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Industry Jobs
Issue Spotlight
SFIG Calendar
Advocacy Outlook
Industry News Highlights
SFIG is pleased to announce the formation of a new participant committee. Recognizing the growth of marketplace lending and the increased focus on these lending platforms, SFIG's Marketplace Lending Committee is open to all SFIG members who have a legitimate interest in Marketplace Lending.
The committee has two primary purposes:
The committee is co-chaired by Will Black from Moody's Investor Services and Peter Manbeck from Chapman and Cutler LLP.
The committee's first call will be on Monday, August 10th at 3:00 p.m. (ET), with an agenda focused on the current request by the Department of Treasury for Input on Online Marketplace Lending.
SFIG will be responding to this request, with Peter Manbeck and Marc Franson of Chapman and Cutler LLP serving as drafting counsel.
If you would like to participate in the Marketplace Lending Committee, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
This afternoon, August 5th, SFIG sponsored a conference call for its members and other industry participants to hear Ford Motor Credit share its experiences after filing its Form SF-3 registration statement for the depositor of its retail auto loan securitization platform, Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two LLC.
This filing follows Ford Credit's completion of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC") Reg AB II pilot review program. The pilot review submissions and correspondence have been made public on EDGAR shortly and the registration statement will become effective in the coming weeks.
During the call, Ford Motor Credit provided an overview of its Reg AB II compliant Form SF-3 registration statement, its pilot participation and key areas of focus.
For access to a recording of the call, please contact email@example.com.
As part of our ongoing Mentoring & Sponsorship initiative, Women in Securitization ("WiS") welcomes the very first class of forty women to the Mentoring Program. As part of WiS Week, August 13th-20th, we encourage our new Mentoring Program participants to dedicate time over coffee, lunch, or an after-work drink to better get to know your counter-part and begin developing your relationship.
The Mentoring Program was created to provide mentees the opportunity to gain insight into the world of securitization from experienced women who practice and work in this area of interest. While mentees will certainly benefit from learning from the experiences of their mentors, WiS believes that mentors will likewise gain valuable knowledge of the challenges facing women earlier in their careers and learn how to better support their female colleagues. Participants in the mentoring program have the opportunity to develop a dynamic two-way relationship that will contribute equally to both participants' career development and experience.
WiS continues to work to ensure that every individual that can benefit from a mentoring relationship has the ability to participate in the program, and are continuing to work on creating partnerships. We welcome both interested early career professionals and women with many years of experience in our industry. WiS especially encourages seasoned professional women, with the time and knowledge available to lend to those still beginning their career, to apply as mentors. Please keep in mind that this program does require a commitment to devoting time and energy into building a relationship with your counterpart.
If you have not yet signed up to participate in the mentoring program, but are interested in participating, please complete the relevant form, which can be found here. All information submitted through the WiS Mentoring Program is kept strictly confidential and used for Mentoring Program purposes only.
While the mentoring program is currently limited to women professionals currently registered as part of the WiS initiative, SFIG members and non-members alike are encouraged to apply.
SFIG is pleased to welcome Jennifer Wolfe, our newest staff member. Jennifer joins SFIG as ABS Policy Manager, bringing 12 years of experience in financial services including capital markets, consumer asset securitization, and asset-based lending.
Most recently, she was Director of Finance at FS Card Inc., a new credit card venture based in Washington, DC. Prior to that, Jennifer was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where she focused on credit card receivables financing and principal investments in credit card portfolios. As an Associate at Merrill Lynch, she advised banks and finance companies on public market securitizations across many asset classes. Before joining Merrill Lynch in 2000, Jennifer was an account manager at Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, issuing bond insurance policies for RMBS issuers. Jennifer holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA in Economics from Barnard College.
Jennifer can be contacted by email at email@example.com or by phone at 202-524-6312.
Going forward SFIG will be including an additional section in its newsletter – "Industry Jobs".
Recently we have redesigned the Jobs section of our website, and each week we will highlight positions posted by our member firms. If you are a member looking to fill an open position, please complete your submission here to have the job featured on our website. We encourage members to post their positions to the site and take advantage of this free benefit to membership.
SFIG will soon be launching the other side of our jobs portal, where job seekers can create a profile on the site, post their resume to the candidate database and connect with HR Representatives at member firms.
New positions added to the portal since July include:
SFIG is seeking talent to fill three open positions:
For questions about positions at SFIG, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. For questions about the website jobs portal, please contact email@example.com.
One of the most exciting developments in the financial markets this year has been the continued rapid growth of marketplace lending and the increasing frequency and volumes of marketplace loan securitizations. Regulatory uncertainty and costs nonetheless remain significant concerns for both marketplace lenders and investors. To a large extent, marketplace lenders are operating under a regulatory framework that did not anticipate internet-based lending and regulators have not always provided clear guidance on how to apply old laws to a new business. In addition, it's widely expected that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and/or other regulators will eventually respond to the industry's growth by adopting industry-specific regulations. It will be important for the industry to maintain a constructive dialogue with the regulators in connection with the development of any such rules.
It follows that SFIG's new committee on marketplace lending will have plenty of issues to consider. Among others, the regulatory issues currently facing the industry include:
THURSDAY, August 6, 2015 - SUNDAY, August 9, 2015
The Grand Del Mar
San Diego, CA
Please note, registration is by invitation only.
Richard Johns will be attending.
WEDNESDAY, October 14, 2015 – THURSDAY, October 15, 2015
Workshop: Clifford Chance's Office, Hong Kong
Main Conference: Conrad Hong Kong, Grand Ballroom, Lower Lobby, Hong Kong
More information on the conference can be found here
THURSDAY, October 29, 2015
Marriott New York Downtown
New York, NY
Registration available here
THURSDAY, November 12, 2015
Marriott New York Downtown
New York, NY
Registration available here
If you would like to participate in the work SFIG is undertaking through our committees as highlighted below, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. For specific inquiries on any of SFIG's advocacy efforts, please contact the staff member listed for the related project.
SFIG's Marketplace Lending Committee was established in August 2015 as an SFIG participant committee and is open to all SFIG members who have a legitimate interest in Marketplace Lending. The committee was formed with two primary intentions: 1) to work with members involved in marketplace lending to educate the industry as a whole, with a particular focus on the securitization of assets generated through that lending channel; and 2) to determine appropriate securitization-specific policy and engage in related advocacy, leveraging SFIG's prominence and experience across all asset classes to support the continued responsible growth of securitization in marketplace lending. The committee's first initiative will be to respond to the Treasury Department's Request for Input on Online Marketplace Lending. Peter Manbeck and Marc Franson of Chapman and Cutler LLP are serving as drafting counsel.
Members interested in participating should contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
SFIG has recently formed a Student Loan Working Group to focus on and respond to the Proposed Changes to Moody's Approach to Rating Securities Backed by FFELP Student Loans.
To join SFIG's Student Loan Working Group and learn more, please contact email@example.com.
The RMBS 3.0 Task Force released its Second Edition RMBS 3.0 Green Paper in November of 2014. Following the successful SFIG/IMN Private Label RMBS Symposium, the task force will continue its efforts to address key issues specific to private label mortgage securities through work streams relating to (1) Representations, Warranties, and Repurchase Enforcement; (2) Due Diligence, Data, and Loan-Level Disclosure; and (3) Role of Transaction Parties and Bondholder Communications. Presently, the task force is working on (1) developing a comprehensive compilation of representations and warranties for release in the fall of 2015 (2) a grid summarizing roles of transaction parties. We encourage members to participate in any or all of the working groups to contribute towards the mission of RMBS 3.0.
For additional information on RMBS 3.0, or to join the task force, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
The GSE Reform Task Force reviewed a draft response to the FHFA's update to the single security initiative last Thursday. The task force also received an update from the SFIG participants on the Industry Advisory Group for the Common Securitization Platform and Single-Security. The task force has also formed policy positions on the Carney-Delaney-Himes GSE Reform bill and updated its briefing book to support its advocacy efforts. With the release of the bill, SFIG staff also updated its GSE Reform Legislative Comparison, which analyzes key provisions in the five most recent housing finance reform bills including the Johnson-Crapo bill and the PATH Act. Additionally, The task force will continue to engage the Federal Housing Finance Agency on its Single-Security proposal, guarantee fee pricing and Strategic Plan for 2015-2019.
To join SFIG's GSE Reform Task Force and learn more, please contact email@example.com.
The Mortgage Loan-Level Disclosure Task Force is studying the recent Regulation AB II release of Schedule AL and comparing it to SFIG's Schedule L submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission in February of 2014. SFIG also continues to have weekly Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization calls to go through data elements that lenders should deliver in securitizations. We will also be conducting an analysis of the data elements included in SFIG's Schedule L submission in order to determine any privacy concerns.
Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for additional information on SFIG's work on this topic.
The Volcker Task Force has been working with SFIG's various asset class and legal counsel committees to identify areas within the Volcker Rule in need of clarification, particularly questions regarding covered funds and the loan securitization exemption.
Please contact email@example.com to participate on the Task Force.
The Risk Retention Industry Guide Work stream is creating best practices and developing consensus positions around several areas within the Credit Risk Retention final rule.
Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.
SFIG's Chinese Market Committee continues to hold discussions with a focus on SFIG's partnership with the Chinese Securitization Forum, potential upcoming educational discussions and the sharing of recent market developments in China.
If you would like more information on SFIG's work with respect to Chinese securitization, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
SFIG's Shadow Banking Task Force has established the following agenda:
The task force will have its first full meeting in the coming weeks, and members from across asset classes are encouraged to participate.
To register your interest in SFIG's Shadow Banking Initiative, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Regulation AB II Task Force will focus on the disclosure and offering process requirements within the final rule. Two work streams have been formed to develop a comment letter on the proposed rules that remain outstanding and to produce an industry guide for critical elements of the final rule.
SFIG members who are interested in joining this task force or asset specific committees should contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Committee is addressing industry concerns related to the Federal Reserve Board's Final Rule on the Liquidity Coverage Ratio ("LCR"). This committee will also develop a comment letter when U.S. regulators release their proposed Net Stable Funding Ratio ("NSFR").
To become involved in SFIG's advocacy on the final LCR or NSFR rules, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Derivatives in Securitization Task Force obtained no-action relief from the CFTC giving swap dealers comfort that the CFTC would not take enforcement action against swap dealers that did not comply with certain CFTC Regulations when taking actions in response to the credit ratings downgrade of a counterparty to a legacy swap. The relief applies to swaps with SPVs that were in existence prior to October 10, 2013. The task force also commented on the CFTC's proposal on margin requirements for uncleared swaps, as well as the prudential regulators' proposal regarding margin and capital requirements for covered swap entities.
SFIG members who are interested in learning more about this initiative should email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Money Market Fund Reform Working Group submitted a comment letter on October 13, 2014 regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission's July 23, 2014 proposal which includes, among other things, possibly amending rule 2a-7's issuer diversification provisions to eliminate an exclusion that is currently available for securities subject to a guarantee issued by a non-controlled person. SFIG also submitted a comment letter in September 2013 on Money Market Fund Reform.
If you are interested in joining this working group, please contact email@example.com.
The High Quality Securitization ("HQS") Task Force responded to the European Commission's consultation on an EU framework for simple, transparent and standardized securitization on May 12, 2015. The task force also previously responded to the BCBS-IOSCO consultation on its criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable securitizations. SFIG's comments were built off of those sent to the European Banking Authority on January 14th (available here) regarding its proposed criteria and to the European Central Bank and Bank of England last summer (available here) regarding the development of a sustainable securitization market in Europe.
To join the HQS Task Force, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Volcker Rule, a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that prohibits any banking entity from engaging in proprietary trading and from acquiring or retaining an ownership interest in, sponsoring, or having certain relationships with, a hedge fund or a private equity fund, became effective last Sunday, July 26th.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, most big banks are already in compliance with the rule, after having shed their proprietary-trading desks, pulled money from certain investment funds and ceased other restricted activities under the rule.
The article also highlighted how regulators have tried to ease the transition, giving banks more than 18 months to conform trading operations and a deadline of 2018 to sell certain investment funds. The rule "is big and new and will cause changes in behavior," said Karen Solomon, Deputy Chief Counsel at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of five U.S. agencies enforcing the rule. "The likelihood that you can turn on a dime, particularly for the large institution, is pretty small. So [regulators] don't want to set up expectations that are unreasonable."
The U.S. Government Accountability Office ("GAO") completed a recent study on the merits and feasibility of creating a professional organization for rating analysts employed by nationally recognized statistical ratings organizations ("NRSROs"). Last Thursday July 30th, the GAO released a full report describing views on the potential merits of and need for a professional organization for credit rating analysts and the challenges associated with such an organization. Several participants from the study expressed that it is too early to tell if a professional organization is needed and believe that the Securities Exchange Commission's ("SEC's") new regulations should be evaluated before it is determined in what areas a professional organization might add value.
Several participants in the study concluded that challenges in creating and operating a professional organization would include:
The GAO is sending copies of the report to the appropriate congressional committees and members, SEC and other interested parties. Click here to view the full report.
The European Central Bank ("ECB") exceeded its monthly asset-buying target in July before liquidity is expected to dry up during the region's prime vacation month, according to a recent Bloomberg article.
Purchases have exceeded their monthly goal of €60 billion ($65.7 billion) since May. The ECB bought €61.3 billion ($67 billion) of public and private debt under its quantitative–easing program. Specifically, the ECB purchased €51.4 billion ($56.2 billion) of government and agency bonds, €9 billion ($9.9 billion) of covered bonds, and €944 million ($1.03 billion) of ABS.
The ECB will be running their quantitative-easing program until September 2016, or until they have determined that the euro-area inflation rate in back on track towards their goal of just under 2 percent.
New data shows that CMBS issuance in New York City reached the highest total in the first half of any year since the crisis, according to an article in The Real Deal. In the first half of 2015, new securitized loans based on New York City properties reached $11.54 billion, up 47 percent from $7.83 billion last year.
CMBS loans based on retail properties saw the strongest growth and properties in Brooklyn and Queens received a boom in real estate investment. New securitized loans based on Brooklyn properties grew from $231.6 million in the first half of 2014 to $1.13 billion in the first half of this year, while the Queens total grew from $231.6 million to $1.23 billion.
SFIG has a number of Committees and Task Forces meeting and working on many topics of interest to the securitization industry. Please email us for more information, including how to join.
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|Systemability With Loglog Distributions
|Hoang Pham
|In this paper, we focus on the systemability aspects for systems subject to the uncertainty of operating environments. Often the exact systemability function for complex systems is difficult to obtain due to the random operating environments. This paper discusses a simple approximation of systemability with loglog distributions using the Taylor series expansion. The proposed systemability approximation function seems to be simple, yet accurate, and easy to use in practice. Thus, it is worth the extra effort to further validate the results with other distribution functions as well as complex applications.
|Systemability, Reliability, Taylor series, loglog distribution, function approximation
|Article #: 1823
July 26-28, 2012 - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Monday night games confuse us. On one hand, we're still three days to Football Time in Tennessee.
On the other hand, it is the Friday before Gameday, and so we're acting like it.
And that means it's time for the Gameday on Rocky Top Guessing Game, even if we're still technically way early for kickoff.
Yes, we'll be using Mario Kart rules again this season. Here's how to play, what you can do with your own skill, and what happens to you courtesy of the gamification ghouls.
Earn points with knowledge and skill
First, submit your answers to our three questions. Unlike seasons past, you don't have to go somewhere else to do that. You can just submit your answers below, right here inside this post.
Nobody else will see your answers, though, unless you share them, which is half the fun. So, once you hit the "Submit" button, your answers will be displayed for you. Copy and paste them into the comments section so everyone can make fun of you.
That's really it for the stuff you can control. New this year is that questions may have different point values so we can put some space between folks earlier in the season.
Shrooms, Shells, and Bolts, oh my!
Now for the Mario Kart-style chaos. Stuff can happen to you during each week's tabulation of the totals. Stuff like this:
Mushroom. Plus one point. There are two of these per round, randomly distributed.
Banana. Minus one point. There are two of these per round, randomly distributed.
Blue Shell. 25% chance each round of the person in last place getting one of these. Once received, it's automatically released and will travel from the lowest point total to the highest one place each round until it reaches the leader(s), at which point it will blow them up and cause them to lose two points.
Thunderbolt. 25% chance each round of someone in the bottom half of the standings getting this. When received, it's automatically released, and everyone sits the next question out except for the person who received and used the thunderbolt.
We'll check for specials after tabulating each question. In other words, we'll tabulate the results of the first question, re-rank everyone, check for specials and their effects, re-rank everyone again, and then move on to the next question until there are no more questions.
New this year: There is always some attrition during the season, and the specials aren't as fun when there are 50 people in the "race" that are no longer actually playing. So, I'm going to cull the list periodically of inactive players. Because there's so much randomness involved, there are no prizes but bragging rights, and because there are no prizes, I reserve the right to change the rules as we go. 🙂
Let'sa go!
- Submit your answers to our three questions below.
- Click the "Submit" button.
- Copy and paste your answers in the comments below.
Good luck!


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Heaven. What is it?
I have really struggled with the idea of Heaven. In my times of being against God, and even during my perfectly sound ones; the idea of Heaven has frightened me.
Death itself is such a terrifying topic, because it's secrets lie beyond where human minds can travel. For me, being uncertain of something is one of the worst feelings. I strive to know exactly what is going on in all situations; so leaving me in the dark is an unwise decision.
In fact, heaven was one of the reasons I stopped fully trusting in God. What happens after I die is much more important to me than what will happen while I'm alive, and I could never understand why God wouldn't give us the answer. I vaguely understood that it was a loyalty thing, but I couldn't accept that God wanted me to go all in without knowing. For the longest time, the reason I was Christian, was to have a chance at life after death.
This is not ideal for many reasons, but it was my reality all the same. There was a point where I was physically sick over the idea of Heaven. I didn't know how exactly to get in, but was aware that there were a set of rules I needed to follow. I couldn't really understand them, and they didn't particularly appeal to me. Instead of talking to people who had more knowledge than myself about God and Heaven, I decided to lie awake at night; paralyzed with fear. It took a considerable amount of time, but I eventually opened up to someone. Oddly enough, it was my father. The atheist.
He gave me better advice than any well educated Christian, at camp or at school. He told me: "Be a good person, no matter what. Live your life the way you want, only make sure you are kind to all. If you are the best person you can be, God can not ask for any more than that. If you stand before him, having tried your true best, and He turns you away from Heaven; He is not worth it."
This gave me true comfort. One thing I know of God is that He is merciful. I know that He will take anyone who tried their best in life to Heaven. He made each and every one of us; each person's best must have been good enough for him before. God could not, and would not, make your best less than any other. We are all equal in His eyes.
Do not worry over the idea of Heaven, or any other destination after life. Believe in what suits you, but do your best in all you do. Anything worth anything, in life or death, requires 100%. All that I know, as a Christian, is that this is my only time on Earth. I would like to live my life to its full potential, and worry is not on my agenda. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but I do not believe that I will follow any particular rules set in the Bible.
With the exceptions of common sense, (do not murder, for example) I will live by the rules and regulations put in place for my own body. If you feel you are not living up to the expectations God has set in place for you, stop stressing. I believe, God will not send you away from Heaven if you choose to love someone of the same gender; or if you decide for yourself when to lose your virginity. God is forgiving, he will love you no matter what path you take in life.


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And so while Larry and Ella were participating, I was photographing (as amazing as that must read).
|Story time in the gallery.
|Teacher Kelly inspiring the kids.
When you are crawling around on the old cork floors with your camera, you see a much different perspective. You see skylights in a different way...
...and you see sculptures outside from a little kid's perspective too.
|Glitter metallic crayons? Whoa!
|I'm pretty sure there is some bossing going on.
And we ended our visit with lunch in the atrium, probably my most favorite place of all to photograph Ella.
A classic Ella move: the head butt. She does it when she's tired and she nailed me hard in the cheek, so hard that my eyes watered uncontrollably and my cheekbone still hurts four days later! Good job Larry for catching it all.
We have grown very fond of a new installation on the grounds of the museum. It is called Spiegel. Ella calls it 'Skeletons'. It is awesome at night and a while back I managed to catch these images.
|Here's me, standing inside one of the 'skeletons' looking up at the head.
Tomorrow is a very important anniversary, like even more spectacular than birthdays in my opinion. We got an early start on celebrating today with KatieRoz. We braved really, really cold weather and hit our science museum. More on that later!


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QUEST Integrated, Inc. (formerly Flow Research, Inc.), Kent, WA 98032
This paper presents a comparison between two types of abrasive liquid jet cutting systems: entrainment systems, which typically use abrasive-waterjets (AWJs) to perform the cutting; and systems that use directly pumped abrasive slurry jets (ASJs) to perform the cutting. The hardware features and the performance characteristics of the two types of systems are addressed. A simplified analysis indicates that at an abrasive-to-liquid ratio of 1:1, high-pressure directly pumped ASJs are twice as efficient as entrainment AWJs in transferring energy to the particles. Also, directly pumped ASJs are potentially over 20 times as dense with regard to kinetic power delivery to the workpiece. However, high-pressure entrainment AWJs can be more effective than low-pressure directly pumped ASJs.
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I went down the back road to my local shops today. It was incredibly windy, and all the trees were thrashing about; I wondered how the Felty Folk coped with this wild weather. I was thinking away when I saw something move on the stone wall.
I went a little closer…
"Hi Neeva. Are you OK? You look a bit worried"
"Hello Ruth. I'm OK, but I had a bit of a close shave with a dog, and had to scramble up here out of the way. I'm not sure if it's safe to come down yet."
"Oh dear, well there's no-one along here now, and I haven't seen any dogs here either so you should be safe now," I said, looking down the road. She slid quickly down the creepers, and into the grass. "Are you going to be able to get home alright in this wind?" I asked.
"It's easiest if I stay in the long grass around the edges of fields," she said, "but it's quite tiring."
"Go safely Neeva, I'll see you soon." I hope she got home OK. That hole in the wall looked familiar, wasn't it where Kirsty left the Lauder jar in her 365 Jars art project?
Recently I went on a Natural Dyeing Workshop, just over the Border into England, near Coldstream. I've always been curious about using plants as dyes, but never tried it before. The weather was dramatic on the drive there, and I had to resist the urge to stop and take photos of leaden grey skies and bright sunshine on yellow rape seed fields. The sky still looked threatening when I arrived:
Eve Studd of Cornhill Crafts welcomed me as I arrived, and what a cornucopia of dyeing goodies were waiting for me:
The other workshop goers arrived, including a couple of my friends from the Tea Tree Tea knitting group in Edinburgh, who I was pleased to see again. Eve explained about different properties of mordants, which are used to make the dye stay in the yarn, and to affect the colour. She had pre-mordanted two fleeces: the Suffolk wool (below middle) had been treated with Alum, the Blue-faced Leicester with Copper (looking a bit green, below right), and the curly Cotswald wool was untreated.
These were some of the dried plant materials we were going to try out: Dandelion heads, Marigold flowers, Rose Madder bark, lichen etc.
Eve had already got about six pans boiling in the kitchen, it was just a matter of adding the leaves and twigs and wool, and seeing what colour they came out. We all got to try dyeing a bit of each wool in the different dye pots. This is the Sweet Cecily pan:
It dyed the wool a pale acid yellow. This is the Rose Madder pan before the dye has been taken up by the wool:
Eve and Fiona take out the steaming dyed wool from the pan:
It is then left to dry and cool naturally:
We dyed some wool with Indigo – it's an unusual dye, the colour doesn't develop until it's taken out of the dye pan and oxygen hits it. It's incredible how intense the colour from this plant can be.
Eve said it smelled horrible, but I didn't notice this when we were dyeing it. However, when it was hanging out to dry back at home a horrible musty, sweaty smell pervaded my house! Yeuch!
We were struggling to dry our dyed wool because it kept raining, so I protected it with my umbrella – it looked a bit like a jellyfish.
The sun came out in the afternoon, and you can seee our colourful results:
The light brown wool is dyed with walnut husks, the golden yellow at the bottom is dyed with onion skins, the yellow and greeny shades are dyed with nettles, Dock leaves, Elder and Sweet Cecily. After we had exhausted all the ingredients, it was time to take our dyed goodies home:
The dark green/teal colour is created by dying wool yellow and then giving it a quick dip in Indigo dye – lovely.
The dyed wool needs a good wash with soap flakes and thoroughly rinsing out to finish. This is what the Rose Madder dye comes out like on the differently treated wools:
The top left was mordanted in copper, top right was in alum, and the bottom one is unmordanted. It's interesting to see what a difference the mordant makes.
So now I've got a whole pile of dyed wool. My friends have asked me what I'm going to do with it – I'm going to use the Suffolk wool for my needle-felting as, it's got too short a length of fibre for spinning. The rest I will comb (card) and then spin, but I will need to learn how to use, and borrow a spinning wheel to do it, as the drop spindle I use will take far too long, and I could still be spinning it in five years time!


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Myrtle Beach
A Virtual Feast of Golf Vacation Options
By David Wood
Options! That's the key word for a Myrtle Beach golf vacation as the Grand Stand and its 60 miles of sweeping Atlantic coastline is a virtual feast of options -- not only to tee it up with comfortable nightly accommodations, but also to have a barrel of fun after golf no matter your budget.
Here are three choices for a Myrtle Beach vacation to long remember:
Top of the Line
For those seeking to add a notch to "top 100" resumes, the Dunes Golf & Beach Club in the Central Strand is a must play. Exceptionally scenic with its pristine beach lulled by gently rolling waves, the Robert Trent Jones design is also the epitome of strategic golf. Its famous par-5 13th - "Waterloo - with Lake Singleton causing havoc on the drive and a small-tiered green devilishly hard to both hit and putt is the very definition of a "signature hole."
Also in the lofty echelon of Myrtle Beach golf is Pawley Island's Caledonia Golf & Fish Club. Caledonia's 18 wanders serenely through tidal marshes, freshwater creeks and towering live oaks. Though only just over 6,500 yards from the back tees, Mike Strantz's inaugural design is a glorious combination of golf and Mother Nature and all the golf you'll ever want. Combined with its sister course True Blue, it makes for 36 holes of unforgettable golf.
The North Strand has numerous "top of the heap" options to play the ancient Scottish game. Most notably are the Dye, Fazio, Love and Norman layouts at Barefoot. One would be hard-pressed to find four eighteens this high-caliber all designed by the cream of golf course architects. Barefoot is as good as it gets for a "one-stop" vacation with clubs in tow.
For accommodations, Barefoot has excellent options. Additionally, Dunes Village Resorts is ideal. You'll enjoy a full oceanfront view overlooking the beautiful Atlantic Ocean in an oceanfront deluxe king studio.
For dinner, Greg Norman's Australian Grille is the place to go. The cuisine and décor might make you think you're dining on Sydney's dramatic harbor Down Under rather than the scenic Lowcountry of South Carolina.
For entertainment and fun, Wallace Sailing Charters has a 40-foot Beneteau yacht perfect for exploring the scenic waters around Myrtle Beach. Whether learning to sail, seeking a sunset cruise or going out in search of dolphins, these excursions make for a great time.
Incredible Mid-Range
Though perhaps not as famous as the thoroughbreds above, oodles of Myrtle Beach courses are ideal for fleshing out a superb vacation itinerary.
The Legends Golf & Resort's Heathland course is a Tom Doak masterpiece. Paying tribute to the roots of the game, this is a true links where the enemy is the vexing wind sweeping across the Central Strand and penal bunkers diabolically awaiting a poorly executed shot. Legends also has five additional outstanding layouts: Moorland, Parkland, Oyster Bay, Heritage Club and Diamond Bay.
Like Barefoot and Legends, a full Myrtle Beach golf vacation could be had solely with Mystical Golf's three Dan Maples classics - The Witch, Man-O-War and The Wizard. If only time for one of the acclaimed trio, The Witch is another must play. With 4,000 feet of bridges wending through swamps (front nine) and rolling hills (back nine), golfers may spy cranes, bald eagles, alligators and black bears. Holes are separated by forestry and void of bordering homes, promoting a glorious pure-golf vibe. Plus, visit the Scottish castle clubhouse of The Wizard - it's one of the coolest 19th holes anywhere.
For accommodations, both Legends and Mystical Golf have excellent stay-and-play packages on their respective websites. Another option is the Patricia Grand right on the Grand Strand. The rooms are comfy and the ocean views mesmerizing.
For dinner and drinks try Murrells Inlet as it's chockablock with cool bars and restaurants right on the water. Eat fresh oysters and seafood right out of the ocean with a Land Shark lager to wash it down. Trust me, you can't go wrong.
For entertainment and fun, the Alabama Theatre in Barefoot Landing is world-class. From big-time acts like Vince Gill and Bill Cosby to its outstanding venue show "One," the Alabama Theater is as great as the golf in Myrtle Beach (and that's saying something!).
Myrtle Beach Means Value
Myrtle Beach has some of the best "bang for your buck" courses and accommodations anywhere in North America.
For golf, Whispering Pines Golf Course is a public golf course owned by the city of Myrtle Beach. With no backyards to distract from your golfing experience, Whispering Pines offers a distinctive combination of challenge and beauty, carved out of 200 acres of towering pines and mature hardwoods. Plus, the price is wallet-friendly.
A local favorite, Indian Wells Golf Club was the recipient of the 2004 Golf Course of the Year Award by the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association. In addition its staff received the prestigious "Customer Service and Hospitality Award" by the Myrtle Beach Golfing News. Its 18th hole is a veteran member of the "Grand Strand's Dream 18," and regarded as one of the best (and toughest!) holes in the area.
For accommodations, the Sea Mist is comfortable, affordable and right on the beach. It offers a wide range of family fun including movies in its theatre, a water park and even putt-putt golf.
For dinner on a budget Bubba's Fish Shack is on the water in the heart of Myrtle Beach. Try the po' boy and fried pickles.
For entertainment and fun, Broadway on the Beach is tough to beat. Check out its many restaurants, see live music or simply stroll and people watch.
Another excellent resource for Myrtle Beach golf and stay-and-play packages is Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.
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About: David Wood
In addition to writing on golf and travel, author and noted speaker David Wood has made several appearances on Late Night with David Letterman as well as dozens of other television shows. His book - Around the World in 80 Rounds - was just released in paperback on www.Amazon.com. Currently he works in public relations with Buffalo Communications in Vienna, VA.
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WaPo reports on the uptick in wealthy donor contributions to candidates and PACs since the Supreme Court Injustices did away with individual limits in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission:
Together, 310 donors gave a combined $11.6 million more by this summer than would have been allowed before the ruling. Their contributions favored Republican candidates and committees over Democratic ones by 2 to 1.
Uh-oh! You know what that means: we "leftee" gazillionairez can haz moar konservativ demacratz nao plz.
"I would think everybody would be for more money in politics like I am, because we're just spreading speech" -Shaun McCutcheon, the chief executive of an Alabama electrical engineering firm who brought the Supreme Court case.
Sure! Everybody! Well, except perhaps the vast majority of Americans who have no fucking money to buy congresscritters—and who, by Mr. McCutcheon's and the Supreme Court's "money is speech" decree, are for all intents and purposes silenced.


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* Judgment, a dangerous precedent, says Amnesty Int'l.
The Court of Appeal in London on Wednesday held that Ogale and Bille communities could not pursue Royal Dutch Shell in English courts over oil spills caused by the multinationals subsidiary in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.
In a split decision, the appellate court upheld a High Court ruling last year that British multinationals were not liable at home for their subsidiaries' actions abroad.
But the verdict was a setback to attempts to hold British multinationals liable at home for their subsidiaries' actions abroad.
The UK Appeal Court further rejected the appeal from law firm Leigh Day on behalf of Nigeria's Bille and Ogale communities and upheld a ruling that English courts lack jurisdiction over claims against Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company.
The SPDC is jointly operated with the federal government of Nigeria.
Shell also stated that the court "rightly upheld" the earlier ruling, and said Nigeria's "well-developed justice system" was the correct place for the claims.
Leigh Day said the two Nigerian communities intended to bring the case to Britain's Supreme Court.
"We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will grant permission to appeal and will come to a different view," Leigh Day partner, Daniel Leader, said.
The European Court of Justice in 2012 ruled that Shell parent companies "…in fact exercised decisive influence over their joint subsidiary's conduct" (Shell Petroleum NV v. European Commission [2012] at para 51.)
Further, in 2015, the Dutch Court of Appeal ruled that, "Considering the foreseeable serious consequences of oil spills to the local environment from a potential spill source, it cannot be ruled out from the outset that the parent company may be expected in such a case to take an interest in preventing spills.
The communities have appealed the ruling.
Leigh Day is representing over 40,000 Nigerians from two communities (the Ogale Community and the Bille Community)
in claims against Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria.
Both communities allege that they have suffered systematic and ongoing oil pollution for years because of Shell's operations.
Shell does not dispute that both communities have been severely polluted by its oil, or that it has yet to clean up the oil.
But in November 2016, Shell sought to block the claims in London on the grounds that the London-based parent company (Royal Dutch Shell) was not legally responsible for the pollution caused by its Nigerian subsidiary and that it was open to the communities to seek redress through the Nigerian courts.
Responding to the Court of Appeal's verdict on Wednesday, Joe Westby, Amnesty International's Campaigner on Business and Human Rights, described the ruling as a dangerous precedent.
He said, "With this verdict, the court has struck a blow not only to the Ogale and Bille communities, who live everyday with the devastating consequences of Shell oil spills, but with victims of corporate human rights abuses all over the world. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and will make it more difficult to hold UK companies to account.
"The idea that powerful multinationals are not responsible for the conduct of their subsidiaries overseas has allowed Shell to evade accountability for a raft of shocking human rights abuses spanning decades. This is a textbook example of the almost insurmountable obstacles to justice faced by people who take on powerful multinationals.
"Internal Shell documents show that the company's headquarters have known full well for decades about the massive
oil pollution caused by their operations in Nigeria, and have chosen not to stop it. If Shell cannot be held to account for such well-documented abuses, what hope is there of bringing other companies to justice?
He affirmed the communities' intention to "take their fight for justice to the Supreme Court – this could be their last chance to see their environment restored."
Andrew Orolua, Abuja.


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Mom and dad have been talking for years about getting a place out on some land in Texas somewhere but we weren't expecting them to call last week and say "We did it!" We thought there'd be a big family meeting like there always is and we'd have to make a Pros and Cons list but nope, they jumped in feet first this time! None of us have been out to see the place yet but mom assures me it's huge and has plenty of space for all of us to visit. I talked with her about ways to conserve electricity because she was worried about the utilities but I think they'll be fine since they both worked long and hard and saved up a lot of money to retire on. I can't wait to see the place and find out what all the fuss is about and hopefully my kids will like to ride horses and get out and about as much as my husband and I do! Way to go mom and dad! You finally really did do it!


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France – A-
France, the perennial whipping boy of the first world, managed a respectable if not fantastic 9th place on the Nations Cup, squeaking in just ahead of the Swiss. While an A- may seem quite generous, especially because as a historian I am compelled to mention France's love for surrender and general all-around ineffectiveness, in my opinion, their skiers for the most part skied as expected, or in a few specific cases, blew my proverbial socks off.
But let's start with the women. At best, France's females could be described as 'met expectations'. French women have not been powerhouses for quite a few years, and this season was no different. The best of the lot, Karine Laurent Philippot quietly skied her way to 278 WC points, good enough for 29th overall, which is exactly the same place she finished last season. Next up is Aurore Cuinet at 103 WC points, which is well above her 08-09 total of 25, but still not exactly causing Marit Bjoergen to shake in her sports bra. Furthermore, 88 of those points came from sprints, where she never made a final round. After that, the women tail off pretty hard, with 5 other women scoring double digit points, but nothing above 30 or so. The best thing you can say about the French chicks is that they are all pretty young, and could get better. But I'm not holding my breath.
As for the men, they also cannot be trashed too much. The French big guns (just gun, actually, Vittoz) have been aging and declining in quality as time has passed, so dropping points consistently every year is not considered a disappointment, but an expectation. The venerable Vincent Vittoz, who is now 35, racked up 515 WC points, down from 589 the previous season. As has been stated earlier, while Vittoz is a red-wine drinking, cheese dummying surrender-monkey, the slight drop in points counts as consistent rather than damning.
His good buddy Jean Marc Gaillard, who in his 8th season on the World Cup is now 30, also dropped some points, roughly 200, as he earned 474 this year as opposed to 671 in 08-09. This is a bit more atrocious of a drop, I will admit. However, I hesitate to condemn Gaillard because his point total suffered most notably from a DNF in the World Cup Final in the 20 km Pursuit. Jean Marc was battling at the front with Northug for most of the race, and even picked up a pile of bonus seconds, before being given a dishonourable DSQ for skating in the classic portion. I know, you're asking yourself why I would let him off the hook for this transgression; the one thing Kieran NEVER does is let people off the hook for bonehead moves (see Belarus for more details). But I am looking at the bigger picture here. Namely, Kowalczyk skated significantly more blatantly at the pursuit in the Olympics than Gaillard did, and she was not DSQ'ed. All I want is at least a little consistency in jury decisions, or at best an outright disqualification and utter humiliation of Justyna.
Moving on from the mostly-distance boys, we come to the French sprint squad. The two Cyril's did most of the work themselves. Cyril Gaillard (yes, he is the younger brother of Jean Marc) did not do much, bagging a measly 18 points, but he is still young. Cyril Miranda, arguably France's best sprinter collected 85, down just slightly from 94 last year. I was a little disappointed, as I thought someone from France could become a consistent sprint threat, but Miranda was all over the map. In sprinting to really rack up points you have to be a consistent qualifier, and he failed to do so. End result, slightly below expected sprinting.
And now we arrive at what is quite possibly the biggest surprise of the season, Maurice Manificat. While his name is kind of goofy, and too many people think calling him Maurice the Magnificent is clever, he truly had one hell of a season. At 24 years of age, Manificat had been steadily improving the last couple of years, jumping from 7 to 120 to a gigantic 580 points this season. If someone had told me after Beitostolen, Kuusamo, or even Davos (where he came 3rd, his first ever podium) that Manificat would finish 5th in the World Cup Overall and have a wicked Olympics (6th, 26th, 4th in the 4x10) I would have suspected them of heavy drug use. Probably cocaine, but LSD and acid would not have been ruled out. But before we go and give Manificat a knighthood, I will point out he was fairly inconsistent, especially on the Tour where he finished as high as 63rd and as low as 8th. And both of those were sprint races. Where'd the fast twitch muscles go, Maurice?? However, he also crushed the World Cup Final, finishing 23rd, 6th, 11th, 2nd, and having the fastest time on the final day. Not a bad year, and Manificat really helped out the French's overall score here. He upped his game big time, and France gained a full letter grade.
Watch out for: Robin Duvillard. For a change, I'm not picking a sprinter, but a distance guy. He's 27, scored 66 points, up from 10 in 2008, someone has to step in to help out Vittoz, and he looks like Adam Sandler. Check it out!


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Today I am excited to share with you a 6 x 6 scrapbook album created by one of my customers. Julie made this album for her sister in law's first baby Griffin. Julie got the idea for this scrapbook when she received one herself from her friend Julia a little over two years ago for her son's birth.
Julie called me to order the Tall Tales Designer paper and some Certainly Celery cardstock. She explained what she was planning to do with it and when she completed her project I had a chance to see it. WOW. Julie did an amazing job and I immediately asked her if I would be allowed to share it here on my blog. I am so happy that Julie agreed.
Each page is made from Certainly Celery cardstock. She then created layers and pockets with the Tall Tales designer paper and some solid coloured cardstock. Her monthly titles are made using a Quickutz alphabet die (which I must say is adorable).
The front cover is absolutely adorable with Griffin's name taking center stage. The fun little doodles and the colours are just fantastic together.
There are also some great touches of texture that Julie created using Cuttlebug embossing folders.
Julie used various embellishments that she picked up at a variety of craft stores on each of her pages which add just the right final touch. I do love the little monkey and giraffe that she added. So sweet and, in my opinion, just right for a baby boy.
She completed the album by binding it with o-wire and signing her name on the back cover.
I have to admit that seeing Julie's album has made me want to order that cute designer paper myself.
Thank you so much Julie for sharing this with us and allowing me to post it. I hope I got all the information down correctly.
Cheers and have a great day,
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Marketing students got that chance – and wowed the bigwigs – at Ernst & Young.
Last semester, David Moulton, an instructor in Marketing, approached Ernst & Young about engaging students in his Professional Services Marketing class in an experiential learning project. The firm responded, and laid out what it wanted: for students to come up with positioning ideas for its Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, and ideas on which organizations it should target and join in order to better connect to its entire market.
Eight students divided into two teams took part in the research and presented their findings in class. Then three students went to Ernst & Young's headquarters and gave their report to the senior leadership team. One of the presenters, Bill Wu, says getting the chance to work with Ernst & Young was "incredible."
"Experiences like this are so valuable to graduating students like me," says Bill. "Theoretical knowledge can only get you so far in a job hunt, and what interviewers are looking for are solid results and real experiences, which is exactly what I got from this project."
Brooke Morris, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications at Ernst & Young, says senior leadership was impressed with the presentation and surprised at how well the students understood the firm's business, given the timeframe of the project – roughly eight weeks – and the fact that they were "on the outside looking in."
"We really liked how when the students presented an idea, they supported it with research and evidence to back up why it was a good option," says Morris. "Some of their ideas were new and some we have explored, which also suggests to us they were right on the mark."
David Moulton says he advises the student presenters to include this experience in their portfolios.
"You're actually building your resumé while going to school," he says. "This has credibility in the marketplace; it shows people what you can do."
He also points out that it was an invaluable opportunity for students to do a professional-level presentation to a group of people who are "inundated with other businesses and organizations presenting to them."
"To get the feedback from people who are in business day in and day out, and hear them say 'good job' is a big compliment to students."
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Part 2: Facebook Advertising with Andrew Riis and Richy HirtleJanuary 12, 2017 That Church Conference, LLC
Welcome in to That Church Podcast where we help Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. Today's episode is part 2 of a 2 part podcast with Andrew Riis And Richy Hirtle with Reach Out Marketing. http://www.reachout-marketing.com We're on the topic of doing FB Ads the right way - Wait til you hear what they said about the ad we had running at the time we we recorded this episode. It's kinda embarrassing. Be sure and check out out San Diego Workshop, January 17th https://thatcc.com/conference/sandiego/ We're going to be at The Rock Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It's a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are JAY KRANDA - Online Pastor at Saddleback Going From Online to Offline: Church Online Best Practices SAM HOOVER How To Connect Social Media to a Bigger Story MAGGIE BARRAGAN - Social Media Manager at The Rock Church & MEI LING NAZAR - Public relations rock star Public Relations & The Church: Engaging With Your Community ANTHONY MILLER - Pastor of Communications at Saddleback Marketing and Communications in the Church We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at http://get.tithe.ly. And that stream will be up for a few days afterwards. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. During the podcast we tell you how to get $50 off the Livestream access. What's coming next? Chicago Workshop - April 25th Soul City Church https://thatcc.com/conference/chicago/ Nashville Workshop- July 14th at Cross Point Church https://thatcc.com/conference/nashville/ Atlanta Conference- Sept 26 and 27 https://thatcc.com/conference/ Today's episode is part 2 of our 2 part conversation with Andrew Riis and Richy Hirlte with Reach Out Marketing http://www.reachout-marketing.com 11:45 mark: Link to our Rick Rolled post https://thatcc.com/blog/no-more-buildings 13:18 mark: Call To Action is critical 15:05 mark: The importance of a Landing Page for Ads 17:00 mark: The ad is the LAST thing you create in a campaign, NOT the first 17:35 mark: "Ad Set" Level defined 18:15 mark: Don't spend so much on an initial ad. Run a cheap A/B test. 18:55 mark: How to Double your reach with a simple tweek 20:20 mark: Run as many $20 ads as you can and change 1 variable in each 20:45 mark: Run different images 21:00 mark: Never touch your ad in the first 24 hours 22:55 mark: Retargeting...When and Why 23:15 mark: Facebook Pixel Defined 24:34 mark: Van's brain exploded 28:00 mark: Mailing Postcards versus doing an Ad 32:14 mark: Relevance Score 35:50 mark: Building a Custom Audience based on your email list 36:11 mark: Create a Lookalike Audience 38:25 mark: Our Ad Meets Its' Demise 38:59 mark: Van gets a little too excited about a Mailchimp Import button 39:40 mark: We hire Andrew and Richy and give them ALL OUR MONEY 41:25 mark: http://www.reachout-marketing.com


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Gotoky is device which allows you to stay connected with your friends and family no matter where you are. Gotoky connects to your SmartPhone wirelessly and allows you to seamlessly connect with other users within the range up to 5 miles or 8 kilometers through your Smartphone app. It works over standard license-free radio frequencies and it does not require any cellular infrastructure or satellites. You can talk, send/receive messages, send/receive location information, SOS signal and much more to other gotoky users for free. It is also compatible with standard Walkie-Talkies.
Well to make a long story short. This device turns a transmitter into a telephone network including text messaging etc. etc. it has so many features especially if you are in need at a remote location. The device has a range of 5-15km but if it is compatible like they write I think the range for us radioamateurs could be significant higher. However, radio regulations for us as licensed operators could be a problem to use this device worldwide. Besides that you still need a smartphone to communicate, most of us do have it. But still a lot of (older) people don't. And there you have it, the average radioamateur is "old". The technology is available but I think it is going too fast for most of us within our hobby. However, this could be the future also in our hobby!


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I see, a bad moon a-rising.
Not so much bad, as ugly. And more than one.
This Sunday Burnie H3 play host to LoonRhasH, sans tea and scones and those little marizipan things that seem to crop up but nobody likes.
The were-hare is none other than the Fool Loon himself, Black Trakka, setting forth not from Forth but from Fern Glade, Burnie.
On! On! will be called at 5pm, which in these disappointingly shortening days should allow the traditional 21-moon salute to happen before Speedy's bed-time. We're pretty sure that it won't be a waxing moon.
Bring a hat, mug, joke, friend, $10, raffle change and extra drinks if you are a p*sshead.
UP AND CUMMING. († updated)
March 20th 2011—LoonRhasH @ Fern Glade, Burnie (BT)
April 18th 2011—LoonRhasH (Devonport Hares)
May 28th 2011—Burnie HHH AGPU
June 11-13th 2011—Chardonnay Highland Fling @ Bronte Park
October 16th.2011—Burnie Ten
November 11th 2011—Global Harriettes
RECEDING HARELINE († updated)
1097 Mar 20th—Black Tracka @ Fern Glade
1098 Mar 27th—TBA
1099 Apr 3rd—Pucker and Swordy @ TBA
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Political lobbyists from Palo Alto-based Tesla scored a small win this week, when they got North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory behind the wheel of a Model S for an impromptu test drive. Legislators in his state are pushing an anti-Tesla bill through state government, designed to block the luxury electric carmaker from selling Teslas direct-to-consumers.
The News & Observer reports lobbyists have met with more than a dozen lawmakers in recent weeks, often showing up with a Model S for them to test drive.
On Monday, they took the top executive at the state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a spin. He liked the car so much he drove it straight to McCrory's house, and urged the governor to take it out on the road.
McCrory hasn't weighed in yet on a bill that would ban Tesla's online, direct-to-consumer car sales model. That model threatens the traditional car dealership business. The bill sailed through the state Senate (with direction from the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association), but has stalled in the House.
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Dearborn Heights man accused of killing 4 kids in court
He's now accused of killing his two daughters, 4-year-old Kaleigh Green and 5-year-old Koi Green , and his stepchildren, 17-year-old Kara Allen and 19-year-old Chadney Allen . A man called police around 1 a.m. Wednesday to the home in the 4400 block of Hipp Street, which is near Annapolis and Pelham streets. Police said it appears the two children died from "intentional carbon monoxide asphyxiation".
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European leaders discuss ways to solve migrant crisis
Boris Johnson reveals Brexit plan - Theresa May quickly rubbishes his comments
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President Obama Criticizes Donald Trump Proposals Before United NationsAbout 21.3 million refugees have been forced to flee their countries over conflict or persecution, the United Nations says. On Monday, a United Nations aid convoy was hit by what USA officials have reported was a Russian airstrike, according to Reuters .
United States says THAAD not negotiable, but confident on North Korea sanctionsThis comes after South Korean Yonhap News Agency cited a military source who said North Korea's capital would be pummeled over a nuclear threat. North Korea has condemned the U.S. On Monday, Washington said US President Barack Obama and China's Premier Li Keqiang agreed in a meeting on the sidelines of the UN assembly to step up cooperation in the UN Security Council and in law enforcement channels.
HTC designer drops the ball, accidentally posts video of concept phone "Ocean"That may be true, but it could inspire future products from the Taiwanese company. Now pulled from the site (but embedded below), the concept showed a phone called "HTC Ocean" that seemed to have a really nifty feature called "Sense Touch".
Public defender asks to meet with bombing suspect Ahmad RahamiThey removed the pressure cooker from the bag, wrapped in a white trash bag, and set it on the street. Authorities arrested Rahami on Monday after an exchange of gunfire with police that left him and two officers wounded. Surveillance video places him in the area, and his fingerprints were on unexploded devices including a pressure-cooker bomb found blocks away from the blast .
Microsoft asked to compensate after Windows 10 update bricked PCsWhich? said it had received hundreds of complaints about Windows 10, and called on Microsoft to "honour consumers' rights, including paying compensation where it's due". But, getting Windows 10 Mobile on more devices is impossible since all supported devices already got upgraded. The team fixed a bug causing Stock Prices from showing four significant figures and a bug related to rapidly toggling the "Don't Ask Me Again" checkbox when deleting a note .
Computer Users Unhappy With Windows 10British consumer rights group Which? One group is also looking at mounting a class action in Europe. Hardware compatibility was a particular problem, with devices such as printers and Wi-Fi adapters ceasing to function after installing Windows 10.
Iraq moves to liberate town near Mosul from Daesh militantsSpeaking after he met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Obama also said he hoped for progress by the end of the year on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city which fell to the Islamic State militant group in June 2014. In neighboring Syria, the chaotic civil war continues to plague the fight against IS, but in Iraq, the extremists have lost half the territory they once held, according to the U.S.
Referendum, come sarà la scheda per votareConsiderando che il testo della riforma costituzionale è molto dettagliato e che si conclude con varie pagine dedicate alle "disposizioni consequenziali e di coordinamento, transitorie e finali", in cui si entra nei minimi dettagli delle normative, il progetto di riforma avrebbe potuto direttamente definire le condizioni per chiedere il referendum propositivo, rinviando ad una semplice legge ordinaria le modalità attuative (esattamente come accade per il referendum abrogativo ).
Cauvery Water Management Board ideal for dispute resolution, says Central Water CommissionTo this, Karnataka maintains that Tamil Nadu has "enough" water in the Mettur Dam and that it also gets good rainfall from the north-east monsoon. At the meeting, while Karnataka vehemently opposed release of any water, Tamil Nadu requested for release of water as ordered by the Cauvery water dispute tribunal.
Man arrested over suspected female genital mutilation in DublinSpecialist detectives carried out a detailed examination of the properly today. Female genital mutilation, also known as female cutting, is common practice in at least 30, mainly African, countries, but is a criminal offence in Ireland. Short term health consequences can include haemorrhage, infections such as tetanus and HIV, failure of the wound to heal, urine retention, fracture and dislocation of limbs, or death.
Appendino applaudita a Palermo, "1 selfie 1 euro per Torino"Voglio vincere le elezioni e dimostrare che possiamo governare Torino , Roma , Livorno.anche con gli sbagli che abbiamo fatto. Ieri sera il leader Beppe Grillo , arrivato nel pomeriggio da Genova con un volo Volotea, non ha rinunciato a festeggiare in un noto locale di Palermo , proprio al Foro Italico, a due passi dalla maxi area di 25 mila metri quadrati allestita per Italia 5Stelle.


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Advantage and Disadvantage or the Existence of Computers
In business, businessmen can simply deal through internet with their client regarding quantity and quality of the materials they require and can satisfy their clients. They can also give advertisement of their company through internet to attract more customers towards it. In schools, children are given knowledge about softwares of computer like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and for small kids games are available in PCs for their refreshment. Through computers, we can easily chat or give tenders, graphics to the person living in other parts of the world. We can also do e-commerce through computer by booking for the product & delivery is done at home. We can also come to know about new products and their prices through pc. Now, a days all the designers shows their talent of design through websites. We can also send picture on any topic to the person living in other parts of the world via email. We can now book railway tickets and airplane tickets with the help of internet. Thus it helps us to save time because initially people had to stand in long queues for booking which used to consume much time. Now, a days all the queries are solved with the help of video conferencing & tele conferencing. In computer we have to only feed the data and it gives us the accurate result in a time not less than a second.
It has certain disadvantages too. It has created the problem of unemployment. Initially people use to keep accountant for keeping their records of their business but with the invention of accounting softwares, need of...
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2. dip dyed hair + American Apparel
3. my new print from tattoo goddess Hannah Snowden
4. testing the new Five Guys in Manchester
5. meeting Caesar the dwarf hamster
6. cocktails at Walrus in the sun
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Fast & Furious 7 to resume production this month after Paul Walker's death
HOLLYWOOD: The Fast & Furious 7 movie was put on hold following the death of actor Paul Walker in a car accident in November 2013.However, Universal Studios is getting the production back on track and according to reports, shooting on Fast and Furious 7 is set to resume in April 2014.
Last year, cast and crew working on the movie were left devastated when Paul Walker and his friend, Roger Rodas, were killed in a fiery car crash.
Studio executives have now reassured fans that the movie will get back on track with filming to resume early in April, according to Hollywood Reporter. The shooting will take place in Atlanta and is scheduled to last about 6 to 8 weeks, and should see filming completed on the latest installment of the franchise.
Many fans have been wondering what moviemakers would do with Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor – who is a former FBI agent-turned criminal.
Walker was mid-way through filming his scenes as Brian O'Conner when he died aged 40.
His character will reportedly be retired from the film franchise rather than killed off.
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Myanmar's Enemy Within
by Francis Wade
Zed Books
When five decades of military rule came to an end in Myanmar in 2011, there was hope that an era of peace and prosperity would dawn. Instead, the country has been racked by internal discord and ethno-religious conflict that has pitted the majority Buddhist population against Muslim minorities. Communities that once lived side by side have come to view each other with suspicion and dread, with violence begetting more violence.
At least 71 dead in coordinated attacks by Muslim militants on Myanmar police stations
"Fed from stories of the past, fears were activated so that old friends suddenly took on sinister qualities that turned them into enemies," Francis Wade writes in Myanmar's Enemy Within, which charts the rapid escalation of tension across the country since 2012, particularly in Rakhine State, on the west coast.
In May 2012, a Buddhist woman, Ma Thida Htwe, was raped and murdered in Rakhine. The culprits were quickly identified by local newspapers and on social media by their religion: Islam. Events escalated fast. The next month, Buddhist villagers around Sittwe, the state capital, were encouraged to board buses to go torch Muslim homes. Many did. A Buddhist monastery even offered food to participants.
On June 8, a mob of Rohingya, the Muslim ethnic minority, attacked the homes of ethnic Rakhine, who practise Buddhism. This came just five days after 10 Muslims travelling on a bus were beaten to death by Buddhists in retaliation for Ma Thida Htwe's murder.
"The violence of early June 2012 was the first major wave of conflict between Buddhists and Muslims to strike Myanmar as it transitioned away from military rule," writes Wade.
The initial violence died down in days but, as Wade puts it, "even in that short space of time, it had completely transformed the social dynamics of the town [of Sittwe]".
A second wave of attacks occurred in October 2012, with Muslim communities in nine townships targeted.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. The new democratic era in Myanmar was meant to herald a brighter period for the country and its citizens.
Rohingya villagers tell of Myanmar forces' reprisal killings after insurgents' deadly attack
In 1962, a military junta took power in Myanmar (then called Burma), ending a 14-year democratic period. The junta ruled with an iron grip, locking up dissidents and political opponents such as Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
The military stepped back in 2011, however, handing control to a nominally civilian government elected in 2010; Suu Kyi was also freed in 2010, after 15 years under house arrest. (Her party would go on to win parliamentary elections in 2015.)
Yet it took almost no time for stark divisions to appear. A year before violence erupted in 2012, a series of seminars was held in Rakhine that questioned the Rohingya's history, pandering to perceptions that they were, in fact, a newly created ethnic group whose claims of a long-standing presence in the country was part of "a master plan to wrest control of the region from Buddhists".
For a large section of the Buddhist population, Muslims came to be seen as outsiders "bent on bringing the nation, and its majority Buddhist belief system, to ruin", writes Wade.Myanmar's Enemy Within tries to do justice to the swirling situation while not overwhelming readers with dry facts and figures. Wade tracks down people who have been involved or swept up in the violence, as well as politicians, monks and ordinary villagers. The conversations are at times startling.
"We aren't saying that violence is necessarily required. What we are saying is that we need to defend ourselves by building a fence with our bones, if it's necessary to do so," a young, university-educated man, a member of the hardline Ma Ba Tha Buddhist group, tells Wade. Ma Ba Tha, which casts itself as chief protector of Buddhism in Myanmar, has grown almost unchecked since its founding, in 2013.
Violence soon spread into areas of the country that had little experience of such tension. Incidents were often brutally simple; close-quarter machete attacks and the torching of houses.
Wade highlights the incongruity of most attacks being perpetrated by Buddhist adherents and also the role played by monks in stoking tension. A leading Buddhist abbot, U Wirathu, delivered a sermon saying, "Buy only from our shops. If our money goes to enemies' hands, it will destroy our whole nationality and religion."
Video footage captured a man dressed in monk's robes using a pole to beat a Muslim man lying on the ground and leading Myanmese publications referred to Rohingya as terrorists. And it isn't just the Rohingya – the book describes overt racism towards other ethnic groups such as the Mon and Karen.
Myanmar's Enemy Within is at times heavy going, with a too-close following of the chronology of events. It does, however, create an impressively full picture as it traces the long history of the country. Wade points out that, while Muslims have never been political movers and shakers, they were long present in Burmese royal courts and close to the centres of power.
The author points a finger at British rule – which began in 1824 and was in place across the country by 1885 – for aggravating existing racial divisions. "Britain imported its obsession with racial classification, one that had been used to such deleterious effect in its colonies elsewhere in the world. Boundaries were drawn between people where they hadn't previously existed, and over time, the human landscape in Myanmar began to change," he writes.
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The military junta continued to stoke these ethnic tensions, playing up fears among the Buddhist majority over their dominant position; official tallies put Buddhists at about 90 per cent of the population, but in areas such as northern Rakhine State, they have become the minority.
In the 1980s, authorities began including ethnicity on national ID cards, in effect creating a caste system. They also began granting early release to Buddhist prisoners willing to move to remote corners of the country to "correct" demographic imbalances.
Christians were on the receiving end, too, with reports surfacing as recently as 2011 of forced conversions of Christian students, and of converts to Christianity being ostracised from their villages.
Wade strongly condemns the silence of individuals such as Suu Kyi. "Unless the country's most revered figure gave the crisis a true reading […] then she and her party were complicit in fuelling the mentality that gave rise to it," he writes.
Miss Burma tells the troubled history of a little-known country from a new perspective
Other former dissidents, including Ko Ko Gyi, who spent 17 years behind bars for opposing the junta, have even suggested working with the army to resolve the issue, saying that the Rohingya are "absolutely not an ethnic race of Burma".
While tensions have diminished in the past year or so, thousands of Rohingya have been driven into camps, living in cramped huts and tarpaulin shelters managed by international aid agencies. Many have tried to flee the country, paying people smugglers to get them to Thailand or Malaysia.
Myanmar's Enemy Within is a depressing read, especially as events in the country appear more likely to worsen than improve. However, for anyone wanting to understand the situation in Myanmar, and how international and domestic optimism for the new era got ground down so quickly, this will be an important addition to the bookshelf.


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"13 Reasons Why" is a series that is rising in popularity on Netflix right now. People claim that it brings awareness to suicide and bullying. Both of these are very important issues and need to be addressed. However, in my opinion, they are going about it completely wrong. The series glorifies suicide and is giving people ideas and motive to carry out their thoughts of suicide. The thought that this series could potentially lead anyone to harm themselves makes me heartbroken. If anyone out there is considering ending their life I would hope you would give me the chance to tell you how truly wonderful you are. (Seriously message me) You do have a purpose. Instead of concentrating on the reasons why we shouldn't be on this earth may we always choose to think of the reasons we should be here.
I have a purpose. I have reasons why I want to be here on this earth. Here are 13 reasons I want to live.
- God loves me. Even when I have felt like I have gone past the point of forgiveness. Even in my lowest of lows. Even at my very worst. God still loves me.
- My sweet husband. He is the best eternal companion a gal could ask for. I do not know what I would do without him.
- I have the best family on earth. As I have grown older I have recognised the fact of how truly blessed I am to have my family.
- My dear friends. I have some pretty great friends.
- (This might sound silly to some) My dogs. The best companions in the world.
- I live in a free Country. How truly lucky am I to live in a country that some only dream of living in.
- I have access to clean water. Do you even know how amazing that is?
- I still have people to meet and I know they are going to change my life.
- I still have things to do. I want to continue volunteering photography at the Dinosaur National Monument, making music, blogging, etc.
- There are places I want to see. I want to see the Grand Canyon. I want to visit New York. I still have so many adventures to go on.
- I want to learn. I still don't have everything figured out. I want to keep expanding my knowledge.
- To see what lies ahead. I can't wait to see where my life takes me.
- To help others. I hope one day something I do or say will impact someones life.
With that said, I would love to hear what gives you purpose. What are your 'reasons'?


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