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Let's set the scene… You've become a little bit – shall we say – socially excited and consumed too much pinot than you probably should and are in desperate need of a good feed to soak up some of that lovely grape juice. Since it is after 10pm, your only option is trust Maccas, or some other fast food joint where you will inevitably break all of the sincere healthy eating promises you've made to your sober self… right? Wrong! Avoid the fast food vortex awash with greasy food, sore stomachs and regret and read on.
It may seem that Brisbane's late night dining scene is far from enviable, but that's just on the surface. Fear not, our foodie friends, because over here at Brisbane Threads, we have done the research (read: the pinot situation) and compiled a short but sweet list that will send you on the right path for late night foodie options for every taste, budget and level of intoxication.
Heya Bar – 367 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
Heya Bar, where Brunswick Social once stood, takes the previous bar's dumpling house to another level. With bar food of an Asian influence being served until late, it is everything you have ever wanted. It's so hip that you will want to start and end your night here. #BTinsidertip – The mushroom and bacon gyozas are to die for.
Open Wed 6pm-midnight, Thurs-Sat 6pm-3am
Alfredo's Pizzeria – 39 Alfred Street, Fortitude Valley
Pizza. The forever-favourite late night snack. But why settle and guzzle down a greasy $2 slice when Alfredo's Pizzeria is open till late AND serves wood fired deliciousness for Brisbane folk. Neighboring Alfred and Constance, Alfredo's Pizzeria is the place to get the best late night takeaway. And the best part? Alfredo's Delivers until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays!
Open Sun-Thurs midday-1am, Fri & Sat midday-3am
Public – Level 1, 400 George Street, Brisbane
One word can explain a late night feed at Public – KFD. The Kentucky fried Duck will keep you and your drunken alter ego coming back again and again (and than maybe when you're sober too!). This uber cool part-kitchen-part-bar combo is perched in a glass box on George St and has all the makings of a New York loft. Trust us, you will feel like the epitome of class (even if you might look otherwise…). With the kitchen closing at 11 pm you will have plenty of time to pop in and soothe your starving self after happy hour ends.
Open Mon-Fri 11.30am-midnight, Sat 5-midnight
Kwan Brothers – 43 Alfred Street, Fortitude Valley
Kwan Brothers, occupying the A&C corner that we have come to know and love, is a ripper for Asian street food and fresh fusion bites. The kitchen is open to 11pm, so Kwan Bro's is not one for a spontaneous early morning feed, but rather drinks and a good belly of food before your big night. If you lay the foundations right, you won't be cursing in the am* (*we can't guarantee that).
Open Mon-Thurs 5-11pm, Fri-Sun midday-11pm
Gerard's Bistro – 14/15 James Street, Fortitude Valley
Gerard's is another one that must be planned in advance, otherwise you risk missing out on their famous fare and uber-cool vibes. If you're jumping around the James Street precinct and starting late, start here and keep it classy before the night truly unfolds.
Open Mon-Sun until late
Riverbar & Kitchen – 71 Eagle Street, Brisbane
Picturesque views of the Story Bridge and Brisbane River, tasty cocktails, delicious food and seats under the stars, Riverbar & Kitchen is not just a good breakfast and lunch spot – when the sun drops the party really starts. The good news is you can still grab a good bite to eat just before midnight pre-dancing.
Open Mon-Sun 7-11.30pm
Canvas – 16B Logan Road, Woolloongabba
If you want food that compliments the drinks menu, Canvas is where it's at. Grab a late dinner dish or a round of rustic charcuterie and mezzo boards to keep you going all night long after the hunger pains set in a couple of hours before midnight. Did someone say boutique wines and craft beer?
Open Tues-Fri midday-midnight, Sat-Sun 8am-midnight
Jimmy's On The Mall – Queen Street Mall, Brisbane
Did you know Jimmy's On The Mall is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Me either, until now! Whether it's dinner at 11pm, a quick snack on the way home at 3am or breakfast at 7am, you'll find something tasty at Jimmy's On The Mall without a doubt. Bonus – it's recently been renovated and is now looking sparkling new and oh so shiny with fairy lights and greenery on every wall.
Open 24hrs, 7 days
The Sangria Bar, Ole Restaurant, 13/14 grey Street, South Bank
Tapas and sangria…. at midnight… in Brisbane. Is there anything better?! The Sangria Bar at Ole Restaurant operates in true Spanish style, open until late and serving dishes inspired by the motherland, made with fresh local product and authentic imported staple ingredients.
Open Mon-Sun 11am-late (food available until midnight Thurs-Sat)
Pancake Manor – 18 Charlotte Street, Brisbane
And finally an iconic Brisbane institution. Pancake Manor has the monopoly on late night dining in Brisbane for all age groups – tween, teen, vibrant 20's, mid thirties…. everyone has either been there, is going there or is there! Though it might not be high on a foodie's bucket list, it's open all day and night, every day and night and when it's 3am, fluffy pancakes with all of the toppings a really good idea. Just trust us on this one.
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Each crane has a unique combination of 3 coloured rings on their right leg. This marking code helps to identify the crane in the wild.
- Sex: Male
- Date of Hatching (birthday): 21 April, 2011
- Date of Release: 22 August, 2011
- Tracking Tag: Radio tracking
- Status: Alive. Paired with Easter Beans (2012 female). No breeding attempts yet. 2016: No known nesting attempts. 2017: No known nesting attempts
- Life Status: Alive
- Champion Status: Championed
- Paired with: Easter Beans
Character profile:
May 2011: Wally is Lofty's sibling and hatched shortly after Lofty. He is currently one of the biggest and boldest of the cranes having hatched with its sibling a clear four days ahead of the rest. He is quite well-bonded with Lofty. August 2011: Wally is still the largest bird, and although some have caught him up and tried for the position as leader of the group, he is still upholding top crane status! He likes to know everything that is going on with other birds and always follows us about if we are doing something unusual nearby. He is forming a strong
bond with his sibling Lofty and also with Albert. October 2011: Wally has turned into a very fine looking crane and is part of the large and fairly stable flock of cranes that has been foraging away on the Levels and Moors through the autumn. September 2012: Wally has adapted well to life with the Somerset flock and he and his cohort are all behaving as naturally as any wild cranes. They have spent the summer feeding on the un-seasonally flooded grasslands of the Moors and Levels in small fragmented groups, but as Autumn rolls in they are starting to flock again and follow the harvest, hoovering up any spilt and wasted grain in farmer's fields. January 2014: 2013 was largely uneventful for Wally, spending the spring and summer on Aller Moor and West Sedgemoor and the winter very much as part of a tight-knit flock on Stanmoor, near Stoke-St.Gregory. We hope that he will pair up this year, although at 3 years old he is still very young to make a breeding attempt. August 2014: Wally appeared to be pairing up with Easter Beans during the early spring - but was then seen more in combination with Pippa and the 2010 male Cosmo, during April - mostly frequently on West Moor where he was seen regularly into May. He appears to have remained single - and we are pretty sure he went into moult on West Sedgemoor - disappearing for a while before reappearing in mid July. July 2015: Wally spent the autumn and winter of 2014/15 with the main Somerset flock but by early March it was clear that he was paired up with Easter Beans, a female from the 2012 release year. In early April 2015 the pair turned up on private land near Templecoombe on the Somerset/Dorset border. The pair appeared to hold a territory there but are not known to have made a breeding attempt. They came back to the Levels in mid May – but were once again seen in the east Somerset area towards the end of the month. February 2016: Wally was seen on an off through the winter of 2015/16 on the Somerset Levels and Moors - but undetected in December and January. He could still be around - but perhaps he is off exploring? Easter Beans - his partner from 2015 - however, was seen in mid January. Time will tell with this pair. July 16: There were unconfirmed reports that this pair had returned to land near Templecombe in East Somerset. On 30 th March they were seen on West Sedgemoor with a group of non-breeding birds. There has been no evidence of nesting attempts reported. Nov 17: In late April Easter Beans was seen with Wally in the flock. Seen later in the year with the flock.
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I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and just downloaded Reader X from the FTP - both exe and msi files.
It doesn't make a difference which installer I use.
When I try to run Acrobat using the created shortcut on the desktop or by double-clicking on a .pdf file, I get this error, with the logo behind it:
and then:
and finally:
If I debug, it actually works (with Visual Studio running).
Deleting anything Adobe on the PC (AppData), installing, repairing doesn't help.
If you run Reader from the installed folder directly, it works.
If you modify the main shortcut (which doesn't include the working directory) it then works from the shortcut.
Double clicking on any PDF file still brings up the error.
Running the AcroRd32.exe file without path from the windows Run dialog works.
The AppPaths registry setting kick in when running the bare AcroRd32.exe, which allow working directory specification.
HKCR\.extension file associations have no way of specifying the working directory.
Related HKCR\Applications settings also don't have a working directory specification.
If I remove the path from the executable file in the various areas of the registry to try to emulate that behaviour (of setting working directory through the AppPaths entry), it doesn't help.
I hope this contribution is helpful in solving the issue. In the meantime, I will have to revert to v9.
If anyone else is running Win-7 64-bit and is *not* experiencing this problem, please reply and say so.
Might be a problem with my system instead...


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What should a CIO be doing to raise the profile of their organisation and grow customer engagement?
How prepared is your organisation to deal with the fallout from a cyber attack?
Emerging technologies can be beneficial to your organisation but which one should you look for?
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Why data centres are relocating to Singapore and the wider Southeast Asian region
How to implement a successful security plan in 5 steps
The Singaporean giant aims to build a customer base of three to five million in the next five years
Standard Chartered CIO Peter Clark on disruptive technology, creating a customer-centric culture and...
Southeast Asia is no stranger to data breaches. Here are six password management solutions to help keep...
What are the responsibilities and salary of Chief Information Officers?
Autonomous Vehicles in Singapore: an overview
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This is only a micropost to say that I'm twittering!
It is curious, because I never thought those social media online could work for me. And I have much work to do, so maybe I won't have much time to write "tweets" (that's the way one defines on Twitter a short message).
Yes, I'm surprised because for the first time a social media online interests me. I can see clearly that it can be useful for me, and the most important part: there are very good people out there; you can help others and others can help you.
The idea behind Twitter is great: microblogging (in a few words we can say many useful things). The great idea is SIMPLICITY. Twitter understands it. A brilliant idea (which could be represented by Google, Blogger, Twitter...) mixed with simplicity almost always works, almost always wins and is successful. People who launched Twitter, no doubt, were clever people.
Yes, Twitter is very simple. And it is also very USABLE, takes care of USABILITY and users. Twitter is very simple and easy to use, yet it can be used in a great variety of ways and has tons of different possibilities for every person, and without never forgetting its original simplicity.
In Twitter you can ask a short question or answer other people's questions, you can join interesting groups, you can search what interests you, you can make friends. And you can inform of your activities as well. "What are you doing now?"
Surely each person uses Twitter differently. Strange, the past days I've used Twitter as a sort of "meditative journal". I know, I know, alas! I won't have much time to do that in the future, but I'm exploring the possibilities of Twitter by now. I know that even could be addictive. But I permit myself to wander a little...
I've said that I use Twitter as a sort of personal journal. So I'm not following people "as I should", and very few people are following me (obvious). But only in a few days I am fully aware that Twitter has tremendous possibilities for people who have the time to write "tweets", ask questions, help others...
I've only pointed here a few features of Twitter. Twitter is a great country and I've just arrived in this land.
Ah! I forgot: you can find me in Twitter here: www.twitter.com/juanbielsa
By now I only have 4 followers, but I'm proud of them :)
Juan Bielsa


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Federal Engagement in Antimicrobial Resistance
The following is a brief overview of recent Federal efforts related to antibiotic resistance (AR) and CDC's role in supporting these AR initiatives.
- White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship
- National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Executive Order – Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- National Strategy to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- PCAST Report on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
- CDC report: Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013
Federal Engagement in Antimicrobial Resistance
CDC funds 34 innovative projects to combat antibiotic resistance
CDC awarded more than $14 million to fund new approaches to combat antibiotic resistance, including research on how microorganisms naturally present in the human body (referred to as a person's microbiome) can be used to predict and prevent infections caused by drug-resistant organisms. The awards, made through CDC's Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), support activities in the CDC's Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative. The initiative, which also provides funding for state health departments and other partners, implements the tracking, prevention, and antibiotic stewardship activities outlined in the National Action Plan for the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [63 pages].
Read the CDC Press Release to learn more.
CDC funding accelerates antibiotic resistance efforts
CDC provided $67 million to help health departments nationwide tackle antibiotic resistance and other patient safety threats, including healthcare-associated infections. The new funding for antibiotic resistance, part of the awards available through CDC's Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement (ELC), also supports seven new regional laboratories with specialized capabilities allowing rapid detection and identification of emerging antibiotic resistant threats.
These funds will be distributed to all 50 state health departments, six local health departments (Chicago, the District of Columbia, Houston, Los Angeles County, New York City and Philadelphia), and Puerto Rico. The awards support activities related to CDC's Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative and implementation of the surveillance, prevention, and stewardship activities outlined in the National Action Plan for the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [63 pages].
Read the CDC media statement to learn more.
CDC Awards $26 Million to Academic Medical Centers, Drives Innovation to Protect Patients
CDC awarded $26 million to support applied research at five academic medical centers as part of a patient safety effort known as Prevention Epicenters Program. Together with CDC, these Prevention Epicenters develop and test innovative approaches to preventing infections and improving patient safety in healthcare settings. The new funding more than doubles previous awards and expands and extends the Prevention Epicenters program to 2020.
Read the CDC press release to learn more.
White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship
On June 2, 2015, the White House hosted the Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship to bring together more than 100 key human and animal health leaders involved in antibiotic stewardship—the development, promotion, and implementation of activities to promote optimal use of antibiotics nationwide. The leaders represented hospitals and healthcare systems, human and animal health, diagnostic and diagnostic pharmaceutical companies, agriculture organizations, and more who committed to taking part in antibiotic stewardship to change the way antibiotics are currently prescribed and used to slow the spread of drug-resistant infections.
Read how organizations have committed to improving antibiotic stewardship.
Some examples of the stewardship commitments include:
- CDC, along with other Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, will provide data about antibiotic use and prescribing trends in order to improve antibiotic use in the future and cut inappropriate prescribing by 50 percent in doctors' offices and 20 percent in hospitals.
- Healthcare systems representing thousands of hospitals, long-term acute care facilities, and skilled nursing centers are committing to establishing or expanding stewardship programs [PDF – 986 KB] across their locations to improve prescribing.
- Major food producers are committing to phasing out giving unnecessary antibiotics to animals, and food retailers, like grocery stores, are committing to providing more antibiotic-free options to their consumers.
- Drug store and drug companies are committing to integrating CDC's stewardship principles into programs that provide free or reduced-price antibiotics to patients.
For additional information about the White House Forum, see the resources listed below:
- White House Statement [ 10 pages]
- Event factsheet listing commitments from each of the participating organizations [10 pages]
- An op-ed from Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, CDC
- CDC feature story on improving antibiotic use
A full description of how, if fully funded, CDC's FY16 budget plans to support stewardship activities and the National Action Plan can be found in the Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative.
National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [63 pages]
The White House released the National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, which outlines steps for implementing the National Strategy and addressing policy recommendations of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report on combating antibiotic resistance.
The National Action Plan outlines federal activities over the next five years to:
- Enhance domestic and international capacity to prevent and contain outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections
- Maintain the efficacy of current and new antibiotics
- Develop and deploy next-generation diagnostics, antibiotics, vaccines, and other therapeutics
Read an interview with President Obama and WebMD about the National Action Plan to Combat Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria.
Read the White House Blog Post by Secretaries Burwell, Carter, and Vilsack on this important topic.
Executive Order – Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [6 pages]
The President released an Executive Order to emphasize the importance of addressing the threat of antimicrobial resistance. The Executive Order included specific actions related to:
- Policy and the government's role to detect, prevent, and control illness and death related to AR by implementing measures to reduce its spread
- Establishing a task force for combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which would be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Defense, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services Department (HHS)
- Developing a five-year National Action Plan to outline specific actions to be taken to implement the National Strategy and updates to the Action Plan in years thereafter
- Establishing the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Improving antibiotic stewardship and use of antibiotics by hospitals and other inpatient healthcare delivery facilities
- Strengthening national surveillance systems and laboratory networks of resistant bacteria
- Preventing and responding to infections and outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Promoting new and next-generation antibiotics and diagnostics
- Supporting cooperation of international antibiotic resistance efforts
» Learn more [5 pages] about the Executive Order.
National Strategy to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [37 pages]
The White House released the National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria to prevent, detect, and control illness and death related to antibiotic-resistant infections. To support the National Strategy, CDC is working to address the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in four key areas:
- Slow the development of resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections.
- Strengthen national one-health surveillance efforts to combat resistance.
- Advance development and use of rapid and innovative diagnostic tests for identification and characterization of resistant bacteria.
- Improve international collaboration and capacities for antibiotic resistance prevention, surveillance, control and antibiotic research and development.
PCAST Report on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance [PDF – 78 pages]
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its report to the President on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance in the U.S. with key recommendations focusing on antibiotic resistance policy, stewardship, and surveillance. The PCAST's recommendations to curb antibiotic resistance include three key areas:
- Improving surveillance of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Increasing longevity of current antibiotics by improving use and implementation of interventions
- Increasing the rate at which new antibiotics and other interventions are discovered and developed
» Learn more [2-pages] about the PCAST Report.
CDC report: Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013
CDC released its report, Antimicrobial resistance threats in the U.S., and sounded the alarm to drug-resistant bacteria. The report, the first to look at burden and threats posed by AR on human health, shows:
- More than two million people are sickened every year with antibiotic-resistant infections, with at least 23,000 dying as a result
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria prioritized by threat-level: urgent, serious, or concerning
- Core initiatives taken by CDC to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance
- Summaries of resistant bacteria, including key actions that public health professionals, health providers, and patients can take to combat antibiotic resistance
- Page last reviewed: February 2, 2017
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By: JIE JENNY ZOU | Published: August 28, 2012
The finale to August's multimedia boot camp came in the form of an audio slideshow–a marriage of the audio and photo immersions.
In theory, this makes a lot of sense. In theory.
Anyhow, here's the resulting baby.
And yeah, 2 days of shooting + 2 reporters = 1 minute video. Journalists really do have a way with math.
I'm not knocking audio slideshows. I'm a big fan of the LA Times multimedia crew, which still cranks out some great audio/photo pieces like this. And I'd be remiss not to mention NY Times' One in 8 Million series, which literally occupied hours of my life the year it came out in 2009.
But truth be told, I'm a video kind of gal.
This particular project also proved to be especially difficult for another reason. We were required to work in pairs and at first, I was thrilled. It took a lot of the pressure off, since we only had access to equipment for two days, and I was eager to work with my peers.
But everything comes with a caveat.
I'm told I'm a bit obsessive. This is an understatement.
I'd done an audio slideshow previously as an undergrad (see here), but I had been limited in both experience and equipment. But it still worked (I think) !
As a graduate student working with another graduate student and now having learned recently how to shoot manually, I felt empowered to turn out something doubly or triply as good.
The conundrums with these kinds of shared assignments usually tend to concentrate in a few areas: editorial choices, labor division, and essentially, personality differences.
Luckily, Columbia decided to take out one of the confounding aspects by requiring each member produce their own version using identical ingredients.


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The fractured rock region of Maryland, which includes land areas north and west of the Interstate 95 corridor, is the source of water supply for approximately 4.4 million Marylanders, or approximately 76 percent of the State's population. Whereas hundreds of thousands of residents rely on wells (both domestic and community), millions rely on surface-water sources. In this region, land use, geology, topography, water withdrawals, impoundments, and other factors affect water-flow characteristics. The unconfined groundwater systems are closely interconnected with rivers and streams, and are affected by seasonal and climatic variations. During droughts, groundwater levels drop, thereby decreasing well yields, and in some cases, wells have gone dry. Low ground-water levels contribute to reduced streamflows, which in turn, can lead to reduced habitat for aquatic life. Increased demand, over-allocation, population growth, and climate change can affect the future sustainability of water supplies in the region of Maryland underlain by fractured rock.
In response to recommendations of the 2008 Advisory Committee on the Management and Protection of the State's Water Resources report, the Maryland Department of the Environment's Water Supply Program, the Maryland Geological Survey, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Monitoring and Non-Tidal Assessment (MANTA) Division, and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed a science plan for a comprehensive assessment that will provide new scientific information, new data analysis, and new tools for the State to better manage water resources in the fractured rock region of Maryland. The science plan lays out five goals for the comprehensive assessment: (1) develop tools for the improved management and investigation of groundwater and surface-water resources; (2) characterize factors affecting reliable yields of individual groundwater and surface-water supplies; (3) investigate impacts on nearby water withdrawal users caused by groundwater and surface-water withdrawals; (4) assess the role of streamflow and water withdrawals on the ecological integrity of streams; and (5) improve understanding of the distribution of water-quality conditions in fractured rock aquifers. To accomplish these goals, accurate data collection, review, and analysis are needed, including the study of "Research Watersheds" that can provide detailed information about the potential effects that climate change and water withdrawals may have on groundwater, streamflow, and aquatic life.
The assessment planning started in 2009 and is being conducted with close interagency coordination. A Fractured Rock Aquifer Information System is currently (2012) undergoing initial development. Other major tasks that will be performed include the development of work plans for each science goal, the estimation of daily streamflow at ungaged streams, and the design and implementation of Research Watersheds. Finally, scenarios will be modeled to evaluate current water allocation permitting methodologies, investigate effects on nearby water withdrawal users caused by groundwater and surface-water withdrawals, and assess the potential impacts of climate change on water resources.
Desktop and Web-based tools will be developed in order to meet the diverse research needs of the assessment. These tools, including the Fractured Rock Aquifer Information System will be continuously improved during the assessment to store relevant groundwater and surface-water data in spatially referenced databases, estimate streamflows, locate higher-yielding wells, estimate the impacts of withdrawals on nearby users, and assess the cumulative impacts of withdrawals on the aquatic resource. Tools will be developed to serve the needs of many audiences, including water resource managers, water suppliers, planners, policymakers, and other scientific investigators.
First posted August 22, 2012
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Adam Trombetta (intern) writes…
When did it become okay for professional journalists to use profanity on the front page of a newspaper?
Probably about the same time it became possible to send new information into the world at the single press of a button. The fear is gone, and the de-sensitisation has breached even our traditional form of media.
For example, the front page of The Australian last Wednesday featured a headline which read, 'It's total bullshit'. The article was a well-researched piece about Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes in defence of his decision to move his Australian based company to Wall Street.
The broadsheet newspaper, which largely focuses on business and political affairs, probably would not have dared feature such a term even just a few years ago. But times have changed.
We can credit this change in literary style to the explosion of social media. With young people now more involved in the discussion of news and current affairs than ever before, traditional media is looking at every option available to stay relevant and contemporary.
As a result, news organisations seem to be becoming more relaxed in their approach, and are somewhat forfeiting their once strict style standards – at least when it comes to publishing profanity. The new standard seems to be as long as we don't use the F word, everything is okay.
What do you think, is swearing acceptable in mainstream media?
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Where is the map to guide common-law development?Author D.M. DavisSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 3 –14 (2014)More Less
In 1921, at the age of 45, Morti Malherbe succeeded HHA Fagan (later to become Chief Justice of South Africa) as Professor in the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, which had been established only one year previously and which was then the first law faculty in which the medium of instruction was Afrikaans. Malherbe continued to teach until the end of 1954 when he was 80. Writing in 1964, one of Malherbe's students, Professor Wouter de Vos (who was also my teacher) paid tribute to the contribution that Malherbe had made to the law faculty at Stellenbosch. In particular, he emphasised that Malherbe's approach was not primarily designed to produce practitioners possessed with ready practical knowledge but was rather to train jurists who would be armed with clear legal principles and capable of analytical thought. His inspirational teaching encouraged a remarkable number of talented people to continue in the field of higher research, which research unquestionably developed South African private law.
The role of law faculties and law academics : academic education or qualification for practice?Author Jonathan CampbellSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 15 –33 (2014)More Less
South African law faculties have a dual function: to produce law graduates who require the LLB qualification for entry to the profession; and a broader, educative, academic function that emphasises personal and professional development, intellectual endeavour, and strives to produce well-rounded law graduates. Likewise, there are two major stakeholders in the law faculty: the profession, and the university of which the law faculty forms part. How then do law academics regard their role? Again, there is a dual purpose: some academics with a practice background see the primary (even sole) outcome of legal education as the production of graduates ready for legal practice; other academics prefer to emphasise the academic aspects of legal education, including generic academic skills, with practical application to follow later during vocational training. Most law academics today (with rare exceptions) would probably concede and accept these dual functions, which quite naturally co-exist in a pervasive tension, which should be expected. This article considers the central tenets of these two imperatives, and argues that both are crucial for legal education, and are not mutually exclusive. The LLB is the statutory requirement for entry to legal practice, yet over-emphasis on qualification for practice in a truncated four-year programme has failed LLB graduates and the profession. The profession needs better educated, higher quality law graduates who are able to read, write and speak well, and who meet other important graduate attributes such as a capacity for critical analysis. A broader, formative legal education with a strong skills focus will better prepare graduates for practice in the private and public sector, requiring a high level of competence at admission and graduation stages to be able to complete it.
Fracking in the Karoo : approvals required?Author Jeannie Van WykSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 34 –54 (2014)More Less
The possibility of exploiting vast shale gas deposits in the Karoo Basin in South Africa by using a mining technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", became a reality during 2008. The granting of a number of applications for licences to extract gas was met with stiff resistance on the one hand and enthusiastic reception on the other. All the uncertainties and controversies caused the Department of Mineral Resources to place a moratorium on licences and setting up a task team to get a better perspective on fracking through the publication of the Report on Investigation of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo Basin of South Africa (2012). Since fracking has the potential to detrimentally affect the environment and water resources the main focus of the article is to indicate which permits, licences or authorisations are required before fracking can commence. Core components of the different approval processes are procedures for both public participation and the submission of some form of environmental assessment, programme or report. Prefacing this discussion is a brief examination of what fracking is, where shale gas deposits exist in South Africa and what the extent of such deposits is.
Sales in execution of immovable property, the rules of court and the Consumer Protection Act regulations : back to the drawing board?Authors: Charl Hugo and Elmien Du PlessisSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 55 –71 (2014)More Less
Banks often lend money to prospective home owners, which loans are secured by mortgage bonds. When owners default on payments, the banks foreclose by taking judgment against the owners, and selling the properties in execution by public auction. The Rules of the High Court and the Magistrate's Court Rules regulate these auctions in detail. In 2008, the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 was enacted. Section 45 governs auctions, and for purposes of section 45 and the regulations promulgated under it, "auction" includes a sale in execution pursuant to a court order. In this article, we show that the Consumer Protection Act, read with the Regulations, does not make sense with regard to sales in execution. It seems clear that the Regulations aim to protect bidders at a normal auction, especially the provisions that aim to regulate the participation of owners or their agents as bidders and the requirement of the notice of a reserve price. This is already covered under the Uniform Rules of Court. Any other reading of the Regulations leads to absurdities. Based on this finding, we propose that section 45 of the Consumer Protection Act in general, and the Regulations in particular, need to be rethought.
Does method really matter? Reconsidering the role of common-law remedies in the eviction paradigmAuthor Zsa-Zsa Temmers BoggenpoelSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 72 –98 (2014)More Less
The new constitutional dispensation brought with it (inevitably) large scale deviations in the way remedies in the context of evictions are applied in modern South African law. This article examines how the sources of law relate to one another in the search for suitable remedies for infringement of constitutional rights. Specifically in eviction law, it is clear that the relationship between the sources of law is uncertain for purposes of finding a remedy in the case of infringements of section 26(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 ("the Constitution"). The evictee arguably has the possibility of two coinciding remedies, namely the mandament van spolie and a constitutional remedy under section 26(3). The article shows that both these remedies would in principle provide the same type of remedial content in the sense of ensuring that repossession takes place (thereby reversing the illegal eviction) so that the occupiers are (temporarily) placed in the position they were in prior to the illegal eviction (or dispossession) and the merits of the dispute can be decided in a subsequent eviction application. Nonetheless, it is argued that in order to ensure the types of decisions that give full effect to the rights as envisaged by the Constitution, courts should not be too quick to discard of the possibility that the common-law remedy could be invoked in the context of eviction. If the need arises to reconsider the common-law remedies in light of the Constitution (and to develop them in line with the Constitution) courts are not able to shy away from their obligation in terms of section 39(2).
Bequest of a "business concern together with all its assets and liabilities" : some commentsAuthor Anton Van der LindeSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 99 –115 (2014)More Less
This article addresses the nature of a bequest in a will to a beneficiary of a "business concern together with all its assets and liabilities" in view of the facts in Gradus v Sport Helicopters also known as Sport Aviation (19879/2008) 2012 ZAWCHC 365 (28 November 2012) SAFLII http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/2012/365.html. In the course of transporting passengers in terms of the business of Sports Aviation, a helicopter crashed. Soon after the accident the owner of the business died and bequeathed to his son ("the beneficiary") "the business concern known as Sports Aviation together with all its assets and liabilities". Two years later, passengers involved in the accident issued summons. The action was brought against the beneficiary. The question before the court was whether the beneficiary inherited the liability arising from the helicopter accident prior to the testator's death, or whether the deceased estate bore liability. Although the court found adiation of the benefit by the beneficiary not to have taken place, the article addresses some related issues, such as the possible impression that the testator bequeathed liabilities as such. As a matter of general interest the author also pursues some arguments or defences available to the beneficiary should the court indeed have found that he adiated the benefit. The conclusion is reached that the bequest above, arguably, constitutes a modus which is in itself a valid bequest. It is, however, argued that adiation by a beneficiary of the benefit (a "sole proprietorship") immediately upon the death of the testator is seemingly not possible since the (business) assets were subject to sale if there were to be insufficient funds in the estate (of the deceased) to pay the estate debts or to cover cash legacies. The probable intention of the testator when making such a bequest and the possible meaning of the word "liabilities" are investigated. Applicable presumptions, the issue of adiation "in excusable ignorance of rights" and the question whether the action for pain and suffering is passively transmissible, are briefly considered.
Addressing the issue in Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality in legislationAuthor B.V. SladeSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 116 –125 (2014)More Less
In Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality 2011 1 SA 601 (KZP) ("Harvey") the High Court had to decide whether it was competent to order the re-transfer of expropriated property to the previous owner when the purpose for which the property was expropriated could not be realised. The court refused to order the re-transfer of the property due to the absence of legislation that authorises the Court to re-transfer expropriated property upon the non-realisation of the purpose of the expropriation. In March 2013, a draft Expropriation Bill was released for public comment. This note shows that the Expropriation Bill, if passed into law, does not address the issue that was present in Harvey, but only allows for the re-transfer of previously expropriated property in very limited circumstances. Since the Expropriation Bill does not effectively address the issue that was present in Harvey, recommendations are made that should resolve the issue that was present in that decision. The main objective of the amending provisions should be to indicate the nature of the right of re-transfer, the persons entitled to claim re-transfer, the time-frame within which the expropriated owner can reclaim the property upon non-implementation of the purpose, setting up a framework for calculating the amount that has to be repaid, as well as the circumstances under which the state would not be required to re-transfer the property to the previous owner. Including detailed legislation that effectively resolves the issue in Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality, the state would be prevented from changing the purpose for which expropriated property is used at its own discretion. It would also prevent the state from using a valid public purpose as a smokescreen to use the property for a different purpose after the property has been expropriated.
The legal recognition of child-headed households : is our focus where it should be?Author Hanneretha KrugerSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 126 –142 (2014)More Less
Child-headed households are recognised as an independent family form in the Children's Act 38 of 2005, provided that this is in the best interests of all the children living in the household. This step by the South African legislator, hailed by some child law scholars as groundbreaking, was severely criticised by others. This criticism is understandable in view of the alarming projections in the early 2000s of the number of children who were expected to be orphaned as a result of the AIDS epidemic. The starting point of this contribution is an important article published by Helen Meintjies and Sonja Giese in 2006 ("Spinning the Epidemic: The Making of Mythologies of Orphanhood in the Context of AIDS" (2006) 13 Childhood 407). In this article the authors discuss data collected from a qualitative research project that showed the questionability of a singular focus on orphanhood in HIV/AIDS discourse and the resultant one-dimensional view of the real impact of the AIDS pandemic on children. They indicate that this singular focus on orphanhood masks the true vulnerabilities of children, particularly poverty. The findings they discuss were confirmed by larger-scale quantitative studies at the time. This contribution discusses and emphasises the important findings of Meintjies and Giese. It also illustrates that more recent quantitative studies confirm their qualitative findings. The conclusion is reached that government responses that address the needs of orphans to the exclusion of all other vulnerable children, are inappropriate. The importance of focusing government resources on poverty alleviation for all vulnerable children, including orphans and children living in child-headed households, is highlighted.
Tenure security and farmland: will recent policy and legislative developments improve the plight of rural dwellers?Author Priviledge DhliwayoSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 143 –159 (2014)More Less
Twenty years since the government embarked on an all-encompassing land reform programme, tenure security on white-owned commercial farmland is generally still lacking. This led the government to review its policy and legislative measures on tenure reform, particularly tenure security on farmland, with the aim to improve tenure security. The Draft Tenure Security Policy ("Draft Policy") and Draft Land Tenure Security Bill were published in 2010. This article examines the government's obligation to improve tenure security, in particular relating to rural dwellers and farm workers. In this regard the article focuses specifically on the shortcomings of the existing policy and legislative measures in order to highlight the possible impact of the Draft Policy and Bill in this context. The article questions whether the Draft Policy and Bill in its present format are suitable to address the challenges on farmland in relation to tenure security. In this regard, two options are explored, namely (i) whether overhauling the whole tenure system on farmland will be necessary to address tenure issues; or (ii) whether amending the Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 ("ESTA") and the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act 3 of 1996 ("LTA") would be more appropriate. Due to the continued existing shortcomings linked to capacity and implementation, as well as the lacunae between the Draft Policy and Bill, it seems as if an overhaul of the whole tenure system on farmland would not be a feasible solution. Instead, apart from amending and improving ESTA and the LTA, specific proactive conduct from the government and other role players is required. Institutional capacity building and adequate funding are further requisites to ensure effective implementation of legislation and tenure reform measures.
Defining the limits of the common-law, South African and European privilege against self-incriminationAuthor C. TheophilopoulosSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 160 –186 (2014)More Less
The privilege against self-incrimination is a fundamental first generation procedural right of the Anglo-American adversarial system. Its origin is to be found some 700 years ago in the political-legal struggle for supremacy between the canon law prerogative courts of the English monarch and the indigenous common-law courts. Together with its corollary principle, the right to silence, the privilege has had a significant jurisprudential influence on the procedural law of all western systems of justice. The primary purpose of this article is to make a comparative study of the privilege in major commonwealth jurisdictions such as England, Australia, Canada and South Africa in order to explain the nature of the common-law and statutory privilege, and to expose the jurisdictional variations in the privilege's application. A secondary purpose is to contrast the common-law privilege with that of the continental privilege defined in article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and to identify unique principles of the common-law and European privilege which may be successfully incorporated into the South African privilege. An incidental purpose of the article is to comprehensively explain the principal requirements of the privilege, thereby adding to the corpus of knowledge about the South African privilege which has previously been treated in a somewhat cursory fashion by most scholarly works and court decisions.
Local government indigent policies in the pursuit of social justice in South Africa through the lenses of FraserAuthor Oliver FuoSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 187 –208 (2014)More Less
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 is committed to addressing the injustices of the past and to establishing a society based on social justice. This constitutional commitment is now firmly rooted both in the vision of transformative constitutionalism and the constitutional obligation on government to promote sustainable development. Scholars and jurists agree that social justice is primarily concerned with the eradication of poverty and extreme forms of inequalities in order to ensure that impoverished people have the basic needs required to function as true equals in socio-political life. The constitutional commitment to pursue social justice translates into a mandate which must be realised by the government of South Africa. As a co-responsible sphere of government, scholars and other experts share the view that local government is equally obliged to contribute towards the pursuit of social justice. The purpose of this article is to explore and critically investigate the relevance and potential of local government indigent policies in contributing towards the pursuit of social justice in South Africa through the lenses of Fraser's theory of social justice based on "participatory parity". Based on benchmarks distilled from Fraser's "affirmative" policy reform proposals, this article argues, inter alia, that, although the framework of local government indigent policies incorporates features that could enable municipalities to contribute towards advancing social justice in South Africa, their inability to adequately address the actual needs of impoverished people amounts to a denial of social recognition that is inimical to the pursuit of social justice.
Beyond UNCITRAL : the challenges of procurement reform implementation in AfricaAuthor Sope Williams-ElegbeSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 209 –224 (2014)More Less
Most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have undergone some form of public procurement reform in the last two decades. This reform usually takes the form of the passage of new procurement regulation, which is usually based on the UNCITRAL model law as well as the creation of new institutions or the strengthening of existing ones. In addition, procurement reform may be accompanied by capacity building measures directed at the professionalisation of the procurement cadre and the enforcement of a remedial system where there are breaches of procurement regulation. Despite the extensive efforts directed at procurement reform, in some countries, the reformed system does not always yield the desired results in terms of more efficient, transparent and effective procurement. This research examines some of the factors that may undermine public procurement reform in Africa, using South Africa and Nigeria as case studies and concludes that procurement reform in the 21st century may need to be considered from a more holistic perspective if it is to deliver an adequate, modern and well-functioning procurement system, improve public sector governance and accountability and aid socio-economic development through prudent public spending.
The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa's Basic Law, S. Woolman : book reviewAuthor Henk BothaSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 225 –229 (2014)More Less
Stu Woolman's new book is an ambitious work, which expounds a theory of constitutionalism which breaks with traditional understandings of the self, the social and constitutional law, and seeks to reconceive them in a number of ways. This it does by drawing on a wide variety of scientific fields, theoretical endeavours, analogies and metaphors. To mention but a few examples: global neuronal workspace theory and experimental philosophy are enlisted to problematise and point beyond metaphysical conceptions of selfhood and individual freedom; the notions of feedback mechanisms, choice architecture and social capital are employed to rethink the social and the possibility of social change; and concepts such as shared constitutional interpretation and participatory bubbles are developed as a way out of the stale oppositions that tend to characterise constitutional thought. Throughout, the author takes great pains to relate these diverse concepts and theories to each other, and to weave the different strands into a coherent and defensible theory of constitutional adjudication.
Private Law and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home in Scotland and South Africa, E. Reid & D. Visser (Eds). : book reviewAuthor Alistair PriceSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 230 –233 (2014)More Less
Private Law and Human Rights, edited by Elspeth Reid of Edinburgh Law School and Daniel Visser of the University of Cape Town, and published by Edinburgh University Press, contrasts South African law against Scottish law. It is the latest contribution to a rich and growing body of comparative scholarship that examines the private law of so-called "mixed" jurisdictions (see for example JE du Plessis "Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems" in M Reimann & R Zimmermann (eds) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (2006); VV Palmer Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family 2 ed (2012)).
International Law: A South African Perspective 4 ed, J. Dugard : book reviewAuthor Annika RudmanSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 233 –237 (2014)More Less
The much anticipated fourth edition of International Law: A South African Perspective by John Dugard and his co-authors Max du Plessis, Anton Katz and Daniel Bethlehem reflects on both international and South African sources. The book contains 26 chapters, presenting a wide variety of traditional, international legal topics as well as an in-depth discussion on the relationship between South African domestic law and international law from both historic and current perspectives. It presents the reader with an extensive display of general topics of international law, available in most textbooks, including the sources of international law, statehood, recognition, territory, secession, immunity, diplomatic protection, universal jurisdiction, the main features of international human rights law, humanitarian law and refugee law, the responsibility to protect, a review of Security Council actions, the use of force and self-defence, the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court, the African Union and regional protection of human rights as well as environmental law, law of the sea and air and space law.
Women's Social and Economic Rights: Developments in South Africa by B. Goldblatt & K. McLean (Eds.) : book reviewAuthor Elsje BonthuysSource: Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 25, pp 237 –240 (2014)More Less
The chapters in this book were first presented at a seminar organised by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009 and a number of them were published in the 2009 (27) volume of the South African Journal on Human Rights. While theoretical analyses of socio-economic rights have become a growing area of study in South Africa and elsewhere, a sustained body of scholarship on the gendered dimensions of these rights has yet to develop. Given the well-known fact that South African women, and particularly African women, suffer most acutely from poverty and lack of access to services, this book presents a timely and welcome starting point for what should become a growing area of academic study, activism and strategic litigation.


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Our client came to us with the concept for a unique and very useful mobile app. We developed this App - named iRappU (Instant Response App For You) for use on the android Platform. We are working on an update that would enable the app to be used on, as well as across - other mobile platforms like IOS (iPhone), Blackberry & Windows Mobile, that we hope to launch soon.
iRappU's basic concept, is to send instant notifications to callers or SMS senders containing a status message set by the user who is being called. This is very useful when the person being called is not able to attend calls, as they may be caught up with other commitments.
iRappU's tag line sums it well -
"DON'T YOU WISH YOU KNEW WHY THEY ARE NOT ANSWERING THEIR PHONE? I REALLY NEED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM! IF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR, THEN iRappU IS FOR YOU!"
We were asked to develop an app that would allow users to automatically notify callers or SMS senders about their status, without requiring the use of a paid service like SMS. Also considering the vast difference in working of various platforms, we required to develop a mechanism that would be compatible with all available major mobile platforms like Android, IOS (iPhone), Blackberry & Windows Mobile etc., this requirement posed some unique challenges.
An additional requirement was that the mechanism should remain active without taking up too much of the phone's resources, so that app users would not reject it as clunky and so be discouraged from using it.
The mechanism should work in various cases such as when the called User's mobile is
- Not in network.
- Switched Off.
- In Airplane Mode.
- And other similar cases when user mobile may experiencing limited connectivity
Solutions Provided:
After analyzing all available options and possible constraints, our mobile app experts designed the core mechanism of the app, making it compatible with all major mobile platforms like Android, IOS (iPhone), Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Notifications are sent via a combination of cheapest data transfer services - that is INTERNET with Push/Cloud Notification services for each individual platform.
Using a Hosted Server provided us with the advantage of ensuring that the App works efficiently even in cases where the user's mobile may have limited or no connectivity.
We tested the mechanism developed using various test cases to ensure that the mechanism is robust and reliable.
Technologies Used:
JAVA, COCA, JSON , CGI Scripts and SDK(Android, IOS, Windows Mobile & Blackberry)


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Kayaking: Beginning
Instructor: Sam Drevo
Offered in the spring semester, the class is geared for the novice boater. In the pool, students are taught basic strokes, how to maintain balance, and how to control the boat. Then the class moves on to bracing techniques for keeping the kayak from tipping over, and the Eskimo roll, for righting an upside-down boat. Students are taken through a gradual step-by-step process so they become very comfortable and confident.
Lectures are laced with kayaking philosophy and are geared toward the mental and spiritual aspects of river running. Students are taught how to "read the river," interpreting subtle features in the dynamic river environment, and route-finding skills. Techniques are learned for being in full control of the kayak when on the river, including eddy turns, peel outs and ferries. Videos and slide shows are used extensively. The core of the program is to develop a safety consciousness. Knowing how to recognize hazards, how to perform rescues, and how to avoid dangerous situations are key aspects of the class. Students graduate from the class with a wealth of "river wisdom."
Two river trips on easy, local rivers introduce students to currents and moving water and are the reward for all the work in the pool. On the river trips, students are also shown river processes at work and how this ever-changing environment is shaped.


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Vacations planned during cold winter days are now eagerly anticipated and watched more closely than a rambunctious school boy waiting for the final bell of the final school day. Before hitting the open road for that, "once in a life time" vacation, cookout or other venture, consider a few suggestions.
If plans have been made to drive to this years' vacation location, or flying on a discount airline, here are 5 tips which may save a few bucks and preserve or enhance the fun factor.
1. Clip Coupons
In many households disposable income has been disposed of. Meaning, there is not much play money left to play with. Therefore, coupon clipping could save more than a few dollars.
Traditionally newspapers offered various types of coupons from perishables and frozen foods to fast food discount coupons. With today's' technology, internet sites such as "All Solutions Network" found at; http://tiny.cc/ozsl9 offer savings in nearly every area including food. Consider the savings to a family of 5 when traveling if they have a couple of "buy one and get one free" coupons for different restaurant.
2. Make Sandwiches
Parents are concerned about the diet of their children. When traveling, making a few select sandwiches can also save more than a few dollars. People go to supermarkets to buy groceries. Why not take advantage of the groceries already purchased and make a few sandwiches for the trip.
Children tend to want to eat along the way. If flying, buying an in-flight cold cut sandwich could cost more than parents want to pay. Packing a few of a Childs' favorite sandwiches may help keep them calm, quiet and asleep until landing.
If driving, packing sliced meats and the fixings in water tight bags can save on stopping time, driving time, and cost. Stopping every few miles for sandwiches and snacks will make the trip much longer and more expensive.
3. Group Vacations
Money is tight and everyone needs to get away for a vacation. Okay, why not pool the resources of a two families and rent a motor coach. By pooling resources the full expense is not in the pocket of one family or person.
A little research can produce an interesting range of rental prices and periods. By comparing rental pricing with each families estimated cost for vacation, pooling may be a positive idea.
If fellow vacationers agree with the idea, be sure to call ahead and reserve parking or camping sites. Summer time is the season when many sites may fill quickly.
Note: This idea is not advised if the two families are not extremely compatible. If someone has a tent or two, take them along for the kids. They may love the idea of sleeping outside, or the adults may.
4. Use cash, traveler checks or prepaid debit cards
Traveling is a challenge in itself, but using credit cards can make a great vacation not so great a month later. By planning and budgeting, vacationers and travelers alike can maintain more control over expenses.
Carrying large amounts of cash, ($300 and up), can be a bad idea. Why not stop by one of the chain super markets or department stores and purchase a prepaid debit card. These cards cost only a few bucks, and can be loaded up to a few thousand dollars. This is surely a better idea than carrying large amounts of cash. If for some reason the prepaid credit card is lost or its number stolen, thieves don't have your primary personal bank or credit card.
It may also be a good idea to go by your bank and purchase a few dollars in travelers checks for cash purchases.
5. Use a hot – cold thermos and bottled water
Convenience stores and travel centers make their money by charging higher prices for being at their customer's convenience. Buying bottled water, fruit and soft drinks, hot drinks and most other items will cost more. Pulling the old thermos from the rear of the kitchen cabinet may be a good idea.
A 16 oz. cup of coffee will likely cost over a dollar. Cold drinks are the same. Why not make these purchases at the super market before or during the trip and save those few extra dollars. Hot coffee is hot coffee no matter if it's served in a name brand cup of your own personal Sippy cup. But your cup is cheaper and taste better. Purchasing bottled water is overpriced as well.
Summer is a fun time of year. Traveling for whatever reason does not have to cost a fortune. By using a few money saving tips, the trip or adventure could be the topic of conversation, on cold winter nights, for years to come.


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Audio Educator: 2012 Internal Medicine Coding Update
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- January 20, 2012
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Coding updates often change overnight in both diagnosis and procedure codes. Sometimes these changes affect the way you work and your everyday claims processing. AAPC member Jill Young, CPC, CEDC, CIMC hosted an hour-long presentation for Audio Educator on the internal medicine coding updates.
Watch the entire presentation here.
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IHTM: I Tried a Skincare Product That Jacked Up My Skin Barrier So Here's How I Handled It
I basically called my mom for help. Except when I say mom, I mean an esthetician.
By now, you've likely become an expert at decoding the BS on food labels, right? (Manufacturers have a bajillion different ways of saying "sugar.") And anything even close to the word "sulfate" won't make its way into your bathroom. But what about your perfume?
A few years ago, a study for the nonprofit Campaign for Safe Cosmetics discovered that a lot of popular perfumes contain ingredients not listed on their labels. Nasties like petrochemicals, phthalates and propylene glycol are often hidden under blanket terms like "parfum" or "fragrance" on ingredient lists.
Not only are these chemicals believed to be linked to harmful effects in the user--hormone disruption, allergic reactions, reproductive issues (fun!)--but they could potentially harm non-wearers via "secondhand scents." What?!
Fortunately, many perfumers have cleaned up their formulas, using organic ingredients and avoiding harsh synthetics. Now, the availability of fragrances that aren't just safe but actually healthful is higher than ever before.
Check these out.
Inspired by her rural roots, Charna Ehtier founded the company in 2009. All the perfumes are made by hand in small batches using plants, flowers, fruits and woods from around the world. Essential oils and absolutes (extracts) are combined with a pure alcohol spirit base.
Try this: Osmanthus Oolong Eau De Parfum, a warm blend of jasmine, black tea, apricot and osmanthus flower with a finish of sweet leather. (Plus it's fun to say "oolong.")
Quality control is the priority at this 13-year-old company. "Botanical perfumer" Alexandra Balahoutis sources essences from select international distillers, as well as doing in-house distilling, to ensure that they're organic or biodynamic. The essences are then blended with organic beverage-grade grape alcohol. But don't drink it.
Try this: L'Invisible Eau De Parfum, an exotic combination of Sicilian lemon, amber, moss, ylang ylang and Moroccan red rose.
Anne Sanford likes to keep things simple, using old-school methods to create small batches of highly concentrated fragrances. Since 2008, she's been making perfumes using pure essential oils in an organic jojoba base (which is similar to the skin's natural oils), devoid of alcohol, water, chemical preservatives, additives or stabilizers.
Try this: PRJ V1, a summery, floral mixture of rose, jasmine sambac and petitgrain oil.
Founder Danielle Raynor has stringent standards, resulting in perfumes that are responsibly made, free of harsh chemicals, and packed with nutrients. Organic sugar-cane alcohol serves as the base for essential oils and botanicals. And, as the name implies, you'll detect a bit of vanilla in every scent.
Try this: Fresh Vanilla Lemon, a combination of juicy lemon (duh), watery fruits, fresh bamboo and pure Madagascar vanilla (duh again).
Just keep in mind, many of the chemicals in typical perfumes are added to make the fragrance last longer. Thus, natural fragrances may need to be reapplied more often.
Have any favorite "healthy" perfumes? Or will you stick with your tried-and-true department store variety?


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Post-print of: Julian, CC & O'Cass, A 2004, 'The antecedents of export marketing performance: an Australian perspective', Journal of Asia Pacific Marketing: Special Issue on Export Marketing in the Asia Pacific Region, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 99-113.
This study considers a comprehensive set of potential determinants of export marketing performance and the unit of analysis is the individual product-market export venture. Data were gathered via a mail survey of firms exporting from Queensland, Australia. The firms comprising the sample came from a wide cross section of industries including agriculture, mining, light industries, metal-working, electronics, chemical and the services industries. The results support the contention that export marketing strategy, firm-specific characteristics and market characteristics were the significant determinants of export marketing performance.


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The echoing entrance hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is full of kids on a Sunday afternoon. Fashion-plate mothers push elaborate strollers with struts like miniature space stations. A guard circles a re-creation of a chunk of pebbled Montana landscape in the middle of the hall, barking at children in multicolored winter coats trying to scramble onto it. The children are oblivious, but embarrassed parents pull them back.
Standing on the fake earth are three bone monsters. The tallest seems impossibly taller than even dinosaurs are supposed to be. Its delicate backbone arcs upward toward the vault of the vast, humming room, its head so small as to seem far distant. It rears on its hind legs; one foreleg raised in a protective gesture.


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Add barbecue smoke to the aromas you can expect at the $250 million Texas Live! entertainment complex when it opens with the 2018 baseball season.
The Texas Rangers announced Wednesday that Lockhart Smokehouse, a popular Central Texas-style barbecue restaurant, will set up shop in the complex. It marks the third business to sign on to the mixed-use development, following TV chef Guy Fieri and a brewery from Granbury-based Revolver Brewing. There will also be three larger operations: Rangers Republic, Live! Arena and Arlington Backyard.
"We have baseball and barbecue in the air," Rob Matwick, Rangers' executive vice president for business operations, told about 50 media representatives and officials of the Rangers and the developer, Baltimore-based Cordish Cos.
Lockhart co-owner Jill Bergus, who had a slab of brisket — smoked for 16 hours — brought to the press conference, said that she initially didn't jump at the opportunity to partner with Texas Live!
"I said, 'I don't know,' but they kept coming back," said Bergus, who runs the restaurants with her husband, Jeff Bergus. "Basically, what I feel separates us is what we can control and what we can keep our hands on qualitywise. So when they first approached us, we weren't entirely ready to think about expanding yet."
But ultimately Texas Live! was too good an opportunity to pass up, she said. "We realized we'll be in partnership with the Rangers and across the street from AT&T Stadium. It's the perfect place for great Texas barbecue."
Cordish Cos., a family-owned company for more than a century, was attracted to the Lockhart Smokehouse story, said Cari Furman, the company's communications manager.
"The history was really special to us and was a perfect fit for the project," she said.
Although Lockhart Smokehouse is only 6 years old, its roots go back to 1948 when Jill Bergus' grandfather, Edgar "Smitty" Schmidt, bought Kreuz Market in Lockhart and ran it for more than 40 years. She said she collaborated with her cousin, Keith Schmidt, who now owns the Kreuz Markets in Lockhart and Bryan, to bring the Lockhart barbecue tradition to North Texas.
Bergus said her cousin also makes the sausage they serve. "The sausage is a 100-year-old recipe," she said.
Construction on the sports/entertainment complex began in October on 7 acres next to Globe Life Park, near the site of the voter-approved $1 billion retractable-roof stadium that will be built for the Rangers. It is set to open in April 2018, while a 300-bed high-rise hotel and 35,000 square feet of convention facilities are planned to open later that year.
Cordish has built similar complexes across the country. Last month, the Rangers announced the team had hired architect HKS to design its new stadium. The Dallas-based firm also was involved in designing AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Park.
Arlington voters green-lighted the new stadium Nov. 8 by overwhelmingly approving the extension of a half-cent sales tax, 2 percent hotel-occupancy tax and 5 percent car-rental tax that are now paying the city's share of AT&T Stadium construction debt.
Cordish and the Rangers say Texas Live! will have three major venues:
▪ Rangers Republic will be the "ultimate fan clubhouse" to watch home and away games, featuring a two-level, 30,000-square-foot family dining and entertainment venue.
▪ Live! Arena will be the 35,000-square-foot "living room" of Texas Live!, giving fans "one of the best sports-viewing experiences imaginable." A 10,000-square-foot outdoor beer garden and a concert stage are among the features.
▪ Arlington Backyard will be an outdoor event pavilion with a capacity of 5,000 that aims to host cultural activities, art shows, regional and national concerts, and other events.
This report contains information from the Star-Telegram archives.
Robert Cadwallader: 817-390-7186, @Kaddmann_ST


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The Frozen Four kicks off Thursday in Pittsburgh and with the tournament coming back to Pennsylvania in 2014 when Philadelphia hosts, it's hard not to think about how Penn State's new program has completely altered the college landscape. Next year will see new conferences begin (Big Ten, NCHC), while others disappear (CCHA). Penn State went from club team to Division 1 thanks to a major cash gift from Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula, but where else can we expect to see new college teams come from in the future? According to one source, we're likely years away from anyone else taking the D1 plunge, but it's fun to debate. Here's a look at some of the big-name candidates.
University of Nebraska Cornhuskers
Thanks in large part to the United States League, folks in Nebraska have developed a taste for hockey and Nebraska's entry into the Big Ten makes it a viable candidate for D1. John Breslow, who once owned a share of the Phoenix Coyotes, has funded an arena for the school's basketball teams (which could host hockey) and the Breslow Ice Center, which has the potential for a rink with seating capacity up to 6,000 fans. Plus, the school's new athletic director, Shawn Eichorst, is seen as very hockey-friendly and the Huskers would have a great non-conference rival in the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks.
Other Big Ten schools that would seem to be good fits for hockey include Illinois and Indiana. In both cases, arenas will be an issue and NCAA hockey has failed in Chicago before, but Champaign may be far enough away to give the Illini (who excel at the club level) a chance. Two other schools to watch are Maryland and Rutgers, both of which are joining the Big Ten. Now that the Washington Capitals have a bigger fan base, college hockey in Maryland doesn't seem too far-fetched (though Navy was a definitive 'no' when I asked about interest in Annapolis), while Rutgers could draw from the growing talent base in New Jersey.
University of Southern California Trojans
Would this be the easiest recruiting job ever for a college coach? Get a full-ride scholarship to play hockey in sunny California and play against top competition. There are rumblings in L.A. about NCAA hockey and whether it's USC or UCLA, the grassroots network is there. Beau Bennett, Emerson Etem and Rocco Grimaldi all could have been Trojans or Bruins if the programs were up and running, while travel wouldn't be as bad as you think: Los Angeles to Denver is just a two-hour flight and Colorado has several top NCAA programs. Plus, if I'm USC, I start a mini-tournament in January and invite the big boys. Anyone in Minnesota or Boston going to turn down a trip to L.A. in the dead of winter?
What would truly open the West Coast up is if Northern California jumped in too. The San Jose Jr. Sharks just graduated their first NHL alum in Matt Tennyson, so maybe California or Stanford come on board.
University of Texas Longhorns
The Dallas Stars have done an incredible job growing hockey in Texas and with players such as Chris Brown getting to the NHL, the seeds are beginning to bloom. Texas, Texas A & M and North Texas are seen as the top candidates, but naturally it would take a Pegula-like donation to take things to the next level. Mark Cuban has toyed with the idea of getting into the hockey game; would he consider being a college benefactor? If so, geography is once again not a big problem since Colorado and even Alabama-Huntsville aren't too far away.
University of Rhode Island
The only state school in New England without a D1 program, URI actually has a booster group petitioning for a Rams charge into the big time. Rhode Island already has a home at Boss Ice Arena, built in 2002 and home to the Rams' club team. Though capacity is only 2,500, that's actually decent for an NCAA team and would put URI ahead of schools such as Princeton and RIT. Recruiting would be an issue, since the state itself already has Providence and Brown on the scene, but natural rivalries are also in place.
Saint Louis University
The Billikens played in the CCHA for most of the 1970s before retreating back to club hockey, but St. Louis is a very different market now. Not only are the Blues more vibrant, but programs such as the St. Louis Jr. Blues are churning out more talent, such as Blake Clarke of the North Bay Battalion and Ryan MacInnis (Al's son) from the U.S. NTDP. And who wouldn't want a team called the Billikens back on the scene?
Ryan Kennedy, the co-author of Young Guns II, is THN's associate senior writer and a regular contributor to THN.com. His column appears Wednesdays and The Hot List appears Tuesdays. Follow him on Twitter at @THNRyanKennedy.


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The first ad agencies were born in the decades following the industrial revolution. On the surface, it looks like agency history is repeating itself. As the next revolution (this one digital) brings in its processes, products and technologies; new agencies (also digital) spring up to help.
Today's dominant market force is speed. For our clients to survive, they must continuously modernize and revitalize everything — including their customer relationships.
So where do digital agencies fit in? As skilled explorers of the probable, possible and preferable. And if we do our jobs right, as practitioners of the future.
Digital agencies are, at the very least, proficient in the near future. We are early adopters — the first to pre-order gizmos and gadgets and experiment with digital services. We study macro-trends, countertrends and demographic shifts. Our finger is on the pulse.
Newness pervades our work. We imbue interfaces with the latest advancements in user experience design. We move our development teams to the newest frameworks and systems. We align media strategies with the hottest social network. The probable? It's what we do. But to make a business impact for our clients, we must look beyond the near future.
This is the mission of the future-forward digital agency: To explore strange new worlds. So, how do we imagine such new worlds? Well, look to those depicted in the writings of Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, or better yet, examine those under construction by future-makers like Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Ray Kurzweil.
But in agencies, we know that nothing sparks the imagination quite like a problem worth solving and a brainstorm session. With dedicated time and a safe place to think out loud, one idea can beget countless others and lead to previously unimaginable possibilities.
This is our oxygen. We must invoke the hard-fought lessons of previous innovations; eliminate long-held assumptions; scan social, technological, economic, environmental and political factors; then extend our concepts past multiple time horizons. But we must also plot the impact of our ideas on client business models and project new revenues. Our possibilities must be broad and encompass the entire enterprise.
Once you've brainstormed endless possibilities, how do you prioritize? You need to look at the preferable choice — the best outcome for your client, your customer, and potentially The Greater Good. We can draw inspiration from Google's 'Don't Be Evil' and Alphabet's 'Do the Right Thing' mantras or science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics'.
We can also give a meaningful voice to customers and even include them in our product development. We can let them choose what's preferable by testing prototypes and trial concepts to see what helps them the most. Then, and only then, can you choose and enact a preferable future.
Create The Future Futurism is the process by which current trends shape predictions about the future. These predictions are the basis for hypothetical scenarios that may have severe economic implications. So, truly impactful futurism sets in motion a series of initiatives to bring about the preferable future.
Smart organizations constantly frame their current state of affairs, spot emerging trends, synthesize them into possible scenarios, and then invest in research and development. Clients (and their blended internal/external teams) must allocate resources to prototype and prove the viability of the nascent concepts that emerge from such R&D efforts. Agencies have no choice but to focus here. It is these very initiatives that bring about your client's next competitive advantage, seasons of prosperity and a preferable future.
Futurism is the implicit promise of every digital agency, and is the strategic process required to unlock innovation. It goes beyond understanding what's probable and imagining what's possible, to choosing what's preferable and ultimately creating that future.
Illustration by Taiwan-based illustrator, Kuocheng Liao
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The Cubs Play a Game Tomorrow! Here's the Lineup! Ahhh!
I am, like you, such a dork. I saw this tweet from Jesse Rogers, and I got all giggly and smiley:
First lineup of the year ! Tomorrow at Brewers pic.twitter.com/pI9fHzR05B
— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) March 2, 2016
The Cubs open their Cactus League slate tomorrow at 2pm CT in Maryvale against the Brewers, and there you can see the first lineup.
God save you if you glean too much from it, but it's interesting to see that, even after the Dexter Fowler addition, Javy Baez is still going to get in some actual game action in center field. Seems like a really good idea to me, and I'm eager to hear how he looks (the game isn't televised, unfortunately).
There's nothing to be gleaned from the lineup, either, as you often see regulars up near the top of the lineup, especially early in Spring, so they can get in their two or three at bats quickly and then get out.
So, yeah. Just don't take anything from this. BUT IT'S A LINEUP! FOR CUBS BASEBALL! WHICH WILL BE PLAYED TOMORROW!


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'The Patience Stone'
Director: Atiq Rahimi
Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan
Rating: R
2 (out of 5) Globes
Golshifteh Farahani is the kind of beauty who's easy to take for granted. On a superficial level, she doesn't look like the kind of person who would prove a rebel. But she is. After escaping Iran, she's protested its restrictions from the outside, sometimes using her beauty as a political weapon. (She's repeatedly posed nude, resulting in one charge to cut off her breasts.) She's only somewhat overextended in "The Patience Stone," an Afghan production in which she's more or less the main draw, and often the only thing to look at — she and the comatose man with whom she shares an apartment.
Farahani plays the harried, long-suffering wife of an older man (Hamid Djavadan) recently shot and stuck in a coma. While bullets fly outside in a war zone even the local mullah is loath to visit, Farahani — billed only as "the woman" — tends to her wheezing husband, who subsists on sugar water fed through a tube. With nothing else to do, and finally with captive company, she begins to talk to him, or at least to herself. She unloads — about her miserable, disappointing life, about his abuse and about her sexual fantasies, on which she goes into fairly explicit detail.
Perhaps inevitably from being a series of monologues peppered with the odd visit or memory, "The Patience Stone" suffers from feeling like staged theater. It's actually based on a novel, and has been directed and adapted by Atiq Rahimi, its author. Either way it's rarely very "cinematic," even with a co-screenwriter in the legendary Jean-Claude Carriere, who most famously collaborated with Luis Bunuel. Carriere's input isn't terribly evident; the film gently delves into the occasional flashback or lightly-presented fantasy, but is otherwise straightforward.
Farahani doesn't try too hard, which is a good thing. Her monologues have an effortless quality that makes it unsure if she's addressing her husband or just herself. (This is doubly impressive since she had to learn the language, Dari, her character speaks.) She looks the part, too: She's always exhausted, often panting, as though she is about to keel over. But the film feels monotonous anyway, in part because Rahimi directs with little visual variation, and in part because the material never evolves beyond its basic set-up. Still, it's passable — until the groaner of an ending confirms the worst suspicions.


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Do You Need Ice At Home? Why You Should Invest In An Ice Maker Do You Need Ice At Home? Why You Should Invest In An Ice Maker
In most kitchens, you will find various machines including cookers, microwaves, freezers, and fridges, which are the basic modern essentials for home cooking. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a new range of kitchen gadgets and accessories that many people have invested in and found very useful. Excellent examples of these include the portable ice maker, mini chocolate fountain, electric ice cream maker, and bread maker.
You might be questioning the need for an ice maker. After all, you can always make your own ice cubes in your freezer if you have one. A fair point and one that requires further scrutiny. So, let us examine why and when you may want ice at home.
1. General Entertaining – BBQs, Get-Togethers, & Dinner Parties
For general entertaining you will probably require a decent amount of freshly made ice. If you have a lot of drinks to serve or you are experiencing warm weather in your area and the guests are asking for a lot of cool and refreshing drinks, then producing ice cubes using your freezer from trays of water simply will not work. Ice bins can be a good idea, though ice makers produce fresh ice
a) Freezers in most people's houses are quite full, which can make it hard to find the space needed for producing ice in quantities that you require.
b) Even if you are unable to find space, what if you don't have sufficient quantities of ice to make more? It is not exactly a quick-fix!
c) In some homes you will only find a small freezer or fridge with a tiny ice making compartment, which means that there's not enough capacity to make a sufficient quantity of ice cubes.
If you have a home ice maker, it is possible to produce ice easily and quickly both in terms of your entertaining (by storing it in bags in your freezer) as well as ongoing as and when it is needed throughout the party.
A home ice maker is quite small and not too heavy and a portable too, which means that it can be used in the kitchen or utility room or any space/room you wish. All you require is tap water and an electrical supply and simply plug in the machine, fill the water tray, switch on the machine, and choose the size of ice nugget you need (you can choose from 3 sizes) and away you go!
2. Special Celebrations – Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas
All the points above are applicable here too, but in some instances with special celebrations, people prefer preparing 'special' drinks like cocktails and there could be the odd bottle of champagne served. It will thus be important to have plenty of crushed ice on hand, which is in addition to the ice required for chilling regular drinks!
3. A Home Bar
If you have a small corner in your house with a small bar or drinks cabinet, then a home ice maker such as this from Ice Maker Pros is the perfect accessory. You can either display the ice maker as a countertop machine or you can have it under the bar counter as long as there is enough access and air circulation for proper use just like with any bottle cooler or small fridge. It means that you will always have the option of freshly made ice within just a matter of minutes whether for your guests, visiting friends, your family, or just yourself.
A Home Ice Maker
Home ice makers tend to be compact and stylish in design and never look out of place on display in your kitchen or on the worktop.
Besides being easy to use and offering all the benefits discussed here, the home ice maker has yet another 'secret' not listed in most of the advertising copy you are likely to encounter.
The ice produced by home ice makers is typically nugget shaped which means that it is cylindrical in shape as is the case with most of the home ice makers.
The special thing about this is that if you were to store ice bags in the freezer, the cylindrical shaped ice shapes tend not to stick together as a solid block as is commonly the case with cube shaped ice. The cylindrical shaped ice nuggets usually require just a gentle tap to break them loose once they come out of your freezer.