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Thematic Programmes
ITTO Manual for Project Formulation
ITTO Lessons Learned and Good Practices
ITTO Project Formulation Software (ITTO ProTool) for Microsoft Office 2000-2003/XP/VISTA
ITTO Project Formulation Software (ITTO Pro Tool) for Microsoft Office 2007 [All languages]
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Please note that documents are unedited and available only in the original language of submission. Documents are posted as they become available.
Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (TFLET)
- The general objective of the Thematic Programme is to improve national forest law enforcement and governance in tropical ITTO member countries in order to enhance and diversify international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed forests and to help alleviate poverty in those countries.
TFLET Case For Support Brochure
Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Enhancing Environmental Services in Tropical Forests (REDDES)
- The general objective of the Thematic Programme is to help improve livelihoods by reducing deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing environmental services through the sustainable management of tropical forests, forest restoration, afforestation, reforestation and other related activities.
REDDES Case For Support Brochure
Community Forest Management and Enterprises (CFME)
- The general objective of the Thematic Programme is to contribute to poverty reduction in tropical forest areas by: (i) strengthening the ability of forest communities and smallholders to sustainably manage their tropical forest resources; and (ii) assisting CFEs to add value to and market the products and services obtained from these resources.
CFME Case For Support Brochure
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|CFME 1st Cycle (2010)
|CFM-SPD 007/10 Rev.1 (F)
|Enrichment of young forest plantations with selected NTFPs for livelihood improvement and support of forest fringe communities in Atwima Mponua District of Ghana, in order to secure and protect the resources on a sustainable forest management basis
|CFM-PD 001/10 Rev.1 (F)
|Strengthening capacity of stakeholders for the development of community-based plantation forest at 3 selected areas in Indonesia
|CFM-PPD 006/10 Rev.1 (F)
|Enabling customary landowners to participate effectively in CFM and REDD schemes within four pilot areas of PNG
|CFM-PPD 005/10 Rev.1 (M)
|Increasing access to markets and capital for teak plantation smallholders in Thailand (sunset)
Trade and Market Transparency (TMT)
- The general objectives of this Thematic Programme are to: (i) increase the capacity of producer member countries to develop and employ market intelligence and marketing skills; and (ii) improve market transparency through improved data and analysis.
TMT Case For Support Brochure
Industry Development and Efficiency (IDE)
- The general objective of this Thematic Programme is to strengthen the capacity of tropical timber-producing countries to: (i) increase the production, further processing and trade of tropical timber and other forest products and services from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests; and (ii) improve efficiency in the processing and utilization of tropical timber and timber products and non-timber forest products (NTFPs).
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- ITTO Objective 2000
- Sustainable forest management
- Economic information & market intelligence
- Industry development
- Capacity building
- Climate Change
- ITTO-CITES Programme
- Thematic Programmes
- ITTO/CBD Collaborative Initiative for Tropical Forest Biodiversity
- FLEGT Independent Market Monitoring (IMM)


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Last Sunday's dreary weather didn't stop the cutest four-legged partiers from joining the fun at Dog Day. The SPCA, an organization dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering, has held this "day for the dogs" for the last 33 years. This year, the event was held at City Park from 11am – 3pm.
The event kicked off with the pups taking a 1 mile strut around the Big Lake! Of course, there were also dog contests as part of the festivities crowing winners for best trick, best dressed and best look alike. Aside from the scheduled events, the grassy grounds were filled with vendors from local "dog friendly" businesses, day cares, vets and training organizations. Among the businesses was Muddy Mutts, a puppy palace located in Lakeview that facilitates owners coming in to bath their dogs providing tubs for the pups, shampoo, hair dryers – everything you would need to pamper your pet while scrubbing them clean!
Aside from the vendors for the pups, local restaurants were on hand with yummy food and some adult beverages such as the margaritas from the Velvet Cactus! To top it all off, there was a photo booth by Boogie Booth, face painting and an amazing band, Partly Cloudy, played making the day perfect for the pups and their people!
If you haven't yet experienced this Dog Day, pay attention at this time next year. It's a super fun day for all ages and all breeds. Adoptable dogs are also in attendance and rescue groups and shelters from all over New Orleans are present as well. So if you are in the market for a new best friend, this might just be the event that will save your life by saving the life of a fur baby. Come out and support a great organization and get some puppy kisses from the kissing booth!
Organizations, businesses, and people involved in making Dog Day a success are the following:
Camp Bow Wow New Orleans, Canal Street Veterinary Hospital, Canine Connection, Carrollton Veterinary Hospital, Craft Dat, Crescent City Classic 10K Race, Dog Day Retail Store, Heaven's Pets at Lake Lawn Metairie, Jefferson Feed, Pet & Garden Center, Magazine Street Animal Clinic, Metairie Small Animal Hospital, Metairie Veterinary Ophthalmology Specialists, Muddy Mutts DIY Dog Wash & Pet Supplies, Natural Balance Pet Food, OxyNu Minerals, NO Fleas Market, Painted Paws Studio, pawTree, Pet Care Center, Pet Paradise Resort, Petcetera, Prytania Veterinary Hospital, Pupular, Inc., Silver Collar Boutique, VCA Causeway Animal Hospital
Big Wil & the Warden, Bratz Y'all, The Bulldog, Crêpes à la Cart, Dat'z Italian Authentic Wood-Fired Pizza, Dis & Dat
Gnarly Barley's Catahoula Common , Southern Tier's Special Ale, SweetWater's 420 Extra Pale Ale, The Velvet Cactus Margaritas
Featured Non-Profits and Rescue Groups
Great Dane Club of Louisiana Rescue, Gulf Coast Italian Greyhound Rescue, Greyhound Pets of America Louisiana & Mississippi Chapter, Louisiana Boxer Rescue, Louisiana SPCA Off-Site Adoptions, New Orleans Bulldog Rescue, NOLA Lab Rescue,The Sula Foundation
The Day's Entertainment
Band: Partly Cloudy, Zephyrs' mascot Boudreaux, Face Painting by Meagababy Makeup, NOLA Barn Hunt Demos, Photo Booth by The Boogie Booth
Celebrity Emcees for the event
WDSU's Randi Rousseau, WGNO's Hank Allen
Celebrity Contest Judges!
Jeff Charleston, Saints Super Bowl Champion, Aaron Williamson, Celebrity Trainer, Margarita Bergen, Local Personality
J. Coller Ochsner, MD, The Joe W. & Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation, Bryan Subaru, Canine Connection, NO Fleas Market, The New Orleans Advocate, The Bulldog, The Velvet Cactus, Gnarly Barley, Southern Tier, Sweet Water Beer, Where Y'at Magazine, Demo Diva, Event Restroom, Event Rental, Pelican Events, Biz New Orleans, New Orleans Magazine, St. Charles Avenue Magazine, In the NOLA
Raffle Items donated by:
New Belgium Brewery, Canine Connection, Puppy Picasso by Ginny Fisher, Pinkberry, DamnDog, Maple Street Animal Clinic

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+ A bit rundown and my eyes have gone all red and puffy - which means no photo booth portrait for you this week! Instead you can have a quote from one of my favourite poets, Philip Larkin. He sums up my personal literary style perfectly in something he wrote in a letter one day... (Unfortunalty, not feeling great also means that this will be quite a short Weekly Love...)
+ Lauren Moffatt's new lookbook - I want so much from it!
+ Nicolette has put together one of the best fashion week survival posts I've ever seen!
+ I gave in I got Tumblr.
+ Matia talks about juggling blogging with your spare time.
+ Live streaming the second half of the Independent Fashion Bloggers conference at Milk Studios at New York Fashion Week.
+ An old article, but I love PR Couture's piece on how its always the same old bloggers getting involved in brand collaborations.
+ Chocolate, lemon & pink marshmallow cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery.
What have you all been enjoying this week?


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English PEN has announced Carol Ann Duffy as this year's winner of the PEN Pinter Prize. The award was established in 2009 in memory of the playwright and poet Harold Pinter, and is shared each year by two writers. One recipient is a British writer or writer resident in Britain who not only demonstrates outstanding literary merit but embodies the qualities described by Pinter in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. The playwright spoke of the writer who casts an 'unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world' and shows 'a fierce intellectual determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and societies'. The second winner is an international writer of courage who has been persecuted for expressing their beliefs. Past winners include Sir David Hare / Roberto Saviano and Hanif Kureshi / Lydia Cacho.
The prize will be awarded at the British Library on 8 October. The ceremony will feature a special performance from Carol Ann Duffy, who will also announce the winner of the PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award.
Duffy introduces the Folio editions of At the Back of the North Wind, The Crimson Fairy Book and A Folio Anthology of Poetry.


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Fiction and nonfiction by Fletcher Kovich and also classic writers.
Secrets of the Hidden Vessels
Nonfiction. This book clearly explains Chinese acupuncture. It describes which parts of the Nei Jing are fact based, metaphorical, or untrue; identifies the conflicting Nei Jing theories on metabolism, and which are true or untrue; and key concepts such as the Chinese medicine organ functions are also clearly explained in relation to contemporary physiology.
The book provides students or practitioners with an indispensible guide to properly understanding the Chinese medicine of the Nei Jing. And it also enables Chinese medicine to be explained to patients using terms they can understand. Read more>>
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Nonfiction. Articles and Essays on various aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine, mainly focusing on acupuncture. Read more>>
Stories from a Leaking Mind
A collection of short stories. Each of the eighteen stories are different in style but all feature a comic, thoughtful and poetic approach to this exploration of the striking inner worlds of these memorable characters. Read more>>
The Tragedy of Perception
Full-length novel. In a town called Perception, the citizens are ruled by an extravagant madness. The novel is a comic allegory about communication problems. Read more>>


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Jul 31, 2014
As Gotham City and the world at large looks towards the future and Batman: Arkham Knight, Android-centric gamers are only now getting a taste of what caped crusading in the early days of the Dark Knight's career entail.
Batman: Arkham Origins, at its core, follows the template set by Infinity Blade. It's a path taken by many a mobile title– including quite a few licensed ones, such as Man of Steel– but for the most part, Batman does it better than numerous others which have nipped at the popular title's heels. It takes some of the key aspects of the console title of the same name– features such as story, setting, visuals, etc.– and grafts it onto a game more streamlined and arguably better suited for a mobile title.
As the recently-debuted Batman, players find themselves having caused a fair bit of trouble for one of Gotham City's top crime bosses, the Black Skull. Black Skull is not terribly keen on this, and so he sets a massive bounty in the head of the Bat that draws in mercenaries from all over to take a stab– or various other kinds of lethal blows– at claiming the bounty. Among those the Dark Knight will contend with are the likes of the Electrocutioner, Copperhead, Bane, and Deathstroke the Terminator– as well as a number of random masked thugs here and there.
The game is free-to-play, which of course means that while playing is free, investments are needed in order to secure more desirable components in a timely manner. Though you can slowly accumulate soft currency, hard currency (the most expensive option of which is over $100) is likely the only way that anyone will be dressing up in a variety of the Batsuits available (each with their own stats and bonuses) in a timely manner. Among others is the Beyond Batsuit, which makes the prospect mighty tempting.
One can also customize the Batman in a number of ways, from different tools to restore health or unleash a flurry of bats on an opponent to increasing the effectiveness of punches and strikes. Different stances are even available, for those who would rather focus more on defense than offense. Certain options, however, require leveling up to a certain degree before they become accessible.
As players progress, more missions open up for Batman to swoop in and put a stop to. They begin in the upper-west side, but soon spread to all four quadrants of the Gotham City map, and no sooner than one crime is foiled than another pops up, along with occasional ambushes by those hunting the Black Skull's Bat-bounty. This is where Free-to-Play rears its ugly head, as Batman can only go for so long, as measured by his Stamina bar. When depleted, there are of course two options: Wait for the bars to replenish over time until the amount required for a mission has been refilled, or say "Screw the rules; I have money!" and just buy a second wind.
Batman: Arkham Origins looks good and sounds great, too, presumably sharing its voice acting with the console title as Not-Kevin Conroy does a good job as a younger Master Wayne. The music is quite nice and fitting, reminiscent of the kind of tunes one might associate with the classic Batman: The Animated Series or some of the World's Greatest Detective's higher points in cinema. The touch and swipe-based controls work well for the most part, though we did notice that Batman seems slower to guard than he is to strike, the problems with which should be obvious.
All told, if one considers themselves a fan of Batman, yet for whatever reason could or would not play the console version, the mobile version of the game is a pretty good alternative for those still wishing to experience the story.


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Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
Notice of public workshop.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the following public workshop: FDA Public Workshop on External Defibrillators. The purpose of the public workshop is to share FDA's understanding of the risks and benefits of external defibrillators, to clarify FDA's current expectations for how industry should identify, report, and take action on problems observed with these devices, and to promote innovation for next-generation devices that will bring safer, more effective external defibrillators to market.
Dates and Time: The public workshop will be held on December 15, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and on December 16, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Persons interested in attending this public workshop must register by 5 p.m. on December 8, 2010.
Location: The public workshop will be held in the Great Room at the Food and Drug Administration, White Oak Campus, Bldg. 31, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20903.
Contact: Megan Moynahan, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 66, rm. 5404, Silver Spring, MD 20903, 301-796-5435, FAX: 301-847-8510, or e-mail: email@example.com.
Registration and Requests for Oral Presentations: Registration is free and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. To register for the public workshop, please visit the following Web site: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/NewsEvents/WorkshopsConferences/ucm232062.htm (or go the FDA Medical Devices New & Events—Workshops & Conferences calendar and select this public workshop from the posted events list). Please provide complete contact information for each attendee, including name, title, affiliation, address, e-mail, and telephone number. For those without Internet access, please call the contact person to register. Registration requests should be received by 5 p.m. on December 8, 2010. Early registration is recommended because seating is limited and, therefore, FDA may limit the number of participants from each organization. If time and space permit, onsite registration on the day of the public workshop will be provided beginning at 7:30 a.m.
Registrants requesting to present written material or to make oral presentations at the public workshop, please call the contact person by November 29, 2010.
If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact Susan Monahan (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com) at least 7 days in advance.End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
I. Background
External defibrillators (including automated external defibrillators (AEDs)) are life-saving devices designed to restore normal heart rhythms following sudden cardiac arrest. Each year, nearly 300,000 Americans collapse from sudden cardiac arrest. In sudden cardiac arrest, the heart unexpectedly stops pumping blood to the body. When normal heart rhythms are not restored quickly, sudden cardiac arrest can cause death.
External defibrillators are important, life-saving devices. However, over the past 5 years we have seen persistent safety problems with all types of external defibrillators, across all manufacturers of these devices. From January 1, 2005, to July 10, 2010, there were a total of 68 recalls, of which 9 occurred in 2005 increasing to 17 in 2009 (the last complete year for which data are available). During this period, FDA received over 28,000 medical device reports (MDRs), of which 4,210 occurred in 2005 increasing to 7,807 in 2009 (the last complete year for which data are available). FDA conducted multiple inspections of all external defibrillator manufacturers throughout this time period.
Many of the types of problems we have identified are preventable, correctable, and impact patient safety. As part of a comprehensive review, FDA identified several industry practices that have contributed to these persistent safety risks including industry practices for designing and manufacturing defibrillators, handling user complaints, conducting recalls, and communicating with users. In some cases, these practices can contribute to device performance problems, place undue burden on users, and put patients at risk.
To date, FDA has addressed individual device problems on a case-by-case basis. However, our analysis of MDRs, recalls, and inspections confirms that common problems persist across all types of external defibrillators and all manufacturers. One purpose of the public workshop is to share FDA's understanding of the risks and benefits of external defibrillators and to clarify FDA's current expectations for how industry should identify, report, and take action on problems observed with these devices.
In addition, to promote innovation and to better understand patient outcomes, FDA is collaborating with the University of Colorado's Department of Emergency Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a multi-city AED registry that will link with the CDC-funded Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES). The registry will provide the infrastructure to foster the development of innovative AED features such as automated integration into local 9-1-1 systems. FDA will work with multiple stakeholders to facilitate the development of next-generation defibrillators, enhance surveillance of defibrillators in community settings, and improve the rapid delivery of treatment for sudden cardiac arrest patients. One purpose of the public workshop on December 15 and 16, 2010, is to advance these efforts by bringing together government, industry, academia, and users, including clinicians and consumers, to share perspectives.
II. Topics for Discussion at the Public Workshop
The public workshop will be organized to allow facilitated discussion by industry, academia, clinicians, users, and regulators on the following broad topic areas:
1. What are the nature, scope, and impact of external defibrillator problems that have been observed? What are the root causes of these problems?
2. How should problems with external defibrillators be identified, reported, and acted upon by industry and users?
3. What factors or criteria should be considered when designing external defibrillators for use in different environments (hospital, community, home)?
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5. How might device registries improve our ability to identify early device performance signals, or enhance the use of external defibrillators?
III. Transcripts
Please be advised that as soon as a transcript is available, it can be obtained in either hardcopy or on CD-ROM, after submission of a Freedom of Information request. Written requests are to be sent to Division of Freedom of Information (HFI-35), Office of Management Programs, Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, rm. 6-30, Rockville, MD 20857. A link to the transcripts will also be available on the Internet at http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/NewsEvents/WorkshopsConferences/default.htm (select this public workshop from the posted events list), approximately 45 days after the public workshop.Start Signature
Dated: November 9, 2010.
Nancy K. Stade,
Deputy Director for Policy, Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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Have your say on Norfolk and Suffolk devolution plans
People across Norfolk and Suffolk are being asked for their views on a proposed devolution deal and associated governance arrangements for the two counties.
Devolution is about transferring certain decision-making powers and funding down from Central Government to a local area. It means that decisions are taken close to where they have an effect.
The majority of councils across Norfolk and all in Suffolk, along with the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership supported the deal and agreed to ask the public for their views.
Consultation will run until 23 August.
Key elements of proposed Norfolk/Suffolk deal are:
* £25m funding each year for the next 30 years (£750m) to support economic growth, development of local infrastructure and jobs (this will increase the local economy to £43bn and create 95,000 jobs by 2026)
* £130m investment over five years to support the building of new homes across Norfolk and Suffolk
* Over the lifetime of the deal around 200,000 homes could be delivered
* Control of a £225m transport budget for the next four years
* Control of an existing c£20m annual adult skills fund to ensure the training offer matches the needs of local businesses and the local labour market
* Control of an existing c£2m annual Apprenticeship Grant for employers
The deal would have a Combined Authority and a Directly Elected Mayor. The Combined Authority would decide the most effective and efficient level to deliver services to ensure the best possible outcomes for communities.
About the Combined Authority (CA)
* The CA would be made up of an elected member from all constituent councils across Norfolk and Suffolk
* The CA would not replace any existing council
* Councils would continue as they currently do, to provide services for their areas
About the Mayor
* The Mayor would be elected by residents in the council areas that have voted to approve devolution
* The Mayor would not be able to make decisions alone and would require the support of a certain number of members on the CA to progress their proposals
* Existing Mayors across Norfolk and Suffolk would not be affected
* Locally, the Mayor would be held to account by voters (elections every four years)
* There would also be an Audit Committee and an Overview and Scrutiny Committee to review spending and decision making respectively
As part of the consultation, people are being asked for their views on more decisions being taken locally, rather than at central government. They will be asked if they support the creation of a combined authority chaired by a Mayor for the two counties, how decisions should be taken and how a combined authority and Mayor should be held to account for the decisions they take.
People can have their say by visiting www.eastangliadevo.co.uk and completing the online survey or the hard copy version. The website also includes further information about the proposed deal and the role of the proposed Combined Authority and Mayor.
In addition, Ipsos-Mori will also be carrying out more than 3000 phone surveys across the two counties to ensure decision makers have a representative sample of views.
Cllr Jennie Jenkins, Chair of Suffolk's Public Sector Leaders Group said: "The deal on the table offers Suffolk and Norfolk much needed additional funding and the necessary decision making powers to be able to target that funding to areas and projects which as local councillors we know will have the greatest impact for our communities.
"This would be the start of a completely different relationship with Government. Setting up a Combined Authority and agreeing to a Mayor would mean we could go back to Government again and again asking for more funding and powers in the future.
"Consultation is ongoing until 23 August and people should have their say so when councils and the LEP debate the matter again in October their views inform that debate."
Andy Wood, Independent Chair of the East Anglia Leaders Group said: "With majority support across Norfolk and Suffolk and complete support across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough it is right that communities now have the opportunity to have their say on devolution proposals for East Anglia.
"Norfolk and Suffolk has one of the best potential settlements in the country, offering £130m over five years for housing and £25m a year (for 30 years) to increase jobs, provide better infrastructure and drive growth in local businesses and the economy.
"I would encourage communities to give their views in the consultation so councils and the Secretary of State can take an informed view later in the year."
Views from public consultation will be reported to the Secretary of State for him to consider ahead of any decision to create a combined authority or arrangements are made for mayoral elections, which would take place in May 2017.
Following publication of the original deal in March 2016, negotiations with Government have seen the funding on offer increase for both housing and infrastructure.
Discussions also led to a proposal to have two deals (Norfolk/Suffolk and Cambridgeshire/Peterborough), which council leaders and LEPs believe is the best way to get the most benefit for the people, places and businesses across East Anglia. However, there would be joint working across East Anglia to improve transport and other infrastructure.


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I believe that health is the greatest measure of how you are living your life, both internally and externally. It is influenced not only by the food you eat and the air you breathe; but also by the thoughts you think and choices you make every day. Your health is as individual as your fingerprints. It is a lifelong journey that only you will know - what feels right, what works for you and what doesn't. Your health is a constantly evolving part of who you are and requires patience, respect and unconditional love. I believe that dis-ease, in whatever form, is your body's way of speaking to you when something isn't right; and that part of our journey is learning to listen to what it has to say.
Yes, changing your habits and your life in any way can be scary and yes it can be hard; but is it worth it? Absolutely. My philosophy embraces that perfection isn't the goal when it comes to establishing great health. I believe that it's all about finding the right balance for your life and about making choices to live a life of great health and happiness.
Reflecting on your current state of health is a great place to start your journey back to balance, great health and wellbeing:
- Does your life feel balanced? Consider how much time you spend at work, in the company of people you love, being active, eating nourishing foods, sleeping well, relaxing, doing things you love - how are your life choices impacting your health and happiness?
- Are you choices being made from a place of fear, guilt or duty; or from a place of love, joy and acceptance?
- Are you displaying signs and symptoms of imbalance? Insomnia, weight gain, digestive problems, stress and anxiety?
- Do you use food, TV, alcohol, etc to escape from things in your life that you don't like or are too scared to face?
- Do you feel well? When was the last time you remember feeling truly well - fantastic, full of energy, in love with your life, happy, balanced?
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Angela Prest : Nutritionist & Naturopath - Hemaview Practitioner - Vibe Grange Practice
Angela has a wealth of food ideas and is passionate about wholefoods eating. She has treated professional athletes including netballers and muay thai fighters.
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Angela's tools include nutrition, nutritional supplementation, western herbal medicine, flower essences, iridology and lifestyle counselling.
Further specialist testing techniques are available and may be required to identify the cause and restore balance in the shortest possible time. These tests include hormone, food allergy, liver function, intestinal permeability, stool analysis (including parasite load), and vitamin status.
Specialising In :
- Digestive conditions - IBS, Coeliac, Chronic digestive issues
- Detoxification
- Weight Loss
- Sports Nutrition - including professional athletes
- Children's nutrition
- Food Allergy testing
- Gluten free, dairy free and FODMAPs diets
- Vegetarian diets
- Pregnancy, Preconception care and Post-labour care
- Cardiovascular health - cholesterol and heart disease
- Skin conditions, including Acne, Eczema, Psoriasis
- Allergic conditions, including Dermatitis, Sinusitis
- Diabetes
- Men's Health, including fertility, Andropause and Prostate conditions
I enjoy educating clients to feel empowered and play an active role in their own health. I am committed to continually motivating clients until they have successfully reached the achievable goals and integrated them into their daily lives. I believe diet is the core foundation to our health and I enjoy sharing new recipe ideas utilising the wide variety of superfoods we now have available.
Are you:
- in control of your health?
- as energetic as you want to be?
- happy with your body composition?
- suffering from digestive discomfort?
- suffering PMS symptoms?
- putting up with pain or allergies?
- sleeping as well as you could?
- feeling the effects of aging?
- thinking about starting a family?
- wanting to reduce the pharmaceutical medications you take?
I am here to help YOU achieve optimal health and wellness, naturally!
Elysia Humphries : Nutritionist & Naturopath - Vibe Grange Practice
Elysia has a passion for health care and education. She has 14 years clinical experience working as a Nutritionist and Naturopath in Brisbane. She created the Vibe Natural Health clinic with a view to providing clients with results based natural health care, within a friendly and personalised environment.
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Elysia believes that education is they key to good health and long term positive change. She will spend time with you, explaining the possible causes behind your symptoms and give you an easy to follow plan to improve your health. Your plan may include: dietary advice and recipes, stress management techniques, pathology testing, herbal medicine and / or nutritional supplements to get your health back on track.
Elysia co-ordinates the team of pracitioners at Vibe Natural Health and as clinic director, enjoys getting a team of people together to look after your health.
Specialising in:
- Digestive health - IBS, bloating, coeliac disease
- Detox Programs
- Vegetarian and Vegan health
- Weight loss - and testing for hormonal drivers behind resistant weight loss
- Wholefoods nutrition - gluten free, dairy free, FODMAPs, healthy eating, vegetarian diets
- Infant, Children and Adolescent health
- Hormone balance - menopause, PCOS, Endometriosis, irregular or painful periods, PMS. Elysia works closely with gynaecologists and has a passion for women's health.
- Fertility - male and female infertility, fertility nutrition, teaching you how to know your fertile times with cycle charting, sex timing and preconception care.
- IVF support - safe plans to use along side your IVF cycle, Donor cycles, solo mothers doing IVF, Frozen Embryo tranfer support, TESE
- Failed IVF - natural options to help you conceive after failed IVF cycles.
- Energy - burn out, adrenal fatigue
- Thyroid probelms - hashimotos and subclinical hypothyroidism
- Stress, Anxiety and Depression - natural treatments that can work alongside medication or help you come off medication with your GPs supervision
- Insomnia
- Functional Pathology Testing
Read about Elysia's philosophy on nutrition on her wholefoods vs fad foods blog


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Criticism would be appreciated since it is my first build. :)
I personally think that udyr is a beast when it comes to DPS output,and seeing him as a tank or hybrid is just too painfull to me,so i tought i would give everyone my personal build.
So udyr uses a lot of mana early game,and you want to stay in your lane long enough to get BF sword the FIRST time you'll return.Hence you will focus on turtle stance early game for this survavivability and will be really helpfull even late game to regen HP/Mana an a tremenduous speed.
Clarity also helps you stay longer in your lane since you can have this extra mana you need to go back to turtle and farm some more hp/mana.
Depending on how you play your early game,you might want to put the second point in bear form instead,so you can stun your opponents.As for me,i chose tiger stance first to get as much last hit as possible,and the DoT is still good to finish off ennemies,like someone with no heal at around 150 HP staying in the lane would easyly die to a tiger stance strike.
Since your damage output is high,tiger stance will be your 2nd most important skill to take your ennemies down with its DoT.Alternating between Phoenix and tiger to keep monkey up and do extra damage in tiger stance is good for farming,tower destroying,and killing snared/stunned ennemies.
What you will be using most of the time is the Turtle>Bear>Tiger>Bear>Tiger... combo.
The first turtle (and perhaps some more after if needed) turtle enable you to approach the ennemies in bear form and stun them without taking much damage.Then you finish them off with tiger stance first attack's DoT and keep stunning them when they try to run off to pull yet a gain another tiger's first attack.
As far as masteries goes,i cant say those are the best for level 30 as i'm only 19(using 0/0/19 atm) but this will be most likely what i will use since i WILL try to always get buffs and lower CD+crits on tiger stance are just awesome.
For the runes i went armor pen to show them who's the boss, some CD reduction to NOT be dependant on golem buff if i have to run lighning fast to an ennemy (Bear>Bear>Bear>Bear...) and i added some more crit damage cause i just love crits. :)
And the allmighty Movement Speed to be the best chaser out there.
PS:If you feel like the game will be easy,you might want to get a Occult's sword after you boots.
The game is almost always over BEFORE i can even complete me infinity edge,but if the games not over and you got everything,just stack Thirsters,as they have high damagg output


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April to December 2002 Gardener's Journal
I began this Journal entry in April and then ignored it for 9 months. I finally finished it early January 2003. It was a rough year for me - my day job was demanding and bizarre and there just wasn't the time to garden, do the weekly Floridata updates and my Gardener's Journal column. Something had to go so in order to maintain my sanity and health, I opted to blow off writing the Journal. Although these things are fun to write and produce, it is nonetheless a painful and time consuming process that just doesn't seem to get any easier. So I cheated and combined the last nine months of the year into a single entry so this Journal page will be even more long-winded and rambling than usual but you should read it anyway because there's lots of pretty plant pictures and I even took the time to correct most of the spelling and grammar errors!
April Projects
Keeping everything properly watered was (is) an ongoing effort around here. With the whole hot summer looming ahead, I decided my main project for April would be to mulch. All of the beds were to get a nice thick layer of hay, a material that decays quickly and that would help improve improve the light sandy soil we have here. I borrowed a friend's truck, bought a 500 lb (227 kg) round of hay and hauled it home only to discover that it had settled and jammed the latch on the tailgate. I spent the next three hours busting the bale apart so it could be unloaded and the truck returned. It was then I discovered that messing with hay in 90 heat and humidity is dirty and dusty a good way to get an asthma attack. For the next three evenings I wheezed about the yard and succeeded in mulching about 1/3 of my beds. The remaining beds mostly did without but because we had decent rains this year they held their own and except for some weediness are health and happy. When I win the lottery I plan to buy baled pine straw instead which costs more but lasts longer. It is also prettier, is less dusty and more pleasant to handle and besides, nobody will lend me their truck for hay rounds anymore.
There's an area near the dog runs that I've been adding plants to over the past ten years with the intent of eventually turning it into a shade garden. I planted a trio of blue China fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) a decade ago and they are now range in height from 15 - 25 ft (4.6 - 7.6 m) tall. Beneath them are French and oakleaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla and H. quercifolia) which have also grown to good size. I removed the last brambles and weeds from the area and trimmed up a very attractive native red bay (Persea borbonia) that was already growing there. Beside it I planted a white 'Henryi' clematis (Clematis X jackmanii) to see if it would climb it. At the far end of the bed there's a small patch of yaupon hollies (Ilex vomitoria) that I'm hacking into weird shapes - like cones and cubes atop long spindly stems. In the sunnier portion of the bed I stuck in several kinds of gingers, 'Black Jet' elephant ear (Colocasia esculenta), umbrella plant (Cyperus alternifolius), river oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) and variegated Confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides). All these serve as backdrop to the garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), purple queen (Tradescantia pallida) and a couple dozen Salvia elegans 'Sparkler' Series which has the prettiest palette of purple, cream and pinkish-salmon flowers. For the finishing touch, I completed a monkey grass (Liriope muscari) border around and declared this area "done" except for enjoying watching it grow more beautiful each year. (OK, the truth be told, I'll probably move some of the gingers and hydrangeas around but it's mostly done, except for maybe a new Mexican fan palm (Washingtonia robusta) and ...)
May Projects
Bright, balmy and breezy, May was beautiful! I was working a lot of day job overtime and didn't get to spend near as much time in the yard as I'd have liked. I managed to put in a few new perennials like a bunch of purple and orange coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea and Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ) but, despite April's mulch madness, most of my time was spent trying to keep everything watered.
During May I got around to potting up dozens of palm seedlings that had germinated in the past several months. I was ten for ten on the seeds of Wallichia densiflora, a palm that looks like a dwarf version of the fishtail palm (Caryota mitis) but is supposedly more resistant to cold (looks promising so far...) If all goes well I'll have a nice little grove of these charming little multi-stemmed charmers in a couple of years! I didn't have as good luck with the Trachycarpus wagnerianus which closely resembles the Chinese fan palm (T. fortunei). Only 3 out of 18 seeds germinated which was a bummer. Nearly as big a disappointment was having not a single Butia paraguayensis come up out of 10 seeds planted - maybe it was old seed or possibly I don't know what I'm doing... So other than that and working too much, I mostly spent leisurely May moments playing with the puppies and fighting off a bad case of spring fever.
June Projects
June was a "crunch month" for my consulting job. I spent the month writing technical specifications containing tons of words, graphs and diagrams for management to ignore when making uninformed decisions. When I did make it into to the garden in June it was to relax and enjoy and to discharge burnout. June was a month for me to enjoy, instead of work in, the garden which helps me maintain my charming demeanor and even temperament.
July Projects
As July begin I was totally burned out from the day job so I drove up to Kentucky to see the family. There we had pool parties and barbecues and I got to watch lots of fireworks. I also had the opportunity to visit Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum which is one of my favorite places in near by Cincinnati. There I got to take a bunch of great tree pictures. Especially nice was visiting the area where veterans are buried. A tiny American flag was placed upon each soldiers' grave which created a memorable sight and gave me a chance to give them a silent thanks for their sacrifices.
It was a very hot day and I was running all over the place in a foto frenzy snapping tree pictures when I had a monster asthma attack. Luckily I had an inhaler with me but I must have gotten pretty goofy. I mixed up the labels on some of the pictures so when we introduced the the new profile for the American beech (Fagus grandifolia) it had a photo of the wrong tree (D'OH!). Thanks to Will at Duke University for pointing out the error. It's correct now, so check it out to see what this tree really looks like!
I returned home to Tallahassee in mid-July to heat and rain. A couple of hurricanes brushed our area dumping a lot of much needed rain as it passed. Unfortunately the long awaited moisture triggered a population explosion of mosquitoes. Skeeters of every species and persuasion and make and model attacked in swarms. Mosquito repellent was mandatory when venturing outdoors. Unfortunately the "good" (effective) stuff called DEET makes me feel sick (this stuff can't be safe, think twice before putting this junk on young kids) so I spent way less time in the yard than normal. West Nile virus is lurking about and it just isn't worth taking the risk. Also other insects plagued me as well, the worst were tiny "seed ticks" that had a habit of attaching to the most unpleasant places on the human body and chiggers (a.k.a. jiggers, redbug) which are tiny demons that embed themselves under the skin where they start bonfires and party for weeks much to my raging discomfort.
August Projects
Our area has had below normal annual rainfalls for the past several years. Happily August continued the pattern of afternoon thunderstorms that began in late July. The ample moisture caused local vegetation rejoice and grow crazy. It was amazing and satisfying to see everything so lush and green after all those brown years. Unfortunately, up on The Hill a rogue patch of blackberry brambles responded to the abundance by growing crazy and since I hadn't properly mulched the area earlier in the year I had a big bad briar patch to contend with. I paid for my neglect as the monster sticker vines began choking out nearby palms, shrubs and even cactus! The damn thing upset so me so much that I was out there for several hot and muggy weekends ripping the monstrous growth out handful by handful. My forearms were set aflame with a crosshatch of angry scarlet gashes whose fire could only be quenched with great globs of anesthetic antibiotic ointment. I have sworn a solemn oath to myself never to let blackberry brambles take over again (and to at least wear gloves when I pull them out if they do come back!) Since then, I patrol the area every month removing any young sprouts that appear. When the weather warms up I plan to spot spray with herbicide and hopefully that will kill off my briar patch for good!
Despite the heat, bugs and briars, August was a decent month. For years I have struggled to simply keep alive my tiny, tender treasures during shriveling summers. The month's ample rains now have most things absolutely thriving! After all these years, my place is finally beginning to resemble the garden visions in my head!
September Projects
Come September the temperatures cooled a bit but I was stuck working lots of overtime for my consulting job. Sixty plus hour weeks didn't leave much time for yard work. If I did get outside it was usually just to sit on a lawn chair and stare into space.
October Projects
Burned out from the ridiculous work load in September, I treated myself to another road trip up to Kentucky to relax and see my Mom. We got to go pick apples and pumpkins down by the Ohio River and I made my usual visit to Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum to take more tree pictures. When I returned home I was eager to get back in the garden after all those weeks working overtime. I had a dozen Sabal bermudana seedlings up on The Hill and transplanted three Chinese fan palms (Trachycarpus fortunei) to that area as well. October was really humid and buggy so I spent the remainder of the month indoors working on Floridata and otherwise not having a life.
November Projects
Early in the month I had the pleasure of visiting Miami for the Fairchild Tropical Garden's annual palm sale. As usual it was a real treat to be able to see and purchase such a wide selection palms at such great prices. If you're a palm lover you owe it to yourself to attend next year! When I returned home to Tallahassee I decided not to plant my new palms until this coming spring as freezes, fungus and hungry deer are likely to assault them until then ( I have them all huddled around me in my office at the moment as a hard freeze is predicted for tonight - brrrr)
Mid-November found me clearing brush from an area up on the hill that I've been developing over the past few years. When "all danger of frost is past" (about March 16 for where I live) I'm going to plant a low maintenance wildflower garden up among some of my palms and yuccas. I expect it to be grand!
As the temperature and mosquito population declined, my energy and interest levels went up and I resolved to complete the monkey grass (Liriope muscari) borders for a couple of my camellia and Japanese magnolia beds around the dog runs. Since I've been obsessively outlining my plantings with thousands of feet of border for the past 13 years I have a ready source of raw materials. Every few years the borders require trimming and reshaping as they grow out of bounds. They get out of shape and sometimes tangle with neighbors like turf grass and ivy. As I can't bear to throw away/burn the border grass trimmings I feel compelled to use them for new borders. This might border on obsession but it appeals to the neat freak in me to have nice defined edges around everything besides the stuff is so easy to transplant, grows fast, and is drought tolerant it seems a shame to waste!
December Projects
After installing 200 ft (61 m) of border grass in the Dog Garden last month, my enthusiasm and obsessiveness really kicked in and I resolved that this would be the year I finish off the front portion of the Floridune Canine Memorial Garden (Dog Cemetery). I live with a bunch of dogs, mostly Great Danes, and am very attached to them. When a dog dies I put them with the rest of the gang in the Dog Cemetery and plant a tree upon the grave in memory. Over the years this area has became a pretty grove of mostly hollies, loquat, camellias and Japanese magnolias. Early in the month I began drawing the final shapes the beds and installed another 350 ft (170 m) of border. It looked so nice I transplanted some (rather large) shrubs and trees into the area. The prettiest was a 6 ft (1.8 m) Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide' that I moved to the front of the Dog Cemetery where it will get more sun. It only produces a few blossoms a year - I suspect because it was growing in the rather deep shade beneath a live oak. With luck it will be covered with hundreds of pretty red and gold flowers next year in its new, sunnier home just in time for Christmas next year.
I had some big gardening plans for the holidays but I kept getting sick and then I'd start to get better and then I'd go work out in the rain and cold and then I'd get sick again until I got really sick and had to go to the doctor. As a result there's still a needle palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix) and two huge pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) clumps to transplant (not looking forward to that!) and about a dozen potted junipers (Juniperus virginiana) and wax myrtles (Myrica cerifera) to plant. If I'm not sick and/or lazy and unmotivated maybe I'll get to them in January.
In Bloom at Floridune
Since this is a mega-Journal entry covering 9 months I thought it'd be fun to review my flower favorites by season. The fact is that the deer and bunnies ate all of my cool weather bloomers before I could take pictures. That's pretty much ruined my December subjects so it looks like a review is what I'll do!
In Bloom: Spring
Flowering woody plants are the stars of the springtime show here at Floridune. Azaleas, dogwood, gardenia and cross vine are just some of the southern favorites that we enjoy here. As spring progresses to summer there's the native fringe tree and the spectacular southern magnolia and despite my efforts, probably a bit too much of the delightfully fragrant (but invasive here) Chinese wisteria.
By the first day of summer, the more temperate annuals and perennials begin to crap out. That's one reason that I like the salvias, many of these species can manage to look beautiful despite the heat and humidity. Scarlet sage (Salvia splendens), Texas sage (S. coccinea), mealycup sage (S. farinacea) and blue anise sage (S. guaranitica) are my some of my favs but take your pick, they're all good and hummingbirds love them too. For maximum color during the summer I count on tropical species like soap aloe (Aloe saponaria), jacobinia (Justicia spp.), allamanda (Mandevilla spp.), princess flower (Tibouchina urvilleana), butterfly ginger (Hedychium coronarium) and many others. Impatiens ( Impatiens wallerana) are mandatory for shady areas in summer and I confess to being not only a born again fan of blue ageratum (Ageratum houstonianum) but I'm even beginning to plant petunias (Petunia x hybrida) again (although I still hate the way they smell)!
Our sizzling summer temperatures typically moderate in late September. At this time of year the summer annuals get a second wind and pull themselves back together again while the tropical perennials are looking better than ever. The most noticeable players in my garden this time of year are the huge, bright yellow forsythia sage and the brilliant red firespike both of which look absolutely psychedelic up against the royal purple of the princess flower shrub. Other shrubs joining the show this time of year are the Turk's cap hibiscus and golden showers (Senna pendula - caution, this one is an invasive pest in Central and South Florida where it's not frost-killed each year)
As I write this journal it is winter, a rather chilly winter that has given us several freezes since Thanksgiving which killed the tropical species back to the roots. We don't really have winter here in Florida's panhandle, it is more like an extended autumn that gradually morphs into spring starting in late January or early February. This means that we can usually grow cool weather flowers like pansies and snapdragons this time of year. I plant these winter annuals every year and every year the the local deer and rabbits nibble them, the moles push them out of the ground and the armadillos root them up! Every year I swear I'm not going to bother with them but invariably a wave of unrealistic optimism washes over me in October and I usually do some anyway. At the moment I have beds full of tiny green nubs that are the remains of what would be some very pretty flowers where they not also so tasty to various varmints. As it to make up for the difficulties in growing annuals, we are blessed here in North Florida to have a perfect climate for camellias - japonicas and sasanquas. By selecting a mixture of early and late blooming varieties of each species it is possible to enjoy these fabulous flowers from October through March - and I do!
There are a few plants here at Floridune that have NEVER bloomed and I'm getting more than a bit annoyed about it! There are 6 different red hot poker plants (Kniphofia spp.) out back that have been there for more than a decade and have yet to produce a single flower. Nearby is some Aaron's beard (Hypericum calycinum) that hasn't ever bloomed in six years. Maybe it's the location - these slackers will all be transplanted this spring. In addition I'll cut back Aaron's beard hard because it blooms on new growth and I hope this will inspire some flowers!. I'm also getting tired of waiting for my native wisteria (Wisteria frutescens) vine to bloom. It's been here years too so I'm moving it over to the Dog Garden where I'll pamper it until it blooms - maybe some of my famous dog poop compost will do the trick!
In the next couple of weeks the rest of our winter bloomers will begin to perform. The deciduous magnolias (Magnolia stellata and M. x soulangeana) are already covered with fat buds are just waiting for our cold snap to end. Shortly thereafter our native "first signs of spring", sunny yellow Carolina jessamine ( Gelsemium sempervirens ) and bright red swamp maple (Acer rubrum), will join the show. One of the prettiest winter scenes here in Florida's panhandle is to see these two spectacular early bloomers against a clear, brilliantly blue winter sky.
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Wow, this really was a long-winded entry! I can't believe how long it takes for me to write these things and then even longer if I want to correct most of the errors. Writing this stuff is like going to the gym - it's semi-painful and I'd really rather not do it but it feels good when it's done and it kept me indoors for a week so I could recuperate from my cold. I realize too, in reviewing the past year, that maybe 2002 wasn't as awful as it seemed. Floridata survived another year. My yard is beginning to look like a garden.
So unless I wander off into madness and despair, I'll be here in 2003 growing stuff and sharing what I learn with you. Please visit often and tell your friends about Floridata.
John S. "Jack" Scheper 12/31/02


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Learn one Chinese Character a day - 舟 (学习)
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Today we look at another new character 舟, which is a Pictograph character. However it is kind of transformed too much that we cannot tell its meaning by its current form - 舟.
As usual let us check its Oracle Script or Bronze Script to see whether we can get more clues from them. Below is its evolution history: (image get from http://www.vividict.com)
Oracle Script of 舟 - is still uncertain to us. However looking at one of its Bronze Script , the answer might have jumped out from your mind already?
If we show you the image of a typical small boat in ancient china below, you will then recognise why Oracle Script and Bronze Script of 舟 were written like that.
Boat - 舟
Its Seal Scriptand Clerical Script started to have the prototype of current way of writing - 舟.
So it is very clear that 舟 is a boat.
Now it is time to enjoy a Chinese calligraphy with 舟 inside:
Our next lesson will continue with a character whose Bronze Script is , can you guess what does it mean?


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Upgrade of Lima, Ohio, Plant to Help Produce Engines for F-150 Trucks, Adding 300 Jobs
Ford Motor Co. on Friday said it would invest $500 million to upgrade its engine plant in Lima, Ohio, to produce new engines for F-150 trucks in the company's 2015 model year.
The auto maker said the move would add 300 jobs to the plant, which already employs more than 900 people.
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Women are known to be very open and extremely talkative creatures in comparison with men. But you`ll get surprised that not only men have some things to hide, but women also have some secrets. There is a mystery in every woman for a man to clear up. But unfortunately, only a few of them succeed.
Though it is not that complicated to understand a woman, men have great difficulties with it. So here are some women`s secrets which I hope will help you to clear up the situation.
1. We want men to take initiative
It is a very important thing. We do not like to take care, to plan and to do all sorts of things by ourselves. We want men to take initiative. Though, we never tell about it, you should know that it is important that you carry out some difficult tasks or surprise us.
When a man takes initiative it means that he is involved, that he is attentive and caring. Do it more often, no matter what kind of thing it is – list of stuff to buy, or prepare dinner, or plan your next holiday.


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Should You Kill Yourself for Love? Panel Discussion with Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, Juliet Capulet & Lucy Moderatz
During this Valentine's Week survey of Romances, we've noticed that a lot of characters in literary romances kill themselves for love. So we've invited some of the most notable lover-suicides here today to discuss their choices, along with Lucy Moderatz, the main character of the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping, who does not kill herself for love but lives happily ever after. This discussion is open for anyone's comments, but let's begin by asking Emma Bovary, wife of a successful doctor in a quiet town—why? Why kill yourself?
Emma Bovary: Of course, my first thought was to kill Charles, but he's so boring he probably wouldn't have noticed, and then I'd still be stuck in that backwater Tostes with all that debt! Then I thought of killing Rodolphe, who wouldn't give me any money—you'd think he'd owe me something, after what he did. Honestly, I thought of killing everyone—Leon, the priest, even the butcher—but I was really, really depressed at the time, and flat broke, so I just got tired of it all and took the arsenic. I mean, if Rodolphe had just eloped with me in the first place, like he said he would, we wouldn't be having this conversation, so maybe you should ask Rodolphe why he killed me!
Lucy Moderatz: But why not just get a divorce, declare bankruptcy and move to Rouen? There must be lots of nice guys in Rouen.
Emma: Divorce? Not possible! Bankruptcy? And go to prison? This is 19th Century France, you nitwit!
Lucy: Hey!
Bookmarkzero: Anna, can you relate to Emma's suicide? Were you motivated by the same concerns?
Anna Karenina: Of course, I can relate. When divorce is not possible, and you can't express your true love—
Zero: But Anna, did you kill yourself because of Karenin's refusal to grant a divorce, or because Vronsky was cheating on you?
Anna: First of all, there's no proof that he actually was cheating on me. So there's that. And it's true, everything just got to be too much. I mean, even if I get a divorce, I'm out of society, and I'm done for. I couldn't have gone to the balls or the races, I had no friends, and I obviously couldn't hang around with peasants all day. It was horrible—if I had gotten the divorce and then Vronsky had left me, it would have been the end of me. I don't know—I think the morphine was messing with my head, too, but I honestly didn't see any way out.
Lucy: But what about your children, what about Seryozha and Annie? Didn't you think of them?
Anna (stares at Lucy): Annie didn't like me anyway, and Seryozha. . . well, obviously, I didn't want things to work out like they did. I killed myself—I'm not proud of it!
Lucy: But why not just demand a divorce, get the alimony and take the kids to Moscow? You could get a job! What were you good at?
Anna (to moderator): Who is this bitch?
Zero: Let's bring in Juliet Capulet, who killed herself at her dead lover's side. Would you do it again, knowing what you know now?
Juliet: What do I know now? My one true love is still dead. What did I have to live for?
Emma: That totally makes sense to me. If Rodolphe had died in my arms, I would have killed myself, too.
Anna: Me, too. You go, Juliet!
Emma: Right, better to get it over with early. No offense, but if he had lived, Romeo would probably have turned into a jerk like every other man.
Juliet: What! Take that back, you fusty baggage!
Zero: All right, let's keep this civil. Lucy, did you ever think of killing yourself for love?
Lucy: Well. . . (thinks). . . not really. I mean, it was sad that Peter was in that coma, and then when he woke up. . .and Jack found out about everything. I mean, I quit my job—does that count?
Anna (bewildered): Quit your job?
Emma: This bitch doesn't know anything. She has a job, she can sleep with anybody she wants and nobody cares, she can have a kid by herself, get divorced and remarried and divorced. What the hell does she know about love?
Juliet: That's right! My family would have slain me in an honor killing if I had slept with Romeo out of wedlock, and then they would have killed Romeo and half his family. Marriage and sex and fidelity obviously mean nothing to you!
Lucy: Hey, that's not fair. All I ever wanted was to be married.
Anna: Sure, but you have choices. You can vote. You can sleep with that guy down the hall and who cares? No one ostracizes you from society, if a peasant like you could be said to have a society.
Lucy: You know, just because you lived in different times, that doesn't give you a right to judge my feelings. I feel just as deeply about love as all of you did.
Juliet: Oh yeah? (withdraws a dagger from her skirts and offers it to Lucy) Prove it.
Emma: Yeah, prove it.
Lucy (recoils): But I'm not going to kill myself. I'm happily married.
Emma (to moderator): Why did you invite her? What does she know about anything? (turns to Juliet) Give me that dagger!
Lucy: I'm getting out of here! (jumps up and runs away, followed closely by Emma, Anna and Juliet)
Zero: I guess we'll have to resume this discussion at another time. Until then, let me leave you with this final question: Would you kill yourself for love?


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Dino Ferrari was the son of the famous car-maker Enzo Ferrari. He contributed to the design of a 1.5 V6 engine with dual overhead camshafts and three double Weber carburettors. However, Dino died prematurely in 1956, when he was barely 24 years old. In memory o...
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As I spend time each week with these girls, I learn more and more about what it means to be a mentor. Every time I go out and run with them, they share. Several of the girls have expressed hope they have for themselves, shared their fears about things they are dealing with at home and each week I feel special that I get to help instill some self-confidence in them. These girls are amazing and I love this program.
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Enhance your clinical skills by working with individuals in a hospital-based environment. Develop a better understanding of the scope of the intrinsic factors involved with this population by working directly with patients receiving chemotherapy, radiation and hospital stay following treatment or surgery for cancer.
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What's this project?
Challenging times have always needed song & laughter, whether it's Fred & Ginger movies in the depression, Tom Lehrer and The Smothers Brothers during the Vietnam War era, or comics like Stephen Colbert, Ellen de Generes, and Sarah Silverman today. In that tradition, for the past 19 months, I've channeled my frustration into a weekly comedy song inspired by current events and fans are requesting a greatest hits album. So I've put together this Kickstarter project to produce it.
Here's this week's video, combining Harry Reid's latest remarks with my secret desire to impersonate a glassy-eyed-fashion-model-pretending-to-play-a-musician-in-a-rock-video . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBJFosBNS8k
And here's the video from the song I've chosen as the title track, "If My Uterus Were A Gun" (imagine the double dose of badly spelled hate mail I got on this video!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTtuDFLaxg
Why do you need backers?
Recording albums is scary and expensive, and I'm a free-lance musician and working mom without the funds to do this alone - so I'm asking for help. Plus crowd-funding helps me publicize the project in advance, creating more of a market for it. And a recording of these projects will help me get my songs out there, maybe as an opening act for political comedians - thus making me an overnight success after 34 years. (I can't lie about my age, my kids are too good at math! But I'm actually proud to be - just barely - in Kickstarter's 2nd oldest demographic group.) My backers will also help me select the songs I include (I have over 80 from which to choose) and will be part of the recording process as I post updates, give them sneak previews, and send them the more entertaining bloopers.
How will you make the album?
I'm inviting backers to vote on their favorites, so I can pick 15 songs to re-record in the studio. And I'll build on my experience creating 3 comedy albums, 7 albums of kids' educational music, and 8 children's musicals, starting with my own Logic Pro studio and finalizing with my fantastic team (recording engineer John Hoy, graphics by MZdesignz, www.mzdesignz.com).
Check out these projects and more at www.laurenmayer.com.
Can I see & hear some more samples?
Sure - here's another recent video, having some fun with an attempt to boycott Girl Scout Cookies:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7J9GV-YXg
Here's my idea of a theme song for Downton Abbey fans . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdt0JmGj6to
Audio track for "It's A Scary Time To Be A Jewish Mother"
"Hormone Hell" from my first album, Psycho Super Mom (the joys of menopause while your kids are in puberty):
"Nine Words (They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat)" from Latkes, Shmatkes, comedy songs for Chanukah
What will this campaign pay for?
Studio recording costs money. As does duplication - some of my fans are old enough to like actual CDs, not just a digital file. (Actually, many of them are old enough to remember vinyl before it was retro-cool, but I digress.) I'll keep costs down by doing my own basic tracks and working insanely fast.
And here's a 'before-and-after' look at a song from one of my previous albums, so you can see what a difference good production can make:
Risks and challenges
Serious answers:
- The biggest risks with a CD project is that the artist 1) won't finish writing the songs, 2) won't complete the recording, 3) won't get rewards to the backers, or 4) won't get the project duplicated and ready to send or download. In my case -
1) The songs are already written
2) I've already booked studio time with my engineer, and we've done dozens of projects together and always finished on time or ahead of schedule
3) Kickstarter makes it really easy for me to contact backers and before I launched I backed a bunch of projects so I could learn from how they ran their campaigns and handled rewards
4) I have already set up a manufacturing account for this project, and I already work with CD Baby for digital downloads. And as for getting CDs mailed out, I have a 17-year-old son who thinks I'm pretty cool for trying a site he knew about first, so he's willing to help in return for pizza.
Funny answers:
- I could suddenly get extremely busy with appearances on The Daily Show:
Fortunately, my engineer is also a fantastic guitar player so we can finish recording in between gigs.
- The Tea Party and Fox News could suddenly cease providing continual inspiration:
Fortunately, we can always count on one of the Kardashians or Donald Trump to do something ludicrous.
- People will do the math and realize that I'm older than Jon Stewart so I couldn't be his love child:
Fortunately, my fans are smart enough to understand a comedic metaphor.
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Grange postpones return to racing
03 December 2012 19:33
French slalom specialist Jean-Baptiste Grange has decided to postpone his return to competition. As a result, he will skip the home slalom in Val d'Isère this week.
"I do not feel 100% ready yet even if the development is going in the right direction but unfortunately it would be a bit too premature for Val d'Isère. The Face on Bellevarde is a challenge both physically and technically. I do not have enough training days under my belt to be competitive. That's why I prefer to continue to train and prepare myself properly before returning to competion," explained Grange his decision.


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But as SABMiller proved this week, the old adage may be less true than it once was. For the past six months, the group's financial performance may have come in in-line with expectations, but as the company itself admitted, this was largely due to favourable exchange rates, which came as "slower volumes have constrained profit growth".
The trading update added that: "Deteriorating global economic conditions, weakening consumer demand and volatile exchange rates make the prospects for the rest of the financial year increasingly uncertain."
Certainly, SAB is seeing demand slow in many of its key markets. The group established itself through a series of acquisitions that made it a brewing powerhouse comprising brands such as Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell. However, in economically happier times, when consumers were judged on their choice of lager, its move towards the premium end of the market looked smart. Now, as with groceries and clothes, there is evidence that drinkers are trading down in an attempt to shave pennies off the household bills.
That was in part offset by better than expected performances in Latin America, Asia and Africa, where economic growth is holding up rather better than in the West, but with growth there set to slow, there are question marks over just how resilient SAB will prove to be.
In its favour are strong cash generation, well regarded brands, high margins, and its recent moves to diversify both in terms of geography and product portfolio. Tough comparables from the previous period will also ease in the months to come.
But it is hard to escape the feeling that the company is likely to have tough times ahead, particularly after Carlsberg — another brewer with large emerging markets exposure — reported falling sales earlier in the month. With the economic climate in South Africa, which still accounts for a large slug of sales — showing signs of weakness, there is concern over how well beer sales will hold up.
With exchange rates now moving against SAB and previous hedging policies ensuring no quick gain from lower input prices, a number of analysts were looking to downgrade forecasts last week.
SAB is a well managed operator and many expect a transformational deal in the not too distant future as the company faces a new competitive landscape forged from the InBev Anheuser Busch combination. However, on Cazenove's numbers, the company has been trading on around 11 times 2009 calendar earnings — a small but significant premium to the brewing sector as a whole.
Given that and the global downturn, it is unlikely that SAB will see any great
pick-up in its stock in the short term, despite its strong management and track record.
As the great philosopher Homer Simpson noted: "Beer is the cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems". For SABMiller, it seems to be more of a curse at the moment. Avoid.


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