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Mike TuchenCEO - Talend
A seasoned executive with deep experience in marketing and product strategy, Mike has been leading Talend since 2013. Previously, he was the CEO of Rapid7, which he took through a dramatic expansion in marketing, sales, partnerships, and product. Before that, he served as the General Manager of Microsoft's SQL Server Marketing team. Mike has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Adam ameisterChief Financial Officer
Adam joined Talend as Chief Financial Officer in 2018, bringing with him an in-depth knowledge of the software industry and strong capital markets expertise. Prior to Talend, Adam served as a Managing Director in the Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs where he focused on advising and leading transaction execution for software clients.
Ram BartovVice President and Corporate Controller
After successful tenures at RingCentral, SanDisk, and KPMG, Ram joined Talend as Vice President and Corporate Controller; in 2018, Ram became Interim Chief Financial Officer. Ram has deep experience managing and scaling accounting teams in quickly-growing public companies.
Brad StrattonEVP OF WORLDWIDE SALES
Before joining Talend, Brad spent 20 years in sales leadership at the software companies Verint, Witness Systems, and PTC. Brad got his B.A. at Colorado College and his M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota Carlson School.
Ashley StirrupChief Marketing Officer - Talend
Since 2014, Ashley has driven market leadership, global awareness, product marketing, and demand generation at Talend. Previously, he held senior leadership positions in marketing and product at leading cloud and software companies, including ServiceSource, Taleo, Citrix, and Siebel Systems.
Barbara CadiganSVP OF PEOPLE
Barb brings over 20 years of experience to her role at Talend, including expertise working with diverse international teams through periods of large-scale growth and change. In the past, she held a series of expanding roles at Electronic Arts and worked at Advanced Micro Devices and StorMedia.
Nello FrancoSVP OF CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Nello is responsible for all of Talend's customer-facing functions, including customer support, professional services, customer success management, and subscription management. Before joining our team in 2013, he held a series of roles leading the implementation of tech solutions to Global 1000 customers. Nello is also a leading influencer in the customer success space.
Laurent BrideChief Technical Officer
When he joined Talend, Laurent brought 17 years of software experience, including management and executive roles in customer support and product development. Most recently, Laurent was CTO at Axway where he was responsible for R&D, Innovation and Product Management. He has also spent more than nine years in the Silicon Valley, working for Business Objects and then SAP. Laurent holds an engineering degree in mathematics and computer science from EISTI.
Eric JohnsonChief Information Officer
Eric joined Talend as Chief Information Officer in 2018. Prior to Talend, he was the CIO of DocuSign, where he built the company's IT vision, infrastructure design, and led its global organization. Eric spent more than a decade at Informatica in increasingly senior IT roles, most recently as Senior Vice President and CIO.
Ciaran DynesSVP of Products
Ciaran is responsible for Talend's product roadmap, product strategy and works with customers to understand their requirements. Before joining our team, he held a series of roles at leading integration software vendors including Progress Software and IONA Technologies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.
Aaron RossGeneral Counsel
Before joining Talend, Aaron held senior in-house legal roles at Flex, Atmel, and Technicolor. Earlier in his career, he was an associate in the London and Paris offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and the San Francisco offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Aaron has a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell and a J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
John Brennan
John Brennan is a Managing Director and a co-founder of Sumeru Equity Partners. He was part of the leadership team of Silver Lake Sumeru, the middle market investment strategy of Silver Lake. Mr. Brennan has two decades of operating and investing experience in the technology sector. He serves on Silver Lake Sumeru's investment committee and continues to maintain responsibility for managing the SLS portfolio.
Nanci Caldwell
Ms. Caldwell is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of PeopleSoft Inc. Prior, she spent nearly two decades at Hewlett-Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in Canada, U.S and globally. A highly sought after corporate director, Caldwell currently sits on the boards of CIBC, Citrix, Equinix, and Donnelly Financial Solutions.
Nora Denzel
Ms. Denzel is the former interim CEO of Outerwall. Prior to that position, she served as the Senior Vice President of Big Data at Intuit and held several executive roles at HP Enterprise including SVP of HP's Global Enterprise Software Business. Denzel currently sits on the boards of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Ericsson. She is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute, a non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of women in computing.
Pat Jones
Pat Jones is currently Chairman of the Board of InsideSecure SA, an embedded security solutions company based in France. He has had considerable independent board member experience with a variety of technology companies, including software companies like Openwave Systems and Novell Inc. He was CFO of Gemplus SA (now Gemalto) as the company completed its IPO. Before that, he was VP Finance-Corporate Controller of Intel Corp , and was CFO of LSI Logic prior to that. Pat started his career at IBM and has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Steve Singh
Steve Singh is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and President, Business Networks and Applications. His responsibilities include driving SAP's market-leading businesses of Concur, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Health, and its SMB ERP business. In addition to his SAP commitments, Singh currently serves as chairman of the board of Center ID and is on the board of Docker and Modumetal.
Thierry Sommelet
Thierry Sommelet is Managing Director within the Mid & Large Cap division of Bpifrance Investissements, the private equity arm of the French public investment bank (formerly known as Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement, or "FSI"). Prior to joining FSI, he spearheaded investments of Caisse des Dépôts, a French public entity, in telecom infrastructure projetcts and digital services. Before that Thierry held different positions with HSBC, in Paris and New York, Los Altos-based Renaissance Software (now part of Sungard) and media company InfosCE. Thierry graduated from ENPC civil engineering school in Paris and holds an MBA from Insead.
Mike TuchenCEO - Talend
A seasoned executive with deep experience in marketing and product strategy, Mike has been leading Talend since 2013. Previously, he was the CEO of Rapid7, which he took through a dramatic expansion in marketing, sales, partnerships, and product. Before that, he served as the General Manager of Microsoft's SQL Server Marketing team. Mike has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from Harvard.


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Sometimes the hardest part isn't what happens on the set — it's landing the role in the first place. Here, a handful of actors gracing the screen this summer talk about how they got a crucial job.
"All Eyez on Me" (June 16)
Mr. Shipp had heard it before — that he looked like Tupac Shakur. Then an online casting call for a biopic of the rapper was posted in 2011. Though reluctant to try out for what would be his first acting job, Mr. Shipp submitted a tape at the last minute and his father — Demetrius Shipp Sr., who had produced Shakur's single "Toss It Up" — shared it with LT Hutton, a former Death Row Records producer who was a producer on the movie. The younger Shipp had won an audition.
"They're taking pictures," Mr. Shipp recalled. "They're like 'All right, start losing weight.' And they're giving me all these Tupac videos to study. I went bald and got my nose pierced for real."
Then he stopped hearing from them — until 2012, when he was asked to audition again. "So I did," he said, "the same process of reading with the new casting agency and going on camera. And guess what — no more calls."
2013: "Come read — we're back at it," they told him. Silence.
2014: Exact same thing.
So when asked to return in 2015, he replied: "No way, dude." But his mother said: "You have to go. This could really be it now."
She was right. Mr. Shipp enrolled in acting classes and lost weight in preparation for a June shoot that year. But, yep, silence — until August when he was asked to read one more time for the director he thought he had previously blown away.
Then in September, Mr. Shipp — who by then had been laid off at work and threatened with eviction — saw a casting call for the part. "Oh wow, I've dedicated my life to try to get this role, and this is how I find out that I didn't get it?" he thought.
A mere formality, he was reassured. On Nov. 18, 2015 — two days before his 27th birthday — Mr. Shipp learned that the role was officially his.
"Everything, Everything" (May 19)
Though Ms. Stenberg has a starring role this summer, what first made moviegoers sit up was her turn as Rue, the sympathetic young tribute in "The Hunger Games," a role that at the age of 12 she pushed to get. "I called my agent over and over and over again and said: 'Look, I know they're making an adaptation of my favorite book, and there's a character in this book who is 12 years old and black.' And that was actually a huge rarity, to find a character like that who was meaningful to the story."
The first audition went well and the casting director told her to dress up like Rue for the callback with the director, Gary Ross. "I went all in, covering myself in mud and twigs and leaves," she remembered.
On the way, she and her parents stopped at a diner. When she went to the bathroom in her dirty get-up, a woman asked her, "'Do you need help?' And I said, 'I'm O.K. — don't worry.'"
Then it was on to meet Mr. Ross. "I basically rolled around in my backyard and then showed up at his very nice house. And I had to be very careful when I arrived to not stain any of his furniture or leave a mud trail."
It worked. Besides showing her dedication, "by the end of it, everyone in the room was crying. They basically told me on the spot that the role was mine."
"Transformers: The Last Knight" (June 23)
To win a role in the latest "Transformers," Ms. Moner sent a self-tape from her home in Cleveland. "I was nervous. I had just turned 14 and was intimidated by the fact that it's such a big franchise and I'd be stepping into one of the leads."
The director Michael Bay wanted to see more and asked her to fly to Los Angeles for a screen test. "The hairstylist said, 'We're going to come up with the look for the movie.' Then Michael walks in and he's like, 'We might have to cut your hair.' I'm like, 'What? Right now?'" Luckily the new look let her keep her long tresses. "So we dodged a bullet on that one."
She and Mr. Bay went to a studio parking lot, where he asked her to pretend a Transformer was looming above as he filmed. He told her, "'I want you to shout things at him, be really mean and challenge him.' So I did what he wanted me to do, and he did as much as he could without actually having to pay me to be there. What was supposed to be a 30-minute meeting turned into a three-hour fun day of just a low-budget 'Transformers.'"
"Spider-Man: Homecoming" (July 7)
Mr. Holland, who had learned gymnastics for the title role of "Billy Elliot" in London, had been a fan of Spider-Man since he was a kid. So when he saw that Marvel was rebooting the series, he begged his agent to ask for an audition.
Two days later, he was asked to self-tape an audition, then another one and read Spider-Man's lines. But the film's casting people swore they weren't auditioning him for the role.
"I was a little confused as to why I was pretending to be Spider-Man if I wasn't auditioning for him," Mr. Holland said. "But I guess that was just a ruse."
And during that second self-tape, he did as many back flips as he could. "I was like, 'Hello, my name is Tom Holland,' back flip. 'I'm 5-foot-8,' side flip. 'I'm 20 years old,' back flip. It was just a way for me to get ahead of the crowd and try to get up to the big dogs here at Marvel."
He flipped his way through five more self-tapes, enlisting actors he was working on other projects with, like Joel Kinnaman and Jon Bernthal — and finally landed in a screen test opposite Chris Evans, a.k.a. Captain America.
"They had me do a fight scene, and basically I just went to town and did as many back flips as I could possibly do," he said. "It was amazing fun and I was lucky enough that they cast me."
"War for the Planet of the Apes" (July 14)
"I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're really interested in you for "Planet of the Apes,"' and of course I was immediately really interested because it's like getting a call saying, 'Hey, you can be in a movie that you watched as a kid.'"
A Skype meeting was set with the director Matt Reeves. "I remember thinking, 'O.K., do I do the whole chimpanzee thing? Yeah, I'll do like 50 percent.' It was just bizarre."
"I missed ape camp" — training sessions where the actors focus on movement — and instead he worked with the movement choreographer Terry Notary. "I assumed that immediately it would be very technical and he'd be showing me how to quadruped. And instead we just talked about the essence of chimpanzees and these minute things they do, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is going to be a lot harder than I thought.'"
For a week he worked with Mr. Notary and Andy Serkis, who stars as Caesar, then practiced in the mirror at night at home. "And I spent hours on YouTube watching chimps at zoos and was always fascinated with the chimp that just sat there, watching, not the one that was running around peeing on everyone. And I was like, 'Why is that different than a person?' It was a real daunting thing."
"Girls Trip" (July 21)
For her very first movie role, in "The Best Man," Ms. Hall was asked to dance.
"They didn't say what kind of dance but obviously she was a stripper," she remembered. So Ms. Hall called an acting-class friend who had experience with a pole and asked, "What do I do?"
Her friend's reply: "You don't have to do anything. All you have to do, girl, is just turn around and slap your butt. That's all it's going to take."
At the audition, other women performed Janet Jackson routines, but not Ms. Hall. She entered the room, placed a chair as if she were going to sit in it — but then straddled it as the beat began. "And I literally just looked over my shoulder and started hitting my butt," she said.
"O.K., stop the music," the producer Sam Kitt ordered, before asking, "So, can you do anything else?"
"I was like, yes, I can,'" Ms. Hall recalled. "And then I just picked up my coat and I said, 'Thank you very much, and I left."
She was hired for the role contingent upon working with a dance instructor.
"Wind River" (Aug. 4)
Ms. Asbille had already passed one audition for the role of Natalie Hanson, a young Native-American woman on a Wyoming reservation, but at the callback "I realized I was first up, which made me indescribably nervous."
Thankfully, the writer-director Taylor Sheridan put her at ease and she read some scenes with the casting director. But then Mr. Sheridan asked her to read a poem titled "A Meadow in My Perfect World."
Ms. Asbille found it beautiful and haunting. "It really struck a chord with me even on a personal level; so I felt — or I hoped — that I could do it justice," she said, and convey the character's strength and resilience.
"I wanted her to live through that poem so much I could barely breathe," she said. "And I reached the end of the poem and Taylor told me that it's actually the first time he'd heard the poem aloud since he'd written it."
That poem opens the film.

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The lovely and inspiring Nick Verron has recently discovered the exhilaration of playing with images. As Janet Weight Reed is often saying, art in all its forms is a way through life that brings comfort, joy and understanding, whether it's your living or not. It is something few governments have ever grasped.
I just wanted to put a quick post together, to give you a sample of the different photography related stuff I'm playing with. To ensure some variation, and to make sure I'm not closing any doors, I'm dabbling in everything right from digital art through to wannabe photography.
I've noticed many parallels in understanding between life and photography/art. I'll share with you a photo/picture, then gabble away a bit about it…


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Kaitlyn and Bryan's Wedding Film at Spain Ranch Jenks
Kaitlyn and Bryan's Wedding Film at Spain Ranch Jenks
Kaitlyn and Bryan's Wedding Film at Spain Ranch Jenks
Happy Friday! So excited to share Kaitlyn and Bryan's wedding film at Spain Ranch! The girls over at Farthing Events blew this one out of the water! It was so much fun working with these two. We enjoyed working with their family leading up to the wedding day! Every detail about this wedding was breathtaking. We will just let you watch the video to see for yourself! Some of our favorite moments have to be the first look between Kaitlyn and her father. Wow, it even had us tearing up a bit! Also, Bryan's face during the entire wedding. So much fun to be part of this day. Thank you for everything you two! We hope you enjoy this film for the years to come!
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The Team
Videography – Redeemed Productions
Coordination / Design – Farthing Events
Venue – Spain Ranch
Photography – Kelbert McFarland Photography
Florist – The French Bouquet Tulsa
Cake – FrOSTEN's
DJ – Banks Entertainment
Hair – Ashley Davis
Makeup – Cottingham Makeup
Groom's Attire – Men's Wearhouse (Tulsa, OK)
Bride's Dress – Laura's Couture Collection
Transportation – Krystal Limousines, Crown
Lighting – Banks Entertainment / Spain Ranch
Jewelry – Moody's Jewelry – Bride; Zales (4107 S Yale Ave, Ste 119, Tulsa, OK) – Groom
Stationery – The Inviting Place
Catering – 624 Catering
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Kaitlyn and Bryan's Wedding Film at Spain Ranch Jenks
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PHILADELPHIA — It was meant to be an exclamation point on a banner year, but instead the Rutgers wrestling team's season ended at the NCAA Championships with one major question mark.
How did a team poised to make a serious run at a top-10 spot fail to come away with an All-American?
"I thought we were in a good spot to have All-Americans," said head coach Scott Goodale, whose team finished 27th overall. "We lost a lot of overtime matches. The [talent] levels are all even and it's finding a way to win. We were on the wrong end of a lot of matches [Friday]."
The Scarlet Knights entered the Round of 12 on Friday with two wrestlers just one win away from becoming the first All-Americans on the Banks since 2002.
But after sophomores Mario Mason and Scott Winston won each of their two bouts on Day 1 at the Wells Fargo Center, both dropped a pair of decisions the next day to fall just short of reaching the podium.
"That's the biggest letdown that I have had in my wrestling career," Winston said. "Being an All-American has been a goal of mine since I was a little boy. I feel like I put all of the hard work necessary into it, but I just let the opportunity slip away."
Winston worked his way into the quarterfinals of the 165-pound bracket to start Day 2, but ran into a daunting task in top-seeded Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska. Burroughs breezed through Winston with a 23-8 technical fall on his way to a second national championship.
The loss sent Winston to the wrestlebacks, where he met a familiar foe in Lehigh's Brandon Hatchett.
Winston got off to a great start, scoring a takedown on the mat's edge one minute into the contest. But Hatchett tied the score with a pair of escapes and kept Winston's offensive attack at bay.
"He's just a very good defensive wrestler," Winston said of Hatchett. "The longer I let the match go, the more it started to turn into the kind of match that he wanted."
The two entered sudden victory overtime and after nothing could be resolved after one minute, Winston and Hatchett began the 30-second tiebreaks.
Hatchett successfully rode out Winston and the EIWA champ was unable to do the same. The final score read, 3-2, in favor of Hatchett.
"It's not a good matchup for Scottie," Goodale said. "It comes down to one takedown in our best position and we weren't able to get it. We had three minutes to get it and weren't able to get it. You have to find a way at this level, that's all I can say."
Mason also began Friday in the quarterfinals of the 149-pound bracket as the seventh seed and faced second-seeded Frank Molinaro of Penn State. The two split a pair of bouts during the regular season and met this time with a trip to the semifinals on the line.
Molinaro entered the third period with a 3-0 lead, but Mason cut that deficit to one when he converted on a takedown. A Molinaro escape sealed the deal on a 4-2 decision as Mason fell to the wrestlebacks.
"It's about putting together two or three moves together at a time and not just getting one score, but multiple scores," Goodale said. "We're just struggling with that right now and it's upsetting."
In the consolation bracket, Mason met Northwestern's Andrew Nadhir for the right to be named an All-American.
While both wrestlers looked to be the aggressor early on, Nadhir scored the first period's lone takedown. The Wildcat controlled the match the rest of the way and Mason fell, 7-3.
"I just need to get better," Mason said. "I need to get better at wrestling in every position. This will make me hungrier. I never want it to happen to me again."
The sun does not set on the All-American dreams of Mason and Winston, as both have two more years to reach the final eight.
But senior DJ Russo cannot avenge a disappointing finish to the season.
Russo entered the weekend as the fourth seed in the heavyweight bracket, but quickly dug himself a hole with a 5-2 loss to unranked Levi Cooper of Arizona State.
The Netcong, N.J., native fought his way back in the consolation bracket but ran into a tough opponent in Indiana's Ricardo Alcala. The Hoosier held a two-point lead late in the third period, but two stall points on Alcala breathed new life for Russo with an overtime period on the way.
But in the sudden victory period, Alcala scored another takedown and came away with the 9-7 decision, ending Russo's collegiate career.
The Knights' season ended hours later and all that remains are question marks.
"Did [Russo] do everything in his power? Does he feel like he put his best foot forward? If he feels like that, then we can live with it," Goodale said. "He had a good career for us. He's part of the foundation and laid the road for other guys, but he's disappointed. We all are."
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Two Voices: Do Jewish landlords put ethical principles ahead of profit?
Q: As property prices skyrocket, do Jewish landlords and developers have a duty to put ethical principles ahead of profit?
Simon Rothstein says…
One of the best things about attending a Liberal Judaism biennial weekend was the chance to talk to people of all ages from all around the country.
When it came to socialising, however, there was one main topic of conversation – the crazy property market.
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Whether it was our youth saving for their first flat, new parents looking to move to a bigger home or worried grandparents using their savings to help their loved ones – everyone was concerned about sky high house prices and rents.
Of course, it's easy to make the connection that while many young Jews are losing out in the property market other older and richer Jews are doing very nicely.
Put frankly, what's wrong with that? Property is a legitimate business that does good and making a profit is no crime.
This is especially true when many Jewish developers have used that profit to become leading philanthropists, donating and raising money for good causes.
The other reason I'm proud is that to show shame can feed into the most dangerous stereotype of the Jewish people, and one that has fed European anti-Semitism down the ages – that Jews make money from other people's misery.
We must fight that libel as vigorously today as we did in the past – and be proud not ashamed of our success stories.
• Simon Rothstein is editor of Liberal Judaism's bimonthly magazine LJ Today
- Ben Rich says…
For centuries, Jews have kept our assets 'mobile', holding what we own in cash, easily tradeable goods and skills and education, which retain their value in all the lands of our dispersion.
More than any other people, we should have learned from two millennia in the wilderness the difference between a house and a home. And it is perhaps this which, in turn, has led to what I regard as a Jewish obsession with bricks and mortar.
Since York Liberal Jewish Community announced its first service less than two months ago, I have been asked on a dozen occasions when we will be getting a building and how we will keep in secure.
It is hard to think of a substantial communal organisation without its own building project, while The Sunday Times Rich List is replete with Jewish developers making a turn on the property boom.
But if our history has taught us anything, it should be that any building of value must first be a safe haven, not a means for making money. We are about friends and mutual support, not steel girders.
And when Jews exploit the misery of others we need to remember we were once strangers in Egypt. Our own security must not be built on others' insecurity, and I am embarrassed we so rarely recognise our own experiences in those now seeking a home in Britain.
• Ben Rich is founder of York Liberal Jewish Community
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Thats about itOriginally posted by Aliengod3
What exactly do you do to smooth out the dress? Are you going to glaze over it?
Smoothing in the edges of the shading with some mid tones
Re-tweak the highlights for some extra impact
Re-touch the shading where it\'s been subdued too much
Check the mid tones again
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|Madame Alexander Elise
Yesterday I managed, through walking only about six miles instead of ten, to be amazingly efficient around the house. I went to the store, swept floors, washed laundry, and finished a new doll, beginning to end. Today I'm afraid my track record isn't as good. I've been reading Colin Dexter's first Inspector Morse mystery, Last Train to Woodstock, and I just couldn't do anything until I finished it! I thought I knew who did it, and I was correct!
|Elise after restoration
Anyway, last week I bid on a 1950s Elise doll and amazingly, won. This Elise has most unusual copper-colored hair. You often see the blond or "Tosca" strawberry blond Elise dolls, but rarely those with red or dark brown hair. She arrived yesterday morning in pieces, with a darkened infused plastic face and eyes caked with some white substance. She did, however, retain her original hair set with pins, net and barrette, and her diamond ring and earrings. I set to work immediately. In fact, I was so excited to get started I forgot to take "before" photos! Sorry! This face was every bit as bad as my Sleeping Beauty Elise shown here: http://mandalineartfulliving.blogspot.com/2014/03/sleeping-beauty-revived.html.
|Some dark plastic remains.
Just as with Sleeping Beauty, I scrubbed the face repeatedly with a Mr. Clean Eraser until I was able to remove most of the orangey color. The cleaning removed Elise's eyebrows, of course, so I repainted those and sealed them. I cleaned her ice blue eyes with a Q-Tip dipped in Windex and they came out beautiful and sparkling.
|Elise with cleaned face and eyes.
After this, Elise just needed stringing. She has no splits at all, another unusual thing for a doll of her age, so I certainly didn't want to cause any by stringing her too tight. It's always hard to achieve the delicate balance of tight enough stringing to stand and pose, but loose enough to preserve the seams. I think I did it here, however. I am including a stand since it's always hard to get Elise dolls to stand up on their jointed ankles and this one is wearing the later 1960s kitten-heeled Elise shoes that aren't quite high heeled enough for her to balance on them well. Elise has a small factory-flaw dimple in one calf, but this is extremely minor.
|A small dimple on her calf
|Elise can stand alone with careful balancing.
|The Madame Alexander mark
|The original hair set with net and barrette
One reason I could finish Elise so quickly is that I didn't have to worry about repairing or sewing an outfit for her. A while back I bought a lot of dolls with a fully-dressed Elise bride #1760. Her dress has multiple rows of lace, meaning it was produced after 1966 (when that dress had only one row) but before 1975, when they switched to the #1670 bride. The dress and clothing is all in good repair, with only slight age-spotting and elastic stretching, but the doll needs work from sitting too long. It's sad how display-only dolls can have damage simply because no one ever played with them! That Elise has a rubber band and hair net rotted into her hair and will have to have all the old fabric and elastic picked out and her hair re-styled. Once I'm finished I may list her, but she has amazingly dark eyes with long eye lashes and black hair, so I may save her as a gift for my Chinese daughter. Watch my store for that doll to possibly appear! This doll and a large collection of others are for sale right now, though, so please check: http://stores.ebay.com/atelier-mandaline.
|Elise in the panties, hose, garter, and shoes of the #1760 Elise.
|Elise's "something blue"
In my doll stash I have a slip I acquired somewhere, but have now forgotten. It is a Madame Alexander slip, but it's very yellowed and stained from age. I cleaned it as best I could and replaced the elastic. It helps the dress skirt stand out, but doesn't show when the dress covers it.
|The slip has lots of all-over age staining.
With her entire outfit, Elise makes a lovely bride! It's amazing how much detail Madame Alexander puts into their doll clothing. This tulle skirt and veil are so full they probably stand out about two feet in diameter! I couldn't fit the whole skirt into the photos!
|Elise's original wedding ring.
|The bouquet
|The veil trails on the floor!
|The dress is tagged.
I ought to be out working in my garden, but to be honest, I'm about ready to pack it in. I'm losing all confidence as a gardener. The giant swings from far below to far above average temperatures are wreaking havoc on my plants. I had to bring my cabbages inside to baby them because it got to hot, but yesterday I discovered something seemed to be eating them indoors! On close inspection I discovered worms all over them. Every time I think I've gotten them all more appear. Evidently the eggs were already on the plants when I bought them. Then, my cucumbers and peas got angry at being moved and all died. It's not looking good for the cold crop!
|Worms on my cabbages
I did get to enjoy the super moon on my walks last night and the night before. Over the lake it looks just like Edvard Munch's iconic and thematic moon. I hope you get a chance to see it.
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We are happy to announce that Triangle ArtWorks has received financial grants from both Durham Arts Council and Town of Cary to continue our organizational capacity building work into 2017!
Triangle ArtWorks has been serving the Triangle since 2010, but is still entirely run by volunteers (yes, really) and is funded by donations. We are a critical point in our development, where the success of the work and the platform we are building exceeds our "capacity".
What does this mean? Well, that, the Region is seeing an impact from the work that we are doing and there is demand for us to do more, but the fact that we are run completely by a volunteer staff on limited donations affects our ability to expand our work and programs or even to keep up with current demand for our work. For Triangle ArtWorks to continue to establish our place in the regional community, we need support from the Community we serve. We need to be able to build what non-profit folks call "organizational capacity". That is, we need more people and financial support to get the work done. These people can include volunteers and Board members, but realistically, we need to build towards having experienced and paid staff. And we don't just need people, we need to have the right tools and resources to do our work better and more efficiently.
Last year, a grant from Duke Energy allowed us to bring on a local consultant, the amazing Maggie Clay Love, to provide the expert support and services we need to develop organizational capacity and create a plan for sustainable growth. This work has been transformative for the Organization and already the office is running more smoothly, our Board is building and we are developing better tools and resources to continue to serve the Organization and the community more efficiently and effectively. But there is lots more to do.
This year, we began to reach out to the Region we serve for financial support and are excited to announce that, so far, both Durham Arts Council and the Town of Cary have agreed to support our Capacity Building work for Fiscal Year 2017! This support will allow us to continue to transform this Organization towards sustainability and continue our work in the Triangle. But perhaps more importantly, this financial support shows that Durham Arts Council and the Town of Cary understand the role of the arts industry in the future of the Triangle region and believe in the work that Triangle ArtWorks is doing to support the arts community.
We thank the Durham Arts Council and the Town of Cary for making this big step to support our work and, though us, the work of all artists and arts organizations across the Triangle. Learn more about other Sponsors of Triangle ArtWorks here. We look forward to working with other Triangle municipalities this year to develop additional support.
Believe in what we are building and want to support us? Find out more here.Tags: Capacity building, Durham Arts Council, grant funding, Town of Cary, triangle artworks


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It's the moooooooost wonderful tiiiiiiiime of the year! That's right, folks: it's almost Amazon Prime Day 2018! Every summer, Amazon blesses us with an amazing day of deals. It's like Christmas in July! The company keeps details pretty under wraps leading up to the big day, but we have the scoop on when you can expect to spend hours in front of your computer waiting for the perfect lightning deal.
So, first the bad news: we don't actually know the exact date of Amazon Prime Day 2018. But, we have a pretty good idea of when it'll fall. The first Prime Day, back in 2015, was held on July 15. The date has some significance, as it was the anniversary of Jeff Bezos founding the company. Each year since, Prime Day has fallen around the same time. Some are speculating that this year's shopping day will land on July 16, and last a total of 36 hours. So more like Prime Day and a Half. Apparently, a TechRadar employee inadvertently discovered a banner running on Amazon UK that advertised Prime Day 2018 on July 16 - 17. That banner was taken down soon after (oops), but the rumor mill is running with it.
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Last year, Prime members scored some major deals on Amazon tech, like the Kindle, Fire TV, and Echo. We imagine we'll see plenty of savings on Amazon's own tech products this year, too. Prime Day is also a great time to save on services, like Audible, Amazon Fresh, and Amazon Music Unlimited. Expect to see big discounts on popular items too, like the Instant Pot. Of course, there will be tons of really random stuff for sale. But if the price is right, we're sure you could find a use for it!
How fast can you click? With Amazon Prime Day on the horizon, your speedy fingers better be prepared to grab those huge deals and discounts! Link in bio for everything you need to know about this special day. 💋 . . . . . #amazon #amazonprimeday #primeday #amazonprimeday2018 #amazonprime #worldwideshipping #freeshipping #shipworldwide #comgateway #usa #shoponline #package #box #delivery #shipfromus #onlineshopping #shopfromus #retailtherapy #shoppingonline #shoppingspree #store #onlinestore #deals #gifts #shop #retail #blue #ecommerce #online
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8. Artist Wendy Klemperer Brings Shadow Migration to Court Square Park
"Shadow Migration" by Wendy Klemperer. Image via NYC Parks
Steel-form silhouettes of animals can be found throughout Court Square Park in Long Island City. Through this installation, "Shadow Migration," artist Wendy Klemperer investigates animal populations threatened in the twentieth-century, the way they have adapted to their environment, and how they are thriving now. Her diverse selection of animals is a representation of the diverse community living in Queens today. Ms. Klemperer was the recipient of the 2015 Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award. The $10,000 award, which is granted annually, is named in memory of Clare Weiss, Parks' Curator of Public Art from 2005-2009.
"Shadow Migration" will be on view through November 7, 2016 at Court Square Park off Jackson Avenue and Thomson Avenue in Long Island City.


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Nanomaterials – preparation, properties, characterization. Applications of nanotechnologies in industry, environment, medicine and biotechnology. The influence of nanomaterials to environment, health; metrology and standardization of nanomaterials. The topic nanomaterials and energy will be accentuated in the XI. NANOCON conference. The conference will be opened by the plenary session with the appearance of significant speakers focused on research and applications of nanomaterials.
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There has been a significant decline in economic well being for low-income children and families in the last decade, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual KIDS COUNT Data Book.
Among the findings, the official child poverty rate, a conservative measure of economic hardship according to the report, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009. The increase represents 2.4 million more children now living below the federal poverty line, returning to roughly the same levels as the early 1990's.
"In 2009, 42 percent of our nation's children, or 31 million, lived in families with incomes below twice the federal poverty line or $43,512/year for a family of four, a minimum needed for most families to make ends meet," Laura Speer, associate director for Policy Reform and Data at the Casey Foundation, said in a press release. "The recent recession has wiped out many of the economic gains for children that occurred in the late 1990's."
In the past two decades, since the Casey Foundation started the KIDS COUNT report, significant gains have been recorded in the overall health and safety of children.
Since 2000, five of the ten key indicators of child well being examined by the Foundation improved, three areas worsened and two were not comparable to earlier data, but show a negative trend since 2007, the earliest year comparable data is available.
Areas that showed improvement since 2000:
• Infant mortality rate (-1 percent)
• Child death rate (-14 percent)
• Teen death rate (-7 percent)
• Teen birth rate (-15 percent)
• Teens not in school and not high school graduates (-45 percent)
Areas that worsened since 2000:
• Babies born with low birthweight (+8 percent)
• Child poverty rate (+18 percent)
• Children living in single-parent families (+10 percent)
Areas not comparable to 2000:
• Percentage of teens not in school and not working
• Percentage of children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
The 2011 report also includes two additional indicators: parental unemployment and foreclosure. Last year, 11 percent of children had at least one unemployed parent and 4 percent have been affected by foreclosure since 2007.
Within each indicator, however, individual state performances vary widely.
Nationally, the number of children living in a single-parent household increased by 10 percent since 2000. Only Utah, Oregon and the District of Columbia showed a decrease, while 45 states reported an increase.
Texas, with single-family households at roughly the national average of 34 percent, witnessed a similar trend with a 7 percent increase.
"I don't think these findings are surprising," said Mark Levin, director of Right on Crime, a Texas-based think tank that deals in part with juvenile issues, adding that only about 20 percent of incarcerated youth in the state have a father in the household. "The role of government isn't to force people to get married or stay married, but in our public schools we can look at filling the gap and try to provide the support and guidance they're [children] not getting at home."
Mississippi showed improvements in infant mortality and low birth weights, but has consistently ranked 50th throughout the past decade in overall performance. In 2011, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama ranked the lowest in the nation overall.
"[Alabama] has always had a higher poverty rate than the rest of the nation," said Linda Tilley, executive director of Voices for Alabama's Children. "We see so many children already behind when they enter kindergarten and the gaps don't narrow, they widen. Education and particularly early care and education are the key to breaking the generational cycle of poverty."
"Every child can succeed given the right education and support," Levin added. "It's important to note many youths from single family houses go on to be successful."
The complete report, mapping tools, and other resources are available on the Annie E. Casey Foundation's website.


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CAMIGUIN Island — With the theme, "Kinaiyahan Atong Ampingan Kalam-boan Alang sa Tanan," the provincial government here invites everyone to witness the Lanzones Festival 2017 activities slated on Oct. 22-31.
Prior to the week-long celebration, a simultaneous Lanzones tree planting and opening of Lanzones Park was held on Sept. 22. The Camiguin Police Provincial Office will also hold the "Sikad-Sikad Ta Bai" Fun Bike on Oct. 21 at Cong. PPR Tourism and Sports Complex.
On Oct. 22, a fun run, triathlon, Zumba and Belly dance, thanksgiving mass and soft opening of agro-tourism and industrial fair (Ugmad 2017) will kick off the festivity. In the afternoon, Ag Sadya Kiraw Festival grand parade (umbrella with inspired Lanzones design) will be held at Mambajao Central School to Cong. PPR Tourism and Sports Complex.
The Food Safari: One Barangay One Product Exhibit and Competition at Ugmad Site will be conducted on Oct. 23. Inter-municipality high school basketball tournament and Buahanan sa Ugmad will also highlight the day's festivity.
On Oct. 24, Kalanrakas sa Kabataan at Catarman Municipal Ground, Food Safari: Inter-Resort and Restaurant Hamonada/Humba with Native Competition, Pasigarbo sa Guinsiliban and Fatima College of Camiguin Show will be held.
Food Safari: Lanzones Products Exhibit and Competition, Pasigarbo sa Catarman, Kalanrakas sa Kabataan- Mambajao, Department of Education Day- Folk Dance Competition, Battle of the Band and Ugmad sa Kalikasan, and Mutya sa Buahanan 2017: Talent and Corporate Awards Night will highlight the celebration on Octo. 25.
Job Fair and Docufest, Food Safari: Dairy Products Exhibit and Competition, Pasigarbo sa Mahinog, and Datu Daw Bai Ta Buwahanan and Diwata and Tayamtam Showdown will comprise the festivity on Oct. 26.
On Oct. 27, the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office and Department of Social Welfare and Development Info Caravan, Job Fair and Docufest, Pasigarbo sa Mambajao, Gov. PPR Memorial Cup Team Tennis Tournament, and Miss Camiguin Tourism 2017 will be held.
Meanwhile, Lanzones Eating Contest and Trivia, Street Dancing Competition, Pasigarbo sa Isla, Inter-Agency Camiguin Lanzones Ground Presentation 2017, and Mr. Iron Man 2017 Body Building Competition will be held on Oct. 28.
On Oct. 29, the provincial government will hold the Gov. PPR Memorial Cup Team Tennis Tournament Championship, Palarong Pinoy Game/Unacho, Kalanrakas sa Kabataan- provincial level and live concert.
Other exciting games such as the Monster Bash, Horror Trip, Zombie Run and Monster Kitchen will be held at Mambajao Parola on Oct. 30-31. (pia x)


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On November 8, 2017 the Mid-Term Conference "The Future of Sustainable Coastal Angling Tourism" was held in Peenemunde, Germany.
The conference gathered participants representing fishing, tourism, authorities, scientific and non-governmental organisations. Gerd Lange, Head of Tourism Unit at the Ministryr of Economics, Employment and Health Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Policy Area Coordinator Tourism in the framework of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region welcomed the participants.
The conference was joined by number of interesting speakers from different perspectives, e.g. Dr. Harry Strehlow, Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, who gave insights in Marine Recreational Fisheries in the Baltic Sea – Impact, data collection, management, Niels Lagergaard Pedersen, Certified Fishing Guide and Biologist, representing Fishing Zealand and Håkan Häggström, County Administrative Board in Stockholm, Lead Partner of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project RETROUT (Development, promotion and sustainable management of the Baltic Sea Region as a coastal fishing tourism
During the conference also a panel discussion "Sustainable coastal angling tourism – opportunities and challenges" took place with invited guests representing all five South Baltic countries:
Kaare Manniche Ebert, Denmark Sportfishing Association
Sandra Hippauf,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Tourist Board
Antanas Kontautas, Fishery Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania
Iwona Krępic, Local Tourist Organization of Stepnica
Daniel Melin, Swedish Board of Agriculture
The discussion was moderated by Arnulf Ehrchen, Former deputy editor – in-chief "Rute & Rolle".
During the lunch break a guided round tour at the Mola Beach Angling Camp (Peninsula Peenemünde) was offered. Both the presentations of invited speakers and exchange of participants as well as questions of the conference participants turned out to be very fruitful and relevant. They allowed them to get acquainted with the subject of fishing tourism in the area ofthe southern Baltic Sea as well as to explore and refine the knowledge of the subject matter. Moreover, the conference allowed for comparison of different approaches, shortcomings and strengths in approach and treatment of the angling and tourism sector in Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Sweden as well. Recreational fisheries combined with active tourism is a significant element of coastal development. The potential for expansion of this area can and should go hand in hand with an ecological, sustainable approach connected with the conservation of attractive angling fish stocks as well as their characteristic habitats. The project CATCH aims at emphasizing the importance of recreational angling in the South Baltic, increasing the capability of coastal communities to establish sustainable angling tour-ism, delivering improved measures for touristic providers and combining all new knowledge in an information and knowledge platform on coastal angling tourism.


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HIV - AIDS Client Services
1221 Fulton Street, Fresno, CA 93721
PO Box 11867, Fresno CA 93775
Phone: (559) 600-6404 Fax: (559) 600-7601
Hours of Service: 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday through Friday except Holidays.
(Closed 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
The California ADAP provides life saving and life sustaining medications to HIV positive persons. The ADAP formulary (list of covered drugs) includes over 190 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs.
More information on the California AIDS Drug Assistance Program:
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Who is eligible:
- HIV positive or AIDS diagnosed persons who cannot afford medication
- Individuals who have a share-of-cost through Medi-Cal
- Those who have a co-payment for medications through private insurance (may also be eligible)
- You must be a resident of the State of California
- You are at least 18 years of age
- You have an HIV diagnosis (ADAP will only process prescriptions written by a licensed California physician/prescriber)
- You have limited or no prescription drug benefit from another source
- You have a Federal Adjusted Gross Income of not more than $50,000. (To determine your Federal Adjusted Gross Income, refer to your income tax forms or visit www.irs.gov)
Staff serves as enrollment workers to help clients apply for ADAP. Clients pick up their prescriptions at local pharmacies that are contracted with ADAP to provide the medications.
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
Effective July 1, 2016 the Fresno County Department of Public Health is no longer the administrator of HOPWA services.
For HOPWA assistance please contact:
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The Living Room
901 E. Belmont
Fresno, CA 93701
Telephone: (559) 486-1469
Contact: Toni Harrison or your case manager
Linkage to Care (LTC)
LTC is the process of assisting newly HIV-diagnosed individuals to enter into medical care.
LTC is achieved when a newly diagnosed HIV-positive person is seen by a Healthcare provider (e.g., physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner) to receive medical care for his or her HIV infection within 90 days and the initial visit is verified.).
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HIV PS is a free, confidential, voluntary, ongoing client centered service which includes: Education to HIV infected persons and their sex and/or needle-sharing partners so they can avoid infection, or if already infect, can prevent transmission to others. Also in helping partners of HIV positive person gain access to individualize counseling, HIV testing, medical evaluation, treatment and other prevention services.
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All programs are available to HIV/AIDS clients on a daily basis by appointment. Client Services staff recommends calling to ensure the availability of a staff person and personal information which may be required to determine eligibility.
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Mental health staffing shortages exist in urban and rural health care settings, but the problems are even more challenging in rural areas. Locum tenens psychiatrists are helping to combat the shortage of mental health providers in rural areas. In some cases, locum tenens physicians face large backlogs of patients in need of quality mental health care. With changing dynamics of health care and mental health care needs, locum tenens providers help fill the need.
As we continue to discuss regional variance in addressing population health care needs and creating innovative new models, we must consider the unique conditions of border communities. Almost 30% of the estimated 30 million people living in the border region live in rural areas, and no different from other rural populations, they are on average older, sicker, and poorer than those in urban areas. The average median income in the border region is less than $15,000.
Physical therapists (PTs) are often front and center at critical access hospitals (CAH). In these rural settings, PTs must have expansive knowledge and a vast skill set to best meet the needs of patients and caregivers. A PT must know how to function in nearly every setting at a CAH: outpatient, acute, subacute, nursing home, home health, acute rehab facility, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric, emergency rooms, and more while addressing the needs of individuals across the life span.
The House Appropriations Committee released the text of its Labor and Health and Human Services (HHS) Appropriations bill this morning. NRHA submitted testimony and requests to both the House and Senate Appropriators requesting robust support for rural health programs. While we understand the current federal budget situation, rural health discretionary spending is relatively small but is vitally important for maintaining access to care for individuals living in rural America. The rural...
Innovation has been essential to sustaining providers of care in rural communities, and as the single largest payer for rural care, Medicare has been the primary driver of innovation. However, from the program's inception in 1965, the vicious cycle of Medicare payment policy has forced rural hospitals to find creative solutions to keep operating. Accordingly, NRHA enthusiastically supports the Pennsylvania and Maryland Global Budget Programs.
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) applauds the Senate Finance Committee for holding a powerful hearing today discussing the state of health care in rural America. The hearing, entitled "Rural Health Care in America: Challenges and Opportunities," focused on the difficulties providers face in rural communities, as well as the innovative ways in which they are working to ensure continued local care. As Senate Rural Health Caucus Co-Chair Pat Roberts said, this hearing is ...
NRHA is excited to share that the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing discussing the state of health care in rural America next week. The hearing, entitled "Rural Health Care in America: Challenges and Opportunities," will focus on the difficulties providers face in rural communities, as well as the innovative ways in which they are working to ensure continued local care.
In many rural communities today, hospital CEO turnover rates are exceeding 20 percent. The exact cause for such a high rate is unknown, but it is certain that the overall health of rural communities is jeopardized.
State and local health organizations, community leaders, and health care board members are becoming deeply concerned.
In a national study, Yaffe and Company is seeking the opinions of current and prior CEOs and board leadership, as we search for causes and solutions.
NRHA Member and Administrative Director for Education and Research at St. Claire HealthCare (Morehead, Kentucky) discusses his work combatting the opioid crisis in his home state and his recent experience participating in a USDA Rural Development Opioid Crisis Roundtable.
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I can't believe how fast it went, but alas, here we are at the end of the road. It's 7:30 AM on my birthday here in Sydney, but it's 5:30 in the afternoon at home on the 30th. By the time I get to Philly it will be just before midnight on the 31st and we will have covered another 12,000 miles.
I can't begin to say how much fun we've had on this trip. I've reveled in all my favorite Aussie things, places and customs. From Sydney to Tasmania to the Ocean Road to Melbourne to the Outback and now back to Sydney the three weeks passed all at once in the blink of an eye, while at the same time creeping by at a snails pace. When I think about our first day here, it seams like a year ago, but when I think about going back to work in a few days it all seams too soon.
My family has always been a traveling family, by which I mean we went on a lot of trips, not that we moved around like a military family or anything. Earlier this year they were in Ireland, and last year they went to Turkey. When I was a kid we spent a month in Europe one winter (where oddly enough the joke began that I hated to walk places, ask Inky how much that's changed. I must have lost 10 pounds on this trip with all the walking I've made her do.) and when I was a teen I went with my Aunt, Uncle and cousin to Russia for a month. So traveling is kind of in my blood. I have this desire to see things I can't see at home, but also to see how the things we do have at home differ in places I've never been. That's why I watch TV on vacation.
All I know is, Australia never disappoints me in any respect. It's a nation full of friendly people, amazing sights, great food, exciting cultural events and enough of all of it to take up a few months let alone the last three weeks. It will always be a special place to me, a place where I feel comfortable yet still able to see and do something new.
During the trip, Inky and I have been talking about the next trip we'll take. I love Oz so much that I would love to come back here, but I think we'll do Europe for our 10 year anniversary next summer. The plane flight is way shorter, and we can collect a few more cities, places and attractions.


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A 25-year-old man is fighting for life after his car collided with a pole on a busy Sydney road and he had a heart attack.
Careflight's rescue helicopter responded to a call at Ryde at 3pm on Thursday after the man's car reportedly hit the pole at high speed along Lane Cove Road.
The man went into cardiac arrest after the crash and paramedics placed him in an induced coma.
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Cape Town – The fifth annual Silwerskerm Festival has a great line-up with something for every moviegoer.
The local movie festival will be held in Camps Bay at the Bay Hotel from Wednesday 26 to Saturday 29 August.
Apart from the 15 short films making their debut at this year's kykNET Silwerskerm Festival, and the ten feature films, there is also a very strong offering of existing films including documentaries.
Here are four doccies that are a must-see:
204: Getting Away with Murder
This is the shocking story behind the murder of Brett Kebble where "204" means a full and permanent indemnity from prosecution in exchange for truthful testimony. In this documentary, the three self-confessed killers, as well as Jackie Selebi, Glen Agliotti, Piet Byleveld, and the Kebble family, are interviewed, exploring a fascinating account of greed, corruption, fraud and murder. Exclusive first-hand accounts of the murder are included, and the belly of South Africa's dark underworld is revealed.
A Tribute to the Frontline States
A Tribute to the Frontline States is presented by the inimitable Shaka Sisulu, a child of exile himself, and grandson of renowned freedom fighters Walter and Albertina Sisulu. The film tracks three generations of Sisulu's through to their return from exile from the Frontline States. Illustrious liberation movement icons Thabo Mbeki, Kenneth Kaunda, Joachim Chissano and Ketumile Masire, detail how the Frontline States put themselves in jeopardy in this high-risk venture to secure South Africa's Freedom.
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Britain's appetite grows for posh nosh
DINERS' appetite for upmarket cuisine has dimmed during the economic downturn, but experts say the industry's prospects are now looking tastier.
High-end restaurateurs and industry experts say the recession has been tough as cash-strapped culinary connoisseurs have eaten out less or traded down to more modest venues.
The downturn has claimed its share of high-profile casualties including Jamie Oliver, who said last month he was closing three of his four Union Jacks restaurants, citing a tough economic climate.
Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace also closed his Wallace & Co restaurant in Putney after failing to attract enough customers.
Restaurateur David Moore, who has appeared on BBC shows Masterchef: The Professionals and The Restaurant, freely admits times were tough for his Michelin-starred London French fine dining restaurant Pied a Terre last year.
Moore said January to March 2013 were "horrible" as cash-strapped diners stayed away.
He said: "If we have another three months like that we'll be putting the keys through the letter-box and saying bye-bye."
But Moore, who also owns another Michelin-starred restaurant, L'Autre Pied in London's Marylebone and is a director of award-winning Van Zeller in Harrogate, Yorkshire, says the sector has weathered the storm.
Pied a Terre, in London's Fitzrovia district, has just had a record January.
We're seeing more personal credit cards than corporate cards, which shows people are happier to spend their own money
Moore, who spent his early career working for renowned French chef Raymond Blanc, says there is a greater sense of economic optimism among his customers.
"We're seeing more personal credit cards than corporate cards, which shows people are happier to spend their own money," he said. "The lunch menu has become a bit of a staple but it's getting less important as more people go a-la-carte."
UK head of hospitality and leisure at PricewaterhouseCoopers, David Trunkfield, said the upmarket sector in particular will have had winners and losers. Popular and established restaurants should have thrived, but new or less trendy ones may have struggled due to a fall in the number of people willing to spend £70 or more a head on a meal. Economic prospects are improving and restaurants are likely to offer fewer special deals, but restaurateurs remain wary, Trunkfield said.
"We're in a recovery and people are forecasting that to continue, but they're cautious rather than being gung-ho," he said. "Consumer confi-dence is relatively fragile and shocks may set things back.
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For Cheeseheads, documentarian John Mitchell traveled to hundreds of locations in the state. Yes, that many. An exhaustive list of stops on the way to Mitchell crystallizing his industrious philosophy on Wisconsin living isn't terribly exciting, but the road map he kept from his travels is a different story.
From La Pointe to Little Chute, Spooner to Spring Green, Mitchell not only tracked each and every one of his filming locations; he traced his driving routes, too. For a project so earnest and loving — after all, this is a film whose beginning digs up family photos with matching Packers jackets — a handmarked travel guide can only add to the personal eccentricities.
Peruse all of John Mitchell's pit stops below before we screen Cheeseheads on Wed, Aug 31 in Rm 302 of the Central Madison Library. And if you're still curious to see that list, you can ask him in person when he donates a copy of his documentary to the Madison Public Library catalog.


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"In April, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell was poised to publicize a year-long examination of outsourcing by U.S. intelligence agencies. But the report was inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly classified a national secret. What McConnell doesn't want you to know is that the private spy industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has penetrated the CIA and is running the show.
Over the past five years (some say almost a decade), there has been a revolution in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing. Private companies now perform key intelligence-agency functions, to the tune, I'm told, of more than $42 billion a year. Intelligence professionals tell me that more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) -- the heart, brains and soul of the CIA -- has been outsourced to private firms such as Abraxas, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon."
Good ol' Raytheon right here in Waltham, MA the hometown of my maternal family for 123 years. Ive seen cops in on this too. How does that tie in? Uniformed ones in marked cars. Waltham is absolutely terrible for gang stalking. Cops have no problem there being involved and that includes working with large gang stalking groups where tech is in use also in torturing the target. I have videos of this from a few years ago- back when they still did whatever they wanted to people without any oversight its seems.
I remember years ago it was very bad in Boston- they would only stop the extreme torture if you looked like you were in pain like showing outward signs of pain and suffering. Ambulances, helicopters. It was awful. The ambulances had people in them that would keep an eye on you and it seemed if they drove by and you looked really messed up and contorted it would stop.
This is why so many TIs hate First Responders. Ambulance drivers, medical professionals specifically nurses and secretaries, cops, firemen and anyone working on buses or trains (both public and private transport companies) are the nastiest most violent, sadistic 'gang stalking' perps that existed during Bush and early Obama (Hayden being head of CIA time period). Very evil and very into psychologically destroying the Target if not physically also. Its part of the mind-f*ck that the very people you are supposed to trust most in society to help you are the people doing the most damage. It also ingrains in you as part of behavior modification that you are run by or have to obey whatever abuse come down from trusted public servants in uniforms. It assists in behavior modifying dissidents to accept abusive, ultimate, omnipotent power and control from those in authority or who seemingly represent authority.
Survivors are treated no better than a K-9 dog they want to make into a lap dog for adoption.
Its why lone shooters snap and kill people- its what they arent telling you about how this all works.
These people have done whatever they want for the past ten years. They also have used tech along with these actions.
I wonder who warned the likes of me and other TI's? Was it some other faction that was doing the gang stalking and the private companies were hired to watch us and help us or was it the private companies doing the most horrible of stuff then somewhere, there was some sort of actual governmental forces left who actually still believed in taking care of thier citizens?
I would safely say that the contractors are scum bags. The gang stalkers Ive dealt with have revealed too much that ties them to contractors. How else could what we think is 'the government' be able to get away with what has gone on as well as seemingly just ignore the fact that it is indeed going on? No one is listening to Targets stories about this sort of thing going on and these are war crimes. How the hell are they going unnoticed? The only way would be via classification that was black project status or classified projects or its being done by the private sector so complaining about war crimes is useless anyway.
Is it possible that a system has been set up in which citizens have absolutely no legal recourse against private companies who are committing war crimes??? No legal action can be taken at all?? If thats true then people like me should certainly not be living in this country.
Then again when you are trying to take over the world by using classified technologies and hiding your experimentation for doing so under war time anti terror actions domestically..
The problem is that probably there is an opportunity for legal action. Its just that discrediting activists and whistle blowers is considered part of thier warfare thats justified so that anyone trying to get awareness out to the public so the public could possibly take legal action or prompt thier leaders and reps to do so is both silenced and in the minority. There could be changes made but not enough people are aware of whats really going on to do so, therefore they go on just crushing what small, insignificant opposition remains.
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Quantum of Solace (2008)
After capturing Mr White, Bond and M are introduced to a shadowy organisation whose existence they knew nothing about. As Bond chases down leads with his now-customary deadly efficiency, he finds himself being pushed outside the protection of the intelligence community by the unseen forces he is trying to learn more about and both the CIA and MI6 would consider it expedient if he were eliminated.
While this is certainly a good action adventure with an interesting story involving the illusion and abuse of international power-sharing and an action hero learning not to kill, what it's not, really, is a Bond movie. There's no sense of fun, style, joie de vive, if you will. Director Marc Forster also allows his editors to remove all sense of shape and elegance from the stunts and action (the coolest moment is Bond hopping over a hotel balcony; it's not even in an action scene) making them largely indecipherable and indistinguishable from any other contemporary actioner. Perhaps now that Bond has got his re-education out of the way, next time franchise keepers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will allow him and us to enjoy ourselves a bit more and instruct the editors to just calm down a bit.
This movie contains mild swear words and strong melee violence, gun violence and mild nudity, mild sensuality, brief sexual violence.
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Trip to Brighton
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Well, what a difference a great night sleep makes! This morning everyone met and exchanged tales of British dinners, no shocks or surprises; then the children had fun ( yes, really!) in their English lessons, all appropriate for the different levels. Our bus driver was introduced to M & S! We then enjoyed our picnics al fresco on the beautiful pebbly beach surrounded by the watchful eye of seagulls.
> Driving north a little, we arrived for our afternoon at Stanmer Country Park, the home of the first Earthship, not a space station, but an amazing Eco project which allowed us to learn how to all live sustainably and in harmony with nature. We tasted plants and learn how old tyres can make warm houses!
> Finally we had a nostalgic visit to Brighton Pier to sample the arcades and enjoy the evening sunshine with the wind in our hair!
> Windsor tomorrow .. To follow....


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THE Lahore High Court verdict disqualifying PML(N) Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif from contesting the by-election due tomorrow, comes amidst growing perception that the forces averse to democracy are acting from behind the scenes to prevent him from entering the Parliament. A full bench meanwhile kept an election petition against Mian Shahbaz Sharif pending and allowed him to continue to serve as the Punjab Chief Minister till the Election Commission had decided about his eligibility. The Bench proceeded ex-parte against the Sharif Brothers since they failed to appear before the court personally or through their counsel despite having been issued notices. It also turned down applications from some of their supporters, including lawyers and Punjab Assembly Speaker to contest the case. Mian Nawaz and Mian Shahbaz have been facing legal challenges to their nominations since the EC allowed them to stay in the run following a split verdict by a two-member LHC election tribunal on the objections raised against them. Mian Nawaz was judicially barred from contesting the by-election after the court received two petitions separately filed by an independent candidate and a voter who sought his disqualification for being a defaulter and a convict. The verdict was widely resented by the political leadership and the people representing various walks of life. PML (N) leaders and workers staged protest rallies across the province while the party legislators boycotted the proceedings of the National and Punjab Assemblies. Leaving aside the merits of the case, it is going to have far-reaching ramifications for national politics and can also adversely affect the present ruling coalition, which is already shaken by mutual distrust. PPP spokesman Farhatullah Baber went to the extent of saying that his party was disappointed by Mian Nawaz's disqualification, describing it as a conspiracy against democracy. Mian Shahbaz, who will continue to have a Damocles' Sword hanging over his head, has refused to appear before the election tribunal, saying he would not appear before the election tribunal even if he risked losing the Punjab government. As he pointed out, the court decision would strain relations between the PPP and PML (N), his party colleagues accused the coalition partners of acting as silent spectators. The Sharifs' counsel Ashtar Ausaf Ali meanwhile told BBC on Tuesday that the federal government would challenge Mian Nawaz's disqualification in the court since he stuck to his stance that he would not appear before the PCO judges. It is going to be a test case for the PPP leadership, which presides the government at the centre, to not only dispel misgivings about itself but also save the coalition from falling apart and foil conspiracies against democracy.
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We had some maps from our political pundit this week. The guys in News found the first a bit big for reading into Flash, the second had the points mashed up a bit. The same problem that we had a few years ago and when we decided to correct it all manually.
I decided this time to have a look at the Governments Open Data initiative which should give us the map data free. I downloaded from https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html where you can also get map image data and postcode information. Downloaded the Boundary Line ESRI GB data (10/2010), about 270Mb. Also looked at the OS Vector District Map which gave a raster form for each OS square. The point data was huge and with all the errors of the previous dataset so I had a look at the MapPublisher plugin from Avenza to help clean it up.
The data comes as several layers in an ESRI format. The MapPublisher software is a plugin for Illustrator to help import and manipulate these layers. They have a 14 day trial. It was quite successful but there are many layers and I eventually crashed with a lack of memory. I had to restart Illustrator and try to do one layer at a time. I simplified as I went and that function works really well.
The layers included,
- county electoral division region
- county region
- district borough unitary region
- district borough unitary ward region
- european region
- greater london const region
- high water polyline
- parish region
- scotland and wales const region
- scotland and wales region
- unitary electoral divisdion region
- westminster const region
high water polyline – basically the coastline but with any river tidal areas, so lines along rivers for quite a way inland.
Downloaded the Scottish Parliament Constituencies and Regions 2010 – really detailed even though the MapPublisher plugin said it would have to simplify it. Tried a print, but it took ages, gave up eventually. Then tried using the MapPublisher simplify lines tool, with a 1.0 parameter which took a million points down to less than 10k. Impressive. Need to check the edges to make sure that the region and constituency are the same shape. Some areas still seemed to have concentrated points though (?). Helped to do some constituencies individually. But crashed on save (it saved it though), so try again and save often.
Started again with Scottish constituencies and this time only used a value of 0.25 to get more detail, with the idea of using this as a detailed reference layer, that I can put simplified layers on top of. This should then show up any potential inaccuracies. Went from 1.9M pts to 54k, still quite detailed. Then imported the regions as a layer and did the same simplify, 1M points to 17.6k. I only use the Simple import option as they are all from the same source, but the advanced will give options to match and adjust scaling of different data. Some gaps can be seen between layers, so looks like a manual check for each constituency.
Now to retry the full UK map. Started with the Westminster layer. This seems to cover the whole UK, but not Northern Ireland. Very slow to start simplifying lines – maybe 20mins building topology. It had 3.8M points, which with a 0.25 proximity value, reduced to 41k. I decided in the end to use 0.1 and that gave 86k points. The should be good for a reference layer. The original map data has certain idiosyncracies, eg at coastal spots such as the Bristol Channel, the constituency covers part of the river area (Lundy island?) and appears as an unexpected square ended piece of land. We need to check for all these. Not a bad job though. Compares well against the MapInfo package that I've used before. It does need Adobe Illustrator as well though, so it's not a cheaper option.
Unitary areas are the underlying wards. Regions are groupings of electoral constituencies. When several of these layers are visible Illustrator has problems doing a Preview on my machine – not enough memory probably. Greater London constituency regions were brought in at 0.01 proximity. County Electoral division (wards?) at 0.05. County regions are the counties so just reduce a little, 0.05.
Eventually I had what I wanted and now know that I can bring in updated data when I need it. I'll set up a Flash map with the correct naming for the Press Association numbers then we can automate within javascript/actionscript relatively easily.
(If you do need a copy, it would cost you just a day at my daily rate.)


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Priyanka Chopra, right now is trending for not-so-good reasons. Desi girl recently turned 37 and flew off to Miami for birthday vacation. However, here, apart from enjoying the water sports, she was also spotted smoking a cigar. The pictures where she smoked with husband Nick Jonas and mother Madhu Chopra instantly went viral. The fans with sharp memory instantly reminded her how she told she is suffering from Asthma. The netizens cannot stop memes and jokes targeting her over her 'Asthma ad'. In it, she asked the fans to stop lighting crackers during Diwali as she and many like her, suffer from Asthma. Here are more such instances when she was a prime subject of trolling. Pics From Priyanka Chopra's Miami Vacation.
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Jodhpur Wedding: Her wedding at Umaid Bhavan palace, Rajasthan was a grand affair. As much as those colourful firecrackers looked beautiful up in the sky, the fans could not help but point out the hypocrisy. They asked, 'didn't she just tell everyone to stop bursting crackers for she suffers from asthma?'
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Assam Floods: Despite the devastating natural calamity in the state, Priyanka, who was appointed as the brand ambassador of Assam Tourism for two years, did not utter a single word about it. This left the fans agitated and trolled her on the internet. She later tweeted about about being devastated and asking people to donate. Also, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma later tweeted that her contract with the Assam government had already expired.
PC's Tweet
Extremely devasted by all the news coming in from #Assam and other parts of India.
It's heartbreaking to read about the displacement and loss of life. My prayers with those affected.
Please donate at https://t.co/d5dow5OuLG and https://t.co/GNytaEqF0r
— PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) July 17, 2019
Met Gala 2019: PC made a bold and shocking choice of how to look at Met Gala 2019. She adhered to the theme of "Camp: Notes on Fashion" which asked the attenders to be dramatic with their appearances. She chose a Dior gown and a look inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland. However, you all know, how the trolls managed to make most memes out of this.
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Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas at the Met Gala red carpet (Photo Credits: Instagram)
Well, controversies seem to be a part of the international actress' life and she hasn't much bothered to give an explanation on any of those. It must be seen if she has anything to say about the recent 'cigar' controversy!