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Australia is uneasily perched on the frontier of a new world order—based in Beijingby Kerry Brown / May 14, 2018 / Leave a comment
I started learning Mandarin in earnest a quarter of a century ago, just after moving to Melbourne. Recognised as the world's best preserved Victorian city, it also has a vibrant, long-established Chinatown. My wanderings there during lunch breaks whetted my appetite. In the evenings, I memorised characters and learned the pinyin system used to transliterate Chinese characters. For a novice, Melbourne was a Mandarin learner's paradise.
But travelling on the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide on holiday exposed a less positive side of the story. A monument halfway along this route records the murder of Chinese prospectors who came to find their fortune in the newly opened goldfields of 19th-century Victoria. On my arrival at the nearest town, one inhabitant ranted to me about how the country was being overtaken by "Asians from the north." The real story of the land that used to call itself the lucky country is not one of unalloyed cordial contentment with China and the Chinese.
The ambiguity in Australian attitudes to Asia in general, and China in particular, has long bubbled under the surface of Australian politics. More progressive politicians such as Paul Keating in the 1990s, and even arguably Gough Whitlam back in the 1970s, have seen openness to Asia as a way to move on from the colonial past. But there has always been resistance from Australian traditionalists too.
Tensions, however, are now boiling over. Just before Christmas a crucial by-election was held in Bennelong in New South Wales. A Liberal MP was defending a seat on which the Coalition government's tiny majority depended. The campaign was dominated by a leaked letter of mysterious provenance, urging the local Chinese community to vote against the "anti-Chinese" government in Canberra. The letter was taken as conveying the views of the Beijing authorities to the Chinese diaspora. The perception of outside interference produced a backlash, and the Liberal candidate was able to cling on despite a strong swing to the Australian Labor Party.
The reason why the topic of China is now electric in Australian politics is not hard to fathom. Geography and economics are forcing Australia to begin a disruptive and painful adjustment that all western nations may eventually have to make—to a world order with Beijing at its centre. Whatever happens in global geopolitics, Australia cannot afford to anguish about whether it is Asian or not. China became its largest trading partner in 2010. Australia is becoming an Asian economy whether it likes it or not.
But nor can the country escape from the shadow of a single momentous and disruptive fact: for the first time in its history, its greatest economic ally is a country that holds profoundly different values, and in which the Communist Party holds a monopoly on power. No wonder Australians, who sit at the frontier of engagement with China, are nervous. But people in other democracies should pay heed to these dilemmas, for they may not escape them for long. And despite its more distant location, they could arise in Brexit Britain earlier than most, because an isolated country outside its own regional club will feel particular pressure to hold the new superpower close. For Britain, Australia is the canary in the Chinese-built coal mine.
The founder of the Chinese Communist regime, Mao Zedong, called Australia the "lonely continent." But these days any loneliness is being alleviated by unprecedented levels of attention from its massive northern neighbour. Australia hosts the second-largest cohort of Chinese students in the world, next only to the United States, and well over a million Chinese tourists a year, their number having just overtaken the number of visitors from New Zealand. There are also ever-extending bonds between ethnically Chinese communities and their motherland. Since 2006 the proportion of the Australian population describing themselves as ethnic Chinese had doubled from 660,000 to 1.2m. Across every area of life in Australia, China's effect can be felt.
It is a reality in the lives of Australians as never before. Parts of Sydney could almost be in China, albeit with more benign weather and clean air. Excellent Chinese restaurants, shops and Mandarin signage mean that many Chinese tourists and immigrants can function perfectly well without English in a way that would be quite unimaginable in the west in all but tiny enclaves in London, Manchester or Vancouver. The Chinese are among the main foreign buyers of residential property, while Chinese companies have made significant purchases across the country. And the fees of all those Chinese students are a major source of funding of local universities.
The question of how to handle all this is complicated by the fact that Australia has not had to give foreign policy much thought until now. Governments of all stripes have been consistently pragmatic, and sought to secure Australia's interests by nurturing the sole indispensable relationship with the US. This relationship has been conducted with a soothing simplicity. Unlike the UK, there isn't the alternative of cross-channel engagement to worry about, and unlike the Brits, Australians fought alongside Americans in Vietnam. They have participated in every war the US has been involved with since.
Critics would sometimes ask if Australia's foreign policy was run not from Canberra but Washington DC, and yet the alliance always had a basis in rational self-interest. Australia could put so many of its eggs in one basket because of the happy fact that not only was the US the dominant security partner, it was also the key economic one. Life was straightforward.
In the 21st century, this harmonic alignment has rapidly unravelled. Why? Fundamentally, because a country that once figured as remote, introspective, and a place of exotic difference and mystery is looming ever-larger. China's economic imprint in Australia is no longer remote, nor remotely exotic; it is impossible to miss. And its motives are no longer regarded as quaint mysteries, but rather as deliberately opaque.
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More recently, of course, Australia, like the rest of the traditional American bloc, is having to wrestle with a capricious US president whose America First doctrine implies the US has no eternal allies, only eternal interests. Australian nerves were frayed by Donald Trump's bruising first telephone conversation with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in January last year, which was cut short after half the allocated time. (The transcript of the call was leaked to the Washington Post—the conversation ended with Trump describing it as "the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous.") Australia the stalwart, ever-willing partner has been left questioning what was once unquestionable—the security guarantee from their partner across the Pacific.
Were China politically similar to Australia, then embracing Beijing as an alternative to Trump's Washington might fast become the new consensual common sense. But in one of the world's oldest democracies, an authoritarian, one-party China that is becoming increasingly dictatorial under Xi Jinping is inescapably controversial. And, tapping into that ancient ambivalence towards China, there is growing Australian suspicion that their country is experiencing a purposeful, deliberate attempt to influence, change and take over its institutions and remould its culture and society.
If its old American ally is disengaged and unpredictable, China—unmistakably—has strategic designs on Australia, and its role within a region that Beijing increasingly wishes to dominate. The burning question is what Australia's counter-narrative might be. The country cannot be passive, and ride in the tailwinds of China as the inevitable engagement intensifies. Instead, Australia must craft its own story about what it wants this engagement to achieve—urgently and on its own.
Every day Australia has to wrestle with the calculation of how to balance the benefits that come from China alongside the potential downsides. It has to work out what precisely the Chinese "plan" towards it might be, and how it can thwart, modify or co-operate with that plan.
Under Xi, the task has got simpler in one respect: China is no longer hiding its ambitions. There is a clearly stated grand national mission, the China Dream, in which the country is restored to the position of greatness it enjoyed in pre-modern history. At the very least, the world knows now that China wants respect. The issue is what form this takes, and for Australians, what that respect might cost when it comes to diktats from Beijing about Taiwan, human rights, and actions in the South and East China Seas, not to mention wider norms about a rules-based order and the spread of democracy. China is already using economic pressure points to challenge all of this.
The frailty of Australia's own ideas about itself thicken the plot. An Italian friend who visited me when I was living in Sydney had a strong reaction to the Museum of Australian History in Canberra. "The place is chaotic," they said, "you come to it thinking, wow, this is a country with a real identity crisis." Oceanic geography and colonial history have long pulled it in different directions. Since the 1950s there have been around 60 different government enquiries focusing on the country's relations with its own region.
The last of these, and perhaps the most comprehensive, was "Australia in the Asian Century," issued under Julia Gillard's Labor government in 2013. Drawing on soundings from experts and business, it concluded that Australians had to start learning more relevant regional languages—including those spoken in China—and scale back their love of learning European tongues (it was said more people in Sydney were learning Latin than Mandarin at the time).
The arrival of the right-wing Abbott government later the same year saw this paper removed from official websites as part of a wider policy swerve. The difficult lessons, it seems, are never allowed to stand unchallenged for long enough to sink in. With Australia incapable of deciding whether or not it is content to be an Asian nation, the discussion of China is clouded with confusion. But while identity is an abstraction, China's concrete impact is, increasingly, tangible, intense and evolving much faster than Australia's anguished sense of itself.
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Not that the Chinese government has done anything to help Australia make the painful adjustment. When Xi came on a state visit in 2014, he lectured parliament in Canberra about the need to view relations with China with more boldness and imagination. But the massed security presence around his movements conveyed an imperious, pushy attitude bound to go down badly in a place where politicians are watched closely for signs of arrogance. Nor has China's image been helped by (possibly scare) stories in the Australian press that the Chinese government runs espionage cells amongst the students in Australian universities.
China's defensive, haughty response to media criticisms heightens the unease. Shrill demands for Chinese university lecturers in Australia to not violate the official line on the South China Sea, Taiwan, or Tibet, really get people's backs up. Bossy commands by the Chinese embassy in Canberra that local organisers should bar Xinjiang speakers from cultural events inevitably leave Australians perceiving a scary autocratic state. And there, for a minority at least, these fears can nestle next to nasty, lingering strands of the old racial prejudice.
So the difficulties are very real, but no more so than the opportunities. Australia has enjoyed a quarter of a century of positive growth, unmatched among developed countries. It only managed to sustain this during the crisis of 2008 because it could rely on China to buy its commodities. These days, Chinese growth, while more modest, remains a huge fillip as traditional sources of commerce with Europe and the US decline. Between 2000 and 2015, China's share of Australia's exports soared from 6 to 28 per cent. That share is now double that with Japan, the main partner till 2009, and quadruple that with the US.
The kind of money that China has to invest is not easy to sniff at for a country that has yet to construct a high-speed rail link between its political capital in Canberra and its commercial one in Sydney. China, after all, has built a staggering 24,000 kilometres of rail that can go over 300 kilometres an hour in the last decade. Installing another such project in Australia would be a doddle for them were it not for Australia's own political worries. But for now, the politics continue to matter: three times in the last five years, Canberra has blocked substantial investments from Chinese companies—in broadband, land and electricity infrastructure—for security reasons.
Time will tell whether Canberra will be able to sustain such objections in future. But for the moment, it is not overt ill-will from Beijing that limits how close the two countries can get, but Australian perceptions of China. In one of his rare moments of lucidity on international affairs, former Prime Minister Abbott was caught summing up the Australian attitude to China to Angela Merkel in two words: "'fear' and 'greed.'" Here was the real voice of a confused Australian elite caught between apprehension and opportunity, letting slip the inner turmoil.
Long before the Brexit vote, David Cameron and George Osborne were eager to open Britain up to Chinese investment. A meeting with the Dalai Lama near the start of their administration had put Chinese relations into deep freeze for three years, but once Britain had served its time on the naughty step, the floodgates opened. There is now barely a city in the UK that hasn't signed some sort of investment deal with Chinese companies, while the centrepiece of the new UK-China relations is the extortionate Hinkley Point nuclear energy deal. When Theresa May came to power, she was determined to rip it up, but soon chickened out—mindful, no doubt, of the diplomatic price that would be paid for falling out with big Chinese investors. Indeed, May's government is eager to increase Chinese trade—international trade minister Liam Fox has made the country one of his top, post-Brexit, priorities.
The experience Down Under gives the UK a useful glimpse of the real nature of Chinese power that it, too, will soon have to grapple with. Some Brits looking on at Australia will see China's approach as one driven by grievance and resentment. But does China really believe Australia is a weakened target, a place to be controlled, cajoled, bullied, in ways that were never possible before? And is this the grim future Britain, too, will eventually have to submit to?
There is an alternative, less despairing—and more convincing—interpretation that puts more stress on Australia's clumsy misunderstandings. Even if China is driven by pure self-interest, it wants to see an Australia run according to rule of law, with good governance, and stable democracy. It respects these things, as long as they are outside its borders—because it likes investing in such a predictable and reliable environment. Its own vast domestic challenges, despite the external bravado, remain; to solve them it needs good relations with the outside world, and particularly its own broader region. For Xi's China, a less rule-bound, and less predictable Australia would be bad.
Seen this way, China is not a new diplomatic overlord, but an opportunist, almost a parasite. It might exploit some of the opportunities it sees in Australia, but it is working within well set boundaries. At the end of the day, it likes Australia just the way it is. It would ultimately follow the same kind of approach towards the UK. The upshot—for both Britain and Australia—is to adopt a pragmatic approach in response, guided not by fear but by clear-headed self-interest. So how to get into the right mindset? One obvious pre-requisite is principled leadership. Nothing has done more to fuel Australian anxieties than the case of Sam Dastyari, a Labor MP who was accused last year of taking payments from Beijing in return for articulating Chinese-favoured positions on issues like the South China Sea and openness to Chinese investment. He was forced to resign, but the fear of a deep network of Chinese money and lobbying is profound.
It is probably only the politician at the very top of the pile who stands any chance of putting a consistent and sensible frame around the China debate. But in the last decade, the position of Australian prime ministers has veered from the almost comic self-assurance of Mandarin speaker Kevin Rudd, who indulged in extra-curricular attempts of trying to tell Chinese leaders how to run their country, to the quietly pragmatic posture of Julia Gillard, and the repressed distrust of Abbott.
Under Turnbull, things should be more rosy: his Goldman Sachs days gave him exposure at least to Chinese business. But instead, he has talked ominously of "foreign interference" and, in turn, has been accused by the Chinese government of "poisoning" relations. None of these prime ministers has been able to set out a credible, consistent national narrative of Australia as an Asian country, a precondition for a sensible settling of relations with China.
For the UK, there is one overpowering lesson in Australia's plight: ensure you know the tale that you want to tell about yourself before you dally with a country which will already be clear about the story that they have for you. That might be easier said than done for another country which, in the wake of Brexit, faces some serious questions of its own about identity. But it has to be worth trying. Because it is surely better to write some of the coming episode of Chinese engagement for yourself, rather than leave Beijing to direct the entire script.


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She gave him a look. "I don't 'check out' your gun. I've just never been around anyone who carried one before." The sheet dipped at her chest, exposing one tantalizing breast and rosy nipple.
It's an eleven-week training program, Vaughn mused. Really, missing one swim wouldn't make that big of a difference.
"So, you said something about leaving?" Sidney asked.
Vaughn blinked, snapping out of it. He stepped over to the bed, unsure whether he was amused or insulted by her bluntness. Maybe a little of both. "Don't get all sentimental on me now, Sinclair." He leaned down and kissed her forehead, then turned to head out.
Her voice stopped him in the doorway. "Vaughn."
He looked back over his shoulder.
"Tell the 'other you' to be careful on Monday night, when he's hanging out in those dark, sketchy alleys."
Something in Vaughn's chest tugged tight that she'd remembered. "I will."
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VAUGHN FOUND A spot on the street a half block down from his apartment, parked, and braced himself for the inevitable. Cade and Huxley sat on the front stoop to his building, their bikes parked on the sidewalk out front since the plan was to ride together to the gym at the FBI building for extra exercise.
The two men took in the sight of Vaughn walking up in his clothes that were rumpled after a night spent on Sidney's floor, and his hair that undoubtedly was sticking up in every direction.
"At least you've moved on from the maid of honor," Cade said, with a grin.
"Well, not exactly . . ." Vaughn hedged.
Cade's eyes widened. "You slept with the maid of honor?"
"Sidney." Vaughn unlocked the main door to his loft condo building.
Alongside Cade, Huxley followed Vaughn up the steps to his unit on the second floor. "Oh, boy. I'd been hoping it was just the cute hostess at that Mexican restaurant we ate at last week."
Vaughn looked over his shoulder quizzically. "What cute hostess?"
Huxley shot Cade a knowing look. "This is getting serious."
"Nothing is getting serious," Vaughn said emphatically, as he let them into his apartment. He tossed the keys on his counter. "And why are you riding me about this, Hux?" Sure, his partner was a little on the uptight side—actually, a lot on the uptight side—and seemingly had come out of the womb ready to propose to a woman, given how quickly he'd put a ring on Addison's finger. But Huxley usually just responded to his myriad dating adventures with a roll of his eyes and a few sarcastic remarks.
"Because I think it's a bad idea for you to get involved with the sister of your brother's future wife," Huxley said bluntly.
Vaughn scoffed at that. "We're not 'involved.'" Both Cade and Huxley raised an eyebrow. "Okay, so maybe we got involved for one night. We're adults. We can handle it."
"Your families are connected. You're going to be running into this woman for the rest of your life. When this goes south"—Huxley gestured to Vaughn's disheveled, post-hookup appearance—"and with you, it inevitably will, the situation could get complicated."
Vaughn grabbed a PowerBar out of his pantry. "Last night, a sexy, smart woman told me that she wanted to use me for sex. That's not a complicated situation, that's an awesome situation."
"Sexy and smart? Sounds like someone has a crush," Cade said.
Christ, these guys were all up in his business over this. "Was I really this annoying when you two were single?"
"Worse," Huxley and Cade said simultaneously, without hesitation.
Well, still. The circumstances were completely different between him and Sidney. Vaughn cracked open a bottled water to wash down the PowerBar. "Look, I get that you guys are all settled in your perfect relationships, and as part of that, you've shut down the part of your brain that used to actually have some game." He paused. "Except for you, Hux. It's pretty much always been lights-out in that department for you."
His partner glared.
"The point is, I think I'm good here," Vaughn said. "Sidney made it perfectly clear that last night was a no-strings-attached deal. That's my wheelhouse, gentlemen."
That having been established, he headed down the hallway, toward his bedroom, to change into his workout clothes.
"Checking to see if she texted you yet?" Cade called out.
Vaughn shook his head.
Yep. All up in his business.
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LATER THAT DAY, after Sidney had caught up on some much-needed sleep, showered, and had breakfast, she drove to the hospital to visit Isabelle. On her way out, she noticed that Simon had picked up his car. For the second time that day, she breathed a sigh of relief that he hadn't come by in the wee hours of the morning and spotted Vaughn's car out front. That would've been . . . not good.
As far as she was concerned, Isabelle and Simon never needed to know that anything had ever happened between her and Vaughn. Last night had been fun, and hot, but that was all it had been—a one-night stand. Sure, she was attracted to Vaughn, and she had no regrets that they'd slept together, but it wasn't like anything serious would ever happen between them. As Trish had said, he was a Mr. Right Now.
And a fantastic Mr. Right Now, at that.

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Did you know that 65% of your audience are visual learners? One of the most powerful methods you can use for video marketing is to educate your audience. And the great thing is that education comes in many forms. For example, you can teach your customers how to use your product or service and provide useful tips on how to make the most of it. Or you can create a webinar to showcase your industry knowledge, position your brand as a thought leader, add value to your consumers' lives and collect leads in the process.
There are several ways to increase your social media video subscribers. Use video SEO to make it easier for target audiences to find your videos. Include attractive custom thumbnails to make your videos more enticing. Use end cards and annotations to include calls to action asking viewers to subscribe. You can also promote your videos on your website, landing pages or blog posts. And you can use influencer marketing to spread the word about your video content and gain new subscribers that way.
They also influence how search engines determine relevance between a keyword, an ad, and the webpage the ad directs people to—key factors in determining a Quality Score. "Quality Score is primarily a measure of relevance, and improving keyword Quality Score is a matter of structuring your PPC campaigns into small, well-organized, tightly knit groups of keywords," said WordStream, a PPC software company.
There are things like solo ads that you can buy or join up with JV partners to help sell whatever it is that you're peddling. But at the outset, you're going to find it difficult to succeed in the internet marketing field. Ensure that you learn the right skills along the way so that you can become an effective online marketer. It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop, you'll reach your goals.
In addition to visual editing, you can (and should) add graphic effects to your branded video. These graphic elements can include animation, text graphics, fade ins or outs, lower-third graphic overlays, interview names and titles, logos, product modeling, and more. These elements really tie all your branding efforts together, so use them smartly and you'll have a professional video you can be proud of.
Look at your short- and long-term goals to choose whether to focus on organic or paid search (or both). It takes time to improve your organic search rankings, but you can launch a paid search campaign tomorrow. However, there are other considerations: the amount of traffic you need, your budget, and your marketing objectives. Once you've reviewed the pros and cons, you can select the search strategy that's right for you.
According to Statistica, 76% of the U.S. population has at least one social networking profile and by 2020 the number of worldwide users of social media is expected to reach 2.95 billion (650 million of these from China alone). Of the social media platforms, Facebook is by far the most dominant - as of the end of the second quarter of 2018 Facebook had approximately 2.23 billion active users worldwide (Statistica). Mobile devices have become the dominant platform for Facebook usage - 68% of time spent on Facebook originates from mobile devices.
A key objective is engaging digital marketing customers and allowing them to interact with the brand through servicing and delivery of digital media. Information is easy to access at a fast rate through the use of digital communications. Users with access to the Internet can use many digital mediums, such as Facebook, YouTube, Forums, and Email etc. Through Digital communications it creates a Multi-communication channel where information can be quickly exchanged around the world by anyone without any regard to whom they are.[28] Social segregation plays no part through social mediums due to lack of face to face communication and information being wide spread instead to a selective audience. This interactive nature allows consumers create conversation in which the targeted audience is able to ask questions about the brand and get familiar with it which traditional forms of Marketing may not offer.[29]
Search algorithms are increasingly prioritizing web pages with video and videos now appear in 55 percent of Google keyword searches. Besides helping your website rank on relevant searches, videos also make your snippet (or the actual result listing content) bigger and more eye-catching, meaning searchers will likely see it before they see other results on the page.
Online marketing can also be crowded and competitive. Although the opportunities to provide goods and services in both local and far-reaching markets is empowering, the competition can be significant. Companies investing in online marketing may find visitors' attention is difficult to capture due to the number of business also marketing their products and services online. Marketers must develop a balance of building a unique value proposition and brand voice as they test and build marketing campaigns on various channels.
There are many websites that offer advice, case studies, and best practices for marketing campaigns. But the only true way to test what works with a target audience is to test different options live and see what happens. This is the data-driven approach to marketing touted by many marketing specialists and often implemented by high-growth companies to rapidly test simultaneous ideas.
Balancing search and display for digital display ads are important; marketers tend to look at the last search and attribute all of the effectiveness to this. This then disregards other marketing efforts, which establish brand value within the consumers mind. ComScore determined through drawing on data online, produced by over one hundred multichannel retailers that digital display marketing poses strengths when compared with or positioned alongside, paid search (Whiteside, 2016).[42] This is why it is advised that when someone clicks on a display ad the company opens a landing page, not its home page. A landing page typically has something to draw the customer in to search beyond this page. Things such as free offers that the consumer can obtain through giving the company contact information so that they can use retargeting communication strategies (Square2Marketing, 2012).[43] Commonly marketers see increased sales among people exposed to a search ad. But the fact of how many people you can reach with a display campaign compared to a search campaign should be considered. Multichannel retailers have an increased reach if the display is considered in synergy with search campaigns. Overall both search and display aspects are valued as display campaigns build awareness for the brand so that more people are likely to click on these digital ads when running a search campaign (Whiteside, 2016).[42]
There are many Facebook ads resources out there, so it may be hard to cut through the clutter. I've heard from many clients how when they first glanced at Facebook Ads Manager, it looked dangerous. Not the horror movie kind of danger — but this feeling of suspense that if they clicked the wrong button, everything would fall apart. What if, with that one click, your company's Facebook account is doomed forever? Luckily, over the years, I have been compiling and adding to my list of resources that have become real lifesavers. Read More
Did you know that organic engagement is highest on Facebook when posts contain videos? Or that simply including the word "video" in your e-mail's subject line can increase open rates by 19 percent? One company went as far as to test whether video thumbnails in an e-mail newsletter would increase engagement and they found that it was quite successful. They reported that nearly 41 percent more people engaged with the e-mail if it had a video thumbnail, as opposed to a static image or just text.


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THEBIGISSUE11–25DEC2015 7 All contributors to Streetsheet are paid for their work. For the latest Big Issue news visit thebigissue.org.au or find us on: • facebook The Big Issue Australia • twitter @thebigissue STREETSHEET ME AND MY BOOTS Ithadbeenaharddayatwork,soI decided to go to the shops. I spotted some Doc Martens – proven to last, if you look after them. These ones had an Aztec design on them and looked smashing. Ihadtohavethem!SoImadeadeal with the friendly sales assistant with the nose ring and bubbly personality. I told him I needed longer than the usual three months for a lay-by. I had $10. He accepted my terms. I finally got up the courage to tell my husband that I put a pair of boots on lay-by for $200 and I was going to earn the money to pay them off. He was concerned the shop would close up before I had a chance to pay for them. But eventually I had saved enough! Everyone loves the boots, people come up to compliment me. I could have sold them umpteen times over by now. I have dreamed of owning a pair of Doc Martens since I was a punk in the late 1980s. So me and my boots will see you soon. Let's hope it's a better year next year than this one! With strokes and back pain and waiting for hospital beds for surgery, I deserve a treat every now and then. Sharon sells The Big Issue on the cnr of Collins and Swanston sts, Melbourne. LET THERE BE LIGHTWRITERS Hi, my name is Kyra and i have cerebral palsy. Back in july i got a lightwriter for communicating with people. The lightwriter has made a big difference to my life it has opened a new world for me. The lightwriter has got a mobile phone as well. i can make phone calls and i can send texts to my family and friends. it is a fantastic device. i go shopping and I can tell people what i want to buy. i love my lightwriter. it cost $15,000 and the government paid for it. i love sending texts from my lightwriter. Kyra sent this from her lightwriter and she sells The Big Issue on Princes Bridge, Melbourne. Stories, poems and pictures by Big Issue vendors and friends TROLLEY TROUBLES I've been selling The Big Issue for two years now, and have lots of regular customers who have become good friends. They always show their support by stopping for a chat and buying the magazine. I was recently given a trolley by my friend, and fellow Big Issue vendor, Kim. The trolley is big and bright and has really helped my selling! I love my trolley and decorate it for each edition. A few weeks ago my trolley was hit by a car. I have been feeling very down and lost without it on pitch. Lucky for me, Kim kindly took it home and got it repaired and the good news is: I now have my wheels back! Thank you to Kim for fixing my trolley and to all my loyal customers. You can't miss me now – where you see a bright red trolley, you'll find me! Malcolm sells The Big Issue on the Myer Bridge in Perth. CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? How hungry would you be? Walking from Syria to Germany. How free would you feel? Sitting beside an Antipodean like me. The Mediterranean was once a sea of fisherman. Now a sea of men fishers. Fishers of children and their parents. Crisis? What crisis? Mitchell sells The Big Issue at Town Hall House, Balmain, Sydney.
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Ministers have rejected a bid from a group of southern and eastern council pension funds to use joint procurement instead of pooling their investments in a formal vehicle.
The Access pool, comprising the funds of East Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, West Sussex and Suffolk, has received a letter from local government minister Marcus Jones instructing them to set up a collective investment vehicle (CIV).
The CIV model is the government's preferred option for Local Government Pension Scheme funds to meet the requirement to form large asset pools to save money on investment manager fees.
In July, Access proposed to create a CIV when it submitted its pooling plans for approval. Then, in November, Mr Jones held talks with pools to discuss their submissions.
At this stage, the Access pool presented the minister with two proposals: one for a pool based on a CIV, and another that would be based around a collaborative joint procurement framework because Access believed the pooling criteria "could be better met without the cost and complexity of a CIV".
However, the Access group has revealed that Mr Jones has ordered Access to create a CIV in a letter received at the end of January.
Despite this, the committee chairs said in a statement they were still working on both options.
They said: "Preparations are underway for renting a CIV operator [a company that will set up and run a vehicle on behalf of the funds] and, via joint procurement through National LGPS Frameworks, progress continues on procuring delivery of passive mandates for Access at reduced cost.
"The response received from the minister… indicated an expectation that Access should form its pool based on a CIV. This is currently under consideration and the Access chairmen are scheduled to meet again later in February. Dialogue with DCLG continues."
National LGPS Frameworks, a set of frameworks run by a group of local government pension scheme funds, announced plans to create a joint procurement framework for passive investment management services in September last year.
Officers at Norfolk's pension fund, which is a part of the National LGPS Frameworks group, have previously suggested that procurement could achieve the government's desired savings on fund manager fees. However, the London Pension Fund Authority has warned these "loose partnerships" would not satisfy the government.
The minister has written to all pension funds regarding their plans but not all pools have yet published these.
The Brunel, Northern, Border to Coast, and London CIV pools have confirmed to LGC that they have ministerial approval of their plans.
DCLG has also approved the plans of the Welsh pool and of the Local Pensions Partnership, a collaboration between the LPFA, Lancashire and Berkshire, despite neither meeting the government's original requirement that pools were worth at least £25bn. However, the government has pledged to review LPP's position in terms of scale this spring.
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Tanzanian husband, Mlachake had to leave his wife because she was too obsessed with weddings.
The wife spent all his fortune on a wedding gown, and this drove the poor man crazy!
"You'd think the old witch was getting married the way she goes gaga whenever a young couple announced that they are getting hitched," complained Mlachake.
She was the local socialite who had to grace every wedding. And she could not be caught dead in the same dress twice. So it was upon Mlachake to move heaven and earth to buy her the dresses.
The husband decided he had enough, there was a wedding and as the wife had disappeared to participate fully, he appeared at the entrance to bid his buddies farewell.
"What do you mean 'Mubaki Salama (stay safe)?" someone asked.
"I bet she will realize I left long after I arrive in Arusha," he said.
"I have sold everything and have left Swabrina all the weddings she can attend," he said.
And just like that, he disappeared and never to be seen again. His relatives say he settled down with a Tanzanian lady. She has many children, but does not attend weddings.


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Americans catch approximately 1 billion colds every year. Even though the common cold isn't very dangerous, it speaks to our hygiene habits that we are spreading germs so freely. For children, it's even worse. Daycare centers are a hotbed for cross contamination. Many of these places need terminal disinfection in order to get an appropriate level of facility cleanliness. But what can you do to prevent colds from spreading in the first place? Here are some easy hygienic lessons you can teach your children.
Cover Your Cough
Most kids are taught to cover their mouths when they cough, yet it seems like they never do. Explain that coughs carry germs that could get other people sick. It isn't nice to give your friends a cold, is it?
Tell People if You Are Sick
Some adults are even hesitant to tell people that they have a cold. Perhaps it is about pride, denial, or obliviousness. Whatever the reason, teach your kids that it's okay to tell people when they are sick. That way their friends will know not to share food or drinks.
Be Mindful of Shared Spaces
A lot of germs can live on tables and doorknobs. Since everyone uses these shared amenities, germs can hitch a ride on unsuspecting passersby. Ask your children to wipe off any surface after touching it while they are sick. This might not guarantee that germs won't spread, but it will help. If your child goes to daycare, you might want to ask about their terminal disinfection solutions.
An easy trick that works especially well for younger children is asking them to sing the ABCs while they wash their hands. This should give them enough time to properly clean off contagious germs.
If you are concerned about personal hygiene for your children, take the initiative to inform them about how germs spread. When everyone works together to ensure facility and equipment cleanliness, less sickness occurs. If you want to learn more about the dangers of germs, or if you would like to abolish viruses in your child's daycare center, visit our website and contact us today.


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Egan spends time with Dr. Barry Adams, who is retiring at age 80 after a long career as a pediatrician in town. He has been head of the OMA, the Canadian Pediatric Society, etc.... and is an all-around
Egan: The kids are all right: Humble pediatrician retires at 80
Dr. Barry Adams, who turned 80 in March, has a five-page CV and a history as a pediatrician almost as old as pediatrics.
He retires at the end of this month. On Tuesday, just before lunch, he was sitting in his cluttered office on Russell Road, with the door open and the overhead light off — just him and a few weak rays of sun.
He was asked to recall a memorable patient or two, among the thousands since he earned his MD in 1959. He folded his arms and looked out the window and told the story of a 12-year-old girl who, early in his practice, died of an undiscovered tumour. She was also a neighbour.
"She was a beautiful girl." And he paused, and cried a little. "She sticks in my mind. You always wish you could have done more."
Maybe that is the nature of well-delivered medicine — the failures sting more, because success, or recovery from illness, is expected. The man, in any case, has a warm heart and one senses a practised bedside manner.
It is quite a month for tying up loose ends. Dr. Adams was the first president of the medical staff at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, which celebrates the 40th birthday of its first patient on Saturday. He was among the physicians, in fact, who rallied to get CHEO built in 1974, a process that took about a decade.
"The community pediatricians, really, were instrumental in the initial running of the hospital."
He is a humble man, actually named Barrett, after his mother's family. He grew up in Cornwall, one of nine children, the son of a millworker, and used to work summers at Courtaulds, the former rayon giant, and come home with clothes so stinky he had to leave them in a shed.
From an early age, his father stressed the importance of education and, from Grade 8 or so, young Barry wanted to be a doctor, eventually attending the University of Ottawa. (To this day, he wears the garnet ring he earned for his B.Sc. at U of O in 1955.)
From there, he said seven of his graduating medical class bolted for Detroit, where he began the study of pediatrics and neonatology.
"Initially, the medical community thought that children were just little adults, but they're not." (Indeed, the Royal College of physicians in Canada only issued its first certificate in pediatrics in 1943.)
When he was a young doctor, he would make house calls, sometimes eight or 10 a day, planning his route to finish near the house. He was earning about $9,000 a year and working from an office on Metcalfe Street.
Measles were a big concern, as were chicken pox, even polio. Immunization, he adds, was probably the biggest advance in pediatrics since the end of the Second World War.
"I made so many house calls of kids with 105 fevers with measles. Sick, sick kids," he said, remarking on its virtual disappearance.
"I'm sure a lot of the residents at (CHEO) have never seen a case of measles."
There was less specialization then. He would handle a leukemia patient or a child with Down syndrome. There was a time when he was checking on sick babies at four different hospitals. And, unlike today, every kid was getting his tonsils yanked out.
He and his wife, Betty Anne, were married a week after he finished med school and, miraculously given his schedule, went on to have seven children, including a nurse, a psychologist and a neurosurgeon.
"I tell a lot of my patients that I learned my pediatrics at home."
He's always believed in "giving back," he said. As a result, he is the former president of the Ontario Medical Association (1984-85), the one-time president of the Canadian Pediatric Society (1990-91) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He and Betty Anne are also season-ticket holders to the Ottawa 67s since the team's inception. They now live on a four-acre property in Cumberland, where he likes to garden. He'd like to spend a good part of his retirement caring for his wife, who isn't well.
Dr. Adams has been winding up his practice since last summer. There have been plenty of cards of thanks from patients. But he is the one feeling grateful these days, man that he is.
"I should be thanking them for the trust they put in me."
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