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The Plymouth Graduate School of Management can help you realise your ambitions and develop your potential as a manager and leader of the future.
Whether you come to us as a newly qualified graduate or after a successful track record in industry, we provide high quality, professionally accredited postgraduate programmes and PhDs, as well as professional doctorate supervision.
Programmes included at the Graduate School of Management Open Evening are:
- MSc Accounting and Finance
- MSc Brand and Design Management
- MBA Business Administration Top-up
- MSc Business and Management
- ResM/Integrated PhD in Business and Management
- MSc Digital and Social Media Marketing
- MSc Entrepreneurship
- MSc Entrepreneurship & International Development
- MSc Finance
- MSc Finance and Investment
- MA Human Resource Management
- MSc International Business
- MSc International Finance
- MSc International Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- MSc International Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- MSc International Shipping
- MSc Management
- MSc Marketing and Innovation
- MSc Marketing Management
- MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Postgraduate Research in Business
The evening consists of a drop-in session and subject talks, running from 3.30pm – 6.30pm.
Download the programme (PDF)
You will receive a full printed programme at registration on the day.
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From New York Law Journal -
City Bar President Samuel W. Seymour addresses a news conference yesterday where 18 New York bar groups came out to support a bill that would recognize same-sex marriages in the state (NYLJ, May 17).
In their remarks at the city bar's 44th Street headquarters, Mr. Seymour, of Sullivan & Cromwell, and other bar leaders focused on the legal disadvantages faced by unmarried same-sex couples and called civil unions "not an acceptable substitute for marriages."
"Civil unions impose second-class status on a whole category of people, and the people of New York deserve better than that," he said, adding that the bar groups would not support a law allowing only civil unions. The bar groups, Mr. Seymour said, believe that politically the "time is right" for same-sex marriage legislation to pass in Albany.
Among those attending the news conference, from left, are Yang Chen, executive director of the Asian American Bar Association of New York; Mark H. Alcott, a former president of the New York State Bar Association and of counsel to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Mr. Seymour; Vincent E. Doyle III, the state bar's incoming president and a partner at Connors & Vilardo; Stephen P. Younger, the state bar's president and a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler; and Adeel A. Mangi, director of the Muslim Bar Association of New York and a partner at Patterson Belknap.

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Dear Dave and Howard - On Obama
Both Dave Lindorff and Howard Zinn have written new pieces about Obama and why they're holding their noses and voting for him.
Howard has been consistently and correctly saying that the key is mobilizing the people in a powerful extra-electoral social movement. But he nonetheless concludes that Obama's the "lesser evil."
Dave's piece, I'm sorry to say, is something that makes me want to put my arm around his shoulders and say: "Dave, what are you thinking?"
I was on a radio interview with Dave and my co-editor Peter Phillips on KPFA shortly before the November 2006 elections. I was saying that a people's movement had to be built and Dave came back arguing that we have to elect Democrats and that "We don't have time for a movement."
Well, we now all know how much good it did to elect those Democrats. They impeached Bush and Cheney and they ended the war on Iraq, right?
I'm afraid I don't have time right now to write a real response to them, but for now let me say this:
There is one and only one way that we can make any difference here and that is by building an independent political movement of the people. Anything else is illusion.
Vote for Nader or McKinney if you're going to vote for a candidate at all.
But don't harbor any illusions that voting means anything. The notion that the left can exert any pressure on Obama more than McCain is sheer fantasy. He is not beholden to us. He's beholden to big capital. Neither Obama nor McCain will have any reason to listen to the left and to the people unless and until a movement of the people is expressed in the streets, literally and metaphorically.


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Zachary Jaydon Senior Editor
Zachary Jaydon
Senior Editor
LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2012 – Fresh off the heels of the Season Two premier, HBO has approved a third season of Game Of Thrones.
According to early data coming from HBO, Game Of Thrones' season two premiere has already accumulated a gross audience of 8.3 million viewers, and is on track to easily surpass the season one average of 9.3 million viewers.
According to the official HBO press release, "Series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss raised our expectations for the second season – and then surpassed them," said Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. "We are thrilled by all the viewer and media support we've received for the series, and can't wait to see what Dan and David have in store for next season."
What do you think of the renewal?
http://www.YouTube.com/PopWrapped (COMING SOON!)
http://www.PopWrapped.com (COMING SOON!)


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Extension restructuring on trackBy Stewart MacInnis
Spectrum Volume 19 Issue 07 - October 10, 1996
Virginia Cooperative Extension's year-long restructuring effort has led to an increased focus on the agency's original mission, increased outside funding, and a streamlined administration, according to Extension Director C. Clark Jones.
Jones reported to state officials Tuesday on the progress made on a restructuring plan unveiled a year ago. Jones said improvements have been made in every category in the plan, including strengthening ties to local governments and investing in information technology.
Beverly Sgro, state secretary of education, Elizabeth McClanahan, chair of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and several state legislators heard Jones' report. They were on campus for the presentation by Sgro of a proclamation from Gov. George Allen declaring this week 4-H Week.
"This hasn't been an easy process, but because of the commitment of everyone within Virginia Cooperative Extension, we are on track," Jones said. "I'm pleased with the efforts being made throughout the organization, and I'm pleased with the progress that we've made to date."
The restructuring was in response to several years of budget cuts that left the agency with a shrunken state budget and a network of agents state-wide one-third smaller than in 1989.
Virginia Cooperative Extension is the educational outreach arm of Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. It has programs in agriculture, family and consumer science, and 4-H youth development delivered from 107 offices around the state. It provides practical, research-based knowledge to the people of the state to improve the quality of life and to advance economic development.
"The workload certainly hasn't gotten any smaller, but because we've stepped back and put a lot of thought into this, we've come up with some good ways to accomplish our mission despite reduced resources," Jones said.
The agency's plan to focus more tightly on its original mission, including agriculture at the local level, has resulted in 14 new agricultural agents hired or in the process of being hired. In addition, key 4-H and family-and-consumer-science vacancies are being filled.
Jones said Extension is the only comprehensive and systematic method of providing research-based information to all aspects of Virginia's $35-billion agriculture industry. He said increased attention to the industry is justified because agriculture employs one-sixth of the state's workforce and it produces one-sixth of the state's economic activity.
Outside funding has been increased primarily though increased reliance on grants. One such grant brought in $750,000 during the last federal budget year. The grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was awarded to start a program to teach food-stamp recipients budgeting and nutrition skills so the stamps are used for more nutritious meals.
Jones said grants cannot be relied on to replace a significant amount of state funds because grants are usually for funding very specific programs for a limited length of time.
To increase ties to local governments, Extension has established Extension Leadership Councils to facilitate the flow of information between the agency and local communities. The councils help keep Extension programs responsive to local issues and needs.
The Extension administrative structure was streamlined, with a 40-percent reduction in the number of administrators. With just one level of administration between the director and the field offices, Jones said the administrative support structure is "about as lean as I think we can make it."
Extension was given a boost when it was authorized to use money saved through an early-retirement program to design of a state-of-the-art information-technology system and to provide training to agents to ensure they can effectively use the system. In addition, that money also allowed critical agent positions to be filled.
"We are an information-based organization," Jones said. "We're in the business of education and providing information. Computers and sophisticated information-technology systems allows us to do that much more efficiently. Every field office can now almost instantly tap into the wealth of knowledge that is produced by our land-grant universities."


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- 1. A local band/refreshments for a Recall Nifong-Vote Cheek campaign rally.
- 2. Additional funds to run campaign ads.
- 3. Duke Students for an Ethical Durham to exceed their goals relatedto student voter registration and voter turnout.
- 4. Cheap GPS devices for tracking missing signs.
- 5. Additional funds for a billboard in a high traffic area.
- 6. Additional funds for T-shirts and bumperstickers.
- 7. Volunteers to hand out flyers at sports/community events.
- 8. Volunteers to drive people to polls.
- 9. Volunteers for the polls on November 7th.
- 10. Additional funds for a mailing to voters timed to arrive just before the election.
- 11. Additional funds for Halloween masks of Nifong's face (scary, huh?).
Forward all help to Beth Brewer at www.recallnifong.com
Recalling Nifong is no fairy tale. Corruption can only persist when good people don't care enough to change it. The next few weeks are crucial. To the posters who go to the blogs each day, and combat ignorance with information, stupidity with common sense… don't stop now. Frustration is the opposition's best weapon, and your retreat is their goal. Stand firm and keep up the fight. To the bloggers, who struggle to put out new work everyday, these next weeks are key. Keep pushing. Keep putting out the truth where distraction and dissembling are the only local media alternatives. To Beth Brewer and her local volunteers, replace every sign, redouble every effort. You are the true heroes of this piece!
The heroine in Wicked finds her moment and her momentum with the song "Defying Gravity." Alone, the song reminds us, we all struggle against the Powerful Wizards, the Agenda-Warlocks, and the well-manipulated but misinformed Munchkins we encounter everyday. Yet together, each of us adds to a greater design that can make a difference. Alone we are one voice, but together we are a compelling chorus for justice and change. Alone we are grounded in the utter corruption and cowardice of Nifong and his enablers... but, TOGETHER, we truly can "defy gravity" and defeat Nifong!
Together we're unlimited ....
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been.
Dreams the way we planned them
If we work in tandem
There's no fight we cannot win!
Just you and I
Defying gravity!
We're flying high
Defying gravity!
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring us down! "
Joan Foster


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Rugby coach Paul Annys has avoided any rucks since taking over at Qi Financial Solutions, despite the former owner still being around. Now he is stamping his mark on the firm, appealing to the next generation of clients with his sense of fun.
Father to three young boys, rugby player and coach, a university Masters student, owner of a boisterous Rhodesian ridgeback, and the new landlord of a plot of farmland. Paul Annys is clearly hard at work.
He is on an unbounded mission to better himself, and says 'rugby gives [him the] control and discipline' to do so.
But he has not always been so driven. Handing me the personal statement that aided his acceptance onto the MSc course in wealth management he is about to complete, West Croydon-based Qi Financial Solutions' new managing director ponders whether his thirst for knowledge is a way of compensating for not working hard enough in his youth. He attributes this to the sudden death of his mother and grandparents.
If that is the case, he is certainly making up for lost time. He became a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 2013. Now, after purchasing the business from a retiring adviser, he is on a mission to rejuvenate Qi.
- 2013–present Qi Financial Solutions, managing director and IFA
- 2011–2013 Hamilton Field, IFA
- 2009–2011 Standard Life, business consultant
- 2008–2009 Zurich Financial Services, senior consultant
- 2003–2008 Friends Provident, senior IFA consultant
- 2000–2003 Haart, senior sales negotiator
Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning
Chartered Financial Planner
Fellow of the Personal Finance Society
Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute
- Member of the Institute of Directors
Tackling the challenge
Annys has benefited from the 'small world' notion of the financial planning profession after hearing through the grapevine that Neville Crofts, former director of Qi, was looking to retire.
'I'd met Neville a few times on my travels at Zurich, so I phoned him up,' Annys explains. He had been advising for just two years (although he had worked with advisers for eight years in his past life working for providers) when he decided to go it alone.
In 2013 Annys left his practice, City-based Hamilton Field, and gradually took the reins at Qi Financial Solutions. Acknowledging the risk-factor involved, Annys explains why he took the plunge.
'That feeling of trust was there with Neville,' he says. 'I did a lot of due diligence and there were no legacy issues or skeletons in the closet. Everything just fitted: the people, the location and the clients.'
Transitional period
Annys took on half the business initially, to 'hedge his bets' and provide some certainty. But in the past two years the firm has come together, with Annys purchasing the remainder in April 2016. Crofts and existing adviser Derek Cooke remain at the firm to help with the transition period.
While the initial plan was for Crofts to retire within one or two years of Annys joining, the setup is working too well for the team to divide just yet.
Four years after Annys joined the firm, Crofts continues to work part time. Annys says having Crofts and Cooke on board fills him with confidence and the clients with trust. 'There isn't a finite end date, but that's not so bad,' he adds.
When Annys joined Qi he lowered the initial fee from 3% to remain competitive. The firm now charges a 1% initial fee for most cases, and 1.5% for more complex cases such as pension transfers.
'We have seen an increase in activity particularly relating to defined benefit enquiries,' he says. 'We don't actively seek them out, but are comfortable offering advice on them where required.'
Ongoing fee charges were typically 0.5%, but he has implemented a segmentation process to increase profitability on smaller cases, while still factoring the risk involved in larger, more complex cases.
Clients with up to £150,000 investable assets are charged an ongoing fee of 0.75%. Those with between £150,000 and £250,000 are charged 0.6%. Clients with £250,000 to £1 million are charged 0.5% and those with £1 million and upwards are charged 0.38%, though the charge for this tier is often determined on a case-by-case basis.
'Has it been easy?' says Annys, 'No. And have I made as much money as I'd have liked to some months? Also no.' He admits he is a victim of his willingness to help others, attempting to bridge the advice gap and having to remind himself he is running a business.
The firm does not set a minimum investable assets limit for new clients coming on board. But, after calculating a 1% or 1.5% initial charge for smaller cases would not be cost effective, it has set a minimum fee of £2,500 to set up a new client.
Through the phases
Qi's client bank now combines both Annys' and the firm's former clients, resulting in a healthy mix of demographics. At 39, Annys can consider himself a younger financial adviser. He has picked up comparable clients, city professionals for example, through word of mouth. With the majority of the firm's existing client bank in the pre- or post-retirement phase, the addition of those in the accumulation phase will help with longevity.
Annys says he particularly enjoys scenario planning: plotting out the positive scenarios, while not forgetting to factor in 'Armageddon planning' to prepare for the worst.
Crofts now works with a small number of clients and is offered a split on fees for his planning. He wants to continue reducing his workload in the coming months. Annys says a role will remain for him in the business if he wants it.
Annys seeks to perfect the 'art form' of investment with in-house offering
Qi Financial Solutions offers five in-house risk-rated model portfolios and five in-house risk-rated multi-asset portfolios for clients with modest investable assets. 'I'm upskilling on the investment side and we brought in Ross Crake, head of investment research, a year ago to help with the proposition, which is continually progressing,' says Annys.
'I don't think I'll ever stop trying to progress the investment proposition as it isn't an exact science, it's an art form. There are so many variables to keep on top of.'
Qi has moved from using OBSR's model portfolios to building its own in-house to reduce the costs for clients. The team use research from Financial Express Analytics, which also offers an attitude to risk tool.
Annys wants to keep the proposition flexible to accommodate differing client scenarios, and builds bespoke or ethical portfolios where required. Discretionary fund managers (DFMs) are also used where needed, though he admits he is sceptical about relying on DFMs due to the underlying costs involved.
'Advisers have access to so much technology and research, and can access what discretionary managers are investing in, without the extra layer of cost,' he says. 'It's a tough job but, if you get it right, it's the right thing for the client,' he adds.
'Over recent years we have dealt with Standard Life Wealth, Rathbones, Brooks Macdonald, Psigma, Investec, JM Finn & Co and Schroders on various levels.'
The firm uses a blended approach, with the majority of clients invested in active funds. These include Lazard's Global Listed Infrastructure Equity fund, managed by Citywire AA-rated duo John Mulquiney and Warryn Robertson.
This fund was added in 2016, partly on the back of market expectations of the promises made by US president Donald Trump, and due to infrastructure's defensive characteristics.
Despite Qi's leaning towards active management, Annys believes factor-based and smart beta investing will become increasingly significant.
Kicking on
We rarely hear about mergers, acquisitions or sales that come without some hurdles, and Qi doesn't break the pattern. 'I wouldn't say it's been plain sailing,' says Annys. In the early days, financial decisions were not always easy for Annys due to his and Crofts' differing long-term plans.
When Annys joined, the pair bought a new office in anticipation of future team growth. 'But Neville didn't need five new computers or a boardroom table as he's retiring!' says Annys. He said at that time it became important for him to own the whole business to make decisions for the long term.
Despite some furniture feuds, the team dynamic has been collaborative. Annys is now levelling costs at the firm, after a few one-off costs occurred during the transition, as a result of putting new business processes in place.
Eye of the Tigger
Annys is looking to build a business that is honest and fun. He is light-hearted where it matters, quick to admit that he 'probably messes around more than most bosses do'. But he is sure to get the balance right. 'Give that great advice, at a competitive fee level, but have fun doing it,' he says. 'Otherwise there's no point.'
The team, which he is actively growing, is also well-balanced. The long-standing Qi team's experience is complemented by a fresher generation in Vince Hong, the firm's first graduate. Annys met Hong at Cass Business School during their Masters studies, and was sold on his gracious and hardworking personality.
Annys hopes his energy will continue to rub off on his growing team. 'They call me Tigger in the office,' he says with a smile. Qi paraplanner Tracy Sansom's comment seems to support this: 'Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most,' she jokes.
And with that, it seems Annys is well on his way to creating the honest and enthusiastic work culture he desires.
Do what is right for clients, what the regulator wants and make sure you remember the business too.
Work hard, do what you say you will and enjoy working with your team.
Keep learning and you will make more of a difference.
Just say it how it is.
Remaining independent takes time, research and commitment. It is not easy, but it is worth it.


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Saturday, December 31, 2005
The Antichrist, uncovered!
Friday, December 30, 2005
Cleanup in aisle five...
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Things I won't do
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Birthday Wishes...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Writing again
Monday, December 26, 2005
More Cranial Vomit
Sunday, December 25, 2005
An Athens, WV Volunteer Fire Department Christmas Carol
Saturday, December 24, 2005
First Amendment?
At first I was angry. Then I was incensed, but then when the full impact of the article hit home I openly wept.
I'm not going to reprint the entire article here, but apparently the minister of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, a Reverend Fred Phelps, Sr. Has been organizing protests and causing great disruptions at funerals at various locations across the country...
The funerals in question and targets of his vile bastardization of Christianity are for none other that my brothers and sisters killed in the line of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan... The same soldiers who fought and died so this vile piece of human garbage can spew his hate.
I don't know if it's my overly emotional past few days or what, but this is about as bad as it gets...
How DARE this motherfucker and his perverted minions do this...
I remember some of my older friends telling me of being spat upon when they got home from Viet Nam... But they were alive and could defend themselves. I remembered coming home for the first time after Operation Urgent Fury, and remembering the stories from my friends, was afraid to wear my uniform and medals on the airplane...
But these funerals... Sweet Jesus! To do it at the funerals? No matter how bad the war got in Viet Nam, at the very least the anti-war protesters left the funerals alone. Not only are these brave men and women being laid to rest after giving the ultimate sacrifice, their families are now going to have to remember your sorry worthless asses instead of the loved one they've lost.
You, Reverend, are so far beneath contempt... I may joke about a lot of things here in my blog... Like some people are only alive because it's illegal to kill them... You aren't even worth the cost of a bullet or the rope in which to hang you with.
Do me a favor, dear loyal readers. If you care about our fighting men and women half as much as I do, no matter what your belief in the war right now... Please got to the website below, read this vile candidate for retroactive abortion's hate and flame the fucker with so much crap his website will be shut down.
Go here: http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/
I'm so damn angry right now I cant describe the feelings I'm having.
Copyright 2005 Thomas J Wolfenden
Friday, December 23, 2005
Suicide Hotline...
"I wanna die man!"
"Ok sir, I can help you with your problem. First thing is for you to calm down."
"Ok man."
"Now, do you have any firearms in your home that you can harm your self with?"
"Alright, we can work around that. Do you have any pills?"
"How many and what type?"
"I got about a hundred Percocets."
"Any alcohol?"
"Yeah, a fifth of Jack."
"Ok, here's what I want you to do... Take the pills and dump them in a blender and then add the Jack for flavor..."
"Have you told anyone else of your plans yet?"
"Perfect! Now blend the mixture up and pour it into a large glass..."
Culling the herd and adding a little chlorine to the gene pool while I'm at it...
Happy Funny Foto Friday!
Copyright 2005 Thomas J Wolfenden
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Sea Of Heartbreak
Sorry all, but I really don't feel like writing today. 2005 hasn't been a banner year for me and this morning was just the icing on the cake. I try so hard to look on the bright side these days but looking deep inside right now all I'm seeing is blackness and acrimony...
I'll write about it later, maybe. But right now I just don't feel up to it. Right now I feel like reading something cheery and uplifting... Maybe something by Ernest Hemmingway.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
It's Merry Christmas, damnit!
Monday, December 19, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Personal hygiene 101
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Friday, December 16, 2005
I've pushed him to far...
After my haranguing of the McDonald's manager the other night about my cold food, Ronald became so despondent and depressed he hanged himself in Pipestem State Park... I guess he just couldn't stand hearing his food sucked.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Deep Impact!
Pictured above is Meteor Crater outside of Winslow, Arizona... I was there a few times and believe me, it's awe-inspiring.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Ok, so you're a caretaker
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Have you seen me?
Monday, December 12, 2005
I'm lovin' it?
Back in June I bitched about always getting cold food from a McDonald's in Virginia when I was working at a coal mine there...
Go here:
Anyway, it seems like this little problem is following me. But it's worse this time. At least when I was down in Richlands, VA I was working day work and had several other choices for a low-cost, high cholesterol artery-clogging CVA in a sack.
Now I'm working the 'hoot-owl' shift and the only thing open 24 hours is the local McD's.
Four days running now I've gotten not only stone cold fries, but my burger was stone cold too, with a rock hard bun.
This morning I just had had enough, so before I even pulled away from the drive-through window, I checked and everything again was cold. Not only cold, but my fries were still fucking RAW.
As in un-cooked.
I pounded on the window and asked for the manager.
I showed him my un-cooked fries and when I opened the box for my double quarter pounder, that too was cold. I handed them back and demanded fresh stuff. He apologized and offered a hot apple pie, which I declined. I just want my food hot when I get it. Is that too fucking much to ask for?
I know that 2:30 AM on a Monday morning during a blinding snowstorm must be their busiest time...
This isn't the only problem with this particular restaurant. I get the same Goddamn thing every night. I know, I've really original. The price seems to change from night to night also, and I find myself explaining to the cashier what the cost of the meal should be and how much change I should be receiving.
I know I'm probably expecting far to much here, but I'd like to get a little consistency besides consistent shitty food and service.
I'm going to sound like an aging dinosaur here again when I say I truly miss the time of the old Mom & Pop all night diner where a waitress named "Dot" sporting a beehive hairdo and called you "hon" always kept your coffee cup filled and the food, although probably wasn't the most healthy in the world, was at least served hot and fresh and had some flavor besides the lingering aftertaste of the cardboard container.
So I finally get my fresh food from the manager and head back to my patrol. I stop and eat, and yes, my food is hot and fresh...
I go to take a drink of my coke...
It's warm with no ice.
What the fuck!
Copyright 2005 Thomas J Wolfenden
Sunday, December 11, 2005
More stupid criminals
In October in Evansville, Ind., Terrence L. Mackey, 63, was sentenced to 29 years in prison for a May 2005 bank robbery, but not before he tried to defend his behavior to Federal Judge Richard L. Young, blaming the robbery on federal corrections officials. He would have turned his life around before now, Mackey said, if officials had just sent him to a prison close to his mother's home in Florida when he was locked up for a 1982 crime. And as to the charge that he shot at police as he fled the bank robbery, he claimed self-defense: "The police were shooting at me." [Evansville Courier & Press, 10-26-05]
Saturday, December 10, 2005
I'm pathetic...
Friday, December 09, 2005
Yum, yum, yum!
Happy Funny Foto Friday!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
I'm doing something wrong...
Go here for this little story of true love:
I'm going to go now and beat my head repeatedly against a brick wall.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Search Engine Warz
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Fact or fiction?
Monday, December 05, 2005
I've become a slave
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Killer squirrels, two-faced French and satellite dishes
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Why did I even bother?
I'd check it out and find the oil pan almost dry... 'Check the oil once in a while... ' I'd say...
Do you think that could be done?
Fuck no.
Simple little things like that, checking the oil in the vehicle that you're driving... Maybe you can't put it in yourself, but CHECK it and I'll put it in if it needs it...
And it went on. Like what these pictures tell the tale of. In Arizona we'd get sandstorms once in a while. If you're ever caught it one, pull way off the road and stop, not continue barreling down the highway at 40 MPH (what the police report stated after the fact) where you could ram into the back of someone because visibility is zero...
I was not driving that day, by the way. But of course if I had and pulled off to the side and stopped, I'd have been wrong anyway.
My seventeen year old niece was a passenger at the time and I'm just so glad nothing happened to her, just a little shaken.


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Is buying on a down day market timing?
I'm making a Roth IRA purchase today, and I'm not ashamed to admit that it's because the market took a dive today. I am not a believer in market timing, but if I can snatch an extra 2-3% simply by buying while prices are down . . . I'm going to do it.
Reading across the web, in forums and blogs, I've seen a lot of criticism of this practice, with the True Believers of the Efficient Market lecturing others that they should be watching prices to decide when to buy. I think that this is pretty crappy advice, and that it can cost people money in the long run. Here's a quick look at what happens to your money when you buy during a dip vs. the day before.
Suppose that I have $1000 to invest in VBR, Vanguard's Small Cap Value fund. Also suppose that from yesterday to the end of the year, VBR is destined to rise 2%. It looks like VBR is going to shed about 3% today, providing a discounted purchase price. What's the difference between buying yesterday and buying today?
Yesterday, VBR closed at $72.64, and the current price is $70.26, a drop of 3.28%. $1000 yesterday would have bought me 13.77 shares. At the current price, I can buy 14.23 shares. Under my assumption that VBR would grow 2% from yesterday to the end of the year, the year-end price will be $74.09.
- If I bought yesterday, at the end of the year my 13.77 shares would be worth about $1,020.
- If I bought today, at the end of the year my 14.23 shares would be worth about $1,054.
Is this market-timing? Sure it is, in some ways. But we're not changing our allocations based on timing, we're not selling any stocks based on timing . . . we're merely making a decision on when to buy based on the status of the market.
Now, naturally, there is a problem with this. If you made all of your buying decisions based on this, you'd make some mistakes. Some months you're not going to see a 3%, 2%, or even 1% loss in the market on a given day. So waiting for that dip can cost you valuable gains, especially if you choose not to invest that month at all. There is no predicting this sort of thing, so counting on a down time in which to buy is a mistake.
However, buying doesn't have to be either/or. To some degree you can have your cake and eat it too. If you normally invest at the end/beginning of the month, but on the 26th the market drops 3% . . . go ahead and dive in early. Is it possible that prices will actually be lower a few days later? Sure, but often these dips regulate the market and it will rise in the following days. If you get to the end of the month and you haven't seen a dip in which to invest, just throw it in at the end of the month as you had previously planned. You're not keeping money out of the market unnecessarily, you're not pulling funds out . . . you're just taking advantage of an opportunity and investing a few days early.
I see no problem with this, and I think most people would agree. In the long run I think this strategy will make you more money than simply investing on the same day each month . . . but clearly others have a different opinion. What say you, readers?


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By Patrick Goodenough
(CNSNews.com) – At a time when congressional Republicans are looking for ways to reduce U.S. funding to the United Nations, the Obama administration has formalized its membership in a new international body – and American taxpayers will provide more than one-fifth of its budget.
The administration on Friday deposited its instrument of acceptance to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), State Department spokesman Philip Crowley announced.
After joining in June 2009, the U.S. now becomes the 63rd fully ratified member of IRENA, a European-inspired initiative set up in 2009 to promote renewable forms of energy such as wind and solar power.
Although IRENA is not currently a U.N. agency, becoming one is a goal for some of its proponents, and members' contributions are calculated according to the same formula used to fund the U.N.
The U.S. therefore will provide 22 percent of IRENA's budget.
In its fiscal 2012 budget request for international programs, the administration has asked for $5.2 million for IRENA.
When the U.S. first announced it was joining the agency in June 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the decision to participate "an important element of the administration's effort to support clean energy technologies and the development of low carbon economies to address global climate change."
At an IRENA meeting last October, the U.S. representative, Assistant Secretary Kerri-Ann Jones of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, spelled out why the administration was supporting the initiative.
"Much of the world has come to understand that human-induced climate change has the potential to radically alter the planet," she said.
"We firmly believe that the increased adoption of renewable energy technologies constitutes a crucial piece that will ultimately solve the climate change challenge, while serving as the catalyst for job creation and sound economic growth."
Several existing U.N. bodies already carry out activity in the field of renewable energy, including the secretariat's Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The U.N. also has an interagency mechanism to coordinate energy-related efforts, called U.N.-Energy.
Moreover, a non-U.N. organization working in the renewable energy field is the International Energy Agency (IEA). IEA membership is open only to the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), but it does undertake projects with non-OECD developing countries, like China and India.
Despite all this activity underway, the advocates behind IRENA cited mounting concerns about climate change and the need to find "clean" energy sources in arguing for the need for an organization focusing exclusively on renewable energy.
'North-South tensions'
Progress in setting up the new agency has not been without hiccups.
At a "preparatory commission" meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in June 2009, a developed country/developing country rift emerged over where IRENA should be based. Germany had played a leading role in the process leading up to its establishment, and pushed for hosting rights, as did Austria and Denmark.
But the United Arab Emirates (UAE) also sought to host IRENA, and Emirati officials traveled to more than 100 countries ahead of the meeting to lobby for support.
Some European activists meanwhile complained that the Gulf state was not an appropriate venue for the agency. Although it has begun to explore renewable energy, the UAE remains almost solely reliant on oil and gas, and has one of the world's highest per-capita "carbon footprints."
A compromise hammered out behind the scenes handed the right to host the headquarters to the UAE's Abu Dhabi, while Germany and Austria got consolation prizes in the form of an IRENA innovation and technology center in Bonn, and an IRENA office in Vienna to liaise with the U.N. and other international organizations. The German and Austrian governments will fund the two satellite entities.
At the time of the meeting, media reports said Germany and Austria withdrew their candidacies after it became apparent that an overwhelming majority of countries supported the UAE.
But one of the classified U.S. government cables released by Wikileaks late last year revealed that the U.S. delegation at the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting played the principal role in brokering the compromise that favored the UAE.
The cable did not make clear why this was important for the administration, although there was a reference to "North-South tensions regarding the role of developed countries in promoting renewable energy in the developing world."
On a visit to Abu Dhabi last January, Clinton highlighted the fact that IRENA "is the first truly international organization to be headquartered in the Middle East."
IRENA's next hurdle came when its first interim director-general, Helene Pelosse of France, abruptly resign last October, just 15 months into her tenure.
No official reason was given for Pelosse's surprise departure, but she told the French news agency AFP later that she had fallen afoul of the UAE government over payment delays and after promoting the recruitment of more women to the agency (when nominated as director-general, Pelosse pledged to aim for a 50 percent female IRENA staff).
After Pelosse resigned the post was handed temporarily to Adnan Amin, a Kenyan national with a U.N. background, pending a final decision to be taken when IRENA holds its inaugural assembly early next month.
Although IRENA is not now a U.N. agency, it says it will work closely with the U.N. and could eventually become a U.N. body.
"Given the founders' ambitious time goal for the founding of IRENA, it was not a realistic option for IRENA to become a new United Nations or United Nations-affiliated organization," a question-and-answer section on the IRENA Web site states.
"Thus, it was decided that IRENA should be created as an independent organization and swiftly commence operations. In the long term however, integrating IRENA into the United Nations should be considered."
Immediately After her appointment, Pelosse also spoke about the desire for IRENA to become "part of the U.N. family."
Among those invited to IRENA's inaugural assembly on April 4-5, is Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's foreign minister, Musa Kusa, the Emirates News Agency WAM recently reported.


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LeBron finished the night with a game-high 36 points, going 14-for-25 from the floor to go with six boards, five assists and a blocked shot.
In his first appearance back in Minnesota as a Cavalier, Kevin Love – who spent six years with the Wolves – was lustily booed by the sellout crowd. But the three-time All-Star was undaunted – grabbing nine of his game-high 17 boards in the first quarter. On the night, Love finished with his 27th double-double of the season, adding 14 points on 6-for-14 shooting.


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I love my kraft card base and they feature in my projects quite a lot if you have not realised. I love making one layer card with my kraft card base, not sure why but I always think kraft and one layer card is a perfect match? It is time to mass produce some Christmas cards as well, don't you think?
I am definitely more organised this year because I remember I only start last year when I am watching 'im a celebrity get me out of here!'( Yup, I was watching bug eating at the same time as making nice Christmas cards. )
Is time to have a cuppa , how cold Scotland can be? I think I am going to buy a few more onessie :)
Cardstock: Stampin' Up- Crumb CakeStamp Set: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Signature Christmas; PTI- Signature Greetings
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- Movie Genre : Drama,
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Monday, 28 February 2011
The Wrinkles of the City is a world-scale project aimed to be presented in various cities around the world where human wrinkles as well as architectural, can be found. Before Los Angeles, JR has pasted The Wrinkles of the City in Cartagena, Spain (2008) and in Shanghai, China (2010). In Spanish, the project is entitled Los Surcos de la Ciudad.
Los Angeles is quite a new city, the second largest in the United States. Following Cartagena and
Shanghai, JR wants to bring his Wrinkles of the City project to Los Angeles in 2011. This time, the
purpose of the project isn't to meet witnesses of the changes that have occurred in the city or in their own lifes. Los Angeles is the place where the Hollywood myth was born, with its stars system, the glamour and the beauty being part of the identity of the city. For this project, JR wishes to oppose the wrinkles of old people living in LA and the marks of their past with the image of perfection or regenerated beauty in the XXIst century. For instance, in Southern California, plastic surgery is no longer a luxury but a lifestyle. It is now socially accepted, above all cultural and social barriers. With this approach, the most interesting part of the project is to spread these old wrinkled portraits in the city, using the gigantic urban development as a huge canvas. Contrary to Cartagena or Shanghai, JR wont paste on ruins or destoyed walls and buildings. The city is considered by planners and geographers as a forerunner and model for the development of American metropoles. The "City of Angels" appears as a laboratory of "urban postmodernism", that offers large new and recent walls to paste downtown and all around the suburbs. Considering JRÍs way of working, Los Angeles could become a real open air museum.
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Thursday, 17 February 2011
Husky Brown talks about the band The Bullitts (EXCLUSIVE)
The Bullitts are set to release their debut single which features Jay Electronica and actress Lucy Liu, and you can see the video by scrolling down and clicking below.
The group, which features producer and writer Jeymes Samuel and a host of guest musicians, will release'Close Your Eyes' in February 2011. The video is a re-edit of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's film Un Chien Andalou.
The song is the first to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album 'They Die By Dawn And Other Short Stories', which is due out in June 2011 and will also include performances by Tori Amos, Roisin Murphy, Passion Pit and Mos Def.
Meanwhile, The Bullitts will release a series of 'FlixTapes' on the their website TheBullitts.com. The videos will see the likes of Lupe Fiasco,Roisin Murphy and Passion Pit performing over classic TV theme songs such as Taxi, The Professionals and Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected.
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FASHION: Husky Brown
Article by Charlotte O'Reilly - Fashion Weekly
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Husky Brown Spy wear designer glasses hits the high streets today with fantastic reviews. Husky has been in London this week and really becoming an iconic fashion figure for his style and eccentric image, as well has being a big name in the art world for his graffiti paintings on exhibition. To describe Husky with a few words would be difficult due to his loud party lifestyle and the company of his surrounding friends and fans. This week at the 2011 Brits Awards, Husky seen behind the stage drawing on a rock bands drum Kits with his thick black graffiti markers. Rumours have said that the drum kit belongs to drummer, but the truth as not yet been revelled.
When you look at many street artists from the
, it's amazing to see graffiti art become intertwine with music and fashion over the last 10 years with popularity. Husky Brown has taken his art skills onto a radical direction for a new range of eye wear to his heading. Fashion enthusiasts from around the world posted on the website www.loookbook.nu have been wearing seen taking photos wearing shoes and various limited edition merchandise designed by Husky. His new latest designer eye wear collection; Spy Wear reaches the top views on the high streets has a must have item for the summer. UK
Article by Charlotte O'Reilly - Fashion Weekly
"I've known Sammy for a long time, thanks to my brother Spiritual who introduced me to him personally. My brother lives in
and he's on the scene, Sam has some cool parties in London and his fashion work his stylish. Sam is a talented individual and sets trends for the right individual. Sammy started his own company, I believe somewhere overseas and came back to London to work with Ozwald and when I visit my London people I always try to see Sam on my visit. - Husky Brown England
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above: Sammy modelling Ozwald Boateng bespoke suit in London
"I've known Sammy for a long time, thanks to my brother Spiritual who introduced me to him personally. My brother lives in
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011
New Street Art: Swoon Hits London
Swoon is a street artist hailing from New York who is well known for her intricate and lifesize what paste prints and paper cut outs of figures based upon people in her life.
Swoon, visited London recently and left four pieces around Shoreditch. This piece is just off Curtain Road:
Swoon has recently been working in Haiti, assisting in the rebuild after the devestating 2009 earthquake and this piece on Blackhall Street perhaps portrays a boy that she met during this time:
Check out Swoon's book which is available to buy on Amazon here.
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One night only… 100 x £100 artworks. Clever idea.
"The concept for Precious Damage is a simple one each artist has produced fifty works on card using a mixture of paint, paste and print which will be used to panel the walls of Red Bull Studios. The pieces all priced at £100 once purchased will be taken straight off the wall so over the course of the evening the installation breaks apart… so if you come fashionably late to this one then you're going to miss out."
More info over here… www.zerocoolgallery.com
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Its important to support the photographers who document this scene. Sometimes just as much as the artists who paint the piece… so this should be a great exhibition.
More info to come on this exhibition but for more details head over HERE
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These are really nice and look great on the street…
Good work Ackers!
More from Kid Acne over there…. www.kidacne.com
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Normal service will now resume…
Thanks so much to everyone who turned up to celebrate the launch of issue 14 at East Gallery on Brick Lane. It was an amazing turnout and we hope you all had a great night out. (Pics to come)
Big thanks to the whole VNA crew and our freinds who helped out… Oh and to Becks and Desperados for the drinks.
All pre-orders of VNA 14 are being sent out today and tomorrow. Plus if you are in with a chance to buy one of the Sickboy Special editions, you should know via email later on today.
Normal service will now resume…
It's this time of the year. The new issue featuring Sickboy can be bought here. And if you need more encouragement please watch this short cheerful visual and help us spread the word by posting it on your blogs, facebooks, twitters and twatters. Perhaps someone who's epileptic fails to read the warning and sends us a nice fat lawsuit. Safe.
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VNA 14 Sickboy Special Editions…Posted on February 10th, 2011
Check it… this what you get for your £20.00…
Wait… £20? Yes, due to the increase in costs of putting together these "Special Editions" the price has increased slightly to £20.00
Oh yeah, the envelopes are part of a big piece by Sickboy "SAVE THE YOUTH SICKBOY"
Check out the different signiture variations…
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
How To Spray Paint Cars
Aerosol artists BAM (Hawaii) and VOGUE (Bay Area) transform this Lexus IS 350 into a piece of art with our MTN 94 and NITRO 2G.
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Writing Graffiti
HALO - light-writing graffiti
French designer aissa logerot has developed 'halo' an LED light spray. instead of
spraying paint it has an LED that sprays light. not only can the LED's brightness
be altered, but the colors are interchangeable. if the light doesn't have enough battery,
users simply have to shake it to have energy again.
spraying paint it has an LED that sprays light. not only can the LED's brightness
be altered, but the colors are interchangeable. if the light doesn't have enough battery,
users simply have to shake it to have energy again.
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"Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin." (G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and other Evils)
There is a contingent of pro choicers that have an ingrained dishonesty about them. While the majority fall within the spectrum of Lenin's useful idiots, parroting disingenuous theorems outside of their fields of knowledge, the zealots are the ones of interest. They are like political spin doctors that try to shape circumstance to fit their ideological bend. Truth is of no concern to them, it is meddlesome and stifles their agenda. You would think that truth was everybody's ultimate goal, but this is not the case. Ultimate truth as a concept is contingent on a truth giver, a God from which it emanates. So for those unshackled from God, truth has no cord tying it to a pre-existent foundation. To them, truth is created in their own minds and subject to their passing fancies and purposes. They have replaced the foundations of truth, the omniscient almighty God, with themselves. In essence, they have declared themselves almighty. As such, they are unrestrained by morality in their quest to remake a counterfeit degenerate Eden. Power is the means and the means justifies the ends.
"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel." Lenin
But to what ends? Well, that which is the ends depends on the ideologue. And there can be many ends had in the pro choice brothel, unifying different people with different objectives on a common issue. For some it is racial. For some it is communist. For some it is a blend of male hatred and gender superiority. For some it is self-hatred. For some it is hedonism. For some it is irresponsibility. And for some it is satanic. For most, it is a blend of these. There can be many reasons to tell a lie. In part, this is what separates the pro choicer and the pro lifer. Truth. The pragmatist verses the moralist. Yet the pro choice pragmatic is only pragmatic in regards to their personally created version of truth. Ironically, by presuming themselves almighty, some have succumbed to their own lies. Forgetting that they deceived for a pragmatic purpose, which was to usher their utopian objectives. The lie told is no longer a pragmatic means to an end. Thinking themselves god, it now has moral equivalency. Some are so unhinged that they have forgotten their beginnings and now consider themselves moralists: Of a morality they created themselves, within their own minds. This is the maniacal truth of the spiritually ill.
I had a conversation with one of these ideologues recently. The direction that that conversation took is what got me thinking about this nuance of the topic. The vast majority of people, if exposed to the uncensored, unfiltered information regarding abortion, would "choose" to be pro life. I truly believe that. This is why that information is obfuscated from public consumption.
"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever".
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses".
How you treat your family or your neighbour is starkly obvious, as to whether it is good or bad. But with ideology it is different, it is idealistic: and as such, not hinged on personal interactions. `Out of sight and out of mind' allows the ideologue to push immoral objectives for some personally perceived greater good (a subjective one that exists only in their own minds). So for those who choose to severe themselves from God, they are no longer inconvenienced by the morality of a situation. Honesty is irrelevant. Objective truth must be hidden from the masses, least they see it and understand the lie. And the lie is so much easier to believe, when you don't have to look at the mountain of corpses it produces.
Ill-informed platitudes and idealistic notions are presented in the vacuum of factual evidence. This facilitates a mass delusion amongst the people. They are taught the righteousness of the pro choice catechism, and how those that stand against them represent some heinous social evil. They are also taught that they represent the position of established science and intellectual superiority. Without grounds for these claims, many pro choicers walk around in a stupefied complacency, truly unaware of the unholy slaughter that transpires around them. Their handlers at the top have successfully replaced truth with a lie. But the fragility of this achievement is understood and vigorously guarded from veracity. During middle school and high school the indoctrination begins. Within these institutions teens experiencing pregnancy no longer have to lean on parental love and instruction. Their relationship with the people that actually care the most for them, their parents, is circumvented by the system. They are counselled and prodded to abort outside their parent's knowledge. Within university, the pro choice dogma intensifies. Pro life organisations and clubs face censorship and obstacles presenting their alternative narrative. A narrative that, if heard, would sway the majority. Classes promote pro choice propaganda and easily sway the impressionable who are there to learn the "truth" presented. These minions graduate with their enlightened French Revolutionary mentality regarding the unborn - "for the good of the motherland, guillotine the unborn". Then they find employment as journalist, play writes, lawyers, and politicians, pushing their unsubstantiated beliefs in their professions and furthering the dumbing down of America. The educated are the uneducated, because they are taught a lie.
"An uneducated mass of people that accomplished a goal of political puppetmasters unbeknownst to them. These people thought that they were carrying out good works that would better society, but in reality they simply were sold a bill of goods and duped into worsening their own societal position. Used and abused by a deceitful taskmaster." Marx
Yet I mentioned the fragility of this infrastructure. One well-placed video can shatter their world view, exposing the gross violation of an educational authority dispensing self-serving agendas at the expense of a child's intellectual integrity. Generation after generation are roofied and mind raped. And if they awake, are told to ignore the evidence. Yet the evidence is compelling and irrefutable. The handlers are aware of this reality and fearful of its persuasion, so they seek to censor any dissenting voice.
"The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this". Lenin
They are fearful of those that have not had access to their higher leaning facilities, for they recognise that these can easily turn on them, particularly when exposed to objective reality; for these are not imprinted and suckled in an Ivy League flimflammery. Alternative mechanisms of indoctrination are needed, ones readily available within pop culture and media. Duplicitous messages are carefully veiled into a sitcom's script and enemies are ridiculed in a song's lyrics. Newspapers and News casts assist the melee attack on morality and truth, directed by an ingrained Orwellian social engineering charge: To reach those and teach those that resist a liberal arts degree. Whether in-school or out-of-school, the tenets of the pro choice deceit are barraged on the citizenry while dissenting evidence is censured.
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth". Lenin
When they see blatant truth with their eyes, they believe and grow angry at obvious injustice. But for the highly educated, the indoctrination runs deep, particularly in some faculties. It is held religiously, and confronting the truth of the pro life position is akin to renouncing their faith. They wish the birthing of such truth to be aborted. Better to live in a fog, than let the light hurt their unaccustomed eyes. Yet that's the funny thing about light: what's seen is seen, and cannot be unseen. Truth is visible in the light. And deceit is acknowledged as being as vaporous as the fog that obscured it. With unconformable truth, we can sway the beholder.
I spoke of the handers, the deceivers, and perhaps the anti-Christs ... the ones that know the truth, but love the lie, and use the lie to destroy. They are serpents and their words are venom. One of these ideologues was particularly active in damage control regarding videos that contained imagery she wished expunged from impressionable eyes. What was particularly interesting was how effortlessly she could change direction when proven wrong. She was an unbashful prevaricator. Instinctively she fell within her tried and tested bulwark of subterfuge and declared, matter-of-factly, that the fetus was not an human but a part of the mother's body. As such, she suggested we were free to cut it into tiny pieces. She seemed to liken an abortion to squeezing a zit. I corrected her, and proved her wrong on this premise.
Now this is what's interesting. She recognized she could not contend with my correction, and instead formulated another line of reasoning to further obfuscate the facts. She concluded that the fetus was a parasite that was feeding on the mother. This time she seemed to liken an abortion to the removal of a tape worm. An organism that is not part of the mother's body and is alien to it. A parasite is detrimental to the host organism and must be terminated.
But which is it? You cannot credibly present two diametrically opposed arguments to explain the fetus. You cannot harold your mental superiority and patronise my intelligence, and then when proven wrong, discard your immutable facts and create new ones that contradict your first ones. You negate your credibility and truly look like a motley fool with either an ill formed cerebrum or a shrivelled heart. The dubious shifting from one position to the other, in the span of minutes, highlights your intellectual and/or moral fog. How can the bases for her firmly held conviction be "Truth", when she abandons that foundation (that the fetus is a part of the mother's body) and nonchalantly redefines a new cornerstone/basis for her barbarous orthodoxy (that the fetus is a parasite)?
Again, her biological bases for abortion was indefensible if not laughable. I quickly corrected her, proving that the fetus is not a parasite. She had no biological/scientific basis for aborting a baby and sensed the aridity of pursuing that line of argumentation. Confronted with someone who actually studied biology in university, Marx's taskmaster dispensed of her pretence: "I don't give a f***, it's a mother's right!"
Now that's her cornerstone. Or to put it another way, "I don't give a f*** what's right or wrong, I want to do whatever the hell I want to do". Truth, what's right or wrong, was meaningless to her. She merely sought to deceive for some ill-conceived utopia. A utopia built upon the bodies of babies. Sounds like paradise. Not!
"Destroy the family, and you destroy the country". Lenin


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Photography by Darci Woodiwiss.
Darling Wagon cookies made by Batches.
love the pasta wheels and corkboard picture frame!
I like the red and cute wagon :D great ideas like allways
First reaction: OMG YARNS AND BUTTONS!
Then I scrolled down and started jumping around... Sock monkey! Sock monkey!!! SO Cute!!!
Come enter to win a custom sock monkey over at my blog, Kara!!!
Wow-wow-wow! I absolutely ADORE this party! The vintage details are seriously AMAZING! Well done!
That is one truly amazing party decor :)Fantastic job :)
amazing party...where did she find a TJ's big boy statue? I did not know they existed anymore!
I thought that the Vintage Wagon Party I had two years ago was cool, but now I will probably never show anyone my photos. This party is amazing. I am in love.
Fantastic work, is sensational, I love the vintage composition.
Hi Kara! so nice to meet you :) Stoping by via Stephanie form under the table & dreaming~~~
I love all your paper party favors and Props!
We can never have to many Props for a Party!
Beautiful graphics and a creative mind:)
Happy Fourth to you!
Kay Ellen
Saw your feature on with Stephanie at Under The Table Dreaming. I am you newest follower. I have just started looking and can't believe your fabulous ideas! Would love you to stop over and check out my site sometime.
Have a wonderful 4th!!
Muito criativo! Grata por compartilhar.
Luciana Pessanha
Great & Beautiful party!
I shared snapshots of it today on my blog & linked back here!
Happy 4th
This site if packed with wonderful and cool ideas to throw a party. I have learned a lot of ideas from here. Thank you. Keep posting for more!


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I created a Graduation Celebration ATC for the post I shared yesterday. For today's post, I've used that ATC to create the tag for the "Tag, You're It!" Challenge on the DRS Designs blog. I love how my tag turned out and how all the details on this card came together!
For instructions on how the ATC was created, please see yesterday's post. To create it into a tag, all I did was cut a white piece of cardstock down to size and then ran just the upper portion through the Cuttlebug using one of the labels dies. Then I used the Horizontal slot punch to make the opening at the top of the tag for the ribbon tail and adhered the ATC to it.
The card base measures 4.25" x 5.5". On the cardfront, I used Versamark and stamped it with the Graduation Background (984H). Then I embossed a small back panel with the Swiss Dots folder and added a white decorative border, and adhered it just off center as shown. The tag was then adhered on top on an angle. I heat embossed the ConGRADulations Greeting (867D) on vellum, decorated it with a border punch and adhered it to the bottom of the card front. Don't you agree this all came together nicely?
Thanks for stopping by to check out how I incorporated yesterday's ATC into today's card!
Have a great day!


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Saturday, 28 November 2015
Unrequited Correspondence
Another in an occasional series of correspondence to States of Jersey ministers. I know this one was delivered as I got an 'out of office' reply. I'm not sure how long the Senator was away, but I'm sure he will have been back at his desk at some point in the intervening 4 months.
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Farming conference preparation
I will be walking across to Trinity today to attend the Farming conference. Some of us are intending to ask some questions.
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Unrequited Correspondence
I have a few items of correspondence that have lain unacknowledged or unanswered.
Here's the first in what might turn in to a long running series. It is to the Environment Minister regarding the woefully late Rural Economy Strategy. Its current status - unacknowledged, though I know from a recent conversation with another person that it was received.
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I love when you have an unexpected surprise in your normal life. You go out, you meet someone interesting and you get a little spark injected into the night. Sometimes when you see those fabulous faces all the time, you can get a bit immune to that spark. Say, perhaps, you live in LA and work in entertainment, and have to be professional. It's about working with these folks, staying focused on marketing projects even if it's outside of your immediate part of the business, there is a constant dissecting of whatever the format is- movies, music, Television, agents, scripts, etc.
It was no surprise when one of my friends invited me to a movie premiere I was invited to for "Me, Myself and Irene" (oh yes the hurricane-turned-tropical-storm reminded me I've been meaning to write this one up for a minute- at least I think it was that one, it would've been a different crappy movie with David Spade we went to in the same location in Westwood, CA). In any case, I was not expecting the cute-but-not-vampire-Angel-human boyfriend of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Sarah Michelle Gellar), played by Marc Blucas to be there or be so adorable. He was a few rows in front of me before the film (probably the worst Jim Carey film ever) and turned around to talk to someone. He smiled. I was enchanted. It was one of the those megawatt "he's got star power quality" smiles that I'll never forget.
Now Marc Blucas is back on another hot TV series, 'Necessary Roughness' on cable. Marc plays the role of Head Trainer for a fictional football team, The New York Hawks. Thanks cable for being so awesome and bringing that smile back into my life to admire on a weekly basis. There's a reason I don't cancel you!


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Hi guys hope your all doing well, happy 12/12/12! : )
So my iphone finally came yesterday (about time) and I've spent the day messing with it and I've finally sorted everything out, I am also now on instagram and you can follow me, my username is nail_loopy (I'll add the widget thingy on the right hand side soon too) Also you can now like me on Facebook (the link is on the contact me page, again I'll add the button when I get a chance)
Also I got some epic nail mail today which I shared on my twitter so go and check it out and follow to see sneaky peeks of upcoming posts and awesome nail mail ; )
So here is another Christmas themed mani, I't didn't turn out perfectly but that's what I like about it (I've also done a tutorial for this design which I'll include in a post later)
It's very simple to do but I got quite a few compliments on it
What do you think? It's simple, easy to do but cute nails for the holidays : D
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Annie and Nora are best friends working at a boarding school in New England, a place they both love. Nora is the sensitive, kind and caring friend who is anxious to become pregnant and desperately wants a family of her own. Annie is opinionated, a "bit of an Eeyore" as she calls herself, a stay at home mother of two young girls who is tired of constantly defending her decision to forego her career to be a mom.
When Cynthia arrives at Dixbie, Nora is easily taken in by this glamorous new addition to the faculty, while Annie feels there must be more to the story than they are being told.
Because of Nora's easy acceptance of Cynthia, the life-long friendship Nora and Annie have shared suffers. In addition, Annie is feeling especially alone as Suze, a fellow stay at home mother, returns to the workforce.
Annie begins to talk with her counselor, Meg, about the anger she has about her life - from having to defend her choice to stay home and raise her children, to friend issues with Nora, to struggles with finances, and to her feelings about Cynthia who seems to be taking over everything at Dixbie. There are no easy answers, although Annie does learn a great deal about herself.
Annie and Nora take turns narrating the chapters in I'll Take What She Has, and although it is Annie's story that I related to the most, Nora's narration shares her struggles as well - her quest to get pregnant, the break-up with her ex-boyfriend David, who is now her new friend Cynthia's husband creating a bit of awkwardness, her friendship with Annie and its struggles, as well as her sex therapist Elle's never ending visit are things Nora must deal with.Wilde's characters offer a bit of humor and although this perhaps has some chick-lit characteristics, I feel as though this crosses over into women's fiction (which to me means it is also a novel with some deeper meaning or message). I'll Take What She Has is a bit Jennifer Weiner with another bit Lisa Patton. Incidentally, Samantha Wilde, the author, is the daughter of novelist Nancy Thayer, showing that great writing must be in their genes.


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Saturday, April 23, 2011
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Oh boy, What a surprise late at night!
I went this past weekend to Ohio to visit my daughter and her boyfriend. He's in the Air Force so they don't get time for visits so I went to them. It was for two days and then we came back home. I enjoyed seeing them both. Last night a got a call around 10pm and it was Toby (boyfriend) and I thought something was wrong...but there wasn't, actually it is good news. He preceded to tell me that he asked my daughter to marry him and she said yes!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for them. They live just off base in housing for the military and he's here for another year yet then he doesn't know where he is going. I hope they are able to stay in the states. He is a mechanic for the Air Force. I love them both so much and so happy for the late night surprise. I have to call her today and ask her the details. I'll post them as soon as I know what they are.
You all have a great day!
*Hugs* Kathy
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Thursday, 1 September 2011
New Scrolls Discovered!
New scrolls of The Chronicles Of Tekralh have been unearthed, from The Age Of Man, which means new adventures may begin as soon as January 2012!
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Part 1
by Gabriele Sutton
If one considers they are what they eat, they will
quickly understand the principal upon which this hypothesis is
established, that an unhealthy ulcerated gut sets the stage for equine
disease. As the "gut" or the digestive tract, literally serves as a door
to the Equine's body, it is of the utmost importance that that "door"
remains selectively functional. If ever it becomes "stuck open" or
dysbiotic, the gastrointestinal tract transforms into a highway for
Dysbiosis, also known as a "Leaky Gut Syndrome", is defined as a
perforated hind gut, an excessively permeable intestine or a condition
of erosion and ulceration of the gastrointestinal tract. Symbiosis is
defined as the relationship between organisms in which one organism is
in an intimate association with another. A pertinent example of a
symbiotic relationship is the intestinal flora of a healthy species
lives in harmony with its host. As such the bacteria of the intestine is
often referred to as "friendly" and helps to maintain homeostasis and
many "health promoting" activities including detoxification, vitamin
production, and protection against pathogens. If this relationship is
out of balance, the mere overgrowth of so-called "friendly" bacteria,
dys-symbiosis or dysbiosis results and inevitably leads to holes in the
gut. Dysbiosis, and subsequent increased permeability of the intestinal
mucosa, in general can be caused by a myriad of causes including
protozoan parasites, bacteria, yeast, excessive antibiotic or NSAID use,
parasite infestation, maldigestion, stress, and an imbalanced and
restricted diet. The most critical point to consider with dysbiosis is
the extreme damage it causes the horse by permitting bacteria,
pathogens, and toxins to escape the intestinal lining and enter the
bloodstream. This can lead to detrimental responses to pathogens and
toxins leaking into the blood stream: 1.) an Immune Function System
Response, 2.) a Systemic Inflammatory System response, and 3.) an
Insulin Resistance (which can be measured by endocrine systems tests).
Simultaneously, all nutrient absorption is impaired leaving the horse
malnourished, in an extreme state of imbalance, and vulnerable to
Dysbiosis allows the increased migration of bacteria and toxins
through the intestinal wall. There the immune system of the horse is
activated and forms antibodies in response to the invading pathogens.
The increase in antibodies leads to large numbers of antigen/antibody
complexes that may result in varied allergic reactions or inflammation
when the complexes are deposited in tissues. When substances are no
longer filtered by the intestinal wall and simply flood the blood
stream, for example in the case of sugars or fructans, the pH balance is
lowered creating a very acidic environment and an inflammatory
predisposition. Inflammation in the gut inhibits absorption of
nutrients, exacerbates vitamin and mineral deficiencies, compromises
normal detoxification pathways, and the IgA immunoglobulin of the gut
lining can no longer ward off protozoa, bacteria, viruses and yeasts.
Subclinical acidosis is thought to result from overconsumption of either
high starch concentrates or pasture grasses rich in fructans. When large
grain meals are fed to horses, it is often impossible for the stomach
and small intestines to sufficiently digest and absorb the massive
onslaught of starch. Hence, some starch moves into the hindgut without
being sufficiently digested. As digestion of easily fermentable starch
progresses in the hindgut, the production of volatile fatty acids and
lactic acid increases causing a significant decrease in the pH. When the
hindgut endures insults such as this several times a day it teeters on
becoming overwhelmed with acid. Additionally, because lactic acid is a
stronger acid then the VFA, it can cause serious damage to the
intestinal mucosa. The shift in pH provides an unfavorable environment
for some of the many microorganisms that inhabit the hindgut and aid in
digestion, in particular the fiber-digesting bacteria. For optimal
performance, these bacteria favor an environment with a pH of 6.5-7.0.
When pH drops to below 6.0, fiber-digesting bacteria become less
efficient and begin to die off.
Once dysbiosis occurs in the horse, this essentially opens the door
to many diseases such as founder, laminitis, inflammatory diseases
(arthritis, myositis) and metabolic disorders (insulin resistance).
Dysbiosis also contributes to endotoxemia, inflammatory bowel disease,
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Heaves), liver disease, and
colic. "Most often these conditions manifest in the horse as colic,
which is often recurrent and unrelated to management. Chronic weight
loss and chronic diarrhea may also result from leaky gut syndrome."
Further it has a devastating effect on the liver as it is recruited to
filter all the "contaminated" blood from the intestine. Many of our horses have elevated blood insulin levels without
concurrently raised or lowered blood glucose levels. Insulin Resistance
(IR) is a relatively new recognized condition which is also called
Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) or Syndrome X. Insulin Resistance
Syndrome is a group of symptoms related to insulin resistance or
hyperinsulinemia and the resulting physiological effects. This syndrome
is characterized by decreased ability to transport glucose into cells.
Equine Cushing's syndrome has some of the same characteristics as IR.
While some of the specific symptoms are different, the general
seriousness of the metabolic diseases is very similar. To identify if a horse might have a metabolic problem you may start by
evaluating the horses' appearance. You may find that your horse has
fatty deposits on the base of the tail or has a cresty, fatty neck. A
long hair coat, low energy and recurring tendon and ligament injuries,
abscesses and laminitis are often a good indication when suspecting
metabolic disorder. Much of the research indicates that if a horse is
overweight, he is more likely to be insulin resistant. Imposing a weight
loss program through calorie restriction and exercise to bring these
horses back to healthy bodyweight may all that is necessary to get
insulin/glucose levels under control. Certain breeds like Andalusians,
Paso Finos, Quarter Horses, Morgan's and of course Pony breeds are also
genetically predisposed to EMS. Equine Metabolic Syndrome may predispose
a horse to obesity or vice versa. Excess fat tissues associated with
obesity may trigger an inflammatory response. Inflammation may play a
key role in the onset of laminitis. So what does Insulin Resistance have
to do with EMS? Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas. When a
horse eats, soluble carbohydrates in the food are digested in the
foregut and converted to glucose (sugars). The glucose then passes
through the walls of the intestines into the bloodstream. This is when
insulin is called into service. As soon as the pancreas detects the
increase in blood sugar, it sends insulin to latch onto the body's cells
(most cells have insulin receptors). The as the blood sugar passes by,
insulin uses its master key to unblock the cell door. The blood sugar
then enters the cell where it can be used for energy or stored as
glycogen. In horses, Insulin Resistance is when the normal amount of
insulin secreted by the pancreas simply isn't enough to unblock those
cell doors. When the pancreas secretes even more insulin and the higher
level of insulin still can't open the cell doors, we say that the cells
are insulin resistant.
EMS can be linked to a high starch- high sugar diets. It is important
to note that many of the 'low starch' feeds currently advertised in the
market contain up to, if not more than, 18% NSC. In regards to specific
feeding recommendations for insulin resistant horses, it is certainly a
multi-faceted condition as each horse is an individual. Feeds could
contain no or very low amounts of grain and contain no molasses and
should guarantee a NSC content of no more than 10-11%. A low NSC
formulation and small meal size is recommended for horses with EMS.
Monitoring the forage intake of these horses is extremely important.
Testing the forage's NSC when managing a horse with EMS is vital. Owners
may need to consider soaking hay for 30min in warm water or 60min in
cold water to decrease the NSC content. Access to fresh pasture needs to
me reduced, scheduled to early morning hours or night time turn out.
Depending on the pasture grass species, the point of growing season,
property altitude and the overall health of the pasture (stocking rate,
fertilization status, etc.) some horses cannot be allowed pasture at
all, some must be restricted through the use of dry lots or grazing
Many of the conditions affecting EMS horses are directly related to
the way these horses metabolize carbohydrates. So it's important to get
a basic understanding of how carbohydrates are digested. So, when
choosing the right feed for the EMS horse, one must understand the
sources of feed energy first. There are three sources of energy for
horses; carbohydrates, fats and protein.
Carbohydrates are an important source of energy for horses, but not
all carbohydrates are the same. There are a dizzying number of
descriptors for the different types: non-structural carbohydrates,
structural or fibrous carbohydrates, non-fibrous carbohydrates, etc.
Soluble Carbohydrates are simple sugars and starches that are digested
in the foregut. These carbohydrates have an immediate impact on blood
glucose and insulin levels. Sources may include: grains, molasses, milk
products (dried whey), and byproducts such as rice bran. Fermentable
digestible fiber, carbohydrates from fibrous plant cell walls and
polysaccharides, such as fructans, are digested in the hindgut. These
carbohydrates are digested through fermentation performed by billions of
microorganisms (healthy bacteria and protozoa). These carbohydrates have
little impact on blood glucose and insulin after a meal. These
carbohydrate sources may include grass forage, legumes, and byproducts
such as beet pulp, soy hulls and wheat middlings. Indigestible fiber,
which is roughage that isn't absorbed, sweeps through the digestive
tract to keep it clean and running smoothly. Indigestible fiber comes
from hay and plant hulls. Soluble carbohydrates such as starches
(grains) and sugars provide immediate energy because they quickly
convert to glucose in the small intestine. Glucose can be used
immediately or stored in the muscles as glycogen (stored energy).
Glucose and glycogen are the fuels needed for high-intensity,
short-duration exercise. Obviously, soluble carbohydrates are a valuable
resource for horses. Horses are designed to handle a low–to-moderate
load of soluble carbohydrates. But a supersize helping at a meal can
spell trouble for horses that have difficulty controlling blood sugar.
Digestible/fermentable fibers are also carbohydrates, but are digested
differently than starch and sugar and tend not to rapidly increase blood
glucose and insulin levels. Digestible fibers are fermented by the
microbes in the horse's hindgut into volatile fatty acids, which are
then absorbed. These fatty acids are the primary fuel supply for
maintenance activities and can be a source of energy for less intense,
longer duration activity. The exception to the rules is fructans.
Fructans are actually linked to fructose (simple sugars) and cannot be
digested in the foregut. Therefore, they are fermented and digested in
the hindgut. Fructans are not considered fiber, even though they are
fermented in the hindgut similar to fiber. Excessive intake of fructans,
mostly from cool season grasses, can trigger excess gas production and
increase the risk of colic and laminitis. Horses with a history of
laminitis may be especially susceptible. Indigestible fiber, though not
absorb or used as energy, is vitally important to a horse's wellbeing as
it helps maintain normal gut function, water balance and fecal
Fats (Fatty Acids) are excellent sources of energy for horses.
Metabolized in the foregut, fats deliver a smooth supply of energy
without generating spikes in glucose or insulin levels. Certain fats
play a role in a healthy hair coat, immune function and recovery after
exercise. Unlike high starch diets, adding fat to a horse's diet dies
not increase the risk of digestive disturbances, such as colic. Although
fats are an important part of a horse's diet, EMS horses need to beware.
Fats contain more than twice the calories per pound than either
carbohydrates or protein. Therefore, weight prone horses should avoid
too many added fats.
Protein and Amino Acids is not an efficient energy source for horses,
but it is essential for growth. Hair, muscle, skin, hooves and mare's
milk are made primarily from protein. Amino acids (the building blocks
of protein) rebuild tissue damage resulting from exercise or just
everyday living. Protein is digested primarily in the small intestine
(foregut). Enzymes digest proteins into their constituent amino acids
and the amino acids are absorbed into the blood stream.
From the nutritional quality of the feed ingredients, to timing of
meals, to exercise, to overall horse management, EMS horses thrive on
consistency. Fasting is usually bad for these horses. The
fasting/feeding cycle of two meals a day, even if its hay only, results
in elevated blood glucose levels following each meal. Instead, these
horses respond best to a feeding routine that mimics natural grazing
behavior. Nibbling on long stem forage and eating several smaller
concentrated meals throughout the day helps to keep their glucose and
insulin levels on an even keel. Reduce body fat to improve insulin
sensitivity and decrease the risk of fat-triggered inflammation.