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Lions Club's Southeast Texas Strides set for Saturday, Nov. 9
"The steps that we take today help others to take steps tomorrow," said Trish Wilson, development director at Texas Lions Camp.
The Kerrville summer camping facility serves Texas children who have physical disabilities, Down syndrome and diabetes.
The camp has two one-week summer sessions designated for children ages 8-15 with Type 1 diabetes, an insulin deficiency disease that affects about 215,000 Texans below the age of 20, according to Centers for Disease Control statistics.
Children from Southeast Texas and all over Texas are able to attend the camp at no charge, thanks in part to fundraisers like Southeast Texas Strides, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ty Terrell Track on Jimmy Simmons Boulevard next to the Shelia Umphrey Recreational Sports Center on the Lamar University campus.
On-site registration for the second annual Lions Walk for Diabetes Awareness or Southeast Texas Strides begins at 8 a.m. with a donation of $20 per adult and $10 for walkers under 15; a Strides T-shirt is included for each participant with his or her donation. Total distance covered will be five kilometer, and health screenings and information from local companies will be available to the public free-of-charge in the infield of the track. Walgreens pharmacy will be performing blood-sugar testing and blood-pressure checks, and other entities will have booths where diabetes information will be available, said Robert Blackburn, co-chair of the event. There will also be a live DJ on hand to provide music for the walk.
"The first lap we make is in silence because diabetes is a silent killer," Blackburn said. "After that first lap, we crank up the music and start having fun."
"This event is something that is simple; it's easy, … it's life changing … for those you're raising money for — those at Texas Lions Camp," Wilson added, adding that the event will change the lives of Strides participants as well, knowing that they are making a difference in children's lives.
Texas Lions Camp provides diabetes-affected children with fun educational, social and physical activities during their stay in the beautiful Texas Hill Country in Kerrville, Texas, one hour northwest of San Antonio.
At the camp, the medical staff, which stays with the children in their cabins, performs blood glucose checks throughout each day and educates the children on diabetes and how to live with the disease, Wilson said. There is also a dietician on staff to teach the children about healthy eating habits and how to limit their diet to diabetes-friendly meals.
"It starts to teach them how to take care of their daily living and teaches them life skills to be able to maintain and control their diabetes as much as possible," she said. "When they go home they're able to help their parents and family understand, 'this is something I can live with, but we have to work together.'"
But the camp leaves plenty of time for fun and exciting activities as well.
"We have over 500 acres of sheer heaven for kids," Wilson said. "They can horseback ride, swim, paddleboat, kayak and canoe. We have a climbing wall and upper elements that they can walk 30 feet up in the air on telephone poles. It's an adventure waiting to happen."
In addition, Wilson said the camp offers recreation that enhances the children's appreciation of the arts — offering arts and crafts, music, and drama activities.
Probably one of the most beneficial aspects of the camp, however, is the opportunity for children with Type 1 diabetes to meet others who have the disease.
"They feel sometimes like they are the only person that has this disease, and they feel like they are alone … that it's something they just don't know how to deal with," Wilson said. "But when they get to Texas Lions Camp … they realize that there are 200 children from across the state of Texas with the exact same disease right there. They immediately have an army of friends who know exactly what they are going through."
Strides is an international activity with Lions Clubs throughout the world. There are 1.35 million members in 45,000 clubs and geographical areas. The District 2-S1 Lions, which includes Jefferson and Orange counties, make up a total of 16 counties and 17 clubs.
Texas Lions Camp week-long 2014 sessions are July 27 – Aug. 2 and Aug. 3-9. For more information on Texas Lions Camp and how to apply, visit www.lionscamp.com or call (830) 896-8500. For more information on Southeast Texas Strides, call (409) 898-3797 or visit www.setxstrides.wordpress.com or search Southeast Texas Lions Strides Walk for Diabetes Awareness on Facebook. Sponsorships are available. Current sponsors include Walgreens, Baptist Hospital of Southeast Texas, the city of Beaumont and Jefferson County commissioners, among others.
"Strides is building awareness for those that suffer with diabetes," Wilson said. "Whether you have it or not, you know somebody who probably does. Make an effort to make a difference in their life today — and tomorrow. What you do today for someone else changes you forever."


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Web-based information resources
This is the home page for BIT330, "Web-based information resources", taught by Scott Moore at the Ross School of Business in Fall (September—December) 2009. This site has all the information you will need for this class, including assignments and the schedule. I'm not using a forum this year for posting questions — I encourage you to use twitter or email to contact me or (heaven forbid!) talk with me during office hours.
If you're wondering why you might want to take this class, then you should watch this video.
Here is a page that lists the best search tools for business students that we discussed and explored in Fall 2008.
Topics discussed
Web search, Search techniques (1/2), RSS (Intro/Lab), News, Realtime, Research tools, Change notification, Custom search engine, Images, Geography, Videos, Metasearch, Other search, People
Tools of interest
- General — Google, Yahoo
- Blog — GBlog
- News — GNews, SiloBreaker, NewsSift
- Academic — GScholar, Scirus, GBooks, Biznar
- Alerts — GAlerts, WatchThatPage, FeedRinse, Yahoo Pipes, Dapper
- Custom Search — GCustom Search Engine
- Images — GImages, Compfight (for flickr), Exalead Images
- Analysis — GTrends, Alexa
- Video — Bing Videos, YouTube, Hulu, GVideo, VideoSurf
- Metasearch — Info, Kosmix, Search!O
- Social — Digg (news), Delicious (bookmarking)
- People — WhitePages, Pipl
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Announcements (show all)
These are the five most recent announcements. The rest are on the show all page.
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|Project Summary 2009
|I will be posting your course grades sometime late Thursday. I have finished recording your assignment grades on the Web site.
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|Course Grade 2009
|Here are some instructions if you have questions about any grades from this semester.
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|Participation Grades 2009
|Much of what we did in this course revolved around work that we did during class time. This is where we generated new information so that we could learn about these evolving Internet tools. These three grades had three components:
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|Search Engine Analysis Assignment Information
|In this post I provide some feedback based on my grading of this assignment.
|07 Dec 2009 15:31
|Test Results
|Here's information about the test results.
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|Google Image Search Improvements (by ranfan)
|Bing, Microsoft's relatively new search engine released a very nifty feature on their image search today, but Google Image search has also had a few updates over the summer that you might not be aware of.
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|Introducing Billy Chen (by Wdchen)
|Hi Guys! How's it going?
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|Yahoo! Gets Personal (by joshuaaa)
|On September 22, 2009, the new Yahoo! Search was made available for public use. Yahoo!'s brand-new search experience claims to make searching "more personally relevant" by helping users find what is most relevant and important to them (seemingly the general purpose of a search engine). The updated search was created in order to maintain a more consistent front-end as you navigate from Yahoo!'s homepage, to their e-mail client, to their messenger program, and back. In addition, due to the two-in-oneness of Yahoo! and Bing, Yahoo!'s image search technology has also been improved and is nearly identical to that of Bing.
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|Float Through Your Results With Surfity (by joshuaaa)
|Surfity's innovative layout surrounds you with results.

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Passerine birds comprise over half of avian diversity, but have proved difficult to classify. Despite a long history of work on this group, no comprehensive hypothesis of passerine family–level relationships was available until recent analyses of DNA–DNA hybridization data. Unfortunately, given the value of such a hypothesis in comparative studies of passerine ecology and behaviour, the DNA–hybridization results have not been well tested using independent data and analytical approaches. Therefore, we analysed nucleotide sequence variation at the nuclear RAG–1 and c–mos genes from 69 passerine taxa, including representatives of most currently recognized families. In contradiction to previous DNA–hybridization studies, our analyses suggest paraphyly of suboscine passerines because the suboscine New Zealand wren Acanthisitta was found to be sister to all other passerines. Additionally, we reconstructed the parvorder Corvida as a basal paraphyletic grade within the oscine passerines. Finally, we found strong evidence that several family–level taxa are misplaced in the hybridization results, including the Alaudidae, Irenidae, and Melanocharitidae. The hypothesis of relationships we present here suggests that the oscine passerines arose on the Australian continental plate while it was isolated by oceanic barriers and that a major northern radiation of oscines (i.e. the parvorder Passerida) originated subsequent to dispersal from the south.
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A flood watch and a dense fog advisory were issued for today as the front that brought mild temperatures and melting snow could also bring heavy rain to the Chicago area.
The flood watch remains in effect for several counties in the area, including Cook, until this afternoon as the front was expected to bring on-and-off rains, according to the National Weather Service. The heaviest rain was forecast this morning, but some was expected throughout much of the day.
Temperatures were also to stay mild, with highs in the low 50s before dropping Wednesday night. WGN Meteorologist Tom Skilling predicted up to 5 inches of snow and cold temperatures to hit by Valentine's Day on Saturday.
A dense fog advisory was also issued for the morning rush hour as visibility was reduced to 1/4-mile or less across the Chicago area, meteorologists said. Officials advised motorists to slow down and use headlights.
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The songs, albums and recordings that made the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry, in chronological order:
"After You've Gone," Marion Harris (1918)
"Bacon, Beans and Limousines," Will Rogers (Oct. 18, 1931)
"Begin the Beguine," Artie Shaw (1938)
You Are My Sunshine, Jimmie Davis (1940)
D-Day radio broadcast, George Hicks (June 5-6, 1944)
"Just Because," Frank Yankovic & His Yanks (1947)
South Pacific, original cast album (1949)
Descargas: Cuban Jam Session in Miniature, Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente (1957)
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Van Cliburn (April 11, 1958)
President's message relayed from Atlas satellite, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dec. 19, 1958)
A Program of Song, Leontyne Price (1959)
The Shape of Jazz to Come, Ornette Coleman (1959)
"Crossing Chilly Jordan," The Blackwood Brothers (1960)
The Twist, Chubby Checker (1960)
Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's, Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson and others. (1960-62)
"Hoodoo Man Blues," Junior Wells (1965)
Sounds of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel (1966)
Cheap Thrills, Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin (1968)
The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd (1973)
Music Time in Africa, Leo Sarkisian, host (July 29, 1973)
Wild Tchoupitoulas, The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)
Ramones, The Ramones (1976)
Saturday Night Fever, The Bee Gees, et al. (1977)
Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (1979)
The Audience with Betty Carter, Betty Carter (1980)


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THE UNITED STATES is leading a campaign against Middle Eastern and Central Asian terrorism, not unilaterally fighting a few terrorists. Much of the war is a battle for the allegiance of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.
Terrorism, historically, works when it provokes responses that spread sympathy for the terrorists. Osama bin Laden always understood this. Now the Bush administration does, too.
Washington obtained a tepid victory Wednesday when the foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, representing 56 governments, condemned the Sept. 11 terrorists, but not the U.S. response.


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Download the SDS FACULTY RESOURCE GUIDE
This section is designed to assist faculty and staff with providing meaningful educational opportunities for students with disabilities. While federal and state legislation ensure that all qualified persons have equal access to education regardless of the presence of any disabling conditions, access also means providing students with the tools they will need to be successful in higher education.
Accommodations for students with disabilities are designed to, "level the playing field," not provide unfair advantages over other students. Reasonable accommodations may include: use of a note taker, extra time for tests in a private location, permission to tape record lectures, use of an interpreter or captioning, use of adaptive technology and special classroom furniture. Failure to make accommodations for students with disabilities can place the university in violation of statutes resulting in costly penalties.
Process for Provision of Accommodations:
Student registers with the Office of Student Disability Services
Student provides current, medical documentation of the disability
If the documentation is adequate, the accommodations will be approved and a memorandum will be provided for each professor for each semester.
Student is responsible for presenting the memorandum to the professor at the beginning of the semester.
If testing accommodations are provided, the student is responsible for scheduling the test and completing the Test Assistance Request Form in conjunction with the professor.
Accommodations may be requested at any point in the semester.
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It is recommended that instructors include a statement on the syllabus informing students of the available services. For example,
"Students in need of academic accommodations for a disability may consult with the office of Student Disability Services to arrange appropriate accommodations. Students are required to give reasonable notice prior to requesting an accommodaton."
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"The Student Disability Services office has a paid job available for a student in this class to prepare a copy of class notes. Interested students should go to the SDS office – SLC 1203."
It is very important that a note taker be recruited as soon as the course begins so that the accommodation can be provided in a timely manner.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Malaysia's CIMB Group Holdings Bhd on Monday said some magnetic tapes containing back-up customer data were lost during routine operations, adding that there has been no evidence so far that any data has been compromised.
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Steering Clear of a Storm-Damaged Car, The Sequel
The FTC, the nation's consumer protection agency, first warned consumers to be on the lookout for flood-damaged cars in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Almost a year later, news reports indicate that water-damaged cars that endured Hurricane Sandy are being sold by private sellers and showing up on used car lots.
AAA officials say nearly two-thirds of cars damaged in Hurricane Sandy are showing up in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Illinois and Mississippi.
These polished-up cars may look great on the outside, but the damage lurking on the inside from being submerged in corrosive saltwater for days will only lead to problems down the road.
The corrosive and abrasive mixture of water, dirt and sand can work its way into every seam and crevice of a vehicle, and that can cause major damage. Experts say the most vulnerable parts of a car are the engine, transmission and drive train, along with the fuel, brake and power steering systems. Unless dirt and other contaminants are completely removed from these components, they can cause increased wear and breakdowns. Engine computers, sensors and other electronics are susceptible to corrosion.
If you're shopping for a new ride, here's how to spot a storm-damaged vehicle.
- Look for mineral deposits or discoloration on the seats, seatbelts or door panels; droplets of moisture on the inside of the instrument cluster, and warped or misshapen door panels, if they're made of fiberboard; silt or residue under the carpeting, in the wheel well where the spare is stored, or in the dashboard dials; or fogging inside the headlights or taillights.
- Do a smell test. Catch a musty smell or signs of mold or mildew? A heavy aroma of cleaners and disinfectants is a sign that someone's trying to mask a mold or odor problem.
- Get a vehicle history report. The current title is no guarantee that the car is clean. Flooded and salvaged cars can be re-registered in other states with clean titles, and then sold without disclosing the damage. That's called title washing. Your best bet is to use a service that will check the zip code where the car was last registered, and tell you if it was registered in a flooded area. Check a trusted database service that gathers information from state and local authorities, salvage yards and insurance companies for an independent and efficient review of a vehicle's history. For example, the Department of Justice's National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) is an online system that offers accurate information about a vehicle's title, odometer data, and certain damage history. Expect to pay about $10 per report. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) maintains a free database that includes flood damage and other information so you can investigate a car's history by its vehicle identification number (VIN).
Did you know there are different types of titles? Two that you need to know about are a "salvage title" and a "flood title." A "salvage title" means the car was declared a total loss by an insurance company because of a serious accident or some other problems. A "flood title" means the car has damage from sitting in water deep enough to fill the engine compartment. The title status is part of a vehicle history report.
- Call in the pros. Have the car inspected by a mechanic you hire. Have your mechanic inspect the mechanical and electrical components, and systems that contain fluids, for water contamination. If you still want to buy the car, have your mechanic drain flood water from contaminated parts and systems, flush them with clean water or an appropriate solvent, and refill with them fresh fluids. Your mechanic also should inspect, clean, and dry electrical system components and connections. Spending a little time and money at the start can save you a great deal of frustration and money down the road.
- Report fraud. If you suspect a car dealer is committing fraud by knowingly selling a storm-damaged car or a salvaged vehicle as a good-condition used car, contact your auto insurance company, local law enforcement agency, or the NICB at (800) TEL-NICB (835-6422). You'll help someone else avoid a rip-off.
If you have other questions about buying a car, these resources can help.
Valuable information. Thank you.
One of the biggest things to do is inspect the car! The Carfax is often at times a great tool, but sometimes it leaves things out. Make sure you have a quality mechanic look around to protect yourself and your wallet! We have a dealership in Cincinnati, and it's important that customers are educated on the car buying process. A car is your second biggest investment, so make sure it's going to last!
Great info, I know someone who bought a car at a used car dealership, the car was in a flood here in South Beach a few weeks ago, the cleaned it and sold it without stating that is was damaged. we got our money back, now the car is where is belongs
I just bough a 2012 chavie impala and the car had 32000 miles on it; I`ve had it four months and it now has 37000 miles on it, I have fallen on haRD TIMES and I want to turn it in!!! what is the best way to do this.
Hope no one listens that the ftc or the cfpb can help you because I bought a corvette I spent endless hours researching, proved it had been flooded, uncovered a massive multi state crime ring, yet and still, no help


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Upon arrival we were greeted with the last customer's dirty bed linen and rubbish bags by the front door. The hot tub was not working for the duration of the stay (the whole reason we chose this location was for the hot tub) and there was seemingly no effort made to rectify the situation. The heating didn't work for the duration of the stay and there was no hot water for the last 2 days. The TV did not come with a DVD player as advertised, and the freeview didn't work rendering it pointless. There were no instructions on how to use the oven and it was not obvious (it needed to be manually ignited with a lighter). One of the beds had no duvet cover - just a duvet. The sofa was falling apart and the cutlery and crockery was dirty. We never saw any staff on site to help rectify the problems and the helpline number just kept ringing out.
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Lovely large 2 bed lodge, linen was clean and fresh as was the towels on bath robes. Welcome gift was a nice treat also and the hot tube was ready to use. Only down sides were : no hand soap, no tea towels or dish cloths/sponge, no oven gloves or baking trays for oven.
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Nail biting, also known as onychophagia, is a common habit that many people do without even realizing it.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, nail biting typically begins in childhood and can continue through adulthood.
Unconsciously, people start biting their nails while involved in another activity, such as reading, watching television or talking on the phone. The habit is practiced more in times of stress or excitement, or in times of boredom or inactivity.
If you have the habit of nail biting, it is time to stop. The side effects can be more than cosmetic.
At times, nail biting can be a symptom of a bigger issue like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or depression.
Here are the reasons why nail biting is harmful and dangerous to your health.
1. Spreads Germs to Your Mouth
Your hands and nails are loaded with bacteria, fungus, yeast and other harmful germs. When you put your unwashed hands and nails in your mouth, you are just increasing the risk of an infection.
Your nails are an ideal location for bacteria like salmonella and E. coli.
A 2007 study published in Oral Microbiology and Immunology tested 59 people to see whether nail biting had any real effect on transporting bacteria to the mouth.
The results show that Enterobacteriaceae were more prevalent in the oral cavities of children with nail-biting habits (76%) than in children with no oral habit (26.5%).
It can even increase the risk of warts and herpes infection.
2. Stomach Problems
When you bite your nails, harmful microbes are transferred from your nails to your mouth and make their way to your gut.
Once inside the stomach, these microbes can cause gastrointestinal infections that lead to diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Children with a nail biting habit are at a greater risk of digestive and enteric diseases like intestinal worm infections due to their weak immune system.
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Nail biting also increases the risk of a nail infection. As you bite your nails, tiny tears or abrasions occur around the skin near your nails.
Harmful bacteria, yeast and other microorganisms can enter through these tears or abrasions, thus increasing the risk of infection.
The infection can lead to swelling, redness and pus around your nail, which can be difficult to treat if you do not stop nail biting.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, biting your nails can lead to hangnails and make the skin around your nails bleed.
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Apart from making you more susceptible to nail infections, biting your nails can cause severe damage to the nail bed, cuticles as well as the surrounding skin.
A 2011 study published in the Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery reports that nail deformities can be caused by subconscious habits like biting the nail as well as picking objects using the nail.
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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Dec 28th 2007 7:54pm
Filed Under:
copyright, michelangelo, sistine chapel
First we find out that Egypt is trying to abuse the concept of copyright law to add copyrights to the pyramids, and now comes a story from The Register about how things like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are involved in a copyright mess. The article at The Register is a bit confusing, unfortunately, and jumps around to a bunch of different things without ever tying them clearly back together or making a truly coherent point -- but the key point is that the owners of certain artwork, which have long been in the public domain (much of which was created before the concept of copyright had ever been conceived of), are now asserting copyright over any photographs taken of that artwork. On top of that, the owners of such works, including the Sistine Chapel, are licensing out these "rights" over the artwork in exchange for cash to pay for restorations. So, in the case of the Sistine Chapel, the restoration was apparently paid for by the Japanese firm NHK in exchange for "exclusive rights" to the images of the restored Sistine Chapel. Unfortunately, the article doesn't discuss how limited (or broad) the specific rights really are, but it does seem somewhat ridiculous to use copyright in such a manner.
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random cellist, 28 Dec 2007 @ 8:32pmI really hope that this copy writing of hight art within the realm of public domain doesn't bleed into the music scene. I already have to pay close to 70 USD for scores of Ravel's music since France law still holds his music under their copy write laws. This is just outrageous. Selling exclusive rights to art that is centuries old cannot be justified by any monetary value. Not to mention it is probably near impossible to strictly enforce. I hope that the Japanese firm realizes that in the end this transaction amounts to little more than a generous donation.
robbyrubiez, 28 Dec 2007 @ 9:36pmAbsolutely disgusting. Everyone is out to make a buck these days. The apocalypse is near.
Paul`, 30 Dec 2007 @ 2:24am
Re:When has it been any different?
The Cebuano Geek, 28 Dec 2007 @ 9:52pmBad!
Paying for the pestoration work does not mean they can own the copyright!
Anonymous Coward, 28 Dec 2007 @ 9:53pm
Simple argumentIt's a simple argument, really:
Hand over the world's cultural heritage to the greedheads, or else.
Capiche, buddy?
Ramon Casha, 28 Dec 2007 @ 11:01pm
Meanwhile...Iceland is considering a lawsuit for copyright infringement on anyone making unauthorised ice cubes, and Greece is demanding royalties for the use of democracy.
Captain Nemo, 29 Dec 2007 @ 4:59am
Re: Meanwhile...Iceland will make a killing off of iron-deficiency.
C Silva, 30 Dec 2007 @ 2:25pm
Re: Meanwhile...hahahahaha that was a really good one!!
Anonymous Coward, 28 Dec 2007 @ 11:29pmActually, i kind of like the idea with the sistine chapel...While the vatican may not own a "copyright" to the paintings there, they do own exclusive access to it. It is their right to charge people for coming in and taking photos of it, or selling that right to others. Of course they can't prevent anyone from selling copies of existing prints of it. The copyrights will actually be owned by the photographer, of the photograph. Their rights will be to sue anyone who sells copies of those photos, as should be his right. On the other hand, everyone expects the vatican to pay for the restoration out of its own pocket, and be responsible for the upkeep and preservation of it. Why shouldnt they be able to charge to see it?
Anonymous Coward, 28 Dec 2007 @ 11:48pm
Re:are you kidding me?
LBD, 29 Dec 2007 @ 12:01am
Re:That's material possession. It's very different from coppyright. it means "I own X. I do not want people to coppy my coppy of X. It is in my rights to prevent direct copies of the copy I own, though I have no rights over the image it's self, and copies of the copies I allow are quite legal. I may also restrict veiwing of the copy I own. I may or may not own the original"
jen_chan, writer surefirewealth.com, 28 Dec 2007 @ 11:55pm
Taking advantageI was taught in college about the importance of copyright, and the mess of copyright infringement. But now, I think that certain people should not cross the line. It pisses me off how certain people can be so abusive of copyright.
Alfred E. Neuman, 29 Dec 2007 @ 7:50am
Homo Sapien CopyrightWhich African country will claim copyright on homo sapien DNA?
I can imagine the emails from Nigeria.
Along with your new born's birth certificate, the hospital will add to your bill a charge for your new copy. I wonder what sort of DRM Africa will demand?
Pete, 29 Dec 2007 @ 8:12amI have already touch up the photos that I have with Adobe Photoshop. Since I have a finished product now, I will copyright mine first and sue anyone with something that is similar. Going out the door now to a lawyers office. Sistine Chapel don't spend any of that money It's legally mine.
finty, 29 Dec 2007 @ 10:31am
RE: Petehave already touch up the photos that I have with Adobe Photoshop. Since I have a finished product now, I will copyright mine first and sue anyone with something that is similar. Going out the door now to a lawyers office. Sistine Chapel don't spend any of that money It's legally mine.
Nonsen !
Apoorv Khatreja, 29 Dec 2007 @ 11:35am
The evil of copyright lawsNigeria? I'd rather say South Africa would be involved :P.
Ron, 29 Dec 2007 @ 9:28pmRTFA. NHK paid for the restoration of the Sistine Chapel in exchange for the exclusive rights to film the process (in HD no less) and release a book. No one is claiming copyright on the Sistine Chapel. The Register uses this as an example of something good, as opposed to other's who want to control the work of others.
Paul, 29 Dec 2007 @ 10:23pm
??? Profit!Step 1: Make a classically bad Mike post
Step 2: Being the classic comment-whore, check for comments every hour
Step 3: When there is no comments change the title of the post to make it seem like a new story
Re: ??? Profit!Ah, Paul, you're back again making incorrect assumptions and setting up strawmen. Why you keep doing that is beyond me.
Step 1: Make a classically bad Mike post
Well, I don't see how it's bad, but ok. Usually, if you think something is bad, you don't just say "classically bad" you explain *why* it's bad so that at least I have a chance to respond.
Of course, if you don't actually have a reason and want to make up lies, then I guess it doesn't matter...
Step 2: Being the classic comment-whore, check for comments every hour
Actually, after I posted this on Friday night I went away for the weekend and haven't checked anything until now, two days later... but... ok.
Step 3: When there is no comments change the title of the post to make it seem like a new story
And here's where you have gone totally off the rails. When did I change the title? I didn't. The title of this post has been the same since I wrote it. And, as I said, I haven't even checked in on Techdirt since Friday evening so I'm not sure why you think I either checked on the comments or changed the title.
You also seem confused as to my motivations. If a post doesn't get comments, that doesn't bother me. I'm not sure why you think it would.
Paul, do you ever get sick of making stuff up trying to make me look bad? It's really rather unbecoming. What's funny is that I've called you on it all week every time you've put up a strawman or lied and you haven't apologized once. I'd really ask that if you're going to challenge me you at least don't do it with outright lies.
Otherwise, you just come off as being rather sad.
Shohat, 30 Dec 2007 @ 8:06am
MIIIKE !! MIKE !! MIKE !!http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/30/059223
Seriously. The paper I told you to read, remember the "moreover" thing in that legal thing with the RIAA? . Well, here it is. This is the "moreover".
ShoNuff, 30 Dec 2007 @ 9:41am
Re: MIIIKE !! MIKE !! MIKE !!Hey, do you know the name of that guy who did that thing and was wearing that one thing in that movie I once mentioned a while ago?
Seriously, could you use "thing" more and be much more vague and obnoxious in your post? I don't think we got enough of that thing in your last one.
Re: MIIIKE !! MIKE !! MIKE !!Seriously. The paper I told you to read, remember the "moreover" thing in that legal thing with the RIAA? . Well, here it is. This is the "moreover".
Hmm. Actually, all that looks like is the Washington Post making the same mistake based on the same story and the same quotes from Ray Beckerman.
Repeating the same incorrect statement without any new evidence doesn't make it true...
Comboman, 30 Dec 2007 @ 2:35pm
Restoration is a derivative workSo, in the case of the Sistine Chapel, the restoration was apparently paid for by the Japanese firm NHK in exchange for "exclusive rights" to the images of the restored Sistine Chapel.
The operative word there is "restored". This would be a derivative work and could legitimately be copyrighted starting with the date the restoration was complete. They can't control old photos or reproductions of the painting, but photos or reproductions of the restored painting are copyrighted.
johndifo, 30 Dec 2007 @ 4:50pm
Re: Restoration is a derivative workSo give us the original back
Shaun, 31 Dec 2007 @ 6:31am
Re: Restoration is a derivative workThat might be a possible argument but I'd think the effort they went through to keep it exactly authentic to the original, down to the original brush strokes might undermine it's "derivative work" status.
Richard W. Davis, 30 Dec 2007 @ 3:37pm
Copyrights and PatentsSince my great great; etc., grandfather was Cain, I claim patent on stones for use as tools. Able was my Uncle so I also claim all rights to agriculture too. A cousin of mine used a wheeled cart to haul firewood so I'm claiming my rights to wheels and fire. I think I need a lawyer.
P.S. One of my people drew the first rectangle in the sand way back then, so all the roofs in Egypt and elsewhere are my infringed property. Long ago a family member had a cow so rights to all bullshit belong to me, so all lawyers, politicians and bloggers can cease and desist until I am properly compensated.
P.P.S. Don't any of you say dammit either in response to my post...All the curse words are surely mine as well.
P.P.P.S. I had a college professor once who said, "There are only three things that can come out of a human's mouth: Crap.
Bull crap,
and Cosmic Elephant Crap."
Note: He said if first, but he didn't copyright it, so that too is mine.
See ya,
Coyote Davis
Kevin, 30 Dec 2007 @ 6:58pm
Re: Copyrights and PatentsDammit!
Where should I send the royalties?
Anonymous Coward, 31 Dec 2007 @ 5:18amIf it were in the U.S. you could indeed rant and rave about this..However this is Italy, their laws maybe different and if they are your interpretation means nothing.
Doc, 31 Dec 2007 @ 8:05am
MultiplyAnd the courts have found that you don't get charged per "copy" you infringe, but "per copy per store", as they assume copyright infringement is happening in all of a particular business' outlets.
So.... If Wal-Mart gets caught by the copyright police for selling one "Garfield" birthday cake without paying royalties, they can be fined not just once for $100 (for example), but $200 x 3400 stores, or $680,000... Ouch!
So pay up and shut up...or Garfield will hunt you down and eat you!
BoxFiesta, 2 Jan 2008 @ 1:31am
Copyright LawsThing is, Italy is going backwards on many things. I have posted often about how the western world in particular is creating more and more conservative laws to "hold on" while the east is pushing forward and thinking of the future.
We must change our focus or risk being left behind.
Duodave, 2 Jan 2008 @ 8:36am
Commissioned workTechnically, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was a commissioned work. As such, its copyright is held by the Catholic Church. However, as I understand copyright law, anything made before a certain date before copyright law was created is exempt from copyright law. Hence, a work commissioned in 1508 is not subject to copyright law.
If the Japanese firm "restored" the work to its original form, I would think that they could not hold copyrights to the restoration, as it restored it to the original form, not a modification.


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The genome of the organism that produces the world's most lethal toxin is revealed today. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum and less than 2 kg - the weight of two bags of sugar - is enough to kill every person on the planet. Very small amounts of the same toxin are used in medical treatments, one of which is known as Botox®.
The genome sequence, reported in Genome Research, shows that C. botulinum doesn't have subtle tools to evade our human defences or tricky methods of acquiring resistance to antibiotics. It lives either as a dormant spore or as a scavenger of decaying animal materials in the soil, and doesn't interact with human or other large animal hosts for prolonged periods of time.
Occasionally it gets into a living animal, via contaminated food or open wounds, leading to infant botulism or wound botulism, both of which are serious human infections. The host can be quickly overpowered and, in some cases, killed by the toxin, and C. botulinum has a new food source.
"Although in the same group as Clostridium difficile - the Cdiff superbug - C. botulinum has a genome that is remarkable because it is so stable, "commented Dr Mohammed Sebaihia, lead author on the paper from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Unlike Cdiff, in which more than 10% of genes have been acquired from other bacteria, there is almost no footprint of these in C. botulinum."
There are several types of C. botulinum: although described as variants of a single species, they are really very different organisms linked simply because they have the deadly toxin. For each type, there is also a near-identical but harmless relative that lacks the toxin. C. sporogenes is the non-malignant, near twin of the organism sequenced.
Professor Mike Peck, from the Institute of Food Research, commented that "It is astonishing that 43% of the predicted genes in the C. botulinum genome are absent from the other five sequenced clostridia, and only 16% of the C. botulinum genes are common to all five. Our findings emphasise just how different clostridia are from each other."
C. botulinum toxin stops nerves from working - the basis of its use in medicine to control tremors and in cosmetic treatments. For the prey of its opportunistic attacks, death is swift. Perhaps the most important tool it has to act out its stealth attacks is its ability to hibernate when times are hard by forming dormant spores.
More than 110 of its set of almost 3700 genes are used to control spore formation and germination when opportunity arises.
"C. botulinum shows us one extreme of the ways that bacteria can make the most of animal hosts," explained Dr Julian Parkhill of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Some organisms use subtle approaches, elegantly choreographing their interaction with us and our defences.
"C. botulinum takes the opposite approach. It lies in wait and, if it gets the opportunity, it hits its host with a microbial sledgehammer. It then eats the remains and lays low until the next host comes along."
The genome sequence is peppered with genes that produce enzymes to digest proteins and other animal material in the soil. Also found, uniquely in this species, is a range of genes that allow it to attack the many insect and other small creatures that live in the soil. The 'chitinases' produced by these genes can degrade the casing of insects and small crustaceans.
It is not only animals that can feel the wrath of C. botulinum, explains Dr Sebaihia: "The soil can be a harsh environment and food can be scarce. To see off the competition, C. botulinum comes with its own 'antibiotic' - a chemical called boticin that kills competing bacteria."
Genome sequences can tell us a lot about the biology of the organism, but research into clostridia has been hampered by the lack of a good genetic system. Professor Nigel Minton, Professor of Applied Molecular Microbiology at the University of Nottingham, has developed new methods to knock out genes in clostridia.
"Even after decades of research, only a handful of mutants had been made in clostridia, and none in C. botulinum," Professor Minton explains. "We have developed a highly efficient system, the ClosTron, with which we have, in a few months, knocked out over 30 genes in four different clostridial species, including eight in C. botulinum. The availability of this tool should revolutionise functional genomic studies in clostridia."
This remarkable, stable genome demonstrates the wide range of strategies used by bacteria to enhance their chances of survival. For the Clostridia, these range from the approach used by C. difficile - long-term interaction with hosts, which involves evading the immune system and countering antibiotics - to the single-minded opportunistic approach of C. botulinum.
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Sebaihia M et al. (2007) Genome sequence of a proteolytic (Group I) Clostridium botulinum strain Hall A and comparative analysis of the clostridial genomes. Genome Research Appeared online on Wednesday 23 May, 2007 at http://www.
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When the Smithsonian opened the new National Museum of African American History and Culture last year, artist Arlene Turner-Crawford, '71, discovered her own face hanging on the fourth floor, larger than life.
The painting "Arty" by renowned artist Nelson Stevens is part of the museum's collection of art from the AfriCOBRA artists' collective of the 1960s and 70s. Turner-Crawford was a student of Stevens when he taught at NIU from 1969-1971, and says she was the model for "Arty."
When Turner-Crawford came to NIU in the late 1960s, she said, she was one of only a few African American students in the School of Art. As she searched for her own voice as an artist, she worked as a model for drawing classes.
"DeKalb wasn't particularly hostile to black people, however, the town wasn't accustomed to them either," Turner-Crawford said.
In 1968, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Turner-Crawford joined other African American students in a protest demanding, among other things, that the university hire more black faculty and counselors. Stevens was one of several black faculty hired the next academic year. After leaving NIU, Stevens went on to teach for more than 30 years at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
AfriCOBRA was founded in Chicago in 1968 with the purpose of creating uplifting art relevant to black communities. It was part of a larger cultural movement that also included works of literature, poetry, drama, music, dance and scholarship celebrating contemporary artistic expression of black culture in America.
Turner-Crawford said she traveled to Washington, D.C. for the opening of the museum "for the sake of my own passions and my connections to that journey, to see for myself African American or black pride honored and institutionalized, a legacy for my children and grandchildren to come."
"I am truly grateful and honored to have an image of me displayed as a small part of the cultural history of my people, and it's due to Northern Illinois University's role in my life, its outstanding academic community that taught and nurtured my intellectual growth and development," she said.
Turner-Crawford is an alumna of the School of Art. Click here to make a contribution to support the school's future alumni.


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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES, vol. 35, n° 1-2, 1998, pages 85-94, 35 réf., ISSN 0020-7489, GBR
Faculty of Nursing. University of Alberta. Edmonton Alberta. CAN
This paper describes public health nurses'perceptions of changes in their practice.
The participants were 28 public health staff nurses from six Alberta, Canada health units serving urban and rural populations.
Data were collected in 1993-94 using individual and focus group interviews.
Content analysis was used to identify the following themes : « pulling back », « from hands on to arms length », « handing over responsibility », « developing working partnerships », and « doing less surveillance ».
These themes are discussed in terms of their implications for population health and for public health nursing, using as a point of reference the principles of Primary Health Care.
Continuing research is needed to chronicle further changes in public health nursing practice that will result from health care restructuring and health system reform.
Mots-clés BDSP : Pratique soins, Infirmier, Soins, Evolution, Homme, Canada, Amérique du Nord, Amérique, Profession santé
Mots-clés Pascal : Pratique professionnelle, Infirmier, Soin, Perception sociale, Evolution, Homme, Canada, Amérique du Nord, Amérique, Analyse qualitative, Recherche scientifique, Personnel sanitaire
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Professional practice, Nurse, Care, Social perception, Evolution, Human, Canada, North America, America, Qualitative analysis, Scientific research, Health staff
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Inist-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Cote : 98-0406022
Code Inist : 002B30A05. Création : 25/01/1999.


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Special thanks to the following brothers and sisters for their encouragement: Shaykh Muhammad Nura Dass, Ahmad Olawuyi, Ali Baker, Tural Islam, Syed Jarry Haider, Syed Mansab Ali Jafri, Jaffer Abbas, Agbonika Salihu, Jibreel Ibn Mikael, Syeda Umme Rabab Bukhari, Aneela Sultan, Nasir Hasan, and Hassan Bokhari. May Allah bless them all and all our loving brothers and sisters from the Shi'ah Imamiyyah and the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah.
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Wind power good for the US and Alabama
August 28, 2012 by Jeff
Filed under Green Energy News
Special to The Green Register by Kyle Crider, Manager – Environmental Operations, Ecotech Institute
"Madame, bear in mind that princes govern all things–save the wind" ~Victor Hugo
China is on track to have twice as much of it as we do now by 2015.[i]Politicians, who seem to generate a great deal of it themselves, are arguing over whether it should stay or go here in the U.S.[ii] I'm talking about wind power capacity—and the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) that makes it possible.
I suspect that, to the average Alabamian, assisting the wind farms of the Midwest does not rank high on a to-do list. It's not like anyone is going to be putting a wind farm in Alabama anytime soon. (Or are they?[iii]) But Alabama wind farms or no, here are three good reasons why Alabamians should support an extension of the PTC:
The PTC supports existing wind jobs—right here in Alabama. According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), there are at least seven Alabama manufacturing facilities and 101-500 direct jobs currently producing components for the wind industry. AWEA goes on to say that, "Alabama's potential manufacturing job creation from the wind industry ranks in the top 15 in the US."
Wind powers homes—right here in Alabama. Just because it's not produced here doesn't mean it can't power homes here. Wouldn't you rather have your lights powered by clean Midwestern wind farms rather than dirty Alabama coal plants? Thanks to renewable energy credits and green power purchasing agreements, they can be.
Even if there were no Alabama wind jobs or power, the PTC and renewable wind energy would still make Alabama a better, safer place to live. According to the American Wind Energy Association, 1 megawatt (MW) of wind-generated power can supply electricity to approximately 240 to 300 households per year. As a "fuel," wind is both free and clean. And we now have approximately 50,000 MW of it installed.
Imagine that… as many as 15 million homes being powered by something that doesn't have to be mined, pumped, refined, shipped, or even burned to generate electricity. A free fuel that doesn't generate pollution—not even global-warming carbon dioxide. A free fuel that doesn't come from Middle Eastern oil fields or Canadian tar sands, because the wind blows right here in the good old USA. I call that a USA win, including Alabama.
Of course, even 15 million households is still a drop in America's bucket. We need more wind power, not less; but less is what we're getting, as the political wrangling over the PTC extension is costing us good wind jobs.[iv]
According to MIT's Technology Review, "The [PTC] policy was originally established in 1992 as part of an energy bill signed by President George H. W. Bush. It gave a tax credit of 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour to generators of certain types of renewable electricity, including that from wind. The credit expired in July 1999, and since then has been renewed, expired, and been renewed again several times, with several months-long lapses in between. The rate has been adjusted for inflation and is now 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour."[v]
In the heated rhetoric of presidential campaigning, the PTC has become a political punching bag for the party that once championed the conservation of energy and natural resources as part of its conservative platform. But a free market needs wind power—not the worsening economic turmoil of our current oil addiction—and wind power desperately needs the PTC to help get it up and running. I hope you will let Alabama's elected representatives know how you feel on this issue.
"If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination." ~Napolean Hill
by Kyle Crider
Kyle is Manager – Environmental Operations at Ecotech Institute and Education Corporation of America. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree with a double-emphasis in Urban Planning Policy Analysis. He is also a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional, Neighborhood Development (LEED AP ND). He is currently in the Interdisciplinary Engineering Ph.D. Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author and not necessarily those of Ecotech Institute or Education Corporation of America. Email Kyle at firstname.lastname@example.com.
[i] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-16/china-s-wind-power-capacity-linked-to-grid-up-87-percent-xinhua-says
[ii] http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/17/705921/republican-senator-on-romneys-anti-wind-position-it-was-like-a-knife-in-my-back/
[iv] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-20/energy-week-ahead-vestas-may-offer-plan-for-colorado-job-cuts
[v] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428927/does-the-wind-production-tax-credit-matter/


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Coffee deliveries from farms in Indonesia, the world's third-biggest robusta grower, tumbled this week because of the Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri, according to Volcafe, a unit of commodities trader ED&F Man Holdings Ltd.
Bean arrivals were about 2,500 to 3,000 metric tons this week, the Winterthur, Switzerland-based trader said in a report e-mailed today. That compares with 26,000 tons last week. Indonesia is harvesting its 2013-14 crop that started in April and production will fall 12 percent to 9.2 million bags, the US Department of Agriculture estimates.
"Business is basically at a standstill as nearly all exporters are closed due to the [Idul Fitri] holiday," Volcafe wrote in a report e-mailed today. "Wet weather persists, causing quality problems."
Scattered showers and thunderstorms will form throughout northern Indonesia from today to Aug. 11, AccuWeather said in a report today. Amounts will vary from 0.2 inch to 0.6 inch, with local downpours of 1 inch to 2 inches along the coast of Sumatra and in parts of Borneo, the forecaster said. Indonesia's main coffee growing region is southern Sumatra.
Buyers of coffee from Indonesia for shipment in September and October were paying a premium of $110 a ton over the futures on the NYSE Liffe exchange in London, according to Volcafe. That compares with $100 last week, data from the trader showed.
In Vietnam, the world's leading robusta grower, demand is increasing and it's cheaper to buy coffee on NYSE Liffe than from local farmers, Volcafe said. Vietnamese beans for shipment in September and October were at a premium of $90 a ton to the exchange price, unchanged from last week, the trader said. Rupee's Decline
In India, Asia's third-biggest coffee grower, coffee was offered for sale at cheaper prices as the rupee slid. India's currency, which has slumped 12 percent against the US dollar in the past six months, fell to a record low of 61.8050 on Aug. 6. The currency is the second worst performer among 24 counterparts in emerging markets.
Robusta coffee for delivery in November was 1.8 percent higher at $1,943 a ton by 4:17 p.m. in London. Prices reached $1,943 a ton, the highest in two weeks.


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My hand painted cake with ruffles. I have never painted before so took a class with the amazing nevie pie cakes and this is what I achieved. Need to practice more but im pleased with the results xx
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Beautiful and I love the 'pose' on the pretty suitcase. one for my pinboard! Please let me know if you object xx
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Fleur de Force talks top beauty hacks and selfie tips with HFM
This London Fashion Week, HELLO! Fashion Monthly has partnered with Land Rover to produce a series of videos featuring lots of our high-profile friends of the brand - we'll be chatting to designers, make-up and hair artists, models, agents, DJs and FROW regulars as we drive from show to show! Keep up to date with the hashtag #HFMFashionSpin for the latest updates.
We caught up with YouTube star and beauty sensation Fleur de Force, who dished her top three beauty hacks - including how to get rid of fake tan hands! - and her expert selfie tips... You're welcome!


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Dilmah founder draws on 25 years of tea business
It was 25 years ago that
"In 1985 I talked to a Coles buyer who was well-disposed towards me," Fernando says in an interview with BRW. "I said, 'I have my own brand of tea . . . can we stock my tea?'
"The buyer said: 'We would love to, but you don't have a chance. The big guys know exactly what the consumer wants'. I responded: 'They don't know what the consumer wants. The consumer has to drink what the big guys put on the shelves'."
Fernando eventually won over the buyer and this year is celebrating 25 years of selling Dilmah in Australia.
Now that black tea is back in vogue, the competition is fierce and the same supermarkets that gave Fernando his big break, are becoming more competitive on price. Fernando is fighting back with a $4 million marketing campaign designed to make the humble tea leaf as important to tea drinkers as the premium grape is to wine buffs.
Australians have been drinking Ceylon tea for decades. Up until the 1970s most of it was tea originating from the source it's named after: Sri Lanka.
But as the 83-year-old founder of Dilmah discovered almost 40 years ago, quality tea was being phased out. Fernando, who had spent his twenties working as a tea merchant selling to big companies including
Small traders who were providing consumers pure Ceylon tea, sold out to the multinationals in the 1970s. Thereafter, buyers in Australia, the United States, Europe started purchasing lower quantities of Sri Lankan tea.
In 1974, Fernando bought his first few estates to try producing pure Sri Lankan tea, but in the early years it was hard to find buyers. By the 1980s he started selling bulk tea to all the major Australian supermarket retailers, which would mix his tea with other lower-quality tea varieties and use it for their private label branded products.
"The tea producers were virtually squeezed out of existence," Fernando says. "They were exploited by the big traders who bought imported tea and sold it at the highest possible price to the consumer."
Fernando, a tea connoisseur, was outraged that consumers were being duped about the origin of tea. He also knew there was more money to be made in packaging and branding. He was determined to get his own brand onto the shelves.
Originally, the major importer of Ceylon tea was Bushells. The company was taken over by
It took some convincing, but eventually, in 1988, the Coles buyer decided to stock Dilmah tea.
Dilmah started in one Melbourne retail outlet. High consumer demand saw its packaged tea spread to 35 Coles stores across Victoria within its first year. It wasn't long before Woolworths came to the table.
Dilmah then exported its packaged product to New Zealand (where it's currently the top-selling brand), and by the 1990s became a niche player in Europe and North America.
Today Dilmah tea is on almost every major supermarket shelf in the country. It's one of the world's top 10 tea brands, exporting to more than 90 countries. Global annual retail sales are $550 million – and Australia makes up about 10 per cent of that.
Lipton, Twinings, Dilmah and Tetley account for the largest share of Australian tea sales (more than 80 per cent), with the majority of these being in the tea bag category.
According to Aztec data from April 2013, Unilever takes the No. 1spot in Australia with a 30.6 per cent share of total annual Australian retail tea sales of about $321 million. This is followed by AB Foods (Twinings) with 26.6 per cent, Dilmah with 13.7 per cent and Tetley with 10.8 per cent. Private label brands have about a 2.1 per cent share.
In recent years, Dilmah's Australian revenue has suffered as a result of higher production costs and reduced consumer spending. In the year to March 2012, turnover (from both retail and food service) was $40.3 million, and profit after tax was about $55,000. In the current year turnover has reduced to $39.1 million and profit after tax fell to $21,000.
Nevertheless, Fernando, who named Dilmah after his sons Dilhan and Malik, has sealed his image as the underdog who took on the mutinationals to give consumers pure quality and "ethically produced" Ceylon tea.
"We grow it, we brew it and we have factories required to add value," Fernando says. "We do all the processing in Sri Lanka, within days of picking fresh tea in the garden, and we ship it fully packed straight to the supermarket shelf."
Fernando may have succeeded in challenging the big traders, but he says most tea traded globally is still in the hands of a few multinationals. According to a report by IBISWorld, the majority of tea consumption in Australia is in-home, with per capita out-of-home consumption being less than 100 grams per annum.
As with most other products on supermarket shelves, private label tea brands are taking up more shelf space, and a greater proportion of sales. IBISWorld says the private-label segment (across products) has grown phenomenally over the five years through 2012-13, to account for about 25 per cent of supermarket sales across all categories.
Fernando says most branded players are also reducing quality to fight on price, but he says he's refused to do this.
In this new price-driven world, the negotiating powers of niche players such as Dilmah diminish. "In that era (the 1980s) supermarket buyers were more accommodating," Fernando says. "They listened to you and they explained the reasons if your product was not listed. It was more transparent."
While Dilmah continues to sell at a higher price point than private label, he fears when price is the emphasis over quality, it may mean consumers stop shopping at supermarkets for quality tea. This is already starting to happen with speciality shops such as T2 tea entering the market.
"Most of the tea on the [supermarket] shelves is without a soul. It's forcing customers to go elsewhere."
Dilmah is spending $4 million this year on marketing its brand to Australian consumers. It has already launched new advertisements with celebrity chef
The company is launching new flavoured packaged-tea varieties including Acai berry with pomegranate and vanilla, and Ceylon spice chai and also rolling out new "single region tea" leaf tea labels that cater for the discerning tea drinker.
Like wine, the taste of tea depends on weather conditions and the place it's grown. "The synergies between wine and tea are unbelievable," Fernando says. "The leaf strength character and flavour can change dramatically."
For example, in the single region tea category, Ran Watte is grown at 1800 metres above sea level, giving off a light and mellow taste like champagne. Yata Watte, on the other hand, is low-grown, at 300 metres above sea level, giving a heavier and more robust taste like a Cabernet Sauvignon.
The success of Dilmah's new teas depends largely on the marketing efforts of Fernando's youngest son, Dilhan. Like is father, he is a tea guru, with expertise on how to match teas with food. He was host of Australia's third 'Dilmah Real High Tea Challenge'. The national competition, endorsed by the World Association of Chefs (WACS), allows hospitality professionals to craft their own original tea-based cocktail or mocktail, create tea-infused dishes and pair teas with food.
Dilhan says it's helped create a tea gastronomy movement in Australia. Going forward, he believes, like his father, that there will be a "resurgence of interest in tea".
The family company is looking to new avenues for growth. "Previously our focus was on retail," Dilhan says. "But there's now a tea renaissance. This has led to more and more operators offering a quality tea experience."
As consumers discover the health benefits of tea, the Dilmah tea family are making sure their business is at the centre of that journey. In 2008, Dilmah set up tea schools in Sri Lanka and France. The company is looking to partner with local training institutes in Melbourne and Sydney later this year, where it can teach hospitality students the basics of tea. This includes lessons on how to serve it, as well as a deeper understanding about its quality and characteristics.
"As my father explained, the commodisation of tea really had a corrosive impact," Dilhan says. "With it came a lack of knowledge. There are so many myths about fruit tea. It's very healthy raw, but in its dried form doesn't do much for the body. In most cases most of these natural herb and fruit infusions have far fewer antioxidant benefits than green, black and white tea."
Another development that's helped the company cash in on the tea frenzy is the development of the Dilmah t-Bar – a place where hard-core tea drinkers can drink Dilmah's gourmet range of teas. There are 12 stand-alone tea bars across tea-loving countries including Poland, Belarus and the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Colombo and Chile. The bars offer everything from tea-based cocktails, mocktails, and t-shots, to tea-inspired food.
Dilmah has more than 200 express tea bars worldwide that are set up within shopping centres, hotels and airline lounges. It also opened its Ceylon Tea Trails tea resort in Sri Lanka 2005, with 20 boutique suites in the four villas. While the resort's revenue is currently only $US2 million a year, it is fast becoming recognised, winning several Trip Advisor Travellers' Choice awards.
Dilhan says resort revenue is expected to rise to $US10 million a year with the opening of the $25 million Cape Weligama beach resort in Sri Lanka's south coast.
Fernando says the multinationals have repeatedly approached him to sell out. He is adamant he "never" will, and says his sons, who one day will take over, have promised they won't either.
The company continues to run the MJF Charitable Foundation, which is funded from 10 per cent of Dilmah's annual global revenue. The foundation funds various housing, education and environmental programs in Sri Lanka.
Fernando, who is critical of Fair Trade claims that they are making life fairer for farmers – "it's a noble concept but very badly administered" – is worried that if he sells out, his charity will be put at risk.
Dilhan, who together with his brother Malik is taking a greater management role, says the authenticity of tea is crucial to the company's business success. And just like his father, who has mastered the art of distinguishing himself from the big guys, Dilhan says: "There's a purpose in business beyond making money."


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Write a letter, to anyone. Sister, parent, crazy driver, friend who has decided that a cookout doesn't include meat.
I also included this post under Open Mic Night Friday's!
Dear Gain,
Thank you! Thank you for making my clothes smell great. I love how it feels when I am curled up with my blankie and the dryer has heated you into happiness.
You are soft, after I get out of the shower and wrap a clean towel around me; you clean the dirty clothes of my toddler girls whom usually look like small ruffians due to the amount of food/dirt/bugs they get on their bodies.
I would ask, please, that you find a way to create a child-proof lock on the top of your bottle, I would appreciate it.
Well, allow me to Thank you for making my daughters smell great when they dump you all over themselves in the laundry room. Thank you for making my house smell spring garden fresh, from outside the front door, due to the amount of detergent STILL on my floors.
You make my daughters hair soft after she gets out of her $8.00 bath, which became a luxury spa when I put her in, and the tub filled up with bubbles, just from the detergent they had on their bodies. They were clean, smelling good and incredibly soft skinned, so soft that they kept slipping in the now VERY clean bathtub.
If you could do that, I'd be a loyal customer forever.
Take your time, I'll wait..... I still have a ton of detergent to clean up UNDER the washing machine… I'll be here when you get it figured out, however if you could make the scent mandarin orange I'd appreciate it. I'm all spring gardened out…
Mommy to six kids, two of whom are proving to outmatch the other four.


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Dianna Agron: The Killers' 'Just Another Girl' Video - Watch Now!
Dianna Agron stars in the music video for The Killers' new song "Just Another Girl"!
The 27-year-old actress had previously teased her fans about the video by revealing she was filming a role in a music video last month.
"Today, fitting & dress rehearsal. Tomorrow, we shoot. Pretty excited. Should I mention it is a music video?" Dianna tweeted just before Halloween. "It was an 18hr work day yesterday, we powered through an impossible number of setups, had fun, & I think you're going to like what we did!"
The video also stars Devon Aoki and Michael Steger.
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Dianna Agron in The Killers' 'Just Another Girl' Video


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The new Railway Station in Durango was inaugurated recently, thereby opening up new pedestrian routes between Landako and Montevideo, making Durango a more pleasant and comfortable place to live in.
The name Landako means "heathland" and this is how the local people talked about it when they saw the zone first developed in the 1970s.
Montevideo Avenue is named in honour of Bruno Mauricio Zabala, founder of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Landako today is a neighbourhood with the most modern infrastructure and services, and at the same time an important residential area. With its large open spaces and its impressive architecture, the Landako Gunea Exhibition Centre is the most important feature. Next to this centre we find the Plateruena Kafe Antzokia.
Still in the urban centre, very close to the Market Place, we see the Zugaza Cinema. In the street of Montevideo we see the Bartolomé Ertzilla School of Music, and by the River Ibaizabal, Murueta Torre Baserria.


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