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Coca-Cola (KO) Raising Dividends Again
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When was the last time your employer gave you a 5+% raise?
Even if you got a raise like that this past year, I doubt you get that kind of pay increase every single year. If you do … then great!
But if you are like most hard working people … you probably are not getting a consistent pay raise above 5% or 6% annually.
The good news is that there is a way to put your family in a position to grow your income by 6% or more every 12 months.
How is this possible? By building a portfolio of stocks from the top dividend paying companies.
Our family has been building our dividend growth portfolio for almost 9 years now. Just this year … we are expecting to earn about $2,400 in dividend income!
Building that kind of income stream definitely takes time and some help from the companies that you are investing in. That help comes in the form of annual dividend increases.
The most recent dividend increase (or raise) from a stock we own was from Coca-Cola (KO).
KO Shareholders Get a 5.7% Raise
Coca-Cola (KO) recently announced an annual dividend increase. The company has been consistently raising annual dividends for over the past 50+ years!
That is incredible to think the company has helped their shareholders increase their income for that long of a time.
Company shareholders will now receive $0.37 in quarterly dividends for each share they own … instead of $0.35 paid previously. This increase comes close to meeting our desired dividend growth rate of at least 6%, but fell just short.
The latest increase bumps the annual dividend for KO up to $1.48 per share compared to $1.40 last year.
Overall, that is a 5.71% increase in dividend income.
How Much Extra Income?
We currently own 15.28 shares of KO in our Money Sprout Index.
This latest dividend increase has pushed our 12 month forward dividend income for KO up to $22.62, compared to $21.39 last year.
That is an annual dividend income increase of $1.22 – (not much but it is an increase to our income).
This is a simple reminder that our dividend income stream is constantly growing every single day … without any extra work from us.
With this latest increase by Coca-Cola, along with recent stock purchases and dividend reinvestment … our annualized forward dividend income has risen to $2,294.37.
Dividend Growth for KO
We have owned shares of Coca-Cola for about 3.5 years now.
Overall, the company has done a decent job with dividend growth … but it has come at an expense – a high payout ratio.
Take a look at the annual dividend payments since 2012 –
- 2012 – $1.02
- 2013 – $1.12
- 2014 – $1.22
- 2015 – $1.32
- 2016 – $1.40
- 2017 – $1.48 (projected)
Note – The 2017 dividend has been adjusted to reflect a projected dividend over the entire year.
As you can tell from the numbers above, KO dividends have been raised consistently over the past several years with healthy growth.
Typically, we look for stocks with a 5-year or 10-year dividend growth rate (DGR) of 6% or higher. Coca-Cola has been able to sustain a dividend growth rate above 6% for some time now … coming up just short this year.
Unfortunately though … that growth has also pushed their payout ratio (84.85%) well above 60%, which is the maximum that we consider for our portfolio.
Here are a few average growth rates for shares of Coca-Cola –
- 1 Year DGR – 5.71% (2016 to 2017)
- 3 Year DGR – 6.67% (2014 to 2017)
- 5 Year DGR – 7.74% (2012 to 2017)
Coca-Cola – Buy, Sell, or Hold?
We started buying shares of Coca-Cola back in November of 2013.
Since that time, we have earned $51.43 in dividends from the company. Since we own these shares in our LOYAL3 account, there is no option for DRiP – therefore no additional shares have been earned from dividends.
Note – Even though we don't have DRiP for our KO shares, we have used our dividends to fund other purchases.
Here are a few stats from over the years of buying stock in Coca-Cola –
- Total Investment – $625.00
- Shares Purchased – 15.28
- Dividends Earned – $51.43
- DRiP Shares – 0.00
At the time of this writing, KO does NOT meet our stock screen criteria based on the following metrics –
- Current Yield – 3.37%
- Payout Ratio – 84.85%
- P/E Ratio – 25.19
The company meets the current yield requirement of being greater than (or equal) to 2%. But the payout ratio is way above the 60% maximum we look at for a dividend growth stock. In addition, the PE is well over 20 and the dividend growth rates are not that strong.
Based on all of this, we have KO as a solid HOLD. If at anytime, the company were to cut their dividend … we would sell our shares immediately.
We plan to invest in Dr. Pepper Snapple (DPS) now in place of Coca-Cola… as their dividend characteristics look much better.
Full Disclosure – At the time of this writing, we owned shares in the following stocks noted in this post – DPS and KO. The material above is not a recommendation to buy. Please do your own research on a company before deciding to invest.

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I walk past the Occupy Belfast protesters opposite St. Anne's Cathedral nearly every day. It would be easy to sneer at them. They have some rather nice tents out of Decathlon, that well known bastion of anti-capitalism, and they seem to have a lot of fun. Not only are they not occupying anything more than Belfast's new-but-now-traditional venue of left-wing protest, but they aren't even properly persecuted. I can't remember the last time I saw a cop there, let alone a raid. All the same, they've held out through a winter that has had its cold and wild spots between the mildness, and what's wrong with a bit of fun anyway? Being young, and free, and thinking you're about to change the world, it's a lovely experience – perhaps we sneer at them because we're jealous of them?
Are they changing the world? Probably not. They aren't in the right place or the right time, but they are part of something that is. @OccupyBelfast - "We are the 99%", as it styles itself on Twitter, babbles away via social media with Occupy Birmingham, and Occupy Bratislava, and Occupy Boston. Information surges into Lower Donegall Street through the capillaries of the internet from places where the students on the streets really are changing the world – from Cairo, and Hama, and Moscow. As I said, Northern Ireland in 2012 is not the right place or time to be in the centre of things. There are just too many other things in recent history to deal with here at this juncture. But if a wave spreads, you never know, you just never know.
And that's the problem with talking about the likely impact of social media on the affairs of the world – we simply don't know. Weak and inefficient Arab dictatorships were caught on the hop when the revolution started being spread by text message; but China's security apparatus has been paranoid about the impact of mobile comms and the internet since before anyone else took them seriously. Just as the pen was often not mightier than the sword, Bahrain shows that the heavily armed Saudi urban pacification squad is mightier than the Nokia wielding teenager. Syria might well end up sending the same message.
It's difficult for a non-Sinophone to get a decent handle on what's happening on the internet in China, and not only because of language difficulties. The Great Firewall combined with China's sheer size means that one fifth of humanity surfs through a virtual world only weakly connected with that inhabited by the other four fifths. Chinese surf for video clips on Youku and Tudou, not YouTube, while Weibo and Taobao are used instead of Twitter and eBay. Chinese exceptionalism is as powerful as that exhibited by any country on the planet, and it begins the moment you open your web browser.
In the 1930s, the talking cinema and the radio were the two powerful means of spreading information most recently to emerge on the scene. One transmitted simple information around the world instantaneously, so that a war that broke out in Asia made the living rooms and ministries of Washington and Berlin within minutes. The other transmitted the creations of the world's leading directors and actors around the world in a matter of weeks or months, transmitting ideas more powerfully and faithfully than any stage piece or silent movie ever could.
While liberal democrats, especially on the left, had their great moments in the golden age of radio on cinema, from Casablanca to How Green is my Valley? to FDR's fireside chats, Nazism and Communism were enthusiastic and skilled proponents of the new media of the day. Faced with information coming through normal channels, people can become very effective at sorting out propaganda from reality. When receiving information from unfamiliar sources, it takes time to learn to spot the subtle clues that alert one to the bogus. The broadcast of Hitler's speeches on the radio was a major media event, and Leni Riefenstahl burnished the Nazis' image while Fritz Hippler demonised their enemies. Stalin, too, was an early and enthusiastic supporter of cinema and its power to shape minds.
Just a few short decades later, radio was past its sell-by date as a vehicle for more than broadcasting pop songs, while the efforts of eastern Bloc cinema and television to sell the virtues of 'really existing socialism' seemed cheap and tawdry. By that stage, people had a better sense of when someone was telling the truth and when people were just making stuff up. It wasn't that propaganda had died, still less than people had stopped believing it, but by that stage, it took time, money and talent to create believable propaganda. The first two were in perpetually short supply in the Communist world and the last wasn't always available to the state. In the West, where all three resources were available in abundance, quality propaganda survived, but with limits. Not many even among its most die-hard fans saw Delta Force as a meaningful contribution to the debate on US Middle East policy. On the other hand, the relentless, decades long, campaign to normalise homosexuality through British television worked a treat. I'm one of its beneficiaries, and I'm delighted that people invested their time and skills to make it happen.
Most of us have been using social media for less than five years. Few of us understand exactly how any particular concatenation of stories arrives on our Facebook home page. Many of our online contacts are with people we've never met in real life; our capacity to judge their reliability as witnesses is limited. We are potentially suckers for the next great propagandist to come along. And I'm not sure we can do anything about that at this point in time.
Gil Scott-Heron's poem identified the top-down nature of the last great information technology, television, as its critical weakness in promoting social change. Hierarchical, unidirectional, dependent on corporate or government sponsorship, it was not the vector for revolutions. Those watching TV would miss the revolution, which could only happen on the streets.
Today's great information technology goes out onto the streets with us on our smartphones. It does not only convey information from top to bottom, but also from bottom to top and side to side. It continues to convey information, however, from top to bottom. A lot of information. In the internet age, those at the apex of politics, business or civil society still have enormously more leverage to convey information to the world at large than the average person. Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign is living proof of that, and his 2012 campaign might still underscore it.
The internet can still be used for top-down purposes, and some time soon somebody is going to use that to maximum effect, for good or ill. We lose sight of that at our peril.


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Pound cake is another simple, elegant, universal recipe. Whether you have guests or are having an little snack for yourself, homemade pound cake is always heartwarming. It is a little rich, and not too much trouble. The name comes from using a pound of each ingredient: flour, butter, sugar. This recipe comes from an old standby cookbook, The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook.
I used a natural shortening, called Earth Balance, with some butter mixed in for flavor:
Wonderful Pound Cake
2/3 cup shortening
1-1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 tblsp lemon juice
(I added a tsp of vanilla)
2/3 cup milk
2-1/4 cups flour
1-1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs
Set your oven to 300F and butter and line a 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan with parchment paper (or butter & flour it)
Mix the shortening and sugar together with the lemon zest and beat until light (3 min). Add lemon juice and vanilla. Beat in the milk.
Add the sifted dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and beat on medium speed with a hand held mixer for a couple of minutes, scraping down the sides of your bowl. Then begin adding your eggs, one at a time, beating a minute after each addition, and then beat everything together for another minute. Don't overmix, or you will develop the gluten, which will toughen your cake.
Finally, put the batter into your baking pan and place in a slow (300) oven and bake for 1 hour & 20 minutes. Allow to cool enough to remove from the pan and let it cool completely. A little cracking on top is perfectly natural.
A little custard and fruit- you have a little slice of heaven 🙂
You want to say Chocolate in Nahuatl (Aztec)? This is SO cool: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=xocolatl
Xocolatl was always reserved for the royal court before the arrival of the Spanish.
Hueytlatoani Matecuhzoma, Rey de los Mexicas de 1502 a 1520- aka Montezuma, if you have read 'Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook'- served this food of the gods in golden goblets. It was definitely not your gamma's can of Hersey's Chocolate Syrup (remember those?). "Cacao beans had been roasted, ground, then mixed with corn meal, vanilla, peppers, spices, and herbs." This is actually more or less correct- yay for Betty Crocker. And Betty also correctly notes that cacao beans served as currency in the primarily cashless economy of the Aztec empire.
I visited Teotihuacan a little over a year ago and was able to climb the Temple of the Sun with a friend from Fiji and a Maori woman visiting from New Zealand. Those Aztecs knew what time it was and they made some pretty big clocks and calendars to keep everything on schedule. They drank their chocolate out of solid gold goblets, which were probably melted down and are now probably adorning the alter of the cathedral in Barcelona or something.
Around the time of the Quincentennial (1992), Peruvian people on the other side of the Equator made a collective statement and demanded of Spain the approximately One Trillion dollars worth of silver alone that was stolen from a mountain in their ancestral domains. Before Columbus arrived and so rudely interrupted everyone's civilizations they had been engaging in marvelous, sophisticated agricultural development in the middle of the Amazonian region, terraforming the earth with terra preta. Of course at the time all of Europe was primarily a gold-based economy, and the Far East was strictly silver, and had been for about 200-300 years already since the Dutch Bourse was founded. Looking back a century or two before that, the Champagne Fairs had previously confirmed that China and India preferred to trade in silver rather than gold as the precious metal underpinning the economies of their numerous kingdoms and empires.
In this continent, the Aztecs could eat their currency if need be- and that's an interesting contrast to King Midas, who was not able to eat the food he turned to gold with a touch of his hand. Not very nutritious, plus it sits a bit heavy on the stomach. But it was in part gold the reason Cortés showed up in the 1500's and was introduced to chocolate and maize: silver showed up on the radar of the Spanish court soon thereafter, and then the ravaging of South America began as well.
Chocolate is one of many foods that we Native American people have developed over the past 10,000 years or so, and which now constitute three-fifths of all crops in cultivation across the globe. If you sit down to a conventional Thanksgiving dinner, you know what I mean: Potatoes, corn or cornbread stuffing, cranberries, turkey, pumpkin pie, beans. Yup that's all Indigenous – these form part of our collective Native intangible assets, our cultural and intellectual histories.
Until "1492, Europeans had never tasted avocados, beans (lima, kidney, pea, shell, string and others), cacao (for chocolate), cassava, chicle (for chewing gum), chilies, corn, hickory nuts, jicama, maple syrup, manioc, papayas, peanuts, pecans, peppers, persimmons, pineapples, potatoes, pumpkins, squashes, sunflower seeds, sweet potatoes, tapioca, tomatoes or vanilla. Nor had they worn clothes woven from long-fiber cotton. In all, Native Americans have contributed more than 300 food crops to the world.
"Native Americans in the central Mexican state of Puebla began collecting and domesticating wild plants about 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. By about 6,000 to 7,000 years ago about 10 percent of their food came from cultivated products; by about 5,400 years ago the amount ratcheted up to some 30 percent. Archaeological evidence indicates that by 5000 B.C., Native Americans began farming using indigenous agricultural practices as well as those learned from Mexican and Central American cultures." This is a pretty decent summary of the history and impact of Native foods on modern and post-modern human history. http://www.allbusiness.com/agriculture-forestry-fishing-hunting/331083-1.html
Wikipedia has a more comprehensive examination of Native foods; and an excellent reference book I recommend is "Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World", edited by Nelson Foster & Linda S. Cordell, University of Arizona Press, 1992. Since that book appeared, another important book has since come to print, although its focus is not specifically on food.
"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columus" by Charles C. Mann, confirms all of this and additionally presents important new evidence of previously unknown agricultural practice in ancient South America. "Having secured their food supply, Mesoamerican societies turned to intellectual pursuits. In a millennium or less, a comparatively short time, they invented their own writing, astonomy, and mathermatics, including the zero." — from "1491" (c) 2005 Knopt Press. – please see chapter 6 in Section II.
So back to Chocolate. You want to show some love to your loved-one for Saint Valentine's Day, and of course chocolate is the one of the holy trinity of Valentine's Day traditions. Chocolate, flowers and Valentine's day cards. It's a little more elaborate than "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness," (Omar Khayyam -1048-1131- a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer). I don't know, this could be a serious toss-up, depending on the wine and the Thou (wink). Valentine was a Christian martyr and I'm still not completely clear on how Roman religious persecution and violence eventually got conflated with Cupid (who is a primordial god, son of Venus and Mercury- who knew?).
If you crave even more obscure origins of Valentine, go all the way back to Lupercalia, a fertility festival in the pre-Roman world: " Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, a possibly earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February its name." God I love Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia
So, eat some Godiva chocolates (you know, the lady who rides around naked on a horse), make a batch of fudge, paint your lover's body with a little melted ganache- and connect the dots between ancient pre-America and ancient pre-Europe. And thank whichever gods are responsible for giving chocolate to the whole world.
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What a movie! It's a little strange writing about a movie about a food blog (among other things) in this food blog. "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life." (Wilde). But IF you get a chance, go see this flick- four of us went together to look at it on Friday. Meryl Streep nails the character of Julia Child (and the woman who incidentally portrayed her sister, well, they were phenomenal together)- the whole audience went ape over this movie. Everyone in that packed cinema was happily yelling and cheering for almost 2 hours. I'd see it again. Stanley Tucci was good too.
I just re-deranged –as my friend Hortensia likes to say- -my kitchen cupboards. Not the whole kitchen- I don't want to get too carried away. But I realized things were slowly careening toward a state of entropy for a couple of months and becoming unmanageable. And it was time to make granola, so it I had to find out how and where everything had migrated inside my cupboards while I wasn't paying attention.
I discovered a jar of Organic Black Tahini and a packet of Junket (it's a Scandinavian rennet product that you can use to make something like Panna Cotta, or a Trembleque (different, and made with cocunut milk I think). Also I found my Mexican dried, powdered shrimp in one of 4 or 5 unmarked recycled, plastic yogurt containers. Sometimes it's like Christmas when I open one of these containers and it has Chinese Mu Er (Tree Ear), or semolina flour, or dried shrimp.
So today I make granola because I'm running out. I usually make a huge batch about once a month, and I have done that fairly consistently for about 20 years. I used to make a version from 'Bridgehampton Works and Days' while I was still in my teens. Then after I entered the restaurant business several years later, where we made fresh granola once or twice a week. The New Riverside Cafe granola had a cult-following; our business logo was a cartoon of a plump flying purple eggplant with little white angel wings, and our official business motto was 'NO MEAT! NO BOSSES!' I always did say that it was a slightly anarchical artists colony disguised as a vegetarian restaurant.
Actually I think the unofficial name of the business was 'The New Riverside Cafe: Biomagnetic Center of the Universe'. Whenever we had anti-war demonstrations in town (which was FREQUENT in the late 1980s- Think: Reagan/Iran-Contra) our little cafe storefront became standing room only, as energetic peaceniks flooded our shop for organic coffee and restorative rice and beans, or tofu, veg and brown rice. It was the most financially successful, collectively owned business in the United States at that time (we cleared something like a $1M a year, if you can believe it). Our neighboring counter-culture vegetarian sister-restuarant (The Seward Cafe) made t-shirts with the neo-post-constructionist image of a piece of an herioc spear of broccoli with the legend "EAT BROCCOLI!" -after George Bush the elder announced that he was now an adult and the President, so he didn't have to eat broccoli if he didn't want to. So eating broccoli became a fashion statement of war resistance for a little while in certain enclaves.
When I started regularly making granola at home I combined these two recipes to my own use. You to never make it the same way twice if you don't want to. I have converted this to standard recipe measurements (rather than handfuls) – but this is more or less how I make it. This will make enough to feed you and your crew, and you will still have enough to give a couple of containers away- people love homemade granola. It's also gluten free (although some strict gluten free diets prohibit even oatmeal – in which case use rolled Rye Flakes)
- big mixing bowl
- a couple of good sized measuring cups – one for wet, one for dry ingredients
- baking sheet(s)- I always use a jelly roll pan- it has deep sides that contain everything
- measuring spoons, rubber spatula, big metal spatula
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dry ingredients:
- 5-6 cups rolled oats (I don't usually use Quick-type oats, but they will work)
- 1/2 to 2/3 cup shredded dry coconut (or big flaked coconut- makes an interesting texture)
- 1/2 cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
- 2 Tbsp of any whole grain flour(s) – I usually use 2 handfuls of buckwheat flour (it's rich in rutin, which resembles a water soluble B vitamin- and its deep taproot gets lots of iron up from the soil subsurface); but sometimes I use wild rice flour (hard to find, unless you're in Minnesota, probably- sorry); or rye-, or corn flour. You could use wheat germ- that would be good – whole bran would be fine as well.
- 1/2 cup of cornmeal
- a teaspoon of cinnamon
Start with about 5-6 cups of oats, add coconut, cornmeal, buckwheat flour, pumpkin seeds and cinnamon. You can mingle these dry ingredients together a little, but don't worry about it too much.
wet ingredients:
in a measuring cup mix:
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup vegetable oil (you could probably use half that amount if you have diet that requires low-fat)
- a teaspoon of vanilla extract-
mix together and pour over the dry ingredients and toss together till everything is evenly coated. If you use the measuring cup that had the oil in it, the wet ingredients won't stick to the measuring cup:
- scant 1/4 cup honey
- scant 1/4 cup dark or blackstrap molasses (the latter is packed with iron, but not very sweet)
- scant 1/4 cup maple syrup
- scant 1/4 cup brown sugar
Agave (cactus) syrup is good also; you can also use birch-tree syrup (widely available in Alaska); sorghum syrup (the grain sorghum was introduced to North America by Africans in the slave trade); probably pomegranate molasses would work, as would date syrup (popular in Iraq, on bread with cream for breakfast). You can actually use whatever combination of sweeteners in any proportion you want. As long as you use between 1/2 cup and a cup of any combination of sweetener, the recipe is fairly fool-proof.
Start mixing the wet and dry ingredients. It will be severely messy- use a spoon, use your hands, use a spatula- Whatever it takes, just get everything mixed together into a big sticky mass and turn out onto a greased baking sheet. If you have a 13″ x 18″ jelly roll pan, the raw granola will be close to an inch deep.
I usually bake it at about 325-350F for upwards of 30-45 minutes, until it dries out a little and becomes fragrant. If I have more time on my hands I might bake it for close to an hour at 300F. Turn it carefully and thoroughly a few times and it will bake to a golden or dark brown (depending on how much honey or molasses you use). About halfway through the baking I add about 1 cup or more of pecans, walnuts or other nuts, very roughly chopped. I've used hickory nuts, and those are very good, but hard to find. And be careful with anything you bake with honey as an ingredient, it browns beautifully, but also can burn easily.
Take the granola off the baking sheet – I usually put it on a couple of big plates or platters to cool. While it is cooling I sprinkle on about 2 Tbsp Gomasio (a Japanese condiment made with sea salt and roasted sesame seeds ground together (we used to make that every week at the restaurant too). Then I add 2 big handfuls of roasted, salted sunflower seeds. These 2 ingredients are the only salt I have ever used in the recipe, but I never skip them, because they are rich in flavor and very rich in nutrients- did you know Sesame Seeds are one of the few sources of Vitamin T? Portable, durable energy-imbuing food is the whole purpose of granola. I've seen an interesting electric machine in Germany that is used to crush and soak whole-grains for Muesli, which is very popular in Europe, and from the same branch of the food-family tree as Granola.
The final ingredient is dried fruit- I use anything I have in my cupboard- dried apples, berries, pineapple, mango, apricots, bananas, peaches, cherries, raisins, golden raisins, currants (those are still truly raisins in this country, just not fully mature). For today, I'm going to use 5 kinds of berries, because in our Oral History, Yupik people have a story that's usually called The Five Berry Sisters, and it reminds us that the berries- where we have lived for the past 10,000 years or so- used to be human beings, just like us. So sometimes you would see eskimo people talking to the berries as we picked them, since the berries are able to understand human speech, and we still have a relationship with them. The berry sisters officially are: blueberry, strawberry, cranberry, salmon-berry and thimble-berry. I have to substitute the latter two indigenous berries with dried raspberries and cherries today.
Use about 1-2 cups of diced dried fruit in any combination. Mix the whole thing well, and when you're sure it's utterly cool place it in your storage containers, eat it, give it away.


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Dhaka stocks rebounded on Wednesday after a decline in the previous two sessions despite a fall in the share prices of most of the scirps as banks continued gaining amid an increased participation from investors.
On the day, the turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange increased to Tk 1,424.36 crore, the highest since January 25 this year when it was at Tk 1,524.93 crore.
The turnover, a key indicator of the investors' participation, was at Tk 1,203.70 crore on Tuesday.
The DSE's key index, DSEX, advanced 0.57 per cent, or 35.17 points, to finish at 6,184.57 points on Wednesday after losing 18 points in the previous two trading sessions.
The market began with a bullish vibe that sustained till end of the session without any resistance as bank shares extended their bullish trend to another session, stockbrokers said.
Although most of the scrips declined on the day, the market came up with a bullish ending as a result of an increased share purchasing from bank and telecommunication sectors, they said.
The bank shares led the surge on the day with holding 43 per cent of the day's total turnover, they said.
The average share prices of telecommunication, banks and pharmaceuticals decreased 2.36 per cent, 1.77 per cent and 0.63 per cent respectively that helped the market rebound on Wednesday.
Analysts opined that it was not expected to notice surge in share prices of banks as they were plagued with loss and scandals in recent time.
On the other hand, most of the scrips declined on the day as investors went for profit taking after increasing the share prices of their portfolios, market operators said.
The investors cashed some profit as they assumed that the equities could fall from higher level, they said.
As a result of investors' prudent move, the average share prices of cement, engineering and energy plunged 1.4 per cent, 0.8 per cent and 0.7 per cent respectively.
Among the prominent stocks, Grameenphone, Square Pharmaceuticals and Rupali Bank were the highest positive index movers of the day.
As the market hit records for several time in recent weeks, investors, who were on the sideline observing the market, returned on the trading floor, brokers said.
'The capital bourse of the country observed a winning session after experiencing a slight correction in the previous sessions,' said EBL Securities in its daily market commentary.
'Market started on the day with an upswing movement as investors kept on taking fresh positions on stocks, specially from Bank sector,' it said.
DS30, the blue-chip index of the DSE, gained 0.51 per cent, or 11.41 points, to close at 2,212.14 points.
The Shariah index, DSES, added 0.48 per cent, or 6.64 points, to finish at 1,372.29 points.
Of the 331 companies and mutual funds traded, 174 declined, 125 advanced and 32 remained unchanged.
LankaBangla Finance led the turnover chart with its shares worth Tk 68.89 crore changing hands.
Al-Arafah Islami Bank, City Bank, First Security Islami Bank, Prime Bank, Mercantile Bank, Square Pharmaceuticals, Grameenphone, National Bank and IFIC Bank were the other turnover leaders.
Rupali Bank increased the most with a 9.85-per cent rise in its share prices, while Legacy Footwear was the worst loser, shedding 7.93 per cent.
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How to recognize a heart attack
Do you know what is the main cause of premature death in the modern world? Heart attack!
A strained lifestyle, a habit is unhealthy food, chronic lack of sleep ... We ourselves make a great contribution to the development of the disease, which every year becomes more common and more dangerous.
We are not going to talk about the need to live a healthy lifestyle or to be less nervous.
We will only talk about the symptoms that can warn you about the impending disaster at least a month. Find out what problems you need to perceive as serious red flags!
When the arteries narrow, your heart begins to receive much less blood than it was before. This complicates the functioning of the circulatory system. And the first sign of these problems is an age-old drowsiness and a feeling of absolute fatigue.
Inconsistent Breath
If your heart does not get enough blood, it means that your lungs are not able to get from the lungs as much oxygen as they are accustomed to receiving.
These two systems are highly dependent on each other. One can not work normally without the other. So if you often have trouble with even breathing, consult a doctor - and as soon as possible.
If you feel weakness in the whole body, it means that there is too little blood in your arteries. Your muscles do not get the right amount of oxygen and nutrients. So, if you often have unconscious conditions without obvious cause, this is in itself a rather alarming sign of problems with the cardiovascular system.
Dizziness and cold sweat
The lack of blood flow to the brain is very dangerous for life. If it seems to you that your body is often covered with a sticky cold sweat, and you yourself often experience dizziness, then you simply can not afford to ignore these symptoms.
Breast pressure
If you have symptoms of excessive pressure in the chest, discomfort in this area, then this is very, very bad. These symptoms may eventually start to occur more often, and experience them will be increasingly difficult. You will ignore them - you can easily meet with a heart attack face to face.
"Frosty" syndrome
If you have from time to time completely out of nowhere there are symptoms of influenza, this may indicate an approaching middle bout. Many people after the attack say that a few days before it, they experienced inexplicable bouts of "cold", i.e. they "froze".
How to cope with all this
If you feel that you have experienced these symptoms in person, or experienced by someone from your loved ones, immediately seek help from a doctor. The best way to prevent a heart attack is to identify its symptoms at an early stage and begin preventive treatment.


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I love granola. I first discovered making your own granola from Nigella Feasts and I have also made a version from Jo Wheatley's A Passion for Baking: I have been pleasantly pleased with both recipes. With the Christmas season amongst us and all the delicious Christmas/winter ingredients in full swing I thought of making my favourite healthy granola but update it for the season. This version of granola is taken from Nigella Lawson's Christmas cookbook. Despite the media coverage over the last few weeks, I am most certainly Team Nigella; her recipes are always a winner.
Cranberry, almond and honey granola is perfect for the Christmas season, the dried cranberries are delicious, the almonds add the lovely nutty texture and the honey makes everything sweet. As with all of Nigella's recipes, this is a doddle to make and tastes delicious. I tend to serve my granola with warm milk as I do with all my cereals, but this can also be eaten with low fat natural yoghurt and topped with berries.
Here is how my cranberry, almond and honey granola turned out:
|Granola with milk.
I first started by placing all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
|Granola ingredients.
Once the mixture was combined I placed in a lined baked greaseproof oven dish.
|Granola mixed.
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Once baked I added the dried cranberries.
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Recipe for cranberry, almond and honey granola.
225g rolled oats (not instant)
60g sunflower seeds
60g white sesame seeds
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
150g (125ml) runny honey
50g soft light brown sugar
60g whole natural almonds
60g blanched almonds
½ teaspoon Maldon salt or pinch of table salt
1 tablespoon rapeseed or sunflower oil
150g dried cranberries
Put everything except the dried cranberries into a large mixing bowl and mix well.
Spread this mixture on a lined baking sheet and bake in a 170oC/gas mark 3 oven, turning over the mixture with a spatula about halfway through baking and redistributing the granola evenly during the baking process. The object is to get the granola evenly golden without toasting too much in any one place. If you have a convection or fan oven, you may need to turn it to a lower heat as well as keeping a sharp eye on it.
This should be ready – golden enough and dried out like a crunchy breakfast cereal rather than the sticky mess that went into the oven – in anything from 40-50 minutes.
Remove from the oven and let cool, taking it off the hot baking sheet, before mixing with the dried cranberries. Store in an airtight container.


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A 2013 Marketing Land survey examining corporate social media risks and rewards from advisory firm Grant Thornton found that 71 percent of the executives polled said their company was concerned about possible risks posed by social media. Those worries are well founded. The Network published an article breaking down the costs for large companies of poor social media compliance training and put the overall number at $3.5 million per social media incident. The breakdown: direct financial costs ($641K), reputation damage ($638K), lost revenue ($619K), reduction in stock price ($1M) and litigation costs ($650K). Obviously not all social media incidents are the same, and mileage as well as costs will vary depending on your size and exposure. However, no matter what you're size, any social media incident will likely incur costs in some, if not all, of the areas mentioned above. That makes social media use, and broad adoption a concern for executives and managers. This is especially relevant today as more and more brands seek to activate their employees to share on social media on behalf of the company. In this article I'll look at some of the top concerns executives and managers have regarding social media content, interaction, and policies. I'll then look at two distinctly different approaches to mitigating the risks. First, let's look at some of the most common concerns about social media from executives and managers.
Topics: brand advocates, social media abuse, social media management, social media policy
If you don't have a social media policy, you need to create on. If you already have one, kudos, and you mostly likely need to update it. Social media policies protect both the organization, and its employees by defining what behavior is acceptable online. So why do you need to update the one you already have? Three reasons. First, because social media is used for business which means the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has passed laws that impact what brand employees are allowed to do with respect to other brands online. Second, because brands have tried to control employee use of social media which has, in some instances, led to employees being disciplined. This, in turn, has made the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) scrutinize what is fair and proper conduct by employers with regard to social media. Third, because the social media landscape changes rapidly. As new technologies, and usage scenarios emerge, regulatory agencies change laws, and brands need to revise their policies to make sure they are effective, and legal.
Topics: NLRB, social media management, social media policy, content marketing, FTC, policies


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Community In Partnership For the residents of Filwood, and parts of Knowle and Windmill Hill ISSUE 43 july - october 2010
hearts and stars awards form pages 3&4
No one could accuse Knowle west of not supporting the england team
Fun at Filwood Fete Page 2
Local people win awards Page 3
Learning and sharing skills Page 9
your website from the editor
To keep up to date with what's happening in the area in between newsletters, visit the Knowle West community website: www.knowlewest.co.uk. Also, don't forget to fill in the Hearts and Stars Awards form on pages 3 and 4; nominate someone you know for the Good Neighbour and People's Choice awards.
filwood fete
photo by kwmc photography Thanks to all who came to filwood fete june 12th
For all enquiries, including how to get a copy of a photograph, please contact Makala: E: email@example.com T: 0117 903 0444 To receive the newsletter via email instead please contact Rachel: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Next Issue: Copy Deadline Mon 13th Sept 9am. Delivery from Oct 8th.
news in brief Nursery spaces for new term Connaught Nursery
Come and meet our friendly and enthusiastic team in our fun and exciting Nursery. We have spaces for September.
Residents were invited to a fete at Filwood Broadway on Saturday 12th June. They were entertained by Morris dancers. There was a BBQ, henna tattoos and face-painting, as well as raffles, table-top sales and a bouncy castle. The day was a great success, residents had a wonderful time and even the weather was beautiful! The event was a good opportunity for the community to come together.
Tel: 0117 914 4307 E: email@example.com www.connaughtprimary school.co.uk
We are now looking forward to the Summer Fete at The Mede on Saturday 24th July and the Filwood Funday on Saturday 11th September.
Bristol Advice Point Opened by the Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau, this new service will become the main point of contact for drop in advice in the city centre. 6 public computers are available.
KNOWLE WEST regeneration FRAMEWORK
1 Quay Street, Bristol BS1 2JL. Open 9.30am-4.30pm (drop-in advice 9.30am-4pm)
New Bus Service The 53 A / C will take a circular route between Inns Court and Temple Meads, also stopping at Broadwalk Shopping Centre and Bedminster. It will run on a "use it or lose it" basis.
words by kurt james, neighbourhood manager
The plans for redeveloping Knowle West, which are being drawn up by Bristol City Council and local residents, are fast reaching the point where they can be made available for residents to express their views on them. It is hoped that the plans, which will show options for the redevelopment of the area over the next 20 years, will be opened up to public consultation this September. Consultation events and other ways to express your opinion will be widely publicised once dates, times and methods are agreed. As these plans will propose significant changes to the way the area looks and feels now, it is really important that you get involved to help shape what is agreed when the time comes. Contact CIP, tel: 0117 908 4247
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
Community News football fever & local football awards photos by zac, alice & chloe, KWMC work experience Streets of Knowle West - Imagine what Knowle West would look like if Bristol was a host city for the 2018 England World Cup bid
Hearts and Stars Awards The Hearts and Stars Awards are an annual event celebrating the work done by local volunteers on the estate. This year's event will take place on Saturday 23rd October at Filwood Community Centre at 7pm.
PARA Body text Local Good News! Congratulations to Broadwalk Football Club (based at The Park) for winning, from the F.A. and Somerset F.A., the Regional Chartered Standard Development Club Award, coming in front of 100s of other clubs. This is a fantastic achievement! Also well done to Andy Williams (secretary of Broadwalk FC) for being awarded Avon Youth League Secretary of the year! Not to be outdone, 2 local women have picked up awards from the S.F.A.: Anita Pearce (secretary of Ashton Ladies and co-ordinator of school holiday football coaching at Filwood Playing Fields) for 'Outstanding Contribution to Community Football' and Joanne Garton (manager Ashton Ladies) for her contribution to women's football.
If you would like to nominate someone for the 2010 awards, please enter their details on the back of this form, tear it off and return it by Friday 17th September. Nomination forms can be put into collection boxes at various locations across the estate including: • CIP office (Filwood Broadway) • The Park (Daventry Road) • Health Park (Downton Road) • The Mede Centre (Inns Court) • Knowle West Media Centre
Local organisations honoured with awards words by anna, KWHA, & rachel, kwmc Knowle West Health Association (KWHA), the longest running organisation in Knowle West, has been awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. KWHA will receive a certificate, signed by the Queen, and an exclusive commemorative crystal, presented by Her Majesty's representative in Bristol at a special ceremony. Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) was presented with two awards at the National eWell Being Awards in June: the Building Community Networks Award and the Special Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Digital Inclusion.
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
Hearts and Stars award winners 2009 Photo by KWMC Photography
For more information or if you can't get to a collection box in time, you can contact Denise on 0117 923 1842 or Anita on 0117 908 4248.
Community safety
Hearts and Stars Awards Good Neighbour Award I would like to nominate
crack down on drug dealers in newquay Road
For help getting online visit:
• Knowle West Media Centre: informal learning, drop-in club (Leinster Avenue, 0117 903 0444, www.kwmc.org.uk) • Filwood Library: Internet access Mon-Sat (Filwood Broadway, 0117 903 8581) • Community Learning: ICT suite (The Park, 0117 903 9770) • The Filwood Centre (Filwood Broadway)
People's Choice Award I would like to nominate
Because of local people's concern about drug dealing in Newquay Road, the Police and Bristol City Council have been working together with residents to try and improve the local area and crack down on those individuals who are causing the problems. Some of the work to date includes: • Increased police patrols in the area • Extra funding to install two CCTV cameras and to paint shop fronts • Arranged for Community Payback offenders to spend two days cleaning up the area • Target residents with lots of rubbish in their front gardens • A Day of Action to target people dealing drugs which led to four arrests and seizure of drugs and money You can report any drug dealing and anti-social behaviour to the police on 0845 456 7000 or to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Chit Chat, with Neighbourhood Policing Sergeant Nigel Colston Words by Mitzi Bland What street do you find most interesting? All of them, they all have their challenges. What part of the job do you dislike? Being unable to prosecute people who are clearly guilty. Who do you admire in the community? Too many to single out one person. What makes you smile on the beat? Sorting out long standing problems and making people happier. What are your hobbies? Football (well Cardiff City anyway) and my children. Where can you see yourself in 5 years? Inspector in charge of the Neighbourhood Policing.
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
Environmental news gardening
dehems energy project
words by lesley belgium, knowle west resident
words by misty tunks, kwmc / photo by sue mAckinnon
We are celebrating here at Knowle West Media Centre, having just installed 50 DEHEMS energy meters in Knowle West homes. DEHEMS (Digital Tarn Martlew-Pickering KWMC, Claire Armstrong using a DEHEMS and current cost meter Environmental Home Energy Management System) is European Union funded looking at how technology can improve our energy use. Participants can view their home energy use live on the internet. This knowledge will help participants to save money and reduce their environmental impact.
July should see your garden a riot of colour and vegetable crops ready (or almost ready) for harvesting. But don't despair if you haven't been able to do much so far this year; it's not too late to start now. Early carrots can go in now, for autumn baby carrots, as can early peas and summer salads: radish, lettuce, beetroot and salad onions. You can also begin to sow winter vairities of cabbage and spring greens. The Garden Centres are full of plants to go into the ground now for crops of beans, squash, courgettes and peppers. Watch out for spring bulbs coming into the shops.
Heather, DEHEMS user said: "I'm going to find DEHEMS really useful because I'm concerned about how our energy is being used by individual appliances. I'm really glad that DEHEMS listened to the participants requests in cycle 1 and actioned them in cycle 2". For more information contact Misty on 0117 903 0444.
In the first of the project's three 'cycles', 20 people received energy meters. Participants fed back about the best and worst parts of the kit, which helped to structure cycle 2, for example, several participants expressed an interest in knowing how much individual appliances use.
green scene: wildlife tips words by glen vowles, knowle resident Ideas for being green, efficient and thrifty
It's International Year of Biodiversity. Help to protect the variety of plant and animal life and also take pleasure in: • digging and maintaining a pond in your garden – even a small, basic one will attract all sorts of wildlife • making a small log/twig pile in a garden corner. Lichens and fungi may grow, bugs and frogs will make a home and hibernate • leaving a small, confined part of your garden to grow wild; plants like nettles and brambles are a haven for wildlife • look into putting up bird, bat and bug boxes.
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
Plan wisely and you could have a succession of flowers from snowdrops in February to anemones in April. At the end of the season (August / September) you will find that many of the shops sell their seeds at half price (or cheaper). This is an excellent investment for next year, but try to use them as soon as possible. Happy harvesting!
The Law & your dog
Dog fouling is now a fixed penalty notice of £80. If you pay within 10 days it will be £60. Tickets can be issued by BCC wardens and officers and PCSOs.
summer at knowle west health park Summer Holiday Activities, Starting week beginning July 26th to 23rd August. Call 0117 377 2255 for further info and bookings
Health Park regular activities
MONDAY, 4.30 - 5.30 Dance Club for 8 - 11 year olds Get ready for a session of funky music and latest street dance routines - keeping fit doesn't get better than this! 80p
WEDNESDAY, 4.00 - 5.00 Family Fitness Fun Exercise and games to give children, and parents if they want to join in, a great workout and a good time too. 80p THURSDAY, 9.30 – 12 noon Family Activity Sessions Different activities each week for you and your children, including games, walks, art fun and picnics. 80p FRIDAY, 10:00 - 3:00 Summer Holiday Sports Fun Days Fun, games, skills challenges, matches for 4 - 12 years of any ability. £3 To book a place, call Barry on 07809 483191.
TUESDAYS 9:00 - 4:30: Pathways to Health, support to help you change your lifestyle and be happier 9:00 - 4:00: Young Women's Counselling, if you are struggling with life and want support. 12.45 - 2.45: Breast Is Best Group, breastfeeding support group 1:00 - 2:00: Art Group, for people feeling low, unmotivated and/or lonely 6:00 & 7:00: Hips, bums & tums, fat burning exercise to help us all become trimmer. (£3)
WEDNESDAYS 9.45-10.15: Stretch-n-Grow, using stories, songs and games for 2-5 year olds. (80p)
9:30 - 3:30: Massage, give yourself some space to relax call 903 0024 to book. (£5) 1:00 - 2:30: Lunch Club, bring lunch while the Cafe is closed, and we provide an activity. 6:30 - 8:30: Slimming World. In the Cafe. THURSDAYS 9:30 - 12:00: Fit and Fab, a drop-in group with the fun approach to getting healthy (80p) 9:30 - 6:00: Men's Counselling, if you are struggling and want support. 6:00 - 7:00: Aerobics, improve strength, stamina and flexibility. (£3) 7:00 - 8:00: Absolute beginners, exercise class, a good place to start getting active. (£3) FRIDAYS 9:00 - 4:30: Women's Counselling, if you are struggling and want support. 4.00 - 5.00: ZumbAtonic Dance, a fusion of salsa, reggae and hip. (£3)
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
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TUESDAY, 4.30 - 5.30 Boxing for 8 - 14 year olds Not only will this increase fitness and mobility, but it's great for self-esteem, confidence and building team skills. 80p
MONDAYS 10:00 - 11:00: Armchair Exercise, gentle exercise for people with limited mobility. (£2) 9:30 - 4:30: Family counselling, if you are struggling and want support. 5:30 - 6:30: Wellbeing Choir, no experience needed. In the Cafe.
Summer Activities summer adventure Words by Ruth Cornish, Bristol Playbus Free summer holiday activities at Bristol' s Adventure Playgrounds Every Thursday from 12-4pm at Windmill Hill Adventure Playground, there will be extra play workers available to help make the playgrounds more accessible for disabled children. There will be a range of play activities to engage the children. The activities will be designed to suit their abilities. Please contact Sam Hay on 0117 955 1561 for more information
kwmc summer programme
Monday 2nd - Friday 13th August. Workshops include: • Digital Storytelling - turn urban myths into digital stories • Music - create a music track using Garageband • Photography - use digital cameras and Photoshop software to make the perfect album cover • Make a short "how to" film for the ULK project • Performing Arts - create a piece to perform on the final day • Nature photograms • Giant zoetrope • Art To book tel 0117 903 0444 and ask for Sandra or pick up a leaflet from Knowle West Media Centre, Leinster Avenue, Knowle West, BS4 1NL
Filwood Library
Please book your tickets at Filwood Library, Filwood Broadway
Space Hop craft session Wednesday 4th August, 10-11am, Ages 6-11, £1 per ticket Revolting Rhymes Session Monday 9th August, 10-11am Make up your own revolting rhymes with help Ages 6 -11, Free Space Craft session for pre-school children Tuesday 17th August, 10-11am, £1 per ticket Wizzo the Wizard Tuesday 24th August, 10.30-11.15am Come and see the magic of Wizzo the Wizard £1 per ticket
Sports & Arts
The Park Centre will be running a number of activities during August for children aged between 8 to 14 years old. It will include Dance, Trampolining, Netball, Football, Art & Craft, Rugby, Archery, Singing & Mixing and many more. £1.50 per session . For further details please call Julie Milkins on 07722 221675 or via email@example.com
Other events include children's summer workshops and a fabulous "Back to the Basics" class where you can learn to cook simple, tasty family meals. Please see www.knowlewesthealthassoc.co.uk or call us for details on 0117 963 9569.
Summer cooking
If you're stuck for something to do with your kids over the summer, then contact the Knowle West Community Kitchen. We are running fun cooking sessions at low cost for children and families throughout the summer. Contact us for details on 0117 963 9569
The Mede Parent & Toddler Group £1 per child
The Mede Parent & Toddler group Thursday mornings 10-12pm. 0-5 years open during holidays. £1 per child includes materials and refreshments.
The Inns Court Summer Fete
1 Marshall Walk, Inns Court, Knowle, BS4 1TR Saturday 24th July 12-3pm at the Mede Centre. Entry is free! To book a pitch call Emma on: 0117 904 1220. Car: £7 Table top: £5
Community Kitchen
The Knowle West Health Association (KWHA) Community Kitchen is continuing to run various classes and events over the summer, including the popular "Pop-Up Café".
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
Lifestyle and Interiors
Welcome to the Newsletter's lifestyle and interiors page, sponsored by re:store on Filwood Broadway.
2010 trends in interior design
reasons to visit re:store
2. Starting redecorating? We have paint, crazy rolls of old wallpaper and the Salvation Army shop is just round the corner for cushions and curtains. 3.
To have a browse and to check out excellent work done by the young people of the area in our carpentry workshop.
If we don't have what you need, we'll have a few ideas of where else you can try.
Short of ideas? Here are some web sites we like that might get the creative juices going: www.retrotogo.com www.designspongeonline.com design-milk.com
Re:store has delivered furniture to homes across Knowle West and knows we have some slick interior designers in the area. In this edition we thought we would do a quick review of 2010 trends in interior design. Mid Century Modern: Furniture from the 1930's to 1960's, cool, urban and chic it is a look that allows you mix wood, plastic and leather with bright accent colours. Naughties Minimalism: All cream leather and pastel shades, a way to create an oasis of calm in your home. Storage is essential; you can't be minimalist without somewhere to hide the everyday detritus. Bo Ho Chic: Reclaiming one man's junk as another's vintage treasure so make-do-and-mend. Mixing bright colors with crazy floral prints, easy to do on a small budget if you enjoy rummaging and bargain hunting. French Country: A sophisticated look of mismatched chunky painted furniture and pastel tones. Give your home an air of French Châteaux.
Re:store is part of the re:work charity group. We offer vocational training in building, gardening, carpentry and retail, cheap furniture, and building and gardening work to the area.
Re:store 17 Filwood Broadway Knowle West Tel: 0117 923 1970 Company number: 3738243 Charity number: 1086946
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1. We are the cheapest way of furnishing your home whether you need a bargain wardrobe for the spare bedroom, a project to refurbish and demonstrate your creative talents with or a statement piece of furniture to finish a room off.
Learning & Skills
Lunch on the Green for ULK Launch Words by Sue Mackinnon Photo by george gallop
The sun shone on Filwood Green for the launch event of the University of Local Knowledge. It was a chance for residents to get together with their neighbours for a celebration meal, while sharing the wealth of skills and knowledge in the area. These ranged from bringing up a large family to war memories on Melvin Square and a recipe for Spotted Dick! BBC cameras helped to film some of the thousand stories from local people that will make up the project.
Computer training - Filwood broadway for training contact Kate Bruce (pictured left)
Locally grown and sourced food was prepared by the Community Kitchen – and included a hog roast and Parade of Puddings. Graham Blacker (74) who attended the event said: "It was a glorious day, a great atmosphere and there was the opportunity to listen to people talk about what life was like in Knowle West." ULK aims to bring together the knowledge and skills that exist in our area and share them with other people. To get involved call Penny or Martha at KWMC: 0117 903 0444. Parade of Puddings
Farewell to Gary Blake, everyone at CIP wishes him luck in the future
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
Ilminister Avenue Specialist Nursery school and Children's Centre words & photo provided by lil bowers
From September 2010 Footprints Children's Centre will move from The Park in Daventry Road into the former New Fosseway Lower School in Knowle alongside the neighbouring Ilminister Avenue Specialist Nursery School. This building will be the new home for the Specialist Children's Centre, providing support for families of children from nought to five in Knowle West. It will also provide Health Services for children with severe and complex needs for the whole of South Bristol. The centre will be open from September, led by Pat Rogers, currently head of the specialist nursery, which is rated as outstanding by the learning watchdog Ofsted and is especially praised for its inclusion policies. Miss Rogers said: "This is a further opportunity to bring together the different expertise of both Footprints and the nursery. All the existing services will continue and will be enhanced particularly by the extension of Health services. Developing our partnership with Health will benefit the local
community particularly in terms of availability of access". The new centre will benefit from the hydrotherapy pool, sensory room and soft play room facilities as well as the extensive outdoor learning space. Lil Bowers, head of Footprints, who will become locality family support leader at the new centre, said: "It is a fantastic opportunity to create a much better range of services under one roof. 'The idea is that we will be able to deliver all our family services and wraparound provision for children aged nought to five from 8am – 6pm all year round. We have been running services in this community for nine years now, and this move will enable us to make the best possible use of a fantastic facility. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff team at the Park for all their hard work and support over the years." This is the first of three specialist children's centres planned across Bristol. The aim of the centre is to give families access to health, community and education all in one place. Paediatric services from the Tyndalls Park Centre in Clifton will be provided at the new Ilminister Avenue centre.
www.knowlewest.co.uk for more news and info
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The highly-praised Ilminister Avenue Specialist Nursery School and a pioneering Footprints children's centre in Knowle are joining forces to become the first specialist nursery school and children's centre in Bristol.
Things to do
celebrating age festival words & photo by Bristol city council
Celebrating Age Festival 2010 will take place at the exciting new venue of Bristol's Colston Hall on Saturday September 11th. This year's festival has the theme of 'You're never too old'. Entry is free and features include information stalls, health checks, food and an entertainment line-up led by Acker Bilk and his jazz band.
Bristol City Council are supporting organisations across Bristol with advice and small grants, to put on activities for people over 50 in the week leading up to the festival. Activities last year included Tai Chi, Wii games, computer skills sessions and poetry reading. Stay up-to-date on this year's festival at: www.bristol.gov.uk/ celebratingage. Email for more information at: agefestival@ googlemail.com
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Please note down the issue number, page number and article if you can. You will get suppport using our computers to select, edit and print photos. Contact Knowle West Media Centre and ask for Makala, Martin or Nicky. Tel: 0117 903 0444
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Direct Payments Do you know about Direct Payments as an option to fund your Health and Social Care? For more information visit www.bristol.gov.uk/directpayments Or call Care Direct on: 0117 922 2700
If you attended a community event in the past and were photographed, we may still have a copy of the picture, even if it didn't appear in the final newsletter.
computers pipe walk
The following sessions are held at The Park: Football (8 to 11 yrs), Monday 4.15-5.15pm Girls netball: Tuesday 6-7pm, under 14 and under 16 yrs Trampolining: 8 to 14 yrs Thursday 5-6pm Archery: Friday 5-6pm
September/October, Focus on Families at The Health Park Anger Management Groups for Men and Women (free for Knowle West). September for 90 minutes over 6 weeks
Computer Drop-in Due to popular demand, Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) are running computer drop-in sessions on Wednesdays from 10am-3pm (tutor support 10-11.30am and 1.30-3pm).
Autumn pipe walk Every year St Mary Redcliffe organise a walk along the route of the water pipe which stretches between the church and the Ruge Well in old Knowle Hill.
Makala or Martin: 0117 903 0444
St Mary Redcliffe Church: 0117 929 1487
Bristol Cycle Festival: 11th-26th September 2010, Freewheelin' Carnival Sunday 19th September Join the carnival, put on an event, get involved!
'Making Changes' Group – a supportive group to help you 'do things differently' by using creative www.bristolcyclefestival.com exercises and 'Bike kitchen' practising new skills will run over the (free for Knowle summer at the Life West). September Cycle workshop for 90 minutes over at The Park, 10 weeks Exact dates Daventry Road, Monday evenings, TBC Contact 6-8.30pm. Tel: 0117 353 4580 Garth: 0117 377 2256
This year's walk will take place in Come along and early Autumn. The find out more about meeting point is St using computers, Barnabas Church surfing the Internet, off Daventry Road. or anything else More information you'd like to learn will be available about. Contact nearer the time.
'Do you have a 3 week cough?'
Over the last few weeks a group of Knowle West residents have been coming up with ways to raise awareness of lung cancer.
In addition to a local media campaign, the group have been involved in local activities, even putting on an event for the World Cup Final to get their message across.
They want men over 50 in Knowle West to know that: 'If you have a cough that changes or lasts more than 3 weeks, you should see your doctor to get it treated'. The group are keeping the message alive through a Skittles 'Cough Cough' Cup Tournament, BBQs, bingo nights, coffee mornings and social clubs. Help them spread the word! Uscreates in partnership with Knowle West local residents & health professionals, Bristol Social Marketing Centre and NHS Bristol.
Thanks to the Newsletter Steering Group (Ann Smith, Ken Jones, Denise Britt), Neighbourhood Management (Anita Pearce & Kurt James), Knowle West Media Centre who facilitate the production: Makala Campbell - Editor, Rachel Clarke - Assistant Editor, KWMC Design. All articles express the views of individual contributors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the NM Steering Group or KWMC
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Tel: 0117 903 9772
CIP Knowledge newsletter - Issue 43 Jul – Oct 2010
Published on Jul 19, 2010
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Omirbaev, Darezhan
Born: 15 March 1958 (Uyuk, Djambul region, Kazakhstan)With a degree in Mathematics, Omirbaev first approached cinema theoretically, graduating from VGIK with a thesis on film semiotics and writing criticism for the magazine Novoe Kino. Omirbaev's theoretical concerns translate seemlessly to the making of films, and like other critics turned directors, finds human expression for his ideas. Like Bresson, he pays close attention to details, to points of subtle contact between people, and particularly in Kardiogramma - to the merging of dream and reality. And like Godard, his films are self-referential (Jol), and literary (Kairat). His first feature film, Kairat, won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.
- The Road/ Jol, 2001;
- Killer/ Tueur a gages, 1998;
- Cardiogram/ Kardiogramma, 1995;
- Stranger, 1993; (actor only)
- Kairat, 1992;
- July/ Shilde, 1988; (director only)
- Life, 1982; (director only)


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When I learned of the death of my very good friend, Rick Majerus, on Saturday night, I wasnt stunned but deeply saddened. I knew that Rick was in very poor health and was never going to coach again, but I wasnt prepared for the sadness that I feel at the loss of a friend who has had a great influence on my life.
I have known Rick since we coached against each other in 1982, when he was an assistant at Marquette and I was a young assistant at Northern Illinois. I remember getting to know him well after he was named Marquettes head coach in 1983, and I would see him on the recruiting trail looking at players in and around the Chicago area.
However, we became very close when he moved on to Ball State and then the University of Utah, when he became a subscriber to my scouting service that I spent 10 years publishing after leaving coaching. Rick would call often about players, looking for a sleeper that Big Ten schools had missed on, and always asked about the toughness of a particular player.
Is he tough enough to play for me? What kind of a kid is he? Those would always be the first questions he would ask, saving questions on the players basketball skills for later in our conversation.
First, he always asked about me and my family and how my son Brett was doing.
When I remarried in 2004, I sent Rick an invitation sure that he wouldnt attend. But he flew from Maui to be at the ceremony and then spent several hours at the reception talking basketball and sports with some of the other guests. Rick took a genuine interest in my family, including my son and stepsons who he always asked me about, even offering my oldest stepson Nick a chance to attend his camps or to walk on and play for him at St. Louis University.
A few years ago Rick called me on a summer afternoon and asked me how my career was going, and was I making progress in getting to call college basketball games as an analyst on TV. When I asked him, "Why?" he replied, I am going to the Milwaukee Brewers game tonight with a TV executive who I am very good friends with. When you get done with your radio show, drive to Milwaukee and have dinner with us. I want him to meet you and I want to tell him he needs to hire you to do games for him.
That was Rick in a nutshell. Thinking of how he could help someone else. Always calling and inviting me to games, to dinner or agreeing to come on my radio show. He was an amazing friend who would never say no and just wanted to have fun together and talk ball as he called it. We would X and O or just talk basketball and about life.
He asked me to have him on my radio show a couple of seasons back, but he wanted to make sure that it would be a lengthy interview. "Put me on for an entire hour, Kap. I want to talk with you," he said. When I told him that I couldn't devote a full hour to St. Louis University basketball on a Chicago radio station, he laughed and said, "We can talk about stem cell research and abortion rights and the war, too. I just went to a Hillary Clinton rally and I have a lot to say about things other than basketball."
We booked the interview and he spent most of the hour talking about social issues, the importance of family and education and a few minutes on how much he loved coaching at St. Louis University. That was the Rick Majerus I knew. He was well-read, he was a deep thinker and he was as loyal a friend as you could possibly hope to have.
He was an amazing man and someone that I will never forget. Rick, I will miss you, my friend. I hope you are sitting down to a wonderful meal and talking ball with some of the all-time greats who are in heaven with you. I will always cherish our friendship and your influence on my life. Rest in peace.
Saying goodbye to an old friend, Rick Majerus
Saying goodbye to an old friend, Rick Majerus
When I learned of the death of my very good friend, Rick Majerus, on Saturday night, I wasnt stunned but deeply saddened. I knew that Rick was in very poor health and was never going to coach again, but I wasnt prepared for the sadness that I feel at the loss of a friend who has had a great influence on my life.


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Take part in an incredible opportunity to spend time volunteering with majestic elephants during your gap year! Located in the spectacular mountain-lined setting of Umphang, the project will bring you close to the elephants as you take part in bathing, feeding, trekking and even riding routines! Privileged to see elephants in their natural habitat, you will also be in awe of the surrounding landscape with its impressive limescale cliffs that encircle the town of Umphang. Under the supervision of the experienced mahouts, you will be allowed to prepare and administer feeds to these magnificent animals, and learn how to give them the best care possible. A lake onsite, where the elephants are bathed, will also give you the chance to try out some rafting. Also, you will visit two stunning waterfalls, Nam Tok Tharark and Nam Tok Pha Charoen, where you will be able to unwind and cool down.
Arriving at Singburi, you will be met by project coordinators and transferred to the project site at around 8pm.
Before breakfast, you will be collected from Mae Sot bus station and taken to Umphang on a local truck. After the four hour journey, you will enjoy a good breakfast and have time to relax and recover. Visits to the elephants take place after lunch when you will also have a chance to bond with them during feeding time. Dinner will be served at the end of the day at the accommodation centre.
After enjoying your own breakfast, your early morning job will be to prepare food for the elephants. Usually coming from Bana grass, sugar cane and Banana plants, you'll be able to feed the elephants the meal you've prepared. After lunch, the elephants will need a wash and will play in the water as you swim with them. If the weather permits, you'll also be able to try out kayaking or canoeing before returning for dinner.
Mirroring Tuesday, your day will follow the same pattern of preparing food and feeding the elephants before breaking for lunch and enjoying a swim with them. Before dinner, there'll be a visit to a Karen Tribe village near the centre, where you will experience some of the local culture.
Today, after the elephants have been fed and washed, you will head for the mountains to watch a spectacular sunset. If the weather is good there'll be an opportunity to camp and possibly catch the sunrise as well.
A relaxing day after your busy week. A short trek after breakfast takes you to a gorgeous waterfall location. A perfect spot to relax and enjoy swimming in the refreshing water. After a break for lunch, you'll return to the guesthouse to relax and have a tasty dinner.
If you are continuing to other programs, you will be transferred back to Singburi. Alternatively, if you are heading home you'll be taken to Mae Sot bus station. From there you will easily be able to connect with other locations in Thailand.


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The 2018 Eagle Festival was a Huge Success!
Saturday May 12 was a wonderful day for the Eagle Festival. Sunny skies and warm temperatures brought more than 4,300 people to the festival -- one of the largest crowds ever -- plus another 35 people who showed up for the early morning bird walk led by Audubon Society Northern Virginia.
Overflow crowds filled the Wildlife Tent, where they watched live animal presentations. Wildlife Center of Virginia brought Buddy the Eagle and other raptors. Reptiles Alive! showed off an astonishing variety of reptiles. And Secret Garden Birds and Bees had several owls and hawks on hand to entertain and educate the guests.
Two bands played acoustic bluegrass music for most of the day,
giving some folks (and owls and raccoons) an opportunity to dance.
Joe Chiocca and John Coppola
Difficult Run String Band
More than twenty environmental organizations set up booths
with educational materials and interactive exhibits.
Younger guests had a full day of activities at the Hartwell Children's tent.
And of course, Parker Fox and his friends were there to greet the guests.
Pony rides were a favorite for younger children. REI held mini-clinics all day.
Guests had two up-close opportunities to see Bald Eagles:
On an Eagle Cam overlooking the nesting eagles at the National Arboretum; and with telescopes and binoculars at one of the eagle nests at Mason Neck State Park.
Guests also enjoyed the Boating Bonanza, an opportunity
to try out canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards.
Congratulations and thanks to the Park Staff: They did a tremendous job of organizing the festival and making sure everything went smoothly. Many of them worked 12-hour days, as well as returning on Sunday to finish the cleanup.
The Friends of Mason Neck State Park helped by funding all of the expenses of the Festival, recruiting and organizing the 29 volunteers, and providing food and drinks for the volunteers, exhibitors and Park staff.
Charlotte and Gary Knipling Honored at the Eagle Festival
During the Eagle Festival, Park Manager Reinhardt Gray unveiled the Visitor Center's renovated Exhibit Hall. In a ceremony, Reinhardt announced that the exhibit hall has been named The Charlotte and Gary Knipling Hall, in recognition of the Kniplings' long-term commitment to Mason Neck State Park and their willingness to help the park in any way they can.
Supervisor Dan Storck Receives Man of the Year Award
At a ceremony at the Eagle Festival, Dan Storck, Fairfax County Supervisor for the Mount Vernon District, received the Mason Neck Citizens Association Man of the Year award. Dan received the award for his efforts to protect the environmental resources and maintain the bucolic nature of Mason Neck.
Before leaving, Dan took a few minutes to enjoy the view of Belmont Bay, which he finds restorative, and to visit with Parker Fox and Baldy the Eagle.
Mason Neck State Park is located on the Mason Neck peninsula in southeastern Fairfax County, Virginia. The Park's wetlands, forest, water, ponds, and fields are home to a variety of wildlife, including bald eagles, osprey, geese, ducks, swans, and other birds living on or near the Potomac River, Kane's Creek, and Belmont Bay.


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Exorcist Game Review:
Exorcist is a combination of PUZ and VAG. This is a traditional hidden-object game with a good atmosphere. Can you rescue the girl whose soul is possessed by the ghost and can you lift the curse behind the secret?
Evil things are entangled with each other in the soul arena. Your former mentor was tempted by the demon and eventually lost his life. So you need to unveil the secret of the mansion but stay with the light! Can you save the world and your own soul under the evil claws and eternal darkness?
General Tips
Click the options menu to adjust the different sound volumes, toggle full screen, or mute all sounds.
You can change players by clicking on your username in the top left corner of the screen.
To the right of the hint button is the list of hidden objects you are looking for. This space also gives you objectives if there are no more hidden objects to find or things to do in an area.
At the bottom of your screen will always be the hint button on the left, it recharges slowly as you play.
To the right of that is a list of your locations and the letter or tarot card pieces that you are searching for in the current scene.
One is your normal cursor. If you click too many times it will start to spin.
At the very right is your inventory. When you click your inventory bag only the things important to what you are doing at the moment are shown.
Next is the action cursor for when you can open something or use an item on it.
Next is the look more closely cursor, sparkles that you will see when there is a hidden object hotspot.
Last on the right is the move cursor that shows you that you can go to another location.
Throughout the game you will need to find hidden objects by name and then after that search for a smaller number of objects by image only.
The second group of objects is always inventory items that you need to use to solve the various puzzles in the game.
Hints recharge very slowly, so only use them when you are sure that you are stuck.
Scene 1: Dangerous Game
Collect the BOARD. The BOARD will go into the inventory in the bottom right corner.
Open the inventory and use the BOARD to the rock.
Collect the lizard that was under the rock.
Collect the LADDER. Set the LADDER to the wall.
Click on the chimney to zoom in. Find the spider on the spider web.
Find other hidden objects listed at the bottom of the screen, in any order.
The hidden objects are randomized and may be different in your play-through.
After finding all of the hidden objects, click on the demon.
Find inventory items in the image.
Open the inventory in the bottom right corner.
In order to repair the well, place the WHEEL, CHAIN and the BUCKET.
When you drag a correct item, you will see the specific position with blue highlight where you should place.
Drag the GLASS to the BUCKET with water.
Click on the entrance at the house to move next scene.
Find the PENCIL and use it to the paper on the wall to collect the number of 13.
Collect the DOOR KNOB and use it to open the shelf .
Find the PLIERS and use it to collect the nail .
The hidden objects are randomized and may be different in your play-through.
After finding all of the objects, click on the demon.
Collect the PIECE OF PAINTING and other items in the image.
You can collect the piece of Mephisto's letter now if you want. You will need it later.
After finding all pieces of the PAINTING, collect it. There is the KEY behind the painting.
Use the OIL CAN from the inventory to the chest. Open the chest with the KEY.
Click inside the chest to start the puzzle.
You need to click the nine circles to rotate the tiles until the image is arranged correctly in order to solve this puzzle.
To finish the puzzle, complete the top side first and then try to finish the bottom side.
Click the upper left hand circle 3 times, the bottom left 3 times and the bottom right 3 times to complete the puzzle.
Collect the CROSS in the chest.
In the inventory, combine the WATER and the CROSS to make HOLY WATER.
Click on the bottom of the screen to exit this room.
Click on the graves in the upper left corner of the screen.
Use the HOLY WATER to extinguish the fire.
Find the hidden objects listed at the bottom of the screen, in any order, circled in green in the image.
The hidden objects in this scene are not randomized.
Find 17 letters listed at the bottom of the screen, in any order.
Pick up the piece of Mephito's letter on the ground.
Return to the Exorcist Game.