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There is always room to be more crafty. And to put those crafts to use.
I personally enjoy giving my handmade creations as gifts, but I also really like making useful items for around my home.
I keep meaning to buy a plant hanger for my angel wing (see second plant), but have not gotten around to it in over a year. Instead, I am going to crochet one from this pattern that was shared on Craftster by user swtater123.
As well, I have a box under my kitchen sink that holds all of my plastic bags from various purchases awaiting reuse. It is large and takes up a lot of room. So it's time to do something about that as well. I keep meaning to sew up a good old fashioned plastic bag holder like Mom used to make, but my sewing machine is on the fritz. I found this pattern online, so will crochet up one of these as well.
I also have a lamp that I outgrew. It still works well, but the shade is less than savory, so I built a new one from string and Mod Podge (before and after pics)...
Sadly, that one melted from the heat of the light bulb, and I have not made a new one since. I saw these awesome tealight covers somewhere in my browsing of internets, and was inspired. I am going to make a lampshade similar to this one.
Add to this list many other "to do's" and those that do not craft will understand why those of us that do are always busy!


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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2019: Using the Cloud for Competitive AdvantageBusiness Processing Outsourcing may be the latest buzzword, but there is one company that made the sale more than half a century ago.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) delivered its first pay checks in 1949 and now collects $8.5 billion annually, managing payroll and benefits for nearly 600,000 customers. Even when someone else cuts the checks, however, it still requires a lot of behind the scenes work linking all the necessary IT systems to automate the process.
''The hardest part is determining the gross pay, rather than the net pay after all the deductions and taxes,'' says James Holincheck, research vice president for Gartner, Inc., an industry analyst firm. ''In addition to automating the front-end data capture, they need to automate the back end in terms of moving as many people as possible to direct deposit or pay cards instead of cutting paper checks.''
Automating payroll is not a single action. Instead, it requires integrating a number of different elements including time and attendance software, the employee self-service portal, benefits enrollment, HR systems, payroll software, and financial systems, as well as any links to outside entities, such as HMOs, tax authorities and banks. But once this is done, the benefits go beyond just cutting the cost of print and distributing checks.
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Companies have many options to choose from in cutting down the payroll workload.
One place to start is with Employee Self Service (ESS), giving employees access through a corporate portal to change their personal information, like home address, marital status, number of dependents or types of payroll deductions. ESS saves paperwork and data entry time and also improves data accuracy, a particularly important point with payroll.
''With payroll there are three fundamental and challenging minimum standards that must be met: accuracy, security of data and compliance,'' says H. Joe Foist, manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Human Resource Effectiveness Practice in Dallas. ''Typically the payroll department itself hears very little from the customer unless something is wrong with their pay.''
To meet those needs, organizations can chose to go with the payroll module that comes with their existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Human Resources Management System (HRMS), purchase specialized payroll software, lease a hosted service, or outsource the entire payroll process. Features that Foist recommends looking at in selecting a payroll system include: tax engine capability, pay and deduction type flexibility and depth, commission, overtime and shift differential capabilities, ability to calculate and dispense retroactive pay, and compliance functionality.
Holincheck says location and type of industry also are key aspects of determining which software or service to use. The payroll software needs to accommodate the labor and tax regulations of all the locations where the company has employees, plus it must incorporate any terms of collective bargaining agreements. This is particularly a problem for multi-national enterprises. In such a case, going with a major HRMS or ERP vendor may be the best choice.
''Some of the larger ERP vendors have broader support in terms of the number of countries for which they provide regulatory compliance,'' says Holincheck.
This also can apply within a single country, such as the United States, where tax and labor laws vary by state, and sometimes by city.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina uses the payroll features in its HRMS from Genesys Software Systems Inc. of Methuen, Mass., to pay 13,000 employees in 28 states. But Holincheck says it is not always possible to use a single payroll system. With large multi-nationals, it is typical to have a centralized payroll system for the majority of employees, but to outsource payroll in countries where it has few.
''If you have only 15 or 20 people in a sales office in a country,'' he says, ''it doesn't make sense to implement software to meet local compliance issues.''
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The end result of implementing payroll software should be a fully automated, paperless system.
Barbara Kelly, Blue Cross' Vice President of Human Resources, says that Genesys pulls data from the organization's proprietary electronic timekeeper system for most of the employees, and employees can apply for benefits through their workstation. But that doesn't work for all employees.
''Employees in the cafeteria or mail services don't have access to a PC, so they have to work with their managers during open enrollment,'' she says, ''Also, some are using scannable time sheets.''
About 96 percent of Blue Cross employees now are on direct deposit, but they still receive paper notice of deposits. Kelly says they are working on eliminating this, as well.
''We feel comfortable enough with our security that we can now put the information out on our electronic systems,'' she says. ''This will be a huge cost savings for payroll since they won't have to stuff and send out all these notices biweekly. I don't think we will ever have a totally paperless system, but we will get as close as we can.''
The State of Georgia's Department of Human Resources (DHR), however, completely eliminated payroll checks in mid-2004. For those without checking accounts, the DHR issues debit cards rather than checks. On payday, the funds get transferred to the debit cards, which employees can then use to get cash from ATMs or use them for store purchases.
''There is a security with having the cards that they didn't have when they cashed a check,'' says DHR project manager Nora Akins.
Like Blue Cross, the DHR's next step is to eliminate pay stubs. According to John Sartain, director of the Office of Financial Services, the state government is rolling out a new version of PeopleSoft which will allow them to do it electronically.
''Not having to mail the check stubs will save us a little money in postage costs,'' he says. ''But it will also give our staff more time to do their regular job functions more efficiently and effectively.''
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I had some time today and got new nails plus I decorated my new hairbrush. I always wanted to do that and yep I did it today.
Took me around an hour to do it. Hope you like it :)
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I remember the first time I saw Jeremy Clarkson review the McLaren-Mercedes SLR. The airbrake went up and I was in love…with the show, not Jezza (odious man). Therefore, it is expected that Top Gear on History increase my heart rate by featuring some of the best rides in the US. This week's episode, Supercars accomplished this task, after a fashion. Their mission was to present a supercar convertible for purchase by a mystery celebrity. Think of this as the polar opposite of Season One's Used Car Salesmen challenge. Rutledge Wood arrived in a Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster. Adam Ferrara's megawatt smile was clearly visible from behind the wheel of a Bentley Continental GTC. Tanner Foust was zipped into the scene with a Porsche Turbo S Cabriolet. The music played for each host's arrival was most amusing. For the Lambo, the music had a hip-hop tinge with a DJ's scratching. Orchestra music heralded the Bentley's arrival; but the techno-pop piece for the Porsche halfway made me expect a Super Troopers re-enactment. By the way, that would have been totally epic but I digress.
Each was convinced that their vehicle was the mystery celebrity's best choice, and argued that point all the way from Massachusetts to New York. At their first challenge in Kingston, NY they had to race against a golf ball. Yes, a golf ball that was struck by a professional golfer. This was the first clue to the identity of this person who is famous in America. It seemed simple enough but to add a ridiculous aspect, the boys had to do so while wearing an additional hint to the celebrity's identity. There was a race before the race to see who could retract their roof the fastest. It felt spontaneous but even if it wasn't, they threw themselves into it with the level of juvenile enthusiasm we've come to expect. It was all very, very funny and segued into the next tidbit that almost knocked me off my seat. On their way to the next challenge thirty miles away, 'Daddy' started to feel sick again. The costly motorcade pulled over by a pasture, until he pulled himself together. His cast mates couldn't care less and used the opportunity to play with some nearby sheep. Yes, sheep again.
At a beautiful private racetrack, the boys tackled their next challenge: two timed laps with one to be completed by a co-driver. No spoilers here, as this caveat was well publicised. Their co-drivers were grey-haired grandmothers. One of whom even rolled in on her own wheels. From the hosts' initial panic, nanas getting schooled in performance vehicles and their actual survival of the race – it was effortless comedy. This was topped off by two hooligans who couldn't resist hijacking the little, old lady's scooter. They screamed, I laughed and good times were had by all. Incidentally, this was the third clue to the mystery celebrity's identity, before their final trip and an intimidation lesson in New York City.
The were now in Adam's neck of the woods; and for once, Rutledge and Tanner had a hard time getting from point A to B. Eventually they reached their destination and the mystery celebrity was revealed! Honestly, I was quite surprised. Earlier in the day, Jalopnik held a contest to see if anyone could figure it out. (Bless them for promoting this show.) Of course, bile has spewed furiously over there, since the big reveal. The boys had to convince this person to buy their chosen car and pretty much freaked out about it. They show the format for this person's show, which was interesting. Adam's gift for gab put him way ahead of the others and the obvious fact that his vehicle was the best choice for the person in question. He kept his cool during the speed-pitch, but made a wisecrack that opened an unexpected can of worms which I will address now and hopefully never again.
Tanner Foust is pretty famous. He's not ridiculously famous but as of right now, over 76,000 people have liked his Facebook page and over 37,000 people follow him on Twitter. His fans are a passionate, dedicated lot; and have been that way, long before this particular gig. They don't love Tanner the TV presenter. They love Tanner the race car driver. Seeing him play the fool every week is just icing on the cake for them. That being said, for sake of this cast's balance, his ego must be kept in check. (Ahem, find me a race car driver with no ego and you'll find a driver who never wins.) He's been picked on about his slight frame, hair, driving style and obsession with victory, etc. However, we've always known where it came from and why.
In this particular episode, I believe the show went too far. The celebrity asked Tanner a very personal question, which instantly reinforced that individual's reputation as a world-class butthead. It may have been retaliation for Tanner's failed attempt to pitch the Porsche's ability to keep one's physical appearance undisturbed. However, it came as a shock and was completely unnecessary. In fact, Tanner hardly spoke again until that portion was over. Family members provoke each other and that's okay but when a stranger does it – that's not right. Such a non-entertaining moment should have been left on the cutting-room floor. Shame on you, Top Gear on History for hanging 'The Driver' out to dry. Shame.
Film and television actor Jon Huertas was featured in 'Big Star, Small Car.' Rutledge did a pretty good job of making Jon relax, after his turn in the Suzuki. He put a respectable time on the fancy digital board and eventually worked the audience quite well. Once again, we got a fun, challenge-centric episode. Perhaps I'm a spoiled automobile enthusiast; but the only undeniable supercar among this lot was the Lamborghini. The Porsche is an excellent sports car with great performance but unfortunately, common. When I think supercar, the names that pop into my head are Bugatti, Pagani, McLaren, Aston Martin, Lamborghini and Ferrari. Porsche is cute but their last, big innovation was a sedan model. I'm not anti-Porsche but it just doesn't do it for me anymore. Oh, and the Bentley had no business being in that supercar posse at all. It's definitely a symbol of status and luxury. However, on its worst day, the McLaren-Mercedes SLR (automatic) could make that Bentley turn tricks on a street corner, in broad daylight. Hopefully there will be a third season and the people in charge will source stunning vehicles for the boys to act like fools in. Until then, we have next week's episode: Limos. Memorable quotes from this episode were:
"Well Luda doesn't own one but 50 Cent does, Young Jeezy…" – Rutledge Wood
"They have hearing aids. They turn those things up and they're like bionic." – Tanner Foust
"Take a picture of me with the sheep." – Adam Ferrara
Edit: All three hosts participated in live-tweeting throughout the episode. This has become a real treat for fans of the show and first-time viewers alike. As always, with humour and humility, the cast answered questions. Even beyond the show's airing, they are doing a great deal to make the social media circle into a real community. Kudos to them!


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I'm certainly no Latin scholar; still less do I know anything about Seneca. So I was pleasantly surprised when I came across the following:
I shall therefore send to you the actual books; and in order that you may not waste time in searching here and there for profitable topics, I shall mark certain passages, so that you can turn at once to those which I approve and admire. Of course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of the action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns. Cleanthes could not have been the express image of Zeno, if he had merely heard his lectures; he shared in his life, saw into his hidden purposes, and watched him to see whether he lived according to his own rules. Plato, Aristotle, and the whole throng of sages who were destined to go each his different way, derived more benefit from the character than from the words of Socrates. It was not the class-room of Epicurus, but living together under the same roof, that made great men of Metrodorus, Hermarchus, and Polyaenus. Therefore I summon you, not merely that you may derive benefit, but that you may confer benefit; for we can assist each other greatly. (Seneca, Ep. 6.5–6)
Seneca's view of texts—what they are, what they're good for, and how to use them properly—is particularly interesting to me, given my own interests in media criticism and Christian origins. Seneca is a member of the Roman elite social class (he was Nero's tutor!), highly educated, familiar with the range of philosophical texts produced by and for the Greek and Roman upperclasses, able to live a life of relative leisure even in comparatively difficult times (see Ep. 1.4), and sufficiently resourced to send a barrage of letters to a friend who is physically distant from him. Even so, Seneca is no raw bibliophile; he isn't interested in amassing and reading texts for their own sake (see Ep. 2). Instead, although he exhibits familiarity with texts from outside his favored Stoic tradition (Epicurean, Platonic, etc.), he exhorts Lucilius to confine himself to familiar and more profitable texts. Reading too many texts is akin to knowing too many people, and being a friend to none (Ep. 2.2).
So how does Seneca suppose texts function (or ought to function) in order to maximize their benefit? Texts only work properly, according to the excerpt quoted above, within the context of social relationship. The value to Lucilius of Seneca's Moral Epistles isn't in the reading but in the relationship between the two men established prior to the epistles and evoked, strengthened, and furthered by means of the texts. Similarly, Cleanthes embodied and furthered Stoic philosophy via his relationship with Zeno rather than by reading his texts. The same applies, mutatis mutandis, of Socrates' followers; indeed, famously Socrates didn't even leave behind any textual remains!
And so Seneca says (and this really is quite amazing), "Of course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of the action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns." The written text enables Seneca to face and overcome the problem of geographical distance (he is physically removed from his friend, Lucilius). But the text is no substitute for the interpersonal relationship and interaction that is given concrete expression in face-to-face conversation; indeed, the text—when it behaves properly—mimics social interaction. Seneca becomes present to Lucilius via the written text. For this reason, Lucilius read a different text than the one before me; when I read Seneca, there is no extratextual relationship invoked (and evoked) in my act of reading.
Notice that this is a far cry from the standard opposition between "orality" and written texts we find in much biblical scholarship. We're not juxtaposing oral tradition over and against written text. Rather, we're on the lookout for how written texts functioned in a world conditioned by and geared toward the actual social engagement of human beings with one another. Thus the significance of Seneca's allusion to social script of autopsy (eyewitness testimony) when he says men prefer their eyes to their ears. On the surface this may seem to elevate written texts—accessed with the eyes—over spoken words—perceived with the hear. But in fact this is exactly the opposite of Seneca's point! Seneca privileges the concrete experience of knowledge shared through interpersonal relationships (including words spoken between people) over that gained second hand, through the reports of someone else or mediated by means of written reports.


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Friday 29th July 2016
AIB performs poorly in latest European bank stress test
Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority: "Whilst we recognise the extensive capital raising done so far, this is not a clean bill of health."
Italy's Monte dei Paschi, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and AIB emerged as the biggest losers in the EU's banking stress tests, which largely found that the region's top 51 banks had enough capital to withstand another financial crisis.
While the tests abandoned their previous pass or fail marks, Italy's embattled Monte dei Paschi was the clear failure – its key capital ratio turned negative by the end of the three-year adverse scenario of the test, indicating the bank would be insolvent.
Immediately before the results were published, the bank said it would raise €5 billion of capital and offload €9.2 billion of bad loans. Earlier yesterday, it rejected a rescue proposal from Corrado Passera, the veteran Italian executive and former minister, in partnership with Swiss bank UBS.
As well as the worst end-point capital position, Monte dei Paschi had the biggest deterioration in its key capital ratio – known as its fully loaded common equity tier one (CET1) ratio, which takes into account new regulations due to come in soon.
That ratio fell 14.51 percentage points for the stricken Italian bank – more than four times the average 340 basis-points deterioration – leaving it with a ratio of -2.44%. The ratio across the sector was 9.2%.
Headline figures?
AIB had the second biggest fall in its fully loaded CET1 ratio, losing 880 basis points to leave it at just 4.31%. That makes the Irish government's hopes of reprivatising the bank over the coming years more distant because the headline figure is likely to spook investors, even though it penalises the banks under some rules that will not come into effect until 2022.
On a country-by-country basis, Ireland's two tested banks – AIB and Bank of Ireland – averaged the lowest CET1 ratio on a fully loaded basis, with an average of 5.21%. On a transitional basis, the Irish banks have a fully loaded ratio of 7.54%, the second weakest in the group, after Austria's 7.32%.
The UK government also faces questions as RBS had the third biggest fall in CET1 ratio, losing 745 basis points to leave it at 8.08%, still the 13th best in the group. Barclays also emerged in a relatively weak position with a fully loaded CET1 ratio that fell from 11.4% to 7.3% in the adverse scenario.
The overall results were less dramatic than those of the ECB's inaugural analysis in 2014, which revalued the balance sheets of almost 130 banks and ordered the sector to raise €25 billion. Those tests were widely discredited by the market as not harsh enough. The latest tests, while less closely watched, are expected to face similar criticism.
Brexit effect?
"Whilst we recognise the extensive capital raising done so far, this is not a clean bill of health," Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority said. "There remains work to do, which supervisors will undertake in the SREP [regulatory engagement] process."
Europe's banks have raised €180 billion since the end of 2013. Several issued statements stressing that even though the tests were tougher, their results were better than in 2014.
The latest tests have already come under fire for not capturing shocks such as the UK's unexpected decision to leave the EU, and negative interest rates. While they do include market shocks that are more severe than those seen in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, the scenario does not capture the outsize risk for certain banks.
The adverse scenario included falls in real EU gross domestic product of 1.2% in 2016, 1.3% in 2017 and 0.7% in 2018 – a progression that is 7.1% worse than the expected 'baseline' scenario. The stress tests also do not include the likely impact of some regulations that have not yet been finalised, known as 'Basel IV'.
Two-thirds of the Republic of Irl. 'would vote for an united Ireland'
Voters in Dublin were less likely to vote in favour of a united Ireland
Two out of three people in the Irish Republic would vote for a united Ireland, a major opinion poll has found.
Pollster Red C said its latest national survey – weeks after the Brexit result – shows a sharp rise in support for reunification since a similar opinion poll six years ago.
Asked how they would vote if a referendum was held tomorrow, 65% of the sample electorate said they would vote in favour of a united Ireland.
Some 30% said they would vote against it, while 5% said they were undecided.
The findings show an 8% jump in support for a united Ireland since Red C posed the same question in a poll carried out for the Sunday Times in 2010.
The shock Brexit result last month has sparked a renewed debate about a potential referendum on the Irish border. A majority of voters in Northern Ireland want to remain as part of the European Union.
Remain campaigners, including Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, have insisted their wishes must be respected.
But Leave backers, among them Democratic Unionist First Minister Arlene Foster, have insisted the EU referendum result is a UK-wide decision.
Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said he hoped the Brexit result would lead to a united Ireland.
However, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has in recent days retreated from his earlier talk of a border referendum.
The latest Red C poll also shows Mr Martin's Fianna Fail is the most popular party in the Republic. Arch-rivals Fine Gael rely on his support for their minority government, formed after weeks of negotiations following a huge split in the vote earlier this year.
In a cross border survey last year by broadcasters RTE and BBC Northern Ireland, 66% of people in the Irish Republic said they would like to see a united Ireland in their lifetime.
But only 30% in Northern Ireland held the same view, with 43% saying they would not like to see reunification.
For the latest poll, carried out for bookmaker Paddy Power, Red C interviewed a sample of 1,000 voters in the Irish Republic between July 25 and 27.
Support for a united Ireland was equal at 65% among both men and women.
More (69%) in less well-off social groups than better-off groups (59%) said they would vote for reunification.
Voters living in Dublin (56%) were less likely to vote in favour of a united Ireland than those living outside the capital (68% to 69%).
Sinn Fein (79%) and Fianna Fail (71%) supporters were most likely to back reunification, while Fine Gael (58%) voters were least likely.
There was a clear majority in favour among all age groups, particularly among those aged 55 to 64 (70%).
Mortgage lending on the up as property prices rise to 6.6%
House prices dropped slightly in Dublin last month but were up elsewhere in Ireland
Nationally, residential prices are 35.4% lower than at their highest point since 2007.
Mortgage lending by Irish banks rose €105 million in June, the largest increase since early 2010, new figures from the Central Bank reveal.
However, in annual terms, lending for house purchased declined by 2% with household repaying €1.6 billion more than was advanced in new loans.
The figures comes as new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show residential property prices across the country rose 6.6% in the year to June .
While prices dipped last month in Dublin, they rose everywhere else, according to the data.
Overall, prices in the capital are now 33.5% lower than their zenith in early 2007. In the same time frame, apartments in Dublin are 41.8% lower.
The Residential Property Price Index for June showed the 6.6% increase for the year to June compared with 6.9% for May and by 10.7% in the year to June 2015.
A June decrease.
Prices decreased by 0.1% during the month and by 0.7% in Dublin, but were 4.5% higher than a year ago.
Dublin house prices decreased by 1% during the month and were 5% higher compared with a year earlier, while apartment prices were 0.5% lower when compared with the same month in 2015.
"However, it should be noted that the sub-indices for apartments are based on low volumes of observed transactions and consequently suffer from greater volatility than other series," the CSO said in a statement.
Nationally, residential prices are 35.4% lower than at their highest point in 2007.
Housing market crisis not reflected?
Property Industry Ireland (PII), an-Ibec affiliated group that represents businesses working in the property and construction sector, said house price data did not properly reflect the crisis occurring in the housing market.
"While house prices increased by 6.6% in the last year, rents grew by 10% in the same period. The displacement of the housing crisis into the rented sector is largely driven by the continued exodus of landlords and an increased cohort of tenants, many of whom are renting longer than they expected because of the deposit rules introduced by the Central Bank last year," said PII director Peter Stafford.
Merrion chief economist Alan McQuaid said that after average house price rises of 12.9% in 2014 and 10.6% last year we would likely see a more modest increase of between 6% and 6.5% for 2016, based on current data.
Elsewhere, Davy analyst David McNamara said Brexit brings a potential headwind in the near term for property demand but the stockbrokers still expect house price inflation to settle at 5% by year end.
Irish consumers facing higher electricity bills as PSO levy to rise
Irish homeowners and businesses are facing higher electricity bills after a decision to raise the levy on their bills to support renewable energy and to ensure security of energy supply.
The Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy is to go up by 20%, the Commission for Energy Regulation has decided.
The move will mean the levy on domestic bills will rise by almost €14 to €82 a year, once value added tax is applied, according to calculations by Simon Moynihan ofBonkers.ie.
For commercial electricity users, the levy is going from €214.5 this year to €254.16 – an increase of €39.66, or 18.5%. This figure excludes VAT as business can reclaim the tax.
Mr Moynihan said: "The energy regulator had initially proposed an increase of 32% in May, so there is some relief with today's news."
The higher levy will apply from October.
The PSO levy is a subsidy charged to all electricity customers to support national policy objectives related to renewable energy, indigenous fuels (peat) and security of energy supply
The higher levy is despite a 35% drop in wholesale gas prices, the main input for electricity generation.
Lower wholesale energy prices mean that more financial support has to be paid to ensure security of electricity supply.
Meanwhile, a separate report from the energy regulator shows that almost 80,000 customers have switched electricity supplier and 25,000 customers have switched gas supplier since last year.
It said while customer switching continues to be a key indicator of competition, an increasing number of customers are negotiating better terms and prices with their existing suppliers.
Herbs can act as a natural pain relief property
Rosemary and thyme have been praised for their pain-relief properties.
Herbs have been found to help tackle the pain of cancer and other diseases.
Next time you cook a meal you may want to chuck in some rosemary and thyme, as the ingredients not only add aroma and taste but they act as natural painkillers, a new study has found. Chemical components diterpenoids act as an analgesic to pain and inflammation, even those that stem from cancer and other serious illnesses. Diterpenoids – which come in two kinds, carnosol and carnosic acid – are found in fungi and select plants,
German and Italian scientists have noted. But rosemary and thyme hold some of the highest levels, and therefore may work wonders when included in cooking. Experiments on human cells and mice discovered the chemical components block enzymes that cause inflammation and pain in the body, and Dr Giuseppe Bifulco of Italy's Salerno University is keen to promote herbs as a means of pain relief.
"Two key enzymes of inflammation, are primary targets of carnosol and carnosic acid which are major bioactive ingredients of herbs that are used as spices – namely sage and rosemary," he said of the findings, published in the British Journal of Pharmacology. "Our study provides comprehensive insights into their anti-inflammatory mechanism."
These results follow on from a discovery in March (16) that rosemary was a common ingredient used in an Italian village, where a majority of residents lived to be over 100.
But the herbs aren't the only natural means of pain relief, and if you want to go further down the scented route you can try turmeric and cloves too.
Or, a good soak in a hot bath and acupuncture are good options for those whose palettes aren't acquainted to such fragrant flavours.
Cockroaches aren't exactly the most favored of insects, and all kinds of methods are used to get rid of the bugs often dwelling in the kitchens and bathrooms of the world. However, a recent study has shown that cockroach milk can serve as a superfood for humans.
IUCrJ, a journal from the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), recently published a paper studying the milk from the viviparous cockroach named Diploptera punctata. Statistics in the paper indicate that cockroach milk is estimated to contain over three times the energy of cow milk of the same mass.
Cockroach milk is different from what we call milk in daily life. It is a crystal of proteins, fats and sugars, which are important for the growth of baby cockroaches. "The protein crystals are milk for the cockroach infant. It is important for its growth and development," said Leonard Chavas, one of the project's researchers.
Sanchari Banerjee, one of the main authors of the paper, told Times of India that "the crystals are like a complete food — they have proteins, fats and sugars. If you look into the protein sequences, they have all the essential amino acids."
Cockroach milk may serve as a superfood for human but it is not expected to be found in supermarkets any time soon.
In the research, the milk was extracted from the gut of the Diploptera punctata, which is not an efficient way for massive production. There are still some obstacles before scientists. "For now, we are trying to understand how to control this phenomena in a much easier way, to bring it to mass production," Chavas explained to CNN.
The research can't ensure you the opportunity to enjoy cockroach milk, but it does offer the hope of turning what is often seen as an unsightful creature into something more.


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Both the polycarbonate composite matrix helmets and the fiberglass/Kevlar helmets comply with the exact same standards - DOT - SNELL - ECE. These are "pass-fail" standards and do not reflect any continuum or graduated level of compliance. No one can tell (or guarantee) you one will be any safer than another in an accident.
// How is a helmet supposed to fit my head?
In a word: SNUG! Please study our "SIZING" section on the website for more detailed instructions. If the fit is painful, it is likely too tight. There are 3 tests we recommend to be sure the helmet is not too big behind the "SIZING" button. Make sure you use all 3 because most people in America buy their helmets too big. If it is too big, the helmet cannot do it's job to the fullest.
// What is the weight of your helmet compared to other?
Our helmets weigh comparably to the competition. There may be some variation during the production run of a few grams here and there, but this is virtually imperceptible by the rider. Traditionally the fiberglass helmets will weigh a few ounces less than the polycarbonate helmets and for this reason may be preferable to some riders.
// Is it possible to trade comfort liners to change sizes?
Currently we offer a few different shell sizes allowing limited changes to be made. for the EXO-1000 changes can be made XS to SM - MD to LG - XL to 2XL, The EXO-900 XS to SM, MD to LG, XL to 3XL, the EXO-750, 700, 400, 100 the VX-24, 17, and 14 in sizes XS to MD, and LG to 2XL the EXO-400 has a 3XL of it own and can not change in size. It is the softer, upholstered "comfort liners" which are installed to actually "size up" or size down" within the shell range to get the perfect head size for you.
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This week Microsoft is hosting a Small Business Summit and the publicity is mostly a rehash of past announcements with a small business spin. However, there was some surprising new news – Microsoft Unveils Small-Business Phone System Software Designed for Ease of Use:
Today at the second annual Microsoft Small Business Summit, Microsoft Corp. unveiled a small-business Internet protocol (IP) phone system, code-named "Response Point," designed for ease of use and manageability. The new system comes in an easy-to-install box, supports both voice over IP (VoIP) and traditional phone lines, and includes a voice-activated user interface.
Now in beta testing, "Response Point" will be generally available later this year in three models: D-Link DVX-2000, Quanta Syspine and Uniden Evolo. "I am proud and honored to work with leaders in the computing, telephony and networking fields to bring 'Response Point' to market," said Xuedong Huang, general manager of the "Response Point" team at Microsoft. "Each of our OEM partners brings its own special expertise to our customers, allowing us to serve a much broader range of small businesses."
OK, so Microsoft is just doing the software and D-Link, Quanta, and Uniden are the OEMs, but that's a familiar model isn't it? Aside from the novelty of Microsoft entering the business phone system market, the voice interface is something different:
Phone calls on the system are designed to be easy to make by pressing the "Response Point" button on the phone and telling the system who you want to call. For example, a user could say "Call Jeff at work," and the system will dial that number based on the contact information entered into the Response Point directory, Smith said.
Response Point can be set up either as a VoIP system or one that uses traditional phone lines, he added.
The systems are intended to be easy to set up, also appealing to small businesses, but there's also another novel facet of Response Point:
The team that built the Response Point system acted as an independently funded startup within Microsoft, which gave it the advantage of developing the product "from the ground up" for small businesses without having to work with other product teams, Smith said.
In addition, the team operated like a small startup company, allowing it to understand the needs of small businesses, said Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, speaking on the video at the summit. "What they found is that what small businesses need is the ability to simplify the steps it takes to accomplish every day tasks," he said. One example of how Response Point addresses that is the speech recognition feature, he said.
Aside from Steve Ballmer possibly considering this insane, one can't help but wonder if this kind of "skunk works" is the hallmark of an organization grown too large. Remember IBM and how they had to develop the IBM PC?
In any case, the Response Point Home Page has more details.


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Interesting Fellows
Walter Nash
- The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Secker, 220 pp, £10.95, March 1989, ISBN 0 436 03267 8
- Carn by Patrick McCabe
Aidan Ellis, 252 pp, £11.50, March 1989, ISBN 0 85628 180 8
- The Tryst by Michael Dibdin
Faber, 168 pp, £10.99, April 1989, ISBN 0 571 15450 6
- Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson
Macmillan, 264 pp, £12.95, March 1989, ISBN 0 333 45194 5
Take one housemaid, who interrupts you while you are making a ludicrously maladroit attempt to swaddle a stolen painting in brown paper. Fly into a sulk. Bundle the poor girl into your car, and when she protests, silence her with a hammer, noting, as you do so, that its impact on her skull is like hitting clay or hard putty. (You are brilliantly obsessed by details.) Drive thirty miles – recording, wide-eyed, the comic contingencies of a world as yet ignorant of your deed – to a patch of waste ground, where you leave the car, and the corpse, and the painting you set out to steal in the first place. Walk away, into the curious conviction that by this enormity you have liberated yourself from the burden of having to pretend to be what you are not.
Well, you are an interesting fellow, yes, indeed, and a queer fellow. Your name is Freddie Montgomery, and in prose of enviably luminous, ironic elegance you reveal your disastrous moral malfunction, an inability to relate thought to action, action to consequence, consequence to those structures of commitment and responsibility that frame the lives of less interesting fellows. It is fascinating that you express so coherently your spiritual incoherence; a symptom, perhaps, of your condition. What that is, I do not quite know, even after considering The Book of Evidence which you have laid before me. I might be tempted to use words like 'psychotic', or 'psychopath', but your creator, John Banville, would understandably resent these catch-all categories, as restrictions on the subtlety, the complexity, the truth of his creation. If it is possible to get at the truth of this elaborately inventive tale.
The elaboration is in the incidental detail; the story itself is simple enough. It tells how Freddie Montgomery (Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery, if you please), stout, blond, of some intellect and no substance, king of the expatriate castle on a Mediterranean island, carelessly finds himself owing money to one Señor Aguirre, a local 'businessman' given to irregular commercial practices like cutting people's ears off. Somewhat startled by the realisation that borrowing entails the concept of repayment, Freddie goes to seek his fortune in his native Ireland (in other words, does a runner), leaving his wife and son as hostages to the ototomic Señor Aguirre. His hopes of dunning his sly old mother for an advance on his patrimony are dashed when it turns out that she has been reduced to selling the family's pictures to a Mr Behrens, a landed gentleman with whose daughter Freddie has a passing erotic acquaintance. It is during an exploratory visit to Whitewater, the Behrens's house, that Freddie catches sight of a Flemish painting which fascinates him and which he feels impelled to steal: and it is in the course of this theft, planned and executed as though the thief had never heard of witnesses, that the maidservant makes her fatal entrance. After the murder, Freddie takes refuge with Charlie French, a seedy, shady dealer in art and antiques, whose innocent and touching loyalty to an old friend almost leads to his own ruin. This, however, is the end of Freddie's run, and here he skulks until at length the Police arrive to arrest their man and remand him for trial, during which time he writes his Book of Evidence.
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Don't Leave Your Smile to Chance and Gadgets, Go To Your Dentist Regularly
Plenty of people tend not to place going to the dentist towards the top of their list of pleasurable activities. The truth is, lots of people postpone their particular once-a-year appointment for as long as they can. Moms and dads happen to be guilty of taking their children, yet overlooking their own dental hygiene. After all, it truly is preferable to entice a child with a goody pertaining to good conduct than an adult. Adults are not likely to be duped through glitter toothpaste and light-up toothbrushes. These teenager tricks typically will work on young children, however it is equally achievable for them to work on a grown up. On this page one can possibly see some of the tricks of the trade. You can find all sorts of cool gadgets to make oral hygiene somewhat more pleasant. You can find new details popping out frequently to help people look after their particular teeth far better. Nothing, however, is going to take the place of visiting your dental professional.
When you finally check out the dental professional, you do much more in comparison with just simply ensuring that your teeth have proven to be healthy. Handling your teeth also can improve your state of health. Very poor dental care can cause problems with heart problems, all forms of diabetes and in many cases intellectual function. Besides, not implementing proper care of your teeth may affect your smile. Anyone must do what they can to place their finest foot forward.


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Oh my goodness, do we adore Brave Writer! We have been gushing about the Brave Writer lifestyle for years.
Psst! Want to check out our other favorite homeschool resources? You can do so here:
Writing is a Lifestyle with Brave Writer
When our son, Leo, was just 3-years-old, he wrote and illustrated an entire series of books featuring an adorable character known as The Goofy Lion. The original Goofy Lion book was a preschool project. Leo drew the images and his teacher wrote down the story for him. We loved the first book so much that we read it as part of our bedtime routine. A few days later, Leo asked if he could write another. I happily obliged and so he set about drawing the pictures. When he was finished, he told me the story and I wrote it down for him. The third book was different. He drew the pictures on his own, during quiet time, after which he wrote the words himself. He did not want any help other than spelling. The process was slow but the product was worth every painstaking minute.
I know he is my kid, but The Goofy Lion is awesome. I will treasure those books forever, folks.
Leo first wrote his name at 2 1/2-years-old. He has always loved books and the written word. I can recall countless quiet times during which he copied his favorite books – both illustrations and text- so that he could have his very own copy. He insisted upon writing out his Valentine's during preschool. He learned to write before he could read. He would take notes, copy diagrams, and write notes, apologies, and love letters. He was the first blogger in our home. His room is filled with towering piles of drawings, blueprints, notes, and journals.
If you ask Leo to write, he doubles over dramatically and wails:
"Muuum!! Noooooo! I hate writing!!"
Um, what? You hate writing? How is that even possible?
Every time I hear him say those words, I cringe. When I was working as a school psychologist I saw countless students, often boys, who loathed writing. These boys hated, despised, cursed, dreaded the act of writing. It was frustrating for them, laborious, physically painful. All too often, it seemed that schools were placing pressure on the act of writing well, and all creativity and fun was lost. I always felt so badly for these boys, who cringed when they were faced with a pencil and paper. How do you help a child learn to love writing when they have had such negative early experiences? I certainly do not have the answers, but I know I would do anything to prevent my own children from feeling that way about writing.
When I think of my own schooling, I am hard-pressed to recall a memorable writing teacher aside from my 9th and 11th-grade teacher, Mr. Becker. Mr. Becker was a fantastic teacher, he was truly inspiring. His discussions were fascinating, his assignments intriguing, his book assignments memorable. Beyond that, he believed in me and built me up. He told me I was a great writer and he encouraged me to pursue a career that involved writing. I took his advice to heart and I think of him often, all these years later. It's interesting to me that Mr. Becker is the only writing teacher I can recall. I'm certain that I had writing instruction before that point, but I cannot remember a word of it. And, yet, I entered his class and performed very well. How did I get there? What helped me to enter his classroom a writer? I honestly believe that it boils down to two things:
- I have always been a voracious reader.
- I love a great conversation.
In a nutshell, writing boils down to this:
We need to have heaps of practice with words before we can string them together well and find our unique voice. And in order to want to practice, we need to enjoy it. We seek out that which we love.
I want my children to love writing. I want them to find their voice and to share it. I do not ever want for them to cringe when they see a pen and paper.
When we first started homeschooling, I was concerned about writing. The absolute last thing I wanted was for Leo to view writing as work. I wanted it to be fun. I wanted it to be a part of our lives because writing is a part of our lives. It is a life skill.
I wanted writing to be both natural and fun for Leo.
Disclosure: I received Brave Writer Jot it Down and The Writer's Jungle for free and was compensated for my time in exchange for a review. I was not required to write a positive review. As always, all opinions expressed herein are my own. I only share products that I believe your family will love and, as you'll see from this review, our family adores Brave Writer!
And that's where Brave Writer comes in.
I discovered Julie Bogart and Brave Writer very early on in our homeschooling career. Brave Writer was recommended to me by many parents- from parents of kids who loathe the written word, to fellow parents of profoundly gifted children who were searching for a writing program that incorporated individuality and creativity while still covering all the academic bases. I have been following Brave Writer on Facebook for well over a year and I adore and look forward to Julie's blog posts.
When I was presented with the opportunity to review Brave Writer, I honest-to-goodness did a happy dance. After following Julie for a year, I already knew I loved it. We just hadn't actually tried it yet.
What this homeschooling mom loves about Brave Writer
Folks, I know I'm gushing a bit, I do. It's just that I honest-to-goodness adore this program and I'm so happy it is a part of our homeschool curriculum this year. Brave Writer meshes with our educational philosophy and needs so well that I feel as if the program was created for my children.
Here are some other things that I love about Brave Writer:
- Brave Writer was created by a professional writer and homeschooling mom of five. How often can you say that about a curriculum or a program you are using? Julie Bogart is one of us, she's done this homeschooling thing for seventeen years and is sharing what has worked for her five children while incorporating her knowledge and skills as a writer and editor.
- Brave Writer is more than a curriculum, it's a lifestyle. As such, it's super-easy to incorporate into your daily routine. It becomes a way of life, a beautiful, fun, and family-strengthening way of life.
- You don't have to be a fantastic writer to use Brave Writer. Brave Writer gives you the knowledge and tools you need to become your child's writing coach.
- Brave Writer is fun. I'm not exaggerating, folks. The lifestyle capitalizes on joy and family fun. Do you love family movie night? Tea parties where you get to dress up and have interesting conversations? Parties for no reason? Walks in the great outdoors? So do I! Guess what? All of those things and more are considered part of the Brave Writer Lifestyle.
- Brave Writer emphasizes creativity and the arts. It always pains me when I read about schools cutting arts and music, but sadly those are the first to go when budgets get tight. With Brave Writer, your child will explore music and art and poetry at a young age. You will be building not only your child's writing skills but his or her creativity and appreciation for the arts.
- Brave Writer capitalizes upon children's imaginations and helps them to find their inner writer and voice.
- Brave Writer is a complete writing program that covers academic writing, yet the program manages to do so without losing the writer's individual, creative voice.
- The program is designed so that you take your time. All too often, as homeschoolers, you feel the pressure of the must-dos and to-dos. You want to cross items off of your list and finish texts. You feel like you are short on time. The program wants you to take your time. Julie has a fantastic post about taking your time:
- Brave Writer is flexible. If you are looking for a do-this-lesson-on-Monday-and-this-one-on-Tuesday sort of program, this isn't it. There are no set timelines or to-dos with Brave Writer. There are suggested routines rather than schedules.
- This program is ideal for families with multiple children. I had no trouble using Brave Writer with my three children, ages 7, 5 1/2, and 4-years. Here is a post that Julie Bogart wrote on homeschooling multiple children:
- Brave Writer takes the pressure out of writing. With Brave Writer, you meet your child where she is at. Little kids have difficulty with the mechanical aspect of writing. Brave Writer would be wonderful for reluctant writers.
- The program allows for you to explore deeply, if desired, and that makes it perfect for gifted learners.
- Brave Writer includes heaps and heaps of read alouds!
- Above all, what I love about Brave Writer is THIS:
Brave Writer allows for natural writing development
I love Brave Writer for a multitude of reasons, but one of the top reasons is this: Brave Writer allows for natural writing development.
If you follow Julie Bogart and Brave Writer like I do, you'll start to think about the similarities and differences in speech development and writing development, and how our education system handles both. Think about this:
- It takes approximately 5 years for oral language to develop.
- It takes approximately 10 years for written language to develop.
Now, take a second to think about the difference between the two. When your child starts to speak, he or she makes oodles of pronunciation and grammatical errors. Tons of errors! And we think those errors are adorable. We are so happy that our child is starting to speak that we pay no attention to these mistakes, but rather we delight in them. Over time, our children learn to speak so well! All of the cute things they used to say are lost, gone in a blink. And they are gone in a blink without true instruction. Our children learn to speak well through exposure to language, conversations, read alouds, and life in general.
Now, think about how our education system handles written language. It takes longer for written language to develop than for oral language and yet our children are asked to write early on and often. Worksheet after worksheet after worksheet focuses on structure and rubric and mechanics. They get so bogged down in the mechanical aspects of getting those letters on a page that their amazing ideas, stories, and inventions are cast by the wayside. It's all work and no play. And, the play is where you find the writer and where the writer discovers his voice, folks!
Also, consider this: most writing curricula is not developed by writers. I'll let you mull that one over for a minute before moving on.
Brave Writer supports the student through the five stages of writing development
Brave Writer asserts that all children are writers, and I agree whole-heartedly. Did your child go to preschool? Think back to that time. Do you remember all the pictures that your child brought home on which his or her teacher had transcribed your child's words? Leo wrote his very first The Goofy Lion book with the help of his teacher. He dictated, she wrote, and the results were amazing. Brave Writer allows for you to continue that relationship, providing more and more independence when the child is developmentally ready for it.
What are the five Brave Writer stages?
- Jot it Down (ages 5-8) – During this first stage, your child shares her thoughts and ideas and you serve as the secretary and write them all down.
- Partnership Writing (ages 9-10) – You and your child write together during this second stage of writing development.
- Faltering Ownership (ages 11-12) – Growing more independent but still in need of help, this is what I like to think of as the two-steps-forward-three-steps-back phase of writing development. Your child has lots of growth but also his fair share of obstacles.
- Transition to Ownership (ages 13-14) – As your child grows into more of an independent writer, you serve primarily as the editor.
- The Great Conversation (ages 15-18) – This is where your child has grown into an independent, academic writer. Brave Writer includes SAT prep, too!
Currently, we are using Jot it Down because my children are 4, 5, and 7-years-old, but I am planning to incorporate some Partnership Writing with Leo this year, too. I love that Jot it Down meets children where they are at but also includes three very important areas of focus:
- Language Arts – This includes literature, spelling, handwriting, punctuation, grammar, literature elements, copy work, dictation, word origins, and vocabulary.
- Oral Language – Poetry teatime, weekly movies, nature study, art appreciation, music discovery, read aloud, word play.
- Writing Projects– Jot it Down includes 10 one-month-long writing projects from which to pick and choose.
Brave Writer: Writing as a LIFESTYLE
Writing is a life skill. You need to be able to write in this life. Sure, you might not write novels or screenplays, but you need to take notes and write instructions and e-mails, etc.
Brave Writer weaves writing into your day-to-day life, making it easy to grow writers just as you've learned to grow readers! By providing a language-rich environment and a family culture that values the written word, your children will learn to find their writer's voice naturally!
And, do you want to know an added bonus? The Brave Writer Lifestyle is not only fun and easy to incorporate into your family's routine but it also results in oodles of fun family experiences and memories that are sure to last a lifetime. What is included in the Brave Writer Lifestyle, you wonder? Here's just a snippet:
Poetry Teatimes
Nature Appreciation and Journaling
Writing Projects
Art Appreciation
Literary Elements
Friday Freewrites
Movies and Television
One on One Time
Can you give me an example of a Brave Writer project?
I sure can! In fact, how about I give you five examples of how we've used Brave Writer in our home?
Fairytale Project
Brave Writer Mailboxes
Poetry Teatimes
Family Movie Night
Our Brave Writer Good Enough Cupcake Party
The proof is in the pudding!
Since beginning Brave Writer and enjoying the projects mentioned above, Leo's love of writing has been restored, and T and Seuss have had an absolute blast! I have not once heard the dreaded, "Muuum!! Noooooo! I hate writing!!" Like most kids, Leo cannot resist a fun idea, and Brave Writer has oodles of them!
Want to add Brave Writer to your homeschool routine?
If you want to add Brave Writer to your homeschool curriculum this year, you can click here. All curriculum materials are available in digital format (only), and there are a ton of online learning opportunities as well.
Julie Bogart always talks about the Brave Writer One Thing Principle. I love this principle! Don't get overwhelmed, don't get stressed! Instead, just pick one thing and do that one thing well. In keeping with that principle, I'd highly suggest you check out The Writer's Jungle, which is essentially the spine of the entire program. The Writer's Jungle explains the philosophy, lifestyle, and various programs. It is chock-full of amazing information for parents who want to grow writers. I devoured it.
Then, after you've read The Writer's Jungle and feel comfortable, you'll want to explore material at your child's developmental level. The projects that I've shared are featured in the Brave Writer Jot it Down program. We also adore Brave Writer's Daily Writing Tips. In addition, Leo and I will soon be exploring Partnership Writing together.
Follow Brave Writer!
As I said, I've been following Brave Writer for well over a year now. You can follow Brave Writer on Facebook, Twitter, G+, and Pinterest.
Looking for more Brave Writer posts?
Check out this post. It is chock-full of Brave Writer goodness:
Tell me… Are you a Brave Writer family? Share your stories here!
Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.
Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
and G+.
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April 25 — A bankruptcy court applied an incorrect legal standard to determine whether parties had actual knowledge that they violated an order granting the bankrupt debtor a discharge from his debts when they applied for their attorneys' fees in state court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit held April 12.
Judge Meredith A. Jury reversed the bankruptcy court's finding of contempt and vacated its judgment awarding sanctions against the appellants. The bankruptcy court's factual findings were erroneous and not supported by the record, the BAP said.
In a Chapter 7 case in which nonexempt assets are liquidated and the proceeds are distributed to creditors, the bankruptcy court grants the debtor a discharge under Bankruptcy Code Section 727(a). That order "discharges the debtor from all debts that arose before the date of the bankruptcy filing."
Under Section 524(a)(2), a discharge "operates as an injunction against the commencement or continuation of an action, the employment of process, or an act, to collect, recover or offset any such debt as a personal liability of the debtor, whether or not discharge of such debt is waived," the BAP said. A party who knowingly violates this discharge order can be held in contempt under Section 105(a), the BAP said.
It is undisputed, the BAP said, that the appellants had actual knowledge that the debtor's discharge had been entered at the time they sought post-discharge attorneys' fees in state court. They couldn't have been aware that the discharge injunction applied to their fee request until the question was adjudicated, the BAP said.
When a discharge in bankruptcy relieves a debtor from all prepetition debts, the Ninth Circuit has adopted a different standard for determining for discharge purposes when an attorneys' fee claim arises, the BAP said. Even if the underlying claim arose prepetition, "the claim for fees incurred postpetition on account of that underlying claim is deemed to have arisen postpetition if the debtor 'returned to the fray' postpetition by voluntarily and affirmatively acting to commence or resume the litigation with the creditor," the BAP said, citing Boeing North American, Inc. v. Ybarra (In re Ybarra), 424 F.3d 1018 (9th Cir. 2005).
This isn't a case in which the appellants "knew of the discharge injunction and continued to press their attorneys' fees claim in state court under the assumption that the discharge injunction" didn't apply to them, the BAP said. Although the discharge order was in place at the time the appellants made their fee request in the state court, the order didn't advise the appellants of the scope of the injunction under the Ybarra rule, the BAP said.
Sherwood Park Business Center, LLC (SPBC) sued debtor Bradley Weston Taggart, BT of Sherwood, LLC, and the debtor's attorney John M. Berman in state court before the debtor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The litigation was based on the debtor's transfer of his membership interest in SPBC to another LLC entity. Ultimately, the membership was purchased by Berman, in violation of SPBC's operating agreement.
The debtor filed his bankruptcy petition on the eve of the state court trial and then received a discharge. Postpetition, Terry W. Emmert and Keith Jehnke resumed the state court litigation. The state court ruled in SPBC's favor by unwinding the debtor's transfer of his membership interest.
Later, Emmert and Jehnke's attorney sought attorneys' fees and costs in state court for the period after the debtor's discharge. They also asked for a ruling on whether the discharge injunction applied to the post-discharge fee request.
The state court ruled that the debtor "had returned to the fray" and, thus, the discharge injunction didn't apply to the post-discharge request for attorneys' fees and costs under the Ybarra rule. The state court awarded SPBC attorneys' fees and costs.
Meanwhile, the debtor reopened his bankruptcy case and filed a motion to hold the appellants in contempt for violating the discharge injunction under Section 524(a)(2).
The bankruptcy court found no error with the state court's ruling on the applicability of the discharge injunction.
The district court reversed and remanded the case.
On remand, the bankruptcy court found that the debtor proved by clear and convincing evidence that the appellants had willfully violated the discharge injunction since they were aware of the discharge injunction and intended the actions that violated it. The court entered an order for contempt and ordered sanctions in favor of the debtor.
Emmert, Jehnke, and SPBC appealed to the BAP, which reversed the bankruptcy court's finding of contempt and vacated the sanctions judgment.
The bankruptcy court applied an incorrect legal standard to determine whether the appellants had actual knowledge that the discharge injunction applied to their fee request in the state court, the BAP said, citing Zilog, Inc. v. Corning (In re Zilog, Inc.), 450 F.3d 996 (9th Cir. 2006). Under Zilog, the movant must prove that the creditor "(1) knew the discharge injunction was applicable and (2) intended the actions which violated the injunction," the BAP said.
Although the bankruptcy court cited the correct test for a finding of willfulness, it mistakenly used the test from Hardy v. United States (In re Hardy), 97 F.3d 1384 (11th Cir. 1996), which is whether the defendant in the contempt action "knew that the discharge injunction was invoked," the BAP said.
Judges Ralph B. Kirscher and Robert J. Faris joined the opinion.
Hollis K. McMilan represented appellants Terry W. Emmert, Keith Jehnke, and Sherwood Park Business Center, LLC; James Ray Streinz, McEwen Gisvold LLP, represented appellant Shelley A. Lorenzen; John M. Berman represented appellee/debtor Bradley Weston Taggart.
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Artist: Simpson, William (1823-1899)
Medium: Chromolithograph
Date: 1867
This chromolithograph is taken from plate 14 of William Simpson's 'India: Ancient and Modern'. This fine view shows the Himalayan foothills dwarfing the Wangtu bridge, which is at the start of the Kinnaur district in present-day Himachal Pradesh. Simpson wrote that this bridge was "one of the largest of its kind in the Himalayas ... the locality is a very wild one, and the river, which is of a dirty grey colour from the debris carried down the hills, runs roaring past with a deafening noise". The old Hindusthan-Tibet route (now a national highway) runs by the swift-flowing Sutlej, the largest of the five rivers from which the Punjab derives its name.


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It seems to me that you'd have to unstitch the rim to remove the cardboard for washing. The author or editor seems to be hinting at something; I wonder what it was really for. Washcloths? Handkerchiefs?
- 3 March 2013 at 10:33
- One More Stitch said...
You are right - it would have to be unstitched for that washing. I was wondering, too, if something that might spill or leak - tooth powder, a hand/face cream/lotion, lip salve, hair oil would be stored in the tidy? What would be soiling the inside cardboard and, possibly going through it and onto the knitted fabric? Or is it something that might be soiled in use, say a comb with hair oil on it, that would build up stains or needed cloths to wipe the oil from the comb?
Oh, where is that time machine?
- 3 March 2013 at 19:51
Often when a 19th century writer don't want to specify something that's a hint that it involves feminine products. The easily removed (and burned) lining could be another hint. Maybe it held a supply of rags.
- 6 March 2013 at 09:07
- LLB said...
i bet it was rags maybe. my nana, she's 82 tomorrow, said they used a folded rag in their underwear when they had their period. they would be soaked and washed to be used again. she got her period at 9 (so 1940). when were pads invented? i know, people didn't talk at all about this stuff, like it was some dark secret or something... kinda silly. nana had no idea what had happened, she started at school and the teacher told her to put a folded rag in her underwear and sent her home for the day. she had to walk 9 blocks with no clue what was going on! when she got home, her mother said to ask her older sister when she got home and sent her to their room to wait! like, what, she'd already embarrassed her self once having to explain it and didn't want to do it again?! thank you for the modern age, where we talk about all this stuff!
- 27 May 2013 at 06:23
- nrdygrl said...
I'm afraid that the purpose of this object isn't glamorous, nor is it specifically feminine. It's made to hold hairs cleaned out of your comb. So I guess it's basically a trash bag. http://books.google.com/books?id=vV0gAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA411&lpg=PA411&dq=what+is+a+toilette+tidy?&source=bl&ots=K-RvIcpiPr&sig=mqHibyS1juW129eRto_Kvg7zEkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2OnyU43aBJH5oASl6ICYDw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwCQ
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With lots of ground to cover again this week I called on Alan Gibson of JSoccer Magazine and JSoccer.com to run through all the talking points from another big week in Japanese football.
This 60-minute podcast runs in three parts:
Part 1 - Japanese players in Europe, Japan v Venezuela review (to 12:17)
Shinji Kagawa's debut with Manchester United and another assist for Keisuke Honda in Russia (to 6:20)
And a chat about the major talking points from the Venezuela match in Sapporo last Wednesday.
Part 2 - A full review of J1 Matchday 22 (to 41:56)
Hiroshima extend their lead at the top after Sendai v Kashiwa ends scoreless, Urawa back up to 3rd, Shimizu back into the top half and a comprehensive look at the teams in the relegation scrap.
Part 3 - J2 Matchday 29, Young Nadeshiko & the Under 20 Women's World Cup
Kofu's lead cut, Kyoto roar up to second and big changes at the foot of the J2 table (to 48:45)
Young Nadeshiko thump Mexico and a recap on the opening round of games in all four groups of the Under 20 Women's World Cup (to 53:38)
We finished up with a look ahead to Issue 5 of JSoccer Magazine, which will be released on September 15 and sounds an absolute belter.
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NEW YORK — Fares keep falling at Delta Air Lines, and the airline says it expects them to lose altitude the rest of the year.
The airline reported Thursday that a key measure of airfares was down almost 7 percent in the three months ending in September, compared with a year ago. And fares for the rest of the year should be off 3 percent to 5 percent from the end of last year.
The lower fares led to a drop of more than 5 percent in revenue, and helped trim profits in the quarter by $278 million to $1.9 billion.
A computer outage in August that forced Delta to scrap 2,000 flights also cost the airline $150 million. Profits fell even as the airline saved $348 million because fuel was cheaper.
Lower fuel prices have also encouraged airlines to add flights and explore new routes, and those additional options for passengers have driven fares down.
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Fares were lower across Delta's system. Only fares on Latin American routes posted a modest increase of 1 percent.
Delta is the first major U.S. airline to report results for the third quarter, but American Airlines, United and Southwest have also reported lower fares in their earlier financial results. Those airlines are report earnings over the next two weeks. The four major airlines carry about 80 percent of U.S. passengers.


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OPEC said Feb. 12 world oil demand would grow faster than expected in 2018 because of a healthy world economy, adding a tailwind to the producer group's effort to remove a supply glut by cutting output.
But the global market will return to balance only towards the end of 2018, no earlier than previously thought, as higher prices encourage the United States and other non-member producers to pump more, OPEC said in a monthly report.
OPEC said world oil demand would rise by 1.59 million barrels per day (bbl/d) this year, an increase of 60,000 bbl/d from the previous forecast.
"Recently, healthy and steady economic development in major global oil demand centers was the key driver behind strong oil demand growth," Vienna-based OPEC said in the report.
"This close linkage between economic growth and oil demand is foreseen to continue, at least for the short term."
Oil prices held on to earlier gains after the release of the report, trading just below $64/bbl. Prices topped $70 this year for the first time since late 2014, supported by the OPEC-led cut and robust demand.
Balancing the higher demand forecast, OPEC said the U.S. and other outside producers would boost supply by 1.4 million bbl/d this year, up 250,000 bbl/d from last month and the third consecutive rise from 870,000 bbl/d in November.
"The steady oil price recovery since summer 2017 and renewed interest in growth opportunities have led to oil majors catching up in terms of exploration activity this year, both in the shale industry and offshore deepwater," OPEC said, referring to the U.S. outlook.
"The market is only expected to return to balance towards the end of this year."
Inventories, OPEC Output Falling
OPEC's assessment of when the market would rebalance is no earlier than its previous projection, despite the outlook for higher demand, falling inventories and strong compliance with the supply-cutting deal.
OPEC's stated goal, through a deal starting a year ago to cut output with Russia and other outside producers, is to reduce oil inventories in developed economies to the five-year average. They have extended the pact until the end of 2018.
In a further sign of progress, OPEC said inventories in those economies declined by 22.9 million bbl in December to 2.888 billion bbl, 109 million above the five-year average.
OPEC compliance remains strong. In January, OPEC output fell by 8,000 bbl/d to 32.302 million bbl/d, the report said. Adherence by the members with output targets rose to 137%, according to a Reuters calculation, up from December.
The report gave contrasting figures on production in Venezuela, where output has been dropping due to an economic crisis.
Venezuela told OPEC its production recovered in January to 1.769 million bbl/d from December's multi-decade low, while figures from secondary sources that OPEC uses to monitor its output showed a decline to 1.6 million bbl/d, a new low.
OPEC uses an average of figures from six secondary sources to monitor its output rather than countries' own due to old disputes about real production rates.
With outside producers expected to increase supply this year by more than the upward revision to demand, OPEC in the report cut its estimate of the global requirement for its crude in 2018 by 230,000 bbl/d to 32.86 million bbl/d.
Should OPEC keep pumping at January's level and other things remain equal, the market could move into a deficit of about 560,000 bbl/d, suggesting inventories will be drawn down further.
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