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By Nicole Wenger
My life would be incomplete if I weren't creating on a daily basis. Most of all, I love creating with my boys. We enjoy sewing, painting, cooking, gardening, woodworking, stamping, felting, blowing things up and more; and truth be told, we are more creative during different seasons of our lives. While the "things" we create are fun and satisfying, what is most important is the time I spend with my children.
As a child, some of my fondest memories are centered around experiences with my grandparents. My grandmother was the first person to teach me how to thread a needle on a sewing machine. I learned how to sing Polish songs stuffing pillows with duck feathers, and I love Kapusta because I cooked it with my great-grandmother. Those memories are some of the most cherished I have from my childhood. In the same way, I want my boys to experience a rich, creative life filled with fond memories of our times spent together laughing, talking, and singing.
In my search for fun activities I stumbled across this ingenious creation. With tweaks of our own, we built a great Light Box while spending time together building, laughing-and, as always-singing. What kinds of things are you creating with your family this week?
I used two shallow, plastic clear containers. The shallower, the better, so the light can reflect closer to the lid. I sprayed the inside of both bins with metallic silver spray paint (Lowe's). After they dried, I lined the sides with black paper. This helped keep the light from reflecting.
I used one 18″ fluorescent light – removed the top plastic lid from the light, and duct taped the light to the bottom of the plastic bin. I cut a hole at one end of the bin and pulled the cord through. This allowed the bin to be plugged in an outlet. I read a few other posts about using battery operated lights so it becomes more portable, however, the expense of the batteries was too much and the light was inefficient.
I used frosted spray paint on the underside of the top lid to help diffuse the light. If you can find a white or frosted lid top for the bin you can skip this step.
Wallah…the Light Box!
Below are some of the activities we did today…more to come!
Tracing with stencils…
Finger painting and mixing colors…
Practice writing the alphabet and numbers:
Using store-bought materials I spent about $35.00 for one light table, saving over $110.00 on a small 12×9 light table as seen on Amazon.com.
What do you think?!
Try these links for other ideas:
Nicole Wenger is the mother of two spunky boys and the wife of her best friend, Chris. She is the founder and director of Science Quest: a science education company which introduces students, parents, and teachers to interactive and affordable science learning. Nicole is the Preschool Director and the Director of Development at The Garden School. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Bridgewater State University and a Master of Science in Environmental Studies/Conservation Biology with an emphasis in Ornithology from Antioch University. You can keep up with Nicole, her family, and their adventures in home education, crafting, birding and loving the outdoors at The Cuckoo's Nest: http://loveandlearning.typepad.com/love-and-learning/.


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Sandwell District @ Animal Farm, 23 Apr
After their festive debut outing at the Sub, which saw Berlin's Ben Klock make an appearance; this time round Animal Farm are welcoming Sandwell District.
The very definition of cloak and dagger, the techno imprint has no address, no website or MySpace presence, not even an email address; a fax number printed on the record inlays offering the only means of contact.
With support coming from all corners (Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Miss Kitten and Danny Tenaglia are fans), the label invokes the spirit of Germany's Basic Channel with its anti-marketing stance and stripped-back, less-is-more sound.
Named after an area of Birmingham, Sandwell District is closely affiliated with another of the city's techno stables, Downwards and the two rely largely on the same pool of artists - Female, Ian J. Richardson, Function and Regis – for their output.
The Sandwell District live experience sees Function (U.S. producer/DJ, Dave Sumner) and Regis (Brit, Karl O' Connor) combine digital and analogue equipment to establish the kind of creative environment in which they feel they can truly express themselves as artists and the pair will be backed by extra sound so that they can give the Sub's speakers a serious workout.
11pm - 3am, £10http://www.myspace.com/animalfarmdjs

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We added onto an existing doghouse (top section), which we had previously tiled for easy clean up. We opened up the back and attached two nesting boxes (approximately 12"x12"). The opening has a lock on it and sits outside of the coop so that we don't need to go inside the coop to collect eggs. We used shingles on the roof to prevent rain from entering the coop. We built the doghouse onto a box, and below the nesting boxes is a flap door which opens up exposing two more nesting boxes which the girls can use during the day for egg laying when they are old enough.
Besides using the premade doghouse, we used cheap lumber pieces.
We framed the whole coop tall enough for us to stand in for easier cleaning. We also put in a bench to sit on so that we could sit comfortably while visiting the girls. We covered the entire coop with mesh fabric screen...top to bottom. The screen covers the border of the coop about 12" out along the interior and 12" out along the exterior of the coop to ward off predators and also to keep the girls from scratching their way out. We covered about 3/4 of the coop with corrugated roofing so to provide shade and allow them to move about in the coop when it rains.
We used tree branches to make ladder style roosts.
We lock the girls up at night. Here, you can see the ramp we built, and their nesting boxes in the back. Since we took this photo, we've added two roosting poles and straw bedding.
To keep water and food clean, we have hanging a hanging feeder and waterer.
Here our girls (and rooster to the far left) are enjoying one of the roosts.
Here's a picture of the whole coop. We tried to make it pleasant looking as we don't have a huge yard, and the coop is visible from our home. We picked a happy color, "Chickadee" which our daughter picked out, and we purchased from The Home Depot.
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Preparing for your skin surgery
Dear patient
- Do book off the remainder of your day from admission onwards. Due to the variables
involved your Mohs excision and the reconstruction that follows can be completed as early
as lunch time or as late as early evening.
- Do bring something to read or occupy you while you are in the ward.
- Do always eat a hearty breakfast before 07:00 on the morning of the surgery.
- Do bring clear fruit juice (apple/grape) to take as sips (alternatively sips of water) until 11:00 or 2 hours before reconstruction in the afternoon. If reconstruction is under local anaesthezia you can eat lunch and drink any fluids as normal.
- Do BRING ALL your medications in their bottles to show the doctor. Take ALL your regular medicines unless the doctor tells you not to.
- WEAR ABSOLUTELY NO JEWELLERY. If you're having face surgery WEAR ABSOLUTELY NO MAKE-UP and have your hair pulled back away from the surgery site.
- Do WEAR slip-on shoes to wear when you walk between the ward and procedure room.
- Do tell your doctor if you have a cold or don't feel well.
- Do have someone drive you home from the doctor's office after the surgery if possible. We can call your ride to pick you up a half hour before you're ready to leave.
- It's a good idea to use the restroom before surgery. Ask the receptionist to show you the way.
- Don't consume ALCOHOL (wine, beer, whiskey, ciders) from 5 days before until 3 days after surgery, if possible. Alcohol may cause bleeding.
- Don't take herbs, vitamin E, niacin, fish oil tablets (omega-3 fatty acids), or non-steroidal
- anti-inflammatory medicines (Myprodol, Neurofen, Coxflam, Cold medicines, Cataflam-D etc.) as far as possible, for one week before surgery. They can cause bleeding.
- Don't apply lotions near the surgery site on the day of surgery or the bandages will not stick to your skin.
- If your doctor has prescribed Aspirin for your heart TAKE THE ASPIRIN AS YOUR DOCTOR SUGGESTED UNLESS YOUR DOCTOR SAYS YOU CAN STOP ASPIRIN FOR 1 WEEK BEFORE SURGERY. Ask your doctor BEFORE stopping aspirin. Over-the-counter Panado can be taken any time when it's needed for pain and/or headaches before or after the surgery because it does not cause bleeding.
- Don't stop warfarin before surgery but ask your doctor to verify that your INR level is less than 2.5.
- Don't smoke excessively (it slows healing). It's best not to smoke at all. DO NOT smoke within 2 hours before surgery.
Please ask if you have ANY questions before, during or after surgery.
Except in case of genuine emergency or illness, we require 72 hour notice to reschedule your Mohs appointment, to allow the hospital and other role players to do appropriate scheduling.
Surgery to be performed:
Insignificant, serious, or life threatening reactions may occur to any medicine.
Anaesthesia will be performed using:
- Lignocaine with/without adrenaline.
- Bupivacaine (Maicaine) may also be used.
- Antibiotics may be prescribed post-operatively.
- Analgesics may be prescribed post-operatively.
Please inform your doctor on the day of surgery about any prior reactions to any of these medications, or any other relevant allergies.
- Infection or bleeding can occur after surgery.
- Sometimes more than one surgical procedure is necessary to remove a large lesion, to remove a lesion in a difficult area, or to obtain the best possible repair of the surgical
wound and the best possible cosmetic result.
- When necessary Dr du Plessis will request a specialist reconstructive surgeon to close the defect after the successful removal of the skin cancer with Mohs micrographic Surgery.
Post surgery:
There will be need for a post-operative follow-up for suture removal and wound evaluation. It is best to remain in the local area (if possible) for 10-14 days post-op.
Let the doctor know if you cannot do this. Please phone the rooms following the surgery to set up the suture removal follow-up appointment. If the reconstruction was performed by the reconstructive surgeon, make these arrangements with his rooms.
The wound takes 25 days to become strong. You may need to modify your work and/or excersize schedule to prevent your wound from opening. For the first few days after the surgery there will be swelling and possibly some bruising, which will subside within a few days.
Most patients will receive a prescription for pain medication and/or an antibiotic upon discharge. If you do not receive one, please check with the ward sister/doctor.
Scar Information:
- All human beings heal by permanent scar formation.
- Scar tissue is red for 3-6 months or longer, then usually fades to white. Sunlight exposure may cause a scar to darken. Blood vessels (telangiectasia) can form around a surgical site.
- The appearance of a surgery scar usually continues to improve for 6-12 months as the scar "matures". The tissues around the surgical site often remains swollen for about one month.
- Scars overlying the active muscle areas tend to widen (stretch) with time. This cannot
always be prevented.
- Scars can heal thick (keloid or hypertropic scar) or can heal thin (atrophic scar). How they heal depends in part upon the location on the body and the healing process of the patient.
- The final appearance of a scar depends upon many factors including the SIZE, DEPTH, and LOCATION of your cancer. Chances for a good result can be estimated for a given procedure, but can NEVER BE GUARANTEED.
- If a surgical site is injured before healing is complete, the scar may gape open, the wound may bleed, and the scar may become more obvious. A change of feeling (sensation) often occurs around a scar. In some areas of the body there is a risk of motor nerve damage.


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|Leopard and Stormy Skies - 5D3, 24-70 @ 45mm, f/9, ISO 100
I remember the morning I made this image well. It was after a night of heavy rains, and in the morning there were a lot of clouds in the skies but they were layered with interesting color and pattern. In the late morning, on our way back to camp after 5 hours of game drive (we left for game drives at 5:30 AM), I saw these white fluffy clouds against the deep blue of a distant storm. I turned to Grant and mentioned to him that all that was missing was a fantastic subject to put in front of it, ideally a Leopard resting on a tree with a clear view to the sky behind. Not 10 minutes after I said that we spotted a Leopard sitting in a tree. It took a couple of minutes to find the ideal spot to capture both the leopard and a bit of that wonderful sky.


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Mystic River (2003)
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When 19-year-old Katie Markum (Emmy Rossum), daughter of Boston shop-owner Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), is brutally murdered, Jimmy is reunited with two childhood friends—Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon), who is the detective investigating the case, and Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), who was abducted off the street and sexually abused for four days when the boys were 11 years old. As the case unfolds, it looks more and more like Dave is the murderer. Edit (Coming Soon)
At the beginning of the movie, Dave, Jimmy, and Sean were depicted as young boys playing in the street. A policeman comes along and takes Dave away with him. The "policeman" is actually a pedophile. Days later, when Dave finally escapes, he is marked by everyone in the neighborhood as "damaged goods." After that, it becomes easy to blame Dave for doing criminal things to others, based on the erroneous assumption that "what goes around comes around." Dave never got counseling to cope with the event; he hasn't even told his wife Celeste (Marcia Gay Harden). On the night of the murder, Dave comes home with a bloodied hand and a knife wound to his chest. He comes up with a story about a mugger. Celeste becomes suspicious when she cannot find any mention of a wounded mugger in the newspapers. This becomes worse when she hears Dave give different statements as to the cause of his hand injury. His increasing mental instability starts to frighten her to the point where she shares her suspicions with Jimmy, which ultimately leads to Dave being fingered in Katie's death. Edit (Coming Soon)
The Mystic River is the name of a river in Boston. It's name comes from a Wampanoag word meaning "big river." Jimmy tells Dave, "We bury our sins here [in the Mystic River], Dave. We wash them clean," so some viewers see something more "mystical" in the title and have likened it metaphorically to karma, that is, what-goes-around-comes-around. The author hasn't admitted much more than that he liked the name of the river and the various meanings it could have. Edit (Coming Soon)
Connect "stupid" and "kids", and behold the answer. They were trying to cover up the murder by making it look like they were just the good guys reporting their suspicion that a murder had been committed. Besides, it was a setup to the pivotal point in the movie when a cop thinks to ask, "How did they know it was a woman?" Edit (Coming Soon)
This question has raised considerable discussion. Most viewers point out that Dave was drunk and wasn't thinking fast. Others feel that Dave wasn't certain the pedophile was dead or that his body was still there behind McGill's. It is also pointed out that Jimmy was in anguish over Katie's murder. The Savage brothers had convinced him that Dave was guilty (even though Dave kept trying to convince Jimmy that he killed a pedophile, not Katie). When Jimmy told Dave that he would kill him if he didn't confess to killing Katie, Dave saw that as a way to escape with his life, so he confessed to a crime that he didn't commit. Unfortunately, Jimmy went back on his word. Edit (Coming Soon)
Originally the police believe that Katie's death has something to do with her secret relationship with Brendan Harris (Tom Guiry) and suspect that Brendan's father "Just Ray" Harris might have killed Katie because he had a bad past with Jimmy. They had discovered that the gun used to shoot Katie had once been used in a robbery by Just Ray. What turns out to have happened was that Brendan's brother, Ray Harris Jr, (Spencer Treat Clark) had found his father's gun and that he and a friend decided to have some fun with it. They were scaring motorists with it by pointing the gun at them as they passed by. Katie happened to be driving by and crashed the car when she saw the gun. The two boys went over to check on her at which point she recognized Ray as her boyfriend's brother. At some point the gun went off, wounding Katie, and she fled into the park (Brendan even suggested that Ray Jr. may have had some motive to shoot Katie, since she was going to take Brendan away from him to Las Vegas). Afraid of the consequences, the two boys followed Katie and killed her to keep from talking. Edit (Coming Soon)
Sean locates a drunk and disheveled Jimmy sitting on the curb of a sidewalk and informs him that they caught the boys who killed Katie. He also tells Jimmy that the Boston police found the body of a pedophile in the woods behind McGills and they would like to talk with Dave. "The last time I saw Dave Boyle," Jimmy says, "was 25 years ago going up the street in the back of a car." In that moment, Sean realizes that Jimmy has killed Dave but allows him to walk away, taking a phone call from his wife Lauren (Tori Davis) who talks with him for the first time and agrees to come home. The next day, as the sounds of the parade fill the neighborhood streets, Jimmy confesses to wife Annabeth (Laura Linney) that he killed Dave and threw his body in the Mystic. Annabeth assures him that it's never wrong to do whatever you have to do for those you love. Later, at the parade, Dave's wife Celeste looks anxiously at the faces of Sean and Jimmy, but they reveal nothing. When Sean sees Jimmy, he mimics shooting him with a finger gun. Jimmy just shrugs as the parade rolls by, and the Mystic River rolls on. Edit (Coming Soon)
The ending is left open. Some viewers interpret the scene during the parade where Sean makes a gun with his fingers and points it at Jimmy as saying, "I'm gonna get you." Jimmy's shrug is then interpreted as him saying either "Try, if you can," or "I know you will...eventually." From the novel: Sean felt Lauren idly caress his arm, and he looked across the street at Jimmy. If it took him the rest of his life, he was going to bring him down. "You see me, Jimmy? Come on. Look over again." And Jimmy's head swiveled. He smiled at Sean. Sean raised his hand, the index finger pointing out, the thumb cocked like the hammer of a gun, and then he dropped the thumb and fired. Jimmy's smile broadened. Edit (Coming Soon)
One movie that viewers have mentioned as being similar to Mystic River is Summer of Sam (1999) (1999), in which a punk rocker is almost beaten to death when his "friends" conclude that he must be the serial killer known as "Son of Sam", who is terrorizing their section of the Bronx. Thematically very similar is Gone Baby Gone (2007), another crime story set in Boston, also by writer Dennis Lehane. Edit (Coming Soon)


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The Art Sanctuary consists of David Jenkins, photographer and Vivianne Hazenveld, a painter and mixed media artist. Located on the Northern beaches, our aim is to revel in our art together with other creative people.
Get to know some of our fellow artists by browsing our website or simply contact us and we can arrange a time with you to see our works and to have a chat.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Vivianne and David
While Vivianne's prior art studies gave her a grounding in the more conventional ways of creating art, her most recent pieces see her delving into an unusual style of mixed media relief work. Using a variety of mediums ranging from conventional acrylics, to oil, pastels, impasto and, at times, 3 dimensional objects and more.
They can be viewed from a distance as an abstract combination of colour and texture while a more intimate world is revealed upon closer viewing, with delicate techniques and almost microscopic details.
Created with minimal preconceived ideas of what a finished work will look like, Vivianne combines the unusual and embraces any 'accidents' that occur along the way.
No matter what the subject matter or style of her work, Viviannes works are bound to be slightly unusual and to feature luscious textures, a lyrical sense of line, sensual forms and sumptuous colours as found in nature.
Vivianne has exhibited throughout NSW including Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Art Focus Gallery, Lavender Bay Gallery, Glen Street Gallery, Casula Powerhouse and the Griffith and Orange Regional Galleries. Her works have been included in the Warringah Art Exhibition and purchased for the Arts North Permanent Collection.
Vivianne has attained her Fine Art Diploma, several Design Certificates and a Certificate IV in Craft and Visual Art Practice Business Skills. She has also had gallery experience at two Northern Beaches galleries and managed a local artists studio space.
Vivianne runs local art classes on Sydney's Northern Beaches, teaching beginners the joy and possibilities which lie within creating art. Please contact her directly for more details on 0417 450 744.
"Reflections Of The Spirit"
Over the past seventeen years David Jenkins has run the successful photographic business – Nomad Photography with the vision of making Images That Change The World!
It has been an exciting and varied experience covering various photographic assignments including Extreme Sport, Travel / Adventure, Portraiture, Reportage, Dance, News, Sports Team Photographer, TV Film Unit Photographer (Documentaries) and Wilderness.
David's clients include the City Of Sydney (as official photographer to the Lord Mayor since 1997), the NSW Ministry for the Arts (as official photographer to the Premier), NSW Rural Fire Service as well as many commercial and private clients.
During 2004 David held his first solo exhibition "This Is Me!" Portraits Of Life in galleries in Manly and Surry Hills. David's photographs have also been exhibited in a number of group exhibitions – Northern Expressions (Glen Street Theatre July 2006 and Group Show Dec 2005), Mosman 2088 (March 2005 and 2006), Manly Council 'My Manly' (Feb 2005), Canberra Museum and Art Gallery – 'The Day the Sky Turned Black!' (2004 – 2005) and the Hasselblad Masters (2002 and 2003).
David's images have regally appeared in such publications as Inside Sport, Pro Photo, Australian Camera (photos and stories), Photography International, Scuba Diver, Panorama (Ansett in flight magazine) Jet Action News and Trick – (photos and stories). Work has also been published in many newspapers such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun Herald, The Sunday Telegraph, Mosman Daily and The Australian Magazine.


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London College of Communication (LCC)
Formerly London College of Printing, LCC is the largest constituent College of the University of the Arts London and our students automatically become members of Europe's largest university dedicated to art, communication, design and related technologies. The School of Design constitutes a unique learning community made up of staff, fellow students and guest speakers from a diverse range of creative disciplines and cultures. www.arts.ac.uk /lcc


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Checklist: Use TCP Port Sharing to Allow Multiple WCF Applications to Use the Same TCP Port
Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
The Net.Tcp Port Sharing service makes it possible for multiple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services that are using the net.tcp protocol to listen on a single TCP port. Port sharing reduces the number of firewall exceptions that are necessary to host WCF services by allowing the use of common ports that are already open.
Your application must use the Net.Tcp Port Sharing feature. The developer writes the application to use the NetTcpBinding binding (a .NET 3.0 Class) to connect WCF applications. WCF exposes port sharing as a configurable option on the binding.
How to: Configure a WCF Service to use Port Sharing (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=93846)
Review the features and functions of the Net.Tcp Port Sharing service. When port sharing is enabled, you can run the service multiple times without having a conflict over the port number.
Enable port sharing on Application Server by installing the Application Server role with the Add Roles Wizard and selecting the TCP Port Sharing role service.
Additional references
For additional information about WCF, see What is Windows Communication Foundation? (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81260).
For additional information about Net.Tcp, see NetTcpBinding Class (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=93610.


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By Jim O'Leary
An e-mail newsletter for and about Waverly people, used with permission in the HLW Herald and on this web site.
April 8, 2002
Last year, when an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was felt that she had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.
One nurse took her copy to Ireland. The old lady's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the North Ireland Association for Mental Health. This little old Scottish lady, with nothing left to give the world, is now the authoress of this poem winging across the Internet.
I got it from Dr. James W. Presley in Texarkana, who forwarded it from Joe Forgy.
An Old Lady's Poem
What do you see, nurses?
What do you see?
What are you thinking when you're looking at me?
A crabby old woman,
not very wise,
Uncertain of habit,
with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles her food
and makes no reply
When you say in a loud voice,
"I do wish you'd try!"
Who seems not to notice
the things that you do,
And forever is losing
a stocking or shoe;
Who, resisting or not,
lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding,
the long day to fill.
Is that what you're thinking?
Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse;
you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am,
as I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding,
as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of 10,
with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters
who love one another.
A young girl of 16,
with wings on her feet,
Dreaming that soon now
a lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at 20
my heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows
that I promised to keep.
At 25 now,
I have young of my own,
Who need me to guide
and a secure happy home.
A woman of 30,
my young now grown fast,
Bound to each other
with ties that should last.
At 40, my young sons
have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me
to see I don't mourn.
At 50, once more,
babies play around my knee,
Again we know children,
my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me,
my husband is dead;
I look at the future,
I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own,
And I think of the years
and the love that I've known.
I'm now an old woman,
and nature is cruel;
'Tis jest to make old age
look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles,
grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone,
where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass
a young girl still dwells,
I remember the joys,
I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living
life over again.
I think of the years,
all too few, gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact
that nothing can last.
So open your eyes,
nurses, open and see,
Not a crabby old woman;
look closer, see me.
Travel tips
1. If you go by bus, bring your own food. Brown bags are just fine on buses. The reason for this is that bus depots around the country are no longer places you want to hang around in, even to gulp down a cup of coffee.
They aren't like the good old days when the Minneapolis Greyhound Bus Depot on Seventh and Hennepin had all the amenities, including a nice diner. The same goes for train travel.
The US government has put all its eggs in one basket, the airline industry. The rich travel by plane, the poor travel by bus - and it shows.
2. If you go by airplane, bring your own food. Brown bags are out of place in airports and on airliners, but bring them anyway. Unless you have struck it rich, you can't afford to eat in an airport. On airplanes nowadays, you will get, if you are lucky, a half-ounce bag of chips.
3. If you want to check your e-mail from anywhere in the world, and from any computer in the world, just click mail2web.com and up pops a screen that asks for your e-mail address and your password. Then click "check mail" and there you are. You can also send
e-mail through mail2web.com.
4. There is an 800 number you can use to call collect at 10 cents a minute. As you know, collect calls are very expensive otherwise. The number is: 1-800-968-7283, and phone cards are going down in price even as we speak.
The grave of the Chatelaine
It was a great pleasure to hear from my friend, Dr. Kenneth Chatelaine, a Minnesota boy who now lives and teaches in Maryland. He wants to know if I can be of any help in locating the burial place of his ancestors.
"Both of my great-grandparents on my father's side came from (or settled in) Waverly. Their names were Chatelaine and LeBrie.
"Each family received 100 acres of government land grants when my grandfather Chatelaine married my grandmother, whose maiden name was LeBrie.
"The family owned 320 acres in the Waverly area. The stipulation of the land grant was that the land be cleared. My father said they worked from morning until night and, eventually, cleared the land for farming.
"My father and I drove around the Waverly area more than once looking for our grandparents' graves because they were said to have been buried on that land.
"I have a picture of my grandfather, Francois LeBrie, in his uniform of the First Minnesota Regiment. It is said that he fought against the Indians during the Sioux uprising near New Ulm, which was the beginning of the infamous New Ulm Massacre.
"Supposedly, he caught an arrow in the ear, which caused his deafness in later life. My father said that the LeBries and the Chatelaines of Marysville Township would get together every day after work and there was a great deal of shouting because of the deafness of Francois.
"I don't think they are buried in Marysville Cemetery, and certainly not in St. Mary's Cemetery.
"Thank you for any information you can shed on the LeBrie or Chatelaine Waverly history."
Ken Chatelaine.
More history
If you think the Waverly Star for the year 1933 is interesting, the St. Joseph, Miss., Star for 1860 is also a treasure trove for history buffs.
The following is an advertisement for pony express riders. For you non-historians who wouldn't know, the Pony Express was a uniquely American institution, which was in existence for 19 months in 1860 and 1861.
Its mission was to deliver the mail between St. Joseph, Miss. and Sacramento, Calif., and it didn't end until the newly completed transcontinental telegraph line began flashing instant mail.
The Pony Express was a relay when men on horseback galloped over 2,000 miles and went faster than a speeding stagecoach could go.
Young skinny wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders who are willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week.
Apply Central Overland Express, Alta Building, Montgomery Street
Fun, fun, fun
Back in 1933, in the middle of the Depression, Waverlyites still had fun. They were lured by advertisements in the Waverly Star to such exciting places as Excelsior Amusement Park on Lake Minnetonka and the Big State Fair in St. Paul.
The admission to the State Fair in 1933 was reduced to 25 cents, so that people could afford to go. It was, of course, on the same grounds it is now. Thrill Day there in 1933 featured a train collision. It is still the best State Fair in the United States, but they have given up train collisions.
Excelsior Amusement Park cut its entrance fee to 3 cents per day. They, too, offered thrills, including parachute jumps over Lake Minnetonka:
Who is the mystery girl?
See her attempt a daring, thrilling, and sensational parachute jump into Lake Minnetonka at 4 p.m. Sunday
Bring the whole family. Come early. Plan to spend the day. Acres of amusements.
(Side note: People my age, in the 1940s and 1950s used to hitchhike to Excelsior Amusement Park for the same reason, more or less, our young now go to the mall - girls, girls, girls, or boys, boys, boys. Marion Borrell and I hitchhiked there once, but we ran out of money after the first half-hour.)
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You might have had enough of the stress and the tough work schedules thus decided to have a men's night for you and your fellow men. If you have, you need to focus on arranging it to meet up with the wants and the needs of men. Since it will be men present at the party, what is fun and exciting for them will be different from what is fun and exciting to ordinary parties. You might not have the chance to have men's night every now and then but when you get the chance of having one, you need to make sure that you do it to meet up with the best outcome. If you are in doubt of what needs to be said and done in organizing an extraordinary men's night that everyone will enjoy equally, here are some of the things that you need to know:
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Why You Should Always Be Paid To Run A Giveaway On Your Blog
Let's talk about blog giveaways today, shall we? They are becoming more and more popular, and the rules for compensation more and more vague. Some bloggers are being paid huge sums of cash to run giveaways on their blogs, while others are expected to promote giveaways on multiple social media platforms without even the offer of a free sample product. As usual, my advice is to not bother with giveaways at all unless you are absolutely certain a giveaway is something your readership will enjoy (and "enjoy" is not the same thing as "not be annoyed by"). In order to ensure this, the payoff has to be pretty high and the annoyance factor pretty low, and keeping those things in mind, below are my other set of recommendations for why you absolutely must insist on being paid for doing a giveaway on your blog.
1. Most readers assume you are being paid for them anyway.
There is so much ambiguity in the blogosphere right now about the status of giveaways and how they are compensated that readers are assuming that they are all compensated, even though they are not all compensated. People who are familiar with how the mommyblogosphere hierarchy of power works can look at a blog and a campaign and make a general guess at how a post might be compensated, but the general public (and most readers) have no way of doing this. Therefore, they are assuming that all giveaways are sponsored posts. They might realize that you're not making Dooce money for your coffeemaker giveaway, but they don't have a concept of how much less. You can, of course, choose to tell them that you are not being paid at all, but then that bears the question of why you are doing it at all, because then you are doing a paid placement except for the fact that it is not paid, in order to give your readers a free product, which is fine — again, only if you really really think your readers will appreciate it. But only in that case.
2. They read like paid posts, even if they are not paid posts.
Giveaway posts read like ad copy. I hate reading ad copy. Even if it means I can enter a giveaway for a free product at the end of it, I hate reading ad copy. You know why? If I want a product, I don't even read ad copy. I just go buy the product. You are now asking me to read ad copy in exchange for the chance to win one free product at the end of the post. No thanks. Bye.
3. You are using up some of your trust capital to run a giveaway, and that has a market value.
I touched on this with numbers one and two, but I come to your blog to read what you have to say, not what the product makers have to say. When you let them rent out your content column, that annoys me. If I am your target market, that is not good. Now, if you have a different target market that doesn't mind this so much, maybe it's not as big of a deal, but you never know how your market will react. Every time you let somebody else into your content column you are taking a risk. Is it worth it if you're not getting paid? I don't think so. Maybe not even then.
4. A giveaway promotes a product on your blog. That means it is an advertisement.
Why would you run an ad without being paid? That's silly.
5. There Is Definitely Somebody Else Who Is Getting Paid.
Regardless of what the PR company or the brand is telling you, you can bet there is somebody on this campaign who is getting paid. If they aren't paying you, they may not have enough money to pay you, but that doesn't mean that they aren't paying somebody. Pass on a campaign that hasn't allotted enough to pay you. When you have been around long enough, they will.


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When they are little, girls love playing with dolls and making them clothes. After they grow up, many of them wish to dress adults. True fashionistas know from the very beginning they want to become a fashion designer. They are obsessed with the latest trends and are often found reading fashion magazines instead of school books. Creative design in itself is a form of art and it is consequently only those who possess a creative personality that can dare to adventure in this industry. No matter how talented you may be, in order to be a successful and professional designer, pursuing some courses in design is mandatory. Coco Chanel might have been able to pull it off, but you will not manage only with the aid of your talent. Milan fashion school offers courses for aspiring designers who want to make it big in the top industry.
People who manage to penetrate the glam world have a handful of opportunities ranging from supervising a design team to getting to produce your own label. Becoming a brand takes a lot of time and hard work. Not many know that the celebrities we know today lived for many years just above the floating line. The general belief is that in order to cement your future career, you need to attain a fine arts degree, preferably from an acknowledged school. The fashion school in Milan is destined to teach aspirants the craft and give their resume credibility. Every year, thousands of persons apply to a designer program, so schools put them through an extensive selection. The competition is high and anyone who is considering competing must do it with the backup of a strong portfolio. The programs generally last up to three years.
It is a good idea to have some experience in sketching too. If you can?t draw, that is certainly a setback. A fashion designer communicates his ideas exclusively through his sketches, with the ability with which he is able to combine colors, tones and shades. Art design schools such as Milan Fashion Design Academy focus on the functional aspect of the business by means of teaching strategies meant to help you develop problem solving skills, critical thinking skills and so on. Experts advise us not to try to achieve your dreams in any other way. There are a lot of risks involved in choosing an alternative route to becoming a designer. Let?s say you are going to open a store instead of going to school. The odds are against you at all times. Very few little businesses actually strive. While formal education involves more work, at least you will have the assurance that one day all your time and effort will pay off and you may even make a name for yourself. The degree is only the starting point of your career. On the way you will constantly be learning new things and perfect yourself. Who knows! Maybe you?re the next Yves Saint Laurent.


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By now the narrative is familiar: China, brandishing a sheaf of faded maps and records, questions the basis of Japan's authority over islands in the East China Sea. The dispute summons bitter memories of the Middle Kingdom's humiliation at the hands of its neighbor starting in the late 19th century, but also heightens fears that Beijing is abandoning its decade-old mantra of "peaceful rise" to become the revisionist power its neighbors and Washington fear.
For the last year, this has been the tale of the Senkaku Islands, a remote cluster of rocks whose only mammalian inhabitants are goats and an endangered race of moles. China's claim to the islets, which it calls Diaoyu, dates back at least four decades, but tensions have heightened since the Japanese government announced last year that it would purchase them from a private owner.
Just last week, however, Beijing opened up a new front in the dispute. On Wednesday, China's leading state-run newspaper, the People's Daily, ran a piece questioning the status of Okinawa, home to 1.4 million Japanese citizens as well as 25,000 U.S. troops. Its authors, two scholars at a government-backed think tank, surveyed the history of the Ryukyu Islands, of which Okinawa is easily the most important, and concluded that the legitimacy of Japan's rule over the chain is "unresolved." When pressed for comment, China's Foreign Ministry refused to affirm that the Ryukyus are part of Japan, instead reiterating that "the Diaoyu Islands," which sit to Okinawa's west, "are China's inherent territory," and not part of the Ryukyus. This is hardly the first time that nationalists have attempted to sow doubt about Okinawa, but never before have questions about Japanese sovereignty been entertained at such a high level.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
The Ryukyus arc from Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's main islands, towards Taiwan. Most of their residents are indigenous Ryukyuans, a group of peoples who have traditionally spoken their own Japonic languages and maintained political and trade ties with both China and Japan. Even before the unification of Okinawa and surrounding islands under a single king in the 15th century, the Ryukyuans were tributaries of the Ming Dynasty. But after their king refused to help the Japanese daimyo Hideyoshi invade Korea in the 1590s, the islands were subjugated by a feudal lord from Kyushu. For almost three centuries, the islands' kings paid tribute to two masters, the shogun of Japan and the emperor of China.
The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black ships" in the 1850s rocked Japan, but the new state that emerged from this political turmoil was unified and assertive. In 1879, the young Emperor Meiji, a modernizing reformer, formally absorbed the Ryukyus, which became Japan's Okinawa Prefecture. China's Qing Dynasty ratified this action in 1895, but only under duress; the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ended the First Sino-Japanese War, not only provided that China would abandon any claims to the Ryukyus, but signed away Taiwan and severed China's longstanding tributary relationship with Korea. (The treaty also helped set the stage for the Senkaku dispute, which turns in part on whether those islets were part of Taiwan, and thus reverted to China after 1945, or the Ryukyus.)
Okinawa was captured by Allied troops in the final months of the Pacific War, but this victory came at such a terrible cost that it may have influenced President Truman's decision to use atomic weapons rather than mount a ground assault on Japan's home islands. When the American occupation of Japan ended in 1952, the Treaty of San Francisco provided that Washington would continue to administer the Ryukyus. Okinawa became a key pedestal of American power in Asia, an idea that Commodore Perry had championed a century earlier. The chain reverted to Japanese control in 1972, but the U.S. military continues to maintain a constellation of bases on Okinawa under the terms of Washington's security alliance with Tokyo.


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It's September! And that means back to school! Since it's not quite fall, but no longer summer, we need transitional outfits that can cover us in the chilly mornings and keep us cool in the warm afternoons! We asked our beautiful friend Cecilia to share 4 back to school outfits that can bring us from sunny summer into our favorite season... autumn :) Each look is school appropriate AND seasonally appropriate and found at Plato's Closet, duh!


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Maltese Volunteer Travels To Ohio To Help In Clinton Campaign
Why? Because "common sense must prevail"
Janet Barthet, a 28-year old from Malta, has travelled to the United States to carry out voluntary work for the Hillary Clinton campaign. For the past two weeks Barthet has been canvassing in the Cuyahoga county to encourage people to vote early.
Many states across the U.S. have a system where citizens can vote early, or vote by absentee ballot, reducing the number of people that vote on voting day itself. This initiative works towards increasing voter 'turn out'.
Back in 2008 and 2012, early voting allowed Barack Obama to gain an advantage against the Republican candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Barthet has been active in Malta's political scene for ten years, having worked with student political groups as well as on campaigns for local and general elections. She has recently been immersed in the U.S. presidential campaign, following the ins and outs of the events over the past year and a half.
"Given that the electoral process in the U.S. is such a long one, I've been following the campaigns for months, ever since the nominees were each still establishing themselves as candidates before the primary elections. Even before Hillary Clinton was confirmed as a nominee last July, I already knew I wanted to volunteer. Once she was nominated I started trying to figure out how to make this happen."
Barthet has flown to the U.S. on her own dime, however the campaign team in Ohio provided her with accommodation organised by the Democratic Party who are happy to host volunteers. She's been living and working with volunteers from all over the world: Japan, Munich, London, Manchester, Ireland.
"It's been amazing. We are a really hard working team and everyone is so dedicated to making a difference."
But her reason for being there goes beyond personal experience, Barthet believes there is a serious issue at hand and it's not just America's problem – it's everyone's.
"Over the last few years we have seen the rise of the extreme right all over the world. Whilst it has been considered a threat but possibly not taken seriously in a number of European countries, including Malta, the possibility of this happening in the U.S. is real." Barthet says. "The race is close and it really is as tight as it could be. Saying 'every vote counts' is as true here as it is in Malta and any other election."
"Over the last few years we have seen the rise of the extreme right all over the world. [It's not being] taken seriously in a number of European countries, including Malta"
Unlike in Malta, where candidates knock on doors and either already have or are developing a relationship with their constituents, the U.S. campaigns rely heavily on their volunteers.
The voting population in the 2012 presidential elections was 235 million – there are only two main candidates, meaning it is literally impossible for them to knock on doors and know their constituents on a first name basis. Canvassers are vital ambassadors for the candidates, so this type of campaigning is a whole different ball game for Barthet:
"People's expectations are entirely different and constituents actually welcome canvassers...sometimes. Of course there are people who don't like the idea of strangers knocking on their doors and asking them to perform their civic duty and vote, but most are happy to see us and speak to us about their voting intentions."
There are some things that ring true to campaigning work Barthet has done both in Europe and in the U.S.:
""The issues that people deal with on the ground are more or less the same. People are concerned about job security, their children's future, the stability of the economy and the increasing expenses."
With polls showing Trump and Clinton more or less neck-and-neck over the past few days, Barthet is realistic about the threat of a Trump victory. She is hopeful that the polls will motivate Democrats who are not necessarily determined to vote to make an effort to do so. She's hopeful that common sense will prevail.
"This goes beyond political alliance, fiscal and foreign policies. On morality issues alone, I would feel embarrassed to say I share any common beliefs with someone who could very well be a leader of one of the world's super powers. America must send a very clear message that extremists, left or right, have no place in any democratic country. The rise of the right is a threat to democracy everywhere, America, Europe, Malta – everywhere. It needs to be stopped before it gains any governing authority at least in what we would consider developed and developing countries."
"America must send a very clear message that extremists, left or right, have no place in any democratic country"
Barthet returns to Malta on the 13th November, and, of course, is hoping for a win for Clinton.
"If Hillary wins I would go home feeling proud that contributed to one of the most influential elections of our lifetime. Then exhaustion will kick in and I'll sleep for a week."


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Everyone hates HOAs, right? Unless they're rich, retired busybodies who are worried that if your grass exceeds 3.25″ in length, the value of their home is going to plummet like shares in Bear Stearns. And you just know they would call in an airstrike on anyone emitting more than 25dB after 9:00:00.0 pm if they had the power to do so. Of course, they're also the ones who are most interested in seeking this power over their neighbors, so naturally they are the ones who get themselves elected to General Secretary of their little hamlets. As an aside, that's pretty much how government works, too. Everyone else is too busy working, tending to their children, minding their own business, and otherwise not being insufferable curmudgeons to want to control an HOA, so that's what we get. Three people show up to the annual unannounced meeting, two vote for the next petty tyrant, and next thing you know some scowling blue-hair has her driver's license stuck in your lawn.
Homeowner's associations are commonly used as an example by libertarians and statists alike as an example both for and against stateless society. On the positive side, libertarians cite them as a great example of how voluntary associations would form in the absence of government, and people could get together and work for their collective (sorry) benefit. Statists, in turn, make a good point when they point to all the petty abuses suffered at the hands of these notoriously capricious organizations. And both seem to be on to something. After all, in any society, even one with no overtly coercive government, if people are engaged in voluntary exchange, and utilize the division of labor, as well they would, hierarchies would emerge. And at what point does a "voluntary" association become not so voluntary at all?
For example, let's say that the Pine Meadows HOA is particularly abusive. There are stiff fines for leaving your garbage cans out, or for having noisy parties after hours (we weren't even being that noisy!). Let's say the HOA administration purchases expensive perks for its staff, whilst common areas are left in disrepair. They change the rules of the HOA, and owners who entered the association under the old rules have to accept the new rules or move. What to do? "Well you could just move to another neighborhood," right? But wouldn't that be similar to the old statist canard about how all libertarians should move to Somalia? Have we simply traded one size of government for another? Even if there were a neighboring HOA which satisfied your preferences, moving is expensive. You have to take days off work, rent a truck, compensate anyone who helps you move, pay closing costs and first month's rent on a new place, the list goes on. The Pine Meadows HOA has created an onerous situation which leaves one with the choice of either moving at great cost from a home they love, or staying to be predated upon by the nefarious officers at Pine Meadows. "If you don't like it, move to Willow Glen!" would be the new mantra hurled from the withered visages of the HOA staff and their abettors.
I contend, that in a stateless society, HOAs would be shorn of their ability to oppress the denizens of their neighborhood, and moreover, they would be under far more pressure to satisfy homeowner preferences. I think that HOAs would absolutely exist. But given the widespread dissatisfaction with HOAs, I think they would enjoy a reduced market share of neighborhoods demanding their services. Furthermore, I think that governments keep the smaller tyrannies under them in check to some degree, but those tyrannies have broader latitude under the law to oppress their victims within the bounds set by the overarching government. Absent this government, homeowners would have to take a much more proactive role in determining if the rules of an HOA were to their liking, and would have a greater variety of HOAs to choose from. In an unfettered market economy, HOAs would be incentivized to provide enticing environments to prospective customers, and this would result in HOAs competing for who satisfied their customers the best. I think you would see clauses whereby homeowners would be exempt from any new rules passed by future HOA officers, unless they explicitly agreed to these rules on an individual basis. Fines would likely disappear from all but the most affluent neighborhoods, and liens would be practically nonexistent.
In a stateless society, there would be no state to hold the enormous tracts of land that it currently owns, so HOAs would also have to compete with the most laissez-faire HOA of all, that is, no HOA at all. Some homeowners, finding no HOA that was to their liking, may simply decide to homestead a piece of land and build a home on it. Homeowner's associations that abused their residents would quickly find their neighborhoods abandoned, their revenue stream decreasing, their officers replaced by those who would attract customers instead of driving them away.
While I do think you would find the occasional abuses, if we look to relatively unregulated sectors of our economy, we find our answer. Mistreatment of customers by employees is not tolerated for an instant. Prices are always falling, and utility obtained by customers is always increasing. As a happy corollary, profits are healthy as well.
I don't think we'd have anything to fear from HOAs in a stateless society.


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A personal blog by Ackworth born Gerald England who married a Lancashire lass, went West and now lives in Cheshire.
Monday, November 26, 2007
on the cobblestones
riverside path
on the cobblestones
a white feather
words & photo © gerald england 2007
posted in response to the "boulders/rocks/stones/pebbles" theme at One Deep Breath.
An earlier version of the haiku and a glimpse of the path can be seen on Poetry Scotland
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What a lovely thought and photo! Thanks for these.ReplyDelete
I like the photo, the patterns of cobblestone, and how they feel while walking. I admire this piece; it feels very meditative and the feather accent is perfect.ReplyDelete
how cool is this? The interruption of pattern, the undeniable changing sights...ReplyDelete
I love your cobblestoned response!ReplyDelete
I have a few cobblestones in my garden that were found under layers of pavement in NYC!
I love their history and the fact that they are hand-hewn!
Lovely image and words, nice contrastsReplyDelete
How exactly you capture the feel of the unexpected surprise on the path. So well done. Thank you.ReplyDelete
the element of surprise & the contrast (stone & feather) make for a hauntingly beautiful haikuReplyDelete
how luxuriously told...ReplyDelete
just beautiful, anything that reminds me of the 'old country! I am an expat.ReplyDelete
Nice image and contrast of textures.ReplyDelete
wonderful! Hope you are enjoying the season.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous. That path feels so worn.ReplyDelete
I love the visual and poetic contrast of feathers and cobblestones.ReplyDelete
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Abica Management Reshuffle
Abica Ltd has today reshuffled its management team to reflect the exit of Scott Allison as a shareholder and managing director. Rod Matthews also leaves the company from his position of non-executive chairman.
Going forward the company will be run by remaining shareholders David Munro and Gregory Barnett as joint managing directors. Commenting on the changes Mr Munro said, "We would like to thank both Scott and Rod for their input in developing Abica. In the last year we have made significant progress in creating the UK's best supplier of telecoms to SMEs by creating a new brand with a strong position in the market and significantly developing new recurring revenue streams".
Mr Barnett added, "The recent success of abica has been highlighted with some significant new client and contract wins and also our shortlisting for 'Excellence in Customer Service' at the Glasgow Business Awards against some prestigious competition".
Mr Allison commented, "I have enjoyed my time at Abica, building and working with a fantastic team and I feel proud of the progress made on the long term business objectives. I feel confident that I am leaving the company in good shape with lots of potential and I wish those who remain at the company the best of luck for the future". He continued, "I am now looking forward to having the time to pursue other business and personal interests, including my role as a non-executive director of The Entrepreneurial Exchange. I am also looking at taking this ideal opportunity to study for an MBA".
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A believer in giving back to the community, Dr. Van Zytveld has served underserved populations including disabled patients through Donated Dental Services and the Dental House Calls program, victims of domestic violence through the Smile Again Program, and disabled seniors through the Senior Answers program, uninsured through the Colorado Mission of Mercy and Give Kids a Smile.
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On Friday night I attended the Lowy Institute's 'New Voices' cocktail event at the Art Gallery NSW. Having been both a former New Voices attendee (2010) and Intern at the Lowy Institute (2012) it was great to meet both past and current affiliates of New Voices and Lowy and see that both, and International Policy in Australia more broadly, have such strong futures.
The Key note speaker at the event, the recently returned to Australia, China Correspondent for Fairfax John Garnaut (a former New Voices attendee too) delivered a blinding speech summarising his experiences in China, reflections of which can be found here. Of the many issues he discussed the one that particularly found resonance with me was the gargantuan task he faced understanding how foreign policy is made in China. John made reference to the 'octopus' that is China's policy apparatus and how difficult it had been at times to make sense of it all. Experience would eventually enable John to overcome this hurdle; for those seeking a slightly more immediate solution to understanding China's International behaviour I have another suggestion.
Despite being a few years old now, one of the best reference tools for deciphering China's international behaviour I found while completing my Maters degree was Evan Medeiros' 2009 book by that very name 'China's International Behaviour'- a book review of which follows and that I wrote as part of my Chinese Security and Foreign Policy module I took back in 2011. I would encourage anybody with an Interest in China and China's International Relations to read this book, which can now be down loaded for free from RAND here.
China's International Behaviour: Activism, Opportunism and Diversification. Evan. S. Medeiros. ISBN 978-0-8330-4709-0 Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 2009, 224pp.
China's International behaviour comprehensively and objectively provides a frame work for analysis enabling the reader, from inquisitive enquirer to academic scholar, to understand and scrutinise the content, nature and implementation of China's international behaviour. Medeiros provides both a framework and the essential analytical tools necessary for understanding the Chinese specific approach that underpins China's international behaviour, enabling the reader to examine 'the end', a Chinese policy, and trace and understand its origins and its creation process.
Medeiros' main arguments are: that China's international behaviour is inextricably interconnected with its need to maintain domestic stability; that China can accept the US as a regional hegemonic power and will not seek to challenge the US for the next two decades, however, will oppose US hegemonic behaviour when it conflicts with China's defined core national interests. The purpose of this book is to inform US policy makers, evident in its final policy suggestions, that they need be cognisant of these considerations when formulating US-China policy.
Medeiros begins by detailing 3 historic lenses (National Revitalisation, a Victim Mentality and Defensive Security Outlook) through which China views its external environment and that has a significant bearing on how Chinese Foreign Policy is formulated and enacted. These help form a narrative that goes some way to explaining China's five core national interests (Economic Development, Reassurance, Countering Constraints, Diversifying Access to Resources and Reducing Taiwan's International Space) and the three guiding principles or China's strategy for securing these interests (All round Diplomacy, Peace and Development and Harmonious World).
Medeiros continues by examining the expanding diplomatic tool kit that China employs to facilitate securing its interests (Economic Diplomacy, China's Alternative Development Model, Leadership Diplomacy, Multilateral Diplomacy, Strategic Partnerships and Military Diplomacy). He then analyses how these, utilised in conjunction with the key determinate drivers of Chinese International behaviour (domestic stability, the three lenses, China's five core national interests and three guiding principles), actually manifest into China's Foreign Policy through analysing and examining China's relations with regions and other states and international institutions and organisations.
Medeiros concludes by examining the challenges to both China, from the unique way it approaches the formulating of its Foreign Policy, as the subtitle of the book suggests through Activism, Opportunism, and Diversification, and the challenges which await the international community, in particular the US, as China continues its transition and rise. Medeiros observes and spells out for US policy makers that China's International behaviour is a reflection of cost-benefit calculations which seek to secure Chinese core national interests. Despite these interests being fixed Chinese International behaviour is not, it is fluid, and as China 'finds its feet' as a rising regional power it is within this space that the US can assert its greatest influence on the nature of China's rise.
Throughout, Medeiros presents a logical, methodical and objectively balanced argument, an aspect that can sometimes be found lacking from some of his North American counterparts as they grapple with, or are indifferent to, some of the specific Chinese historical and cultural aspects that help distinguish Chinese international behaviour from that of other 'Great Powers'. His arguments are persuasive and are backed using relative examples to substantiate his points. On the occasional instance where a more subjective opinion is forwarded alternative arguments are offered to balance the position.
Furthermore, as well as successfully providing and demonstrating a usable and workable framework for examining China's international behaviour explaining what China is doing and why, Medeiros should be commended for drawing attention to the important signal and message being transmitted from Beijing regarding what China is not doing despite being in a position to do so and why, examples include not pushing a 'new security concept' and not seeking a more confrontational US policy. Medeiros' ultimate success rests in the reader's ability to take a given Chinese Foreign policy decision or position, that might otherwise to an outsider seem unpredictable or erratic, and determine and understand the myriad of interests that factored into how (the process) and why that decision or position was arrived at.
Medeiros adopts a macrocosmic view of the actual policy making process, choosing to give a generic overview with the mentioning of specific leaders and drawing attention to the transition from 'single leadership' to 'collective leadership,' whereas a chapter or section solely dedicated to the microcosmic aspects of the Chinese Communist Party's decision making process would certainly add an extra layer to his analysis and be of value to the reader. Adding to this point could be the inclusion of important International Relations theories and perspectives, a plethora of which exist amongst the growing number of important stakeholders that the collective leadership are increasingly accountable to (a good recent example of such work can be found in: David Shambaugh, 'Coping with a Conflicted China,' The Washington Quarterly 34:1, 2011, pp.7-27).
However, these minor absences do not detract in anyway from Medeiros' worth as essential reading for those looking to understand China's international behaviour and the important message it sends to US–China policy makers should not be underestimated: Although from the Chinese perspective the US-China relationship may no longer be' key of keys' it is still key, and while it remains so the US retain an element of influence over China, and the' rise of China,' that it might not uphold to the same extent over the long term future.
Ben Moles holds a Masters in International Security Studies from the University of Sydney and has interned for the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute, Sydney. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @bwmoles


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2008 University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
2011 University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA
Graduate Diploma (Art History)
2011 Adelaide Central School of Art Norwood, SA
Painting I, Drawing I
2015 Art Students' League of New York New York, NY
Portrait Painting and Composition, Life Drawing and Anatomy
2015 Grand Central Atelier New York, NY
Cast Drawing, Portrait Painting
2017 Studio Esclaier Argenton Château, France
Figure painting summer intensive scholarship
2004 Certificate of Merit for Visual Art Studies (SACE)
2010 Malcolm Campbell Award for Drawing
2013 Helpmann Academy Emerging Artist Award
2014 Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art, Adelaide Fringe
2014 Portia Geach Memorial Award Highly Commended
2015 Arts SA Professional Development grant
2016 Mark Butler Art Prize
2016 Fleurieu Food and Wine Art Prize Highly Commended
2017 Smith Fellowship, Studio Esclaier, France.
2018 Royal South Australian Society of Arts Fellowship.
selected exhibitions
2012,13 S.H. Ervin National Trust Gallery Sydney, NSW
Finalist - Salon des Refusés Exhibition
2012,14,16 Glen Eira City Council Gallery Glen Eira, VIC
Finalist- A.M.E. Bale Art Prize Exhibition & Scholarship
2013,14,15,16 S.H. Ervin National Trust Gallery Sydney, NSW
Finalist- Portia Geach Memorial Award
2013 Royal South Australian Society of Arts Adelaide, SA
Finalist- Inaugural Portrait Prize Exhibition
2014 Artlab Australia Adelaide, SA
Solo exhibition, 'New Works', Adelaide Fringe 2014
2014 Stomping Ground Studios Stepney, SA
Finalist- Inaugural Kennedy Art Prize
2014, 15 Online semi finalist DMNPP Sydney, NSW
Semi- finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2015,16 Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane, QLD
Finalist, Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award
2015,16,17,18 Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, NSW
Finalist- Archibald Prize
2016,18 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville, QLD
Finalist- Glencore Percival Portrait Prize
2016,18 Bega Valley Regional Gallery Bega, NSW.
Finalist- Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize
2016,17,18. Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane, QLD
Solo exhibitions; 'Transience', 'Reflections', 'In Bloom', 'New Works'
Selected Bibliography
Nunn, Louise. "Archibald art runs in the family." The Advertiser, April 06, 2012.
McDonald, John. "More than face value". Sydney Morning Herald, April 19, 2013.
Llewellyn, Jane. "Profile: Tsering Hannaford." The Adelaide Review, May, 2013.
McDonald, Patrick. "Father-daughter duo Robert and Tsering Hannaford face off in Archibald portrait contest." The Advertiser, July 10, 2015.
Hender, Sarah. "SALA stars- three young artists you need to know right now." The Advertiser, August 1, 2015.
Clifton, Catherine, "Brush with fame". Adelaide Matters, July 22, 2015. (Cover feature)
Fleet, Nadja. "SA's femail trailblazers' call for action to achieve gender equality". The Advertiser, March 3, 2016.
Allen, Christopher. "Archibald Prize: oversized visions blur complexities of form". The Australian, July 8, 2016.
Ahern, Katharine. "It's all in the Making". Well Made Blog,March 19, 2018.
Couper, Sarah. "Studio Visit", Look Magazine, May-June 2019.


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He has written about Ningxia for publications such as Wine Enthusiast, Wine Business International and DRiNK magazine. He has also helped organize numerous Ningxia wine tastings, including major Ningxia wine challenges in 2014 and 2012, the Ningxia vs Bordeaux Challenge in 2011, and trade and consumer events.
His role in the Ningxia Winemakers Challenge is to help publicize the project and to deal with queries from international media. You can reach him via nwc (at) ningxiawineguide.com.


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The ACT State Emergency Service (ACTSES) has received a total of 17 calls for help following tonight's storm activity.
ACTSES volunteers and ACT Fire & Rescue crews have responded to mostly minor damage with leaking roofs as well as trees and branches across roads and pathways.
One report of a pergola that was extensively damaged at Banks.
The majority of calls for help have been in Canberra's southern suburbs.
Residents who require emergency storm or flood assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.