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Investment banks have faced a challenging landscape over the past eight years, characterized by declining revenues, high costs, developments in digital and regulatory pressure—and the changes could continue. Through it all, the drive to reduce costs has been constant. And it might not go away: the focus on cost reduction remains razor sharp as companies continue to seek sustainable cost efficiency.
Leadership matters. After an examination of the cultural and institutional personas of successful and unsuccessful cost reduction initiatives, we believe that the pre-requisites for success should include:
Many banks still may need to rethink their business models in parts or as a whole through:
But before transitioning to an ongoing spend-and-performance management technique, they must first undergo a cost-resizing exercise.
New digital technologies are not only disrupting traditional sources of competitiveness, but also raising the bar on what's possible and setting new benchmarks for cost reduction. Cloud-based services and the "everything-as-a-service" model could be redefining how investment banks approach their operating models and IT systems.
The new digital ecosystem offers many opportunities to reduce costs and generate new revenues, but this requires a strategic approach to technology investments for banks that could include the following:
that addresses historical barriers to change.
to drive efficiency gains instead of using backward-looking benchmarks that could underestimate the need for—and potential value of—change.
that balances all three dimensions (growth and customers, sustainability and trust, profitability) of competitive agility.
In the short term, that means finding opportunities to simplify, rationalize and automate, while at the same time clarifying—and changing if needed—the business model, moving toward a client-led approach and building a strong network of alliances. In the long run that could mean eliminating legacy systems, adopting blockchain and shared digital infrastructure, and refocusing human resources.
By moving beyond tactical cost reductions towards more strategic initiatives, investment banks might not only reduce costs and improve efficiency, but also set themselves up for sustainable growth in the future.

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Grand Avenue Bridge project delayed 2 months
A major road construction project that closed Grand Avenue all summer will not be completed on time, city officials said Friday.
Three lanes of traffic were expected to open Sept. 27 on the new Grand Avenue Bridge at 63rd Street, but officials said the contractor on the project, Jenco Construction Inc., told them they will not have three lanes open until Nov 29.
The city said it "has not accepted any change to the contractual date," which required the opening by Sept. 27.
Officials said it's working with the contractor to find ways for them to complete the work before Nov. 29.
The project has faced a number of delays from spring flooding to problems with boulders in creek bed to a possible archaeological find that turned out to not be from the construction site.
Look for more on this story coming up on KCCI-TV, KCCI.com and our mobile website m.kcci.com and apps.


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Growing after the Crisis: Boosting Productivity in Developing Countries
Spring in DC draws more than just tourists. Last week, government officials, policy makers, civil society representatives and other thought leaders converged to take stock of the global economy during the IMF-World Bank spring meetings. The tone in the hallways was optimistic, but cautious. Growth in advanced economies still remains tepid, weighed down by lingering effects of the global financial crisis, demographic challenges, as well as weakening innovation and productivity growth. At the same time, there are encouraging signs that developing countries are in good shape, thanks to fiscal buffers that helped them to weather the storm.
Nevertheless, we must be mindful of the work ahead: the IMF warned of a '3-speed recovery', where emerging markets are growing rapidly, the United States is recovering faster than most other advanced industrial countries, but Europe continues to struggle. Where does this leave developing countries? At a meeting with the G24 – a group of developing countries - I had the privilege of discussing the prospects for growth, and policies needed to achieve productivity growth essential for eliminating extreme poverty and for creating shared prosperity.


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ANDERSON, S.C. - Georgia Southwestern started their six-game road trip through the state of South Carolina with a thud Thursday afternoon as the offensive prowess of Anderson University proved to be too much for the Lady Hurricanes to overcome as the Trojans swept the Blue and Gold in a pair of games at Smethers Field.
Game 1: Anderson 13, GSW 3 (5 innings)
Southwestern opened up the day with a quick start as the Lady 'Canes jumped out to the early lead in the first inning as seniors Avery Purser and Janna Anderson both drove in a run.
Purser scored Mason Moreland off a sacrifice fly while Anderson followed with an RBI-double to center field scoring Nellie Moore.
Anderson (24-5) countered with a big first inning of their own as a grand slam by AU's Charlotte Sieber helped the Trojans score seven runs off four hits to take a 7-2 advantage.
GSW's Jordan Miller had a third inning RBI-single to draw the Lady 'Canes closer but the Trojans proved to be too much offensively as AU scored six runs in the fourth inning to earn a 13-3 victory in five innings.
Anderson finished the game going 2-for-2 with one RBI as GSW (18-19, 2-8 PBC) finished with seven hits on the contest.
GSW's starting pitcher Allison Pastor (8-6) was credited with the loss as the junior allowed seven runs off five hits with five walks.
Game 2: Anderson 9, GSW 3
The second game of the contest mirrored the first game in several ways as GSW took the early 2-0 advantage after their half of the first inning when Purser scored a pair of runs off a single down the right field line.
Unfortunately for the Lady Hurricanes, the rest of the game mirrored the opening contest as Anderson (25-5) rallied back once again using the long ball in order to pull away from Southwestern.
AU's Molly Child hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the fourth inning followed by a fifth inning solo blast from Lauren Bell as the Trojans scored nine runs off 13 hits to coast to the 9-3 victory.
Avery Purser had another solid outing going 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs. The senior finished the day with four hits and three RBIs for the Lady Hurricanes.
Starting pitcher Ashley Cavender (5-8) gave up seven runs off 12 hits with five strikeouts and was credited with the loss for GSW (18-20, 2-8 PBC).
Georgia Southwestern returns to action tomorrow afternoon as the South Carolina road trip continues with a stop at USC Aiken for a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m.


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Meet at the large parking lot off John Shelley Drive at 21 John F. Shelly Drive.
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Big jump in Balloons bus use
Environment Waikato is reporting a big jump in the numbers of people using the free Park and Ride bus service to the Balloons Over Waikato event at Waikato University.
Environment Waikato is reporting a big jump in the numbers of people using the free Park and Ride bus service to the Balloons Over Waikato event at Waikato University.
Environment Bay of Plenty, Environment Waikato and the Department of Conservation;have;released a state of the environment report on the health of the Kaimai and Mamaku Ranges and Waihou and Tauranga Harbour catchments.
The multi-agency Regional Transport Committee says it is very grateful to the Government for helping fund security improvements at the Waikato River rail bridge at Ngaruawahia.
Taupo resident "Christina" is enjoying a warmer, drier, healthier home, thanks to a clean heat conversion funded by Environment Waikato and the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority (EECA).
A major milestone in the remediation of one of New Zealand's most contaminated sites has been reached today with the public notification of applications for consent to clean up the Tui Mine site near Te Aroha.
Environment Waikato is again operating special bus services for people attending the Balloons Over Waikato Nightglow event at Waikato University on Saturday 27 March.
People who took video footage or photos of the Chilean tsunami surge on the Waikato region's east coast on Sunday 28 February are being asked to share the images with the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group.
Regional councils Environment Bay of Plenty and Environment Waikato (EW) have agreed to explore collaborative management of the bulk of New Zealand's geothermal resources.
An Environment Waikato field day designed to help livestock farmers reduce the environmental impact of animals during winter is being held near Te Kuiti on Friday 9 April.
The latest snapshot of Waikato dairy farmer compliance with regional council effluent management rules shows the importance of the council working with farmers to improve the situation, says Environment Waikato.
Helping disabled people understand how easy it is to use Hamilton buses was the aim of an information day held in the central city yesterday by CCS Disability Action and Environment Waikato, with help from Hamilton City Council.
Environment Waikato today adopted its 2010/11 Draft Annual Plan based on a rates requirement of $68.83 million, an overall increase of 1.86 per cent to existing ratepayers.
The chairman of the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group says new national statistics on natural disaster preparedness underline the need for more public education in the Waikato region.
Environment Waikato is working with landowners at a new subdivision in north Hamilton to deal with one of the largest infestations of alligator weed the city has seen.
Environment Waikato says it will consider carefully points and questions raised by stakeholders about its new draft report looking at the potential impacts of pine-to-pasture conversions in the Upper Waikato River catchment.
The chair of the multi-agency Waikato Regional Transport Committee says the Government's announcement today of the contract for the Te Rapa section of the Waikato Expressway is great news for the regional economy and road safety.
Environment Waikato, Waipa District Council and the Ngaroto Lake Care Group are joining forces to run a field day for people interested in, or already involved in, improving the environment in their local community.
The chairman of the multi-agency Waikato Regional Transport Committee has today strongly welcomed a new ten-year Government Safer Journeys strategy aimed at reducing fatalities and serious injuries on New Zealand roads.
Environment Waikato and Waipa District Council have granted resource consents to a Ngahinapouri dairy farmer to extend an existing sand mining operation and undertake associated earthworks.
The Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is concerned some people ignored the tsunami warning and headed to Coromandel beaches yesterday.


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A quotation by Fibonacci
How many pairs of rabbits can be bred from one pair in a year?
A man has one pair of rabbits at a certain place entirely surrounded by a wall. We wish to know how many pairs will be bred from it in one year, if the nature of these rabbits is such that they breed every month one other pair and begin to breed in the second month after their birth. ...
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18 comments:
- isha said...
yeah you are correct.i too prefer eating vegetables.
- January 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- anna said...
thanks for the advice...
- January 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- Uncle Lee said...
Hi Liza, ha ha, I like your this posting. You are absolutely right re vegetables.
Don't forget fish too.
Add Chinese green tea...a wife who looks fabulous when he returns home from work....with a light touch of Nina Ricci L'air du tempe....and guranteed fireworks, *wink*.
You have a nice day, best regards, Lee.
- January 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- Jodi said...
Oh I love veggies more then I do meats.
- January 18, 2009 at 1:07 AM
- shydub said...
me too i like vegies than meat. my husband is a meat person, so, we have to compromise.
- January 18, 2009 at 5:43 AM
- lanne said...
I have a very special award for you and it's located at this link. :)
Congrats on the award and pay it forward.
It's not just another lemonade
award, I promise.
- January 18, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- I am Harriet said...
I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy stopping by every day and reading.
- January 18, 2009 at 9:33 AM
- Swubird said...
I've heard all sorts of reasons not to eat meat, but this is a first! Dang, I just had a steak last night.
Happy trails
- January 18, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- andrew&carmelsuarezministry said...
That is very imformative! thanks!
I have added you to my link list. can you same with mine. thanks gaian. Have a good day and God bless!
- January 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM
- Dora said...
I have come across many guys who hates veges.
- January 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- nisha said...
Hmmm i guess now i'll be clogging my husband belly with loads of veggies.. hehe.. take care sis, wish you a wonderful weekend too :)
- January 18, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- Aschizoshrink said...
my dad hates veggies too! care to exchange links?
- January 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- andrew&carmelsuarezministry said...
Hello! Sorry! I have added you! tnx.
- January 19, 2009 at 12:19 AM
- ghee said...
I avoid meat and high calorie-food these days.the doctor told me to eat more veggies and fishes.
hi there,Liza!niece to be here again!
- January 19, 2009 at 7:04 AM
- ghee said...
nice pala*
- January 19, 2009 at 7:05 AM
- schizoshrink said...
thanks.. i've added u up too =) have a nice day!
- January 19, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- Nurta San said...
Hi Liza.. are you care for exchange link?? just add me & leave a message on my chatbox and I will do the same... see you! :)
- January 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM
- Rhonda said...
That should get some guys eating their veggies!
- January 20, 2009 at 11:26 PM


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2008 vs 2004
In November of 2004, we launched our first venture capital fund, called Union Square Ventures 2004. At the time we were convinced that a new era of lightweight open web services was upon us and that a small focused venture fund could make money investing in them. Over the past four years, we believe we've proved that investment thesis was correct. We have exits with Delicious, FeedBurner, and TACODA, and we have a portfolio that we are very proud of.
But like all good things, funds come to an end. We are in the process of making three investments that, when closed, will mark the end of adding new names to Union Square Ventures 2004. The remaining capital in that fund will be earmarked to supporting the companies we've backed to date for as long as they need to be supported and should be supported.
So we are announcing today that we've raised a second fund, called Union Square Ventures 2008. It's not called the Facebook fund or the iPhone fund, but those are certainly two places we'll be looking to invest in. We put years at the end of our fund names because we like to keep it simple. Every four years we intend to raise another fund, to keep doing what we are doing.
And what is it that we are doing? Well, my partner Brad pretty much says it all in his post announcing our new fund on the Union Square Ventures weblog. Go check it out and let us know what you think.


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A thaumatechnological weapon, an example of the marriage between intricate technological innovation and sophisticated magic engineering.
*In work*
An attempt to gather my thoughts on the cosmology and history of the Locastus setting.
I´m not quite finished with it, but I´m throwing it out there anyway
A short story set in the Locastus universe.
Deep in the rugged Thunderhead mountain range lies the valley of Akelor, once a paradise, now a battleground where reality itself struggles to contain an alien, evil infestation
An adventure, Sourcebook and Monster Compendium set in the Locastus universe
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds…."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Aye, 'dis here is yer problem, squire. Yer gone and got yerself a Cog Devil infestation in the ol' gear box, haven't ya? Look at the little bugger squirm, eh? Nah, dont be embarrassed, squire. It's better than lice on yer privates, innit? Coz, they're harder to get rid of, they are. And a lot more expensive too.."
Istherm Mild (esq.), licensed steam engine mechanic, overheard advicing one of his customers…
"In all my years of research, perhaps the best way I have found to summarize the Hermit of Wither Tor is the name given to him by the inhabitants of the Grassdancer ghettoes. These unfortunates call him, in their own tounge, An´rah Grun´dar Ahr, which roughly translates into He-Who-Speaks-With-His-Fists....."
From "Locastus and beyond", by Darius Moak
An arcane substance able to convert kinetic energy directly into matter.
All living things must strive. Nature knows no harmony, only war for the privilege to exist. Maug of the Bitter Spirit, the Albatross God, promises no intervention nor advice to His worshippers, just a silent approval of those of you strong enough to help themselves…
The Book of Salts, Ch. 7, verse 12
..and from the heaps of the fallen burst a nightmarish creature, sinuous death, like a snake with legs, the dying fires of the battlefields reflecting in its glittering scales. Mounted on its back, in dark, light-absorbing armour and wielding a lightning-wreathed lance, sat a monstrous knight, the horns on his helmet marking him as a Knight of the Locastrian Heron Guard.
He and his mount fell on me and my unit and from that encounter; I was the only survivor….
Excerpt from A Soldier´s Tale by Sgt. Amonar Trask (ret) of the Home Guard of Akral Tel
The living airships of Locastus, City of Mirrors
The dark wizard of Locastus, now long dead and gone….. Or is he?
The susurrating death-bringer of the Northern Moors.
An unsavoury character, yet immensely useful to know if you are in need of urgent medical attention, but want to avoid the eyes of the authorities….
The smoke-breathing gnomes of the Thunderheads
A vast, intricate complex of kilns and forges where the low-grade ore from the Thunderhead mines are turned into steel of unsurpassed quality. What are the secrets of the Acibus Foundry?
A gigantic, warped edifice, towering over the dark, soot-stained Witherdowns, where human corpses are turned into Deaders.
The industrial district of Locastus, where huge, cathedral-like factories rise over the low brick houses, and tall ivy-choked chimneys spew out black smoke, day and night.
These are the various races of humans in Locastus, City of Mirrors.
A gigantic insect, native to the arid badlands of northern Aquur, where fierce desert warriors roam the dunes, and the sand storms can flay a man to the bone in minutes.
Thunder and lightning is the sign of their shamans hunting and killing demons. Children's souls must be protected for their souls are not firmly in place yet and are easy for demons to take hold of. The shamans must hunt and destroy them and each break of thunder is another death of a demon hunting for souls.


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Sarjaton Bowl, Letti Pearl Grey, 23 oz
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Designers: Aleksi Kuokka / Harri Koskinen / Musuta / Samuji
Manufacturer: IIttala
Country of Origin: Finland
Dimensions: 5.6" D x 2.7" H
Materials: Porcelain
Why is it Special?
Meaning 'no series' in Finnish, Iittala Sarjaton redefines the freedom of flexibility. Including 26 essential everyday pieces, Sarjaton designs work just as beautifully alone as they do together. And just like all of their designs, Iittala Sarjaton is easy to combine with other pieces and patterns. Sarjaton is the result of collaboration between six talented designers from fashion, product, graphic and digital design, all of whom share the same vision of interpreting Finnish traditions in a modern way.


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FAYETTEVILLE — The basketball court in Bud Walton Arena was damaged by flooding late last week.
Arkansas associate athletic director Kevin Trainor confirmed the damage to the playing court in an emailed statement on Tuesday afternoon.
"This past Friday, Bud Walton Arena experienced water infiltration on some portions of the playing floor and areas surrounding the playing floor following heavy rains overnight," Trainor said in an email. "Currently and throughout the remainder of this week the floor will be unavailable while the athletic department works to remove any excess moisture and completes a full assessment of any potential long-term damage to the playing surface."
The extent of the damage — or how much it will cost to fix it — is not immediately clear. But the issue has pushed the Arkansas men's and women's basketball teams out of Bud Walton Arena for the time being.
Trainor said individual workouts are being held at another location.
It's also not known at this point when the floor can be used again, but both the men's and women's teams will begin preseason practices early next month.
The water damage came a few weeks after Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long revealed he has gotten more "resistance" than expected from fans and donors about the program's plans to build a $20 to $25 million basketball practice facility. The facility, which is part of Arkansas' three-pronged "Never Yield" campaign, would provide practice courts for both the men's and women's programs.
"We want to provide some flexibility to do some things in Bud Walton Arena," Long said at the time, adding that the facility would also open the arena for concerts and speeches on campus. "That basketball practice facility allows us to do it. And allows us to become more efficient with our student-athletes' time."
Long admitted some of the resistance was because of the program's struggles over the past decade. But he said men's basketball coach Mike Anderson is on his way to restoring the program, but needs help and believes the facility is key.
"We all know in fundraising, people give far more to a winner than they do to a program that's trying to come up," Long said in early September. "The conversation with donors, they want to be associated with winning programs. There are many reasons why our basketball program hasn't reached back to the heights we all want it to. But one of those, I will tell you, is a basketball practice facility.
"That doesn't take the place of a great head coach. That doesn't take the place of great recruiting. It doesn't take the place of a great university to attract them to in the first place. I'm very excited about what Mike Anderson's doing. He's going to build it. We're going to get this facility for him and when he does it's going to be a game-changer, just like the Fred W. Smith Center is for football."


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Aaryn Ellenberg scored 22 points and No. 12 Oklahoma State, playing without guard Maddie Manning, dominated Northwestern State 96-35 on Thursday night.
Ellenberg was 5 of 7 from 3-point range and had five rebounds and six steals.
Nicole Kornet, replacing Manning in the starting lineup, scored a career-high 19 points. Nicole Griffin 12 and Morgan Hook added 10. Joanna McFarland came off the bench and pulled down 10 rebounds. All nine Sooners scored.
The Sooners were up by 10 before the Demons were able to hit their first basket, a 3-pointer by Janelle Perez. At halftime, the Sooners were up 45-19.
Tiandra Williams led the Demons with 10 points. Jasmine Bradley had six rebounds for the Demons (4-3), who shot just 26 percent from the field for the game.
Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale announced Thursday that Manning would miss the rest of the regular season because of a knee injury.


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Following the news that Rosie O'Donnell has opened up to Oprah Winfrey about a blow up she had with Barbara Walters while working on "The View," Sherri Shepherd told Access Hollywood she hopes for "healing" for her two friends.
"I think Barbara Walters – and Rosie knows this – is a person that you could go to dinner with and say, 'You hurt my feelings,' so, I'm glad she's saying that," Sherri told Access' Shaun Robinson Saturday night on the red carpet of the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
In clips made available to Access Hollywood to promote Rosie's appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" airing this coming Monday, Rosie spoke to the talk show queen about the incident with Barbara. It wasn't immediately clear from the clip when the incident took place, however, a rep for Harpo said it happened backstage at "The View" after Barbara returned from a vacation.
"I've told Barbara Walters many times, 'Barbara, you just, you hurt my feelings!'" Sherri joked. "No, she's never hurt my feelings."
Sherri said her "View" co-host Barbara is always approachable and easy to talk to.
"It's really great that [Rosie] is saying that. Barbara Walters is a person you can talk to," Sherri continued. "Hopefully, they'll be able to get together from this… They're both really wonderful people. Hopefully [there] will be some healing."
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Why is homeopathy "utter nonsense"? What about ear candling? And does ginger really help prevent motion sickness?
Chemistry professor and author Joe Schwarcz, PhD, answers these questions and more in his latest books.
Schwarcz, director of McGill University's office for science and society, is on a mission to demystify science for students and public alike. Through his bestselling books, a weekly column for The Montreal Gazette, radio shows, university lectures and public talks -- including one given Wednesday night in Calgary addressing the public's rising fear of chemicals -- Schwarcz explores the science that surrounds us in our daily lives.
His forthcoming book, Dr. Joe's Health Lab (Doubleday Canada, Nov. 6, $22.95) focuses on health, nutrition and medicine.
Schwarcz, who's been fascinated by chemistry ever since seeing a magician perform at a childhood birthday party, used to write up science quizzes for his school buddies. He continues to share his love of science with people, selecting items he finds interesting.
"The main theme in all my books is separating sense from nonsense and providing interesting information. It's entertainment for the mind, as well as feeding the mind. I try to make it compact, because in these days people have been conditioned to sound bites, which is why I make them punchy and to the point."
He pulls no punches debunking alternative health practices, especially homeopathy, which has been trumpeted by British royals, including Prince Charles.
"Homeopathy is the most absurd of all of the alternative beliefs," Schwarcz says.
In 1790 a German physician theorized "that a substance that causes certain symptoms when given to a healthy person in a high dose will, when given in a smaller dose, cure sick people who suffer from the same symptoms. He then compounded his illogical idea by suggesting that the smaller the dose, the more powerful the remedy," the chemistry prof writes in Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks. The doses are diluted so much they don't contain a single molecule of the original substance.
"It's utter nonsense," says Schwarcz, explaining that people are being fleeced for what is essentially the placebo effect.
"Many, if not most, diseases are self-limiting and will get better no matter what you do, whether you take a homeopathic remedy or the triply distilled extract of virgin Himalayan mules. If you believe in it, it will work for you 30 to 40 per cent of the time."
Likewise, he dashes the hopes of menopausal women everywhere when he says there's no evidence that natural remedies black cohosh and soy extract help with hot flashes. (A Mayo Clinic study published earlier this week also dismissed the use of flaxseed for treating menopausal symptoms.) "We see this over and over again," says Schwarcz. An initial study shows a positive result; typically they're poorly controlled or done with few people, and as better studies with proper controls and larger populations are mounted, cold water is thrown on the benefits.
He cautions people to be careful with herbal remedies. While many pharmaceuticals stem from plants, the active ingredient is isolated, purified and standardized. "The approval system is not the same as for prescription drugs; you don't have to show the same degree of efficacy and safety. And people assume because it's natural it can't be harmful, which is totally incorrect."
Patients should always inform their doctors about the "natural" remedies they take. For example, St. John Wort was first identified as interfering with the antirejection drug cyclosporine after a heart transplant patient took the herb to treat depression but neglected to inform his doctors.
In Dr. Joe's Health Lab, Schwarcz heaps scorn on "thermal auricular therapy," or ear candling, saying the practice of holding a lit, hollow candle in the ear to suck out ear wax is absurd.
Worse, it's dangerous. In some cases, molten wax has burned though people's eardrums. (The sale of ear candles is illegal in Canada.)
Finally, what about ginger? It actually does work to reduce motion sickness and may help with the pain of arthritis, he says. Apparently, ginger triggers the release of chemicals in the body that have antiinflammatory properties.
Just don't take it with blood thinners, because it also has an anticoagulant effect. And don't rely on ginger ale to deliver the goods -- it contains very little ginger.


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Costs add up for presidential visit
Presidential visit: Stamford, Westport unlikely to have security expenses reimbursed by Obama campaign
Tens of thousands of dollars in local and state police overtime, plus lost revenue at Sherwood Island State Park, will most likely become Connecticut's public cost for President Barack Obama's campaign fundraiser in Fairfield County on Monday.
And one town leader is asking for reimbursement.
State and local police supplemented the president's Secret Service protection, providing rolling closures of Interstate 95 and local roads during the afternoon rush hour between Stamford and Westport.
Increased security in Westport, site of the $38,500-per-head dinner for 50 at the Beachside Avenue home of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, cost the town about $15,000.
In Stamford, where Obama began his Connecticut fundraising swing with a $500-per-person cocktail reception at the Marriott Hotel and Spa, police officials are still calculating the final overtime costs, but said it would be significantly more than $15,000.
Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia is wrapping up a weeklong trip in London and could not be reached for comment on whether the city will seek reimbursement.
Westport First Selectman Gordon Joseloff said Tuesday that the town will request reimbursement from the Obama campaign, but judging by history, it's unlikely to arrive.
"While we welcome the president visiting us, incurring unbudgeted costs are not welcome," Joseloff said in a statement Tuesday. "Westport may be more affluent than some other towns, but we watch over our taxpayer dollars very carefully."
Joseloff said Police Chief Dale Call told him that town cops amassed $12,460 in overtime, not including backup assistance from the towns of Wilton, Trumbull, Easton, Monroe and Fairfield.
Westport Fire Chief Andrew Kingsbury said his department's overtime amounted to $2,352 for standing by at Sherwood Island State Park, which was closed to the public Monday because the president's helicopter landed and took off from there. Town firefighters also provided tactical support for the fundraising visit to Stamford and Westport, which netted Obama's campaign about $2.5 million.
Joseloff, a Democrat, said he would request payment from the president's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, with an added copy to Weinstein.
Weinstein, contacted through his New York-based production company on Tuesday, referred questions to Obama's campaign.
Joseloff conceded that after three similar fundraisers in 1998 and 1999 for President Bill Clinton, the town struck out on gaining reimbursement.
"I'm not optimistic we will be successful, but I need to make the effort," Joseloff said.
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection estimated that about 1,000 people visit Sherwood Island on an average summer weekday, with about $2,500 generated by parking fees. Concessions add more money for the state, but the annual contract is subject to bidding.
The park's lifeguards will get paid as if they worked the day, DEEP officials said.
Dennis Schain, spokesman for DEEP, said tradition indicates that the campaign will not be offering the state money.
"We're not expecting reimbursement, nor are we requesting it," Schain said in a phone interview. "That has been the precedent that has been established over the years."
An Obama campaign official said Tuesday that the Secret Service takes the lead on all presidential security issues and they are not decisions made by the campaign.
"Any local law enforcement organization contacted by the Secret Service to assist in security should discuss matters related to costs and how to effectively manage those costs with the Secret Service," said the campaign official, who did not want to be named.
Robert L. Barrett, resident agent in charge of the Secret Service's New Haven office, said Tuesday that the agency has no funding for reimbursing local overtime.
"The Secret Service does not pay for overtime associated with protected visits," Barrett said in a Tuesday night interview.
Andrew J. McDonald, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's chief counsel, said the governor was not consulted last week on the planned visit. "My understanding is that State Police were contacted by the Secret Service," McDonald said in a phone interview Monday. "The security and logistics of the president's travels are not something that's negotiated. They pretty much dictate what it's going to be."
Greenwich First Selectman Peter J. Tesei, a Republican whose town saw two fundraising events for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney in May, said Tuesday that Police Chief James Heavey was compiling costs associated with those events and would have them Wednesday.
"He indicated that prior administrations considered requests for reimbursement but never pursued them," Tesei said in an email. "The general sentiment is the service provided is within the mission of local law enforcement and irrespective of politics it is an honor to have a U.S. president or presidential candidate visit our town."


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Driven by the continued growth of smartphones, the market for mobile device accessories will grow at a 10.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2012 through 2017, resulting in annual revenues of $62 billion in 2017. According to the latest analysis from market intelligence firm ABI Research, revenues for non-smartphone accessories will decline at a 4% CAGR over the same period as fewer feature phones are sold.
"Because smartphones tend to generate greater accessory revenues per device, it is believed that smartphones will drive 80% of the aftermarket revenues in 2017," says mobile devices senior analyst Michael Morgan. Among the thirteen accessory product segments tracked by ABI Research, protective cases and stereo wired headsets are predicted to show the highest growth rates of 18.2% and 15.6% respectively. ABI Research notes that mono wired headsets will show a decline in shipments of 1.3% as consumers increasingly seek accessories that will maximize the media consumption capabilities of their handsets.
Accessories are increasingly becoming personalized to the user's performance, style and preferences, which augments the mobile device experience. "The design of smarter accessories to enhance the consumption of key smartphone features will enable mobile device accessory OEMs to remain competitive in this market," adds senior practice director Jeff Orr. ABI Research expects this push for smarter accessories to not only drive improved design but further maintain or grow average selling prices across the category.
These findings are part of ABI Research's Mobile Device Accessories Research Service, which includes Research Reports, Market Data, Insights, and Competitive Assessments. The large volume opportunity for aftermarket accessories includes tracking and analysis of memory cards, protective cases, decorative elements, Bluetooth headsets, cradles, chargers, scratch protectors, batteries, wired and so-called smart accessories.
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Previous media releases
Agenda for the Annual General Meeting of UBS AG on 3 May 2012
Zurich/Basel, 29 March 2012 – UBS AG today published the agenda for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) on 3 May 2012. The agenda items are as follows:
1. Annual report, Group and Parent Bank accounts for financial year 2011
Reports of the auditors
1.1. Approval of annual report and Group and Parent Bank accounts
1.2. Advisory vote on the compensation report 2011
2. Appropriation of retained earnings and distribution
3. Discharge of the members of the Board of Directors and the Group Executive Board for the financial year 2011
4. Elections
4.1. Reelection of members of the Board of Directors
4.1.1. Michel Demaré
4.1.2. David Sidwell
4.1.3. Rainer-Marc Frey
4.1.4. Ann F. Godbehere
4.1.5. Axel P. Lehmann
4.1.6. Wolfgang Mayrhuber
4.1.7. Helmut Panke
4.1.8. William G. Parrett
4.1.9. Joseph Yam
4.2. Election of new candidates for the Board of Directors
4.2.1. Isabelle Romy
4.2.2. Beatrice Weder di Mauro
4.2.3. Axel A. Weber
4.3. Reelection of the auditors, Ernst & Young Ltd., Basel
4.4. Reelection of the special auditors, BDO AG, Zurich
5. Increase of conditional capital and approval of amended Article 4a para. 1 of the Articles of Association
6. Amendments of the Articles of Association
6.1. Deletion of Article 37 of the Articles of Association
6.2. Deletion of Article 38 of the Articles of Association
The invitation to the AGM with explanations of the agenda items can be viewed on the UBS website at www.ubs.com/agm
The UBS AG AGM will take place on 3 May 2012 at the Hallenstadion in Zurich-Oerlikon, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
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Representatives of the media may register to attend the UBS AG AGM by returning the enclosed invitation by 26 April 2012 at the latest (see invitation on page 3 ).
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HTC recently launched the Android powered HTC Wildfire in India exclusively for Reliance Mobile customers. This handset comes with a 3.2 inch touchscreen display and runs on Android 2.1 Operating System and 528 MHz processor. Other features include a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and flash, 3G Connectivity and much more. Check out the specs below.
Social networks have really caught on the fancy of today's young generation, who like to stay seamlessly connected with each other even while on-the-go. The stylishly designed HTC Wildfire combined with the HTC Sense experience bring all your communication requirements into one place, whether it's through Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Flickr, text messages, images or email, ensuring that one is never far away from the conversation and always close to one's friends,said Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India.
The launch of HTC Wildfire is in line with our strategy to offer next-generation service on mobile phones enabled with superior voice clarity, hi-speed wireless data network access and ultra-fast application downloads to Reliance Mobile customers, said Mr. Mahesh Prasad, President Marketing Wireless Business, Reliance Communications.
HTC Wildfire Specs:
- 3.2 inch touchscreen display
- 240 x 320 pixels resolution
- Android 2.1 OS with HTC Sense
- 528 MHz processor
- 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and flash
- Geotagging
- 3G Connectivity
- Wi-Fi
- 3.5 mm stereo audio jack
- microUSB 2.0
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Digital compass
- Proximity and light sensor
- Friend Stream
- HTC Peep
- 1300 mAh battery
HTC Wildfire comes with a price tag of Rs.16,590. Reliance Mobile GSM customers will get 500MB free internet usage for the next 6 months. You can buy this handset from any authorized HTC resellers in India.


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Problems, complaints and disputes
If you have a problem, complaint or dispute you should generally first try to resolve the issue with the person or organisation directly. If that doesn't work there are a number of organisations you can turn to for help.
Are you are renting accommodation from DUWO, via Leiden University Housing Office? If so, who you should contact depends on the nature of the problem:
- Problems concerning contracts or payment: Contact Leiden University Housing Office
- Maintenance and repair issues: Contact DUWO via the online Request for repair form
- Problems of a more personal nature, such as difficulties with a roommate or adapting to life in the Netherlands: Contact the International Student Adviser
- If you have already spoken to the parties above but your problem remains unresolved, you can contact the Ombuds Officer for students.
- You can also contact BRES, the tenants association for DUWO tenants, for help and advice:
Pelikaanhof 136
2312 EH Leiden
071 – 407 7630
huurdersverenigingbres.nl (in Dutch)
BRES Leiden on Facebook
Leiden tenants: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Hague tenants: firstname.lastname@example.com
Student Legal Aid Centre Leiden (Studenten Rechtsbureau Leiden)
The Student Legal Aid Centre Leiden is an organisation of law students who offer free legal advice.
Plexus Student Centre
Kaiserstraat 25
2311 GN Leiden
071 – 527 112
Leiden Legal Aid Centre (de Leidse Rechtswinkel)
Staff of the Leiden Legal Aid Centre can help with any legal problems or questions you might have, including rental issues.
Langegracht 61
2312 NW Leiden
071 – 514 1516
The Hague Legal Aid Foundation (de Haagse Wetswinkel)
The Hague Legal Aid Foundation offers free legal advice to people with a limited budget. It holds open consultation sessions at various locations in The Hague.
De Haagse Wetswinkel
Spui 68
2511 BT The Hague
070 – 363 0665
Leiden University International Student Adviser
Are you an international students, and are you experiencing housing-related problems or difficulties adapting to life in the Netherlands? If so, you can turn to the International Student Adviser for help.
If you are renting accommodation from DUWO you can turn to BRES, the DUWO tenants association, for help and advice:
Pelikaanhof 136
2312 EH Leiden
071 – 407 7630
huurdersverenigingbres.nl (in Dutch)
BRES Leiden on Facebook
Leiden tenants: email@example.com
The Hague tenants: email@example.com
Housing Hotline
International students who are experiencing housing-related difficulties are welcome to contact the Housing Hotline. Via an online form, you can request help and advice on a range of issues, including finding accommodation and problems with your landlord. The Housing Hotline is an initiative of the Dutch Student Union (LSVb) and Erasmus Student Network (ESN).
Rent Tribunal (Huurcommissie)
The Rent Tribunal is a governmental organisation to which both tenants and landlords can turn in cases of disputes about rental accommodation.
Postbus 16495
2500 BL The Hague
0800 – 488 72 43
huurcommissie.nl (in Dutch)
For information about the rent tribunal in English please go to government.nl.
Legal Expenses Insurance Information Centre (Rechtsbijstandverzekering Informatie Centrum)
The Legal Expenses Insurance Information Centre is an independent platform that provides information about legal expenses insurance in the Netherlands. On their website you can find information about the rental laws governing student accommodation.


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LINCOLN Centre on a chilly Friday night in late November is thronged with early-evening shoppers, home-going commuters and a steady stream of people who intend to spend their night witnessing the assassination of the King of Sweden at a masked ball.
Welcome to the Metropolitan Opera's 294th performance of Verdi's great middle-period work, Un Ballo in Maschera. The Met, whose grandiose arches dominate the forecourt of Lincoln Centre, seats 3800 (plus 175 standing), which makes it one of the largest opera houses in the world. But these figures are finite: only so many can see opera live.
For hundreds of thousands of others, the company's successful Live in HD series of broadcasts have brought the Met's repertoire to a world far beyond the splashing fountains of Lincoln Centre. For instance, the Ballo matinee performance of December 8 was seen live in cinemas across the US and in Europe; this month, it screens in Australian cinemas.
There are, of course, substantial differences between opera live on stage and projected on a wall. From row M of the orchestra stalls, my Met experience was magnificently thrilling. Primarily, you are there as it happens, living and breathing the performance along with those who are creating or contributing to it. When all the musical and dramatic elements are as one, they fuse into something special, something unforgettable. And so it proved.
The Met Orchestra, that great musical instrument, played passionately and flawlessly under the house's principal conductor, Fabio Luisi. The singers, by this, the third performance, were well into their roles: Marcelo Alvarez's lyrical Gustavo; Sondra Radvanovsky's powerful Amelia; and, as her avenging husband Ankarstrom, the suave and honey-baritoned Dmitri Hvorostovsky. The diminutive soprano Kathleen Kim was an outstanding page, Oscar.
This splendid and focused production of Ballo in Maschera is new. Its director, the American-born David Alden, is making a somewhat belated Met debut. Alden, who works mainly in Europe, has had a long association with this opera, first directing it a quarter of a century ago for the English National Opera. ''It made my career in a way,'' Alden told me back in London. ''In those days, the ENO didn't have a whole lot of money to spend on visuals. So the aesthetic of the production was very different. The show had a raw simplicity.''
The aesthetic of Alden's Met production is, he says, even more refined. It is dominated by a huge Baroque painting of Icarus falling from the sky - an mythological figure Alden associates with the opera's central character, Gustavo III. ''Gustavo is a king who is more of an artist, an effete, and I wanted this obsessive visual image to carry through the piece,'' Alden says.
The censorship of the day forced Verdi to relocate the action of the opera from the Swedish court to the unlikely location of colonial Boston, which Alden calls ''ridiculous, totally wrong for the music and a betrayal of the score''. Although his production is the Swedish version, it is deliberately set closer to our own times.
''The Swedish connection in my head has to do with Strindberg and Bergman. I wanted it to be slightly fractured, with that sense of European government.''
I asked Alden how he felt about the transfer of his production from stage to screen. ''Obviously you gain a closeness to the singers and intimacy with them and what they're doing, if you have singing actors as we do. That's the good news.''
The bad news - at least for Alden, who saw the broadcast a few days before our interview - was how the transition changed what he calls the spatial tension of his production.
''My shows are about people within a space, the distance between and the closeness between people and tension in an enclosed space. I am just as interested in movement and space as I am in psychology. What you got on this one was 99 per cent focus on people and relationships; what you didn't get was the visual and choreographic narrative.''
What was also changed, Alden said, was the lighting. ''That, for me, is everything. Light is the focus and narrative and the closest response to the music that one has to deal with. Obviously you have to change some of the lighting for the cameras, but this was much more than making an adjustment.
''What I don't like was that I wasn't included in the process at all. Everywhere else you have meetings with the director and are consulted about the process, and you can work with them to try to preserve what you had in mind. This was not the case here.''
The general manager of the Met, Peter Gelb, responding in an email, said although the intention was to stay true to the original staging, some ''minimal adjustments'' of lighting were necessary to modify viewing levels for HD transmission. ''The new production of Ballo required more significant adjustments of lighting than is the norm,'' Gelb said.
''Given the practical issues of rehearsing the cameras at a performance on a Tuesday, and re-scripting and preparing for a live transmission just four days later, an in-depth consultation with Mr Alden, who was in Europe during this period, was not possible - although he was sent a copy of the scratch Tuesday tape via computer file in order to provide his comments. While we regret that the results might have been disappointing to Mr Alden, we believe the live transmission was a success in terms of its adaptation for the large screen.''


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Utilities prepare for possible blizzard
Extra crews brought in to help clear downed trees, wires
The major utilities in Massachusetts, which have come under intense criticism for their poor responses to severe storms in recent years, say they are fully prepared for this weekend's anticipated blizzard.
NSTAR spokesman Mike Hayhurst called the storm a "Level 5 event," the utility's highest category, meaning the impact will hit a substantial portion of their customers during multiple days
Hayhurst said all 3,000 NSTAR employees will be on duty during the storm, and hundreds of contractors are headed to the region from Florida, Wisconsin and Chicago to help with power restoration.
National Grid, with more than 1 million customers in Massachusetts, said Thursday it is developing crew assignments and readying equipment in anticipation of harsh weather that could dump two feet of snow and bring high winds with the potential to take down power lines.
The utilities are also urging customers to prepare by making sure they have plenty of batteries and emergency provisions.


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Hi all
I have purchased a light meter and have read a plethora of confusing and conflicting literature on the correct metering techniques for studio portraiture.
Could you give me advice on what I should or should not be doing. I won't mention brand names of the light meter I have purchased so will keep this generic and hypothetical.
Let's say I have a four light set up: key, fill, hair and background lights. I am not so much concerned about the mix between continuous fluorescent lighting and any strobes I might be using.
Okay here we go. From my understanding, I might want to:
Firstly meter the key light (let's say eg f/11), aiming directly at the light from the subject. I would turn all other lights off to do this
Then I would meter the fill light 1 stop under at f/8 (turning other lights off), aiming directly at the fill light from the subject.
Meter the background light at f/11 (with main and fill on), holding the back of the light meter against the background where the light falls and aiming at the camera.
Meter the hairlight at f/8 (all other lights on), aiming from the side of the head.
This would then give me my lighting ratios in relation to the key and fill.
After being satisfied I had my light power settings and distances correct for the aperture or shutter I wanted to shoot at, I would then take my final overall incident metering reading (with all lights on) from a position at the subject (let's say under the chin), aiming the light meter directly at the axis of the camera lens.
Have I got that right? In summary, my understanding is that the individual light readings are only to determine the ratio in relation to each other. The final reading (the one aimed at the camera from under the subject's chin) is the actual one I use to determine my final exposure settings on camera.
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- Placement location: Wild At Tuli, Botswana
- Role: To help conserve, study biodiversity and maintain the reserve
- Main Research Focus: Elephants, baobab trees, inventory of fauna and flora
- Local Environment: African Bush
- Accommodation: Volunteer tents at base camp
- Price: From
- What's included? Food, accommodation, transfers to and from our specified airport, transport to and from work where required, insurance, personal webpage, induction and orientation, 24/7 support
- What's not included? Flights, visa costs, spending money
- Length of placement: From 1 week
- Start dates: Flexible
You can take part in a Conservation & Environment project in South Africa on our nature reserve called Wild At Tuli. You will be based on the Botswana side of the Limpopo River, on the very frontier with South Africa. This is the chance of a lifetime to experience living in a wild landscape teeming with animals.
The project involves different reserves and environmental groups in South Africa and Botswana working together. We look to conserve wildlife and bush ecosystems, and to share knowledge about the diversity of the area. Volunteers can help to conserve animals from hyenas to elephants, and many other African species. All of this takes place in an incredible location with skilled and experienced supervision from local staff.
This project is perfect for anyone with a passion for nature and the great outdoors. It offers you adventure and the chance to learn about the fascinating world of African Bushveld Conservation. You do not need previous experience to take part in this project. Volunteers are welcome on a gap year, a career break, for university research, or as part of a summer holiday.
10 Key Facts about Conservation in Botswana
Here you will find answers to the following questions:
What is my role on this Conservation & Environment project?
What are the aims of this Conservation & Environment project?
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What is my role on this Conservation & Environment project?
Volunteers on this project can take part in a wide variety of activities, such as:
- Elephant research studying population dynamics
- Baobab tree surveys and protection
- Soil erosion control
- Removal of old fencing wire
- Dam building and protection
- Helping construct natural water holes for animals
- Mammal and bird inventory using: visual sightings at observation points, camera traps and identification of tracks and signs
- Building viewing hides
- Clearing and repairing existing roads and designing and marking new roads
- Anti-poaching patrols
- Learning skills in animal and plant identification
Volunteers on average work five or six hours a day; four hours of more strenuous work in the cooler morning and two in the late afternoon. The middle of the day is normally devoted to eating, sleeping, swimming, relaxing and keeping cool!
The work is divided up amongst all of our volunteers using a weekly timetable. Trained local staff are on hand to supervise activities and provide support.
What are the aims of this Conservation & Environment project?
The project aims to create a protected conservancy, bringing together Projects Abroad Wild At Tuli and other reserves in the area to create a central Tuli block. Once this is achieved we can join a Trans Frontier Conservation Area, consisting of conservation blocks from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. This is an exciting new initiative, combining conservation efforts across international boundaries - including game reserves, national parks and conservation areas. It is all for the benefit of wildlife, local people and future generations.
Drought, illegal hunting, desertification and land degradation are major environmental problems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reserves like Wild At Tuli are essential havens for wildlife. Human encroachment onto wild areas has caused wildlife populations to decrease. This adds to the importance of legally protecting land to ensure the survival of African wildlife and preserving land in its natural state.
Wild At Tuli reserve is 5000 hectares and the conservation efforts are continuous. Volunteers will find themselves getting involved in a wide variety of different on-going projects. Data collected across these projects is used to gain a greater understanding of the populations and their ecology, which is passed on to various co-operating groups. By joining forces we can create one powerful voice with an aim of conserving a big enough land mass to allow the original migratory routes of large indigenous mammals.
You can read more detailed information about the aims of the project in our Botswana Conservation Management Plan.
Where will I live on this project?
You will live on the Botswana side of the Limpopo River, on the frontier with South Africa. Accommodation at base camp is in 6 person, single-sex tents surrounding an open air communal area with a fire pit and kitchen facilities. This is where volunteers spend their evenings socialising under a magical night sky, watching dancing flames.
In your spare time at the camp, you can relax under the shade of the nearby trees with a good book. Some volunteers simply like to watch a magnificent African sunset or sunrise from one of the view points from the fire place. Due to the absolute wildness of this reserve, volunteers are never to leave camp without a qualified member of staff. A staff member, with one volunteer, will make weekly trips to town to help re-stock the fridge and get hold of anything you've been craving since the last trip.
Please note that the maximum length of stay on this Conservation project is 3 months, and it's preferred that volunteers arrive on a Monday. The project also closes for 3 weeks over Christmas, from about the middle of December to early January.
You can join the Conservation & Environment project in South Africa for one, two or three weeks if you don't have time to join us for four weeks or more. This project has been selected by our local colleagues as being suitable for short term volunteering for both the host community and the volunteer. Although you will gain a valuable cultural insight and work intensely on a variety of conservation activities please be aware that you may not be able to make the same impact as someone volunteering for a longer period. Volunteers joining the Conservation & Environment project for just one week should arrive at a weekend.
This placement is fully researched, safety audited and risk assessed in accordance with the British Standard BS8848 for the Adventure Travel Sector.


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This is, indeed, an authoritative guide to meter and form. However, Fussell's arrogance had me running to other equally authoritative yet substantially less elitist sources. Try Mary Oliver's Rules of the Dance or Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled instead. Read full review
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This is not the first book to read on the subject of how form assists meaning in poetry; for that I would go back to John Ciardi's How Does a Poem Mean? But Fussell's book is a good, succinct one for ... Read full review
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Oprah Winfrey is opening up about the Paula Deen N-word controversy.
Following the embattled Southern chef's public fall from grace, the media mogul sat down with E! News at the NYC junket for Lee Daniel's "The Butler" Monday and shared her thoughts on the criticism the former Food Network star received after admitting to past use of the racial slur.
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In May, the celebrity chef's reputation was irreparably damaged after she admitted in a video deposition to using the N-word as part of a $1.2 million lawsuit filed against her by a former employee.
The controversial confession caused a number of sponsors--including the Food Network, Smithfield Foods, Sears, Caesars Entertainment Corporation and JCPenney, to name a few--to sever their ties with the 66-year-old chef.
"Unfortunately, she is a public figure," Winfrey continued. "And whatever the situation was with the hearing that she had, or had said it and then went on TV and said she had only said it one time, but Paula Deen, I thought, represented a whole lot of people. And I think for the big issue to be made about Paula Deen was what the media does."
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"You and I both know a lot of people use that word," the talk show host--who visited Deen at her home in Savannah, Georgia in 2012 for a sit-down interview on her series Oprah's Next Chapter--added.
Despite Deen issuing a tearful apology on the "Today" show insisting she's not a racist, companies continued to distance themselves from the beleaguered chef. She was later dropped by Walmart, and Ballantine Books canceled publication for her cookbook Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up.
Until now, Oprah chose not to share her thoughts on the scandal, although she recently discussed the use of the N-word in an interview with Parade magazine to promote her upcoming film.
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"You cannot be my friend and use that word around me," the OWN Network star said. "It shows my age, but I feel strongly about it...I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree."
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The authors present four companion digital models of the age, age uncertainty, spreading rates and spreading asymmetries of the world's ocean basins as geographic and Mercator grids with 2 minute resolution. The grids include data from all the major ocean basins as well as detailed reconstructions of back-arc basins. The age, spreading rate and asymmetry at each grid node is determined by linear interpolation between adjacent seafloor isochrons in the direction of spreading. Ages for ocean floor between the oldest identified magnetic anomalies and continental crust are interpolated by geological estimates of the ages of passive continental margin segments. The age uncertainties for grid cells coinciding with marine magnetic anomaly identifications, observed or rotated to their conjugate ridge flanks, are based on the difference between gridded age and observed age. The uncertainties are also a function of the distance of a given grid cell to the nearest age observation, and the proximity to fracture zones or other age discontinuities. Asymmetries in crustal accretion appear to be frequently related to asthenospheric flow from mantle plumes to spreading ridges, resulting in ridge jumps towards hotspots. The authors also use the new age grid to compute global residual basement depth grids from the difference between observed oceanic basement depth and predicted depth using two alternative age-depth relationships. The new set of grids helps to investigate prominent negative depth anomalies, which may be alternatively related to subducted slab material descending in the mantle or to asthenospheric flow. A combination of these digital grids and the associated relative and absolute plate motion model with seismic tomography and mantle convection model outputs represent a valuable set of tools to investigate geodynamic problems.
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Question of the Week: – What's your favorite foot-care product?
Answer:- My rolling ball massager. Definitely a treat for my tired feet!
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Clumps of Mascara – thinks Eyeko's Skinny Brush mascara should get the "Best Dressed Mascara" award of 2012.
EauMG – If you want to smell like sugar, then you should try Costamor Dulcess.
Gouldylox Reviews – thinks you may be surprised by what some of the stars used for their big night.
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Nouveau Cheap – is kind of obsessed with the flakie polish in the new China Glaze Colours from the Capitol collection, so she layered it over five other shades for your viewing pleasure.
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I recently received an email from a regular reader here, who has decided to take the plunge and enter into the apparel business. He sent me a a nice email asking me how he might go about having his product reviewed, talked about and posted on my site. I decided that I would do a general post based on his question for others that might be interested in doing the same.Â
I basically break my blog posts about apparel brands into three different categories: brand news/sales, brand reviews and brand interview. The best way to let me know about any of these things is through the contact form in the above menu. Many of my posts originate from tidbits that I find myself through other blogs, forums or social networks. However, a lot of the time, bands will contact me directly.
If you decided to contact me directly then these are some things to remember:
General Brand News/Sales. Any changes to your brand? Big sale?Â
1. Be as specific as you can about the news about your brand/company. Provide a link to the news if you made a post about it on your site.
2. Be as specific about the sale as possible. How much is the discount? How long does the sale last? Are there specific products on sale?Â
Brand Reviews. Most of the emails I receive are from different indie brands wanting me to check out their online store/site or to review a product. Here is some insight as to how I decide what to review.Â
1. If you send me a physical product to review (i.e you mailed me something) I will almost always do a post about your product (I'm 100% so far). I have been more inclined as of late to do video reviews in conjunction with a text review of the product you shipped to me. Needless to say, products that are shipped to me typically receive the most attention – since you took the time to send it, it's the least I could do. You can find my shipping information in the contact menu above.
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Why We Take Photos
Photography in itself is extremely personal. Most of the time we are out to share with others what we see. Maybe we saw something amazing, or something unique, or a smile from our grumpy uncle. We capture these things because something about them stood out to us. Either it reminded us of something or it told a short story about something. Or we just thought something was pretty!
Over time we become more technically proficient and the quality of our images improve. Our subjects don't change much, but our images do.
Getting Lost in Photography: How to Re-Find Yourself
Then, one day, someone may ask if you can take photos for them and they're willing to pay you. And then more people ask, and then more and soon you're taking photos and getting paid!
And that's when you start getting lost. You spend so much time taking photos for others and not for yourself. At this point it is crucial that you find yourself in your photography.
The best thing to do here is to spend a few hours selecting your favorite images from the past year or so and really look at them. Here are some things you should look for.
- What is it you most like to photograph? Are most of the photos you chose landscapes, or macros, or portraits or events? Do you take a lot of photos of people but are most happy taking nature photos? Are you spending a lot of time taking photos of newborns, but actually prefer doing engagement sessions?
- What are your tendencies? When given an option do you prefer getting a wide shot or do you prefer getting nice and close? Do you like getting the whole scene in focus or do you prefer isolating your subject? Do you prefer taking photos from low angles, head on or from the side? Do you like capturing a full scene or waiting for a specific moment? Are you more drawn to nature backgrounds or urban?
- What are your preferred lenses? When you prepare yourself for a session what is the lens you always pack first? If you could only own one lens which would it be? Do you prefer using a zoom lens or prime lenses? Do you have a preferred focal length?
- Why do you shoot the way you do? Do you find it more comfortable shooting from a distance or being in the middle of the action? How did you come up with your go to shots? From memories, inspiration, or instruction? Do you like taking a lot of photos "playing it safe"? Or do you like to think, compose and then shoot? Do you prefer taking photos where you have a lot of time to work with or do you prefer a steady pace?
- Editing trends change over time, but why do you edit the way you do? Do you like to keep things looking natural and candid? Do you like adding filters and effects to make your images pop? Do you prefer bolder colors and good contrast? Are you an all color photographer or do you also enjoy black and white photos? If a new trend started would you follow it or keep your style?
- What makes your photography unique? One word answer. You!!
Should you build your photography around your uniqueness?
Yes, of course. Stick to your passions and your strengths! Don't do weddings just because you think the money is there if you like senior portrait photography more. There are many photographers who make over $1,000 per senior session.
Showcase your best photos on your website that tell a story of your style and vision. Charge what you're worth!
You're not like the other dozen photographers out there trying to be like the photographer up the street. If your style is different embrace it!
Value your work and others will value it as well.
I hope some of these suggestions are helpful to you finding yourself in your photography. We sometimes get so busy taking photos that we forget our place in it.
Tomas Haran is a custom portrait and wedding photographer based out of Worcester, Massachusetts. You can find him on his website or his blog.