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By Patience Saghana
A special audit to determine the financial health of insurance companies is looming over the insurance industry.
Vanguard was reliably informed that the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) is set to embark on a sanitisation exercise akin to the one recently conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
It would be recalled that the CBN, in a bid to sanitise the nation's banking industry, conducted an audit of banks, which led to the removal of the chief executives of eight banks. NAICOM, it was gathered, is considering conducting a similar audit of insurance companies to complement the efforts of the CBN. It was gathered that insurance regulators are considering the approach to be used in the sanitisation exercise to make it effective and with minimal damage on public confidence in the sector.
This was further confirmed by the Commissioner for Insurance/Chief Executive of NAICOM, Mr Fola Daniel at the just concluded 2009 Professionals Forum organised by the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN). He said whatever method the regulatory body is going to use to sanitise the industry will be mild but effective.
He admitted that there is problem in the sector though not as severe as that of the banking industry. "We have problem in the insurance industry but it is not the same as we have in the banking sectorâ€.
He warned, "But I will advise that you do not take to heart that NAICOM will not wield its sticks on the sector any time soon as 'no condition is permanent.
"For those who will continue to relate as if anything and everything is possible, let me warn that NAICOM will deal decisively with aberration and also collaborate with other regulatory and security agencies to curb market misbehaviour and rascality.
"This is not in any way an attempt to drive fear into the minds of operators, far from it; it is all aimed at improving the way we do things so that we can get the public to buy into the new roadmap.â€
Most of the speakers at the forum also made veiled reference to the impending sanitation of the industry, counselling one another to turn a new leaf and shun unethical practices.
Mr Sunny Adeda, CIIN president admonished insurance professionals to be mindful of whatever they do and also bear in mind that they are ambassadors of the nation's insurance industry.
Adeda said, "As professionals, we have made immense contributions to the economy of our nation; we have driven the machineries of our companies with our expertise while our efforts have helped to mobilise funds for economic growth; we have contributed to financial stability and promoted enterprise by virtue of our primary role of indemnifying businesses against loss; our risk management expertise have remained instructive and beneficial for national investment decisions and continued to have salutary effects on the national economy.
"The annual Professionals' Forum is therefore an avenue geared at promoting and sustaining these ideals and ensuring that developments which are capable of eroding these gains are stemmed. By providing opportunities such as this forum, for knowledge sharing and setting requisite standards for our practice, the Institute is avowed in demonstrating commitment to the advancement of the insurance profession at all times.â€
Mr O'tega Emerhor, Group Chief Executive Officer of Standard Alliance Insurance Group posited that the country's insurance industry should at all times hold the image of the sector in high esteem without having to be tailored.
Emerhor advised, "Every genuine profession should and be immutably committed to some basic laudable objectives. The objectives include unquestionable expertise in the fundamental activities of the profession, the advancement and sustenance of high ethical standards and the maintenance of a good public image and a premium identity in the public eye for both the profession and its individual members.â€
Professionalism and good behaviour, he pointed out, are more critical especially given the global financial crisis.
He said that practitioners should purge themselves of any act capable tainting the image of the sector. " Rate cutting and cash underwriting and other warped practices not only depress the fortune of the industry as a whole but also engender anarchy and mistrust among professionalsâ€.
He asked rhetorically, "Why don't we begin as both individuals and professionals to change our performance metrics and, occasionally, reviewing the metrics we use to measure how well we are doing? The global financial crisis is a challenge and not a problemâ€.
He restated, "It is pertinent that professionals always remember that they are the custodians of the ethics of their profession, trade or vocation. Above all, we must practice what we preach and stop parading ourselves as professionals whereas we act otherwiseâ€.
Mr Adeyemo Adejumo, Managing Director of Continental Reinsurance Plc admitted that a lot of things are indeed going on in the insurance industry but rather than those vices decreasing, they are mounting.
It is at that juncture that Adejumo implored the CIIN to avail the industry copies of the sector's Codes of Conducts and Ethics which every practitioner appended to before be signed on in the sector.
For those insurance chieftains that are under pressure by their investors, the Continental Re boss challenged them to call their bluff and hold tight their integrity.
Mr Bola Temowo, Chief Executive of International Loss Adjusters on his part, cautioned insurance companies to cut down on operating expenses and focus more on the bottom-line.
He said, "None of the insurance industry's yardsticks for measuring big players such as the number of branches a company has; including earnings growth or the combined ratio, which represents the percentage of total premium income spent on policyholder claims and operating expenses but the consistency of the bottom-line of the company that matter most. And that, he said, has demonstrated statistically significant links to shareholder returnsâ€.
Dynamic insurers, Temowo believed, deliver what shareholders prize above all: revenue that increases at a brisk, steady pace.
"Knowing that sustained top-line growth is the path to superior returns for investors is one thing; generating that growth year after year is another matter. It is not in the number of branch offices an insurance company has that counts but the bottom-line.
Mr Rotimi Edu, an insurance broker noted that insurance companies still have a long way to go in terms of risks assessment which they had for a very long time not improved on rather followed the age-long guidelines of risks assessment.
Edu who represented Mrs Laide Osijo, vice-president of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) said times have changed and every policy has its own peculiarities and cannot t


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Prior sleep problems predict internalising problems later in life.
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* Corresponding author 1 CESP - Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations 2 Department of Child Psychiatry 3 GRIP - Groupe de Recherche en Inadaptation Psychosociale 4 Epidémiologie et Biostatistique Bordeaux 5 Child Psychiatry 6 Troubles du comportement alimentaire de l-adolescent
Abstract : BACKGROUND: One possible risk marker of later internalising symptoms is poor sleep, which is a problem for up to 40% of children. The present study investigated whether prior sleep problems could predict internalising symptoms over a period of 18 years of follow-up. METHODS: The study sample included 1503 French young adults from the TEMPO cohort mean age=28.8±3.6 years whose parents participate in the GAZEL cohort study. All TEMPO participants previously took part in a study of children-s mental health and behaviour in 1991 mean age=10.3±3.6 years and 1999 mean age=18.8±3.6 years. Sleep problems and internalising symptoms depression, anxiety, somatic complaints were assessed three times 1991, 1999, 2009 using the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment ASEBA questionnaire. The association between sleep problems in 1991 and trajectories of internalising problems from 1991 to 2009 was tested in a multinomial logistic regression framework, controlling for sex, age, baseline temperament, behavioural problems and stressful life events, as well as family income, and parental history of depression. RESULTS: We identified four trajectories of internalising symptoms: high-persistent 2.5%, high-decreasing 11.4%, low-increasing 11.6%, and low-persistent 74.5%. After controlling for covariates, compared to participants who did not have sleep problems in 1991, those who did were 4.51 times 95% CI=1.54-13.19, P=.006 more likely to have high-persistent internalising symptoms and 3.69 times 95% CI=2.00-6.82, P
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Helicopter crashes next to River Thames in Reading
A HELICOPTER has crashed next to the River Thames in Caversham, Reading.
Helicopter crash next to River Thames
Witnesses took to social media after claiming to have seen the aircraft spin and plummet to the ground in the outskirts of the city in Berkshire.
Local police confirmed the crash, which happened in the Caversham area of the city.
A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: "At 5.44pm Thames Valley Police received a report that a helicopter had crashed in Caversham in Reading.
"It was also reported that the two occupants had safely got out of the private aircraft.
"Officers from Thames Valley Police and other emergency services are at the scene and a cordon is in place to ensure the safety of the public.
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Twitter user David Elliot posted a picture of what looks like mangled wreckage from the opposite bank of the river.
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Luke Howroyd tweeted: "Helicopter crash landed by river just behind. Apparently no one hurt.
"Saw it come down and go into a spin, then lost site and heard the crash."
A major search & rescue operation was launched off Irish coast
The crash comes just days after a rescue helicopter crashed off the Irish coast, killing one person.
The Irish Coast Guard helicopter, which had four crew members on board, stopped responding to contact at around 1am,
The Dublin-based aircraft was providing cover for another helicopter involved in an early morning rescue operation of a UK-registered fishing vessel.
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2014, Article ID 624162, 12 pages
Stability and Hopf Bifurcation of Delayed Predator-Prey System Incorporating Harvesting
College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
Received 28 September 2013; Accepted 6 January 2014; Published 6 March 2014
Academic Editor: Chun-Lei Tang
Copyright © 2014 Fengying Wei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A kind of delayed predator-prey system with harvesting is considered in this paper. The influence of harvesting and delay is investigated. Our results show that Hopf bifurcations occur as the delay passes through critical values. By using of normal form theory and center manifold theorem, the direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are obtained. Finally, numerical simulations are given to support our theoretical predictions.


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Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) lagged the broader market today, down by as much as 1.6%. There were a couple of negative news pieces today that could be behind the Mac maker's underperformance.
Can a Retina iPad Mini wait?
DIGITIMES reported that Apple may be forced to delay the release of a Retina iPad Mini, and that Apple hasn't finalized plans for the device yet and is still considering whether or not to make the move to a high-resolution display in the smaller tablet. Investors have come to widely expect a Retina iPad Mini this year, addressing the device's biggest weakness. However, that's much easier said than done since there are engineering challenges that present trade-offs for how the iPad Mini is positioned.
The Taiwanese publication says that the fifth-generation iPad is on track for a September launch, and should receive a redesign similar to the iPad Mini along with other internal improvements. Consumers are quickly shifting toward smaller devices, and a non-Retina iPad Mini may not remain competitive for another year amid intensifying tablet completion in small-sized segment.
Amazon.com's Kindle Fire HD has a much beefier display and that was released last year. The e-tailer also just cut prices and the tablet now costs just $169. Google's Nexus 7 also has the same display specs. Both Amazon and Google are expected to upgrade their respective flagship tablets within a matter of months, and waiting until 2014 for a Retina iPad Mini might be too long.
High-end woes
Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair also believes that Apple has reduced its iPhone orders for the second half of the year by 20%, due to slowing growth in the high-end that's become readily apparent following figures from Samsung and HTC. Blair estimates that Apple is targeting 90 million to 100 million iPhones in the second half, down from 115 million to 120 million units. Those totals include Blair's estimates for all iPhone models, including unreleased ones.
Apple's iPad production plans are unchanged, Blair believes.
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Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry was also out with some bearish comments, saying that Apple's management has "destroyed" shareholder value through a lack of recent innovation. Chowdry is skeptical of Apple's bond offering and buyback program. Apple's incremental improvements to the iPhone aren't enough to disrupt the market anymore, and Apple's low earnings multiple shows how little respect the company is garnering.
Chowdry also believes that Apple risks losing key talent to rivals in the near future. Strangely, he also suggests that Apple replace Tim Cook with ex-Palm CEO and former Apple exec Jon Rubinstein.
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One of the only positive notes on Apple today comes from Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers, who is sticking with a buy rating and $600 price target on the believe that gross margin is better than investors believe. The drop in profitability last quarter was partially driven by depreciation and amortization expense and conservative warranty expenses.
As the capital intensity of Apple's business stabilizes going forward, the company could see some upside to gross margin.
Apple's sentiment today is mostly negative, considering these headlines, which is why the Mac maker sat on the sidelines during today's broader rally.
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Review of "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7," a New Book by David Ray Griffin
In THE MYSTERIOUS COLLAPSE OF WORLD TRADE CENTER 7: WHY THE FINAL OFFICIAL REPORT ABOUT 9/11 IS UNSCIENTIFIC AND FALSE, David Ray Griffin provides an overwhelmingly convincing case that the latest official US government account of the events at .Ground Zero. on September 11, 2001, is false. He examines in detail the whole series of publications by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) purporting to explain the highly .mysterious. collapse of World Trade Center 7, a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper across the street from the North Tower, which was not struck by a plane and yet collapsed into its footprint, at nearly free-fall speed, shortly after 5 PM that day.
That the sudden collapse of Building 7 constitutes a .mystery. is an admission of the major media and NIST itself, which for years said it was having a hard time understanding what had occurred. After a long series of preliminary attempts, admitting that a full explanation had not been achieved, NIST issued its .Final Report. in November 2008, claiming to present a scientifically-verified and complete account of the causes of the building.s collapse. As critics of the ever-changing official explanations point out, however, the .mystery. is the result of failure by government and media to consider the most likely explanation, one that accords with a vast amount of physical and testimonial evidence, which is that the building was brought down by controlled demolition.
As Griffin brilliantly demonstrates throughout this powerful indictment, NIST, a purportedly scientific agency of the federal government, has produced an official .explanation. that fails to follow basic scientific principles and meet established scientific standards. The publication of its .Final Report. therefore amounts to nothing less than scientific fraud, which when committed by a federal science agency is a criminal act. Despite its claims to have produced a final, definitive, scientific report on WTC 7.s collapse, NIST in fact has ignored, suppressed, or distorted all the evidence for controlled demolition, while fabricating fake .evidence. to support its own .explanation..
In the Introduction, Griffin lays out the background to NIST.s .Final Report," surveying the agency.s earlier .interim. reports and the evolution of its attempts to explain the .mystery.. In its .Final Report," NIST abandoned its earlier claim that structural damage from debris from the North Tower was a significant cause of Building 7.s collapse, asserting that the principal cause was very hot and long-lasting fires of office materials in the building set ablaze by the falling debris.
Part I of the book, .NIST.s Unscientific Rejection of the Most Likely Theory,. examines in six chapters the methods used by NIST to avoid considering controlled demolition as a possible explanation of the building.s collapse. Controlled demolition is the most likely hypothesis because never before 9/11 had a steel-framed skyscraper collapsed due to fires. All previous instances of sudden, rapid collapse of such buildings into their footprints had been the result of intentional, controlled demolition using explosives. As Griffin demonstrates in Part 1, a very large amount of physical and testimonial evidence supporting the .most likely hypothesis. exists, and it was all ignored, dismissed, or distorted by the authors of the .Final Report..
In Chapter 1, .NIST as a Political, Not a Scientific, Agency,. Griffin shows that NIST, as an agency of the Commerce Department, was under tight political control by the Bush administration. He quotes from a whistleblower from the agency who described in detail how political appointees in the .front office. vetted every scientific statement issued by NIST, and how the statements were then vetted by .the HQ staff of the Department of Commerce,. the National Security Agency and the Office of Management and Budget.
In Chapter 2, .Some Principles of Scientific Method,. Griffin begins by considering what constitutes scientific fraud, and then distinguishes between scientific fraud in the strict sense and in a broader sense. Scientific fraud in the strict sense has been committed by NIST if it can be shown that i) the agency has fabricated evidence to support its claims; ii) that it has falsified evidence; or iii) that it has ignored relevant evidence. Scientific fraud in the broader sense has been committed by NIST if it can be shown that it violated further scientific principles, including these: extra-scientific considerations should not be allowed to determine conclusions; an investigation should begin with the most-likely hypothesis; straw-man arguments should be avoided; unprecedented causes should not, without good reasons, be posited to explain familiar occurrences; and scientists should not make claims implying that laws of nature have been violated.
In Chapter 3, .NIST.s Refusal to Begin with the Most Likely Hypothesis,. Griffin establishes that the most likely hypothesis to consider in attempting to explain the collapse of WTC 7 must be that it was brought down by controlled demolition using explosives, for two reasons. First, no steel-framed skyscraper prior to 9/11 had ever collapsed for any reason other than demolition; on 9/11, however, and in one small area, three such buildings came down, purportedly due to fires, and in the case of the Twin Towers, additional damage caused by airliner impacts. (In his earlier book, DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING, Griffin has already demonstrated that NIST.s .explanation. for the disintegration and fall of the towers does not stand up to rational scrutiny.) Second, the collapse of WTC 7 .exemplified many of the signature features of the type of controlled demolition known as implosion.: the collapse started from the bottom and was sudden and total, the building came straight down and fell at close to free-fall speed, its concrete was pulverized to dust, and the debris pile was relatively small (p. 27). When fires result in .high-order damage,. evidenced by shattered structures, pulverized debris, and significant lateral ejections of material, guidelines established by the National Fire Protection Association in its .Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations. mandate official agencies to investigate the possibility of explosives, but NIST never undertook any such investigation.
In Chapter 4, .NIST.s Ignoring of Physical Evidence for Explosives,. Griffin lays out the physical evidence suggesting that the building was brought down by controlled demolition: video evidence of .squibs. of smoke and pulverized material blown laterally out of the building as it collapsed; a vertical row of blown-out windows from the 29th to the 37th floors, unexplainable by NIST.s account; molten metal in the debris under the building; an array of scientific reports of extremely high temperatures, far above the temperatures which could be reached by fires burning in office materials, as proposed by NIST; thinning and sulfidation of steel recovered from the building; extreme heat and unusual emissions at the collapse site for months afterwards; and red/gray chips found in dust from the building.s collapse, which on analysis by independent researchers Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Niels Harrit, and others, proved to be nanothermitic, derived from a very advanced type of explosive. NIST in its .Final Report. failed to take any of this evidence into account, simply pretending it did not exist.
In Chapter 5, .NIST.s Ignoring of Testimonial Evidence for Explosives,. Griffin first reviews NIST.s prior ignoring of testimonial evidence for explosions in the Twin Towers before their disintegration. He then presents in detail a wide array of testimonial evidence supporting the most-likely hypothesis, implosion. These testimonies came from credible witnesses, including a New York Daily News reporter and a New York Police Department officer located outside the building before it came down, who heard explosions inside it; detailed accounts from two high-level NYC employees, Barry Jennings and Michael Hess, of their experiences inside the building that morning, where they heard and felt large explosions before the Twin Towers had collapsed; testimonies, again from highly credible witnesses, to foreknowledge of the building.s collapse; premature television reports that the building had come down, before it had actually collapsed; and even witnesses to Fire Department of New York personnel announcing that the building was going to be .brought down.. Griffin shows that NIST either ignored this evidence or went to great lengths to distort it by constructing an elaborate false chronology of the testimonial evidence which it could not simply ignore.
In Chapter 6, .NIST.s Straw-Man Arguments against Explosives,. Griffin analyzes the reasons presented by NIST for its refusal to investigate the possibility that explosives were responsible for WTC 7.s destruction. He shows that they employed .straw-man. arguments based on highly-implausible scenarios for the types and quantities of explosives used and then argued that these scenarios are . implausible! The principal scenario NIST focused on, needless to say, was not one that has been proposed by any actual independent researchers as a plausible one. Griffin then shows that high-level personnel at NIST, including four directors from 2001 to 2008 as well as key advisors to the agency, had extensive professional involvement with and expertise in the technology of nanothermitic materials, the very type of explosive proposed by independent researchers as most likely to have been used on 9/11. Indeed, as Griffin details, NIST is engaged in partnerships with academic and federal government research units around the country to develop nanothermitic technologies.
In Part II, .NIST.s Unscientific Arguments for Its Own Theory,. Griffin dissects the arguments made by the agency in putting its own .explanation. forward. He shows in detail the failure of the authors of the .Final Report. to adhere to standard scientific principles, including their failure to base their analysis on empirical facts and physical tests (preferring .black box. computer models in which any parameter can be tweaked until the desired result is obtained), their distorting of data or fabrication of .data,. and their failure to eliminate glaring internal contradictions within their arguments.
In Chapter 7, .NIST.s Theory of an Unprecedented Collapse: an Overview,. Griffin provides an overview of the complex theory promulgated by NIST. He first explores NIST.s claim that the collapse of the building was unprecedented. NIST makes this claim implicitly in advancing its own candidate for the principal causal mechanism, thermal expansion of steel from office-materials fires. Because there is no known prior case in which thermal expansion of steel caused a steel-framed skyscraper to collapse, but there are many cases of implosion of such buildings, NIST.s proposal raises the question whether it violated the scientific principle to avoid invoking unprecedented causes to explain familiar occurrences. Then Griffin surveys the major features of the NIST .explanation. to orient the reader for the detailed discussion in following chapters.
In Chapter 8, .The Initiation and Spread of Fires: NIST.s Unempirical Account,. Griffin examines closely NIST.s claim that the fires in WTC 7 started as a result of the rain of debris which hit the building when the North Tower disintegrated and fell. He shows that NIST.s claims that fires in the building started at this time (10:28 AM) are unsubstantiated, and that the fires therefore could not have burned for as long as NIST contended they did. He points out that NIST itself admitted that most of the fires in the building may have started quite a bit later in the day, in the middle and late afternoon, and thus have burned for less than three hours and even as little as 40 minutes.
In Chapter 9, .Fire and Steel Temperatures: Implausible Claims Based on Distorted Data,. Griffin shows that NIST.s claims regarding the temperatures reached by the fires themselves and the steel structure of the building exposed to those fires are both wildly exaggerated. This extreme overestimation was made possible by the use of computer models, which were manipulated by NIST .investigators. to achieve the desired result (the agency had used the same method in its earlier reports on the destruction of the Twin Towers). There is in fact no evidence to support the fire temperatures or the fire durations claimed by NIST. In a similar manner, NIST .simulated. the temperatures reached by the steel structure of the building, and claimed wildly implausible temperatures for which there is no actual evidence, based on the assumption (contrary to fact) that steel has no thermal conductivity!
In Chapter 10, .From Thermal Expansion to Global Collapse: Fabrications and Contradictions,. Griffin shreds the last pillar of NIST.s account: its claim that thermal expansion of steel floor beams and girders caused .global collapse.. He shows that this claim is based on highly implausible assumptions, outright fabrications, denial of the existence of structural elements that did in fact exist, and fabrication of a .differential thermal expansion. result from its computer simulations by modeling heating of the steel beams but not of the floor slabs! Griffin delivers the coup de grace by showing that NIST was forced to admit that WTC 7 did indeed fall at free-fall speed for more than two seconds during its collapse, which would only be possible if all resistance to the fall had been eliminated by removal of the lower portion of the building by explosives. This demonstrates that NIST has resorted to a miraculous .explanation. of the collapse of Building 7, in which no explosives were used and yet free-fall still occurred, and has thus violated the scientific principles of non-contradiction and impermissibility of claims implying that laws of nature have been violated.
In the .Conclusion,. Griffin summarizes the many ways in which standard principles of scientific investigation were violated by NIST in its .Final Report.. On this basis, he concludes that the Report is false, and then discusses the implications of this fact. The only possible conclusion is that WTC 7 was demolished .by domestic terrorists with the ability to plant explosives in it and then to orchestrate a cover-up. (p. 255). If this is true of Building 7, it must be true as well of the Twin Towers. When these conclusions are drawn, it is clear that the entire basis and pretext for the ongoing war in Afghanistan (and now Pakistan) is false. Muslims did not bring down these buildings. The events of 9/11 were quite simply the largest, most heinous false-flag operation of all time.
THE MYSTERIOUS COLLAPSE OF WORLD TRADE CENTER 7 by David Ray Griffin is an epoch-making book, of tremendous importance for our future. Griffin has shone a spotlight on the Achilles. heel of the US government.s account of 9/11. NIST.s failure to defend the official story of the collapse of WTC 7 lays bare the weak spot that will make it possible for us to bring this monster down and stop the wars of aggression abroad and the growing police-state at home. You owe it to your country and the world to read this book.


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Although it cannot be said with absolute certainty, James was probably the 8 year old boy listed on the 1901 Census living at Ludworth, Marple Bridge. Assuming this is indeed him, then his parents were Fred, a carter, and May and he was the fifth of their eight children. The ten of them lived in only four rooms – literally a "two up, two down".
In later life, his service number strongly suggests that he had joined the army before the War as a regular soldier and that he would have fought at the Army's first engagement at the Battle of Mons in August 1914 and the subsequent engagements. James' service has previously been researched for the book "Remembered" by P Clarke, A Cook and J Bintliff (which contains more information about him). The authors conclude that his fighting unit was the 41st Brigade of the Field Artillery and, indeed, 70th Battery was part of that larger unit. It is presumably an error, therefore, in the records of the War Graves Commission to associate it with the 5th Reserve Brigade.
There is a brief account of the Battery's fighting at Mons, in the War Diary of the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. "After Givry we pushed on a couple of miles north-east in the direction of where the German Army was coming and dug some trenches there. Number 70 Battery RFA was on a ridge just to our left. ........... A couple of German aeroplanes came over, spotted the guns' flashes and opened fire. Then Jerry's artillery started searching the ground, which cut one section of my trench to pieces. The gunners had three of their guns knocked out of action but the gunners were jolly good and crawled from one gun to the other and kept them going. As one gun was knocked out, they got into action again…"
James is believed to have come though that unscathed and his luck held out until November 1917 when he is understood to have been wounded in the arm. He was treated at a military field hospital where his condition was stabilised and he was then evacuated back to England, also suffering form bronchitis. His condition failed to improve and the bronchitis was the cause of his death whilst he was a patient at a military hospital at Ashton under Lyne.


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Please see The Oriental Vagina post for the background on this post. The holidays was spent consciously and rather blissfully ignorant of the monologue to come. After being cast as the "Comfort Woman" vagina in the Vagina Monologues, I was told by the Director to wait until the V-Day organization sent her a copy of my monologue, which was still being written. That was a month ago. I had my back-from-the-holidays rehearsal this past Wednesday, and still no word about the monologue. As I waited around outside the rehearsal room and the rest of the cast trickled in, I couldn't help but feel a little left out as the rest of the crew cackled and gossiped about how behind they were in memorizing their lines. The show is only a month away and, racial issues aside, I was starting to feel the pressure of simply having less time than everyone else to work out what would come to be a fairly difficult piece. The Director arrived and tried to assuage my concerns. She smiled comfortingly and promised to harrass the V-Day organization until the monologue was delivered to her hands. Thursday's rehearsal was spent working through the first monologue of the show, a group piece that introduces the various names that are used as euphemisms and slang fo the vagina. In it, I was given the following lines to deliver:
A young, high-powered businesswoman was interviewed, and she said she didn't have the time. She was too busy. Looking at your vagina, she said, is a full day's work. You have to get down there on your back in front of a mirror that's standing on its own, full-length preferred. You have to get into the perfect position with the perfect lighting -- which is then shadowed by the mirror and the position you're in. You get all twisted up. You're arching your head up, killing your back. By then you're exhausted. She didn't have time for all that. She was too busy.I think I may be trying to play that up for comedic effect. It might involve some good-natured miming? We'll have to see... On Thursday, our second rehearsal of the new year, I got some good news; I got the monologue at last. The monologue is structured sort of like a poem or a series of lists. It's very staccato and I'm told powerful when you hear it (or at least it seemed, since I managed to reduce the director and assistant director to tears when I just read it out loud). It seems a little difficult to deliver since there are a few instances in which everything is more "list"-y than monologue-y. It's called "Say It". Here's the first little bit:
Our stories only exist inside our heads Inside our ravaged bodies Inside a time and space of war And emptiness There is no paper trail Nothing official on the books Only conscience Only this What we were promised: That I would save my father if I went with them That I would find a job That I would serve the country That they would kill me if I didn't go That it was better there What we found: No mountains No trees No watter Yellow sand A desert A warehouse full of tears Thousands of worried girls My braid cut against my will No time to wear panties <-- the single worst line in the monologue What we were forced to do: Change our names Wear one piece dresses with A button that opened easily 50 Japanese soldiers a day Sometimes there would be a ship of them Strange barbaric things Do it even when we bleed Do it young before we start bleeding There were so many Some wouldn't take off their clothes Just took out their penis So many men I couldn't walk I couldn't stretch my legs I couldn't bend I couldn't.The full monologue is about three pages long; that's about the first page. I think this piece will be challenging, and I am somewhat happy that the monologue treats the issue with some respect. At the same time, I was cast largely for racial reasons and this monologue only confirms my suspicions. Plus, there's a possibility that I will also be given the other "Asian" line in the Monologues. We'll see what happens later this week.


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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.


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It's been such a great day! The action's hot in Long Beach with my friends, Katie and Tracy Lindquist, taking down some big names.
Rach/Tyra are also playing well.
On the men's side, Kevin Wong is playing well with Larry Witt. It's good to see Kevin playing with a smile on his face.
I met Phil for the first time. I think he's very nice, but uberly quiet. He's the first AVPer to step up and help me with a project (which I am ironing out more details). So, kudos to Phil (and thanks to Richie Rich for the help too!!)!!
Please feel free to read about the AVP action today:
I took a few photos and started an album on photobucket:
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These beautiful white ceramic trinket boxes are perfect favors for your wedding. The names of the members of your bridal party can be personalized on the inside of the box while your custom design is hand-painted on the cover.
All of the elements of this design (including the fonts of the names) can be customized and painted with any color scheme that you choose. In addition, these trinket boxes come wrapped in clear cellophane with matching curling ribbon.


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I am still dilly dallying, but I'm getting closer to writing on here more often.
Maybe I will finally join the "Slice of Life" where writing teachers share their words online and take time to respond to each other.
It's something we want for our students...to be writing, sharing, and encouraging.
I was encouraged by Michelle, my teaching friend from afar, to start a blog and to join this wonderful community.
I write in a journal, but I don't know if I have writing worthy of a blog.
Then I remember something I saved from Ruth Ayres...
"Writing matters because:
- We realize it's not as easy as it seems.
- We are changed when we collect our thoughts and share them with others.
- We realize how quickly a community is established when people share their writing with one another.
- We gain insight in how to talk like a writer.
- We understand the vulnerability that comes with putting words on the page."
I think it's time to start writing more.


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Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photos
Coming off the official costume picture release we get a quick glimpse of some set photos that were leaked earlier today. This actually gives us a better look at the Spidey costume. What do you guys think so far and do you have any predictions for the up coming movie?
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Anyways, enjoy the pictures!


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Strategic Development Team
Swansea University is growing at a tremendous rate with an ambitious Strategic Plan and ever increasing pool of opportunities to prioritise and develop. The Strategic Development Team within the Unit is responsible for working alongside the Senior Management Team to provide a framework to support the coordination, development and visibility of a range of strategic opportunities that will contribute to the delivery of the University Strategy.
Working in partnership with the colleges and PSUs, the Strategic Development team support the progression of strategic opportunities, ensuring all projects have the appropriate project management structures, processes and documentation in place; resolving and escalating issues, unblocking obstacles and drafting business plans to ensure the opportunity has the best chance to progress successfully to the implementation stage. Strategic opportunities are those that will have the potential to deliver step-change growth in the scale and quality of University business and will often have a significant impact on regional economic growth.
Recently the team has worked on a wide range of projects including the development of Swansea University Bay Campus, European Investment Bank fund application, Computational Foundry, Natural Resources Wales co-location and collaboration; and the reintroduction of both a School of Education and a Chemistry Department at Swansea University


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Rutgers professors and interns released about 10,000 3-month-old horseshoe crabs into the Delaware Bay earlier this month.
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Rutgers professors and interns released about 10,000 3-month-old horseshoe crabs into the Delaware Bay earlier this month.
A free speech advocacy tour entitled "Unsafe Space" made its second stop at the Douglass Student Center last night in an attempt to spark new dialogue around free speech.
This past Thursday was the first event of the new Young Athletes program held at the New Brunswick Free Public Library.Young Athletes, a national program sponsored by the Special Olympics, provides the equipment and trains the local organizers to create an inclusive sports program for children ages 2 through 7 years old.
Last Wednesday, the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) held a brief media event outside Starbucks on George Street to highlight the release of their national organization's "Chain Reaction Report." The report grades the 25 largest chain restaurants in the country on their policies concerning the routine use of antibiotics in livestock.Terese Osborne, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore and the coordinator of NJPIRG's Save Antibiotics campaign, said that Starbucks was chosen as the location for the event because its grade improved this year from an F to a D+."The reason why we want these policies changed is because the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms is a major breeding ground for superbugs, or bacteria resistant to antibiotics, which is a huge public health issue," Osborne said.
The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) is working to register Rutgers students to vote in the upcoming gubernatorial election on Nov.
The Rutgers chapter of Young Americans for Liberty held its first meeting this past Wednesday.According to their mission statement, Young Americans for Liberty aims to promote and educate the students of Rutgers University to the ideas of liberty, peace, the constitution and free markets through activism and intellectual dialogue with the general student body.Andrea Vacchiano, the president of the club, said that Young Americans for Liberty supports drug reform, prison reform and small government economic policies."We try to educate our peers about libertarian principles through activism events and hosting speakers, and we also try to make some pro-liberty changes within Rutgers," the School of Arts and Sciences junior said.One such pro-liberty change advocated by Young Americans for Liberty is the reform of Rutgers' policies on public speech, said Aviv Khavich, a School of Engineering junior and the group's vice president.Khavich said that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) rates schools according to how well they preserve students' rights to free speech.FIRE assigns each school a color code — red, yellow or green — which corresponds to their policies protecting free speech.According to FIRE's website, a "red light school" is designated as one that has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech, a "yellow light school" is one with some policies that could ban or excessively regulate protected speech and a "green light school" has no serious threats to free speech."Rutgers is a yellow light school," Khavich said.
Austin Schlessinger, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, has designed an application that he said will revolutionize the way people connect with one another.
On Thursday, The Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille in North Brunswick will be hosting an all-day fundraiser for "Into the Light," a charity event organized by the Mazzini sisters — Sophia, a Rutgers Business School sophomore and Artemis, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.The Greene Turtle's fundraiser will run from 11 a.m.
On Sunday afternoon, over 300 gamers crowded into the College Avenue Student Center for "Fall Friendlies," an annual gaming party hosted by Rutgers Esports."This is like if you were going to your friend's house just to play games, except on a much bigger scale," said Adam Baugh, a student in the School of Graduate Studies who co-founded Rutgers Esports as an undergraduate in 2014.Jacob Moffatt, a junior in the School of Arts and Sciences and the president of Rutgers Esports, said that the local area network (LAN) party is intended as a welcome-back for old members and as an orientation for new members. "Fall Friendlies" is the first of two major events to be hosted by Rutgers Esports in the fall semester. The second one will be Fireside Open, which will be a tournament.Rutger Esports serves as an umbrella organization for all the video game clubs at Rutgers.
A team of 11 Rutgers students is competing to set a Guinness World Record for the highest alka-rocket launch ever.
In July, School of Arts and Sciences junior Andrea Vacchiano appeared on the Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" to criticize "Language Matters," a seminar that is part of the University's orientation program for incoming first-year students.The interview provoked backlash against Vacchiano among some members of the University community and initiated a controversy over the importance of the "Language Matters" campaign.In the "Fox & Friends" interview, Vacchiano said that the "Language Matters" presentation discourages students from exercising their first amendment rights and that the campaign "babies" students and does not prepare them for "the real world," where, she said, no one believes in microaggressions."I feel as though most students in the class were basically just indoctrinated," Vacchiano said on "Fox & Friends." "They didn't question it, they didn't understand."Rutgers student body president Evan Covello responded to the televised interview with a Facebook post late in July."(Vacchiano) said that new students were told not to use microaggressions," he said in the post.
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior Saloni Sawant has been competing in beauty pageants for as long as she has been a student at Rutgers, culminating in August, she competed in America's Miss World.Sawant entered her first pageant at 17 years old when she competed in Miss India New Jersey, where she was the first runner-up.
As a Muslim organization, the Ahlul-Bayt Student Association (ABSA) represents the views and concerns of the Shia minority at Rutgers.
On Friday, the legacy of Rutgers women involved in social activism was celebrated at the release party for UNherD.
In its latest student advocacy effort, the Douglass Governing Council has turned its attention to the lack of food and grocery options available on Cook and Douglass campuses.Zahra Bukhari, a junior in the Mason Gross School of the Arts and the president of the Douglass Governing Council, said that food is scarcely available on either the Cook or Douglass campuses.
A team of Rutgers University—Newark graduate students took first place at this year's Trading Challenge. The Trading Challenge is held by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and accepts teams of undergraduate and graduate students from all over the world. This year there were about 600 teams from schools in various locations including Australia and China.The members of the Rutgers team were Zhihao Zhou, Jiachen Chu, Cheng Xu, Wanyu Zhang and Chengran Su, all international students from China, enrolled as graduate students.The Trading Challenge is a simulation of a futures market where each team is given an account with a mock sum of $100,000 to invest.
On Tuesday night, when the temperature reached over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, Rutgers students cooled off by playing "Canoe Battleship" at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center.Associate Director of Sports Paul Fischbach said that the event was organized by Outdoor Recreation and Intramural Sports."Canoe Battleship" is played in a pool, where teams of four compete to remain afloat in their canoes longer than the competing teams, Fischbach said.
Three Rutgers alumni have recently released a new app called Sponte, which allows users to informally plan events and coordinate with friends.Josh Block and Isaac Benjamin graduated in 2013 and Josh Yammer graduated in 2014. Yammer said that he had had the idea for the app when he was in college, but did not think about how to implement it until after he had graduated.
Rutgers' Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights recently held their Voices of North Korean Dissent lecture. The keynote speaker was Austin Hyeon, who is a North Korean expatriate.
Every spring at Rutgers, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosts Islam Awareness week to engage with the larger Rutgers community and educate people about the Islamic religion and culture. The event is held this week in a large tent outside of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus and will continue until Friday.This year, Islam Awareness Week was organized by School of Arts and Sciences seniors Hadear Seliman and Reshma Vohra, and School of Arts and Sciences junior Habibah Arshad."There are so many misconceptions, especially nowadays, in the media or anywhere else, about Islam and what it's portrayed as," Seliman said.


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The group includes Sonic Solutions (SNIC) SNIC , Sigma Designs (SIGM) SIGM, -0.33% and most promising of the lot, C-Cube Microsystems (CUBE) CUBE, -0.24% . Once high-flying C-Cube is hoping it has a winner in its powerful new chips for non-linear editing of digital video images.
At the National Association of Broadcasters media trade show, the California company showed off its DVxpress line of editing solutions, which are powered by what it calls the industry's first single chip encoder-decoder for MPEG video streams.
If all the technical jargon leaves you cold, join the club. In essence, the struggling C-Cube, under assault from IBM, Sony and NEC, is hoping that companies such as Minerva Systems order the new chip for editing MPEG video streams. Pinnacle Systems (PCLE) PCLE , a maker of the sophisticated non-linear editing systems for video, says it will endorse C-Cube's technology.
The single-chip DVxpress is a fourth-generation technology from a company that at one time had a near monopoly on integrated circuits for processing digital video streams. At one time, C-Cube chips were the only game in town for the encoding and decompressing of video images.
C-Cube shares sell for less than 20, or about 20 percent above their 52-week low.
"We think we have a winner," systems design engineer Edward Ludvig told CBS MarketWatch. "We think that now that MPEG is the standard editing format for professionals and consumers, users are ready for a single-chip solution that can randomly access the bit stream, go backwards, forwards, and view and edit multiple video streams."
That's a mouthful. But seeing is believing, and Ludvig ran through a dozen editing functions, using DVxpress technology to play Hollywood clips of "James Bond" and "Michael Collins" like a fiddle. "At one time, all of this required 14 chips," said Ludvig, whipping forward and backwards through film clips. MPEG compression of video, more or less the standard on the World Wide Web, allows editors vibrant images that they can broadcast or distribute.
C-Cube hopes its single-chip solution will let consumers perform non-linear editing on personal computers with few bells and whistles.
C-Cube's chip is so new, executives have yet to set a price on it. Some say it could sell for less than $1,000 and become an important part of other companies' editing systems, which can sell for $50,000 and up.
Powered by the new chip, C-Cube's DVxpress allows what the company calls frame-accurate MPEG editing. Dissecting MPEG frame by frame until now has been difficult at best, the company says. Market Monitor Wired Tech News At the Las Vegas exhibit, Ludvig showed how an editing system powered by the chip permits rapid cutting, seeking, scrubbing and blending of images, frame by frame.
The special effects that come out of such precise control of video images are stunning, to say the least.
C-Cube, which compresses images for satellite delivery, hopes to sell the technology to companies that produce real-time video teleconferencing.
C-Cube, a company whose market capitalization at one time was well more than $1 billion, can only hope the glamorous technology rubs off on its profits, and in turn its stock price.


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A group of six DVE-News/TV reporters from Delaware Valley Elementary School on Sept. 24 boarded a yellow school van and departed for the adventure of a lifetime. We had the honor of covering the National Book Festival and meeting many inspiring and unforgettable authors, including the former first lady Laura Bush.
A group of six DVE-News/TV reporters from Delaware Valley Elementary School on Sept. 24 boarded a yellow school van and departed for the adventure of a lifetime. We had the honor of covering the National Book Festival and meeting many inspiring and unforgettable authors, including the former first lady Laura Bush.
Some of the authors/illustrators we interviewed, along a few titles for each.
They were Adele Alexander, M. T. Anderson, Mary Brigid Barrett, Michael Buckley, Laura Bush, former First Lady, ("Spoken from the Heart," "Read All About It"), Timothy Basil Ering and Craig Robinson, First Lady Michelle Obama's brother ("A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond").
They also included Gail Godwin, Linda Sue Park, Rosemary Wells, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Pat Mora, Marilyn Nelson, Jerry Pinkney, Michele Norris, Katherine Patterson, Jeff Smith, James Ransome and Rebecca Stead.
We even interviewed an author who just published a book and wasn't officially on the author list at the festival, along with PBS characters Super Why! Alpha Pig and Sid the Science Kid.
The Librarian of Congress was a busy man, but he also kindly gave up some of his time to take a photo and spend some time talking with us, along with Mr. David Rubinstein, a major sponsor of the festival. In addition to hearing former first lady Laura Bush speak, we had the great honor of getting a one-on-one visit with her after her reading. Mrs. Bush's staff members hurried us out to meet with her after the reading. Then she got into her special car, and we waved good-bye to her as she left.
This experience is one that none of us will ever forget, and we are so very thankful for having had this opportunity. A few of our individual thoughts follow:
Brandon Love: The trip overall was an exciting, unforgettable experience. How Laura Bush read her book was emotionally moving. Laura Bush spoke as she felt on 9-11 and gave exact details on her every minute of that day and how she felt during that day. I was able to actually hand her a specially crafted DVE-TV mug. The overall experience was something I will never forget, and I was glad to go.
Leah Yost: I especially liked meeting Timothy Basil Ering. He was super nice and really funny. Even though it was boiling hot outside, all the authors took time and went out to the book festival to meet their fans that love and enjoy and their books. Traveling with six kids on the school van was quite interesting and fun, but the overall most fun was the whole festival.
When Laura Bush was reading, I felt like everyone was very touched. I also felt that many were inspired by her story about her experience on 9/11. The overall experience was one I never would have gotten if I hadn't been on DVE-TV. It is an experience I will never forget and will carry with me the rest of my life.
Dylan Carey: I liked interviewing all of the authors and seeing what their favorite book was. It was awesome to learn how the authors each got the inspiration for their books. Laura Bush's speech was touching and inspired me to read a lot more books. It was a once in a lifetime experience, and I'll never forget it.
Alexa Butaitis: It was awesome to meet Margaret Peterson Haddix because a lot of people I know are reading her books. It was cool seeing Secret Service people at work. I learned a lot from the authors and from Laura Bush about the importance of reading. I was inspired by the many authors and illustrators who spoke at the festival. I will never forget this experience.
Kaylee Small: I absolutely loved the whole festival. The most interesting part of the whole trip was when I got to talk with Laura Bush. She was very creative and passionate about reading. The whole festival was truly amazing and enjoyable. Talking with the authors and hearing what an author was like made me feel like I was stepping into the shoes of an author. I was able to go up to the microphone and ask Laura Bush a question, which I could only have done if I was a DVE-news/TV reporter.
Emily Gelormino: I especially loved interviewing the authors. I loved getting the chance to feel what it feels like to be a reporter and to see all the cool authors, and to top it off — getting to see the White House. When Laura Bush was reading, and knowing that it was a true story, just whipped you into the book. I thought that was awesome. I felt that it was very interesting hearing about what she was reading, but also very emotionally sad about the tragedy that happened. When we were in the van and headed to D.C., we had no clue about what the festival would be like, but it was very pleasant surprise. What a great honor and opportunity it was to be able to interview authors and see what it's like to be an author and have the fame. All the authors were really nice and passionate and took time out of their busy schedule to come see their fans and readers of their books. Being part of DVE-News/TV allowed me to feel what it was like to embrace the feeling of a being an author.


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Thursday, July 1, 2010
it's out....
Hadn't created a tag in a long while....it was fun to create one again!! I pulled out "all things Tim" and created away....Tim's a new Texture Fade, his Sizzix die, Distress ink, some Reinker Mixtures and and let's not forget one of my GrungePaper Roses...oooh just plain pure joy!!
Be sure to stop by the MPTS forum, visit with the girls, check out the new challenges and be inspired!! Speaking of which...I created another bird house using July's Picture Challenge...
The colors, images, ooohhh I was so inspired!!! so the other night....when I couldn't sleep, the other night, I created my take on the challenge!
I made another Birdhouse.....I focused on the beautiful Turquoise....light and dark of it...then the silver, the flowers...the pearls....let me tell you, this picture sucked me right in!! Little different than my normal style...that's why I love a great challenge....to make you create "OUTSIDE YOUR BOX" to explore possiblities that are different than your norm....so join along with us...it going to be an AMAZING creative ride!!
11 comments:
- shannonmvt said...
Both are beautiful. Congrats on making the DT.
- July 1, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- peggylee said...
you took my breath away~~~~outstanding on the July's Challenge~~love your tag!!! Congrats on the new DT at MPTS!!!
- July 1, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Anna Fearer said...
Your are sooooo....very talented and I'm so proud that you are on the design team!!! YAY!! The bird house cam eout so pretty!!! I love these colors together.
- July 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- Lori said...
Gorgeous projects! Love turquoise, it's one of my fave colors... and congrats on the DT! Coolio...
- July 1, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Chantal Larocque said...
I'm so proud to be part of this wonderful Design Team along with you!
ILoooooooooooove your bird cage...So inspiring...my mind's going wild for the July challenge...and this "photos turquoise'ish..." challenge on the forum!!! Oh! I think our DT is gonna come up with so many beautiful creations!!!
- July 1, 2010 at 7:49 PM
its so lovely...congrats Lynn!!
- July 1, 2010 at 9:53 PM
- LaurieStar said...
Wow - I love bird houses and I love yours. Congrats on the DT! Cool to meet another girl from my neck of the woods! :)
- July 1, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- vsroses said...
LOVE your work.. Just BEAUTIFUL..
- July 2, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Sunny Skye Creations said...
Your birdhouse is gorgous!! I really loved the combinations on the picture challenge. You captured it so well. Glad to be on the same design team with you!
- July 3, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Scrappycat said...
I love the birdhouse, the colors are my favourite and I love all those pretty fine details!
- July 6, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Dragon said...
Oh my goodness... this tag is just amazing... I really aspire to do work like this... have managed soem of your wonderful roses, so thanks for sharing
- July 23, 2010 at 4:06 AM


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Anyhow, then it rained like hell this weekend and the studio flooded :O
All the gear was up high, so nothing was really damaged. A few pieces got wet and I am waiting for them to get completely dry before I mess with them. Overall I think it was damn lucky. The real drama was that I had allotted this weekend to get several projects done and I was unable to do so. Now I have to wait for next weekend because the basement is all musty and uncomfortable. Going to air it out and get it together during this week.


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