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The Schizophrenia of Design
One of my jobs as an interior designer is selecting paint colors and related design materials (plumbing fixtures, tile, lighting, etc.) for a homebuilder in Florida. This particular company builds around a dozen spec homes a year, all of which are traditional in style. Not a heavy 'traditional' look; one geared more toward young family buyers – with open floor plans and simple, clean lines – which is the current 'trend."
There's that word again…
I have a little difficulty with the word trend, only because I remember trends from years past I'd rather not ever see again. But they come back, in different forms, as basically just a re-worked old 'trend.' For example, what was once called a Tuscan look has returned in a cleaned-up version called Napa style. Less ornamentation, lighter in feel, but with all the same elements.
I'm asked countless times to write articles and speak about current design trends. This is the reason I go to trade shows – so I can see all the beautiful new products that are the style of the moment. And that's the problem – our 'moment' has become just that. Because of social media and related outlets, trends are reported instantly and unfortunately change just as rapidly.
The builder I work for was showing the latest home they built to a realtor, who mentioned that the barn door slider we used on the first- floor room that is used for an office and doubles as a guest room was so "2016." And as I write this, it's January of 2017. So one month into a new year, and I'm already out of style?
A few months ago, I wrote a blog about Benjamin Moore's Color of the Year being Simply White and how a 'non-color' can work beautifully by building texture and contrast around it. This year's B. Moore's color is the polar opposite, a dark, beautiful shade of dusky purple called Shadow.
So there's the split. Every time I open a magazine or go on my computer, there's a newer trend. This could be a real problem for the average person who's re-decorating or remodeling their home and attempts to make a decision they can stick with. What's the solution for us designers and specifiers who see it all and have to make a living doing it?
First, whatever you do, do it well. Nothing goes out of style more quickly than a cheap, hastily done design. Follow trends, but make them your own. Add your own style. Tread lightly, don't kill it. My personal style is clean traditional, but I've done contemporary, urban farmhouse, industrial, craftsman, etc. The key to a long-lasting design is simplicity and quality, which never go out of style.
So whatever the trending style is, or the color of the year or even the minute may be, just do it well. It's our business to promote styles and trends, after all.


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Last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing my friends Christoph and Manuel Mitasch, aka Jonglissimo, a world-class club passing duo, holders of four club-passing world records and two-time IJA stage competition gold medal winners.
We did the first shooting session at the Stephansplatz at around three in the morning. It was seriously cold but – our reason for shooting at such an uncommon hour – there were almost no people there:
After a few hours of sleep we had another session in a studio, where I learnt a few things: Motion-freezing juggling photos tend to suck. Even if you shoot from an uncommon angle they're barely more than tolerable:
Shooting with glowing props is much more interesting:
Five club double backcrosses – I should have shot this from a ladder and with a longer exposure:
Club swinging sucks, but it looks kinda cool:
Shooting people while they're jumping is fun:
Even more so if you throw stuff at them while they're in the air:
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Here at Simply Paving, we would like to thank everyone who entered our 2016 Autumn Winter photographic competition. As with previous years, we are overwhelmed with the response we have received in regards to the competition, and we are blown away with the impressive workmanship and design that has been placed into creating such beautiful outdoor areas.
It has been a difficult process narrowing down our many wonderful entries, which show an array of our products being used in many different, and unique ways.
The images very kindly sent in by participants will be a great help to future customers, who are in need of a little inspiration!
Like last year, we have chosen one outright winner who will receive a cheque for £500, three second place runners-up who will receive a cheque for £200 each and seven further runners-up who will each receive a cheque for £100.
Our first prize winner, and the well-deserved recipient of the £500.00 cheque is Mr. Shivam Patel from London!
Mr. Patel used the Natural Sandstone Paving in Fossil Buff. He has cleverly used a mixture of the 2-ring circle, squaring off kit and the also the 4-size patio pack to create clean lines and a beautiful sophisticated look.
As you can see from the photos below, a deal of great skill has been exhibited in terms of design and attention to detail for this project.
The natural variation of colour in the Fossil Buff sandstone, and the use of feature lighting, complement each other wonderfully. Also, the use of contrasting dark window frames and the contemporary bi-folding door against the crisp white walls, will look attractive in both a day time and night time setting.
Congratulations on winning our first prize in this year's competition!
Up next, are the three second place runners-up, who each have received a cheque for £200!
Catherine Astbury from Ellesmere Port has used the very popular Bradstone Natural Slate Paving in Vijaya Gold patio pack to produce a stunning patio area. The product's distinctive colours are ideally suited against the soft sage green conservatory. Along with the selection of many perfectly placed plants and attractive pond area.
Another perfect example of Natural Sandstone Fossil Buff patio paving was created by Mary Wilding from Milton Keynes.
The perfectly laid sandstone looks wonderful against the decorative aggregate and also the contrasting green ivy. The product has been laid to a high standard, and overall looks fantastic!
A perfect area for entertaining and enjoying the summer months.
Our 3rd second place runner up is Rob Jenner from Jenner Landscape and Construction located in Princes Risborough.
Mr. Jenner has created a sophisticated modern area using the Bradstone Natural Granite paving in colour Silver Grey. The attention to detail and workmanship is clearly evident as you can certainly see from the photos.
Rob has used a mix of both the 600x600 and 600x300 to produce a sleek contemporary outdoor space, which looks effortless against the old authentic backdrop and carefully placed greenery.
Finally, to announce the seven runners up who have received a cheque of £100.00!
A product that has never featured in our competition is the Blended Natural Sandstone Paving in Burnt Umber.
This product was used to create a pretty patio area at Mr. Arthur Webb's residence in Swadlincote, Derbyshire.
The area looks perfect sun trap and the ideal place to relax in the summer months on the comfortable looking furniture.
The second runner up Gavin Hodson from Southsea, sent in some fantastic before and after shots of his patio using the Natural Sandstone in Autumn Green.
Mr. Hodson has transformed his garden using the patio pack and created a border using decorative aggregate. The freshly painted sky blue window frames and door of the outbuilding, colourfully contrast again the vary of colours in the sandstone.
Mr. Alan Knight from Pulborough opted for a manufactured product, and chose the Bradstone Old Town Paving in Weathered Limestone.
He has created a feature patio dining area using the 2-ring circle with modern outdoor furniture.
Mr. Knight has also teamed the circle with an array of different sized patio paving in the same product, for the base of the family hot tub.
The warm buff tones of the Old Town Weathered Limestone and the dark wood raised decked area, complement each other wonderfully.
In these photographs, you can see the Bradstone Ashbourne York Brown patio pack displayed.
Mr. Bell from Barnsley has produced a perfectly laid patio, which ideally suite's its surroundings. The overhanging trees compliment the product, along with the dark stained wooded pagoda.
The outdoor dining area is perfectly situated for summer BBQ's and socialising with friends.
The very popular Bradstone Natural Limeston Paving in Blue-Black was used in the next entry, by Mr. Ralph Brade from Sheffield.
Mr. Brade has made the most of his abstract shaped side patio area, by using the four-size patio pack and feature lighting. The product has been perfectly and looks impressive again the chrome bollards and wooden fencing.
Overall the project has been construction and presented very well.
Here we have Tim Wade from Salisbury chose to create a medieval style outdoor area using the Ancestry Paving Abbey Storm. The mixed size patio pack was used, which gives the perfect impression.
The grey tones of the paving compliment the structure of the church like arch way and vintage looking stone work.
Mr. Wade has also used a variety of beautifully coloured flowers and greenery alongside the patio, which looks stunning!
This area is definitely the perfect place to relax in summer, and certainly a garden to be proud of.
Last but not least is our final £100 winner, Jackie Norris from Wokingham.
Mrs. Norris has used one of our premium natural sandstone products, the Bradstone Smooth Natural Sandstone Paving in Ivory.
Mrs. Norris has created a slightly raised uniform patio area, with a mix of contemporary and traditional design aspects.
Decorative aggregate has been used as a finishing touch, along with the cleverly placed planters which contain a range of colourful flowers.
Congratulations to all of our winners and thank you to everyone who entered the competition.
As with every year, the entries were all of an incredibly high standard!
You will find many of the images entered in our gallery which will prove a source of inspiration to all of our customers.
Keep an eye out for any further competitions by Simply Paving in the near future.
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On my wall-covering cookbook shelf, there are tons of vegan, vegetarian and other cookbooks. I sort of collect them. It's an obsession. There are many decent books, some duds and a few great ones which I return to over and over. Appetite for Reduction is one of the latter.
I admit that I'm a late-comer to the AFR fan club. I avoided it, unreasonably, for a long time. People have pushed "low fat" cookbooks and recipes and products on me since I was, oh, about twelve. (And maybe with good reason.)
However, the problem with most of these was that they didn't taste good, they weren't easy to make and/or they were filled with a ton of weird substitutions trying to guilt you into thinking a half-teaspoon serving of watercress was the perfect and responsible replacement for a vat of cream sauce. Those books did not reside long on my shelves.
Appetite for Reduction is none of the above. Written by vegan genius Isa Chandra Moskowitz, you KNOW the recipes are going to be tasty and creative and the writing hilarious. Also good, each serving is under 400 calories, and these "servings" are hearty, filling and satisfying. I don't even think of them as "reduced calorie" recipes, EVER! (Remember, I write a "comfort food" blog!!)
As a bonus, instructions are clear and recipes go together quickly, with no complicated substitutions or obscure ingredients. I mean seriously; Sweet Potato Biscuits? Onion Rings? Masala Tofu? Pad Thai? Butternut-Coconut Rice?
Is your mouth watering yet? I have so many dog-eared pages in this book, from recipes I love (or still want to try) that it looks like I've had the book much longer than six months.
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I met CELEBRITIES!
In fact, I actually bumped into her this past summer at VidaVeganCon (yes, literally, in my star-strucked-ness, I tripped into her in the breakfast line and caused her to spill her coffee, yet she was gracious enough not to call me unpleasant names).
I also had the opportunity to attend a class she taught and enjoyed every moment. She's as hilarious in person (more so!) as in her books!
That said, I'd enjoy this book whether I was a bumbling fan or not.
Even if you don't need "reduced"-anything recipes, this is probably well-worth the purchase price for most any vegan or wanna-be.
So, the other morning I was thinking about all this as I threw together one of my go-to favorites; and I realized I'd never really "reviewed" this book on my blog and I wanted to share this recipe. (WITH permission, no worries) just to show how awesome, and easy-to-use this cookbook actually is.
Seriously, who doesn't love a delicious recipe with only NINE ingredients!
Of course, being the meddler that I am (apologies to Isa), I mixed some leftover rice with it.
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But do what you want, it's also exceptionally tasty as written...
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- 1 medium red onion, diced finely
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 block extra-firm tofu
- 2 to 3 tsp. curry powder
- 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
- 1 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- a few pinches of freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups baby arugula (or spinach works too, but I LOVE the flavor of the arugula)
Preheat a large, heavy-bottomed pan over medium-high heat. Saute the onion in oil for about 4 minutes, until translucent. Add the garlic saute for 30 seconds.
Crumble the tofu into bite-size pieces and add to the pan.
Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring often, until the tofu has browned on some of the sides.
Add the curry powder, cumin, salt, pepper, lemon juice and a few splashed of water if it's too dry.
Mix in the arugula. (I added frozen baby peas here too).
Cover cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the arugula is wilted. Taste for spices and add another teaspoon of curry powder if needed, it will depend on the strength of your curry powder.


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Roundtop Mountain Resort
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Roundtop Mountain Resort is located in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, due north of Baltimore, Maryland. Roundtop has been around for many years and continues to offer convenient skiing for folks in the Baltimore/D.C. area. Roundtop was one of the first ski resorts in the area to offer tubing
Like all resorts in the area, Roundtop is lit for night skiing. Roundtop offers two terrain parks for freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Roundtop offers 4- and 8-hour flex tickets.
Roundtop, Liberty Mountain Resort, and Whitetail Resort are under the same management, after Snow Time, Inc. purchased Whitetail during the fall of 1999. Skier discount cards and season passes are transferable among the three resorts.
Roundtop offers 16 trails, served by 8 chairlifts. Some of Roundtop's trails wind down the mountain, in contrast with straight-down slopes common at many Mid-Atlantic resorts.
Roundtop Mountain Resort changed its name from Ski Roundtop in 2010, recognizing its continuing adoption of year-round activities such as Roundtop Mountain Adventures. In addition to winter sports, activities offered seasonally include a ropes course, zipline tour, OGO Balls, and year-round paintball.
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News about Roundtop
The Mid-Atlantic Ski Season Kicks Off
- December 14, 2017 - The past week saw the arrival of cold temperatures, and the dip in Mercury allowed ski areas to fire up their snowguns. Although lifts have already started running at several resorts, by the end of the December 16-17 weekend nearly every ski resort in the Mid-Atlantic will have kicked off its 2017-2018 winter season. DCSki has the latest opening information here.
Snowpass Program Provides Free Skiing for Fourth and Fifth Graders in Pennsylvania
- November 5, 2017 - For the fourteenth year, the Pennsylvania Ski Areas Association (PSAA) is offering a Snowpass program that allows fourth and fifth graders to his the slopes free, up to three times each at each participating Pennsylvania resort, with some limitations.
What's New for 2016: Roundtop Mountain Resort
- December 8, 2016 - Pennsylvania's Roundtop Mountain Resort has purchased a new winch groomer and relocated its Guest Services desk.
El Niño Presents Challenge for Mid-Atlantic Ski Areas
- November 16, 2015 - It's not too easy to run a ski resort in the Mid-Atlantic. Some winters bring banner amounts of snow, while others bring 70-degree days in the middle of January. With natural snow a wild card for all but the highest-elevation resorts, local ski areas live or die based on the amount of artificial snow they can make — and that requires low temperatures and low humidity. With another El Niño weather pattern settling into place, long-range forecasts suggest this could be a challenging winter for many Mid-Atlantic skiers and resorts.
Ski Swap Season Begins
- September 19, 2015 - It's Fall, which means the ski season is just around the corner. Numerous resorts and ski shops throughout the Mid-Atlantic region offer "Ski Swaps" during the Fall, providing a chance to buy or sell used snowsports equipment. DCSki takes a look at some upcoming Swaps.
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Hi all, wasn't sure where to put this, so I decided here was best. I am definitely on an exciting new journey since discovering the Empath thing. I just read a book about past lives by Brian Weiss and am now reading another book about a chiropractor who it seems becomes an energy healer, among other things.
I just wondered if any of you ever get a burning - not painful - sensation in your bodies? I've noticed it in my throat a few times. It's not like a sore throat, it's not in the muscles and it's not irritated skin. It's literally a heat sensation. Someone close to me had thyroid cancer, so I've wondered if it's the connection with them, or something else. Just curious what you all thought.
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Episode #174 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. It's also episode #18 of Media Hacks.
If you felt like the conversation went a little kooky when we tried to discuss, "what is a book?" on the last episode of Media Hacks, you'll be pleased to know we get just as lost trying to figure out "what is literacy?" If that wasn't enough the four of us attempt to discuss the value of Google Wave (only C.C. has actually used it). There's also some discussion about school books, education, magazines and newspapers as well. On the show is C.C. Chapman, Hugh McGuire, Julien Smith and myself. Media Hacks does have some language in it, so it may not be work-safe. Enjoy...
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Here at Chimney Rocks Animal Rest, we offer an on-site cemetery. This beautiful cemetery holds uniqe features such as a hand painted memoral wall and brick memoral walkway. Below you will see a few photos of our cemetery and a few or our memorial stones and markers. Our grounds are meticulously cared for in the spring and summer and kept trimmed. Customers who choose to purchase a plot for their pet will receive the Deed for their plot.
Our Crematory
In 2003 we expanded by adding our Crematory. Our crematory undergoes yearly inspections from the Department Of Environmental Protection (DEP), Department Of Agriculture, and B&L Cremations. Our Owner Wilbur Henry as well as Michael Dalby are both certified to operate it. We have VERY strict guidelines to follow to maintain our cremator.


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Due to the volume of applications we typically receive, we will only be reaching out to applicants who are selected for interviews. If you are selected for an interview, you will be contacted by a local volunteer leader or staffer prior to the session for which you applied.
Applications are being accepted and processed on a rolling basis until the program is full, but the program will fill up. Apply now before your state has reached capacity. Full time (40+ hours) and part time (15+ hours) opportunities are available.


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Every true dancer understands how is important the right dance shoes. Because, just perfectly fitted, comfortable and beautiful shoes will bring you success in your favorite business.
Professionals know that wrong fitted shoes can affect the result. Therefore it's very important that dance shoes perfectly fit the foot. Dance shoes should not rub or dangle on a foot. Furthermore, decoration is very important. To support the entire ensemble and profitably shade the dance costume, shoes should be beautifully and harmoniously complement the image.
Also pay attention to the shoe material. It's very important that shoes allow your feet to "breath". That's why you should avoid the artificial lather and other synthetic fabric. The high quality dance shoes are made of natural materials. Usually the price for such dance shoes is slightly higher, but professionals don't skimp on their health!
Choosing the dance shoes please note:
- Stiches should be smooth
- There should not be any glue stains
- Heel and tip should be carefully handled
- Sole – flexible and high-quality
- Buckles are made of metal (plastic ones could let you down at the most impropriated moment)
Now you know how to choose the appropriate size for dance shoes correctly. You can purchase the high quality dance shoes in our internet store. You will be satisfied with the big shoe assortment for all kind of dance and surely choose the unique pair for yourself and your success!
Dance seems to us as airy, light, graceful action, but is that true? Dancers spend a few hours a day in rehearsal rooms, and before important performances literally live there! At the same time, artists work mainly with one tool - with their body. Special load falls on their feet; therefore, professionals pay great attention to the selection of dancing shoes.
Good dancing shoes not only beautiful, but also comfortable. The aesthetic appeal of shoes is very important, because captious viewer love by the "eyes": it is necessary to take into account every detail of the scenic image. Moreover, of course, every dancer will love beautiful shoes with high quality finishing.
Comfort on stage is also an important indicator of quality dancing shoes. Dancer's feet require care and attention, and comfortable shoes with soft seams to prevent unnecessary injuries.
We produce shoes made of genuine or artificial leather, which certainly speaks in our favor. Placing an order, you can always choose a suitable color and finishing, because all Grishko products can be custom made.
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Although you might be thinking that you have all the apps that you need on your Android phone, there are some really useful apps that you might have never found the need for. But they are going to be real useful when you start using them. Here are five great apps that will enhance your Android experience:
1. Grooveshark: Your Android phone is one of your primary music devices. It's great to listen to music on your phone, but wouldn't it be awesome if you didn't have to download every song and stream them instead? In fact, wouldn't it be totally mind-blowing if you could listen to every song in the world for free? Grooveshark.com lets you do exactly just that. The mobile app for the site, however, isn't on the Play Store or App Store. Go to Mobile.Grooveshark.com to get the app, and you won't have to download any song again.
2. Wallet: Unlike your bank account, It is sometimes really hard to track all the money that goes in and out of your wallet. You may not remember spending money on something and then when you check your wallet later you may wonder where all the money went. Wallet is a great app that lets you record all the cash transactions you make. It lets you add records of income or expense and you can view your current balance. It even lets you view all your transactions visually in a neat pie-chart and lets you set various budgets for all the things you'll be spending on. It is a really useful app that essential for anyone who does cash transactions on a daily basis.
3. AVG Antivirus: Unlike the days of old, today's smartphones are very much like computers. And it is very much possible for your phone to be infected with a virus or financial information being stolen. Although this might never happen, it is very much recommended to install a mobile internet security suite on your phone, the most popular of which is AVG Antivirus. Once you install it, the app sits in the background and you mostly will never have to open it. Hence it is not very intrusive and doesn't disturb your daily activities. So go ahead and install AVG to avoid feeling sorry later.
4. MightyText: What this app allows you to do is SMS from your computer or tablet using your Android phone number. The whole thing is synced across all devices through the internet. As long as your computer/tablet and Android phone stay connected, all you need to do is open the MightyText app on your computer/tablet and start texting! It doesn't take long to install the required software and app is tremendously useful.
5. �Torrent: If you are into torrents and you are into Android, this is the app for you. Using this app, you can download torrents directly on your Android phone. There is absolutely no speed or size limit for your downloads and you can even download that really large torrent on some public WiFi or maybe even your office network!


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In her usual abrasive style, Katie Hopkins' latest click-bait project is 'to fat and back' – she is putting on 3.5 stone in weight and will then lose it again, to show us how easy weight loss is and how there is no excuse for being fat. Some journalists appear to think there is something in it whilst others are a little more sceptical.
To me it seems obesity isn't a simple matter of will power. You can't will yourself thin any more than you can will yourself out of depression or addiction. Your ability to change the pattern will depend on how long it has been around, your biology and what caused it to start in the first place, as well as your commitment to change, support network and what else is going on in your life. In Clinical Psychology we look at the biological, psychological and social contributors to particular behaviours or symptoms and make a formulation of how these interplay, so it is frustrating when people with no expertise pronounce easy solutions which ignore these factors.
If a thin person with very negative ideas about obesity puts on weight for three months, they will find it unpleasant, find losing weight rewarding, and have all the previous factors that made them thin before to revert to. If she is being filmed and paid then she has financial and performance pressures to succeed also, her reputation and career to maintain, as well as a wardrobe to return to. She has the metabolism, muscle tone, neurochemistry and lifestyle of a slimmer person. Will three months change that? She has people around her who expect her to be active and slim, and will support her returning to that familiar mould. And when losing weight she has the money for personal trainers, gym memberships and healthy food (if not diet systems and products).
It's a million miles away from being a chronically obese person and trying to lose the same amount of weight. To pretend this is a serious experiment that will tell us something about how to lose weight is playing at a serious issue. It reminds me of Pulp's Common People.
A real obese person may have put on weight after a trauma or loss, during a pregnancy, or to insulate themselves from the world, or because food is the only pleasure in their life. They might comfort eat because feeding is tied in to their experiences of nurture. The origins of the ACEs study show is that morbid obesity is associated with severe early trauma, with 55% of patients in a bariatric surgery clinic disclosing childhood sexual abuse (usually incest). It can be a form of slow suicide, or a daily process of numbing out the pain and yet unwittingly reinforcing the body shame that they experience.
Or it can have less extreme causes. The individual might be ignorant about healthy eating, or have other lifestyle constraints that make healthy eating harder, like poverty or chronic sleep deprivation, or a family/peer group that consume huge amounts of calories (whether the 20 pint weekend, the endless cake in the office, massive portions or regular takeaways being delivered). They might have health conditions or disabilities that make exercise or even activity difficult. They may have developed psychological and neurochemical reward pathways for their eating pattern. They may feel shamed by the societal pressures to conform to what is considered attractive in the airbrushed models on glossy magazines and find thinking about losing weight a painful and ever-present topic (see this paper by Ratcliffe and Ellison last year). On the other hand, they may be ambivalent about weight loss. Their partners, parents, friends or kids may be used to their shape and habits, or even like it. They may have had many experiences of previous attempts at weight-loss that have been unsuccessful or were quickly regained. Change in many circumstances is really hard to make, and harder to sustain.
Every story is different. I know people who feel they need to be heavier than a past abuser or dominating partner, so they can't be pushed around again. I know people who want a layer of protection against a dangerous world. I know people who want fat deeper than a knife blade is long, in case they are attacked again. I know people who want to deter any sexual attention. I know people too anxious to leave their house to shop or exercise, or too poor to afford fruit and veg or to pay for fuel to cook with. I know serotonin junkies where food is their drug of choice. I know exhausted people who fend off tiredness with sugar. I know of people who want to be taken seriously in the workplace and not have their success attributed to using their appearance. I know a lot of unhappy people who don't think they deserve better, or could ever be attractive or physically fit. I know people who are hopeless about ever losing weight (often within a wider sense of hopelessness about their lives). I know people who have spent their whole lives being fat and living a lifestyle constrained by that fat – tired, big, heavy and excluded from physical activities. Mocked at every turn. Excluded from aspects of society. Disempowered. Weight loss is categorically different from that starting point, and it is not just naive but wilfully ignorant to pretend otherwise.
Of course, I also know people who like being fat or who see their weight as a very low priority in life. There are women who enjoy defying what they see as body fascism or sexist expectations about women's appearance, or who simply see their curves as sexy. I can see the appeal in filtering away the shallow people who care about how people look more than who they are and what they do. And I'm aware that BMI is a blunt tool for measuring obesity, as it ignores body composition and scores people with high levels of muscle as equivalently "unhealthy" to those with little muscle, despite the positive differences in health that resistance exercise is known to make.
Katie won't be happy being fat, and maybe it will give her some perspective about how judged and self conscious people feel when they are overweight. Maybe she'll show some hitherto hidden empathy or concern for others apart from herself, but I doubt it. The promotional spots so far suggest the usual dose of hubris and ignorance, carefully engineered to provide publicity. I see this program as part of our obsession with celebrity and appearance, and the tendency to discuss serious issues (especially those affecting women primarily) with no depth. Hopkins has become the mouthpiece of internalized sexism; the pervasive belief that women need to be decorative rather than functional to be off value, and therefore shouldn't think about issues beyond their own appearance and judging the appearance of others.
Finally, I am reminded of a line that is helpful to think to yourself when experiencing playground bullies: I'd rather have my weight than your attitude. For all the challenges involved in losing weight, it's still easier than changing personality or gaining empathy after years as a callous, judgemental, self-serving, attention seeking provocateur.


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Cartoon Closets, run by University of Melbourne student Belinda Tan of B for Bel, features surprisingly chic outfits inspired by Marvel characters like Captain America and Black Widow.
"I find the most sartorial satisfaction and inspiration, in a strange way, through movie and TV characters that I grew up with -- especially the most unlikely ones, like Johnny Bravo, the Flintstones, Tom and Jerry and superheroes," she wrote in an email to the Huffington Post. "I then started creating some fashion collages based on their outfits and documented them on my blog. When the recent 'Avengers' movie was released, I was really excited over all the superheroes that were in the movie and decided to create a series of fashion collages that were inspired by them."
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- T.K. Ahn & Myungsuk Lee & Lore Ruttan & James M. Walker, 2005. "Asymmetric Payoffs in Simultaneous and Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma Games," Caepr Working Papers 2006-003, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Economics Department, Indiana University Bloomington, revised Aug 2006.
- Paola Manzini & Marco Mariotti, 2006. "Two-stage Bargaining Solutions," Working Papers 572, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
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Big Media's checkmate over many of the internet companies that were supposed to put it out of business has been inevitable.
But that inevitability is just now becoming clear to some internet idealogues as they recover from their kool aid-induced stupours.
As such, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look at three recent stories that exemplify how Big Media is slowly but surely starting to demonstrate its strength over many supposed internet threats.
1. Rupert Murdoch laughs all the way to the bank with Google's money
You'd have to imagine that the arrogant smiles flashed by Google management have become a little less beaming over the past month.
On December 31, Google's stock closed at just under $700.Yesterday, the stock closed at just over $506.
Its disappointing fourth-quarter earnings led to an admission: the company has been unable to successfully monetise social networks. This is problematic because in its rush to secure as much inventory as it could, it entered into agreements that guaranteed payments to social networks.
When Google guaranteed Rupert Murdoch's MySpace $900m in payments through 2010, it's doubtful that Google management thought Rupert Murdoch would end up playing them for fools.
Rupert would look smart for inking a $900m deal after purchasing MySpace for $580m, but the invincible management team at Google surely thought that they would get the better end of the deal.
They didn't - they're losing money on the deal. Given that it's increasingly becoming clear social networks aren't the super marketing platforms many thought they were, it looks like Rupert Murdoch sold the geniuses at Google the Brooklyn Bridge.
Of course, anybody who knows about all the shrewd moves he's made in the past wouldn't be surprised, but the arrogant, nouveau riche techies at Google didn't see it coming. As they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.
2. Viacom still has an audience - who woulda thunk
As observed by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Viacom's Flux social network which launched in September 2007 is "taking off".
The social network, which is used to run communities for many of Viacom's properties, including MTV, already has over a million registered users.
While there is a traffic data issue that comScore is resolving, it's clear that Viacom's failed attempt to purchase Facebook for $750m in 2006 isn't stopping the company from implementing a social media strategy that seems to be working fairly well.
The most important implication of Viacom's initial success with Flux is that despite the claims that Big Media is dying, Big Media properties still maintain solid mainstream audiences and these audiences can be driven to Big Media-owned online properties.
Flux is not going to become the next Facebook, but social networking is not Viacom's core business and therefore it doesn't need to become the next Facebook (unlike similar pure-play social networking startups that have raised big money).
Flux simply gives Viacom an additional platform to connect with its viewers. It's likely that when the social networking market has returned to earth, these types of focused social networks that are part of larger properties will make the most sense.
3. Podcasts apparently making a "comeback". But Big Media is the one cashing in
According to research firm eMarketer, podcasting, a space that many thought was dead, "is unquestionably creating a listening audience".
While I'm personally not impressed that the total US podcast audience reached 18.5m in 2007 and am always sceptical about future projections provided by research firms, it's clear that the growth seen is more a direct result of Big Media leveraging podcasts than a result of startups, a number of which have failed.
Interestingly, TechCrunch's Duncan Riley, one of the biggest Web 2.0 kool aid drinkers, admitted:
"While greater awareness of podcasting is growing the overall market for podcasts, the mainstream media is taking a big slice of the pie".
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BIO201 - Final Review 2 - Q & A's from Online Lessons & Labs - Muscle System
|Fatigued muscle cells that recover rapidly are the products of:
|intense exercise of short duration
|The main effect of the warm-up period of athletes, as the muscle contractions increase in strength, is to:
|enhance the availability of calcium and the efficiency of enzyme systems
|Athletes sometimes complain of oxygen debt, a condition that results when insufficient oxygen is available to completely break down pyruvic acid. As a result, the pyruvic acid is converted to:
|lactic acid
|Muscle tone is:
|a state of sustained partial contraction
|The warm-up period required of athletes in order to bring their muscles to peak performance is called:
|With muscular dystrophy:
|muscle fibers degenerate and atrophy
|Which of the following athletic endeavors best represents the use of red fibers?
|a long, relaxing swim
|Which of the following is not a usual result of exercise?
|increase in the number of muscle cells
|Muscle tissue has all of the following properties except:
|Rigor mortis occurs because:
|ATP is required to release the attached actin and myosin molecules
|Smooth muscles that act like skeletal muscles but are controlled by autonomic nerves and hormones are:
|multiunit muscles
|Of the following muscle types, which has only one nucleus, no sarcomeres, and no gap junctions?
|multiunit smooth muscle
|Smooth muscle is significantly different from striated muscle in __.
|smooth muscle shortens and stretches to a greater extent than does striated muscle
|Most muscles contain?
|A mixture of fiber types.
|The site of calcium regulation in the smooth muscle cell is?
|T/F - The arrangement of a muscle's fascicles determines its range of motion and power.
|T/F - The anconeus muscle flexes the knee and stabilizes the patella.
|This is false. The anconeus muscle abducts the ulna during forearm pronation and is a synergist of triceps brachii in elbow extension.
|T/F - Electromyography is the recording and interpretation of graphic records of the electrical activity of contracting muscles.
|T/F - The four muscle pairs forming the abdominal wall perform the functions of support and compression of the abdominal contents.
|This is false. The transversus abdominis functions mainly in compression of the abdominal contents.
|T/F - The soleus is a synergist of the gastrocnemius used in plantar flexion.
|T/F - Plantar flexion at the ankle joint is accomplished by the tibialis anterior muscle.
|This is false. The tibialis posterior muscle works towards plantar flexion.
|T/F - A pair of tweezers is a good example of a second-class lever.
|This is false. A pair of tweezers is an example of a third-class lever.
|T/F - Muscles that help to maintain posture are often called synergists.
|This is false. Muscles that maintain posture are called fixators.
|Muscles connecting to the hyoid bone are instrumental in speech.
|his is false. These bones are instrumental in swallowing.
|T/F - The broadest muscle of the back is the latissimus dorsi.
|T/F - In order to propel food down to the esophagus, the pharyngeal constrictor muscles would be used.
|T/F - The insertion of the biceps brachii is on the radius.
|T/F - The calcaneal tendon (Achilles tendon) is the largest, strongest tendon in the body.
|T/F - Severing of the patellar tendon would inactivate the hamstring group.
|This is false. This would inactivate the quadriceps group.
|T/F - Movements of the thigh are accomplished by muscles anchored to the pelvic girdle.
|T/F - Muscle spasm of the back would often include the erector spinae.
|T/F - Both first- and second-class levers operate at a mechanical disadvantage.
|This is false. Second-class levers do not operate at a mechanical disadvantage.
|T/F - A prime mover of the arm that acts in adduction would be the deltoid.
|This is false. The deltoid is the prime mover of arm abduction.
|T/F - The chewing muscle covering the ramus of the mandible is the buccinator.
|This is false. This is the masseter muscle.
|T/F Although all skeletal muscles have different shapes, the fascicle arrangement of each muscle is exactly the same.
|This is false. Fascicles can display a circular, convergent, parallel, or pennate pattern.
|T/F - Muscle power does not depend on the direction of the fascicles.
|Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
|Extends and abducts the wrist.
|Extensor pollicis longus and brevis
|Extends the thumb.
|Flexor carpi ulnaris
|Flexes the wrist.
|Flexor carpi ulnaris
|Powerful wrist flexors that also stabilize the wrist during finger extension.
|Flexor digitorum profundus
|Slow-acting finger flexor.
|The _____ helps keep food between the grinding surfaces of the teeth during chewing.
|The pectoralis major has a _____ arrangement of fascicles.
|_____ extends the great toe.
|extensor hallucis longus
|_____ is the abnormal protrusion of the small intestine through a week point in the muscle of the abdominal wall.
|The _____ runs deep to the external oblique.
|internal oblique
|_____ is the main chewing muscle.
|______ draws the corner of the mouth downward as in expressing horror.
|The quadriceps femoris is composed of three vastus muscles and the _____.
|rectus femoris
|The ______ is known a the boxer muscle.
|serratus anterior
|____ is a synergist of the latissimus dorsi; it extends, medially rotates, and adducts the humerus.
|teres major
|______ fibers run at right angles to the axis of the muscle.
|______ fibers run at right angles to the axis of the muscle.
|________ is a powerful forearm extensor.
|triceps brachii
|Which class lever for the Humerus Ulna Joint?
|3rd Class
|Which class lever for the Tibia Calcaneus Lever?
|2nd Class
|Which class lever for the Humerus metacarpal lever?
|1st Class
|With regard to muscle fiber arrangement in a pennate muscle __.
|The fascicles are short & attach to a central tendon that runs the length of a muscle.
|The extensor digitorum longus has which type of fascicle arrangement?
|Paralysis of which of the following would make an individual unable to flex the thigh?
|Iliopsoas & rectus femoris
|Which of the following muscles does not act in plantar flexion?
|Most flexor muscles are located on the __ aspect of the body
|Most extensors are located __.
|An exception to the generalized location of the extensor-flexor rule is the __.
|The extrinsic muscles of the hand originate on the __,__, & __.
|Humerus, radius, and ulna.
|The bulk of the tissue of a muscle tends to lie __ to the part of the body it causes to move.
|The triceps surae insert in common into the __ tendon.
|The insertion tendon of the __ group contains a large sesamoid bone, the patella.
|Quadriceps femoris
|Intramuscular injection sites.
|Deltoid, gluteus maximus, & gluteus medius.
|Flexes the great toe & inverts the ankle
|Flexor hallucis longus
|Lateral compartment muscles that plantar flex and evert the ankle
|Fibularis brevis & longus
|Move the thigh laterally to take the "at ease" stance
|Gluteus medius & tensor fascae latae
|Used to extend the hip when climbing stairs
|Gluteus maximus
|Prime movers of ankle plantar flexion
|gastrocnemius & soleus
|Major foot inverter
|tibialis posterior
|Prime mover of ankle dorsiflexion
|tibialis anterior
|Allow you to draw your legs to the midline of your body, as when standing at attention.
|Adductor group
|Places the palm upward
|Biceps brachii & supinator
|Flexes teh forearm & supinates the hand
|biceps brachii
|Forearm flexors; no role in supination
|Brachialis & brachioradialis
|Elbow extensor
|triceps brachii
|Power wrist flexor and abductor
|flexor carpi radialis
|flexes wrist a& middle phalanges
|flexor digitorum superficialis
|Pronate the hand
|pronator quadratus & teres
|Flexes the thumb
|Flexor pollicis longus
|Extends and abducts the wrist
|Extensor carpi radialis longus
|A major spine flexor
|rectus abdominis
|Prime mover for pulling the arm posteriorly
|latissimus dorsi
|Prime mover for shoulder flexion
|Pectoralis major
|Assume major responsibility for forming the abdominal girdle
|External oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis
|Pulls shoulder backward & downward
|latissimus dorsi
|Important in shoulder adduction; antagonists of shoulder abductior
|latissimus dorsi, pectoralis major
|Moves scapula forward & downward
|Serratus anterior
|Small, inspiratory muscles between the ribs; elevate the ribs
|External intercostals
|Extends the head
|Pull the scapulae medially
|Used in smiling
|Zygomaticus major & minor
|Used to pout
|Depressor labii inferioris
|Raises eyebrows
|Your kisser
|obicularis oris
|Prime mover to raise the lower jawbone
|Prime mover
|Reverses and/or opposes the action of a prime mover
|postural muscles, for the most part
|Stabilizes a joint so that the prime mover may act at more distal joints.
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Developments such as pulmonary insulin delivery are very exciting to my 7 year old daughter. How can we get more information on when/where clinical testing is being done and when it will be available for the general public?
The concept that insulin might be administered through an inhaler rather in the way that asthma is treated has enormous appeal.The first serious studies began in Auckland, New Zealand over fifteen years ago; but the apparatus that dispensed the insulin in the very fine droplets that are needed was cumbersome and expensive. It worked however and was useful occasionally in the outpatient management of mild acidosis. The problems were what you might expect. First of all it took about twelve times as much insulin to achieve the same reduction in blood sugar and secondly effectiveness was greatly reduced if there was any evidence of a respiratory infection.
Since that time there have been important advances in the technology of inhaling drugs, not only in very fine droplet form, but also through a small hand held dispenser. At the present time there are at least three separate delivery systems under consideration. There have been initial clinical trials in Miami and Denver and again in Auckland. At the latter site, they are using a a battery-operated piezo electric system to produce the droplets which has the advantage that is operated by patient inspiration.
So far as I know the required clinical trials in childhood have not even begun and I suspect it will be a year or two before systems of this nature can be made sufficiently precise for good control in your daughter's age group. As presently constituted there is still a need for at least five times the amount of the subcutaneous dose.
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Here's what's so bad about TV news:
Each TV news program covers just a tiny number of stories, about which they provide almost no detail and which are clearly selected to advance the careers of the people running the network at the expense of the public interest. Each network pretends to be the viewer's only source of news, which is absurd. And cable news channels cover those same stories one program after the next. The president said this. The congress did that. The Republicans this. The Democrats that. Other than Iran, Israel, Iraq, Russia and occasionally Mexico and China, the world doesn't exist on TV news.
TV news is old. Anchors introduce a new story as if it's breaking news, and my reaction is almost always, "they're still covering that?"
Far too many cable shows revolve around a single person who spends the entire program hard-selling a political viewpoint and a self-promoting book.
The only thing TV news does better than social media is to display higher quality pictures and video. Otherwise, TV news is just like the Internet as a news source, after you take away user control, alternative opinions, timeliness and 99% of the stories.
The networks know this. That's why in the past year they've all bent over backwards to try to co-opt social media to create the illusion of relevance. But, as the Internet meme goes, they're "doing it wrong!"
A typical scenario goes something like this. CNN's Wolf Blitzer is doing his clumsy "Situation Room" shtick, and kicks it over to Jack Cafferty for a regular segment called the "Cafferty File." Cafferty runs through his no-jacket, hard-working reporter routine by spouting some shamelessly populist opinion, then asks viewers what they think about the issue, closing as always with, "you can post your comments on my blog." A tiny fraction of those comments, hand-selected by Cafferty, will show up on a future segment designed not to shed new light on the issue or call Cafferty to task, but ultimately to market Jim Cafferty and CNN.
Instead of leveraging social media's ability to illuminate consensus, and surface all relevant views on an issue, the TV networks like CNN do the opposite. They ignore the consensus, they exploit the Web merely as a source for them to cherry pick self-serving viewer opinions. You don't need the Internet for that, and that's not what the Internet is good for.
If TV news wants to really leverage social media and become timely, relevant and engaging in the process they're going to have to take some control away from their over-paid "personalities," and hand it over to their viewers. Here's how:
Of course, I don't expect the TV new media to do any of these things. The medium is the message, and the number-one objective of any organization is to blindly pursue the interests of the organization itself. TV networks need their advertising dollars, and believe that the only way to make money is to be phony, non-responsive propaganda machines that barely cover the news and spend half their time on self-promotion.
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SOURCE: Globus Maritime Limited
September 20, 2016 09:00 ET
ATHENS, GREECE--(Marketwired - Sep 20, 2016) - Globus Maritime Limited ("Globus," the "Company," "we," or "our") (NASDAQ: GLBS), a dry bulk shipping company, today reported its unaudited consolidated operating and financial results for the six month period ended June 30, 2016.
Current Fleet Profile
As of the date of this press release, Globus' subsidiaries own and operate six dry bulk carriers, consisting of four Supramax, one Panamax and one Kamsarmax.
Current Fleet Deployment
All our vessels are currently operating on short term time charters ("on spot").
Management Commentary
Athanasios Feidakis, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Globus Maritime Limited, stated:
"The dry bulk shipping outlook for the remainder of 2016 remains bleak as we continue to deal with a quite large order book for new ships and oversupply continues to remain the biggest thorn in the industry which coupled with the reduced demand for iron ore and coal from both China and India, places most of us in the industry in peril.
"Hence, it has been a very challenging year for us and as a small cap company we have limited control over the supply and demand side of the equation, notwithstanding the above, we have focused on matters and issues that we control mainly our own operating performance through careful work with all our stakeholders.
"In March 2016, we sold the subsidiary Kelty Marine Ltd owner of the m/v Energy Globe to an unaffiliated third party and applied the total net proceeds from the sale to the loan facility held by Commerzbank AG resulting to the remaining principal amount of the loan being written off thus reducing our total debt leverage whilst improving Company's balance sheet.
"We are also pleased that in April of 2016, we reached amicable agreements with our lenders DVB Bank and HSH Nordbank AG as a result of that the Company received certain waivers and relaxations on its loan covenant as well deferments in certain loan payments due in 2016.
"In April of 2016, the Company transferred from the NASDAQ Global Market to the NASDAQ Capital Market since it no longer met the minimum MVPHS requirements of the first. The Company views this as a positive step since it reinforces its commitment to remain publicly trading.
"Whilst we remain cautious and guarded, we note that all our vessels are deployed at better rates than last year, which allows us to be optimistic about our earnings and cash flow generation capacity in the near future. We continue to be committed and unrelenting in our intention forging ahead."
Management Discussion and Analysis of the Results of Operations
First half of the year 2016 compared to the first half of the year 2015
Total comprehensive loss for the first half of the year 2016 amounted to $6.9 million or $0.67 basic loss per share based on 10,362,560 weighted average number of shares, compared to total comprehensive loss of $13.6 million for the same period last year or $1.35 basic loss per share based on 10,252,360 weighted average number of shares.
The following table corresponds to the breakdown of the factors that led to the decrease in total comprehensive loss during the first half of 2016 compared to the first half of 2015 (expressed in $000's):
Voyage revenues
During the six-month period ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, our Voyage revenues reached $3.8 million and $6.9 million respectively. The 45% decrease in Voyage revenues was mainly attributed to the decrease in the average time charter rates achieved by our vessels during the first half of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015. Daily Time Charter Equivalent rate (TCE) for the first half of 2016 was $3,097 per vessel per day against $4,076 per vessel per day during the same period in 2015 corresponding to a decrease of 24%. There was also a decrease of the average number of vessels of the fleet from 7, during the first six months of 2015, to 5.4 for the respective period in 2016 due to the sale of m/v Tiara Globe in July 2015 and the subsidiary ship-owning company of m/v Energy Globe in March 2016.
Voyage expenses
Voyage expenses reached $0.7 million during the first half of 2016 compared to $1.5 million during the same period last year. Voyage expenses include commissions on revenues, port and other voyage expenses and bunker expenses. Bunker expenses mainly refer to the cost of bunkers consumed during periods that our vessels are travelling seeking employment. Voyage expenses for the first half of 2016 and 2015 are analyzed as follows:
Vessel operating expenses
Vessel operating expenses, which include crew costs, provisions, deck and engine stores, lubricating oils, insurance, maintenance, and repairs, reached $4.3 million during the first half of 2016 compared to $4.9 million during the same period in 2015. The breakdown of our operating expenses for the six month period ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 was as follows:
Average daily operating expenses during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were $4,337 per vessel per day and $3,965 per vessel per day respectively, corresponding to an increase of 9%.
Depreciation charge during the first half of 2016 decreased by $0.7 million and reached $2.5 million compared to $3.2 million recognized during the same period in 2015. The decrease is attributed to the decrease of the average number of vessels of the fleet to 5.4 during the first half of 2016 from 7 for the same period in 2015, due to the sale of m/v Tiara Globe in July 2015 and the subsidiary ship-owning company of m/v Energy Globe in March 2016.
Depreciation of dry docking costs
Depreciation of dry docking costs amounted to $0.5 million during the first half of 2016 and 2015.
Amortization of fair value of time charter attached to vessels
Amortization of the fair value of the time charter attached to vessels refers to the fair value of the time charter attached to the vessel m/v Sun Globe, acquired during the second half of 2011, which was amortized on a straight line basis over the remaining period of the time charter. The vessel was redelivered during January 2015.
Impairment loss
On May 11, 2015 we entered into a memorandum of agreement for the sale of vessel m/v Tiara Globe for a sale price of $5.5 million. On that date the vessel was classified as held for sale, stopped being depreciated and subsequently measured at its fair value less cost to sell. As a result we recognized an impairment charge of $7.7 million corresponding to the difference of the vessel's carrying value at that time and its fair value less cost to sale.
Loss from sale of subsidiary
In March 2016, the Company entered into an agreement with Commerzbank to sell the shares of Kelty Marine Ltd., to an unaffiliated third party and apply the total net proceeds from the sale towards the respective loan facility. Based on certain financial conditions agreed beforehand with the Bank this resulted in the remaining principal amount of the loan to be written off. The financial effect from the sale of Kelty Marine Ltd. resulted to a loss of $0.15 million. Globus Shipmanagement Corp., the Company's ship management subsidiary continued to act as Kelty Marine Ltd.'s ship manager at $900 per day until June 27th 2016 when it ceased being its manager.
Interest expense and finance costs
Interest expense and finance costs reached $1.4 million during the first half of 2016 compared to $1.3 during the same period in 2015. Interest expense and finance costs for the first half of 2016 and 2015 are analyzed as follows:
Liquidity and capital resources
As of June 30, 2016 our cash and bank balances and bank deposits were $0.2 million and as of December 31, 2015 were $2.5 million.
Net cash used in operating activities for the six month period ended June 30, 2016 was $1.5 million compared to Net cash generated from operating activities $0.2 million during the respective period in 2015. The decrease in our cash from operations was mainly attributed to the further decrease in our adjusted LBITDA from $0.8 million during the first half of 2015 to $2.3 million during the six month period under consideration.
Net cash used in financing activities during the three-month and six-month periods ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were as follows:
As of June 30, 2016 and 2015 we and our vessel-owning subsidiaries had outstanding borrowings under our Loan agreement with Commerzbank AG, the Loan agreement with DVB Bank SE, the Loan agreement with HSH Nordbank AG and our Firment and Silaner Credit Facilities of an aggregate of $63.7 million and $82.9 million respectively gross of unamortized debt discount.
Amended agreements with the banks
As previously announced in March and April 2016, the Company entered into amended agreements with DVB Bank and HSH Nordbank AG on certain amendments and waivers to the terms of the original agreements drawn in 2011 and 2015 respectively. By these agreements the Company was successful in achieving waivers and relaxations on its loan covenants as well as defer installment loan payments due in 2016.
Listing transfer to NASDAQ Capital Market
As previously reported the Company was notified by NASDAQ in October 2015 that it no longer satisfied the minimum market value of publicly held shares ("MVPHS") continued listing requirement for the NASDAQ Global Market, therefore the Company successfully transferred to the NASDAQ Capital Market and commence trading on April 11, 2016. The Company also was notified by NASDAQ in November 2015 that it no longer met the minimum bid price of $1 per share. On May 10 the Company received a notification from NASDAQ that since it met the continued listing requirement for market value of publicly held shares and all other applicable requirements for initial listing on the Capital Market and had Company's written notice of its intention to do everything possible including a reverse stock split if necessary to cure the price deficiency, the Company was granted a second grace period until November 7th 2016 to regain compliance with the bid price. Both the NASDAQ Global Market and the NASDAQ Capital Market are tiers of the NASDAQ Stock Market, which is an established securities market.
The Silaner Investments Credit Facility
In January 2016, the Company entered into a credit facility for up to $3.0 million with Silaner Investments Limited, a company related through common control, for the purpose of financing its general working capital needs.
(1) Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA represents net (loss)/earnings before interest and finance costs net, gains or losses from the change in fair value of derivative financial instruments, foreign exchange gains or losses, income taxes, depreciation, depreciation of dry-docking costs, amortization of fair value of time charter acquired, impairment and gains or losses on sale of vessels. Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA does not represent and should not be considered as an alternative to total comprehensive income/(loss) or cash generated from operations, as determined by IFRS, and our calculation of Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA may not be comparable to that reported by other companies. Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA is not a recognized measurement under IFRS.
Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA is included herein because it is a basis upon which we assess our financial performance and because we believe that it presents useful information to investors regarding a company's ability to service and/or incur indebtedness and it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry.
Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under IFRS. Some of these limitations are:
Because of these limitations, Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA should not be considered a measure of discretionary cash available to us to invest in the growth of our business.
The following table sets forth a reconciliation of Adjusted (LBITDA)/EBITDA to total comprehensive (loss) and net cash (used in)/ generated from operating activities for the periods presented:
About Globus Maritime Limited
Globus is an integrated dry bulk shipping company that provides marine transportation services worldwide and presently owns, operates and manages a fleet of five dry bulk vessels that transport iron ore, coal, grain, steel products, cement, alumina and other dry bulk cargoes internationally. Globus' subsidiaries own and operate seven vessels with a total carrying capacity of 300,571 Dwt and a weighted average age of 8.5 years as of September 15, 2016.
Safe Harbor Statement
This communication contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under U.S. federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements provide the Company's current expectations or forecasts of future events. Forward-looking statements include statements about the Company's expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, intentions, assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts or that are not present facts or conditions. Words or phrases such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "ongoing," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "will" or similar words or phrases, or the negatives of those words or phrases, may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not necessarily mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements for many reasons specifically as described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, you should not unduly rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this communication. Globus undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events after the date of this communication or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. You should, however, review the factors and risks Globus describes in the reports it will file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission after the date of this communication.
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What's the problem?
Large organisations all produce large amounts of information, but how much of it is useful and how well is it being produced?
The documents are typically generated by a committee of sorts, not a lone writer. The quality of outputs is usually variable, but the cost is almost always high. This is because the core writing process is bloated with accumulated layers of well-intentioned contributions (from multiple briefers, reviewers, and authorisers).
In government agencies, it is common for more than a dozen senior staff — in addition to the writer(s) — to contribute to the production of even a relatively simple ministerial briefing (see the tables below). This explodes costs without a commensurate boost to the quality of outputs.
In corporate environments, it is also common for large teams to produce exhaustive documents (such as business cases, sales documents, or board papers) in which the audience's need for critical and concise decision-making information remains unmet, or is buried in swathes of non-essential 'padding'.
Instead of all this effort leading to excellent outputs, the busyness usually obscures responsibilities and leaves writers confused about what they should write, for whom, and to whose satisfaction.
What's the solution?
Office workers, like all of us, work within systems whose influence cannot be overestimated.
…the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in — W. Edwards Deming
When managers determine documents are costing too much in relation to their usefulness, they often respond by sending their colleagues to a business writing course (such as my Writing Essentials course). But the performance of those colleagues is bound by the quality of the document production system they work in. Until the system is improved (or, more likely, transformed), the outputs of the system cannot consistently improve.
For example, a system that allows loose briefs is one that forces writers to guess and ensures costly rework (drafts, edits, reviews).
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New: Visualising document production lines
For optimal efficiency, a document produced via a managerial commissioning and review process would have only two participants. The writer writes for the audience to the satisfaction of the manager. Simple.
But what typically occurs in large organisations is a much costlier process with many more chefs in the kitchen. This is a real-world example of the production line for writing a briefing paper for a minister. (CE stands for chief executive and DCE stands for deputy chief executive.)
In a system like this, writers are (not surprisingly) unlikely to be certain of the goal and audience, and of who actually decides if their work is satisfactory or not. Thankfully, restaurant kitchens don't have 'loose' systems like this. If they did, we would all be paying a lot more for our meals, waiting a very long time for them, and never being quite sure what we would actually be served.
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(CBS) — If you want a bigger paycheck, just ask for a raise, right?
But a lot of women don't.
That may help explain why even though they make up more than half of the workforce their average weekly earnings are $300 less than men in the same jobs.
CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker has some advice for women who are looking to get paid more.
Tracie Willis thinks she deserves a raise, but she has yet to ask for it.
"It's something that right now would scare me a little bit," admits Nicole Bazinsky.
She, too, is still waiting.
Their reluctance is not surprising to life coach Lisa Kaplin.
"They don't want to be difficult or demanding," she says.
Don't think your boss will offer you a raise just because you deserve it. You have to ask.
"The mistake a lot of women make is they add some fluff. … They say 'I'm sorry to bother you, but I want to ask for a raise.' It really diminishes the request. Say your line with assertiveness and authority," Kaplin advises.
Most importantly, do your homework. Know your market value. Know how much of a raise you want. And be prepared to prove your worth.
Kaplin urged women to make a list of accomplishments for their employer.
"We think it's bragging, but it's not bragging," she says.
It worked for Alyssa Graver. She recently got a raise and a promotion to managing director at a financial consulting firm.
"We went through it and ultimately they said, 'You presented your case in a very professional way,' and they made it happen," she says.
A couple more tips: Don't compare your accomplishments to your colleagues, which could come across as childish. And, don't just barge into your boss's office. Instead, make an appointment to discuss your request.


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