in 20 years' time, the names of Laura Geitz, Madi Robinson, Caitlin Bassett, Natalie Medhurst, Julie Corletto and Renae Hallinan will be held in same regard.
While we're delighted by our achievements this year, most notably winning Australia's first Commonwealth Games Gold Medal in 12 years, rest assured that our athletes are working harder than ever to ensure we successfully defend our world title.
The theme for the Diamonds in 2015 is `Back to Back' and, as we head into the festive season, I'm confident that our quest is well on track.
The athletes in the Diamonds squad are constantly challenging the coaching staff and each other to raise our games to another level.
Reflecting back on 2014 overall, it was another brilliant year for netball in Australia from an international perspective.
I'm enormously proud of the Diamonds achievement to win all 13 of our Tests and it's a credit to the athletes and their professional approach in preparing themselves for each encounter, executing our game plans and then the way they recovered.
We faced some tough opposition this year with the gap closing between the top four nations, which stresses the importance of why we need to continue to be innovative to stay ahead of the rest.
Just over a year ago, Laura Geitz was appointed to the position of Australian Diamonds Captain and I have been so pleased to watch her leadership qualities thrive over the past 12 months. She was also extremely well supported by our Leadership Group of Kimberlee Green and Bianca Chatfield.
We have also experienced the International retirements of Catherine Cox and Bianca – Catherine going out on a high with an ANZ Championship premiership win with the Melbourne Vixens to add to her list of career successes both internationally and domestically.
I also pay tribute again to the wonderful service of both athletes to Australian netball and, in particular, Bianca's efforts as vice-captain of our Commonwealth Games Gold Medal team.
Another retirement is that of the Diamonds' Head Physiotherapist, Steve Hawkins.
We, the Diamonds and support staff, are all going to miss Steve's passion for the game, his attention to detail and his unending knowledge within his profession and how it applies to netball. We also thank him for his services to Australian netball for the past 17 years.
Our FAST5 Flyers team went so close to making it a clean sweep of all international titles at the FAST5 World Series in Auckland last month.
I know that the team were disappointed not to return home with the gold medal but they can hold their heads high for their performances to reach the Grand Final and the way they conducted themselves over the tournament.
That's a credit to fine leadership of Jane Searle and Jane Woodlands-Thompson and support staff and the team's co-captains Erin Bell and Clare McMeniman.
The Melbourne Vixens joined the Adelaide Thunderbirds as a two-time winner of the ANZ Championship title with a memorable win in the Grand Final against the Queensland Firebirds at Hisense Arena on a Sunday afternoon back in June.
It will be fascinating to watch how the battle pans out for finals places under the competition's new format next season. Before we know it, we'll be back into the action for 2015.
As this is my last column for 2014, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our loyal Diamonds fans for your support over the last 12 months. I wish you all a safe and enjoyable festive season!
Bring on 2015 and the World Cup in Sydney!
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King Heimrich, Baron of Awe
Easiest way to describe this is to use a definition, as it's what I was aiming for it to encompass -
1. an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like: in awe of God; in awe of great political figures.
2. Archaic. power to inspire fear or reverence.
3. Obsolete. fear or dread. [including this]
The Light
- Humanity must live, and live forever.
- What must be done ought to be done cleanly.
- Humans must be protected (particularly from themselves.)
Aspect - 1 - [5 AMPs]
Domain - 1 - [5 DMPs]
Realm - 4 - [5 RMPs]
Spirit - 2 - [5 SMPs]
Yes,Master [1]
Lesser Change of Free Will (+6) | Simple Invocation (-1) | Single Target (-2) | Single Target (-2) | Un/common (-) | Total: 1|
Bonds & Anchors
[5] His (The Chancels) People
[4] Heimrich's Imperator
[4] Regent Jikre - Anchor
[3] Advisor Kulo
[2] Master-in-Chief Lucian - Anchor
[2] News of the real
NB: No Anchor, nor Advisor Kulo has miraculous power.
General Restrictions
Affiliation | MP gained whenever showing high service to the code of Light. | 1 MP/s
Chancel Bound | For each day beyond the first that Heimrich is not within his Chancel he losses 1MP. If he has to leave the real to mitigate this at a time of inconvenience he gains 1-3MPs depending on the severity of the inconvenience. | +/-1-3 MP/s
Clear-Headed | Heimrich works well when under pressure, and no matter the odds that seem faced against him he always keeps a clear head.
Brought into ennoblement just outside Chişinău in Moldova some twenty years ago, Heimrich has taken on the mantle of handling his Imperators Chancel. Using his gift, and his innate position, he has been able to ascend to controlling the entirety of the Chancel. Most of his time has been spent within the Chancel, and over the course has grown to love Regent Jikre & hate Master-in-Chief Lucian, making them his Anchors. Rarely breaching into the real, Heimrich's place is atop the Chancel however, when he does, Regent Jikre is left in control.
Current Affairs
Project One
Heimrich's concern regarding the vulnerability of the chancel has increased of late. He is currently spearheading an operation to create an artificial encapsulation of awe. This will be a long project, due to it's nature. From a character point of view, I am to invest domain points in the structure as I gain them throughout the campaign.
Project Two
It is suspected that Advistor Kulo is currently beginning plans to perform a coup d'etat. It is far from fruition, but causes concern as Heimrich is bonded to him, yet he disagrees with some aspects of his leadership.
Overarching Goal
Maintenance of the Chancel, ideally he does not want to get involved with real-world affairs, though he is bonded to keep up-to-date with news of them and protect the sanctity of his estate.
Anchor Biographies
Regent Jikre
A stout woman in her mid-40's by this time, Heimrich's relationship with her began when she was in her mid-20's and he had just arrived at the Chancel. With the innate mantle of being the Chancel's True King, it would've seemed easy to win over the people. Heimrich was reluctant to do so, and Jikre aided him on his campaign to take up the throne of leadership. Taking 5 years in total to fully reach fruition, by such a time Jikre had been the individual he had spent most of his time with, and opened up most to. This was reflected in a position of trust amongst his court, being his second-in-command. Now Jikre keeps a hot head, and a great deal of concern, though not entirely full comprehension, for what Heimrich does.
Advistor Kulo
Brought amongst Heimrich's court within the last few years, he was brought in as an advisor to aid his decision making regarding Chancel defences. With his trust in good intentions at hand, Heimrich had come to rely upon Kulo. Of late Kulo has become more distanced from Heimrich, and Heimrich fully suspects this as the ambitious man's way of dealing with a recent dispute with Heimrich; regarding leadership. Heimrich has yet to take action upon this 50-something year old man.
Master-in-Chief Lucian
Before his arrival to the chancel it had been mostly a militant state. Master-in-Chief Lucian was just a boy during this time, but was indoctrinated with this militant view. Rising amongst the ranks during Heimrich's reign, Lucian continues to be a military prodigy amongst his peers. Lucian's arrogance, extrovert nature and the complete and utter belief in oneself has produced some undesirable effects in Heimrich's eyes. There is no doubt that still now in his mid-30's Lucian is as prodigal as ever when it comes to military strategy and tactics, yet Heimrich knows he still aches to be back in the 'golden age' of military supremacy. His hate for him was gained when he attacked Jikre during one of their court meetings, over a small matter of quashing a civil dispute. Jikre spent several weeks in a hospital before she could return to duty. When confronting Lucian about this, he showed no remorse. Despite desire to remove Lucian from efficacy, being clear-headed, Heimrich was able to deduce that Lucian was still valuable to him due to his unique perspective. Thus Lucian remains, respected, but hated.


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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R), whose 2012 presidential bid was boosted by $15 million spent by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife, on Friday decried the outsize influence that the wealthy have on the political process.
The answer? Candidates should be able to raise the kind of massive sums that super PACs can, Gingrich told the National Journal.
The former speaker made the remarks in response to a question about the number of potential 2016 candidates who are in Las Vegas this week to meet with Adelson during a multi-day conclave held by the Republican Jewish Coalition.
"Whether it's the Koch brothers or [George] Soros on the left or Sheldon," Gingrich said, "if you're going to have an election process that radically favors billionaires and is discriminating against the middle class—which we now have—then billionaires are going to get a lot of attention."
"The truth is, we desperately need an election reform which allows candidates to receive the same amount of money as super PACs," he added.
Gingrich's comments came several days after the Washington Post reported that Adelson's 2012 experience convinced him of the need to back a GOP candidate in 2016 with more mainstream appeal, with a better chance of winning the White House.
Gingrich did not respond to e-mails from the Post earlier this week soliciting his reaction.
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Century 21 invests in Free State market
Bloemfontein, SA's judicial capital, has seen its population grow by 59% in the past 20 years and is expected to be home to 623,000 people by 2030.
"The province offers house hunters exceptional value and return, with key markets such as Bloemfontein, Welkom, Bethlehem, Clarens and Harrismith ready for growth," said Harry Nicolaides, Century 21 CEO. "The cost of living is competitively priced in the Free State and its capital, Bloemfontein, which is why the area is growing in appeal.
Bloemfontein is the sixth-fastest growing city by population and in the next 14 years is predicted to be South Africa's fifth-fastest growing city, according to the United Nations.
"The property market in Bloemfontein and the Free State is uniquely positioned to experience rapid growth, which is why we are opening an office in the city," said Nicolaides, adding that the office will open on 1 October in the suburb of Dan Pienaar. "The Bloemfontein office is our first in the Free State Province and this will definitely be the stepping stone for the brand to expand in towns like Welkom, Bethlehem, Clarens and Harrismith, and even to Kimberley in the adjoining Northern Cape."
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Okay, so last night we had another of our rare but much anticipated sessions of our buddy Steve's campaign. As with most of our group's fantasy genre games we're using Pathfinder. Our group generally likes and is comfortable with very crunchy systems like Pathfinder and Mutants & Masterminds. Crunchiness means a lot of record-keeping and fact-checking when building and leveling characters and so Lone Wolf Development created Hero Lab is a great tool for PF. For Steve's game, and mine to a lesser extent, we're almost all using Hero Lab for our characters.
Hero Lab is almost as massive and crunchy as Pathfinder. It supports other games as well but I've only really used it for Pathfinder (and indirectly for Mutants & Masterminds). So it is a great tool for managing the crunch overload of Pathfinder. It can be used not only by players to build and level their characters but for GMs to make NPCs. GMs can also load in the players' .por character files, sent via email or Dropbox, for reference and thus make notes real time during play, such as during combat.
But this is where Hero Lab fails to keep up. During combat there are situational modifiers, spell modifiers, spells and arrows expended, hit points lost, hit points healed, etc. Unfortunately all of that has to be laboriously entered by hand for each and every PC and NPC each round, round after round. The program hold and tracks all of that very well but it's just too damn slow to operate.
Combat can be a wearying grind in may systems and Pathfinder is on the edge here. You can fudge stuff and push things along to keep up a pace (like I usually do), or you can go by the book and make sure every T is crossed and every +1 accounted for. Using Hero Lab naturally moves you in the direction of the T-crossing approach. That's not a wrong thing, because the rules are actually written that way, but by actually slowing combat down Hero Lab becomes sort of an anti-aid.
I suppose the obvious cure is to go full 21st century and have every player equipped with a computing device connected to the GM's. That way the data entry work is distributed and all data shows on everyone's copy with only one person entering any one bit of data. This character casts a buff, notes it as cast in Hero Lab, checks the boxes for all other characters affected, and clicks "send" or something about like that. Almost everyone in our group has a device or could borrow one so that will work for us if the folks at Lone Wolf Development decide to add networking in the future.
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I totally agree. The system makes record keeping and crunch mastering much easier but needs to be networked for combat. I can hardly wait to try Roll20 to see if it speeds things up. 18 rounds of combat took just shy of four hours. I haven't pad and papered it in a while but that would be interesting to compare. When I play Ed's PF game I keep a free-flow journal of all combat so I am not sure if it goes faster or not but it probably does; all I know is that it's hard to write quickly and accurately about voiced actions so I never feel like I am caught up, but the journal is key to my character though!ReplyDelete
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Megan spoke of her new role; "I'm so thrilled to become the "Artist in Residence" for the Oetker Collection. As an artist, one of the biggest sources of inspiration for me is travel. My work and the bespoke illustrations that I create take me all around the world on luxury projects and it is with great excitement that I will now be sketching and staying at the world's most beautiful masterpiece hotels with the Oetker Collection. From the incredible architecture, to the finest cuisine and of course, the world's chicest people, I will be sketching them all at each Oetker Collection property. My aim is to bring the bespoke and unique luxury of each hotel to life in illustration"
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No. No this isn't well-thought out or cohesive. But right now, neither am I.
My absence probably suggested I didn't survive the summer. I didn't think I would. Turns out surrounding myself with consistent things helped a lot. Turns out the temperatures not trying to roast me out of living helped a lot. I don't know that I accomplished anything this summer, but I kept my heart and mind so busy. That did help. That kept me from letting my weaker brain bits take over and destroy my soul, like they usually do come summer. I don't even know that I really slept this summer. I mean, obviously, I did, but I never really drowned in fatigue as in the past.
But now my love and friend Autumn is in full force, why he's nearly gone now, and I'm getting weary. Before this started happening I found a therapist, as a preventative measure. This will continue to prove to be an excellent choice.
I've been at my current job for over a year now. With a wash of pride and shame I admit that this is the longest I've ever held down a job. I love what I'm doing. I love that mostly I just plow through paperwork and my fingers fly across keys as Stephen Fry or Jim Dale read Harry Potter to me. I love that my department understands my heart. I love that they're becoming my friends.
Soon I'll be moving to a new apartment still in town, but I look forward to the change. The space. The peace.
And yet, my mind and heart are pretty constantly plagued with rape culture and how to deal with and respond to it. It's a very heavily discussed topic right now, I'm sure you noticed. And I have so many thoughts, and I assure you I'm working on compiling them, but for now it's all just breaking my heart and filling me with a troublesome rage. My hands feel so tied. So very tied.
Last month I got to celebrate the union of two beautiful people with so many people I love. I don't know if it's the nature of Autumn in my heart, but I find myself grossly nostalgic. And while I'm terribly not, I feel very alone. College does this terrible thing to people. It surrounds you with all of these people that you just sort of have to be friends with or you have no friends. You live exclusively with them for four years, and then you go away. They go away. They all move to the same city, and you stay behind. And you feel this hand wrapped around your heart wishing you could be so near to them. It's pulling you to them, but to what end? to have someone familiar? someone who knows your past? someone who knows that that voice isn't weird, it's normal? Because you've finally found people again, people who love and accept you no matter what, but there are so many gaps you have to fill in because they weren't with you for four intensive years of development and growth.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Gaelscoil Book Fair – appeal for help.
The Parents Association are looking for help with the Book Fair which is to take place in the Gaelscoil during the middle of October (2016). We need one or two people to coordinate the bookfair and ideally two parents from each class to man the stand for short period each day. The book fair is one of the schools big fundraisers so please give up a couple of hours to help out the school. Interested parents please contact Aileen at 085 2802352 as soon as possible.