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Current Vacancies:
Management Committee
Mothers Helpers is wanting to create a core team that see to the management of key operations:
- Networking
- Promotion and communications
- Media and Public relations
- Relationship building
- Corporate sponsorship fundraising
- Funding applications
- Event planning
Contact Us if you are interested in applying and would like a full role description
In-home Volunteer (Home Help Worker)
Key Responsibilities/Tasks:
- Providing childcare at the course venue for the mothers' children attending the PND Recovery course
- Having a warm, friendly manner that is compassionate, caring and non-judgmental towards our mums and their children
We will carry out an identity check, police check and character reference on all those providing home help to families however it is the responsibility of the family to carry out interviews and other reference checks till they feel satisfied. They have the right to decline volunteers if there is anything they don't feel comfortable with.
A full job description is available – Contact Us if you are interested in applying
Vacancies in Governance
There are current governance vacancies for our Board of Trustees and our Advisory Committee
A governance role is a real privilege because in this role we becoming instrumental in leading change. The focus of our direction and decision-making determine what that change will be and how it will take place. Mothers Helpers currently has a core team of Board of Trustees and we are happy to hold current vacancies open until we find the right people to join us. Ideally you would be located in Auckland since that is where all Board of Trustees live and where the majority of Mothers Helpers' work is based, however we are open to the possibility of skyping you in for meetings.
The two vacancies we have available on our Board are:
Treasurer: with either an accounting qualification (or similar) or strong financial management experience
In either role it would be preferable if you had previous governance experience or at least some experience in strategic thinking. We would also like to see a passion and heart for the cause.
Board Members would need to have served on our Advisory Committee or in some other voluntary capacity in operations for a minimum of two months and to have joined as a Friend of Mothers Helpers in order to be nominated for consideration on the Board.
Apply to Join the Board of Trustees
…and we will send you a full role description on each of these roles and the time and commitment it involves.
Advisory Committee
We are looking for health professionals to form an Advisory Committee of experts – specifically: doctors, midwives, well child nurses, psychologists and psychiatrists. You would need to commit to attending every second Board meeting that is open to the "Friends of Mothers Helpers" (bi-monthly). There may be the odd occasion where you would be asked to meet together separately as a committee to discuss matters in which the Board of Trustees wish to specifically seek your viewpoint that requires more time than the Board meeting allows.
Apply to Join the Health Advisors Committee
We are also looking for individual advisors that possess skills that would benefit the ongoing governance of Mothers Helpers. These individuals may not have the time or skills to commit to being a full board member of Mothers Helpers but would like to contribute the time they do have.
Skills/experience we are actively looking for (but we will consider all roles):
Commercial Law
Accounting/Financial Management
We expect that you would be able to offer Mothers Helpers a minimum of 4hrs/month in this role. As part of those 4hrs/month, we would need you to attend as many "Friends of Mothers Helpers" meetings as you were able to (a minimum of two per year). These are held bi-monthly. Otherwise, we may invite you to a Board of Trustees meeting (either in person or via Skype) when we have specific questions that you might help us with.
Apply to Join as an Individual Advisor to Mother Helpers


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Rival Gaming's newest game, Tahiti Time video slot, has proved to be a holiday season runaway success according to it's developers.
Rival casinos across the board, such as Golden Cherry and Sunset Slots, have reported an impressive amount of players responding to the appropriately tropical vacation vibe given off by the December release, with the numbers of gamers playing continuing to climb in January this year.
The Tahiti Time video slot launched less than one month ago on December 18 2012.
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Deer Departed
Jeffrey Chapman, Deer Departed, 1986, watercolor and ink on paper, Gift of Lillian Pitt, © unknown, research required, 93.58.10
This work is not currently on view.
- Title
Deer Departed
- Artist
- Date
- Medium
watercolor and ink on paper
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 27 3/8 in x 19 3/4 in; sheet: 29 15/16 in x 22 in
- Collection Area
Native American Art; Modern and Contemporary Art
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- Object Type
- Culture
- Cultural Group
- Credit Line
Gift of Lillian Pitt
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- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
Many of Chapman's works combine a surrealist vision with a very Native American sense of humor. Often, his compositions feature a window that seems to float in space and looks out into a forest. In some instances, there are otherworldly creatures that stare back through the glass and confront the viewer in a very unsettling manner. In Deer Departed, Chapman has outlined a deer head in the broken window and makes a pun out of the title.


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U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Hollidaysburg, said the impact of two Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant closures reaches beyond the coal industry — it impacts anyone who pays electric bills.
FirstEnergy, the Akron, Ohio-based parent company of West Penn Power, announced Tuesday that it plans to close Hatfield's Ferry Power Station in Masontown and Mitchell Power Station in Courtney by Oct. 9. The closures are due to tightening Environmental Protection air quality standards.
"That's going to have a negative impact in the long-term on folks that buy electricity," said Shuster, who represents the 9th Congressional District, which includes parts of Somerset County. He talked with reporters during a press call Wednesday.
He called it basic supply and demand. Less electricity will be supplied by fewer plants, and the cost of electricity will increase, he said.
"More importantly, there are going to be jobs lost," he said. "Coal mines in Pennsylvania are going to slow down."


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Realistically, the actual battle occurred on the outskirts of
New Orleans in Chalmette, Louisiana 200 years ago, January 8,
1815. There had been several earlier battles and skirmishes
where the British tried to take New Orleans but none were
decisive. Not until The British army led by General Edward
Pakingham tangled with General Andrew Jackson's ragtag army at
what is now known as Pakingham Oaks, so named for the majestic
oaks there and the attacking general.
Jackson's army was made of a strange
mixture of 4,732 men comprised 968 US Army regulars, 58 US
Marines, 106 seamen of the US Naval battalion, 1,060 Louisiana
Militia and volunteers (including 462 free people of color),
1,352 Tennessee Militia, 986 Kentucky Militia, 150 Mississippi
Militia and 52 Choctaw warriors, Jean Lafitte and his Baratarian
pirate crew. Jackson had backup on the river from three ships
none of them actually warships. Pakingham had 11,000 and the
force of the powerful British Royal Navy supporting him.
Contrary to popular opinion, the war had
not officially ended even though the Treat of Ghent, ending the
war had been signed. The treaty did not take effect until it was
ratified by both sides. The U.S. Congress did not ratify it
until February of 1815.
When I visited the battlefield a few months
ago, the song seemed to play once again in my imagination as I
looked on the actual battlefield, laid out as it was in 1815. I
stood at the rough wooden battlements and touched the old
cannon. It took me back to that fateful day in American history.
In the background of the battlefield lies
the Malus-Beauregard House built in 1830
whose owner Rene Beauregard, was the son of the Civil War
Confederate General, P. G. T. Beauregard. The house although
typical of a Louisiana plantation in style was never a working
plantation. It serves as the visitor center and had several
exhibits explaining the battle.
The Battlefield is part of six sites of
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve which consist
six parks all together. Each represents a part of Louisiana'
unique history.
The adjourning Chalmette National Cemetery,
also part of Jean Lafitte National Park, was established in 1864
as a final resting place for Union Soldiers who died in the
Civil War. It is the
final resting place of a unique soldier Rosetta Wakeman, who
passed as a man using the name Lyons Wakeman and enlisted in the
New York Volunteer Infantry. She died of dysentery in 1865 at
Jackson Barracks.
Confederates were originally buried there
but later moved to Cypress Grove Cemetery. American Soldiers
form later wars are also buried there including some of the
Buffalo Soldiers. It is located about
where the British
artillery was set up during the Battle of New Orleans
The National Park Service will be holding
commemorative activates this January at the park. There will be
a reenactment of the battle, the "soldiers" will be wearing
authentic period uniforms, with exhibits of authentic armaments,
tents, cooking utensils, and historical discussions about the
battle. Do not miss this once in a century celebration.
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The Greatest Ponzi Scheme Ever and How It Is Set to Destroy the Global Financial System
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The financial crisis of 2008 brought the world to a standstill. Banks and financial firms all over the world had to be rescued by governments – in effect, bailed out by the taxpayer. But have things changed post 2008? Are financial firms and banks operating more responsibly? Are they taking fewer risks than they did in the past? What will happen as and when the next financial crisis hits us? Vivek Kaul answers these and many more questions on how the global financial system is operating in the post-financial-crisis era in the third book in the Easy Money series.
Vivek Kaul is a writer who has worked at senior positions with the Daily News and Analysis (DNA) and the Economic Times. His latest book, India's Big Government – The Intrusive State and How It Is Hurting Us, has just been published. Currently, Vivek writes an eponymous 'Diary and Letter' for equitymaster.com.
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When we located enough parts – maps and playing pieces – to bring our gigantic Alamein game back into print (we're printing more of the rules, scenarios charts and stuff, and a new box), I recalled that we had another more-or-less forgotten item: a set of 140 variant pieces, once intended as a downloadable extra.
For a very limited time (until Saturday July 15th, 2017) we're offering these with a set of "real" playing pieces: mounted, laser-cut and very nicely printed. They're available only to the Gold Club. We only have a few copies of Alamein remaining, so we're not likely to ever offer these again.
I originally intended to create three such downloads, one each for German, Allied and Italian variants. Expansion Set One, our current offering, is the German segment. I think we're likely to offer the other two later this year, since we've gotten a good response to the first one and the world needs more Egyptian wargame units.
So what do you get with Alamein Expansion Set One?
To start with, you get that sheet of 140 laser-cut pieces. They're a little bit thicker than the standard pieces of Alamein; that's a function of the production process. They're smooth on both sides, unlike a die-cut playing piece.
All of them are German pieces, in the same color scheme as the Germans of Alamein: gray with the Maltese cross ghosted into the background, with their divisional symbol (if applicable) in the upper left corner. That symbol's not just a decoration; formation organization is very important in this game.
There are two new formations in the Expansion Set, plus one heavily revised one. The 164th "Iight Africa" Infantry Division appears in the standard Alamein game, but it's overrated there with greater combat strengths and morale than its infantry battalions deserve in game terms. We bring it closer to reality, with weaker firepower and less-enthusiastic morale.
The 164th Light Africa Division had been formed from the scrapings of the German garrison on Crete, and lacked for heavy weapons and officers as well as competent soldiers. Even so, the Germans planned to motorize this motley collection, and so we've provided the pieces for a motorized version of the 164th Light Africa Division, which will help it run away from combat far more effectively than it did in the actual battle.
The other two new formations are much different: powerful, competent divisions that can make a real difference on the battlefield. After the fall of Tobruk, Erwin Rommel received his field marshal's baton and famously quipped that he would rather have another panzer division. This variant gives him his additional division.
The 10th Panzer Division was a veteran outfit that had seen action since the invasion of Poland ad would eventually fight in Tunisia. It is a powerful formation, with three tank battalions instead of the two possessed by Rommel's existing panzer divisions (the 15th and 21st) and four motorized infantry battalions rather than three. And on top of that, those tank battalions are fully-equipped with the most modern machines, where the Afrika Korps divisions have a mix of new and less-new. That gives them one extra step of strength (five steps rather than four) and greater firepower as well.
The other new division is also a veteran outfit. The 22nd Air-Landing Division made its mark in the Netherlands in 1940 and the southern Soviet Union in 1941, but afterwards went to Crete to restore its strength. That never happened, but the German command planned to restore it to full strength as a "Tropical-Motorized Air-Landing Division" and send it across the Mediterranean to join Rommel.
The 22nd gives the Afrika Korps another powerful formation: it has its own armor support in the form of a tank battalion, though it's not a very good tank battalion (it's equipped with captured French tanks). It does bring six very good motorized infantry battalions plus the usual array of recon troops, artillery and engineers.
Those additions of course raise the question: if all of those powerful units could have been sent to North Africa, why weren't they? The Axis supply chain could only bring up so much food, ammunition and fuel. Had two more divisions joined the Afrika Korps, other troops would have to have been left behind. And Benito Mussolini could not allow the war in North Africa to become a completely (or even mostly) German endeavor. In game terms, if you get these divisions, you lose a couple of others.
On top of that, the Allied side had many more troops that could have been sent to Egypt to stop Rommel: Polish exiles, African brigades, Egyptians, Australian and Indian armored divisions. And those formations are the subject of Expansion Set Two.
Don't wait to put Alamein Expansion Set One on your game table! Join the Gold Club and find out how to get it before it's gone forever!
Mike Bennighof is president of Avalanche Press and holds a doctorate in history from Emory University. A Fulbright Scholar and award-winning journalist, he has published over 100 books, games and articles on historical subjects.
He lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, three children and his dog, Leopold.


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Posted in Mobile Health by Arundhati Parmar on September 17, 2013
How does the device work?
mHolter is a biomedical application for smartphones connected to skin electrodes, whose purpose is to monitor heart activity for 24 hours and record any abnormalities. It's a noninvasive product for all ages, and indicated for the control of various symptoms, from feelings of faintness to severe disease. The data collected on the phone will be processed by a server and the consequent electrocardiogram will be sent directly to the patient or analysed by expert cardiologists affiliated with mHolter. The system needs: • Skin electrodes: already present in the market • Electrodes/smartphone connector • Smartphone app: simple electrical input recorder • Server elaboration software: already present in current ECG machines Potential issues: • Smartphone battery lifetime: the smartphone just records the data and does not elaborate it, requesting few battery consumption • mHolter accuracy: the smartphone is just a bridge between electrodes and the elaboration unit. The accuracy will not change respect to current holter systems.
How will it impact healthcare?
Current standard holters offered by hospitals are sophisticated and expensive devices. Patients receive them after wait times that may extend several months. Since hospitals don't carry many holters, patients can obtain this device just few times and hope that a cardiac event occurs during one of these holter tests. Advantages of mHolter:
• Cheap: the raw materials consist of just some electrodes, electrical cable and connector. Heart patients owning a smartphone compatible with mHolter can afford this reasonable price. mHolter may be intended also for hospitals in developing countries that do not have enough funding to buy standard holters.
• Repeatable: more times holter test is repeated, higher is the probability to obtain useful information to diagnose the heart's disease with high accuracy
•Easy-to-use: standard people are more able to handle a smartphone than a medical device


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Winters in Melbourne can drag on, so every time I go to Queensland at this time of year the thought momentarily crosses my mind that, "shit, I could actually live here". Usually it takes about a day to revise my position as the Queensland drawl starts to grate, I can't find a decent coffee and the Bundy and coke filled local drunks start to give me the shits. Certainly Brisbane is changing for the better but many other places have not in The Land of the Long White Sock.
The Gold Coast is more the Land of the Long Powdery Line – the last time I was there Surfers felt like the old Kings Cross of the 90s. Coke, bikies, liposuction, over-priced theme parks mixed with some very pleasant retirees from Southern states make it weird enough, then you look at their footy team. They still play like a bunch of misfits to me and a club going nowhere. Rocket Eade is the latest casualty, and there will be more.
But that is no matter, we simply must win or our season will die a death. To have lost our talisman in Michael Hurley is worrying – but I still think we will have enough talent and enough motivation to get the 4 points. Port have just lost, GWS will hopefully dismantle West Coast, and then suddenly things are looking up!
So stock the fridge and get ready for a theme park style ride of your life, as Essendon hopefully ascend into the 8 – and stay there.


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Will this pouch join the classic collection just like the Chanel O Case? And are these pouches a new variation of the O Case? In the previous season, we've shared the story of the Chanel Classic Zip Pouch and now for the Fall Winter 2017 Collection Act 2, the Boy edition has been released. Basically the Classic Zip Pouch resembles the Classic Flap Bag while the Boy Classic Zip Pouch resembles the Boy Classic Flap Bag. Both are stunning, so can you choose?
The Design
The O Case is large and flat while the inside space is limited. If you're looking for an alternative, then perhaps you can turn to the latest Boy Classic Zip Pouch.
This pouch is shorter than the O Case, so it's easier to carry and transport. The interior is also slightly better. The front design is similar to the famous Boy Bags – with diamond-quilted body and featuring the iconic Boy clasp on the top. It's a pouch to flaunt and it will attract anyone's eyes that have some knowledge about fashion. The rectangle shape is also lovely and I absolutely adore the zip leather extension on the side, which is created to boost its beauty.
Chanel Classic Zip Pouch versus Chanel O Case
The Boy version is not much different than the classic version besides the look. We've written an extensive report comparing the Chanel Classic Zip Pouch and the Chanel O Case. To read more about it, go to Chanel Classic Zip Pouch.
The Interior
Zip the bag open to find the main compartment to store your necessities. This pouch is slightly bigger in depth comparing to the O Case, in fact its 0.8' inch bigger.
The Sizes And Prices
There are two sizes available:
Chanel Boy Small Classic Zip Pouches
Style code:
Size: 5.1' x 8.5' x 1' inches
Chanel Boy Classic Zip Pouches
Style code: A80569
Size: 5.9' x 10.2' x 1' inches
Prices: $1200 USD, €1315 euro, £1190 GBP, $10900 HKD
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CHANEL TWIST QUILTED WITH HEART BAGCategories:Other Brands
Imagine walking in Paris, at Champs-Elysees. You walk pass a little baking store, Laduree, and glance through the large window to see what's inside. There are cookies, chocolates, cakes and macaron in endless colors. The furniture and decoration looks like it came straight from a fairy-tale movie, like Alice in Wonderland. Now look back at the brand-new Chanel Twist Quilted with Heart Bag, what do you think?
This bag is delicious and stunning, words can't describe its beauty. Words can't describe our obsession for it either. But it's a brand-new design from the Pre-Fall 2017 Collection.
The shape resembles the Classic Flap Bag. It should be as big as the M/L size or maybe a little bit bigger. The center features the latest vintage-looking CC interlocking clasp. The bag is decorated with twisted leather quilting and it looks like a cake with beautiful decoration on it. The top is even made with heart-shaped design. This bag is a love story of its own, it's so cute and gorgeous that will make any girl's heart skip a beat.
As for the final refinement, it comes with a woven leather chain strap. So who is in for a hunt?
We do not have the style code, prices and sizes right now.
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CHANEL PEARL QUILTED WOCCategories:Other Brands
It's quite obvious that Chanel is using pearls to poke our addiction in this season and we're falling for it. Of course we mean falling in love. So you have the Chanel Pearl Wallet On chain Bag, which is a Chanel WOC adorned with pearls on chain and CC logo. And now we're introducing the Chanel Pearl Quilted WOC, which is another beauty from the Pre-Fall 2017 Collection.
We've seen a lot of pearl embellished handbags like the Westminster Bag and the Pearly Bag, but we've never seen a pearl quilted design before. The pearls are crafted not only in the front, but also on the top and the back. The bag is made in Velvet and it's a very luxurious and soft material. The classic color black enhances the white pearl's presence; creating a busy but elegant style. The interlocking CC logo is adorned with pearls as well, but they're much smaller and cuter. The WOC finishes with the classic woven chain strap for the ultimate lady look.
For those that are not familiar with Chanel WOCs, the interior is made with six credit card slots, central compartment for all your necessities and a zip pocket. Style code A84273, measuring 12.3 x 19.2 x 3.5 cm, priced at $2600 USD, £2210 GBP, €2665 euro, $3275 CAD, $21000 HKD, $4230 SGD, ¥315360 JPY, ¥20600 CNY via Chanel boutiques.
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Chanel Métiers d'Art: Small Is BeautifulCategories:Other Brands
With 8 collections every year, Chanel has long devoted one to Métiers d'Art, in short, Chanel's way of preserving years of craftsmanship and heritage. Under its Paraffection subsidiary, Chanel now has 9 different old-world ateliers in their fold, each one specialising in a different craft that might have otherwise been lost to the world if not for the French luxury house's patronage.
Through each collection, the ateliers get to showcase their brilliant skills and expert craftsmanship that includes everything from the use of expert embroidery to working with feathers; some specialise in textiles like tweed, others make the best shoes money can buy. Yes, the #ParisCosmopolite RTW, bags and accessories that you'll now find at Chanel's first Ephemeral Boutique at Marina Bay Sands is all from the Métiers d'Art collection, and this would be your chance to head on down and admire these beautifully crafted pieces up-close.
With some of them having been around for over a hundred years, the 9 ateliers still focus on traditional craftsmanship that takes painstaking hours often worked only by hand. And by safeguarding these 9 ateliers, Chanel is trying to ensure that even into the distant future, these age-old crafts will still be around for generations to enjoy into the future.
And because covering all 9 ateliers in one post would be too intensive, we'll start with 3 that focus on the 'small is beautiful', starting with Desrues, Goosens and Lemarie. These 3 different ateliers produce the small, often overlooked pieces that one doesn't often pay much attention to, but because of this trio, the ordinary can be made extraordinary.
Found in 1929, this is the atelier that is responsible for creating, chiselling, gilding, sculpting, even polishing buttons. Yes, buttons. With almost 4000 buttons produced daily, Desrues handles the creation of each individual piece, starting with a prototype before going into production once the final design is approved. And because it is for Chanel, each button is always beautifully adorned, the end result often little works of art that you'll find used on everything from RTW to bags, even shoes and accessories if the design calls for some button detailing.
A jewellery house founded in 1950, it is one renowned for its expertise in working with metals that includes bronze, silver and gold. Gabrielle Chanel loved the way founder Robert Goosen's reinterpreted jewellery were inspired by great eras of antiquity (think Byzantium and Egypt) and engaged him to produce metalwork for the house, constantly pushing him to play with the ambiguity of real and fake, all of which are shown beautifully through his gorgeous metalwork. Now helmed by Patrick – Robert's son, many of the fancy jewellery pieces you find at Chanel today that has the most intricate of metalwork probably came from the Goosensworkshop.
Wonder where all those iconic camellia brooches you know and love come from? Founded in 1880, the camellias that we have all come to associate Chanel with were first handmade by Lemarié. Commissioned by Gabrielle Chanel herself in the 1960s, this atelier specialises in creating pieces that have come in almost every material you can imagine, from chiffon to denim, leather, silk and even velvet, just to name a few. Don't be fooled by the seemingly simple flower; it takes about 1 hour just to shape its 16 petals by hand, and those are just the basic ones. So the next time you add a camellia brooch to your collection, take time to appreciate the amount of handiwork that goes into each piece.
And there you have it, a camellia brooch that can elevate any look, bold metal jewellery that's always almost statement-making, intricate buttons on a tweed jacket that's the perfect finishing touch, these 3 ateliers also teach us a simple fact. No matter how small each part may seem, every piece has its part to play in making the final product look beautiful and extraordinary, the small made beautiful.
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CHANEL CROC CC FILIGREE BAGCategories:Other Brands
We know how hard it is to find that perfect vanity case especially if you're looking for a luxurious version which caters to your bag fancy. Well, it looks like you don't have to worry about that anymore as Chanel's Croc CC Filigree Bag might tick off all your wishes in your check list.
Introduced during Chanel Spring Summer 2017 Collection, this Chanel Croc CC Filigree Bag features an exotic crocodile leather for an added luxurious touch compared to the first Chanel CC Filigree Bag which comes in thick diamond quilting. This newest version of the Filigree Bag in Croc edition however does not feature the CC logo on the front of the bag but it still has two luggage tags for adornment. You will also notice that one of the luggage tags features the famous CC logo in a light blue color.
Aside from carrying your make up essentials and cosmetics, this Chanel Croc CC Filigree Bag also proves to be multi-functional as it boasts of the signature interwoven chained shoulder strap for shoulder and across-the-body carrying. It also has a top handle for easy and effortless hand carrying.
Style code is A93344, measuring 6.7' x 9.4′ x 3.9′ inches, please check with the SA for the prices.
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THE CHANEL SO BLACKCategories:Other Brands
The Chanel So Black line is what made fans excited to run into the boutiques. And it's a topic that has been talked about a lot. So what is the Chanel So Black?
So Black is a term used in the fashion world to describe a Chanel bag or an accessory that is made in black leather with black hardware. This combination is very rare and it's only limited available in certain seasons. Usually the So Black design is crafted in iconic handbags like the Chanel Classic Flap Bag or the Chanel Boy Bags.
But the unusual happened in the Chanel Spring Summer 2017 Collection. We have spotted multiple handbags and accessories that are crafted in the So Black design. The items range from the Chanel Classic Flap Bags to the Chanel Reissue 2.55 and with new designs like the Chanel O Cases in Reissue 2.55 style and chevron studs.
And what's more? There are two types of black hardware's. One is with ruthenium black metal, which is a bit more greyish. And then there is a style in black metal black, which is entirely in black. The Chanel So black style is not made in ruthenium black metal, but in black metal black and it is considered very rare, but is it still rare today?
Now that there are many So Black styles available for the Spring Summer 2017 Collection, it seems like the limitation has disappeared. We will be sharing all the styles that we can find here below with the details you need to shop and spree. So what do you think?
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It's taken New Horizons 2,143 days of high-speed flight – covering more than a million kilometers per day for nearly six years—to break the closest-approach mark of 1.58 billion kilometers set by NASA's Voyager 1 in January 1986.
Click on the image to view the current position of New Horizons as it races toward Pluto.
Now New Horizons, which is healthy, on course and closer to Pluto than Voyager ever came, will continue to set proximity-to-Pluto records every day until its closest approach – about 7,767 miles (12,500 kilometers) from the planet – on July 14, 2015.
"We've come a long way across the solar system," says Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "When we launched [on Jan. 19, 2006] it seemed like our 10-year journey would take forever, but those years have been passing us quickly. We're almost six years in flight, and it's just about three years until our encounter begins."
From New Horizons' current distance to Pluto – about as far as Earth is from Saturn – Pluto remains just a faint point of light. But by the time New Horizons sails through the Pluto system in mid-2015, the planet and its moons will be so close that the spacecraft's cameras will spot features as small as a football field.
"I wonder how long it will be until the next Pluto spacecraft — perhaps a future orbiter or lander — crosses this distance marker?" Stern continues. "It could be decades."
New Horizons is currently in hibernation, with all but its most essential systems turned off, speeding away from the Sun at more than 55,500 kilometers per hour. Operators at the Applied Physics Lab will "wake" the spacecraft in January for a month of testing and maintenance activities.


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The head of Sri Lanka Cricket has expressed relief and gratitude that Muttiah Muralitharan will be able to use his full weaponry under new laws.
Mohan de Silva said "efforts" to convince the International Cricket Council that Murali's doosra was legitimate had paid off.
"While thanking the ICC, we also feel sorry for Murali because he had been
through humiliation, trauma and pain.
"Finally all our efforts have been recognised by the ICC," de Silva said.
"We are happy the ICC has expedited the matter at our request.
"We always maintained Murali will be able to bowl the doosra. He will now be able to use all the weapons in his armoury."
Under the new laws which are still to be ratified by the ICC's Executive, all players will be allowed to bowl with a 15-degree flexing of the arm.
Murali's doosra – a ball that turns away from the normal off-break – was measured earlier this year to be delivered with an arm bent at 14 degrees.
The belief in some quarters that the ICC was compelled to change the rules for Murali's sake was given voice on Wednesday by former England batsman Geoff Boycott.
"I think it's been brought in through pressure from Sri Lanka and Murali's supporters," Boycott told BBC Sport.
"It's a sad day for cricket that this pressure can allow Muralitharan to bowl whatever he wants."
The view prompted a counterattack from The Independent cricket correspondent Angus Fraser, who was a member of the panel which recommened the changes to the ICC.
"Boycott's views are misguided…I find it disappointing that he has come to this conclusion," Fraser, a former Test bowler, wrote.
"Muralitharan was mentioned during our meetings, but so were several other bowlers.
"We came to our decision after considering the information we were given by specialists in the field of biomechanics and through what we witnessed on the screens placed in front of us."
Sri Lanka are hopeful Murali, number two on the Test wicket-taker's list with 532 victims, will recover from a shoulder injury in time to face New Zealand in January.


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Prey's Game Awards Trailer Shows Players Can Turn Into A Coffee Mug
The Game Awards 2016 has been exciting, sentimental and shocking and when we mean shocking, we cannot miss out the part where Bethesda revealed 8 minutes of gameplay with their upcoming first-person shooter video game, Prey. While there has been no confirmed date of release for this very enthralling game, Prey's trailer proves that the title is weirdly interesting gamers would find themselves immersed into.
Prey's trailer was introduced by Creative Director Raphael Colantonio and Lead Designer Ricardo Bare. The new trailer showed off some of the abilities and weapons Prey's protagonist, Morgan Yu (male or female, your choice), can have that will be used to defeat the strange gooey creatures she will be facing. The game is set on a space station filled with secrets and perilous shape-shifting aliens that Yu will face, aided with various tools, powers and weapons to survive. For puzzle fans, Prey should definitely be in your to-play list as it also features exploration and a whole lot of shooting, of course (it's an FPS).
Developed by the same genius of a studio that brought us Dishonored, Arkane Studios, players are in for a wild ride as Prey's main character is capable of "mimic matter" wherein it becomes any item they want. In Prey's Game Awards 2016 trailer, it showed the hero turning into a coffee mug, thus is able to get through a security hatch. Talk about weird fun and a whole lot of new opportunities to try out.
Aside from Prey's coffee mug moving about in an office by rolling, the awesome gameplay trailer also gives us a clear picture of what the protagonist will be fighting off - enemies that can pretend to be all sorts of stuff which pretty much gives us an Alien movie vibe, a good thing really since it will be more fast-paced.
Prey is said to be released in the first half of 2017 for PS4, Xbox One and PC.
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"Ugh okay…just one more slice."
My trembling fingers close around another piece of NY pizza. I take a deep breath and bring it to my lips, exhaling in small, controlled shudders.
Can I do it? Do I have the willpower?
A sliver of pie passes my lips…then I bite down and moan. MmmmMMMMRROHGODDDD. Cheesy Goodness floods my mouth, accented with the just-right hint of sauce. It all comes together in a glorious folding of crust and topping, mashing into delicious gooification within my chompers.
I shouldn't have doubted myself.
I finish the slice and groan in delight. I look down at my food-baby and run greasy fingers over its bulbous outline. Ahhh….magnificent.
I fear its birth, but for now, I revel in its glory.
I look over at Bitefighter—my 10 lb. Terrier Extraordinaire who's also the smartest being in a 30-galaxy radius—and watch as he scratches out giant strings of equations on his personal whiteboard. He's wearing a tiny labcoat and spectacles—he's a professional Doggy Scientist.
"Whatcha doing there, buddy?"
"Roof arf mc bark." (Translation: Reconciling gauge symmetry with an acausal, existential substrate which gave birth to an adjacent Universe where intention becomes the determining force behind all material phenomena.) He turns to me and drops his marker, his eyes widening in shock behind his spectacles.
"ARFO ARFSKIES MCARF!" (Translation: What the fucking FUCK??? That food baby will kill us all!!!)
"Really?" I look at it, give it another rub, and look back up at him. "I know it's the biggest one I've had, but—"
"Oh God!" I gasp. "Bitefighter, I don't have an insurance policy! I need to birth this food baby into a toilet or it's gonna destroy our house and we'll get nothing! HELP ME!"
He scrambles over and begins dragging me across the floor by my right arm. My left arm cradles my belly, trying to calm the storm within. "AAAGGHH!" I scream as he lurches me toward the bathroom. "NYAAAAAAHHHGODITHURTS!"
Sweat springs out across my skin. Electric pain crashes through me, eclipsing my vision with buzzing colors. A horrid cramp seizes my body and I shriek in pain. I black out for a second, and when I come to, I'm still screaming.
"Leave me!" I gasp. "GET OUT OF HERE, BITEFIGHTER!"
He shakes his head, grim and determined. "Rowf aroof roofarfarf." (Translation: Not an option. I've done some quick calculations. That food baby won't just destroy the house—it'll destabilize the Earth's core, and all will end in fire and lightning.)
"So what do we do?" I whine, tears leaking down my face. "What the FUCK DO WE DO???"
He lowers his gaze, brow furrowed, as his unmatchable mind processes billions of scenarios. Suddenly, his head snaps up, a gleam lighting in his eye.
He runs over to my eReader and opens it to Echo, activating its reality distortion powers. Magic flash.
Our souls are ejected from our bodies and flung into a multiversal bleed. Entire existences flash before us, and Bitefighter points at a passing construct comprised of luminous angles; if I had to describe it, I'd say it looks like a conscious polyhedron made from intelligent light.
"Arfo?" (Translation: Wanna be a robot?)
I shake my head. "Nah."
He points to another one. "Roosky?" (Vampires?)
I snort. "Please—I'm not gonna pull a Twilight and hook up with a high school girl even though I'm like a thousand years old. Fucking low-life pedo."
He points to a third one. "Arfarfaroo?" (Translation: Barbarians and dinosaurs?)
"Oh HELLS yeah!"
He reaches out and touches it, and right before I'm about to reincarnate as a yoked-ass barbarian and he's about to reincarnate as a war-trained velociraptor, I look back and check on Earth, where our bodies are still lying limp and lifeless. I shudder in horror as I see the planet's surface engulfed by the horror of Food Baby's birth.
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It's easier to rant and rave than it is to write things of real feeling and value. However, the latter is far more important, especially when most news sources use fear and hatred to fuel their revenues, ranks, and audience numbers. This article is going to give you a few tidbits on how to write positive, honest blogs posts that add value and knowledge to a popular topic—online or otherwise. If you opt for blogs, all you need is high speed internet for business and lots of things to say.
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The topics that you write about should be things that you feel strongly about or love. Hobbies and interests fall automatically, effortlessly into these categories. Write about your dreams, goals, and passions—then compare them to other things so your audience can relate and interact.
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When voicing an opinion or new topic, have confidence with a bold, passionate voice. Let your feelings exude through your words. Your audience should be able to tell how you feel on a subject without having to meet you or discuss a topic in person.
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Writings, even blogs, go through a writing and editing process. So, for starters, you should write as you speak for your first draft. Just let your thoughts and feelings flow. Ignore grammatical and spelling errors. Ignore a passive or aggressive voice. Let it all out for the first draft of a potential post. Then go back over it with the proverbial fine-tooth comb.
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Synonyms are great ways to convey intelligence and meaning without being too wordy. You can express the same idea a hundred unique, different ways. Or, you could throw in a synonym that allows your audience to better comprehend your opinions, feelings, and thoughts.
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When you need a blog post that speaks volumes about who you are and what you stand for, you should ask family and friends for creative critiques. Ask them for honest opinions and thoughts. Then go back over your work to implement changes as you see fit before publication.
Writing can be a therapeutic to your mind and spirit. You have the power to be uplifting and positive, bringing people up with your go-getter mood. Or, you could be the typical Debbie downer—which, honestly, the world doesn't need more of. Whatever direction your writing goes, make the decision to write things of passion, knowledge, interest, and value.


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October 11, 2009 We don't know how long we'll live, but we do know our time is limited, and life could be thought of as our endeavor to optimize the economics of our time. Yet, much like the current financial debacle, often the attempt to optimize ends poorly.
September 5, 2008 After reading George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant I spent a long time trying to apply his idea of framing to my own life. One deeply rooted but flawed mental model that kept occurring to me was that of "businesses as assembly lines." Beyond the dubious morality of treating workers as cogs, this assembly line frame also encourages excess production as Good, and profit as God. Worse yet, the model erroneously conflates profit with utility, and leaves us all worse off for it.


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Sunday, October 25, 2015
Its a Harley BIrthday
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Cool card. Thank you for joining us at Digi Choosday Challenges. Monica.-dtReplyDelete
What a fun way to make a personalized card ... so very glad you joined us at Fusion Card Challenge.ReplyDelete
Lovely card thank you for joining us at Karleigh Sue Challenge blog Hugs Sue DT xxReplyDelete
a great card for the biker! love the silver piece - thanks for joining us in the Fusion Challenge!ReplyDelete
What a great way to personalize this birthday card for your brother in law. He's going to love this!ReplyDelete
Very cool card! Thank you for joining us at Sassy Studio Designs and the DTBST challenge this week! HUGSReplyDelete
Fab make, I love Harley's too! Thanks for joining us in our Birthday celebrations challenge at Digi ChoosdayReplyDelete
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I'm back again, this time to say thanks for joining us in our add bling or glitter challenge at PolkadoodlesReplyDelete
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What a great creation for a man, I'm sure your brother in law will love it! Thanks so much for playing at our Digi Choosday Birthday challenge. Hugs my friend:) AudreyReplyDelete


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Saturday, 19 April 2014
Easter Greetings
Easter, for me, isn't about cute bunnies & lots of chocolate (although I never say no to the latter, of course!) Easter is a religious festival, so the cards I make at this time reflect that. All that said, I don't believe in pushing my beliefs on anyone else, so I only send Easter cards to close family. I've had the Papermania Moments of Faith stamps for a while although they haven't seen ink too many times yet, so I decided to rectify that.
I'm really enjoying watercolour painting at the moment and this card is coloured using Derwent Academy pencils on watercolour paper. Here's a close up. Happy Easter!
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Hey Coffin Hoppers! Welcome to The Road to Nowhere…
I'll be posting EIGHT drabbles during the EIGHT days of Coffin Hop this year. At the end of the hop, I'll be choosing four winners from the comments left on the accumulated posts to each receive a $5 Amazon Gift Card! So speak up, and speak often – each day's comment will be an additional entry into the random drawing.
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I look out upon all that is left. Sunlight scorches this land; with morning comes heat, an assault upon existence. With evening, a frigid wind; though still a brief respite. I squint as I glare down among those who wallow at my feet. My stone begins its grind, my furnace stokes; a rival to the blistering rays without, but only barely. Their faces turn up, beseeching. I watch as they enter my opening maw; again as they depart in concert with the tenors screech from my bowels. Stragglers dally, grubbing for scraps. Something needs fill the stone on the 'morrow.


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I've been making things lately. After an artistic slump I am finally feeling Creative again! Yay! Here are the fabulous prizes that my fellow North Coast Art Swapper is about to receive as her Art Lottery prizes. I was only supposed to send her two small altered art pieces (Charms, ATC's, etc.). But I couldn't help myself, I had to make a cute little file folder to hold her new ATC's! Check it out. :)


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I was wondering what GaGers on here think about that.
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Younger people tend to lack confidence, so they fixate on what "people in the know" tell them they're supposed to like.
Goes both ways. Some men develop unrealistic expectations based upon what they see in... let's stick with "media". Some women develop unrealistic expectations based upon what they see in romcoms.
Personally, I think building a sense of self is the way to go. Develop your mind. Find your bliss. Push yourself. Run in a marathon or donate time to a charity. Create a multi-dimensional person, rather than simply a shallow image. Confidence? That's what's sexy. Love yourself and people will follow.
I agree 100%. men see these "perfect" women and think it's easy and normal. I'm glad I was able to look at the girls when I was in high school and learned myself to like girls in my own way.
by romcoms do you mean unrealistic romance movies? in so many of those the male characters would be creeps and stalkers.
that's interesting. teaching children to become their own person and feel free to express their selves in ways they want.
Oh yeah. Romantic movies where the guy is running to the airport to stop his lady love. Sleepless in Seattle. Diary of Bridget Jones. Just Like Heaven. Most men aren't that romantic, or wouldn't express in that way, but young women have been conditioned to EXPECT that behavior, so they always wind up disappointed when their relationship isn't a fairy tale.
I think passionate, complex people are sexy. Looks well only carry you so far, and they inevitably fail. I mean, my husband is just as sexy to me at 40 as he was at 20, but eventually he'll be an old man and its a good thing I love his mind, right?
In my 30s I finally realized what I wish I'd have known in my younger days- it doesn't MATTER if you're perfect. Everybody is different. Love yourself, be kind to yourself, and to thine own self be true. Fuck the haters.
passion is very important as well as being comfortable with your self.
I do agree that looks can only go so far, if you have nothing in common and only hang out because "your suppose to" it generally won't last.
recently I've come to like who I am and do wish I was "myself" when I was in high school as I was quite shy back than. maybe I was always an introvert (only learned the word in the past few years)


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Well, they did do all that, but in the last century. My great aunt is eighty-one this year, my grandmother is no more, and the once-bustling place now houses two souls with their bags packed. Most faces from my childhood have already crossed the great divide, and the rest are either scattered all over or prefer lunch at Kabab Factory to ring in the new year. I would prefer it too, for cooking a five-course meal for two people simply doesn't have that old world bustle and charm, except I always go over to see my great aunt on new year's. And this time, I'm taking her something she taught me to make.
Flour, sunflower/canola oil, sugar, salt, jowan/ajwain/carom seeds, mouri/fennel/saunf.
How to:
Make a nice, stretchy dough. First mix in a pinch of salt and sugar to your tastes. Add half a teaspoon of carom seeds (jowan) for ever 100 gm of flour, and the same f mouri (fennel seeds). Carom imparts a tangy flavour with a sharp aftertaste, while fennel provides a sweet subtext. So vary quantities depending on which flavour you want to dominate -- I use just a pinch less of fennel.
Then add oil, roughly two teaspoons of oil per 150gms of flour (this is called moyaan). After the oil has been unevenly mixed in, add the water.
Make little balls (lechi) from this big lump, smooth them in between the palm of your hand, and roll them out till they're reasonably circular, and just above the stage of being translucently thin. Take a knife and make one cut, from edge to the centre.
Now start rolling the rolled-out dough on itself, starting from the cut and going around in a circle till it comes back to the cut. It'll take a slightly queer, if pretty, shape.
I might as well mention here that this step is not strictly necessary in making nimki. But this is how you make layered (lachchha) paratha at our place, and since my mother was in the kitchen when I was making this, she showed me how to get the layers in the layered paratha.
Now, flatten that strange flour cone. It'll now look like a seashell.
Sprinkle a little flour on it or rub the rolling board with a little oil, and roll this seashell out into the closest approximation of a circle.
Anyway, what you now need to do is to heat two cups of oil (or more, depending), turn down the heat to medium or low when it's hot, and fry batches of those little diamonds made by your swashbucking kitchen-knifery. Drain carefully, either at the side of the wok with a chyanta (the perforated spatulas, I don't know the English word) or on kitchen towels, and serve with a cup of non-fruity, non-herbal, honest-to-goodness Indian or Sri Lankan tea :-)


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Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett
Western Australia Minister for Regional Development Terry Redman
Funding For WA's Biggest Regional Literary Event
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- Three-year deal to support Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival
- Supported by the Liberal National Government through Tourism WA and Royalties for Regions
Liberal National Government has signed a three-year deal to sponsor Western Australia's biggest regional literature event, the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival.
Premier and Tourism Minister Colin Barnett said the three-day event would attract poets, authors, playwrights, journalists, comedians, illustrators, magazine editors, screen writers and radio hosts.
"The event will not only promote literature but also the extraordinary Margaret River region, helping to raise its profile as a destination for the arts." Premier Barnett said.
"Since its inception in 2009, the event has grown from 600 attendees to now attracting about 5,000 people."
"The funding will help the festival secure high profile internationally renowned authors and increase its marketing to attract an even greater attendance over the next three years."
Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival features ticketed and free activities including
- Debates,
- Lectures,
- Music performances,
- Poetry demonstrations,
- Question and answer sessions,
- Readings,
- Solo and panel author discussions,
- Workshops.
Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival will be sponsored until 2019 through Tourism WA's Regional Events Program, made possible by Royalties for Regions.
Regional Development Minister Terry Redman said the investment of $80 Million from Royalties for Regions through the Regional Events Program was bringing significant economic, social and cultural benefits to regional communities.
"Supporting events and tourism will help to grow regional areas into thriving and sustainable communities." Mr. Redman said.
"Events such as the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, enhance the vibrancy in regional areas, making them exciting places to visit as well as great places to live."
Premier Barnett said tourism was a vital industry for regional Western Australia.
"In 2015-16, visitors spent $9.6 Billion in the State, including $4.5 Billion in regional WA." Premier Barnett said.
"We have a strategy to increase the value of tourism to $12 Billion by 2020 and supporting regional events such as the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival will help us achieve this."
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- Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival 2017 will run from June 2-5, 2017


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"So, anything new with the adoption process?"
I hear that question at least four times a day, truly. I have such wonderful and amazing friends that are so excited and interested in our adoption, and I am so thankful for that! I love that people care. I love when people show an interest and ask about the adoption. What I feel bad about is never, ever having news! I wish I did, and cannot wait until the day when I can answer, "YES!!!"
But for now, the answer is plainly, no. We continue to wait. And wait. And wait. Indefinitely. Sometimes I don't think about it at all. Sometimes it is all I think about. Sometimes it makes me really sad and discouraged, that there is a possibility we could be waiting for a very, very long time.
It is what it is. That's what I try and tell myself. Of course I trust the Lord and His timing. I just wish that His timing would include us bringing a baby home like, tomorrow. :) But for now, it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon, so we wait.
A verse I am finding encouraging because it so perfectly describes our situation is 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
That could have been (and maybe was!) written for me. I struggle constantly with not "losing heart". At times I truly feel I am wasting away just waiting like this, but God is so good to renew me each day. Every day I think, "I can't wait one more day...I've had it!" Yet somehow each day comes and goes and I haven't actually lost my mind waiting like I felt I was going to. ;)
Eisley told me in the car the other day (talking about waiting to be a big sister), "If I have to wait one more day I'm gonna LOSE MY BRAIN!!!" Sing it sister. I get it. So we pray for patience, and God gives us just enough to get through the next day. I just love the way this verse reminds us that these are truly "light and momentary troubles" and that there is a reason for them! I have had some not so light and not so momentary troubles in my life, and looking at this from that perspective helps me remember that this waiting thing really isn't all that bad. It also helps to know that God is working in this situation to achieve an eternal glory that FAR OUTWEIGHS the hard parts of this!!! Wonderful promises. And a great reminder to fix our eyes on Him.
There is one new thing to report I suppose...We have prayerfully and carefully decided on our VERY LAST fundraiser! I have to tell you, the only thing harder than the waiting in the adoption process is the fundraising. It is draining, difficult, humbling, stressful, and discouraging. We have been so blessed and encouraged by the outpouring of help from our family and friends, and thank God for how far he has brought us! But it is still daunting at times. We whole heartedly believe God brought us down this road and will provide what we need when we need it, but it is so hard to know what steps to take and if we are doing the right thing. For the past couple of months we took a break from "fundraising" and just prayed and added to the fund little by little as we could afford to.
But I have been feeling so incredibly stagnant in this waiting process lately, and felt God nudging me to get up and "do something" with the time we have left. We have been praying about what our last fundraiser should be and asking God to give us peace about it.
I will be announcing it in the next week or two, but I will tell you this won't just be a fundraiser! It will also create a special keepsake for our future child, and it will give every single person, near and far, who has prayed for us and donated financially and encouraged us along this path, the chance to give their own special message to our little one! I am really excited about it!
Thank you for continuing to pray with us. We would appreciate so much your prayers for our family as we continue to wait, prayers for the birth mama of this baby as she is facing some incredibly difficult decisions, and prayers for our baby, that God will lead us to him or her in His perfect way and timing.
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Hockey - National sport?
at 5:56 PM
Labels: Hockey world cup 2010, Movies, Sport
7 comments:
- Capt A.Nagaraj Subbarao said...
Post which they have been thrashed by Australia...........that's been the bane of our hockey......inconsitent & an inability to make quick strategic changes!
- March 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Radhika said...
The same is true for cricket too!
Atleast hockey should get enough attention so that it attracts young ppl to play the sport.
- March 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Capt A.Nagaraj Subbarao said...
Tell me honestly, off the cuff, how many hockey players can you name.
Cricketers will be at the tip of your tounge, I'm certain!
Also, what captures public imagination is numero uno......now its the angraz basha & angraz game........every dog has its day!
- March 4, 2010 at 8:28 PM
- Capt A.Nagaraj Subbarao said...
And now Spain, thrashing us on our own turf!
Poor Major Dhyan Chand would be writhing in his proverbial grave........
Radz, you must select a new sport to write about! Kabbadi & Kho Kho, we still seem to be good at!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- shabu said...
well you did your part chowdhary :D
but that is just the way it is. Will take lots more than a little awareness and ads on tv to entice indians to even give a cursory glance to hockey. :)
but ya lets do our part. you and me one on one game of hockey ?? wat say :D
- March 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Radhika said...
Sir: I mentioned earlier in my post that I like many others have not seen any hockey match myself! And me, including others, should not be glued ONLY to cricket! Kabaddi and Kho Kho can be dealt with later as today hockey still remains our national game!
Shabu: You're on! :)
- March 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM
- Capt A.Nagaraj Subbarao said...
I appreciate your self righteous indignation! National game & all!
With saving the Tiger, I think hockey too needs a group on face book........
In case you guys need a refree, you can count me in, for the small fee of a pitcher of beer!
And don't discount kabbadi, its about to become an Olympic sport.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM


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At this point, it seems that the government response to the financial crisis (aside from monetary policy) consists of two main elements. On the one side, a fiscal stimulus package; on the other hand, a financial rescue program.
Regarding the fiscal side, given the lack of financing to the private sector jointly with a contracting economy, an expansionary fiscal policy seems to be the right thing to do. Although we certainly believe the private sector—not the government—needs to drive the economy, the current situation is clearly not "business as usual." This is not a garden variety recession; it is a growing "effective demand failure." These rare circumstances argue for a clear role for government intervention. After all, the only entity that can tax people (in the future, once we return to more normal times) is the government. Moreover, it is part of the government's implicit mandate to optimally redistribute resources across sectors and generations; the more so under the current circumstances. The U.S. has built its reputation by paying back its obligations during good times. Thus, this is the right time for a fiscal stimulus—and a big one. However, our main focus here is on the financial leg of the program. The current discussion seems to have converged to two main strategies to improve banks' balance sheets. One strategy suggests the government guaranteeing the so-called toxic assets as a mechanism to improve lending. The alternative would be for the government to buy these toxic assets altogether (probably at prices above the current ones) and hold to them over a long time period.
A bad bank scheme should include protecting taxpayers against huge losses due to buying toxic assets—this may include actions such as diluting existing shareholders, temporary nationalization, and antitrust restrictions that break up the recapitalized institutions, actions that will almost certainly upend the status quo. But the end result is that the government purchases toxic assets from financial institutions, cleansing banks' balance sheet, and then allocate those assets to the "bad bank." Further recapitalization may still be necessary (hence required protection for taxpayers), but the assets are now purged and the healing process can accelerate.
The government will eventually sell the toxic assets into the market in the future. The difference between the cost of the recapitalization and the selling of removed toxic assets is the ultimate cost to the taxpayer. It is likely that the overall social cost is significant, with some estimates on the order of a $1 trillion or higher. Over time, the latter is worth the money for the taxpayer. Otherwise, the macroeconomic—and consequently social—costs of not doing it will be much bigger: the economy will move into depression mode, many more financial institutions will go bankrupt, investment, consumption, and employment will collapse, and of course, tax revenues will decrease. In such a situation even the U.S. will find it difficult to borrow so as to smooth the effects of the deep and protracted slump in which the economy will fall—i.e. the government will end up being unable of helping its people.
We favor the bad bank. From an intertemporal perspective, guarantees are relatively cheap upfront, whereas the bad bank will be more expensive. No question about that. If the private sector participates in buying toxic assets[1] it will certainly reduce any risk premium on U.S. debt, thus reducing taxpayers' direct exposure. However, regardless of whether the private sector helps shouldering the problem or not, one key problem these days refers to wealth misperceptions and a BIG coordination failure. In this sense, guarantees (or a combination of guarantees with a "small" bad bank component) might be read by the market as a lukewarm response. If so, it will imply throwing money for bad—and the situation could actually worsen as expectations might coordinate in the wrong equilibrium. The bad bank, on the contrary, will work as a strong signaling device, coordinating expectations. Indeed, creating conditions for sustained coordination of expectations is a key role for the government, regardless of the existence of crisis. Arguably, the lack of a coordinating influence allowed financial firms to pursue excessively risky growth strategies.
Additionally, the bad bank, because of it expectations coordination device will likely imply a high short run cost with a low long run cost—once the economy is back on trend, a big share of the toxic assets will be repaid. (Sweden is a great example: close to 90% of the value was recovered; the U.S will probably achieve a lower rate of success, but, again, it is still worth it to prevent the costs associated with persistent output gaps.) For if not, the low short run costs of the guarantee scheme might face the high long run costs of not being strong enough to truly jumpstart the economy. In the latter case, the long-run effect on the U.S. (and world economy) will be much gloomier…
One additional comment is the following. Is this a liquidity or a sustainability problem? We really don't know for sure. If it is just liquidity the above two-leg scheme should work. In a broad sense, we could argue that in the Swedish case 90% was liquidity while 10% was a real wealth problem. Why is this important? If we believe that the share of real wealth trouble is much bigger we should add a third leg to the program: a debt forgiveness scheme for truly insolvent debtors. Otherwise, who will be able to borrow anyway?
Bottom line: in our view, a guarantee scheme seems to depict short run low costs with long run high costs, whereas the bad bank looks as having the opposite intertemporal trade-offs. And since the government is the sole player with the ability to tax your future income—once the economy returns to trend growth—it thus seems the only one able to correctly coordinate intertemporal expectations. (And if the government loses money in smoothing the recovery, it is still maximizing the economy's lifetime welfare; isn't this its true objective?) This is a very dynamic path; let's hope the best possible strategy is implemented.


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Tissue Ablation with Irreversible Electroporation
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This study introduces a new method for minimally invasive treatment of cancer—the ablation of undesirable tissue through the use of irreversible electroporation. Electroporation is the permeabilization of the cell membrane due to an applied electric field. As a function of the field amplitude and duration, the permeabilization can be reversible or irreversible. Over the last decade, reversible electroporation has been intensively pursued as a very promising technique for the treatment of cancer. It is used in combination with cytotoxic drugs, such as bleomycin, in a technique known as electrochemotherapy. However, irreversible electroporation was completely ignored in cancer therapy. We show through mathematical analysis that irreversible electroporation can ablate substantial volumes of tissue, comparable to those achieved with other ablation techniques, without causing any detrimental thermal effects and without the need of adjuvant drugs. This study suggests that irreversible electroporation may become an important and innovative tool in the armamentarium of surgeons treating cancer.
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