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The 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13) was held at the Festival Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 21 to 29 October 2018. During these days Contracting Parties convene to assess progress in the implementation of the Convention and the wise use of wetlands and plan their own work and that of the Secretariat for the next triennium. The theme for COP13 was "Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future".
JICA HQ hosted a side event with the Ramsar Secretariat and the Ministry of the Environment Japan (MoEJ) to discuss how to facilitate the wise use of urban and peri-urban wetlands on 26th Oct. Based on the practical examples on the management of wetlands in Iran(Anzali Wetland), El Salvador, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Japan, we discussed how we could further advance the implementation of Ramsar decisions such as Resolution XI.11 Principle for the Planning and Management of Urban and Peri-Urban Wetland. Mr.Aoki, chief advisor of the JICA Expert Team (JET), had a presentation about "The raising awareness on (1) functions of the Anzali wetland (biological and cultural importance) and (2) significance of the river basin approach (e.g. sediment, water treatment, waste management) to remove the wetland from Motreux Record" in the side event.
The other side event "Networking of Littoral Wetlands of the Caspian Sea to Conserve Unique Ecosystem through International Transboundary Cooperation" was conducted by the JET on 27th Oct. Mr.Aoki explained the outline of the Anzali Wetland Ecological Management Project Phase II. Mr.Watanabe, wetland ecosystem conservation expert of JET, explained the result of satellite tracking survey of migratory birds and urged that networking of littoral wetlands of the Caspian Sea is very important. JET hopes the event will be a first step of future corroborating between Iran and the other countries around the Caspian Sea and international organizations.


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Jaguar F-Pace vs BMW X3 vs Land Rover Discovery Sport
Will Jaguar's first SUV sink or swim against the practical Land Rover Discovery Sport and sporty BMW X3?...
The Contenders
BMW X3 xDrive20d M Sport auto
List price £39,045
Target Price £36,286
It's been around for a while, but the X3 still leads the way on performance and economy
Jaguar F-Pace 2.0d 180 R Sport auto AWD
List price £41,260
Target Price £41,210
Jaguar's first SUV has the looks to impress, but it'll need to be a complete all-rounder to win here
Land Rover Discovery Sport 2.0 TD4 180 HSE auto
List price £39,800
Target Price £39,107
Our current favourite at this price point and the only seven-seater here. Can it hold on to its crown?
You can't teach an old dog new tricks, they say. Well, it appears felines are a bit more adaptable in their senior years because, after 71 years of solely building saloons, estates and sports cars, Jaguar has branched out into the SUV market.
The F-Pace might be rather late to the party, but it certainly doesn't lag behind on appeal. Its stunning looks and spacious interior are obviously big selling points and, in entry-level 2.0-litre diesel form, running costs are also surprisingly reasonable.
To find out just how good Jaguar's maiden SUV is we're pitting it against the BMW X3 xDrive20d and Land Rover's Discovery Sport. The latter is available in 148bhp five-seat form, but most buyers choose the 178bhp seven-seat version, so that's what we've lined up. All our contenders also have automatic gearboxes and four-wheel drive.
What are they like to drive?
The X3's extra power gives it a performance edge over both rivals. No matter whether you're using the auto gearbox's kickdown function to build speed as quickly as possible or relying on the engine's low-rev muscle to accelerate in a more relaxed way, the X3 is always the nippiest.
Meanwhile, the Discovery Sport is the slowest of our trio. Both it and the F-Pace use the same 2.0-litre diesel engine, but the heavier Land Rover doesn't accelerate with the same vigour as its British rival. The Discovery Sport also has the least impressive gearbox; there's often an annoying pause between you pressing the accelerator pedal and the arrival of the burst of power requested. The F-Pace's gearbox is snappier to respond, although it's never quite as smooth or seemingly as intelligent as the X3's.
If you want your SUV to scythe through bends more like a hot hatch on stilts than an old school 4x4, you'll love the F-Pace. It's easily the most agile of our trio, staying remarkably upright and streaming plenty of feedback to your fingertips through its steering wheel. The Discovery Sport sways about more through bends, although it still steers sweetly and is easily the most comfortable car here. It rides particularly smoothly at high speeds and, although it fidgets a bit on pockmarked urban roads, it never becomes uncomfortable.
In range-topping M Sport trim, as tested here, the X3 has sports suspension as standard and is way too firm. You're tossed around like a small rowing boat on the high seas whenever the road gets remotely bumpy, and the rigid suspension doesn't do the handling any favours unless the road is super smooth because even small bumps unsettle the car through corners. The X3's steering is also rather slow and heavy when manoeuvring, although it is at least always precise.
'If you want your SUV to scythe through bends like a hot hatch on stilts, you'll love the F-Pace'
If you want the sporty styling of the M Sport but with a more agreeable ride, you can opt for softer suspension for free. We've yet to try the latest X3 in this form, but it's bound to be a better option.
If, on the other hand, you're after a quiet life, the Discovery Sport will appeal most. Its tyres generate the least road roar on the motorway and its engine, while a bit gruff around town, hushes up when you're cruising. The F-Pace has the noisiest engine and generates the most road noise (the optional 20in alloys on our car probably didn't help). The X3 is only fractionally quieter, and its door mirrors whip up the most wind noise at 70mph.


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"Fake News" is not new. Good comrades all my life have sat around analysing how the establishment has been lying to us. It was generally accepted that the news was fake, what the establishment wanted, and how we had to be careful what we believed, how we were conditioned. Sadly in my job as a teacher I met the same conditioning – "fake news", and I was always conscious of how much teaching reflected the establishment bias. You lived with it, and if you argued with it you lost your job.
Trump and Brexit have started labelling this establishment bias "fake news", but what they are looking for is "pro-Trump news" – not the truth. What has also happened with this approach to "fake news" is that many people (Liberals) as a reaction are now accepting establishment media as news when it has always been lies and will always continue to be lies if controlled by the 1% as it is. So now we have a public battle for what is fake or not, when in reality all we have is one bias or another – neither being truth.
I watched Frankie Boyle (New World Order s02e06) and got very angry with his panel who were blaming the Russians for meddling, Frankie at least said that the Americans have been meddling for years. The point for a British programme is they should have been saying that British establishment have been conditioning for years. Chris Mullin's "A Very British Coup" clearly demonstrated that the media were part of the establishment lying to the UK people – trying to get rid of Harry Perkins. Blaming Russians is deflecting away from the reality that the establishment has been lying to us for years. Trump's analysis has used the truth that there were establishment lies and manipulated the situation so that whatever truth is being said is slated, and he then proceeds to define truth as what he accepts. Because people have been conditioned for years they have no tools with which to cope with his political tactic.
This conditioning also applies to facebook, it is why they have the model they do. Because people have been conditioned as advertising fodder, facebook used that as its monetising model and have made a fortune accordingly. Now people are complaining because it has been found that the "Russians are doing it". How much they are doing it I don't know, but there are plenty of others doing it including Trump and the establishment. What hasn't changed is that people do not know how to cope.
Facebook it is relatively easy – never click on an ad. Be careful who you listen to, if they are not your friends. If you don't know who is saying it don't listen. If you try something new be discerning. What if your likes and friends zoom because they are bots, it is meaningless. Be discerning, it is not then a problem. We have never been told the truth, why would it start now because a politician calls "fake news" for his own benefit.
With regards to online what is also not always recognised is the difference between human speech and speech online, they are far from the same. For example it is far easier to discern people who are winding you up in person, and it does happen far too often. We develop human skills of discernment in person to cope with this. We have our own lie detectors, we have our own abilities to examine agendas and determine why someone is saying something to you – to some extent. All of this disappears online as it is not a human personal interaction.
Basically online should be considered as garbage unless you are absolutely certain it is not.
How many times do you have an in-person conversation and realise that there is no real communication going on – a wind-up or whatever. Then you walk away. Online you cannot know this so just walk away.
Online there is nothing invested. If I discuss in person I can determine whether someone is genuinely having a dialogue or has some other agenda – or at least I can try to do this. Online I cannot measure this so why bother to try – just walk away. Have a code of conduct where you only try to speak the truth, and assume that the other person is disingenuous unless you know for sure they are not.
What needs to be understood is that online conversation is not real conversation because in real conversation (in person) there are so many other methodologies of interaction happening at the same time, methodologies which do not and cannot occur online. Unless you know for sure don't trust the interaction.
I was sparked to write this blogpost because of this vid put on my twitter. At 6.40 mins one of the panel presented the problem as fake news presented by bad actors, listing the bad actors as right-wing people and media who talk about Fake News. The approach is quite straightforward, they are seeking methodologies to get back to where we were before the recent populist manipulation by the right. This approach is wrapped up in terms of truth, current disinformation etc., and is predicated on the assumption that what was loosely the truth 10 years ago (pre-Fake News, pre-Trump and Brexit), what was presented in schools and unis, what was listened to on the couches of armchair liberals, was actually the truth.
The problem is that everyone knows this wasn't the truth, the kids knew it wasn't the truth, teachers knew it wasn't the truth, and the government knew it wasn't the truth. But everyone went along with it because society was relatively stable, because of the general acceptance of neoliberalism.
In the US Obama was a turning point and is a useful example of what was considered relatively nice. Obama, hopey-changey, was sugar and Teflon rolled into one, and in the US liberals want him back. But on closer inspection what did he do? Invasion of Libya. Drones on Yemen, now a war in Yemen with NATO backing Saudi oppression. According to Google the war in Syria started during Obama's presidency. None of these were voted for in Congress. He did nothing about Israel's oppression of Palestine. I assume he made Liberals in the US happy, but under his administration the US pursued its usual war agenda. Is this the "truth" that the panel want to get back to? No, but this is the truth that was happening.
The truth they want is the neoliberal truth where all of this was swept under the carpet. Because Trump broke all the unwritten rules of neoliberalism, the collusion that kept this war agenda hidden was in part brought out into the open. But instead of promoting the truth that war is an integral part of the way NATO countries survive, Trump and Brexit focussed on the collusion, the duplicity of government, liberals, education, to avoid the truth. His strategy was to become a media distraction, thus enabling his backers to sweep away the regulation that hindered business – whilst protecting people.
This panel is not interested in exposing the truth, it is interested in getting us back to the neoliberal state where the bad actors backed by the dark money network did not exist and the genuine left-wing telling the truth were dismissed as crazy.
Whilst I am afraid of where the right is taking us, the reason for the move to the right associated with the current "Fake News" dismissal of neoliberal acceptance was the failure of the establishment in education and otherwise to address the truth. Children grew up knowing they were being fed lies and accepted it because everyone else did … until Trump and Brexit. And now we are paying the price for colluding with this establishment failure.
In western countries neoliberalism continues. Liberals focus on identity politics and pre-fake News neoliberalism. When people come along such as Corbyn and Bernie, the establishment within Labour and the Democrats fight against them and fight for a return to neoliberalism at the expense of their party and the party's supporters. Instead they use the media (that they control) to continue with the type of truth that existed prior to "Fake News".
It is no wonder Trump found a fertile audience about the lack of truth, and that is because people like this panel and education in general are not desiring a return to truth but a return to neoliberalism. It could be described as a neoliberal snowflake backlash. Instead of this snowflake backlash Fake News should be seen as an opportunity – not for a backlash but for an educational advance. And this advance should take the form of genuine questioning, not questioning that is answered by snowflake liberalism, but a genuine understanding of what is going on. Teachers should not be telling students the opinions to form – which happened all my teaching life. Teachers should teach techniques of discernment, techniques of thinking things through and consequences, teach about the problems of selective research – only choosing websites that agree with you of bipartisanship. Teachers should teach about emotion in politics – news assessment, how propaganda manipulates through emotion, and how to discern between emotional decision-making, rational decision-making and insightful decision-making; being rational is not always appropriate – it is a conditioned position. Teachers should recognise how much they present has its own inherent bias.
Why do I come to school? To learn. To learn what? How to follow one's path, how to become a wage-slave, how to become conditioned, how to be free – what is freedom? Are conspiracy theories fake? For snowflake teachers – not all teachers are snowflakes or liberal, these questions have never been answered by what they taught, and for many students they knew the teachers were lying. And because teachers were lying – for some because the job required it, students sought answers in the wrong place – and became vulnerable to the indoctrination of the bad actors.
To return to a snowflake neoliberal backlash – as what initially appears to be the case in the video LINK – is a lost educational opportunity, but it is unlikely that neoliberal educational establishment would ever accept a genuine enquiry that allowed students to determine answers for themselves. Education should not be about the propagating of any viewpoints but an attempt to educate so that students can form their own opinions in a mature way.
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NCCOR celebrates five years of accelerating progress through childhood obesity research
A growing body of evidence suggests that after 30 years of increases, the prevalence of childhood obesity is finally beginning to decline in some communities across the United States. Most recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a 43 percent drop in the obesity rate over the past decade among children 2–5 years old. This incredible turnaround can be attributed to many factors, including a better understanding of the causes of and solutions for childhood obesity.
2014 marks the fifth year that FHI 360's social marketing and communication team has been at the center of research and evaluation to turn the tide on childhood obesity, most notably through our role as the Coordinating Center for the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR). NCCOR is a groundbreaking public–private partnership between the CDC, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It is the first organization to leverage the intellectual and financial resources of the nation's four largest funders of childhood obesity research in a common mission to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and application of childhood obesity research.
FHI 360 has helped these organizations think strategically, collaborate across agencies and get results. Our innovative approach to this partnership has received significant recognition, including through the inaugural HHSinnovates award, personally chosen by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and the NIH Director's Award.
NCCOR's work includes:
- Creating two free, online research tools — the Catalogue of Surveillance Systems and Measures Registry — that help investigators work more efficiently and effectively.
- Stimulating broad thinking by forming Envision, a global network of statistical and simulation modeling teams that forecast the impact of public health policies and interventions. NCCOR supported a series of Envision papers in The Lancet, a journal on public health. More than 630 media articles were written on the series, sparking debate and discussion among stakeholders.
- Forming a new rapid response funding mechanism through NIH, which significantly reduced grant application times and enhanced researchers' ability to conduct time-sensitive research.
- Helping the USDA to assemble a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) Toolkit of tools and interventions that embody community-based and public health approaches to nutrition education and obesity prevention.
- Assisting prominent NIH scientists in using the Healthy Eating Index to assess the availability of healthy foods in the U.S. food supply and translate those findings into a creative video and infographics.
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Roger Brooking is, as we know, a Labour party operative and stooge who maintained attacks on the previous government unceasingly, and especially rather personal attacks against Judith Collins when she was justice minister.
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Justice minister Andrew Little has been slammed by National leader Simon Bridges and justice advocate Roger Brooking over the Government's upcoming Criminal Justice Summit.
The summit is being held in Porirua next week to "shine a light" on what's happening in courts and prisons, Little has said.
Brooking said while the minister's moves to fix the criminal justice system – including another advisory expert group and the summit – were well-intentioned, Little??had "lost the plot".??
"The real crisis in the justice system is in the rapid rise in the prison population. Mr Little said he wants to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent over the next 15 years. Frankly, that's a ridiculous aspiration without National party collaboration," Brooking said.
With a three-year cycle Labour could be ousted at the next election and Brooking said National party leader Simon Bridges had already signalled he would "reverse pretty much anything Labour does which he regards as soft on crime".
Earlier this year when the prison muster was nearing 11,000 Brooking launched a campaign to reduce the number of inmates in Kiwi jails down to 7000 over six years.? End quote.
Roger Brooking is a crim-hugging womble who thinks cuddles and hugs will reform criminals. But if he is off the reservation then Andrew Little has serious problems. As is typical these days of Labour ministers who cop criticism Little went personal:?Quote:
Responding to the criticism the minister said although Brooking was full of good ideas he had "to work in the real world of trying to achieve long-term change, not sitting in an armchair wanting long-term change tomorrow," Little said.
After 30 years of policy favouring more prison sentences and longer periods served in prison driven by populist demands, the first task was to change the public debate, Little said.
"The purpose of the summit is, for the first time ever, to have a public discussion on what's happening now and what can be done to improve the system. It is about creating an environment in which reform is possible," Little said.? End quote.
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Bridges ?said the summit would be nothing more than a "talkfest" focused on supporting criminals rather than victims.
The agenda read like that of a yoga convention with sessions dubbed "individual reflection" and "hope", Bridges said.
"It will be a complete waste of time and that's because the Government knows exactly what it wants to do in criminal justice. It wants to reduce the prison population by a third, but it doesn't have a plan to reduce crime and nothing on the summit's agenda suggests this is a focus," Bridges said.
Instead the Government was going to soften up bail, parole and sentencing laws to make it easier for criminals to get out of prison early and harder for them to get sent there in the first place.
If the summit was genuinely about looking at ways to reduce crime and improve rehabilitation and reintegration, then National would support those efforts, Bridges said. End quote.
Labour are soft on crime. They want a catch and release justice system. Their actions will get people killed.
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he's not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn't do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
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National Pet Day
Although National Pet day is April 11th, it seems as though every day is pet day in my house!
My precious dog, Chi-Chi, is a part of our family. Not only does she have a bedroom in every room in the house, her wardrobe can out-do any single one of Gucci's latest fashions! Sometimes I carry her around in one of my purses. Hey, she loves to shop!
On National Pet Day, I encourage everyone to spend some extra time with your pet. Whether it be petting your cat, talking to your parrot, or brushing your hamster, give your pet a special treat! Take them out to the park or for a ride in the car! Either way, pets deserve our love and attention.
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Articles on australian coins
This section lists articles on australian coins. You can submit an article by contacting us.
New Zealand 2 cents 1967 Mule with Bahamas Obverse
First New Zealand decimal mule was put in circulation in 1967 and was a two cent coin minted with the obverse of the Bahamian five cent coin. Its reverse featured two kowhai flowers, considered emblematic of New Zealand. The image was designed by Reginald George James Berry, who designed the reverses for all coins introduced that year.
By Lightw4re | Monday, August 3, 2020
New Zealand rarest and most valuable pre-decimal circulating coins
Because we did the Top 10 most valuable and rare pre-decimal australian circulating coins, here's some of the most rarest and most valuable New Zealand pre-decimal circulating coins.
By CAA | Monday, July 13, 2020
Top 10 most known and desirable australian modern errors and varieties
Even if most decimal australian coins aren't worth much, some errors and varieties were discovered over time and are collected by many people, which makes these often rare. Here's the top 8 most known and desirable australian modern errors and varieties sorted by denomination and date.
By CAA | Friday, February 14, 2020
Top 10 most valuable and rare pre-decimal australian circulating coins
Gold and sovereign coins were intentionally excluded from this list since they will have their own top 10. Here's the top 10 most rare and valuable pre-decimal australian circulating coins sorted by denomination and date.
By CAA | Thursday, January 9, 2020
Heaton & Sons Mint, Birmingham, England
Heaton and Sons is one of the longest running and most prolific private mints in the world. The company began as a family business in Birmingham, then a booming metal working centre, pioneering the mass production techniques of the industrial revolution. In 1794 Ralph Heaton I established a brassfounding business in Slaney Street, Birmingham.
By Museums Victoria | Friday, November 15, 2019
Halfpenny 1916 Mule - Rarest and most valuable australian half-penny coin
Considered the rarest and most valuable australian halfpenny, approximatly 10 examples of the 1916 mule are known and all have been pulled from circulation in Australia. While the Calcutta Mint was striking the Indian quarter annas and the Australia half penny 1916 coins, intentionally or not, obverse dies from both coins were paired creating the mule. The finds occurring decades after the original issue are met with skepticism by dealers and collectors across Australia and often assign them as fake.
By CAA | Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The Great Aussie Coin Hunt - A to Z
In a joint effort, the Royal Australian Mint and Australia Post joined to release thousands of $1 coins marked to celebrate iconic things of Australia for each letter in the alphabet. Officially called The Great Aussie Coin Hunt, Nicole Sheffield, Australia Post Executive General Manager Community and Consumer, said a coin hunt is great way to reminisce about life in Australia.
By CAA | Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Decimal 1966 half dollar - The silver 50-cents coin
In 1966, around 36,000,000 fifty cent coins were produced at the Canberra Mint exclusively. The production of this round highest-denomination coin stopped when silver price on the market got up by around 80% in a few months. We know that the mint melted down a large amount of them early in 1966 and still recalled a lot of them each year since for melting/profit purposes.
By CAA | Monday, September 9, 2019
Wildlife designs on the decimal coinage
The idea of a decimal currency system really began in 1958. Prime Minister Robert Menzies was elected promising to investigate its possibilities. New designs were needed for the 1, 2, 5, 10 , 20 and 50 cents denomations. The Governement wanted unique australian themes as well as artistic reverse designs. With the help of a group of selected people, Stuart Devlin was chosen to produce designs based on australian wildlife with big numeral numbers representing the denomination.
By CAA | Thursday, September 5, 2019
The Sheldon scale
The Sheldon scale was first presented in 1949 as a way to grade United States cents, but it was only chose by the American Numismatic Association in the 1970s for all US coins. Used by all third party grading companies, it is a numerical grading system (1 to 70) instead of a word grading system like the adjectival standard system used, for example, by the ANDA.
By CAA | Sunday, August 4, 2019
Defining moments: Decimal currency
The decision to change from the Australian pound (with its awkward shillings and pence) to a decimal currency – the Australian dollar – had been a pragmatic, economic one. Yet decimalisation became an opportunity for Australia to assert itself as an increasingly self-assured and forward-thinking country.
By National Museum Australia | Sunday, November 4, 2018
Defining moments: Holey dollar
The economy of the colony of New South Wales was plagued by a lack of currency during its early years. Governor Lachlan Macquarie attempted to remedy this by importing 40,000 silver Spanish eight-reale pieces.
By National Museum Australia | Sunday, November 4, 2018
Australian coin history - Timeline
Discover some of the most important events of the australian currency history.
By Royal Australian Mint | Thursday, June 1, 2017
Journey to an Australian Currency
Australia has a unique currency history. From the pre-settlement trading practices of our Indigenous population, to the currency chaos of early settlement where coins from all over the world were used to buy and sell goods, to the British Parliament's declaration that only British currency could be used here. It certainly has been an interesting journey.
By Royal Australian Mint | Saturday, February 25, 2017
The Minting Process
Design, dies, blank production, coining circulating coins and collector coins, packaging and delivery. The Minting Process explained by the Royal Australian Mint.
By Royal Australian Mint | Monday, April 11, 2016
Investigating Australian Coins
The Royal Australian Mint is responsible for producing Australia's circulating coins. It is astonishing to think that every single coin, in the pockets and purses of millions of Australians, was made in a quiet Canberra suburb.
By Royal Australian Mint | Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The New Zealand Waitangi Crown of 1935
The crown piece of 1935, popularly known as the Waitangi Crown because of its reverse design and exergue inscription, occupies a special place in the numismatic history of New Zealand. As a work of art, it is surely less startling than the British Silver Jubilee crown of the same year by the same designer, Percy Metcalfe, which depicts a bareheaded St George on a clockwork horse vanquishing a very angular wounded dragon.
By Mark Stocker | Friday, January 1, 2010
Australian reference gets a ninth edition
When I first started to write for The Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine, I asked John Mulhall, the editor, which was the best book to get to learn more about Australian coins. He replied there were several he would recommend. John Mulhall then sent me a complementary copy of The pocket Guide to Australian Coins and Banknotes, which was autographed by the autor.
By George Manz | Tuesday, September 24, 2002


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Pullovers adorned with cute animals will hopefully cheer us up this whole non-Californian winter.
I actually became pretty obsessed with the poodle pattern, but I thought...there's a better option than buying this. So here is what I did :
I still had a yellow pullover left that wasn't as flattering as I had thought while purchasing it...which is why I decided it couldn't get any worse. I therefore got the bleach ready and...
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The project provides a number of scripts to work with the MSP430 embedded processor. Such as up/download firmware with JTAG, BSL or GDB (proxy) as well as working with different formats of binaries (ihex, titext, hexdump, ELF).
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I hope everyone enjoyed a nice long Memorial Day weekend! Our pool plans were cancelled due to all of the rain we received Sunday night throughout Monday. It was still nice to be off work though to honor those who have served our country. Later in the week, I will share what we did during our long weekend off.
Today, its all about hair! I am linking with Erika and Andrea to share my favorite hair products. As you read, you will be able to tell that my hair products are not something that I splurge on. I would much rather spend my money on clothes, food, or shoes rather than expensive hair products. If you can do both though, you go girl!!
During the week, I tend to use my cheaper products so that I can get more use out of the ones that I tend to spend a little more money on.
This shampoo and conditioner do not have the best reviews online but so far, they have worked great for my hair. The combination leaves my hair with texture which makes styling so much easier!
I have used this hair serum on my hair since high school. The smell is my favorite and it calms the frizzy when needed especially during the summer months. A tiny drop is all you need.
I grabbed this dry shampoo a few months back and have since bought several cans. Let's fact it, when you have long, thick hair like I do the last thing you want to do is wash and dry your hair every single day. This spray lets me go every other day without shampooing. Also, I sometimes use it on clean hair too just to add volume.
Hairspray is something that I have a hard time finding. I think I have probably tried every brand at Target and just cant find one that wins the title of my favorite. As of now, I am using this but will probably try something new the next time I need a can. Any suggestions?!
On the weekends or if anything special is going on throughout the week, I will usually use these products instead on the list above. I have a feeling that I may be in the minority of people who do this but I like to save what I feel as better quality products for special occasions or for weekend use. Weird, right?!
This shampoo is not expensive but it is in comparison with the price and amount I get in my other bottle. I do love the smell and how silky my hair feels when using this. I also keep a bottle of this shampoo in our guest bathroom for visitors.
I started visiting a new salon a few months ago. My stylist Jenny recommended this serum in place of the other than I use. She was right. This stuff is a miracle but because of the price, I choose not to use it daily. edit:Surprisingly, I just noticed that I paid more in my salon than amazon has it listed for. This may move up to my daily use!
My mom actually introduced me to the Sebastian dry shampoo. Her stylist gives her a sample each time she visits and she is nice enough to pass them to me. I carry the sample size in my purse for touch ups when I am out. This dry shampoo works the best out of any I have tried but I always have to be careful because it is very white and powdery.
As for hairspray, same old story here. Not completely happy with this and am looking for suggestions!
The last thing left to talk about is the tools I use.
I go through hair dryers like nobody's business. I usually just buy a cheap one and change it out when it starts to smell like I am burning the bathroom down 🙂 I have had this hairdryer since Christmas with no complaints what-so-ever.
The flat iron fad started around the time that Chris and I started dating. For my birthday one year, he surprised me with a CHI. Six years later and it still works just like it did the day I opened it.
As for my curling iron, I use this one. I also own the same iron in a smaller barrel for tighter curls. The iron has 25 heat settings and a 60 second warm up which is great for those days when you just need to touch up!
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Community Members Are Invited to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission
Community Members Are Invited to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission

The city of Phoenix will mark the 30th anniversary of the Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission with a celebration of the arts in downtown Phoenix on Oct. 3. The PHX Arts and Culture @ 30 Years Celebration, will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Phoenix Convention Center, Herberger Theater and on Monroe Street between Second and Third Streets in downtown Phoenix. The multi-site event will feature music, dance and theater performances, talks and art making demonstrations.

"The arts are the living heartbeat of Phoenix, and it's been incredible to watch and help this community grow since the creation of the Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission 30 years ago." Mayor Greg Stanton said. "That is why we tripled funding for the Commission when I took office – creating a strong economy and a vibrant arts community go hand in hand."

In addition to the contributions of the nearly 100 arts and culture organizations, the celebration will also feature downtown public art tours, food trucks and activities for people of all ages. Nominees for the fourth annual Mayor's Arts Awards will be announced from the main stage.

PHX Arts and Culture @ 30 Years is sponsored by the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Reimagine Phoenix, City of Phoenix Water Services Department, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, and the Phoenix Convention Center and Venues.

The Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission was established in 1985 by the mayor and city council to "protect, enhance, serve, and advocate excellence in the arts for the people of Phoenix in their City." Over the past 30 years Phoenix has experienced an exciting proliferation of arts and culture activity. The Phoenix Public Art Program has collaborated with artists and designers to create more than 180 major public art projects throughout the city. The expansion and creation of cultural facilities, such as the Phoenix Art Museum, Children's Museum of Phoenix, Arizona Science Center, Phoenix Theatre, Ballet Arizona, Arizona Opera and Black Theatre Troupe, have dramatically changed the cultural landscape of Phoenix. A 30-year investment in a community grants program has nurtured the development of non-profit arts and culture organizations, which now number over 160 within the Phoenix city limits, and supported delivery of cultural services to Phoenix residents in the form of community outreach and arts learning programming. The non-profit arts and culture sector has become a $300 million economic driver for the city of Phoenix.

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Beltane Blessings All,
I have not written in quite a while about the Sabbat of Beltane, and this time I will delve into some of the little known lore and legend and folk magicks and traditions that many people no longer remember or practice around Beltane. This ancient holiday is also known as May Day and Lady's Day. There are many spring rituals held in many cultures at this time of the year. Some are religious, as when Easter falls late in the calendar and some are just a recognition of winter's end.
After a long, cold, six month dark half of the year we are now ready to welcome in the Summer months, to bring in the abundance, the prosperity, the fertility of creation, action, movement, as well as bringing in strength and optimum health on all planes, emotional, spiritual, energetically as well as physically.
Many people find themselves restless this time of year, it is an inner need to move. We are naturally 'in sync' with the earth's energies and you can research bio rhythms to learn more but be prepared to fall down a rabbit hole for a bit, but it is enough to know, we are in tune with the earth's energy. The energy of the earth, the rocks, the oceans, the sky. This is why when the moon pulls hard on the oceans of the earth, and actually all of the moisture on earth, including every adult humans body's approximately 60% water content is affected in some curious ways. We feel the energy of the earth and we incorporate this energy in our rituals and our worship.
The one very important thing about Pagans is we embrace the fact that we are one with the Mother Earth, that we are part of the wonderful, colorful tapestry woven of the elements, and whereas all of our Sabbats and rituals recognize the elements, one such as Beltane truly celebrates the elements we come from!
Maypole: The May Pole is a very significant part of this early spring, first day of summer celebration. In very ancient times the first May poles were in fact living trees with ribbons or threads, strings, or strips of cloth wrapped around.
At one time, in very ancient pagan times, in Celtic Western Europe it was a folk magickal custom to take scraps of fabric, write upon them wishes or prayers for the Goddess to answer. Many would ask for healing, or for a safe child birth, or for a loved one to come back safely from a war, a serious wish, nothing frivolous. Then the cloth scrap would be tied to the branch of a tree or bush, overhanging a stream or small creek.
The idea of this, is when the piece of fabric, which would have been old, used and worn to begin with, and of course a natural material which would easily and quickly biodegrade, no synthetics back then! , when it had broken down and worn away, the prayer would be answered.
I am not saying that this is the origin of the Maypole but I do see similarities, as both were used on living trees in the most ancient of times, the ribbons of the Maypole did symbolize wishes and were to bring in magickal benefits to the people who danced around the pole, and the village it graced in the center of the village square. And today there are still cultures and religions that take ribbons and do write blessings and prayers on the actual ribbons to be used in ceremony in various ways.
Today it is remembered that the original colors of the Maypole ribbons were alternating red and white. One color goes in one direction and the other color goes in the other direction. Many today have all sorts of pretty colors. Our Maypole, we use many colors, except for black. That is for the dark half of the year.
It is important to point out that the Celts originated in Eastern Europe near Russia and slowly migrated west until they ended in Great Britain in Eastern Europe simply because they couldn't go any further and they were not a seafaring race. In ancient Celtic Europe in many villages and towns where they celebrated Beltane, which comes from the Gaelic bealltainn, 15th century, meaning "bright fire" or "blazing fire" villagers would erect a great Maypole, many feet tall, and several feet thick. Beltane would start on the eve of May 1st, on April 30th and it would last that first evening, all the next day and through the next evening.
At many Sabbat, white steer, or bulls would be driven through smoky flaming bon fires to 'purify' the animals, which today scientists say actually did sanitize the animals ridding them of vermin, pests and disease on their hides before slaughter, making them safer to consume.
The villagers would eat the meat, and many times it would be the only meat consumed except for another 3 times that year during the greater Sabbats.
The Maypole would stay erected and adorned with ribbons until Samhain, when ribbons would be removed and replaced with black, silver or grey and purple ribbons to honor the crone. At the beginning on August, before the first harvest someone would climb a ladder and nail a glove used in the field at the top of the pole. To honor the first harvest and the work it took t get to this place. The glove stays there until the pole comes down.
At Yule, the Maypole comes down and is decorated with greenery and placed in a large fire pit, many times just and end and it is fed into the fire as it burns and this is the famed Yule log. Everyone from the village would come and take a piece of the log to bring home to kindle their home fries from the magickal town fire which kept everyone connected together to one another.
Flowers are also a very big part of the Beltane celebration. Fresh flowers calling out clear and loud summer is here and winter has left us. Flowers are an attachment of the faerie association of Beltane season. For this, more so than any other Sabbat is truly the faerie Sabbat. I was as young as three and out in the yard picking tiny dandelions, violets and whatever I could find blossoming in the grass for a basket to place on the doorstep and then ring the bell or knock on the door and run and hide so my mother would come and find the gift from the 'faeries' on May Day!
You can get garlands of artificial flowers and strands of flowers with pipe cleaners, which are prettier and softer to tie them with and ribbons to drape down the back and wear them as a crown for the festivities and the ritual. Even the Maypole can be adorned with circlets of flowers.
This is always done on May Day, no matter what day of the week it falls on, and it does not matter if it is early in the day or later in the evening, it is still appropriate.
Another thing that can be done on Beltane morning is to go out, first thing, preferably when the sun is rising, and lay a towel out of the grass and then take a tiny vial and place it close to dew laden blades of clean grass and with a finger tip, gently tap each drop into the vial. With each one you can say a quiet thank you. When you have a good amount of dew collected, cap tightly. This can be used for love potions and ointments to keep your skin looking youthful and refreshed.
May Wine:
One of the more popular drinks at a Beltane Sabbat is May wine and it is not made from wine necessarily, it can be made from sparkling juice. The key is to put a small sprig of sweet woodruff in each cup and a slice or two of strawberry, fresh strawberry. Strawberry is a very big item for this Sabbat. If you use sparkling grape juice that you can buy at your food market, it is good for young people and anyone who chooses to abstain from alcohol. I prefer the sparkling juice as it is lighter and more refreshing and this way I can stay up and focused for all the festivities. Much more fun!
The Great Rite or The Great Marriage:
Beltane is also the Sabbat where the Goddess and God are reputed to 'get married' to use a euphemism for more delicate sensibilities and their union is one that is believed necessary to fertilize the earth so that all can blossom and flourish and grow and become stronger so that in six weeks, come the Summer Solstice, Litha, the first harvest, which is the harvest of medicinal and magickal herbs, all of those plants are considered at their peek of magickal strength.
The night of the 29th is a full moon, which falling right before Beltane, 2 days before, allows for one to sweep clean the darkness and to clear out any last vestiges of winter scraps. Light a candle, a new, brand new candle. A color which brings you happiness. Any color you like. A pink, or red, or yellow, or green, or blue or purple any color that brings joy and happiness and excitement and reminds you of summer!
Light the candles, play happy music, fill up your kitchen with fresh fruit, feasting on fresh baked breads, spring chicken, spring herbs, pasta primavera with light cheeses and green salads, fruit salads, cheeses and crackers, flavored waters and sparkling juices are all good feast choices.
Any dessert choices keep light and fruit based, such as fruit pies, fruit sherbets, lemon puddings, even resurrecting fruit Jell-O parfaits with whipped cream is fun, pretty, festive and light. That's the whole idea. To dance the May pole, skip hop scotch, visit, socialize, walk the gardens and enjoy the outdoors you don't want to be weighed down with heavy carbs.
Bon Fire:
I will finish up this discussion with the concept of the Beltane fires. In ancient times it was reputed that fires all along the tribes and villages would be extinguished and everyone would be forced to trust in that the next morning the Beltane fires would be kindled and a new fire would be started in your homes hearth from the bigger fires with flaming brands taken from the main Beltane fires. At a time when one did not have matches or lighters and fires were started with supplies a bit more tricky to use one needed to trust that there was going to be a fire that next morning. For to have lost the fire,would mean an end to your civilization. No warm or cooked food, which would mean an increase in disease and illness, no warmth, no safety where fire could keep away dangerous predators. Now of course, one needs to consider the time frame I may be writing about.
I tend to write often about a time when the ancient Celts lived in small stockade fence surrounded enclosure with a round house, maybe just one or two. Their entire community may have been made up of 5 to 20 of these enclosures. This would consist of their tribe and other Celtic tribes would dot the landscape all over Europe as they migrated West.
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Japan's Political Transition, Nationalist Politics, and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
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Japanese politics have been in transition since electoral reforms in the early 1990s prompted a broad political realignment. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan rose to challenge Japan's traditionally dominant conservative party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and unseated it briefly in 1993 and again in 2009. Today, the LDP is back in power, and voters are tired of successive governments that have failed to address the nation's challenges. This new political reality has immediate implications for the United States. The staying power of Japanese governments is far less predictable, and relations with its leaders far more difficult to sustain. Moreover, the Japanese public is increasingly sensitive to Washington's policy choices in Northeast Asia as China and South Korea continue to challenge their postwar settlements with Japan and the interpretation of the history of twentieth century Asia. In Japan's Political Transition and the U.S.-Japan Alliance, I argue that it is time for U.S. policymakers to abandon old alliance habits based on assumptions of single-party dominance and embrace a strategy for alliance management that addresses the concerns of a more anxious public. Over the next several years, my new project on Nationalist Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance, which includes the Roundtable Series on Japan, will explore how the United States can help reduce the tensions between Japan and its neighbors caused by the resurgence of nationalism in Northeast Asia.
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What may seem as a minor error, did not go unnoticed by many netizens. It was in fact called out by many users. Netizens were quick to point out the mistake in the post and followers responded to the post with sarcasm and mockery. Here are some comments we saw:
A quick check by A+M revealed that the post has been since pulled down.
This is not the first time the airline has gotten unwanted attention for its campaign. In 2014, Malaysia Airlines had to apologise for launching a promotional campaign called "My ultimate bucket list" where it asked consumers to name travel destinations that were on their list. The promotion came shortly after two of its aviation tragedies.


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Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins claimed the United States' first-ever Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing after winning a thrilling women's team sprint freestyle event at Pyeongchang 2018.
The duo combined to complete the 1,176 metres long track in a time of 15min 56.47sec at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre.
Nearest challengers Charlotte Kalla and Stina Nilsson of Sweden finished 0.19 seconds behind.
Norway's Marit Bjørgen and Maiken Caspersen Falla were 2.97 seconds off the pace in third.
It meant Bjørgen became the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time with her 14th medal.
Diggins sealed America's victory after holding off the challenge of Nilsson, the individual sprint gold medallist, in a frantic race for the line.
"In the final stretch I was just thinking, 'go, go, go - I'm giving it everything I had and I've got someone who I really love and care about waiting for me at the finishing line and I just want to make her proud'," Diggins said.
"Just believing that we had what it took the entire day."
Randall, 35,competing at her fifth Olympics, added: "Hearing it out loud, it still doesn't feel real.
"It's what I've been working on for 20 years and with this team for the last five years.
"Wow, it's just so fun to put it together tonight, finally."
Diggins and Randall won the gold medal in this event at the 2013 World Championships, becoming the first Americans to do so.
The only other Olympic cross-country medal won by the US came at the Innsbruck 1976 Games, where Bill Koch claimed silver in the men's 30 kilometres event.
Bjørgen's third-place finish broke a tie with Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen for the most Winter Olympic medals.
"It's hard to understand, actually," Bjørgen, a medallist in all four events she has contested at Pyeongchang 2018, said.
"When you're still an athlete you just have focus on other races.
"I think I'll need to have time to myself and look behind me and look how I've been able to do this.
"It's still hard to understand it when I'm standing here."
Falla claimed it was her childhood dream to race in the same team as Bjørgen.
"I watched her on TV as a young girl and I wanted to ski as fast as her," she added.
"Now I finally got to ski on the same team as her in the Olympics as she is becoming the most-successful Winter Olympian.
"It's very big for me to be in the same team as this fabulous woman."
In the equivalent men's event, Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo came out on top in 15:56.26.
Olympic Athlete from Russia's Denis Spitsov and Alexander Bolshunov finished second in 15:57.97.
Rounding out the podium were France's Maurice Manificat and Richard Jouve in 15:58.28.
Norway's victory secured a third gold medal of Pyeongchang 2018 for Klaebo, who also tasted victory in the sprint classic and 4x10km relay.
"It is an incredible feeling to finish first here," Klæbo said.
"Both of us have been very nervous today and I did not sleep good today also."
Sundby, part of Norway's 4x10km relay team and was the silver medallist in the 15km + 15km skiathlon here, claimed his team-mate inspired him.
"He has come in last season and in this season, he is maybe showing us how modern cross-country skiing should be," he added.
"He is a talent everybody looks up to at moment, but he is only 21-years-old, so I hope I have one piece of advice or two to give him in the next few years.
"But for sure he has taken cross-country skiing to another level."
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Hello! It has been a while since I've graced the book blogging community with a new post, but classes are suspended here in my place and I actually have free time to write.
So, to mark my short appearance here, I decided to do a tag — a fun and rousing game of Unpopular Opinions. Nobody tagged me for this one but after seeing Solomon over at The Bookish King do this tag, I thought why not? Click here to see his answers!
In the game of Unpopular Opinions, no character, no author is spared from the judgment of Miguel…
(I should also warn you that there are some spoilers in these answers. Thread carefully, my friend.)
I'll admit I enjoy quite a few of the popular YA novels and series, but if there's one that didn't click with me it's got to be Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. I remember reading it and not connecting with the characters or being driven by the story even until the cliffhanger end. The first book bored me so much I didn't bother reading the rest. No h8 tho.
I know a many readers that cannot tolerate The Selection series by Kiera Cass, and I'm here like but this is a really entertaining series. For all its flaws and fails, this series reminded me why I fell in love with YA in the first place, and harkens so much to those good 'ole days wherein I'd read a book all day long.
There's only ever been one answer for me here. I know these characters are already living in quiet peace away from the antagonists of their world. But damn if I didn't like the Alina and Malyen (Malina in Tumblrspeak) ship or Titanic or whatever. I don't necessarily hate this pairing??? But it's not my fave either. I mean, come on. If you've read the Grisha, you know what I'm talking about. *silently fumes in corner*
I think every genre is a popular genre though? But anyway, I rarely every reach for/search for a High Fantasy adult novel. I have A Game of Thrones in my shelf though, but after reading a few chapters, I prefer my YA Fantasy a lot more. There's just something about the George R.R. Martins and the Brandon Sandersons that intimidate the heck out of me. That's why I stay away from their lane. No h8 once again.
I might get shot in the foot for this one but I have to say Dorian from the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Before ya'll go and throw your rotten tomatoes at me, my dislike for his character doesn't run that deep. I mean, I'm still in the third book of the series (also, don't judge me for my slow pacing lolz). But…yeah not the biggest fan of His Highness.
The list goes on and on but I'd go with Jennifer Niven. Never read any of her books, and not planning anytime soon. It's nothing personal — I just think her stories are not for this reader.
After reading the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, I think I've had enough of the Heroine Falls in Love with Mysterious Villain but is Actually an Anti-Hero trope in YA. It's entertaining as heck, yes, but a few books and series have gone by and…man I keep seeing this everywhere. Surprise me please.
I'll never forget the day I watched The Fault in Our Stars in its premiere week, and I remember falling in love with the film — its actors, cinematography, music. And I think it's even more sincere and heartfelt than the original source material.
And that concludes this rousing round of A Game of Unpopular Opinions. Let me know down below if you agree with my picks, and share some of your unpopular opinions. Until next time, quirks!