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Why Nick Clegg is Wrong on the Need for Infrastructure!
Nick Clegg yesterday gave a speech to the LSE calling for a "gear shift" in state spending and on infrastructure.
Nick Clegg stated that: "investment in infrastructure stimulates demand not overnight, but more quickly than many supply side measures."
Economist Yasheng Huang in a talk to Ted Global, asked the question "How Important are Infrastructures for Economic Growth"
He gave two examples.
In example one using telephone infrastructure from 1989:
- Country 1: 107 telephone sets per 1,000 persons
- Country 2: 10 telephone sets per 1,000 persons
Example two used length of electrified railway lines;
- Country 1 (1980-81): 61,240kilometers
- Country 2 (1980): 53,900 kilometers
He asked the audience which two countries grew faster. If like Nick, you believe in the infrastructure view of economic growth, then in example one, country 1 must have grown faster. After all, it has the communication network to enable people to share ideas and be able to bring products to market quicker.
Country 1 is the Soviet Union, which collapsed … a year later. Country 2 is China and grew incredibly fast.
In example 2, country 1 is India and country 2 is China. Up until the late 90s China had an infrastructure disadvantage compared to India so clearly infrastructure specifically railway infrastructure doesn't explain why China grew faster than India up until the late 1990s. He concludes that infrastructure is actually the result of economic growth rather than the cause of economic growth.
Later on in the video, Huang goes on to say how important human capital is, as well as how important political reform is to growth.
What can we learn from this?
First, wait until we are growing again to start the big infrastructure projects. We don't need them. Lets wait until we have the resources to build them.
Second, education is incredibly important in particular early years, primary and secondary education. If we can drive up, literacy, numeracy, people taking up science and engineering. If we can give kids the confidence to invent and build things and be able to take them to market, then long-term we'll see the benefits.
Third, devolve more power to local people so they can drive change locally.
We also need to inject confidence into consumers. If they don't have confidence in the economy, they are less likely to spend money. We have to devolve power to local people, show them how to use their own power and let them drive their town's economy.
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Eid, which begins on Thursday, traditionally sees the sacrifice of goats, cattle, sheep and camels with a quantity of the meat given to the poor.
With tens thousands of livestock expected to be slaughtered in the Muslim kingdom over the coming days, the Saudi Electricity Company has warned the public against taking any shortcuts when butchering the animals.
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Compromising positions: Ann Coulter Climbs Into Bed with the Queer Lobby
When I first read Ann Coulter was going to be the main speaker at Homocon, an event put on by GOProud, a queer, "Conservative" activist group, I was skeptical. The person who posted the story on one of the Conservative e-mail lists I belong to is himself a practicing homo.
Frankly, I don't see how having sex with another man is anything to be "proud" of, but then again homosexuality is a mental illness brought on by being sexually confused.
Several days later WorldNetDaily.com (WND) posted an article verifying the story. The article went on to say Joseph Farah dropped Ann as a keynote speaker for WND's "Taking America Back National Conference. Obviously the homosexual lobby is one of the groups America should be taken back from.
No, I don't "hate" sodomites, nor do I have a "phobia" about them. I am, however thoroughly disgusted by their perverted activity and enraged at their attempts to propagandize and coerce the general public into accepting their unnatural behavior as "normal".
Coulter says she doesn't always agree with everything promoted by the groups she speaks to. However, speaking for a group of queer activists gives the impression that Ann endorses them and their perverted lifestyle.
When Ann was asked why she was agreed to speak at the gala she responded because she was being paid. Doesn't that make her somewhat of a prostitute, for her to be all to willing to sell out her principles and self-respect for money?
Perhaps Ann would be equally willing to speak at the pro-abortion Planned Parenthood or Republicans for Choice if the price were right. What if a group of "Conservative" pornographers wanted to pay her for speaking (and hopefully nothing else) at their event, would she also speak to their group.
One thing homosexuals LOVE doing (besides other men) is associating themselves with legitimate Conservative issues and Conservative groups in an attempt to gain acceptance for their degenerate behavior.
Getting a Conservative, or perhaps ex-Conservative to speak at their event is a propaganda coup for the queer lobby. The only bigger coup would be for Ann to come out of the closet and announce she planned to move to Maine and "marry" her girlfriend.
Ann Coulter is, or was one of my favorite authors and I'm highly disappointed in Ann and I'm hoping this isn't the start of a downward, Liberal trend for her.
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Shengliver's Note: The first anniversary of the 5/12 earthquake is around the corner. This entry was written and posted after the earthquake last year. I have revised it and here it is in memory of the disaster. May the dead rest in peace and the living fight on!
I signed in for my afternoon work at the Grade Office around 2:30 pm on May 12, 2008. I arrived at my office on the fourth floor (British usage) around 2:33. I had not yet sat down when one of my female colleagues cried alarmingly, "God, my desk is shaking!"
I looked down at my desk. It was moving slightly from side to side. I thought probably some explosion was going on at a construction site nearby, for I had had similar experiences before. When I turned my eyes to the walls, I found the walls were swaying, too. I felt a bit dizzy.
I immediately rushed out of the office, followed by my two colleagues. Standing in the corridor, we saw students and teachers rushing out of the building. We followed suit at once.
On the way downstairs, I noticed the walls moving up and down gently all the while. A lot of students and teachers were already standing in the open air by the time we reached the ground.
My city lucked out, fortunately. Nobody was killed and nothing was damaged.
Later on that afternoon news broke on the net that a strong earthquake had happened at Wenchuan, Sichuan Province. It measured 8.1 on the Richter scale, epicentre Wenchuan. The next day, the magnitude was modified by the Chinese Seismological Bureau to 7.8. On May 18, the magnitude was re-modified to 8.0 on the Richter scale.
The following days I followed the developments in Chinese media and also in some overseas media. I experienced initial shock. Then I could not believe my eyes when I saw the footage on China Central Television (CCTV) and online photos of the disaster. All the rubble, devastation, injuries and loss of lives.
My wife could not hold back her tears at the reportage of the victims. I found tears running down my cheeks when watching the television pictures.
On the evening of May 13, I had evening classes. I collected some photos online and showed them to my two classes on Microsoft PowerPoint. With the slides being demonstrated to the class, the hubbub died down and a hush fell over the teenagers. And many faces were glistening.
I went on a package tour of the area in the summer of 2004. I left my home city by train. We got off at the Jiangyou Train Station, where a coach picked us up and took us on deep into the mountains of western Sichuan.
We had lunch somewhere in Pingwu County. The group stopped over in the town of Pingwu and visited an ancient temple called Bao'ensi there. The guide told us that the temple had experienced a number of strong earthquakes and it remained intact after all the tremors. The ancient architecture of wood and bricks was impressive.
The bus was zigzagging in the mountains after we left Pingwu. The landscape was pristine and inspired awe in me. We no longer find such clean rivers in eastern China and middle China.
The town of Nanping County, whose name is now Jiuzhaigou County, was located in a valley with a big river going through it. While my bus was refuelling at a gas station there, I found on its streets some trucks from Wenxian, a county in neighbouring Gansu Province.
Actually it took us a number of hours to travel from Nanping to the mouth of Jiuzhaigou. We spent one night and a whole day in that picturesque spot, lost in its incredible postcard scenery.
Leaving Jiuzhaigou, the bus crawled its way up over the mountains before it came on to a plateau. A small town called Chuanzhusi, a Tibetan settlement, was where I put up for a night before we headed for the world renowned scenic spot – Huanglong.
The journey from Huanglong to Chengdu enabled me to see some terrain I had never known before in my part of the country. The bus passed Songpan, an ancient town on the plateau, with some very old brick walls. After we left Songpan behind, the bus was always descending down mountainsides and through vales to lower altitudes.
The road was narrow and twisted and turned all the while. When the bus was climbing down a steep mountainside, I held my breath. "What if the bus swerved?" a thought crossed my mind.
This area is where the ethnic minority group Qiang inhabit. Here and there stood some magnificent stone towers, a Qiang-style building, used in old times as defence works. The towers have a broad base but taper off towards the top.
On the way downward, one of my fellow travellers commented, "Look at the stone! It just hangs there. One shake, and it will fall off."
Before we reached the town of Maoxian, the coach stopped over at a roadside gas station for refuelling. We had a break at the station for about 20 minutes. There were a number of vendors selling various souvenirs and snacks. I chatted with a vendor. I asked him why there was such a large lake below the road. He told me that the lake was formed in the 1930s when a strong earthquake hit the area. A landslide resulted in the damming of the river Minjiang and the lake came into being. The old town was completely inundated. Even today, if you go boating in the lake on a fine day, you may still see the tops of the old buildings under water. Actually two lakes were formed at the place, a short distance between the two, linked by the streaming white-water Minjiang.
We stayed one night at a hotel in the town of Maoxian. The next morning I took a stroll on the street for a while. Life here seemed still very hard, with primitive buildings on either side of a potholed main road. I bought some fruit from a vendor on the street.
The bus seemed to be travelling all along the river Minjiang. The river flowed fast and swift. At many places white waters were found rushing downstream. Along the river were clusters of villages and towns of a much smaller scale than those in other parts of China. An institute, Aba Teachers' College, lies on the river. Only three or four buildings made up the academy.
Did my bus pass Wenchuan? Yes, I think so. But I had little memory of the town because we did not stop there at all.
The bus passed the famous town Dujiangyan, which used to be called Guanxian. We had lunch at a small restaurant before we entered the downtown area. Unluckily we did not see the famous irrigation project built by Li Bing and his son in ancient China.
Unprecedented unity among the Chinese nation is presented to the world eye following the killer tremor. People everywhere express their condolences to the unfortunate, who have suffered in the disaster. Donations have been pouring in from all the four corners of the country and the world as well. Government offices, work units, businesses and individuals compete to give money, food and clothing and many other supplies to the disaster-hit areas. A driver and shop-keeper drove a vehicle loaded with food and drinks from his home in Heilongjiang to Wenchuan in Sichuan just to do what he could to help with the relief. The number of people who travelled by train, by air or by car, from different parts of the country to the area after the tremor, is staggering. Some are volunteers and many others are guys who just feel they need to come themselves and help at the frontline.
Overseas Chinese were saddened by the disaster, too. Everywhere in the world expatriates are raising money to be sent back to the motherland. Taiwan and the mainland put aside their political differences. Taiwanese airplanes flew direct from the island to Chengdu, delivering urgently-needed supplies like food, tents and medicine. Mr. Chen Shuibian, a Taiwanese leader who has been promoting Taiwan independence, donated his bit to the people in the quake-levelled areas.
The whole nation is impressed and moved by international generosity towards China. Emergency aid was flown in, rescue teams came over, and medical teams followed. The USA president George Bush offered to do whatever could be done to help if requested on a telephone conversation with President Hu Jintao. Huge amounts of money were given by leaders, businesses and various organisations from abroad.
The government's response was fast and rescue work was delivered to the point. The rescue work and relief work were well coordinated. The PLA, the air force, the marines, the police, the paramilitaries and medical workers were deployed in the area at a speed that struck the world. The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao rushed to the area the same afternoon the earthquake struck. His presence lent immense spiritual support to the rescue workers and the suffering people. This leader mixed with the people and inspired all to work harder and stay strong amidst the upheaval, fear, pain and debris.
Chinese media cove the whole matter in a manner that helps the world to get a clear picture of the situation. The transparency and the truthful reporting by Chinese media dispelled some westerners' deep-rooted prejudice against this ancient land and the government led by the Communists. The communists do care about the people. The communists are not red devils.
The Chinese government and the whole nation deserve applause and full marks for their response to the disaster and their work after the quake. However, things could have been better and lessons should never be forgotten. History repeats itself. If we learn now, we will suffer less in the future should similar disasters strike once again.
· Lack of experience
We lack experience in dealing with a disaster on such a scale and of such magnitude. The first few hours or days saw the soldiers and other rescue workers resorting to very primitive methods while frantically attempting to pull survivors out of the rubble. A lack of knowledge and skills in the field, and of preparedness, was obviously there.
In contrast with the Chinese rescuers, the few foreign rescue teams, like the Japanese and the Russian teams, who rushed to the scene much later, performed the task with much more experience and advanced equipment. Their professionalism was impressive.
Anyone with a little bit of medical knowledge is aware that a great deal of harm can be done to the rescuee if the person is not handled the right way.
Faced with debris everywhere, what should we do? Are there priorities? Should we start with the first pile of debris we meet on the way?
Supplies rushed in from all over the country and even from foreign lands. Who coordinated the handing-out of the supplies? Which supplies went to whom? Who supervised the process?
Volunteers, registered or self-styled, swarmed to the area in a short span of time. Of course they meant well, hoping to do their bit with the relief work. The question is: Did they cause any problems or confusion to the rescue work? Would they have done more good if they had been organised and better instructed?
· Lousy standards
The Chinese nation has a long way to go in respect of conforming to standards. Many bloggers questioned the quality of the school buildings which collapsed. Of course we have to take into consideration that we met a massive earthquake. An earthquake of this magnitude may have ruined any building however strong it was. But to be honest, the collapse of such a large number of school buildings definitely had something to do with the poor building standards. Were there such construction standards as took potential disasters into account? If there were, were the standards written on paper implemented in practice?
It is hard to answer the questions with a clear conscience, for my friend, if you look around, poor-standard practices will meet the eye not only in the building industry but also in food, medicine, manufacturing and many others. Should we learn a lesson now? Should we meet those standards written on paper in our day-to-day work?
· Corruption
Poor standards have a lot to do with Chinese ways of going about business and life. When guanxi (social relations and networks) can help you get what you legally cannot, standards are thrown away and quality is compromised. Corruption is a universal social problem the world over. However, in China, corruption is aggravated by some elements of Chinese culture – guanxi, for example. Guanxi is Guanxi and standard is standard. We should never ever mix them up. Lousy quality is the root cause of some tragic events.
· Reconstruction
It will take a long time, years probably, to reconstruct the area. The devastation is widespread. Some towns or villages have virtually been wiped out. With the support from the whole nation, the government and the local communities should have an easier time putting everything back to normal in the area. But it will take time, good planning and huge resources.
· Mental health
Those who have survived may find it hard to come to terms with life as it is. In a sense, psychological help is more important than food and shelter. Could you imagine being under rubble? How would you feel if you found family and friends were not there? Would you suffer mental pain? Would you wake up from a nightmare at midnight? It would be very very hard to walk out of the shadow in a short time. And all the aftershocks constantly unnerve the survivors in tents and in other temporary shelters.
I wish my compatriots could stand up to the harsh reality and rebuild their life on the ruins. Of course workers with the expertise should give the traumatised victims a hand to help them to get back on their feet and to go on ahead with their life.
· Disability
Physical disability will be widespread. Some lost their hands, some feet and / or legs. And some are paralysed. The new community to be built has to meet the needs of these unfortunate people with a disability. How many wheelchairs will be needed? How many artificial arms and legs will be needed? What social services should be in place?
· Superstition
Superstition goes that the year 2008 is an auspicious year, supposed to bring good luck and prosperity to the nation. The digit 8 is pronounced BA in Chinese, sounding very much like the Chinese character FA, which means "good fortune". However, I have heard a lot of rumours that the year 2008 would bring disasters down upon the country. And those rumours are reinforced with a string of incidents. A severe blizzard marked the beginning of the year. Then came along the Tibetan trouble. Just before the earthquake bit, an epidemic of the hand, foot and mouth disease was found in part of Anhui Province. And the above seemed not to be enough. A rail accident in Shandong resulted in many deaths and injuries. And of course the earthquake, worst of all, has made the superstition believable. Added to the rumour was the Falun Gong's malicious attack on the Chinese government. They claimed that the communist government of China would fall apart in 2008.
All the above rumours and superstition are nonsense. No scientific evidence proves the truthfulness of the claims. The aforesaid incidents are not inherently linked. Nature and luck just go their own way. One thing is for sure: Chinese people are kept better informed of news and current events by media – TV, newspapers, radio and the Web. When anything goes wrong, it will be there in the media. And the nation gets to know it.
Will the government collapse? Of course not. This government has been gaining experience and bettering its governance through this testing time.
· Donation
Waves of donation for the disaster area have been going on in the country and in many parts of the world. We Chinese have our generosity and sympathy fully demonstrated. And the world has been giving its timely hand to the country.
However, donation is not taxation. Donation should be free and voluntary. No one should be pressured to donate. Some Chinese people point the finger at some celebrities, saying that they are not giving enough. Some even call some businesses "iron cocks", a Chinese term meaning someone who is mean.
This is not morally right. We should not regard ourselves as models of morality. We have no right to pressure anyone to donate. To donate is right; not to donate is right, too. To donate one yuan is right; to donate one billion yuan is right, too.
Before we judge others, why not examine ourselves?
· Tremor forecast
I read and heard some criticism of the Chinese National Seismological Bureau shortly after the earthquake occurred. They said, "Those scientists are all meal buckets!" A meal bucket means in Chinese someone who only eats but does not produce anything.
This is unfair judgement. All across the globe, no country has been able to predict an earthquake as precisely as everyday weather patterns. We may watch CCTV (China Central Television) weather forecasts and know whether it will rain or not tomorrow. However, the same cannot be said about earthquakes. Look at the following quote from Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, USA.
From the perspective of the late 1990s, it is evident that expecting timely and accurate earthquake predictions was too ambitious. In the mid-1980s the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program reported to the U.S. Congress that earthquake prediction was more problematic than had been anticipated. Today scientists are more focused on developing improved estimates of long-term earthquake probabilities, measured in decades or centuries.
— Forecasting Danger: The Science of Disaster Prediction; By Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
The Chinese seismologists have done a very good job in locating the May 12 earthquake and providing timely info for the government and the public. Hopefully in the future all over the world seismologists will do better and better regarding the prediction of earthquakes.
Compared with the science and tech giant USA, China is still a student. In the past few decades, great technological advances have been made on this ancient land. Yet we should be aware of the gap between the USA and China in terms of science and tech achievements.
· A balanced opinion of outsiders
Help and aid from outside mainland China transformed some mindsets. It is well known that a lot of Chinese bore grudges against the Japanese nation. Generalisations like "The Japanese are evil" were not uncommon in China in the past decades as a result of what the Japanese did to the nation in WWII.
History is there and no one is able to erase it. It is time that the two oriental nations respected each other and built their relation further. The Japanese rescue team and the medical team who have worked in Sichuan help ordinary Chinese to modify their opinion of this nation. They have come to see that the Japanese are humans, too. History is not equal to the present. More communication and exchange programmes will further the healthy development of the Sino-Japanese partnership.
The whole nation feels indebted to all the outsiders who gave a helping hand with this crisis. Even political enemies from Chinese Taiwan showed good will and a kind heart all through this humanitarian crisis.
· A changed nation
After the shock, China is no longer what it used to be. Its economy should not be seriously affected. What has been fundamentally transformed is the nation's attitude towards life.
We used to take things for granted. Three meals a day were there; family were there; jobs were there; schools were there. Overnight or rather over a few seconds, the world turned upside down and nothing is the same as before.
Family are gone; jobs are gone; schools are gone; friends are no longer there. Where will I get my three meals? How could I carry on with one leg missing?
These hard questions prompt ordinary Chinese to rethink their mentality. It has been a nation of tears and grief since the black moment. It has been a nation of compassion and sympathy. Life all of a sudden takes on new shades of meaning we never took the trouble to have a look at or have a thought for.
While I was revising the entry around 16:20 on May 25 in the office, a strong aftershock was felt here. My location: Shiyan, Hubei, China.


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This year, the NGV presents Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado.
The superb selection of paintings and drawings span three hundred years of Italian art, from the early sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, many of which have never left Spain.
From realism to still life, the collection is owned by the Spanish Royal Family who were avid collectors of Italian art.
Italian Masterpieces is on now until 31 August.
Beginning on Friday, 27 June, the NGV will also recommence its popular 'Friday Nights' series, whereby visitors can view the exhibition and enjoy a stellar lineup of musical acts in the Great Hall.
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This recent headline caught my attention as a lot of mothers use these slings with young infants. Sometimes the news media is guilty of fanning the flames of hysteria on things like this, but I like to be warned anyway so I can be careful with baby products. I took the bumper off Emmy's crib a couple of months ago when I came into the room and found that she was on her tummy and had worked her way into a corner with her mouth pressed up tightly against the bumper pad. It scared me, and I realized how easily some of these things can happen.
Emily is suffering from TMPPHU Syndrome. That's Too Many People Picking Her Up Syndrome. Just about the time she's contentedly lying around in her crib for some down time, someone will scoop her up for some TLC , and then she doesn't want to return to the relatively mundane activity of playing with her toes. (She has been observed putting her big toes in her mouth. Babies are contortionists!) After aforementioned loved one has had their fill of baby fun, they leave her, protesting, for me to deal with. It's hard to resist her, however. I absolutely love this age where babies interact with you. Emmy rubs my face with her hand sometimes while she's taking a bottle, and that is simply too sweet for words. She "sings" and has started to babble with the consonants saying, "Da da da and ga ga and ma ma and la la."
I went shopping for some warm weather clothes for her, and had a lot of fun buying the small things. She's wearing 9-12 month clothes now, and I didn't buy anything under 12 months, with mainly 18 month sizes. She's going into a new car seat some time this week as she has outgrown her infant carrier. Those are only good until the baby reaches 20 pounds. That's OK, because I cannot lift her in the car seat anymore. It was hard enough when she was tiny.
Emmy still is not a fan of solids. After doing well with them for a time, she now wants nothing to do with pureed food, period. I have tried every vegetable and fruit, as well as oatmeal and rice cereal. I put a little piece of a muffin in her mouth this morning, however, and she liked it so much she leaned right into it for more. She also likes those vegetable puffs from Gerber. I break them in half and only give her little pieces. She has two teeth and two more coming in, and she likes to chomp those puffs into oblivion. They melt quickly in her mouth so I think they're safe. But how do you get a baby to eat the solids she is supposed to have? She's the only baby of mine who has refused. All three were gobbling down solids from four months onward. Since she's a good weight (!), I guess I'll just keep offering them to her and see if it catches on.
I am so looking forward to summer warmth and sunshine. Emmy is going to like sitting in a couple inches of water in a wading pool. I already bought her a little green bathing suit with Tinkerbell on the front. I couldn't resist. It will probably reach 50 today here, so that's practically a heat wave for Wisconsin! (But not warm enough for the Tinkerbell getup.)
I'm trying to savor each day and each moment with Emily. The days fly by so quickly, and before you know it, all those times are gone. Emmy was 8 months old on the 22nd. Wasn't it just yesterday we learned she was on the way?


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Launch event | Macquarie University Asia Society Mobility ScholarshipVIEW EVENT DETAILS
A collaborative scholarship enabling Macquarie students to undertake exchange programs in Asia
Asia Society Australia and Macquarie University as we celebrate the launch of a new collaborative scholarship to enabling Macquarie University students to undertake long-term exchange programs in leading universities across Asia.
Asia Society Global Co-Chair Ambassador Chan Heng Chee and Macquarie University Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kevin Jameson will officially launch the A$500,000 annual scholarship fund at the Art Gallery of NSW.
This unique partnership between one of Australia's leading and most internationalised university and a prominent global non-profit organisation dedicated to Asia will enable 50 of the University's undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students to deepen their understanding of Asia and strengthen their interpersonal, academic and professional capabilities to be Asia-engaged and globally competent leaders each year.
Date: Monday 12 March 2018
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000
Dress: Cocktail or Business attire
This event is open to members of Asia Society Australia and invited guests.
About our speakers
Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is a Global co-chair of Asia Society. She chairs the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She is Chairman of the National Arts Council, a Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights, a Member of the Constitutional Commission 2016 and Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council. Ambassador Chan is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore and a Member of the Yale-NUS Governing Board. She serves as a Member of the Advisory Council of Temasek Foundation Connects and also as a Member of the Executive Board of the China Cultural Centre. She is Global Co-Chair of Asia Society, and a Member of the International Advisory Panel, AXA Group, GIE AXA, Paris (France).
Previously, she was Singapore's Ambassador to the United States and Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico.
Ambassador Chan received a number of awards including The Public Administration Medal (Gold); The Meritorious Service Medal; The Distinguished Service Order; Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom); and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). When Ambassador Chan left Washington at the end of her appointment, she received the Inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, the Inaugural Foreign Policy Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award 2012 and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.
Professor Kevin Jameson is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Macquarie University. Prior to this role, he was Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business & Economics, Head of the Department of Applied Finance & Actuarial Studies and Director of the Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre. At various times he has been the Australian Head of Capital Markets (based in Sydney), Country Head for Japan and Regional Head of Treasury and Capital Markets for Asia (based in Tokyo) and Global Managing Director of Capital Markets (based in London) for a large UK banking and investment banking group. He has also been a member of the Advisory Council of the Centre for International Finance & Regulation (CIFR), and Chair of the Benchmarks Committee of the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA), a Trustee of CEDA – the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, and a Director of SIRCA Limited. He has also been a Director of the Sydney Futures Exchange (and Chair of its Financial Instruments & Options Committee), a Director of and advisor to several private investment businesses, and Chair of a technology company specializing in products and services for the wholesale asset management industry, operating in Australia, Europe and the US. He is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia).
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Last weekend we had the privilege of visiting an aids orphanage in otavalo. The orphanage is about 2 hours away from where we live so we spent most of the day there. This is the same orphanage we visited while I was on the justice tour last summer. You might remember me writing this post about this little girl last year after I returned from my trip to Ecuador.
She never spoke and so I never learned her name while I was there last time. Well as you can see from the picture above she was a much different child this time. A much healthier and happier one!
I was finally able to learn her name was Lizbeth! We were all given chores to do when we first got to the orphanage and I was outside washing some toys when she came out of the house and started playing in the yard, then her and another little girl Leslie came over and started helping me wash the toys. They were enjoying helping me scrub all the toys and listening to me try to speak Spanish.
We had so much fun, needless to say we did not fully finish our chore :/ whoops!
We spent part of the afternoon just playing with all the kids after they finished eating lunch. It's very bittersweet going and volunteering at an orphanage. It's great to be there and love on them, play with them, and just give them undivided attention for a while but it's also hard because these aren't kids who when you leave go back home to their parents. For a little while you almost forget they are orphans, that is until you get ready to leave. When it's time to say goodbye it kind of hits you again that all these children are sick and have no parents to raise or love them. All the children have such different reactions to saying goodbye too. Some won't let you go and follow you all the way to your car to yell goodbye at you because they had so much fun playing, while others, like Lizbeth did, just shut down once you tell them you have to leave. I tried to tell Lizbeth goodbye but she wouldn't even hardly look at us once we said we were leaving. I'm glad I get to love on these kids even if it's just for a little while but it's always so hard to say goodbye. I mean look at all these precious faces!


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I am five weeks out now. My walking has improved considerably. I am wearing a bone growth stimulator 12 hours a day (I can't sleep with it cause the dame thing disconnects and the alarm goes off and wakes me up), wearing a Velcro brace. I gave up the walker, I take the cane when I go outside to steady myself if I should feel unsteady. also indicates to others "WATCH OUT, I'm disabled". Totally off morphine, vicodin. Taking Ultraset only if I really need to, trying to control the aches and discomfort with Tylenol. My left thigh is still numb with sensitivity nd some muscle tightness. Tomorrow I start physical therapy to see if they can help it along. My back feels good except early in the morning when I first get up, really stiff and achy. Hot showers really help. I am doing better mentally after having a meltdown last week, just crying and feeling depressed after going through this a third time. I guess that happens. Trying to keep busy, reading, downloaded music on my Ipod, hooking a rug, TV, Netflix. I try to get out and walk every day but the darn ice and snow makes it difficult. Incisions mostly healed, side incision looks a little worse (need to watch this for a few days). Still wearing loose clothes, gym, sweat pants, loose tops, gave up on underwear, just too tight. So, in summary, I feel that I am doing fairly well at this point. I know some patients are still in pain at 5 weeks, so I consider myself lucky in that respect.


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A few days in Melbourne
Posted by Monica Johansen on November 22, 2008
I have just been a few days in Melbourne in Australia for work. I have been there a few times before, and apart from the climate it is a very nice place to be. In general, Melbourne has a more European feeling to it than Sydney, and there is a relatively large population of Italians and Greeks in the city, which is quite evident as you walk down many of the restaurant areas. There are definitely enough Italian and Greek restaurants to choose from.
I knew that Melbourne would be colder than Singapore, but I was not really prepared for how cold it was there. I was only there for three days, but it was raining most of the time, and probably not more than 15 degrees. I didn't figure out the heater in my hotel room the first night, so when I woke up in the morning I hardly managed to get into the shower because I was so cold. I haven't needed any heater since I was in Melbourne in April this year, and it was an unusual feeling having to wear a sweater indoors.
I don't have many friends in Melbourne, but I know a few people there. However, I was quite busy with customer work, and since I was only there for three days I only had time to catch up with one of my friends, Sean, who used to work for one of my company's partners. Nevertheless, I had a really nice evening with Sean, and it was awesome to spend an evening out in one of Australia's main cities.
The customers I worked for were great, and I quite enjoyed being back in a westernized country. Of course, customers in South East Asia are nice too, but since they are Asians I don't tend to find the same good connection with those guys while working onsite. Working in Australia, on the other hand, is more similar to working in Europe, and I find it very social and easy to communicate with the customers there.
The only thing that really annoyed me in Melbourne was that the internet in my hotel was down the entire time. According to the hotel receptionist the connection had been down since the week before, and I am quite shocked that Telstra hadn't been able to fix the problem within a day or two. I am pretty confident that if a similar thing had happened in Singapore someone would have been fired, but I suppose you can't get it all. After all, it is Australia, and the Aussies are known for their laid back approach to life.
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Branding Tips for Creative Freelancers
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The brand word gets thrown around too much. What does it actually mean when you're a freelancer in creative work? If you're a photographer, art director, graphic designer, video producer or editor, how do you establish your brand versus that of other folks who use the same tools you do and have similar skills?
Why You Think People Hire You
Most freelancers promote themselves with the skills they think people are looking for. Their websites show software mastered and lists of equipment owned. That's fine. But this is just the basics. Loads of your competitors have these skills. What clients want to know is what PROBLEMS you can solve for them. So to properly brand and sell yourself, you need to consider what sets you apart.
Why People Actually Hire You
When pitching yourself, describe the personal attributes and abilities that make you a good problem-solver. It might be your positive attitude, your communications skills, your ability to work with challenging personalities, or your ability to lead a team. This is your unique brand value, and that's what you need to be promoting!
What About My Portfolio?
More and more, prospective clients want me to show them a video that is pretty much like what they want to hire me to produce. This is a tricky problem. I'd love to show them my skills as a director and concept creator for a wide range of productions. But they might not understand how a 5-minute video about a hospital is relevant to their 1-minute opener for a corporate event. So I post custom links to Vimeo–sometimes even password protected–so they can see just the projects that connect to the problem they want to solve. And I sometimes have to generate a set of brief storyboards to convey my concept for their project. More on that in a future post!
For more about branding, follow my tweets @brandbuzz or join me at NABShow where I'll be speaking about Essential Business Skills for Freelancers at Post/ProductionWorldatNAB.
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Koenigsegg Challenge Bugatti Veyron
Not too faded charm, when the VW test track Ehra-Lessian finally delivers Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport to the title of the Guinness Book of Records. That's because Turbocharger engine 1200 hp maximum power and torque of 1500 Nm ante managed to push the car up at a speed of 431 km per hour.
Knowing the note, Christian Von Koenigsegg says ready to provide support to help realize the speed record-breaking car in the world.
His first step, Koenigsegg have to do the enumeration data speed world record at the Bugatti, to be applied in the most perfect machine Koenigsegg held today, Agera. Koenigsegg Agera is their latest supercar, which was introduced this year when the mat Geneva Motor Show, which has a body weight of 1290 kg.
Koenigsegg Agera was armed only with a capacity of 4.7 liter V8 engine, capable of producing power to reach 898 hp and 1100 Nm of torque ante. Maximum speed reached 390 km per hour are also still far from the Bugatti Veyron, but just a little touch of modification, remain optimistic Koenigsegg can solve the world speed record. And if Bugatti does not take the threat from Koenigsegg seriously, a US-based supercar Shelby also was treating myself to break the record at the same rate.
Buggati record that makes a scene that did make another supercar manufacturers envy. Koenigsegg addition, the SSC Ultimate Aero was trying to regain his crown captured Bugatti.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
("To all the fans who have been supporting SCREW,
We truly thank you for always supporting SCREW. The members have an important announcement for everyone.
Even though he's been our bassist since the beginning of our activities, Yuuto will be leaving the band on December 31st, 2009.
We had a countless discussions regarding his decision, and in the end this was the result that was reached. We deeply apologize to all of our fans.
However, after his departure both SCREW and Yuuto will be walking down fresh paths, and with that conclusion, we won't be looking back. The five of us feel that this is a positive solution, so we hope that you can understand.
There are only a few lives remaining with Yuuto as part of the band, but we hope that you can cheer the five of us on until the very end."
PS COMPANY Co,.Ltd. / Indie PSC._
Source: ScReW's OHP
NO. No--definitely no but heck, YES, it's also been being confirmed that this news had been published in SHOXX magazine as what winny've said to me THOUGH I still have no idea whether it was a mere hoax or simply, surprisingly CORRECT.
That copyrighted-PSC's-sign.. however, giving such proof within this unproved case thoroughly; but HOW COULD YOU, then, Yuuto, DARE TO LEAVE THE BAND WHILE YOU YOURSELF ARE THE LEADER??!
Dare to leave the band after successfully mesmerizing me through Genei no Kusari--the PV--and X-Rays??
Dare to leave out all of the rest and pretending that there are no such spectacular things occured to tell even in your ameba??
I know. I KNOW I shouldn't blame him for something which remains a mystery--at least yes, I thought so. I KNOW, all along, I wasn't a bigfan of him since I've only concerned about Kazuki and Manabu in the band, BUT...
I don't understand this.
I don't understand...--why.
He might've been considering the path he've choose; and mulled over the decision carefully and passed through the alley whatever hard it is, SO..
I'd hardly love to say: "Ganbatte kudasai, Yuuto-san!"
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At the start of the year I decided that I was going to try to knit up this year's sock club patterns.
It started well and Abricot socks from Rachel Coopey almost floated off my needles.
Then on to something that I loved the look of – All Aboard, Puff, Puff,Puff socks from Aurelie Colas.
There's a very clever detail on these which gives you a track pattern right round the heel. Gorgeous. Stunning. And for me the cause of a lot of swearing as these socks start in the middle – but with a toe cast on. I hate toe up socks for many reasons, and the variety of magic cast ons make up several of those reasons. But I carried on, cursing as I went and watching the tracks emerge. Then more unusual construction to all for the foot – which seemed to be fine apart from the fact that my sock didn't sit level at the top of the foot. Alarm bells should have rung – but I carried on knitting. More cursing as I tackled the cast off – I'm not a fan of carting off at the top of socks. And then language which made all the cursing which had gone before seem like polite chatter. I'd managed to knit a sock so badly fitting that Nora Batty herself would have dismissed it as too wrinkly round the ankle.
The wrinkles don't look too bad in this photo – and that's because I'm pointing my toes.
I should have known this after sock madness last year, but when you're working sock with an unusual construction things will go better if you can match row and stitch gauge. The row gauge wasn't on the pattern, and when I checked with Aurelie I found out I had fewer rows than was ideal – hence the wrinkles. No one else has had this problem, so I suspect I've just been unlucky.
I decided that I wanted to keep some element of these socks but to avoid any more toe up induced cursing. Or heels which didn't fit me quite as well as I'd like. Huge credit to Aurelie for coming up with several solutions to make these socks fit me – but they all involved too many things I didn't want to do.
So I've taken the track pattern, applied it to a blissfully simple 64 stitch sock and I love it.
Going off the rails wasn't too bad at all.


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- "Why Does the Earth Have Oceans?"
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Ughhhh I was such a fat pig this weekend.
My backslide started on Thursday. All day I was soooo hungry. This was a new experience for me on the drops. Last time, I would only get hungry if I hadn't eaten in awhile. Like a normal person. But on Thursday I'd eat my meals and then still be hungry right after. Even worse, I found myself thinking about food all day. I chalked it up to my hormones.
On Friday I wasn't QUITE as food obsessed, but I was still very hungry. Since I had my date with the Rocker that night, I made a point to eat a meal of cottage cheese and cucumbers before I left work, so I wouldn't be hungry later. Well, that didn't work out. Unfortunately the table we ended up sitting at was RIGHT next to the kitchen, and the smell in the air was amazing. So I ended up eating half an order of fried pickles. Which, calorie-wise, wasn't that bad, but they're breaded and fried and of course are a no-no. And they came with dipping sauce. I also had two vodka and club sodas. When I got home I was still hungry, and since I had already "ruined" my diet for the day I said fuck it, and ate two pieces of HCG Chocolate Delight and two big spoonfuls of peanut butter. So I didn't go off the rails completely (I was tempted to get a Big Mac and might have done so if I hadn't really needed to get home and pee), but none of that food is allowed until the maintenance phase.
Saturday…now that was a shit show. It was my motorcycle date day with E. The plan was to ride over to City Island and get some seafood. I had picked the cuisine, figuring that I would be fine ordering a dozen raw clams. Earlier in the week my mom and I had made some sugar-free ketchup, so I added some horseradish and BOOM, I had cocktail sauce. I was really looking forward to my meal. Oh, and my date.
The date itself was ideal. The weather was beautiful, and the ride up to City Island, which is about 20 minutes, was so much fun and was only scary for about 3 of those 20 minutes. We ate at a place with outdoor seating, and it was a perfect setting, overlooking the water. Diet cheat #1 – in addition to the dozen large clams I ate, I also scarfed down about a quarter of his fried calamari and – yum – tartar sauce. After we ate we went for a short walk towards the beach, then sat on a rock looking at the water and talked some more. I did make out with him at that point. After that, we walked back to the bike, then decided to stop for…ice cream. I mean, wtf is wrong with me? I really just didn't give a fuck, as soon as I saw Baskin Robbins I knew I was having ice cream. It. was. so. good. What's that? Did I get the small? Lol I think you already know the answer to that.
Oh, did I mention that E is a smoker? So in addition to the food, I also had three cigarettes while I was with him. And the Rocker smoked as well, and I had two cigarettes with him on Friday. Great!
After ice cream we headed back home. I think he could see that I was not pleased that I had gone off my diet, because he said that on our next date we could just go to a movie and avoid food and drink places altogether. Oh, wait, actually, he said that because I said that between the food and the cigarettes he was such a bad influence on me that I was going to have to hibernate for the next 12 days until my diet is over.
I was definitely more comfortable with him on this date than the last. But I still don't know how I feel about him. Even after the makeout, I'm still not sure if I'm attracted or if he's my type. One thing is that he's
kind of going bald. No biggie, but I find that guys who are going bald look best when they keep their remaining hair EXTREMELY short, so it's not as noticeable. He really needs a haircut. And he could use a shave. I think I'm not really into scruffy looking guys. But maybe I'm nitpicking. Nevertheless, I'll see him again.
Back to my diet relapse…over the rest of the day I had SIX chocolate delights (each one is 114 calories), as well as some spinach dip with melba toast…that is, half a big jar of dip and 12 pieces of melba toast. For dinner that night I had a healthy meal of chicken and cabbage, but in an effort to feel full I also had a pack of Miracle Noodles, which isn't allowed. By the time I went to bed that night I looked like I had a baby bump.
The result of my binge? I was up 2 pounds when I weighed myself on Sunday morning. After a night of food nightmares (no joke, my dreams were like Audrey's dream scene in European Vacation) and the harsh reality of putting Saturday's binge into my food tracker, I gave myself a stern talking-to: "You fucked up. Big time. But it's not the end of the world. You just need to get your shit back on track starting right now." And I did. Sunday and Monday I didn't go off the diet at all. On Monday morning my weight didn't change, and this morning I was down a pound.
On Sunday I told E via text that I am laying down the law and he can't bring cigarettes on our dates anymore. Despite my setbacks this weekend, my goal is to live a healthy lifestyle. And I can't be with someone who is going to derail that, even if all he's doing is being himself. I gotta do me.


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A single currency for Africa?
The Nepad Business Group is a group of organisations claiming as their mission a committment to helping Africa realise its full economic potential. The group acts as a medium between NEPAD and private companies who support its aims. One of the organisations in the Nepad Business Group is the African Business Roundtable. Their executive president Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is promoting the introduction of a single currency for Africa, much along the lines of the Euro I would imagine. Tukur is also Chairman of the umbrella Nepad Business Group, so I assume that Nepad also supports a single African currency in the longterm. Tukur thinks the African economy will do better under a single currency. He says the first step towards achieving this was to begin with the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) as proposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Under a proposal already ratified by the of Heads of States and Governments, the West African common currency - ECO - will be coming into operation throughout the sub-region on July 1, 2005.
According to Tukur, "the introduction of a common currency in Europe had made it possible for the international community to treat the European market as a bloc rather than view the potentials of each national market. He said the same advantages would accrue to Africa if a common currency were to be introduced."
The Brookings Institute, a Washington based think tank, has a detailed analysis on the issue. . "Monetary union can in fact address very few of Africa's fundamental ills. At best, it can produce low inflation, but it cannot guarantee growth, and at worst, it can distract attention from essential issues. A more promising initiative is the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), through which African countries hope to exert peer pressure to correct governance failures and thus make progress in correcting Africa's problems. It is too early to see how effective that process will be, but if it succeeds, monetary union can crown that achievement. If not, monetary union will almost certainly fail, and highlight Africa's more fundamental policy failures."
The Sunday Times reports that the African Union has an explicit goal to establish a common currency for its members by 2030, in the same mould as the common currency adopted by 12 members of the European Union. Critics say they don't think this will work. African economies, are too diverse and far away from the kind of convergence that enabled European economies - after a long process - to move towards monetary union. (More)


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A year ago January, I damaged my left knee quite badly at a physical theatre workshop. I was jumping over something, and I landed funny; the bottom half of my leg went right and the top half, not getting the memo, went left, and I felt a scary rubber-banding sensation and a scary "POP" and I fell on my scared ass.
At the time, one of the workshop leaders knelt down beside me, my face flushing and my eyes filling with tears, and said something incredibly wise: "I totally respect whatever you're feeling right now, but I think you may be feeling more fear than pain." Instantly (and I mean instantly) the pain in my knee went away and I was able to calm down.
I got some advice for strengthening exercises, and I finished the workshop, getting far more out of it than I'd been able to prior to the injury. Although I blame the lack of ice, medicine, hot water, or doctors for the fact that it took a solid 9 months for my knee to be back to normal, back to normal it was.
Or so I thought.
Last night in rehearsal, I choreographed a fun little fight scene for two of the company. One performer had to leave early, so I stood in for her, doing the stage combat in her stead.
At one point, I apparently got a little enthusiastic with the foot stomp, and I jumped with both feet, landing on my left in preparation for stomping with the right. But the stomp was not to be, 'cause as I landed, a white-hot flash of pain shot up and out my head as my knee popped and buckled out from under me.
Despite my insecurity and embarrassment, I do feel the need to point out that there's nothing wrong with the choreography… I just landed on my trick knee.
I spent about half an hour in that "Am I going to throw up? No. Ye– no. Mayb– no. No, I don't thi– ohmygodItotally– no, no I'm good" place while my body pumped endorphins and adrenaline and… I dunno… battery acid or whatever… through my veins, trying to figure out how to deal with the shock. I kinda wonder if maybe your brain does a little "Out to Lunch" thing when this happens,
'cause it seems to me that the lights were a little dimmer around the edges of my vision for most of that 30 minutes… very much like the sensation just prior to blacking out.
I think my right wrist might've contributed to this a bit, as it was bruised and sore. I must've caught myself on it.
However, this time, the director (a career dancer in addition to her many, many other talents) shouted "Get her some ice!" the moment I went down, so I was icing it within about 45 seconds of the injury. I also popped two naproxen sodium tablets pretty much immediately and drank a bunch of water, which probably didn't do much for the nausea, but it made me feel like I was doing something to help out my body.
It's still very painful: a dull ache when I'm resting, if I find the right position, and a sharper pain when I try to straighten it, bend it past about 120 degrees, rest it on something, or generally move it in any way.
I decided to take the pain as a good sign. The last time, there was almost no pain, even when it collapsed post-injury; no pain, but it would just buckle randomly without any apparent provocation. Last time, I felt the tendons pull away, and it felt for a long time as though they'd just never quite tightened back into place. This time, it felt more like compression, and although it hurts to put weight on it, it doesn't feel as fragile.
So, I went to the doctor today (Are you keeping track of the changes in the level of care from the last injury? There will be a test.), and although she requested an X-ray to rule out serious fluid build-up or something, it seemed like mostly good news:
Doctor: (straightening my leg)
Me: (wincing) Ow.
Her: (bending my knee toward my body)
Me: (wincing) Yeah. Ow.
Her: (twisting my calf and thigh in different directions)
Me: (nothing)
Her: Well, that's good. It's not your ACL.
Me: Yay!
Her: You're right, whereas the last time it was very loose, this time it seems tight and stiff. It doesn't seem like there's any tearing of the tendons or ligaments. I don't even think you've torn the cartilage. My guess would be that you compressed some of the cartilage when you landed and it's inflamed now.
So, she gave me a prescription anti-inflammatory and sent me on my way with instructions to keep icing it at night and wear the knee brace religiously.
I went and got the X-rays, which were quite unpleasant, as I was supposed to have my knee straight for most of them,
and then I went to get my prescription. While I was there, I bought a cane, 'cause while I CAN bear weight on that leg, it's painful and very slow going, and the doctor said I should be resting it, not exercising it for now.
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Hello, my grade is doing this big project on Antarctica for all our subjects. In science, we picked an organism to study. My group chose the soft coral. Supposedly, they live near the oceans around Antarctica, but I can't find any information about what they are on the Internet. This project is all on the computer, by the way. I really need your help and any information will be great.
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This is part 2 of my Epidural and the Doula series. Part 1 is here.
How do I support a mother planning on an epidural?
Well, I start by asking questions. Why is she planning on an epidural? It could be that everyone she knows has had one and she hasn't really ever considered not having one. It could be that she's really afraid of the pain of childbirth. It could even be that she would rather not feel any of her labor if at all possible.
These are good things for me to know, because it changes how I support her. If she hasn't considered anything else, I can give her options, including the idea of a "walking epidural" rather than the typical dose. She can then feel more informed and confident going into her birth.
If she's afraid of the pain, we can talk about comfort measures to use until she's able to get the epidural, including other pain medication options (many hospitals have policies against using an epidural too early in labor) and ways to help with her fear.
If she would rather feel as little as possible, there are ways that I can help a labor along even with early use of the epidural. It's good to know in advance to plan on things like that. It takes a lot of patience and a little extra time, but it can result in a very beautiful, peaceful birth.
So, after asking questions, I can come up with a rough plan. Comfort measures such as a warm bath or shower, counter pressure, massage, and breathing techniques can be hugely beneficial while waiting for the anesthetist/anesthesiologist to administer the medication. There are also several IV narcotics available to help dampen the pain. We can talk in prenatal visits or during early labor about what comfort measures sound best.
During the placement, I mostly step out of the way. The woman in labor is busy signing consent forms, asking questions, staying still, and still laboring. Her partner may be able to hold her during the placement, and I can take the opportunity to take some pictures if they're wanted. It often ends up looking something like this.
After placement, she'll most likely be confined to bed with continuous monitoring. I can help her labor to continue progressing by helping her to change positions regularly, using a peanut ball to help keep her pelvis open for baby's descent, and more. I will fetch water, ice chips, food, blankets, and whatever else might be needed. This is a good time for partners to connect. Hand holding, cuddles, and talk about what is to come can all help raise oxytocin levels, which keeps labor moving along.
(If the epidural doesn't work fully, I can help keep the pain to a minimum. That may require creative positioning, the anesthetist/anesthesiologist re-placing the epidural or increasing the medication dosage. Rarely, an epidural doesn't work to satisfaction, even after adjustment. In this case, I can help process the big change of plan and help move onto a new course of action. )
During pushing, I will be wherever I am needed, both by my clients and by the nurses and Dr's in the room. I can speak quiet encouragement to the mother, hold a leg so her partner has free hands, or stand out of the way and take photos.
Planning on an epidural can lead to a beautiful birth. There are potential side effects to both mother and baby with the epidural, so I recommend talking over the risks and benefits with your healthcare provider before deciding. I would be honored to support you whatever you decide!
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Well I'm holding on tightly to 38 because in 19 more days I am one year away from FORTY! OMG!!!! Did I just say the F Word???? Nah seriously I don't really care about age. I still feel 20 for cryin out loud so what is age anyway? Just a number in my world and I know I don't look a year away from FORTY so there!
Here's my layout for this week's challenge using my Paper Posies Feb kit. I've been experimenting with a little "clean" scrapping lately. I still love all my bling and flowers but it's also fun to try something new. {thnx Heidi}
Journaling reads: I'm an easy person to get to know. It doesn't take much to get to make me laugh and at 38 I've got big time smile lines. So right now I'd say 5 facts you'd like to know about me are...1. I'm finally learning to be comfortable in my own shoes 2. I'm really into Hero Arts and Unity Stamps 3. I am thankful for the little things 4. I'm completely addicted to blog hopping 5. I'm a fan of Sprinkles cupcakes thanks to my pal Roxy. Hope I get some for my 39th birthday!
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Attention May Link Arts and Intelligence -
The Dana FoundationAt the Learning, Arts, and the Brain conference, neuroscientists such as Gottfried Schlaug presented the results of their research on arts and cognition to an audience of scientists, teachers and other educators at the American Visionary Art Museum. Artwork by public-school students was displayed on each of the tables, along with drawing paper, markers and pens to help participants creatively come up with ways to use science to inform teaching and to use what teachers see in the classroom to point to where to do research next. (photos by Nicky Penttila)
Attention May Link Arts and Intelligence
By Aalok Mehta
May 2009
Arts training can cause dramatic changes in the brain, including possibly strengthening the "attention network," a series of regions linked to general intelligence, scientists have discovered.
The experts speaking at the "Learning, Arts and the Brain" educational summit this past week said evidence is growing that skills built practicing the arts can cross into other mental domains. The event, held May 6 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, was hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and sponsored in part by the Dana Foundation. During the summit, neuroscientists, educators and arts advocates learned the latest science on how practice in the arts affects the brain, as well as how art education is currently practiced in various public schools. The more than 300 people attending then discussed in small groups and a full forum how best to apply the science to improve teaching and learning in the schools and which directions researchers should follow next.
The research presented at the forum builds on previous studies, including the work of the seven groups of scientists involved in the Dana Arts & Cognition consortium, that shows tight correlations between artistic endeavors and cognitive abilities. The new findings—especially how effective attention training can be in classroom settings—also offer insight into potential new teaching methods for younger students.
When children underwent simple, interactive attention training, "not only did attention improve, but also generalized parts of intelligence related to fluid intelligence and IQ increased," said Michael Posner, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon.
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Posner's work builds upon surveys and tests of children that found that brain scans of those who exhibit high levels of "effortful control," or self-regulation—the ability to avoid distraction and focus on a single task—show greater activity in
their attention network.
This finding offers a tentative explanation for common anecdotal reports that academic performance improves in schools that boost their arts programs, he said. Different art forms, such as music or dance, activate quite distinct neural networks. But if kids remain open to the experience and stay interested, all the art forms seem to interact with the attention network. "If we are able to engage children in an art form for which their brain is prepared, and they have an openness and creativity, we can train them in this and see improvement in attention, as well as intelligence and cognition in general," Posner said.
"Performance or practice of any of the art forms changes the neural networks performing that art form. There is very little dispute about the existence of these networks and that they change with practice," he added. "Years of neuroimaging have now given us a plausible or putative mechanism by which arts training could now influence cognition, including attention and IQ."
Musical training alters brain connections
Gottfried Schlaug, who is helping conduct a study comparing children who took up an instrument with children who didn't, echoed Posner's comments. Using diffusion tensor imaging, a brain scanning method that can map the white-matter connections among brain areas, he found that musical training can quickly produce significant changes in children's brains. Just 15 months of training, for instance, caused thickening of the fibers in finger-movement areas and sound-processing areas, as well as increased activity in the temporal lobe, frontal lobe and cerebellum.
"Already the initial data we have show profound changes," said Schlaug, a neurology professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. "This is the first study that shows brain plasticity in young children as a function of instrumental music instruction, and this is correlated with the amount of practice." The research was reported March 11 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Many of these regions are related to tasks important to math and other subjects, he added, pointing out specifically the inferior frontal gyrus. "Math and music activate some of the same areas," he said. But in the first 15 months of the study's data, the results show only near transfer, or improvement in brain functions directly associated with music. The researchers did not see evidence of far transfer, or better performance on distantly related abilities such as mental rotation and geometric ability in the first year and a half of training. But the study continued for four years, and the scientists are still analyzing the final years of data.
"Is there going to be far transfer later on or not? We don't know," said Schlaug's study colleague Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College. It may be that the researchers' tests were not sensitive enough to detect small improvements, she said The study also is "messy," she said, with half the participants eventually dropping out.
Elizabeth Spelke
However, Elizabeth Spelke, a psychology professor at Harvard University, offered another indication that such far transfer occurs, at least for music and math. Previously, she had discovered that math skill is not one single thing, but rather revolves around three abilities, recognizing objects, numerical sense and geometrical sense. Spelke also had found that children with moderate or intense music training—but not just a little training—showed "small but reliable increases" only on abilities revolving around geometry. Now she and colleagues have demonstrated that even 4-month-olds seem to inherently connect geometry with sound. The infants learned to associate long tones with long cartoon worms and short tones with short worms, but they never could figure out a situation in which the tone and image did not match. . Likewise, the infants associated high-pitched tones with worms placed at the top of a screen, and low-pitched tones with worms on the bottom of the screen, but not the incongruent situations. "From the beginning of life, if an infants hears music, the melodic processing may lead to new forms of visual processing," Spelke said. "This may form the basis for the relationship between math and music later on."
"This [result] is enough of a possibility that it gives us another reason to pursue an arts curriculum," Spelke said.
Brian Wandell, a Stanford University psychology and electrical engineering professor, outlined studies that mapped white matter, the fibers connecting different areas of the brain. His and others' work has shown the importance of the corpus callosum for phonological awareness, a key skill in reading, he said. And new work shows that fibers connecting two specific parts of the parietal lobe, the anterior superior and longitudinal fasciculus, are very specific to a person's accuracy at approximating numbers. This was true only in the left hemisphere and did not hold true for adjacent fiber bundles. "These are the parts of the brain we might focus on during training studies," he said. "We're hoping these kinds of studies can inform you when you ask your questions," about where researchers should focus their work to best help teachers, he told the audience.
Researcher Elizabeth Spelke, left, and educator Alice Wilder ("Blues Clues," "SuperWhy!') participate in small-group discussions on what questions researchers should try to answer about the effect of arts and practicing the arts on the brain and cognition during the Learning, Arts, and the Brain conference at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on May 6, 2009.


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Mine bloomed pretty much randomly. Happily, a few times a year.
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This is a discussion on Neostylis Lou Sneary -when does it flower within the New Growers: Ask the Senior Members forums, part of the New Growers category; When is this one expected to flower or does it spike randomly when its culture ...
When is this one expected to flower or does it spike randomly when its culture requirements are met? I'm wondering since all my neos are done for the season but Lou Sneary just spiked and it's growing at an alarming rate. It'll be the first rebloom for this guy in my care.
Mine bloomed pretty much randomly. Happily, a few times a year.
How do you grow your Neostylis Lou Sneary? I don't have this one, but have one Neofinetia falcata x Vasco Five Friendships, would love to bring it bloom.
Our Lou Snearys bloom throughout the year.
hi all i have 3 and i have yet to see my blue ones bloom but this a.m. i saw a sike so its small and maybe i want be to old to see it when it blooms out LOL.
i love mine and i have been told the "proper way of planting it" I have mine just planted lightly on some bark and they are fine so I truly beleive if its not broke dont fix it. Till then it can lay on top of its medium and be happy my white one blooms 2 times a year but I think they are cute little flowers. How do you all plant your lou's as i call them?
I am thinking this next spring to move the newer ones and the keki to a wood box and see what happends they sort of remind me of a old hound dog
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