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The findings from an unprecedented national study of Americans' relationship to nature reveal an alarming disconnection, but also widespread opportunities for reconnecting. The results are prompting nature conservation, environmental education and outdoor recreation leaders to rethink how they work to connect people with nature.
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Americans encounter a number of society-wide forces disconnecting them from nature. Americans face competing priorities for their time, attention and money. They live in places that often have more concrete than green space. It is increasingly normal to spend little time outside.
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Restoring Americans' connection to nature requires overcoming the gap between interest and action. "The Nature of Americans National Report" details recommendations for restoring Americans' connection to nature, including:
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INNER WORKINGS: France's lingerie players are out buy lingerie from China to grab some Paris Fashion Week limelight with a collective catwalk show scheduled for Jan. 22 on the cusp of the city's men's and couture weeks. The Salon International de la Lingerie trade show is also being held that weekend.
The event, due to be held at the Pavillon Cambon and Oktoberfest Costume titled Lingerie, Mon Amour, or Lingerie, My Love, in English will present new designs from 15 established lingerie brands including Chantelle, Empreinte, Lejaby, Passionata and Simone P r le. Creations by five young brands including Elise Anderegg, Paloma Casile and Ys will also parade.
Behind vcxcdff330 the show, which is aimed at promoting the know-how of the French lingerie industry, is Promincor Lingerie Fran aise, the Association for the Promotion of the Corsetry Industries, in conjunction with the Committee for the Development and Promotion of the Clothing Industry. The show will also be screened live from Promincor's web site: http://www.lingeriefran aise.com, on Jan. 22.
Sales of French lingerie in 2015 totaled Oktoberfest Costume 792.8 million euros, or $880 million at average exchange rates, for the 12-month period, up 2.7 percent versus 2014, with around 50percent generated from exports, according to the Monthly Conjuncture Index published by theFederation of Knitwear and Lingerie and the IFM.
Buoyed by the weak euro, demand for French lingerie was strongest in the U.S., in terms of exports, with a 17 percent uptick in sales to 30.5 million euros or $33.8 million, said Ulyana Sukach, international manager at the Federation of Knitwear and Lingerie. The picture is less rosy on home turf with a 3.56 percent slide in sales to 427.3 million euros or $474 million. Scandinavia doubled imports of French lingerie over the period, Sukach said, while sales in Russia, impacted by the country's financial crisis, nose-dived 65 percent to $2 million.
Meanwhile, France in value terms maintained its position as Europe's largest exporter of bras, according to the United Nations, with total sales of some 323 million euros, or $358.3 million.


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T-Shirt Design: Transform a Sketch Into a T-Shirt Design
Steve Wolf, Graphic Designer/Illustrator
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About This Class
Learn how designer and illustrator, Steve Wolf, creates a unique design for apparel using hand drawn artwork. In this class, Steve takes us through his process for researching, drawing, designing, and executing great looking t-shirts. This class is perfect for designers, illustrators, and anyone else who is interested in creating a unique t-shirt design. By the end of this class, you will have the confidence to dominate your next apparel design.
What You'll Learn
- Research: We will go over the importance of researching before drawing and talk about how researching can inspire and influence your design.
- Concepting: In this section, we will talk about the proper setup before sketching and look into the process of concepting ideas.
- Sketching: We will talk about the most efficient way to turn your rough ideas into a tight hand drawn sketch.
- Vector design: I will share my process of how to take your finished ink design and transfer it onto the computer to create an editable vector design.
- File Preparation: We will talk about the proper way to organize your finished design in illustrator and learn the basics of preparing a correct file that can be sent to a printer.
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Very cool class. No-nonsense, and action-based content. That's what I was looking for.
This was a great class that concentrated on choosing a design and carrying it through to the printer.
Steve Wolf is a designer/illustrator living in Austin, TX. Born and raised in central Nebraska, Steve Wolf has been designing since he was a toddler. Never without a pencil and paper, Steve has turned his childhood hobby into a successful career. His work combines vintage elements and modern techniques, creating a unique style that can be used on a wide variety of projects.


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New information recently uncovered at the National Archives reveals that subsidiaries of the Eastman Kodak company traded with Nazi Germany long after America had entered the war. A number of US firms have been identified previously as having been involved with the Nazi regime; most recently IBM was cited in a lawsuit filed in early February. The archive documents also provide a glimpse of the attitudes of some US and British government officials during that period who were unwilling to impose any sanctions against the firm, recommending instead that Kodak continue trading to preserve its market position. Though there is no current evidence that Kodak headquarters in Rochester, New York, exercised direct control over its operations in Germany during the war, it did control branches in neutral Switzerland, Spain and Portugal–all of which did business with the Nazis, providing markets and foreign currency.
Kodak's Swiss branch bought photographic supplies from Germany in 1942 and 1943 for 72,000 wartime Swiss francs, from occupied France for more than 24,000 Swiss francs and from Hungary (a German ally) for 272,000 Swiss francs. For 1943 alone, these transactions were described by the American Embassy in London as "fairly substantial purchases from enemy territory." "The idea that he has been helping the enemy seems never to have occurred" to Kodak's Swiss manager, noted Howard Elting Jr., a US vice consul in Switzerland, in November 1943. "I pointed out to him that our sole interest is to shut off every possible source of benefit to our enemies, regardless of what American commercial interests might suffer."
But other officials disagreed. In early 1942 Kodak's branch in Spain imported items from Germany worth at least 17,000 Reichsmarks. In March 1942, more than three months after America had declared war on Germany, Willard Beaulac, chargé d'affaires at the American Embassy in Madrid, recommended to the Secretary of State that Kodak headquarters be given "an appropriate license" for its Madrid subsidiary to import "films, chemicals, spools, and other supplies from Germany." He reasoned, "Shutting off of German sources of supply would seriously embarrass the company without serving any useful purpose since the demand for services in the Spanish market which could not be met by Kodak would simply be taken over by its German and Italian competitors. The position of these competitors in this market would thereby be considerably strengthened and the recapture of the business by Kodak after the war greatly handicapped." An official at Britain's Trading With the Enemy Department in 1943 agreed that Kodak should "continue to get supplies from Germany so that the market may not be lost to German competition." (But licenses were not granted. Kodak executives had known that licenses were required. Their branch in Turkey had been given a British license in 1940 to import from Hungary. It was revoked in February 1942.)
A.D. Page, legal adviser to Kodak in London, told the British government in 1943 that Kodak branches "have been able to obtain some goods from Kodak factories in Germany, France and Hungary," which he said "resulted in their being able to maintain the Kodak name alive in their territories and to supply their customers with more goods than they would have been able to do had they been limited to purchasing from England and America only."


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Rime's upcoming show 'Up On Through' during his two month residency in Paris. Rime - Up On Through 17 March - 13 May Opening 16 →
Rime's upcoming show 'Up On Through' during his two month residency in Paris. Rime - Up On Through 17 March - 13 May Opening 16 →
A monumental and playful installation in situ, spread over 3 floors, crosses 20 years of work, from the street to the museum, by Boris Tellegen →
Urban Art Festival Amsterdam, which will be held as part of Amsterdam Dance Event's Playground. The 5th anniversary will be one not to miss. Well, →
The first U.S. edition of BeStreet Weeknd Festival opens this weekend August 29th – 30th at The Container Yard in the Arts District, downtown Los →
Achromatopsia Exhibition March April 2015 →
Colab Gallery BECAUSE ON THE RHINE, 22nd November 2014 - 02 May 2015 →
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Pandakroo preparations for the exhibition at Sohype, November 2014 →
New group exhibition Street Art Gallery Artifex. Tsunami runs from December 4, 2014 to January 11, 2015. →
The idea for the Kaleidoscope cans is based on the transparent, glass like layers of MadC's canvases. They too combine the strong and the fragile →
These boys are dubl disgusting, see more of their work at the Dubl Trubl Collective Show coming this September at Urban Spree in Berlin. Check →
The Unauthorised Retrospective →
Getty Black Book, Exhibit Preview →
Some shots from Ultra Dinámica exhibition at Mister Pink Gallery (Valencia, Spain) →
GILBERT1 - IN SITU Du 9 au 19 janvier 2014 Galerie BORA BADEN (Fr) 24, Grand Rue - Nancy Commissaire d'exposition: Pierre LIGIER Musique: Keman →
Anthony Lister was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1979 and he received his BFA at Queensland College of Art in 2001. He was a pioneering →
Moniker Art Fair returns for its fourth year, having firmly established itself as London's premiere event for contemporary art with its roots embedded in urban culture. →
SuperA, HENDRIK 'ECB' BEIKIRCH, COPE2 →
Write of Passage: Exploring the history and impact of American graffiti on global culture. →
ARCANA Exhibition, Cologne (Germany) from October 18 to November 10, 2013. →
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AILE is opening up a massive show this weekend at the Dallas Contemporary. →
Veil of Anonymity, an exhibition featuring new work from; Linz, Reals, Sofles, Meks, Sauce, Tues, Vans the Omega & Treas. →
Unruly Gallery proudly presents new etchings and drawings by Paul du Bois-Reymond Paul du Bois-Reymond (1974, Berlin) is a visual artist and graphic designer who →
Cologne's CityLeaks Urban Art Festival kicks off on 2nd September 2013 with a most diverse international programme located indoors just as much as outdoors →
Exhibition @ Highlights gallery, Stockholm. →
Work in Progress - Hong Kong →
Location: Montana Shop & Gallery, Rua da Rosa 14G, Lisboa Opening: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 after 21h →
A show of recent works by Askew One. →
On Friday 1st March Ironlak and Published ArtHouse (Adelaide) presented 'Veil of Anonymity', an exhibition featuring new work from Ironlak Family members; Linz, Reals, Sofles, →
Paris Hip Hop Festival 2013 have the 3rd edition of the festival Graffitizm 29 and June 30, 2013 in Mantes Graff Park. →


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Social Media Advertising Is Exploding
Social media has developed itself to become a legitimate communication channel online. As such, businesses trying to increase their online visibility must utilize this platform in their marketing efforts if they are to enhance customer engagement and understand consumers better. Social media advertising is essentially the distribution of marketing messages, READ ADS, through social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Businesses can also take advantage of this opportunity to connect with their consumers to handle customer relationship opportunities, in addition to solving and addressing customer complaints. The traditional communication methodologies like e-mail have seen a reduction in the level of utilization by customers as they now seek a more expedient response to the use of social media.
Social media advertising, in itself, has continued to evolve into a fantastic mechanism to drive organic search traffic in addition to increasing conversions and sales. With newly formed networks being developed such as Instagram and Pinterest, internet marketers have their work cut out for them to effectively craft a social media advertising campaign that is appropriate for each of these new networks. The ultimate goal is to create advertising that does not overly saturate the channel and cause excessive noise with little value. The last thing customers want to see is a bombardment of overly aggressive advertising techniques through a newly established social media channel.
Recent statistics have outlined the fact that social media advertising contributes a much higher degree of success in terms of generating sales leads than that of traditional marketing methodologies. Many companies and organizations have found tremendous success by allowing their sales personnel to engage in social networks as a way to generate interest in the business and ultimately recruit customers. This does not mean that established organizations and reputable brands have completely turned away from traditional advertising methodologies. As a matter of fact, we have seen an increase in the amount of integration between networks as these companies look to further connect with their target audiences. This combination can lead itself to be a powerful marketing campaign as the online marketing efforts work directly in conjunction with offline media and events to generate a consistent message across the board. Social media advertising is now considered a necessity when organizations address their marketing plans, in addition to startup companies, as it provides a more cost effective method to generate interest.
Reports have revealed that large segments of retail target audiences continue to spend more and more time online each year and on social media sites in particular. With this level of exposure, it allows businesses the opportunity to connect with these individuals and further develop their brand. As it relates to new customers and younger demographics, consumers age 20 to 35 represent the fastest-growing demographic is they tend to spend more than 11 hours per week utilizing social networking applications. With this data and the rapid proliferation of social media advertising opportunities it is never too late for interested businesses to incorporate these methods into their marketing mix. Whether promoting a product or highlighting goods and services, the development of a marketing strategy that incorporates social media advertising will continue to be a powerful tool for business promotion and engagement moving forward.
How much of your companies budget is spent on social media advertising? How are you measuring results?
About Alan Moore: Alan is an Internet Marketing Consultant with ReachLocal Baltimore. His mission is to help you increase your revenues and decrease unproductive advertising expenses through proven, online marketing strategies. He manages over $2,100,000 in yearly marketing budgets and has worked with local businesses, agencies and the US government. Give him a call at (877)655-3438 to schedule a Free Online Marketing Consultation.
To read more of the article that inspired this blog, please visit: http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2012/7929/social-media-ad-spend-to-reach-98b-by-2016


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O Apartamento is all about connecting people. Purpose? Be an accelerator of urban particles, creating synergies and promoting creative projects. Located in a residential building at central Lisbon, his mission is to bring the world to Portugal, and introduce the best of Portugal to the world.
The natural light was what most delighted us
the first time we crossed the door.
In a five room apartment, completely prepared to host guests and to welcome visitors, each three months O Apartamento will bring to Lisbon a worldwide magazine, with a creative project associated. We'll introduce them to Lisbon and who knows if they'll end up writing about it too. Artistic residences pop up stores, private dinners, exhibitions, workshops: everything can happen at O Apartamento. The only rule is sharing.
The natural light was what most delighted us the first time we crossed the door. Altogether there are 5 rooms with large windows, which make the 150m2 of O Apartamento as special, as heterogeneous.
One main room with 45m2 welcomes who arrives. But there's more: an office, a meeting room, a bedroom prepared to host guests, a fully equipped kitchen, a dining area, two bathrooms and a balcony / terrace overlooking the rooftops of Lisbon complete O Apartamento. Where works of art and design pieces blend into the decor.


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Friday, 19 May 2017
Gothic Art in Spotlight: grotesque installations
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Yay for getting your eyes fixed! I've been dreaming of having an eye surgery as well but I've never gotten around to it. Hopefully everything goes well!ReplyDelete
As for the art... I do look that agonized when my tea is too hot or bitter. :DReplies
Thank you! The surgery went very well, fingers crossed that the eyes will heal fast. ^_^Delete
God luck on the move! I laughed when I saw the cup, and never thought of my own reflection in the liquid... Good art makes you see a new perspective and that's what was done! It does look creepy though...I kind of wish it wasn't. I think it's more an effective image if you're showing the hidden absurdity of real life if you don't make it look like a creepy corpse lolReplyDeleteReplies
:D Totally agree with you! If the art work is strongly interpreted as a horror prop, it does loose something of itself. Thanks for the good luck wish, the moving starts today! O_oDelete
I have no interpretation but it sure is cool! :DReplyDeleteReplies
Cool and disturbing! :DDelete
Does art always have to be meaningful? Can't this art piece just be something that the artist found pretty or funny? I think that this looks cool, but find no deeper meaning!ReplyDelete


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1100 Stacies
This is the source text of a speech I gave at Gnomedex in 2007. Here's a video of me giving this talk.
A few years ago my grandmother passed away, and I found this telegram among her possessions. It's from her uncle to her father. If you can't read it, it says "Dad died yesterday. Burial Tuesday, two o'clock, Aurora." How about that economy of language? You paid by the word, so condolences could wait until next Tuesday.
This was sent in 1954, and at the time it cost about $2.50 Canadian. That's about $2.57 in US dollars. Yes, our currency was stronger until about 1960. I don't know if the Americans in the audience have looked at exchange rates lately, but we're coming for you.
In 2007 dollars, $2.50 is worth $19.84 Canadian. Imagine if you had to pay nearly two dollars for every word you wrote in an email. What would spam look like?
Send $ to Nigeria. Thx.
If we think of it in some different ways, $19.84 in Canadian dollars is also:
- $18.64 US dollars
- ¥2,214 Japanese Yen
- £5.84 in Maltese Lira (I'm living in Malta right now, so I like to convert to the local currency)
Do you hear that sound? That's half the room hitting up Google Maps to find out where Malta is. It's here, incidentally:
It also works out to:
- L$4,986.62 Linden dollars
- 249 World of Warcraft Gold
The second number is the black market conversion, so rates may not be very stable.
My great-great grandfather dies. My great-grandfather sends a telegram to my great-great uncle. My grandmother keeps the telegram. She dies, and the telegram comes into my possession. It's enough to make you think about your own mortality.
So that's what I've been doing lately. Thinking about life and death and how I want to be remembered. Here's one way I might be remembered if I keeled over right now on this stage:
My day job, you see, is doing marketing for high-tech companies. That's not really a satisfactory legacy, is it? I've been thinking about ways to improve on that. Ways to revise what gets written on my gravestone.
Ways to do good.
Or more good, at least, because I have done projects here and there to raise money for good causes. And my wife and I do occasionally make donations to non-profits and charities. I just haven't been very systematic about it.
When I lived in Vancouver, I'd visit this hot dog stand at the corner of Granville and Georgia. If you find yourself in Vancouver, I highly recommend it. The turkey smokie is out of this world. Be sure to get the fried onions.
When I frequented this stand, there was often a young woman who sat beside it, leaning against a lamp post. She was homeless. If she wanted one, I'd buy a hot dog for her. I could afford the extra $2.50. The first time I did this, I learned that her name was Stacy.
That little gesture, buying somebody lunch, that seemed like a minimum amount of charity you could do. One act, one meal, a few bucks.
So if I want to do good, and I want to be systematic about it, I need to measure some good deeds. This will help me figure out how to spend my time.
By the way, if you're an economist or sociologist, you should just leave the room right now. Pretty much everything I have to say from this point is totally half-assed, and if you keep listening, you'll just end up looking like this:
We need a basic currency for measuring good deeds, so I'm going to go with the aforementioned lunch. One meal for one person. And, in honor of that woman by the hot dog stand, I'm calling it the Stacy. Buy one lunch for one person, and that's a Stacy. Keep somebody alive for a year, and you've earned about 1100 Stacies. The actual dollar amount would vary depending where that person is in the world, but one lunch for one person equals one Stacy.
There are at least six billion ways to do good. But since my work and passion is technology, I'll focus on some interesting tech and web projects. These are things that, if I were smarter and luckier and started earlier, I might've been able to do in a year. With a lot of help.
There is, of course, the question of inventing big things–the infrastructure of the Web. If I built the next Flickr or Linux or Google or whatever, that'd be great. That technology is used to do immeasurable good. And bad. But I'm sure the good outweighs the bad (with the exception, perhaps, of MySpace). But I'm not that smart or lucky.
And besides, there's a kind of reductio ad nauseum there. After all, if I got in the game early enough, I could have built the wheel.
And just so you know, I'm not some kind of hippie. I've never been to Burning Man. I've never touched a bongo drum. I do have one pair of sandals, but they're very sporty.
In thinking about these, hopefully they'll give me a better sense of where I should spend some time. And maybe they'll inspire somebody in this room to build something just as cool.
What if I want to volunteer my time to help a developing nation, but I'm too lazy or scared or busy to leave my living room? This is Nabuur. It enables you to offer your volunteer expertise from your own home. Nabuur provides a platform for connecting with over 200 projects and over 8000 volunteers around the world, who contribute a little time and expertise to a project. It's crowd-sourcing for the developing world.
You could help coordinate the shipping of computers to a school in Honduras, or edit the marketing plan of a village beekeeping project in Sierra Leone.
So what if I contributed a business plan to this project , a program to launch a Masaai ecotourism business in Kenya? They hope to make a sustainable business for 30 families, or about 130 Kenyans. There are currently 22 other volunteers on the project. Obviously the Kenyas are doing the majority of the work–let's say the volunteers contributed 20% of the effort for the business's first year.
Once you do the math, my business plan would work out to about 1250 Stacies for the year, or a little more than what it might cost to feed one person for a year.
Let's put that on a chart.
If you wanted to start closer to home, another project is ICouldBe.org, where professionals mentor teenagers and help them transition to college and the working world.
This is Geekcorps. Founded in 2000 by Ethan Zuckerman, they're an organization that sends people with IT skills to the developing world, to help build computer infrastructure, both in terms of hardware and education. They send so-called 'high capacity volunteers'–these people are professionals, not envelope stuffers–to help set up networks and enable entrepeneurism through technology.
One of their most admirable projects is Moulin Wiki, an effort to deliver an offline version of Wikipedia on CDs to parts of the world who don't have Internet access. Thus far they've launched the French version, and distributed more than 600 CDs across Mali and western African.
So what if I joined Geekcorps and went to Africa for a year? Well, first I'd have to acquire some l33t IT skills, but let's assume I did that. This one's hard to measure, because the work I'd do is of the 'teach a man to fish' variety. And what if I just helped to build a Wikipedia in one of the local languages–another Geekcorps project? How much is that worth?
Say I was able to set up some infrastructure that enabled five people to get jobs. They're doing the work, they're able to feed their families, so I could take only a fraction of the responsibility for that success. I'm going with 9,500 Stacies.
Just Earn More Money
Before we move past simple volunteering into projects I wish I'd invented, I wanted to consider one alternative that many economists advocate. They say that if you're employed, you're much better off working more and donating the extra earnings to charity.
It's simple math. If I work in a soup kitchen for two hours, I might make enough soup to feed 50 people. Imagine if I just worked an extra two hours, and earned, say, $200, and donated that money to the same soup kitchen. They could hire 5 skilled cooks, and feed hundreds of people and make better soup than I could.
Of course, people are chintzy, and they like the good feelings they get from volunteering. In one study I saw evaluating volunteerism and giving, most countries had a much higher percentage of volunteers than donors. The US and Canada are exceptions to this rule. We're great givers, but lousy volunteers.
So let's imagine that I work an extra four hours a week. That's 16 hours a month. Say I earn $1600 for that time. The average cost of a meal in a soup kitchen in the US seems to be about $1.20. So that works out to 1300 Stacies a month, or about 16,000 Stacies for the year.
Of course, if I went over to Uganda or Sierra Leone, I could buy four meals for the price of one meal in a North American soup kitchen, so that would earn me more than 66,000 Stacies.
Build Something in a Virtual World
It's hard to make stuff. Particularly when we're talking about buildings and machines. It's far easier to make virtual versions of stuff. Can you do good in virtual worlds?
Second Chance Trees is a project in partnership with Plant It 2020, a non-profit founded by John Denver in 1992. Their passion is the planting, maintaining and protecting of indigenous species around the world. They set up an island in Second Life where players could buy and subsequently plant virtual versions of endangered rain forest trees.
Each tree cost 300 Linden dollars, which is currently about $1.12 US. When users bought a virtual tree, a real-world tree was planted. Thus far, they've sold 500 trees in Second Life, which gets them 500 real-life trees.
We obviously have a problem here, because my Stacy currency is a measure of helping people, not the environment. But, because it's my currency, I'm going to say that one tree planted or saved equals one Stacy. Thus, Second Chance Trees is currently worth 500 Stacies.
This is a yak.
This is a virtual yak.
Save the Children is a British charity which focuses on providing health care, food, education and safety to the world's poorest children. They devised a clever idea along similar, virtual lines. They launched a yak ranch in Second Life, and invited players to buy a virtual yak. The virtual yaks produced virtual milk, and you could ride the virtual yak with your virtual self. I saw a demo of the yak in action, and the animation on the walking must have been tricky, because it's actually more of a hover yak.
The money they paid, 1000 Linden dollars or about US $3.75, goes to buy actual yaks for actual families who need them. For an impoverished family in Nepal or Mongolia, a yak can make the difference between abject poverty and a sustainable existence.
They sold over 200 yaks, raising 225,000 Linden dollars. That works out to about $800 in US dollars. I wasn't able to figure out how many actual yaks that would buy, but let's assume the money goes to food aid in the developing world. That would earn about 2700 Stacies.
They didn't raise much money, but they did get a lot of real world press. That works because they're early adopters–it's not every future virtual fundraising campaign that will generate that kind of media attention.
Let's change gears for a minute. What about happiness?
As you may know, the king of Bhutan coined the term Gross National Happiness in 1972, and made it a priority for his tiny Buddhist nation.
This is him right here, with his son, the current king:
People take this idea very seriously, as it turns out. There's a body of economic theory dedicated to studying GNH as a new paradigm and a viable alternative to Gross Domestic Product. There was a conference two years ago in scenic Antigonish in Nova Scotia, and this year there's one in Bangkok.
There's no question that being happy feels good, but how much good are we doing by making people happy? And how do we quantify happiness?
Well, we're not sure yet, but people are working on it.
Adrian White, a psychologist at the University of Leicester, created something called The Satisfaction with Life index. It's based on a bunch of sources, but essentially associates happiness with health, wealth and access to basic education, in that order. In her world, Denmark is the happiest country, and Burundi is the least happy. Green and then blue are most happy, orange and then red are least happy:
We also know that happiness has an impact on health. Research has demonstrated that laughter increase blood flow, strengthens the heart, decreases stress, bolsters the immune system and so forth. A good sense of humour helps you live longer. There was a study of 54,000 Norwegians over seven years which categorized participants according to their humor appreciation. If you ranked in the top quarter, you were 35% likelier to be alive at the end of the seven years than if you were a Debbie Downer in the bottom quarter.
Could I help people simply by amusing them? Here's where I've got some data.
I made this goofy little satire site called GetAFirstLife.com. About 600,000 people have visited the site, and they seemed to like it. How much did they like it? I asked around, and it seemed like the site was worth about 15 seconds of laughter, on average, per person. That works out to 2500 hours of laughter.
As a second data point, I wrote this play, called Bolloxed. It played at some Fringe Festivals, and 600 people saw it. It was a comedy, and, again, people seemed to like it. It got good reviews, and people laughed a lot. Why not? It featured a pair of talking testicles:
I'd say people laughed for 15 minutes. That's only 90 hours of laughter. To match my satirical website, I'd have to either be much funnier, or get another 10,000 people to my plays.
But what does the laughter generated by GetaFirstLife.com do to our chart? It's impossible to know. I'm going to go out on a limb, and give myself 500 Stacies:
Nothing But Nets
This is a mosquito net. In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria is a top-five cause of death. It kills one child under five every thirty seconds.
In 2006, Rick Reilly, an award-winning writer for Sports Illustrated, wrote a column called "Nothing But Nets". He'd recently learned about the way malaria ravages Africa, and for the first time in 21 years, asked his readers to do something. He implored them send 10 bucks to the UN Foundation, so that they could buy a net like this for an African family.
He launched a meme. That initial column raised $1.4 million. As soon as they could, the UN Foundation launched NothingButNets.net, partnering with folks like Sports Illustrated and the NBA. The real partners, though, were the thousands and thousands of people who used the site to launch their micro-campaigns among their friends and family.
This site is typical of the sort of big charity run and walk sites–it's kind of a Pyramid Scheme of Good. The site is a tool that enables others to do good.
Thus far, they've raised over $8 million from donors, enough to buy over 825,000 nets. Each net protects a family for four years, reducing transmission of malaria by up to 90%. By my estimate, those nets have easily saved 50,000 lives, and probably more. How many Stacies for a human life? I'm going with 50,000 each, so that works out to 2.5 billion Stacies:
This is Tom Williams, in front of our nation's seat of government:
Tom started his career in technology rather auspiciously. At 15, he was Apple's youngest employee. He went on to be a VC fund manager. That life motivated him to change gears and start GiveMeaning.
Launched in December, 2004, GiveMeaning is another of these Pyramid Schemes of Good. It's a project-based fundraising site with lots of Web 2.0 bells and whistles. The projects can be about anything, though most of them are concerned with international development and 'thons'–walkathons, marathons, bike-athons. My friend Michelle used the site to raise a thousand dollars to dig a well for a village in Liberia.
One interesting social aspect of the site is that before you can get your project approved for fundraising, you need to get a hundred 'votes' for the project. It's like trying to get your project Dugg. That consensus of approval is a filter mechanism, and makes it much easier for project leaders to raise money.
So what if I built GiveMeaning? Again, it's off the charts. They have 1200 active projects, and hundreds completed. A typical project's goal is to raise about $5000, usually from 20 to 40 donors.
The charts kind of broken by now, but you get the idea.
So what have we learned? The best way to help people is to build an infrastructure that enables a kind of Pyramid Scheme of Good. If, like me, you're not smart or lucky enough to be able to do that, then all things considered, just earn more money, or spend less, and donate the difference.
Now's the time when I unveil my project. My kick-ass killer app. The awesome user-generated content, ad-supported, Facebook-enabled, mobile-aware, Ajax-powered thingy. The thing that'll cure AIDS or give sight back to the blind or whatever, all stored remotely on Amazon S3.
And here it is!
Blank screen.
I've got nothing. All I have is this thought experiment and your attention.
When Chris invited me to speak, I asked him what he wanted me to talk about. He asked, "what have you always wanted to bring to Gnomedex?"
I thought about it, and, you know, I could have done a talk about marketing or social media or whatever. But then I thought about these other things, about the telegram and the tombstone and about Stacy.
And I thought that the people in this room are influential and smart and powerful. While I know a bunch of people in the room have done and keep doing amazing things that help millions of people. And trees. and rocks, whatever. But they need to keep doing them.
And those who aren't, like me, we maybe need to think about starting to do them. I'd like to invent Nabuur or GiveMeaning or this or this or this, but I probably won't. One of you might, though.
Because if you go invent something brilliant, that helps millions of people. Or you. Or you. Well, not you. Sorry.
If you do that, and I pushed you 1% toward that tipping point, where you invented that thing. Well, 1% of millions of people is a lot of Stacies.
In the meantime, I'm going to try to volunteer more. Give more money to charities I believe in. Maybe give this talk to some other smart people if they'll let me.
Remember the gravestone? Well, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil at the age of 96, I hope that future generations will echo some advice that I heard from a Canadian philanthropist named Joel Soloman. He said "Be the best ancestor you can be."
So, if I work at it, maybe this will become my epitaph:
Thanks for listening.
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Andrew Ferguson from GoldenGod.net, Carina C. Zona, Hughes Leglise-Bataille, Fungus Guy, Kris Krug, Steve Bridger, Nancy Scola, Virtual Bailey, allison, Werner Jankowsky, The Center for International Education at WIS, cie-wis.org, François Proulx, Tomas Krag, Robin Taylor, Tom Williams, Ryan Jesena, Keith, Michael Lehet, Scott Foy, Gregor, Wikipedia, Q-Drum
UPDATE: I talked to a couple of people about fundraising in Second Life, including John Anthony Hartman and Beth Goza. They both explained that the poster child for non-profits in Second Life is the Relay for Life, which raised $41,000! That's obviously orders of magnitude greater than the projects I profiled, and I should have mentioned it. I admittedly didn't do much research on Second Life projects, as I already knew about these two interesting ones.
I asked why this project had been so remarkably successful. I guess it's been running for three years, and has extremely high visibility. Beth also postulated that the cause really resonates with Second Life users (educated, in their twenties and thirties, reasonably even gender split, and so forth).
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Very nice, DB. I'm happy I know you.
brilliant ideas and execution db. awesome. :)
Pete Quily
Awesome Post Darren.
Looking forward to seeing the video. We should all try to be better ancestors. It looks a lot better on the gravestone than
"he had a bigger SUV/House/TV than his neighbour"
I loved this post. It made me feel like doing something good for somebody today.
(And I will, as soon as I finish this game of Scrabble on Facebook.)
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Stacy was at the post when I walked past yesterday.
I think I'll buy her a hotdog next time I see her…
Maybe the odd person should buy Stacy a salad; that many hotdogs can't be good for you.
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Nice work, Darren!
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I like the Stacy currency and the ancestry reference. Blog fodder and useful classroom discussion topics. Thanks and Great job Darren.
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Great job on the presentation. We are processing video of the interview we did with you and will let you know when it is up.
Thanks again for adding to the conversation about how to do good with all these tools and technology.
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Great stuff! Cheers!
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Excellent 1100 stacies presentation at Third Tuesday Toronto tonight. You provided inspiring, yet tangible ideas. I hope that others who saw your presentation will be motivated to turn their ideas into actions. Hopefully we'll all become stacy millionaires.
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Toronto 2011: Day 6 Recap
Today was largely devoted to writing, as opposed to galavanting.
I did, however, get out for the early afternoon press screening of Moneyball, which certainly lived up to the hype that I've been hearing around town all week, and the star of which -- namely, Brad Pitt -- I wrote about later in the day.
This evening, I ventured out to the rooftop of The Spoke Club for Paramount's party celebrating its Sundance acquisition/TIFF film Like Crazy (pictured). I chatted for a bit with Jonathan Schwartz, the lawyer-turned-producer who helped to guide this film to fruition, and its male lead, Anton Yelchin; his co-star Felicity Jones, meanwhile, huddled with some friends by a heat lamp on the other side of the windy deck. Studio folks couldn't be happier with the response that Like Crazy has generated in Toronto, and have also enjoyed seeing the recently released poster for Young Adult (which we premiered on this blog), their other big awards contender, hanging in a main hallway of the packed TIFF Bell Lightbox for all festivalgoers and journalists to see.
Finally, I made my way over to Roy Thomson Hall for the gala screening of Butter, a film that premiered at Telluride two weeks ago when I was there, but that I was unable to catch at the time. The film is quite funny, at times, and deserves to be seen -- but by no means will it be a Little Miss Sunshine (2006) type of awards contender, as some had insinuated it might be when it was first seen. (To be honest, the funniest part of the night was the statement issued by distributor Harvey Weinstein and read to the audience by actress Olivia Wilde right before the lights went down.)
Speaking of Wilde, I'll be sitting down with the actress tomorrow morning for an interview, so I better run now and prepare! 'Til next time...
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Balaclava.Q Feature
An International visual art project, presenting a Queer aesthetic
My practice is made up of a combination of disciplines that include: textiles, in the form of woven tapestry, collage, printmaking and a return to object making. References or suggestions to the body are evident in the way I form my work, be it object based, two-dimensional or somewhere in between. Recurring themes of self, identity, sexuality and the body are common in my work where I merge the various disciplines I employ to explore the human form and condition.
For Balaclava.Q, I am presenting a series of works made in 2010, under the umbrella of "ALTERED STATE". This set of works documents a period where my relationship with my work changed and marked a shift in seeing and creating, constructing a new sub-language within my more recognised body dialogues, exploring parallels within the self; altering and shape-shifting into these meta-figurative beings. I appear in each of the works under a new guise, taking advantage of this manner of 'appropriation' and 'alteration' as my way of entering the work, placing my being into the picture.
"ALTERED STATE" questions the origin of identity, authorship and originality, and their relevance to making art today. A number of pieces include homages to artists and their works. These images have been constant inspirations and influences throughout my career, and in essence, I have turned the table to physically exploit them as my own. There is a nod to the original, bearing my own twist in varying forms of erasure.
In my most current work, my interest in combining sculpture/object-making and the textile medium as a form of exploring these recurring themes, uses the practicalities and traditional methods to discern a metaphor within the human form. Works exploit the male body in two presentations: the 'physical and immediate', and 'the organic and abstracted'. Both comment on the complex nature of the self, forming systems that communicate as metaphors representing the body through: 'thread as the thought', 'warp as the skeleton', 'weft as flesh or skin', and 'weave' as the soul. These 'gestures' take on their own symbolism and appearance, but are implicit presences, traces or imprints of identity and self.
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Here's another thing.
Since it was launched, people have been touting Creative Commons as a great idea. And it is, frankly. There are a lot of creators out there who do want to share their work in a spirit that focuses on attribution and perpetuating the work (because the more a work is distributed the more it will live on, one way or another). And — well, I don't need to promote CC or point out how it's been used by various publishers and self-publishers.
But just one thing: please, before you decide to use a CC licence for your work, make sure it means what you think it means.
Publishers may choose the non-commercial use version of the CC licence, thinking that by doing so they have prevented anybody from profiting in any way from the use of their work. When you read the bright, clear language on the allegedly "human-readable summary" page for the attribution-noncommercial-noderivs (unported) CC licence, you see this:
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
That's great. However, you might not realize that this does not guarantee that the CC licence prohibits any commercial use.
Why? Because the CC licence makes a point of stating that, notwithstanding the rest of its provisions, there is no derogation from the user's fair dealing or fair use rights. If you read a little further down on the human-readable summary page, you'll also see this:
Your fair dealing and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
(If you're reading a US-ported version, it will say "fair use".)
And if you click through to read the actual licence text (which, by the way, was written by a human, too), you'll see (unported version again):
Nothing in this License is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any uses free from copyright or rights arising from limitations or exceptions that are provided for in connection with the copyright protection under copyright law or other applicable laws.
The fact is that while much of fair dealing or fair use is non-commercial in nature, some uses of copyrighted works may be fair and have a commercial aspect at the same time. If I do research in order to provide a service to clients who pay me for my work, depending on my activity I may be dealing fairly with the research materials I use, but there is still a commercial aspect to my use.
Let's take the example of the previous post: the situation where the publisher doesn't want somebody making money by teaching classes from patterns that are distributed free of charge, even if the teacher directs the students to get their own copies. Clearly, there is some kind of commercial use going on; the teacher (who probably has her own copy) is reading the pattern, and helping her students knit the pattern from their own copies — for a fee. The exam question: would a CC non-commercial licence suit the publisher's requirements, and why or why not? Would your answer change if the teacher did hand out copies of the pattern, otherwise in accordance with the attribution and non-derivation requirements? Would your answer change again if it was not a teacher, but a retailer who displayed a knit sample next to a pile of yarn for sale, and handed out cards with the pattern's URL (not the pattern)?
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Internet addiction
According to The Office for National Statistics (ONS), in 2010 a staggering 30.1 million adults in the UK (60 per cent) accessed the Internet almost every day. Continuing advances in technology now mean that more people than ever before are able use the Internet extensively for both work and social purposes, and research and communication which previously would have been time consuming now takes just a matter of minutes.
Popularity of the Internet
The use of social networking sites (Facebook, Myspace, Friends Reunited, Match etc.) is becoming increasingly popular, with 43 per cent of Internet users posting messages to social networking sites, chat sites and blogs in 2010. This activity has proven to be most common among Internet users aged between 16 and 24, of whom 75 per cent posted messages and 50 per cent uploaded self created content in 2010. Though social networking is an activity heavily associated with younger generations, in 2010 31 per cent of Internet users aged between 45 and 54 used the Internet to post messages.
Whilst it is a positive step that we can now talk, search, shop, play, find love and experience all of the other far reaching benefits of the Internet, as with everything in life, there can't be a positive without a negative. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is the term used to describe excessive computer use which begins to interfere with daily life. As it stands, IAD is not officially recognised as a clinical disorder, though an increasing body of research and evidence is establishing internet addiction as a public health concern, with many leading health experts now advising it be officially recognised as a clinical disorder.
The condition exists in many subtypes, all of which are essentially characterised by excessive, overwhelming or inappropriate use of online activities, which if done in person would usually be considered negative. For example, compulsive gambling, shopping, pornography use or gaming.
Types of addiction
Internet addiction disorder covers a variety of compulsive Internet activities including the following:
Cybersex and pornography
Though the Internet is often a great way of escaping reality, spending excessive amounts of time on the Internet engaging in cybersex, viewing pornography, spending time in adult chat rooms or carrying out relationships in online fantasy worlds can begin to have negative repercussions on an individuals real life relationships.
On the World Wide Web we are able to change our identity, remain anonymous and engage in fantasies all from the privacy of our own homes. Whilst this is fine in moderation, compulsively participating in any of these activities can lead to individuals neglecting their real life relationships, career and emotional well-being.
The Internet is a great way to meet and interact with new people and may even lead to the development of a romantic relationship. However, online relationships are often far more intense than those in reality and there is opportunity to live out our ultimate fantasies. A huge problem with online relationships is that many people online lie about their sex, age, appearance, relationship status and job, meaning that when online friends meet in real-life, unfortunately they may not live up to one another's online persona resulting in significant emotional distress.
Online gambling
According to the Gambling Commission there are an estimated 236,000 to 378,000 problem gamblers in Britain. Whilst problem gambling has been an issue for a number of years now and there are many associations and support groups offering help and advice, the ease and availability of gambling online has made it more accessible than ever. In addition, recovering gambling addicts may also find it far more difficult not to relapse with the temptation of 24 hour online casinos which are open to anyone of any age. In addition, the financial problems brought on by online gambling can also result in stress, anxiety and depression.
Gaming addiction
Many individuals find enjoyment in playing online role playing games in their leisure time, and not everyone who does this is an addict. The vast majority of online gamers are able to strike a balance between gaming, work, friends and family, but unfortunately for some the compulsion to play online games becomes uncontrollable meaning that other areas of real life are neglected.
Spending addiction
Online shopping or auction shopping can be just as financially detrimental as online gambling if a habit gets out of control. Shopping addicts have a tendency to purchase things they don't really need and can't really afford but they do so in order to experience the temporary high of placing a winning bid or owning something new.
Internet addiction symptoms
Each and every one of us will use the Internet in our own way for different purposes and for varying amounts of time. Some individuals who use the Internet for work purposes may choose not to dedicate much of their leisure time to web browsing. Others will use occasionally, for instance for a once weekly food shop, others will use weekly perhaps for reading their favourite online paper or blog, and others will use social networking sights daily for keeping in touch with friends and family.
Internet usage only becomes a problems when it begins to take up too much of your time, to the point where you start to neglect whats going on in real-life.
There are various symptoms of Internet addiction, and each individual is likely to experience a different set. However, below are some key indicators to be aware of:
- Losing track of time - Many Internet addicts find that they lose themselves when they are online and as a result consistently spend longer online than initially intended.
- Social isolation - Cracks in your real-life relationships may indicate that you are spending so much time focussing on Internet relationships and activities that you are neglecting the current real-life relationships you have with family and friends. Some individuals may also find that they feel their online friends 'understand' them in a way that no one in real-life can.
- Temporary high - As with any addiction, individuals keep returning for their next 'fix' because it gives them the feeling of euphoria and excitement. If you tend to rely heavily on the Internet for stress relief purposes as a pick-me-up or for sexual gratification then it could be a sign of a deeper underlying issue.
- Feelings of guilt and defensiveness - If you are feeling guilty and constantly trying to justify the amount of time spent on the Internet, or if you are lying about or trying to hide what you do online then this could be an indicator of Internet addiction.
- Physical symptoms - Aside from the emotional aspects, excessive computer addiction also causes some physical side effects and discomfort including strained vision, back ache, neck ache, headaches, sleep difficulties, carpal tunnel syndrome and weight gain or loss.
Internet addiction causes
As mentioned throughout this fact-sheet, escapism is a factor which draws many people to the Internet. Anyone wanting to relieve the stresses, strains and issues which are present in their everyday life can use the Internet as an outlet for these negative feelings as it can provide temporary comfort, company, and entertainment.
Certain individuals may find themselves at a greater risk of becoming addicted to the Internet, for example those who engage in little social activity may try to build new relationships and relate to others by using chat rooms etc. Below are additional factors which may increase a persons risk of developing an Internet addiction:
- Other Addictions - Individuals who are addicted to gambling and sex for instance (or recovering) may turn to the Internet to fulfil their needs.
- Depression - Depression can lead to Individuals turning to the Internet to escape their negative feelings.
- Anxiety - People suffering from anxiety may feel drawn to the Internet as it is a way of distracting themselves from any fears and worries they may have.
- Social mobility - If a person suddenly finds themselves less active than they used to be (for instance recovering from a serious illness) and it is difficult to leave the house or meet up with family and friends then they may go online to seek additional social interaction.
Internet addiction help
There are many addiction services and avenues of treatments available to help individuals back on the road to good health, one of which is counselling.
The ultimate goal of counselling is to help individuals either reduce or stop their addiction all together, depending on their specific needs and goals. Though each counsellor will have their own unique way of working, sessions may involve exploring different ways of dealing with certain urges and triggers and exploring the origins of the problem and the underlying reason for your addiction. A counsellor may also use a technique known as cognitive-behavioural therapy, which is a way of changing an individuals thoughts and behaviours surrounding a certain act or issue.
Counselling is a safe and confidential way of exploring your addiction and the affect it is having on your well-being and fulfilment. A counsellor will work with you to help you make sense of your circumstances, to identify your choices for change and to offer support throughout the entire process.
What should I be looking for in a counsellor or psychotherapist?
Whilst there are currently no official rules and regulations in position to stipulate what level of training and experience a counsellor dealing with Internet addiction needs, we do recommend that you check your therapist is experienced in this area.
An accredited course, qualification or workshop undertaken as part of continuing professional development, will also provide further assurance that your counsellor has developed the necessary skills.
In regards to psychological treatment, as with other addictions, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is considered a useful tool to break the habit of addiction.
Further help
- How to stay safe online - Counselling Directory
- Help Guide - Internet and Computer Addiction
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On 17 May Embassador Ebergard Heiken, head of the OSCE office in Minsk, paid a visit to the political prisoner Prof. Iury Bandazheuski
According to an OSCE office representative, this visit is part of Ebergard Heiken's meeting with other political prisoners (including earlier visits to Aliaxandr Vasilieu and Mikhail Marynich).
Ambassador Heiken visited Prof. Bandazheuski in his new place of settlement, the agricultural company Belitsa-agra, Lida District, where he was taken several days ago.
Today the former rector of Homel Medical University, the world famous scholar Iury Bandazheuski will start working as a mechanic on a farm. In the previous place of settlement in Peskautsy, he worked as a night guard.
The professor's wife Halina said in an interview with Radio Liberty that she was worried over the working conditions on the farm. "Ammonia and chlorine-based substances are everywhere there, a person with an ulcer cannot work there, or his health will get worse. They could not find a better job for him than this one. And they have a district clinic there. Shortly, this is humiliating", says the professor's wife.
Bandazheuski's professor lives in a village house that has been uninhabited for almost seven years now.
As regards the expected amnesty, this question is still in the air. Halina Bandazheuskaia does not really believe the promises of earlier release. "It is all lies. Our law enforcement agencies can hardly be believed at all. The laws they make are used in whatever way suits them best", says Halina.


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Seek repentance for homosexuality, other sins - church leaders
Alessandro Boyd, Gleaner Writer
A number of local church leaders are stating firmly that while they have no problem with persons who commit sinful acts, the acts themselves cannot be accepted and repentance should be sought.
Homosexuality, they say, is one such act.
"It's a very sensitive and explosive issue because as a nation, we have not come around to fully embracing the gay rights movement. We accept them as individuals, but we still reject the practices in which they are engaged as it is something that they should seek repentance for," Reverend Dr Dennis Mckoy of the Harbour View Church of God told The Gleaner yesterday.
"Just like adultery, fornication, stealing, or lying, people should acknowledge that it is something wrong. We do not regard it as something that is acceptable in the sight of God. It is something that we need repentance and atonement for," he added.
He went on to state that he believed homosexuality was not a genetically determined behaviour, but instead, a learned behaviour that could be changed.
Acknowledge wrongdoings
"All of us are guilty of wrongdoings, but what we need to do is acknowledge it for reparation as we totally reject the practice, but we do not reject the individual. We are not into committing foul acts such as burning them as that is not what God has called us for, but the individual must acknowledge his or her wrongdoing."
Andrea Meikle, wife of pastor Hugh Meikle from The Potter's House United Pentecostal Church of God Jamaica, shared views similar to those of McKoy.
"I really believe that we all should be treated fairly; however, there are some who would think otherwise. We are all humans, and many of us act contrary. However, as a church, we are here to keep those in the Kingdom of God. It doesn't matter your lifestyle, you could be a gunman or a lesbian, the Church is the place for you," she said.
"The fact of the matter is that I think the Church needs to cater to the spiritual needs of those persons who are living these types of lifestyles. If God can touch that inner part, then I believe there can be change. We need to treat them fairly as the Lord encourages us to love, a love which is broad and covers all," Meikle continued.


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I've been hearing from LOTS of sensitive, spiritual entrepreneurs lately that they've been rocked to their core recently, shifting and healing HUGE issues that have been holding them back their entire lives.
Which is exactly what everyone said 2015 would be all about!
We are making HUGE shifts on the planet and making room for new ways of being, including what I talk about below…
Can you relate to this?
Are you feeling these things as well?
What is True Financial Security?
So many of my clients come to me thinking that if they could just learn to make a certain amount of money a month (say $15,000), then everything would be great in their life and they would finally feel secure!
Then they make that amount and realize they need just a little more to alleviate their anxiety, or they start worrying about how they're going to make that amount consistently.
Or they think if they can just figure out the exact steps to making that money every month then they'll be fine.
And I can totally relate because I used to feel that way, too! (Like attracts like, right?)
But the truth is, security and peace comes from your connection with God or Source, not a number in your bank account!
Money simply amplifies the person you already are, including those dysfunctional behaviors that are already within you.
This is why lottery winners are always broke two years later! Because they haven't taken the time to heal the money issues within.
This also explains why millionaires still worry about money, when they haven't resolved the money issues they carry inside of them.
A sense of peace and security does NOT come from a number in your bank account.
(Hey, there's not even real money in there! It's a number on a computer screen!).
True security comes from being able to let go of control, truly SURRENDER, and trust and KNOW that God/Source/Universe has your back.
It means knowing that:
• There is ALWAYS a bigger plan at work, even if you can't see it or understand it
• Money can come to you in INFINITE ways, at any time
• Ultimately, money comes from Source (through people)
• Bills have no power over you, unless you give them that power!
And it especially means knowing these things when bills are due and you have no freaking CLUE how you're going to pay them!
Creating Financial Miracles…
In my own journey, I have truly become a master at pulling financial miracles out of my you-know-what at the last possible moment!
And I can tell you from those experiences that money comes from Source, because I could not have predicted those sources of income in my wildest dreams!
In each case, I've had to truly surrender to God and allow Him to provide for me.
However, this is where most of us get stuck in manifesting money…
We think we must know EXACTLY how the money is going to come to us, and by when.
But if we knew all that, then we wouldn't need God!
If you're trying to control the whole process and coming from your head, then you've left Source completely out of the equation.
This journey requires coming from FAITH, rather than fear.
It requires being open to miracles and knowing that money and opportunities are ALL around you and can come to you at ANY time.
It means trusting that there is a bigger power out there who is looking out for you, every step of the way (yes, even when bills are due and the LAST thing you want to do is surrender!).
Are You Coming from Faith or Fear?
So the next time you're thinking about money, ask yourself if you're coming from FAITH or fear.
Are you worried about where the money's going to come from, or trusting that there is MORE than enough out there for you and that all you have to do is let it in?
Are you trying to figure out logically from your head how you're going to make everything work, or surrendering to your heart and knowing that ultimately all answers come from your connection to God within?
I believe that these are the shifts we are all being asked to make during 2015 :)
If you're feeling a lot of upheaval in your life or wondering WHEN things are finally going to work out for you, it's possible that you are being called to make these shifts this year as well!
Remember, when things are not working it's just a sign that it's time for you to uplevel and step into something BIGGER!
(Yes, even when it's scary…!)
It's time for you to let go of the smaller version of yourself and expand into something much more powerful!
That's where all the good stuff is ;)
If you've been feeling all of these shifts taking place around you this year and are ready to step into something more, I'd love to hear from you!
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Goldman Sachs Technology Risk is leading threat, risk analysis and data science initiatives that are helping to protect the firm and our clients from information and cyber security risks. Our team equips the firm with the knowledge and tools to measure risk, identify and mitigate threats and protect against unauthorized disclosure of confidential information for our clients, internal business functions, and our extended supply chain.
SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM (SIRT) supports and enables a comprehensive technical Cyber Defense program for the firm while increasing awareness of current and potential Cyber Threats. Works across the organization to operate efficiently, provide technical investigative support and mitigate threats to the firm.
As a SECURITY ANALYST in Technology Risk, you will be responsible for developing innovative ways to detect threats and anomalous behavior leveraging host, network, data logs, and detection tools. You will work at the forefront of designing innovative threat management solutions.
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- Develop innovative ways to detect threats and anomalous behavior leveraging host, network, and data logs and detection tools
- Work at the forefront of designing an innovative threat and security incident management solution
- Investigate, correlate, and assess the impact of hits on indicators of compromise (IOCs)
- Decipher attack motivations and techniques by analyzing network packet captures and log data
- Interpret static and dynamic software/malware analysis to determine exactly what cyber-attackers were trying to achieve
- Enable vendors to analyze cyber-attack artifacts by collecting, preserving, and filtering forensic evidence
- Enhance Goldman Sachs's global network security by engaging with forensic, sensory tool, or Security Operations Center (SOC) vendors
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- Collaborate with a global team to continually operate and improve a world-class cyber program by driving the uplift of sensory tools, detection tuning, and access to data sources to increase detection effectiveness
- Convey complicated technical analysis to senior management via investigation synopses, graphical depictions of attacks, and comprehensive presentations
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I prefer country style furniture. And while "country style" is to often confused with "folk" and seems to be thought of as a bit crude. That is not true. Generally it lacks the fancy embelishments of the upscale"city style", but there is no less the quality of craftsmanship. Good country furniture is not commomly found.
This clock came about sorta by accident. Four years ago one of my customers had a number of clock to be serviced so they could be distributed to family members. Among the clocks in the house was an unusual Banjo clock. It was a style I had not seem before(the last pic). I became enamoured with the clock because of its design. I knew that I would not be able to own the original(the $,and it was staying in the family). When I got back to the shop I made a sketch hoping someday to reproduce it.
Fast forward a year or so, a friend of mine who repairs clocks had a project banjo clock,all the major pieces seemed to be there, and the price was right.So I bought it,not really paying any attention to any details.
Another year went by and another clock person contacted me looking for a perion banjo clock movement. I remembered the project clock and told him I would check it out. The movement in the project clock was incorrect for the case,but as it has turned out it has all the characteristics of being made by a very obscure NH clockmaker from around 1830. At that time it occured to me that a NH movement in a reproduction NH case would be quite interesting.The customer's clock it seems probably was also made in NH.
So,based on a couple of photos and some sketches I decided to reproduce the clock. Couple of weeks after the clock was finished my customer called and asked me to pick up a clock for service. Wouldn't you know,it was the original. I showed the customer pictures of the reproduction and said that when the original came in for service it was sure to be photographed and measured. Customer's reply,"well,of course it is".
Thanks for looking,as always comments welcomed.
-- "certified sawdust maker"
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#1 posted 01-22-2012 07:36 PM
That is a unique clock Tom ,you've done a amazing job of reproducing a wonderful clock,
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#2 posted 01-22-2012 07:37 PM
Great story, and great clock.
#3 posted 01-22-2012 09:02 PM
Fabulous job Tom, well done :0
-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got
#4 posted 01-22-2012 10:26 PM
Great looking clock
-- Don, Royersford, PA
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That was great Pete! I still wonder if America will not somehow be part of the "Revived Roman Empire." America has long ceased being a Constitutional Republic. I think we have ceased being a democracy and are now under the control of the New World Order elites. As you know our military is no toothless tiger, who ever gets complete control of our armed forces will have some serious power. At least for now and things are moving along rapidly towards things coming to a head real soon. I know military guys that would not go along with going against their own people. But if the Rapture happens guys like you won't be here. So who knows, I hope we get to see it play out from the other side.
Good job Pete.
now, i just wish i could capture the little smirk on oliver's face so you could all see it. He's such a gem.
makes me question why God would give me children now... but i do thank Him every day.
Pete, your SMP today was spot on. In the world today, I see many who take these pictures that are concerned with the doctoring up the picture to hide the imperfections (hide the truth). They prefer to submit a picture at first glance which looks normal, but upon further study one can see the changes that they have made. Please continue to share those revealing, undoctored pictures. (Fasten that " belt of truth") One more observation. Some also take pictures with alot of clutter in the background. In today's informational age, we are inundated with garbage. We need gentlemen like yourself to sift through the trash and display the truth for what it is.


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Talk about vintage footwear—an international team of archeologists has discovered the world's oldest leather shoe. One thousand years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the 5,500-year-old shoe was perfectly preserved by the cool, dry conditions in the sheep dung-lined cave in Armenia where it was found.
"We thought initially that the shoe and other objects were about 600-700 years old because they were in such good condition," Ron Pinhasi said in a prepared statement. He is the lead author on a paper describing the relic, published June 9 in PLoS One . It was only when two tiny strips of leather and some straw from inside the shoe were carbon-dated by independent labs in California and Oxford, UK, that the team realized how old the shoe really was—a few hundred years older than those worn by Ötzi, the Iceman.
The team had been excavating the Armenian cave for a year when Diana Zardaryan, a PhD student at the Institute of Archaeology and Enthography in Armenia, spotted the shoe in a pit alongside a broken pot and some sheep horns. "I was amazed to find that even the shoe-laces were preserved," she recalled, in a prepared statement.
The lace-up bootie is remarkably similar to "pampooties," moccasins worn on the Aran Islands (off the west coast of Ireland) up to the 1950s. "In fact, enormous similarities exist between the manufacturing technique and style of this shoe and those found across Europe at later periods, suggesting that this type of shoe was worn for thousands of years across a large and environmentally diverse region," Pinhasi said in a prepared statement.
The team was unable to isolate ancient DNA to determine the origin of the leather, but microscopic analysis of the hide's pores suggests the size-seven shoe was probably made from a cow. Its maker used a vegetable oil-based product to tan the leather, Pinhasi said.
While Ötzi wore the oldest known leather shoes prior to this discovery (his were grassy socks held together with straps of bear and deer leather), 7,420-year-old sandals made from plant material were previously found in the Arnold Research Cave in Missouri. The newly discovered lace-up moccasin is thought to narrowly pre-date the first known slip-on shoe, which is 4,680 radiocarbon years old.
Also preserved in the cool, dry cave, were containers of barley and apricots. "This cave has been exciting form the beginning," said Pinhasi. "We keep finding these exciting objects. It's a privilege to have a cave with such amazing preservation."


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Ricky Tarrant scored 33 points and Tulane exploded in the second half for 63 points to beat SMU 80-74 Wednesday night in Conference USA action.
Tarrant broke the school record for points by a freshman, set by Anthony Reed with 32 in 1989. Tulane's 63 points in the second half was more than the Green Wave's total in nine games this season.
Trailing 25-17 at halftime and 28-19 early in the second half, Tulane (14-6, 2-4) outscored SMU 61-46 over the final 18:37. Tarrant scored 26 of his points in the second half, including his five 3-pointers. He was 9 for 17 from the floor, 5 of 11 from the arc and 10 for 12 at the foul line.
SMU (10-10, 2-4) got 26 points from Robert Nyakundi, 16 from London Giles.
For Tulane, Jordan Callahan scored 16 points, Josh Davis 14. Tulane shot 18 for 28 after intermission.