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Easy Guitar Tabs For Beginners
Those who are first trying their hand at the guitar might be interested in checking out some easy guitar tabs for beginners. Easy guitar tabs help the beginner to begin learning how to read simple guitar tabs, and also help them move on up to reading intermediate guitar tabs. If you're looking for easy guitar tabs that aren't too painful to read, then these are the ones for you.
- Green Day's "Good Riddance" is probably one of the easiest guitar tabs for beginners to start out with. One of the main reasons many beginners tend to find this song so easy to learn is because of its use of only a few chords. In this song, you will only need to know four chords, and those are G, C, E minor, and D. The chords are played in the same order throughout most of the song, so the tab is most useful for helping you learn to transition easily between chords. If you want a bit of added difficulty, you can try to master the picking in the beginning.
- "Wild Thing" by the Troggs makes use of power chords in a very big way. So, you've mastered the basic chords, and you want to move onto power chords. "Wild Thing" will give you a crash course in this. In "Wild Thing" you can practice with sliding up the neck of the guitar while playing power chords, and even get a break in the calm parts of the songs for re-adjusting your fingers.
- Try Oasis's "Wonderwall" for an easy tab and fun sing-alongs. "Wonderwall" is great for beginners because it is a very well-known song, and it's extremely easy to play. It can be played with or without a capo, and you can add in greater difficulty by attempting the picking parts. Either way, your friends will enjoy that it's one of the guitar tabs you decided to learn and can play it for them!
- "Old Man" by Neil Young is a great song to play once you've mastered the previous three. "Old Man" introduces new chords that are surprisingly not hard to play in the least. You can practice with playing groups of chords for verses, and then transitioning to a new group of chords for the chorus lines. If you want to mimic the song more, you can practice with hammer-ons and pull-offs with this song.
- Lastly, try "Blackbird" by the Beatles if you're a daring beginner. One of the greatest things about "Blackbird" by the Beatles is that it looks like a hard song to play at first but is actually extremely easy. Your friends and family will be impressed once you master it and are able to play it for them. This song may take awhile to learn because of constant picking, but the notes are all quite close together. Once you've got it memorized, you'll slide through all of the notes and have your friends singing in no time.
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The analysts forecast smartwatch market in Japan to grow at a CAGR of 120.60% in terms of revenue during 2014-2019.
The report, Smartwatch Market in Japan 2015-2019, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the landscape of Smartwatch Market in Japan and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
Smartwatches are computerized watches integrated with enhanced functionalities such as ability to make calls, send messages, and browse the Internet. These watches are integrated with an OS that can be used across multiple devices. Technological developments in the smartwatch market has enabled ongoing innovations with vendors introducing new features in their products. For example, Motorola introduced hands-free and voice command-enabled smartwatches in 2014. Such advances in technology have increased the number of applications in smartwatches. Though the market did not grow as expected during 2010-2013, the market landscape will change significantly by 2015, presenting high growth. Regular improvements in design (for some vendors it is a 1-month cycle), shift from hardware to software, MNCs acquiring start-ups, and steady growth in smartwatches, sport watches, and fitness trackers are some factors accelerating the market growth.Covered in this Report
This report covers the present and future scenarios of the smartwatch market in Japan for 2015-2019. To calculate the market size, the report considers revenue generated from the sales of smartwatches from various vendors. Smartwatches considered in this report include those that can perform the following functions:
- Make and receive calls or receive notifications regarding the same
- Send and receive text messages or receive notifications regarding the same
- Display time and date
Key Vendors
- Casio Computer
- Citizen
- Samsung Electronics
- Sony
Other Prominent Vendors
- Nintendo
- Toshiba
Key Market Driver
- Increased Adoption of Connected Services
Key Market Challenge
- High Price
Key Market Trend
- Design Enhancement
Key Questions Answered in this Report
- What will the market size be in 2019 and what will the growth rate be?
- What are the key market trends?
- What is driving this market?
- What are the challenges to market growth?
- Who are the key vendors in this market space?
- What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the key vendors?
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These gifts for the hiker are perfect for those who prefer to spend their time in the great outdoors. Hiking is not only a great form of exercise, but it can also provide an escape from the stress of daily life. These hiker-friendly gift ideas are perfect for helping someone get outside and experience what nature has to offer.
For the tech-oriented hiker on your list, you might want to opt for a device that makes it easier to stay connected. Although hiking provides a reprieve from modern technology, it is a good idea to maintain some contact with friends and family. Some high-tech hiking gifts include solar-powered backpacks, walkie-talkie flashlights and emergency wilderness chargers.
If you're looking for a more simplistic present, there are a number of gifts for hikers that cater to avid outdoorsmen. These gifts include comfort-focused hiking apparel, collapsible water bottles and adventure-logging notebooks. These low-tech gifts provide a simple way for individuals to enjoy their next outdoor adventure.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Dewey's 24 hour readathon
October 22nd is the date of the next bi-annual Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon. I just recently found out that this exists, and it made me indescribably happy.
Basically, it means spending as much time as possible reading during a set 24 hour period. Here in Winnipeg it starts on the 22nd at 7:00am. The website has a list of all the start times based on your location.
For those of you who are annoyed by this off-topic post, I promise that this is one of only two such posts that will occur around this event. When the challenge begins, I'll write another post, which I will just update (probably hourly) throughout the day, so I won't be flooding your feed reader or anything.
I hope that some of you will join me in this exciting challenge! Let me know if you plan to, and we can watch each other's updates and cheer each other on!
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Gifts of Hope Kick-Off
For many Arizonans, despite difficult financial times, the best way to celebrate the holidays includes supporting children and families in their community who are in need. Over the years, donors from across the state have participated in the annual Arizona's Children Association "Gifts of Hope" program.
Arizona's Children Association invites you to bring your organization, office or family together to celebrate the holidays with a "Gift of Hope" for children and families who need your help. Our 'needs' list is long and includes the wishes of children from birth to 18 years, and requests from their parents for groceries and grocery gift certificates.
The families we work with do not receive any other help during the holiday season. Individuals, groups and families are needed to participate and bring hope to the vulnerable children and families we serve.
There are two ways to give:
~ Sponsor a child, multiple children or an entire family. Purchase groceries or grocery store gift certificates and grant the gift wishes of the child(ren).
~ Conduct a toy drive. Collect toys and items for children and we'll pick them up and distribute them to the children and families we serve. Toys are needed for children of all ages.
To give a "Gift of Hope" this holiday season, visit www.arizonaschildren.org/giftsofhope
or call 800.944.7611 ext. 2111.
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In the Loop
- 2009
- 1h 45min
- 15
- Directed by: Armando Iannucci
- Written by: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, Ian Martin (additional material)
- Cast: Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, Gina McKee, Steve Coogan, David Rasche
- Website: www.intheloopmovie.co.uk
When the US president and UK prime minister tout the desire for more war to quell insurrection their underlings and civil servants go into overdrive on aggression, appeasement and foggy communication in this hilarious addition to that much neglected genre of apocalyptic satire. Foul-mouthed to the point of Tourette's, In the Loop is a celebration of irreverence and a very absurd and peculiar type of tomfoolery.
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text: A TF reviewer on Youtube (ilovemess) sings in a band called The Maximals. He started featuring some of their music at the start of his videos. And I actually found them to be pretty good. I told him I'd kinda help spread them around a bit, and I figured hey why not make mention on TFW. http://www.themaximals.com Have been listening to the songs they have on their site a bit. I think the first two on the playlist (For God Sake Jane and Got to Get Out More) are their best. Just wondering your thoughts on them.


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By Nilusha Goonetilleke -
We think we are highly civilized and that we respect others. We don't let down others' self-esteem, but what about the dignity and self-esteem of patients with mental illnesses? Are we giving respect and dignity for the people who deserve it the most?
Many people with mental health problems are challenged in two ways. On one hand, they fight with the symptoms and adversities that result from the illness. On the other, they are discriminated by the stereotypes and prejudice that in a consequence of misconceptions about mental disorders. As an end result, people with mental illness are taken away from the opportunities for a quality life. They are deprived of self esteem, good jobs, safe housing, satisfactory health care and association with a diverse group of people. There is no age limit, social class or level of education when they are facing discrimination.
The collision of stigma is twin; self-stigma is the prejudice which people with mental illness turn against them. If you are an observer you may notice that most of the patients with mental illness do not willingly disclose their status. They do not even like to sit in a psychiatrist channeling room, when they come to seek treatment. Most patients sit in front of some other doctor's channeling room and when their number is called, quickly go in to the psychiatrist's room. Research suggests self-stigma and fear of rejection by others lead to many persons not pursuing life opportunities for themselves.
Public stigma is the reaction that the general population has to people with mental illness. People tend to say 'all persons with mental illness are violent!' and create negative emotional reactions as a result of the view, 'They all scare me!'
Fear of general public leads to avoidance; for instance, employers do not want persons with mental illness nearby so they do not hire them, patients with psychiatric illnesses can't get married and ordinary children are mostly not allowed to mingle with mentally-ill children.
Stigmas about mental illness seem to be widely endorsed by the general public in Sri Lanka. They have stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness. Moreover, stigmatizing views about mental illness are not limited to uninformed members of the general public; even well-trained professionals from most mental health disciplines subscribe to stereotypes about mental illness.
There are some misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes mostly developed through media, especially from films and print. They have portrayed that people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared, they have childlike perceptions of the world that should be marveled and need to be taken care of (benevolence) or they are responsible for their illness because they have weak character which is clearly not true. Persons with severe mental illness are also depicted as irresponsible and that life decisions should be made by others.
Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness.
Change strategies for public stigma need to be taken. There is a need to educate people about mental illness and apply them.
Groups protest on erroneous and hostile representations of mental illness as a method to confront the stigmas they represent. These efforts send two messages. To the media: STOP reporting inaccurate representations of mental illness. To the public: STOP believing negative views about mental illness. Education provides information so that the public can make more informed decisions about mental illness.
We think people are aware of mental health issues and illnesses yet how correct are we? The theme for this year's World Mental Health Day observed on October10, is 'Dignity in mental health'. People suffer and live with mental illness and it is not because of their fault or weakness, curse on them by someone else or due to past karma but because they are simply human beings just as the rest of the people who suffer from any other physical illness. Just because you can't see a bandage doesn't mean they deserve any less care and kindness. As a human being it is your responsibility to treat people with mental health problems with dignity and respect because they deserve to be receive the same respect and kindness as you would want in life.
The writer practices as a counselor at Psychology Life Center at Kohuwala
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that
"All human beings are born equal in dignity and in rights."
The Preamble of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that
"… discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person." -World Health Organization


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In this article, I'd like to write on something that I'm very excited about: dividend stock investing. Dividend stocks make up the majority of my portfolio because I am a long-term investor. I recently wrote an article that lists four dividend stocks (link at bottom), which all offer over 5% interest yield. In this article, with the exclusion of the 5% yield, I would like to add three stocks to that list. With the growing demand of dividend stocks in investors' portfolios, I find these lists to be helpful to those who don't have time to do the extensive research themselves. First, I'd like to offer some insight explaining why I believe dividend investing can be a highly lucrative and secure way to invest in a mercurial market.
Investing for the Long Term:
Source: Blackrock Chart of the Week
The chart above displays a timely example of how lucrative and safe dividend investing can actually be. This chart was based on a study of the bull, bear and overall market from 1/31/72 to 12/31/11, and dictates that a portfolio heavily invested in good dividend stocks averaged a better return in all situations. According to Blackrock, "A 'Société Générale study found dividend growth was the single-largest contributor to nominal returns across key developed markets over the past 40 years, providing more return than valuation moves." Also, over the past 10 U.S. bull markets, dividend payers afforded investors an average of over 3% more per year. Usually, a dividend investment portfolio will lag behind the short-term spikes associated in the overall market, but over the long term, Mr. Market seems to reward those companies that are fundamentally sound with less volatility through tough times.
Source: PIMCO Retirement Solution
This chart speaks volumes about the capacity in which our market has been dependent on the returns of dividends. Since 1931, the total return from dividends average around 42%, making dividends a critical component of revenues. According to research by PIMCO, dividend investing provides solutions to three of the biggest risks that equity investors face planning for retirement: Scare return, capital loss, and the corrosive effect of inflation. This chart substantiates that allocating your assets in dividends for retirement planning is, historically, a proven method.
Source: PIMCO Retirement Solution
The last point I'd like to address before revealing the list is the growth potential in dividends. As the chart states, in 1970, the S&P 500's average share price was $92.06, offering a 3.13% yield on cost. Over the next 40 years, both the S&P 500 average price per share and yield on the original cost grew significantly to 23.49%. Over this period of time, inflation grew at a yearly rate of 4%, while the dividend growth grew at 5%. One of the biggest issues that dividends can mitigate is inflation. The best way to preserve your purchasing power is by investing in something that has historically outpaced inflation.
In the article, I wanted to bring a new perspective to my criteria that I didn't include in my last. As we are dividend investors, we are investing in a company long term, therefore, we are looking for a company that has good growth potential and can "stick it out" through most economical cycles. I want companies that will sell their products through any bear market. We can call these stocks recession proof, if you may. All three of the companies that I have chosen for my selection have had their fair share of bull and bear markets, and possess real sustainability in our economy. Let's take a look at these companies:
Two of the biggest, most debated stocks in telecom investing are AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ). Overall, both of these companies have tremendous growth potential and yes, the town is big enough for the two of them. Neither of these companies is going anywhere and honestly, I think that investors that like to argue about which company is better aren't seeing the big picture. It's almost like trying to argue that the NFL possesses more sustainability and potential market growth than MLB. Both companies will continue to be profitable, and both will continue to be powerhouses of the telecom industry. That being said, they both offer good yields with great profits, so what's holding you back from investing in both? There aren't rules that subject you to one company in a sector. But for simplicity's sake, we'll stick to AT&T for now. A reason I like AT&T is because its profit per customer is so high in comparison to other companies in its industry. From October-December 2012, around 60% of iPhone users paid more than $100 a month on their wireless plan, with 10% paying over $200 per month. Only 6% of their customers paid under $50 a month. For Android users, around 57% paid over $100 per month, and 7% over $200. Simply stated, people don't pay more for products when they are cheaper elsewhere. According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, AT&T scored a 69 out of 100, a 5% increase from the prior year. Since 2009, Verizon has decreased from 74% to a current 70%. Sprint is on top with a 71%. No doubt, Apple's iPhone customer satisfaction of 83% has a lot to do with this. Yesterday, the stock closed at $34.79. According to CNNMoney, the forecast high is $42.00, with a median of $36.50 and a low of $31.10.
Since I am a DG investor, AT&T has an automatic appeal to me. Prestigious presence in the industry and in the world, a 5.17% dividend yield (highest in the DOW), 29 years of increasing payouts, 5.4% Q4 revenue growth compared to Q4 2011, and many more technical things, but one of the biggest appeals that AT&T has is its passion for innovation. AT&T claims that it revolutionizes products based on the evolution of society, and is always thinking about what's next in terms of customer demands. For example, AT&T's U-Verse: The industry's first integrated wireless receiver, which is currently receiving over $9.5 billion in annual revenue stream. From 100k customers in 2007 to 4.3 million in 2012, and around 198,000 TV subscribers, AT&T's U-Verse is the nations fastest-growing TV provider in the nation. Second place goes to Verizon FiOS at 119,000, adding more justification to own both stocks.
Therefore, the case for this dividend stock is not just in its growth in selling cell phones and tablets, but its growth in its other innovations such as U-Verse. With AT&T's current dividend yield of 5.17.%, history of dividend growth, and a great payout consistency, you can assure yourself of timely and lucrative dividend payments to supplement your portfolio.
2) Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) is not only a great prospective dividend stock, but also a great company. Kimberly-Clark is a personal care product company specializing in four global businesses: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, Health Care and K-C Professional and other. For long-term investments, current technical analysis may be considered useless, so I want to hit directly on the strong fundamentals on this great company. Let's list some statistics:
- 58,000 employees in 36 countries
- Brands sold in over 175 countries (with #1 or #2 in brand share in over 80)
- $21.1 billion in sales for 2012
- DJSWI first place in personal care for 5 straight years (2005-2009)
- 140 years in business
Not all of us have heard of Kimberly-Clark, but we most certainly have heard of its leading brand names, such as:
- Kleenex: $1 billion business
- Huggies: $4.7 billion business
- Scott: $2 billion in annual sales
- Pull-ups: Leading brand in a $2 billion global market
Now, I don't want to bore you with too many straightforward facts, but I'd like to appeal to the investors who'd like to know this as a part of their own fundamental analysis. Anyone who doesn't care for the statistics of the balance sheet can scroll down past it. 2012 was a strong year for Kimberly-Clark.
- Full-year 2012 sales reported $21.1 billion up 1%
- 5% Organic growth sales
- 9% increase in K-C international
- Q4 Adjusted earnings was $1.37 compared to $1.28 the prior year
- Cost for key materials down 15%
- YTD operating profit increased 10%
- Cash provided by Q4 was at an all-time high of $1,119 million, which is an increase of 116% to the year prior
- 38.20% gross profit margin
I want to provide these facts for fundamental reasons. The company is looking stronger year-over-year, but besides the facts, my biggest reason for choosing this stock is because of how critical it is to our economy. No matter how bad our economy gets, people will still need Kleenex. Of course, there are other companies similar to this, such as Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), and just like those companies, this is a business for society. Both nationally and globally, its products are deemed a necessity, and that's why I call it a recession-proof stock. While there are concerns about KMB's presence in the European market, it is reorganizing and re-marketing a better strategy to mitigate this situation. That's another reason this company makes it on this list. Good management. The management is smart enough to cut their losses in Europe and restructure for a different approach. After 140 years of bull markets, bear markets, and every other market in existence, KMB stands tall as one of the must-have dividend growth investments.
As I said, there are other companies similar to KMB, but I feel as though this one provides the best dividend stability. Yesterday, the stock peaked at its 52 week high at $89.60 with a 25% gain over the year, and a dividend yield of 3.31%. For 78 years, it has paid a dividend, and increased it for the last 40 years. Since 2003, KMB's price per share has increased 88%, which is great numbers for a dividend stock. Also, the company expects to increase its dividend in April 2013, representing the 41st annual increase. In addition to that, a stock repurchase of $1.0 to $1.2 billion is anticipated in 2013.
3) Walgreens
Walgreens (WAG) is the nation's largest retail drugstore with 8,516 stores positioned in convenient locations with more 24-hour and drive-thru pharmacies than any other national chain. With a 2.75% yield and 37 years of annual dividend increases, WAG deserves a top spot in any dividend investment portfolio. As you may know, WAG was having some payment issues with a very important business proxy, Express Scripts (NASDAQ:ESRX). When the two businesses cut ties, WAG's customer base diminished as a result. Now that the two businesses have set aside their differences, in July, the two companies reinstated a multi-year contract and on September 15, WAG began getting return customers at a rapid pace, picking back up where it left off. Let's look over some 2012 milestones:
- Net sales of $71.6 billion with earnings of $2.1 billion
- $1.2 billion in share repurchases
- $787 million in dividend payments
- Acquired 45% stake in Alliance Boots
- Introduced Balance Reward Program, which 45 million customers have already signed up for
The most powerful accelerant of all Walgreens' growth strategies was the partnership with Alliance Boots. This partnership will spawn the world's first pharmacy-led health and well being enterprise. Personally, this is what I believe will help Walgreens experience explosive growth. Not only am I advising this to be a great dividend stock at a 2.75% yield, but of the three stocks discussed, I feel this stock will offer the most share price appreciation. And it has everything to do with the strategic partnership with Alliance Boots. Together, Walgreens and Alliance Boots have the largest pharmaceutical wholesale and distribution network in the world, with more than 370 distribution centers delivering to more than 170,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals in 21 countries. This acquisition also results in the world's largest single purchaser of prescription drugs, and one of the largest global buyers of health, beauty and other products. This acquisition is critical to a strong position in Europe and growth in key emerging markets. Together, the companies will have more than 350,000 employees and over $100 billion in revenues in 26 countries.
Here, you can see how strong of an acquisition Walgreens has made, exposing it to a massive market in Europe. Over the next three years, WAG has the option to purchase the other 55% of Alliance Boots. This is Walgreens' ticket to international expansion. As you can see, Boots has a strong presence in the European market. WAG will soon gain exposure to this same market, resulting in substantially increased profits. In your next few stops at Walgreens, be aware of the new product brands from this company.
In 2007, WAG's primary focus on growth was in the expansion of its drugstore count. So much that, on average, every 17 hours, a new ribbon was cut. While still focusing on growth in stores, Walgreens' primary focus is currently on the expansion and growth in different markets and planning new ways to reach the demands of its customers. Alliance Boots is a pivotal part of this equation.
Recently, WAG declared a regular quarterly dividend of 27.5 cents per share, a 22.2% dividend increase from the prior year. On record, Walgreens has consistently paid a dividend for an astonishing 321 straight quarters (over 80 years), and has increased its dividend 37 years in a row. Over the last five years, Walgreens' annual dividend rate has increased from 38 cents per share to $1.10 per share, resulting in a compound annual growth rate of nearly 24 percent. And that is the sign of a great investment.
If you would like to see the other four dividend stocks that I have selected, you can find them here.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Teri - posted on 09/09/2009 ( 23 moms have responded )
Is it me ,am I the only one? It seems like only yesterday when they were playing on the swing set or making a pretend meal for me to eat (with pleasure). I feel like I'm the only mom who wishes their children were still bright eyed & innocent. I know pre-teens & teenagers are not easy by any stretch of the imagination but who are these strangers & what did they do with my babies ???
Is it just me; does anyone else ever feel this way ? I hope I'm not alone !
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Audrey E. (Pierce) Hume
b. May 27, 1909, Rhyolite, Nev.
d. Aug. 31, 1981, Prescott, Az.
s/o John Laurence Hume
d/o Charles Walter & Stella (Hensley) Pierce
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Arrived Kirkland, Az. Territory 1911 with parents. Buried between her parents.
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Assembly Member Mary Hayashi
Letters to the Assembly Member:
Assembly Member Mary Hayashi 22320 Foothill Boulevard Suite 540 Hayward, CA 94541 Subject: CARB Dear Assembly Member Hayashi My name is Richard Mitobe and I am a citizen concerned with the rogue state agency known as the California Air Resources Board. While I may not be of age to vote, I will be in a few more months. KILLCARB.ORG is a website made popular by Dr. Bill Wattenburg on his radio program heard Saturday and Sunday from 10pm to 1 am on KGO in San Francisco. Dr. Wattenburg is asking his listeners to contact their representatives and demand legislation to put an end to the California Air Resources Board. This web site will track progress and publish the replies that come back from Senators and Assembly Members. You are my Representative and I want the Board abolished. Considering the number of blunders CARB has made over the years, which include but aren't limited to the MTBE scandal, which cost California taxpayers millions of dollars, but also that of Hien Tran, a fraudulent scientist who formed the results of "testing" he compiled on the results of diesel exhaust emissions and other "harmful" toxins. These two blunders alone, which have and will cost taxpayers (i.e. voters) BILLIONS of dollars and create unnecessary expenses for the state of California, force engine makers to create less fuel efficient diesel engines, and put the economy into a worse condition then it is in presently. One of the laws currently in effect from what I understand, AB 32, is causing many truckers, construction companies, and virtually anyone who is associated in some way with a diesel engine, which is everyone, yourself included, to be hurt in some way by this useless law. Many industries will be severely hindered by the costs of retrofitting older models or buying new diesel engines. While a good amount of effort has been made so far, we cannot stop until CARB and AB 32 is abolished. This letter and your response, if any is provided, will be posted on KILLCARB.ORG, where voters will see this and know that silence or negativity towards our movement will not be supported at election time. Should you decide to support our efforts, anyone who reads this and views the little green thumbs up beside your name will know to vote for you come the time for reelection. Thank you for your time Sincerely,


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While I have given away my other Tamilee
Buns/Abs/whatever-of-steel tapes, this one has stayed in
my regular rotation. I find the first two workouts in
particular to be very thorough and challanging. Most of
the work is done at a slow pace, so you really feel it.
Workout #2 ("Super Abs") has some of the best
work for the external obliques I've seen, better even
than Karen Voight. The step workout does some serious
reverse crunch work on an inclined step, which I find I
feel perhaps too much in my lower back on some days, so I
usually stick with the first two workouts.
I usually do one of the routines on this tape after a
lower body emphasizing tape when I want to get in some
extra ab work. I do my own stretching while the first
tape rewinds, then pop in Tamilee & crunch away. A
very solid "A", particularly for the first two
Lesley B
Three 10-minute ab workouts for beginners to advanced. However, I
don't think advanced exercisers would really be challenged by it (I'd
say I'm at intermediate level, and I usually continue on with this
tape's advanced sections, yet the abs section of KV's Your Personal Best
can still give me a good burn). Tamilee tells the
beginners/intermediates when to stop, and there is also a time bar at
the bottom of the screen, but it doesn't really serve much purpose – I
just watch the two male background exercisers if I feel the need to
stop! The tape starts with a short motivational speech, followed by a
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Fastjar is a version of Sun's `jar' utility, written entirely in C, and
therefore quite a bit faster. Fastjar can be up to 100x faster than the
stock `jar' program running without a JIT. Currently, the author is
working on adding all the features present in the Sun utility. At the
moment, implemented features are:
* Archive creation
* Verbose/quiet output
* stdout vs. file output
* Manifest file support
* Deflation or storage
* Changing to directory and adding files (-C)
* Archive content listing (-t)
* Archive extraction (-x)
WWW: http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/archivers/fastjar/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install fastjar
cd /usr/ports/archivers/fastjar/ && make install clean
pkg install fastjar
PKGNAME: fastjar
SHA256 (fastjar-0.93.20060808.tar.bz2) = ba13e60bcffd782ac23383e24a1f50a92a30789944615f86a3f5c945abe2fe4e
SIZE (fastjar-0.93.20060808.tar.bz2) = 112355
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
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===> The following configuration options are available for fastjar-0.93.20060808_2:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
gmake makeinfo perl5 tar:bzip2
Number of commits found: 32
Install texinfo files (GNU info) into ${PREFIX}/share/info
After a discussion on the mailing list on moving manpages to
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installed in usr/share/man, it appeared the same should happen
to GNU info files which were installed under share in base and
not in ports.
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it is possible to proceed to this move and it is easier to do than
the manpage change.
Other benefit than consistency are less patching: all build tools but
cmake are expecting info files to be under share/info and cmake (patched here)
was having an exception for BSD so the patch makes FreeBSD case less
specific for them
Bump revision of all impacted ports
exp-run by: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17816
Return maho@'s ports to the pool after his commit bit expired.
With hat: portmgr
Remove -fPIC and fix the real problem where end_of_entries is sometimes
declared as unsigned int and sometimes as off_t which have a different
size and alignment.
Add -fPIC to various ports to enable them to build on armv6.
Approved by: portmgr (tier-2 blanket)
MASTER_SITES cleanup.
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- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.
Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Allow to build with texinfo from ports
With hat: portmgr
- fix sanity in CAT archivers
- USE_BZIP2 -> USES=tar:bzip2
- LICENSE=BSD -> BSD[n]CLAUSE
Support stage
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Convert archivers from USE_GMAKE to USES=gmake
While here:
- Trim headers
- Convert some port to the new perl world
- Convert some port from USE_GNOME=pkgconfig to USES=pkgconfig
- Trim Makefile header per new bylaws
- Drop indefinite article from COMMENT
- Define LICENSE (GPLv2), install couple of extra docs
- Convert NOPORTDOCS -> PORT_OPTIONS:MDOCS
- Remove pretty obvious pkg-message, sort some knobs
- Reformat port description
Approved by: maintainer (maho)
- Get Rid MD5 support
With hat: portmgr (myself)
- Remove USE_GETOPT_LONG which is a no-op since March 2007
* Fix pkg-plist (actually Makefile)
* make portlint happy
Submitted by: kris [1]
BROKEN: Incomplete pkg-plist
Also add missing USE_GETOPT_LONG to hopefully fix 4.x build apart from
A build fix via pointyhat.
Submitted by: kris
* Update to 20060808 cvs checkout of fastjar proect
which was forked from gcc4 (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar/)
(According to http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
April 4, 2006
fastjar has been removed from the GCC source tree and made into a
separate project....)
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of FastJar 0.93 at sourceforge and this doesn't seem to updated for long time.
According fastjar-0.93/CHANGES
> 0.93 01/11/2001 Integrated GNU gcc patches to mainline fastjar
> codebase. Should compile on more platforms.
> Ignore nutty errors.
* gcc42 will depend on this jar
* take over the maintainer ship until this situation become settle.
Use SUB_FILES
- Add SHA256
- Improve on port description [1]
- Put space after `WWW:', not tab
Obtained from: NetBSD [1]
Fix build with gcc 3.4
- Pacify portlint and use misc macros
- remove pkg-plist (fastjar and stuffit)
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 2)
Add SIZE.
portlint (fix whitespace)
Cosmetic fix: use %%DOCSDIR%% macro.
No functionally changes.
Submitted by: Oleg Karachevtsev <firstname.lastname@example.com>
A part of PR: 57992
Upgrade to 0.93
Drop maintainership. Feel free to update the port. (fastjar is now
maintained in the gcc repository without being released separately,
Add %%PORTDOCS%%.
Convert archivers category to new layout.
Teach MASTER_SITES about new MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE.
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Plot Summary
Lyco is a action horror film about a voodoo priest named Lyco Fontaine (Macquell James) who is in search for an ancient Relic that has been around for centuries called the Port of Spain elephant. It is said thought the elephant statue has special powers and if Fallen into the wrong hands the innocence of the world would be in danger. Receiving a job to transport a relic which turns out to be the Port of Spain elephant, Shelly Ruiz (Marilyn Tolentino) & her cousin Sandra Ruiz (Greta Quispe) knowing the risk of everyone wanting this Relic, they ask for the help of fellow comrades in the Courier Service field Chucho (Jorge Valentin) along with his close friends and co-workers Bobby (Franklin Correa) & Darius (Tee Epps) who agreed to help and split the profits down the middle. But little do they know of the dark Forces arising as Lyco gets closer his powers get stronger, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it unless it is stolen once again. Mrs. Maria Rueben ( Sandra Fernandez) an ...
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Newsweb and TKS Sign Contract for JETLEADER 1500
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Newsweb Corporation and TKS have signed a contract for the JETLEADER 1500 digital ink jet press which ran at Drupa 2012 last May. This will be the first JETLEADER series press installed in North America.
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I have always had a particular soft spot for István Kertész ever since I discovered his unforgettable series of the Dvořák symphonies on Decca almost a decade ago.
The same freshness and recorded beauty is present in this equally magisterial recording of the Bruckner 4th that is a positively glowing version that reveals Kertész's lamented qualities as a great orchestral conductor.
I have a myriad amount of versions of this particular work but none has brought me so much joy as this 1965 recording. Each movement has that positive glow about it and the London Symphony strings and brass are simply beyond reproach.
But trumps and plaudits should most definitely go to that legendary 1960's Decca recording team of Ray Minshull and Kenneth Wilkinson who are my 'hors conceurs' in the history of classical music recording.
My only hope is that readers of this review will snap up this magnificent version and enjoy it for a lifetime of greatness, the combination of Bruckner and Kertész, champagne of the noblest vintage!
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July 01, 2005
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Remington Arms has had a long, distinguished, and mutually beneficial relationship with America's law enforcement community. The company (known as "Big Green" in some circles for its green corporate identity) dominates the police shotgun market with its Model 870 pump gun.
In keeping with its tradition of supplying police officers with easy-to-use, rugged long guns built for specific police applications, Remington recently introduced the Model 7615 rifle. The Model 7615 is a pump-action rifle that's being marketed as a patrol rifle for agencies that can't carry so-called "assault" weapons outside of tactical units.
A Growing Demand
Unlike in many foreign nations, in the United States police are looked upon as officers who enforce civil laws and not members of some para-military gendarmerie. For this reason, the vast majority of American law enforcement agencies have traditionally steered clear of presenting a para-military image with the uniforms and weapons available to their street cops.
Accordingly, American police officers have traditionally been armed with a handgun, a revolver back in the day and more recently a semi-auto pistol. From the beginning, officers often found themselves in situations where the iron on their hip was not enough to respond to a threat. A handgun is useful as a defensive weapon and badge of rank, but it is, in fact, a very poor offensive weapon and, of course, it offers the user very limited range.
This is why law officers in America have always carried both long guns and pistols. Back in the days of the Wild West, the traditional long arm of the town marshal or sheriff was a lever-action carbine such as the Winchester 30-30. These short, handy, rapid-fire weapons remained popular with police well into the 1960s. But with the increase in violent crime in the 1920s, some police agencies gravitated toward more powerful weapons such as the Remington Model 8 rifle.
The turbulent 1960s saw increased interest in equipping officers with some kind of long arm, but police administrators chose instead to create special tactical teams and arm them with rifles, limiting patrol officers to shotguns and pistols.
That philosophy started to change after the watershed moment for contemporary police firepower: the North Hollywood bank robbery and shootout.
Every cop now on duty is very familiar with what happened that day. Two men robbed a bank while wearing body armor and shot it out with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department for nearly an hour. The robbers were armed with full-auto military rifles, the cops with semi-auto pistols and ammo that could not pierce the bad guys' armor. Thousands of rounds were expended, but the incident didn't end until officers from the SWAT team showed up with heavier weapons and killed both robbers.
North Hollywood, Columbine, and other active-shooter incidents have led many American law enforcement agencies to permit their officers to have rifles on patrol. Some agencies limit access to these weapons to patrol supervisors. Other agencies restrict their officers' firepower to pistol caliber carbines, which give the officers better range than they would have with their sidearms, but don't have the armor piercing capability of rifles. And still other agencies issue or allow their officers to purchase and carry AR-15s.
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The idea is sound, as Remington has been building 870-based rifles for years, but it seems to be an answer for a non-existent question. The gun doesn't look any less 'imposing' to ME when compared to an AR carbine, and anybody carrying a long gun draws attention. Having a pump action in an age of semi-automatics is dated technology.This gun is also fitted with the standard Remington common fire control system, wherein the safety only 'safes' the trigger and not the hammer or sear, rendering it liable to unintended discharges--in other words, it isn't even close to drop-safe. Of course, neither are 870s. This is a gun from 1950 being reintroduced as new in 2015.


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Fantasia Genre Film Fest Launches International Co-Pro Market
The Montreal festival unveils plans for a Frontières match-making event in July 2012 to find the next Guillermo Del Toro.
TORONTO - Montreal's Fantasia Festival has become a matchmaker with its own international co-production market to connect international genre filmmakers, sales agents and distributors.
The 16th edition of the genre film festival in July 2012 will launch the Frontières co-production market to get filmmakers from Canada working with colleagues in the U.S., Europe, Scandinavia and Australia.
The inaugural market will present 12 genre projects to international producers, sales agents and distributors so they can get off the drawing board and into production.
"Frontières will further Fantasia's position as one of the vanguard film festivals of the world by contributing to the development of new genre film works and the fostering of co-production relationships for Canada," Stephanie Trepanier, Fantasia market director, said.
Other co-production markets already specialize in genre cinema, with the Network of Asian Fantastic Films market at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival helping get Asian genre films to market, while the rival Baltic Event Film and Co-Production Market at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival focuses on bringing together filmmakers from Scandinavia and eastern Europe, including Russia.
Fantasia is looking to broaden its co-production market to forge cutting-edge genre filmmaking worldwide.
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Surprise!… Phony Soldier For Obama Has More Bling Than Petraeus!
Dude what's with all the awards?
Not even General Petraeus, the man who saved Iraq, has that much bling!
Charlie W. Williams of Raeford, N.C., a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and supporter of Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, lines up early to get into a rally at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville on Oct. 19. "He's going to get a lot of white votes," he said of his candidate. (Washington Times)
Unfortunately, Charlie W. Williams is a phony soldier.
This Ain't Hell has the scoop on this highly decorated phony.
Obama supporter and Sarah Palin investigator, Alaska Democratic state Senator Hollis French is also a phony soldier.
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Readers of this blog will recognize my unhealthy fascination with loop quantum gravity and string theory. In my browsings of arxiv.org, I discovered a section of the physics area on popular writings in physics (what a concept: why can't we do this in theory CS too?). There's a nice article there by Rüdiger Vaas called 'The Duel: Strings Meet Loops' that explains the conflicts between the two approaches to unifying quantum physics and general relativity.
A related article is a Socratic dialogue between a fictitious professor and student on the pros and cons of string theory and loops. Bear in mind that this was written by Carlo Rovelli, one of the fathers of loop quantum gravity, so it is may be somewhat biased :)
And for those of you who say 'Bah ! Humbug ! Why should I care about such nonsense', I say 'Don't you want to understand John Baez's talk at SODA ?'


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House Appropriations Committee Chair Davao City Representative Karlo Nograles believes that the Philippines is bound to receive even bigger econo-mic deals after President Rodrigo Duterte was dubbed the most trusted Philippine president in the last 20 years by an inde-pendent pollster.
Nograles was referring to the results of a September 2017 survey by Pulse Asia wherein the populist Chief Executive garnered an 80 percent trust and approval rating.
"Investor confidence in the Philippines just went through the roof. And with the ASEAN Summit right around the corner, we can expect the country to receive a tidal wave of foreign investments and financial packages that otherwise won't be offered to us with a different pre-sident," reckoned Nograles.
Based on the results of the third quarter survey, the 72-year-old Duterte com-mands more trust and satisfaction among Filipinos compared to his predeces-sors Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Benigno Aquino III.
"That's nearly two decades worth of leader-ship, Now that's what you call pogi points," Nograles pointed out. "
"Duterte's lofty ratings equate to an image of him not being a corrupt leader. And If there's one big worry among foreign investors and loaning institutions, it's the possibi-lity that the money they fork out would get wasted due to corruption. They need not fear this under the current administration," Nograles added.
Nograles credited Du-terte's stratospheric trust and approval ratings to his no-nonsense anti-illegal drug and anti-corruption campaigns, the likes of which have never been seen before in the Philip-pine setting.
"It's the President's sincerity and resolve to solve these longstanding ills that have truly resonated with the Filipinos. They feel that Duterte is the best man for job and it continues to be reflected in the survey," he said.
Countries such as China and Japan have already taken notice. China, which Duterte has visited twice in his young term, has pledged $24 billion in loans and grants, mostly for infrastructure projects under the flagship Build, Build, Build program.
In his working visit to Japan late last month, Duterte inked business deals amounting to $6 billion from some 18 companies.
More huge agree-ments are bound to happen, what with the Philippines hosting the 31st ASEAN Summit and related meet-ings next week. Duterte, as the current ASEAN chair-man, has put the country's best foot forward.
According to Pulse Asia, Duterte is the most trusted president upon assuming office after recording a maiden trust rating of 91 percent in July 2016.
He is the also the only Philippine president in the last 20 years to break the 80 percent barrier as far as approval ratings are concerned. He garnered 86 percent in that department in September 2016.


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I never fail to be reminded that lean thinking makes sense anywhere – and everywhere. The latest occasion was at a friend's house a few weekends ago making an Indian bread called paratha. I had made them in the past, but this was the first time it really registered to me as a process. Just watch how lean thinking takes over in the kitchen.
My friend began the setup by making a large dough ball, kneading wheat flour,salt and water. The process steps entailed
her making a small ball from the dough, rolling it flat and placing it on a pan where I cooked it. I then removed it from the pan, placed it in a casserole to keep it warm.
Here's where it gets tricky – just like any process a few steps away from its future state. Initially, we weren't synchronized to create one-piece flow. If she slowed down, my pan sat empty and overheated, creating waste in the form of time and human potential and winding up the pitch for a defect. If I slowed down, she already would have rolled the bread, standing there and waiting for my pan to be empty. As a countermeasure, my friend kept a plate between the pan and her rolling unit where the rolled bread began to stack up. With the pressure on, I pushed to cook the parathas faster, turning up the heat and burning the bread. When I turned the gas down, the bread would be undercooked. More defects. If you're still with me, you see her countermeasure covered up a symptom of the problem but didn't get at the root cause.
It took us time to get things under control, but we "stopped the line," huddled and came up with the most efficient way of cooking the bread. This involved using the correct amount of heat so I wouldn't burn or undercook the bread. We paced our share of work so we produced at the same rate, or takt time. We decided the empty pan would be the kanban for my friend to start rolling the next bread. If the pan was filled, she would use that time to undertake some standard work: Making the ball for the next bread.
Voila! The lean recipe worked for our recipe: Warm parathas with delicious egg curry. Take a stab at it yourself – and learn from our mistakes.


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Feeding the WIP Pile
Ever hit the Craft Store like a dog in heat in the yarn aisle? Come on… I ain't the only one.
So many ideas… so little time. Why does life have to get in the way of my crochet! Like seriously, can't the lawn mower push itself?
Crocheters battle the WIP Pile, let's not deny that. Life gets in the way, you forget or get bored with the current project. You put down your project with the greatest of intentions with plans to come back to your project. It sits lonely in the WIP Pile and for whatever reason, it becomes the ugly duckling and you deny it exists.
I know this feeling, a little too well. For me, I usually have to finish what I started unless I am showing step by step stages where there is never an intention to finish it completely. I might have a valid excuse.
WIPS are Not Just for Crocheters
I remember when I was about 20. I had my first real office job. The office was completely renovated. I had to have a office set of paper organizers and storage containers all made with Plastic Canvas. The urges were strong. It wasn't even a question in my mind whether I should. I got the brainiac idea. Do not pass go, go right to the craft store. I hit the craft store like a dog in heat! Forget the carry basket, Daddy's going to need a push cart!
Man I ramsacked the plastic canvas like it was going out of production. I went to the yarn section, matched the colours to the office decor. I had no idea how I was going to make my organizer. As I planned it on paper, I got more and more complicated. You know how it is. You make a little storage for paper clips, you need a stapler cozy! Before I knew it, I had planned my cubical to be an explosive crafting paradise!
So I got home. Had to explain to the Mrs (at the time), my plan. If looks could kill! Why would you waste your time when you can go to the dollar store. Oh man… just set me on fire why don't you!!! So when you tell me know, I'm going to buckle in and prove her wrong and get my paradise office decor done.
Well… like dogs, the heat wears off! You start working on it… then you feel it's going to take years. You get bored. You are fighting yourself like trying to bite your own face off! You are resisting the urge to make it a WIP. Oh look, another pattern. I'm now on the slippery slope to craftdom as I switch my dreams. You end up with a stock pile of canvas and yarn. Suddenly, it disappears from your living space. Then you forget about it. Then find it years later! Then you have to deny you were in heat at the craft store. You then have to justify to yourself you will eventually finish it… but let's be real. It's like a cookie addict staying out of the cookie jar. You know you are lying to yourself…. Go ahead though… we all do it.
Suddenly, you are printing another pattern and starting something new. Then you go grocery shopping, pass by the yarn store just to check what's new. Oh look, new colours. Let me just get a few "JUST IN CASE"…. A few turns into a whack. Then suddenly, you are leaving the store with new plans, desires and you will start yet something new.
So then you need to turn yourself into a self guilt machine. You mentally beat yourself up as you are feeding the WIP Pile. What's one more project… ah what the hell, here's another.
Before you know it… you think about how many projects you have actually finished! I know right… Reality Check comes screeching in like a bat swooping… Don't worry though, I know how to duck swooping bats! Deny Deny Deny… Oh look, YARN!
I've been knowing to feed by WIP Pile but I will gladly deny it if you ask me directly. What WIP Pile, I always finish what I start! Oh man… one way ticket to the land of fire for lying! Well, if I am going there anyway… can I get some yarn and a hook to go? Oh yeah, let me take a computer with online patterns and potentially online ordering… just as a precaution, of course.
If you have a WIP Pile… welcome to the club. If you deny you have one… that's okay, we let observers into the club. (Wink Wink) We know you are there for "A FRIEND".


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Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has published an issues brief on The Case for U.S. Investment in the Global Fund and Global Health.
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The Center for Global Development (CGD) has published a "consultation draft" of a report on value for money in global health, with particular reference to the Global Fund. The CGD is seeking feedback on the draft. The deadline for feedback is 12 July 2013.


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Titled RecycledApril 26, 2010
Thanks to everyone who sent me title suggestions for the works in the earlier post. With my brain stimulated, I had a title for each piece before bedtime, last night.
They went off to Kimberly-Clark Corporation this morning. Each work shows how products that normally end up in the trash can be re-purposed into works of art. I wish I had more time to properly photograph them.
Experimenting with different products and methods is great fun. Perhaps, you'll be inspired to think about what you can re-purpose.
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Harmony (formerly 'three beads')
Fowl Play (formerly 'chicken')
A World Away (formerly 'Walden planet')
Global Effect (formerly 'tree')
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The task is a nightmare to Asians and non-Asians alike, marketers say. "People tend to forget that Asia is even more complex than Europe because of the autonomous development of small geographies," said Candace Wong, chairman-CEO, BBDO Hong Kong.
"Each has its own laws, business styles, ethics, history of development-and an obvious historical usage of media. If you find anyone who really understands the media of Japan, China, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and so on, then they are indeed a novelty."
Ms. Wong cites cosmopolitan Hong Kong as an example. "In a population of 6 million, there are about 625 magazines and more than 40 newspapers that distribute only in the colony. Think about that relative to Chicago's size and media availability. And Hong Kong is not atypical."
While a few advertising agencies are trying to understand the problem, the insularity of many multinational marketers stunts the development of pan-regional media, said Michael Mann, chief executive of Australian Television. The service beams satellite news, sports and entertainment programs into 20 Asian/Pacific countries.
"Most multinationals seem to have difficulties in grasping how to use the media, especially TV," he said. "Generally speaking, they are simply not structured to sell across several Asian countries."
Alex Hamill, chairman of George Patterson Bates in Sydney and regional director of Bates Asia, agreed. "You can get a ghetto operation, where regional offices work well by themselves but have no binding philosophy. Many internationals think the answer is to have a creative director for the region, but it doesn't work-it's just an excuse to fly in, drop a pearl of wisdom on the carpet and leave."
To break this pattern, Bates uses its Australian operation as the driving force for the strength of its business, strategy and media development resources. Bates Australia has $575 million in billings; Bates Asia's 17 offices have total billings of $300 million.
But the agency has a managing director in Hong Kong and a senior account director for each client's local needs handling its voice across Asia.
BBDO does most planning and buying for Asia locally, Ms. Wong said.
"However, some is done `back home,' and usually this is a mistake," she said. "While global centralized objectives and strategies are good, understanding markets and the resultant quality of execution and monitoring can usually be best executed locally-otherwise, why have local agencies?"
"Some of our multinational clients are very centralized in their copy development process," said Kent Wertime, Damask/BBDO, Bangkok. "Wella Corp., for example, employs a worldwide format, which we are obliged to follow in local markets around the world, while others, such as Carlsberg AS, allow us to develop copy locally, which Carlsberg reviews at headquarters prior to production."
Kao Corp., a Japanese personal and household goods marketer, with affiliates throughout the region, apparently agrees with this position.
Kao plans its advertising through each division's marketing directors rather than ad agencies. Each affiliated company in other Asian markets plans ad budgets individually and sells in local languages.
TV advertising accounts for 90% of Kao's ad budget.
Another Japanese multinational detergent marketer said that it uses TV primarily throughout Asia to reach its target, though it finds the medium expensive. Its marketing personnel work closely with its agency to plan strategy.
It's difficult to do pan-Asian planning well, Ms. Wong said. "Companies and agencies both need strength locally, with solid regional directions and disciplined pan-regional communications.
"Most marketers still prioritize budgets based on current sales, vs. sales potential. Most don't weigh market factors in an orderly way in allocating funding; even fewer align these factors with media efficiencies and media effectiveness measures when making their investment allocations among various countries."
Marketers decide whether to use English- or local-language media based on the language most easily understood by the target, which generally means non-English marketing. And marketers are helped by having the choice of pan-regional media when the product or service is targeted at those whose primary language is English or, subregionally, Chinese.
"But it's important to note that pan-national media often are questioned for effectiveness," Ms. Wong said. "It's a matter of the lack of local dialects or languages against the efficiency of the buy.
"It happens every day in China when considering national media, given the multitude of dissimilar tongues. Even in countries like Thailand, for example, where there's an official language, the dialects of `normal' daily conversation vary markedly from north to south."
"The people who tend to read both local- and English-language publications are generally more affluent and better educated than average," said Damask/BBDO's Mr. Wertime. "So when we plan luxury goods advertising in Hong Kong, we would include the South China Morning Post as well as the local Chinese press, because it is a good way of targeting affluent Chinese as well as expatriates."
International TV services throughout Asia sometimes avoid the language barrier through local cable networks, which broadcast the satellite signals themselves or sell them to smaller operators, attracting local ads in the local dialect, Mr. Mann said.
In the Philippines, Taiwan and other countries, international satellite service is fed directly into local cable networks, while Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong rely on more sophisticated programming, adding local ads to station breaks in the direct transmission. Chinese stations delay the services for dubbing and for adding advertising.
"We're all constantly breaking new ground," said Mr. Mann. "There are no existing rules or guidelines, so we have to invent them as we progress."
But media research is only starting to catch up to what's available in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. The availability of the research lags behind the demand for it, but its cost exceeds the financial capabilities of the companies paying for it. Many groups do not use the available research.
AC Nielsen/SRG, Kuala Lumpur, is introducing PeopleMeters to Malaysia, and Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai will get a PeopleMeter ratings service by mid-1996. China, with a population of 1.2 billion, has one of the world's fastest-growing TV industries, with some 600 terrestrial stations and 1,200 cable systems.
"The launch of a PeopleMeter service has been very much part of SRG China's dreams and plans," said Managing Director Louis Tong. "The rapid growth of television, particularly with cable, has encouraged us to start with the standard PeopleMeter rather than with a diary-based system."
Planning in some markets relies on hypothesis. "You simply do the best you can based upon judgment and experience," said Ms. Wong.
TV programming development typifies today's opportunity-and its investment dilemma, she said. "Many countries simply don't have the expertise or funding to generate high quality, locally attractive programs. They're interested in international offerings, which international developers and distributors are more than willing to sell, or lease."
So will Asia become Westernized with American and European tastes, just as much of the world was "Hollywoodized" in the 1930s and '40s? Research in April 1994 by BrainWaves Group, a division of DMB&B, New York, on media behavior among 1,500 Asian students between 15 and 18, and their influences, indicates that may be the case.
TV moguls like Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner and Kerry Packer seek to buy exclusive rights to extensive sports and movie programming to feed the demand for programs by their expanding international TV networks.
Asked, for instance, whether watching TV was an "enjoyment" activity, 93% of kids in Singapore said "yes," 97% in the Philippines, 98% in Indonesia, 88% in Korea and 98% in Thailand-compared with a world average of 93%. Many of the sports they watched were distinctly "un-Asian,"-with audiences often higher than the world average-like basketball, skiing, American football, rugby, polo, field and ice hockey, and boat racing.
While international players influence Asian TV, some are hesitant to spend money to learn what appeals to local cultures and so develop local programming.
"For now, short-term returns don't warrant large investments," Ms. Wong said.
"A great challenge, if not the greatest of all for multinational agencies, is developing creative yet effective media solutions. While `great creative ideas' for ads can be cross-cultural and often are, outsiders struggle to generate media-specific equivalents."
Jack Russell contributed to this story.


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Recently, the mayor of Iowa City revealed that his community was exploring becoming a sanctuary city. The Iowa City Press-Citizen newspaper reports the following: Iowa City Council members plan to explore ways to better protect diverse populations and undocumented immigrants through city policy, and to do that are revisiting details of a five-year-old conversation about …Read More →


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Margot's lawman / Debra Kayn.
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It's hard to keep a secret in the small town of Pike, Montana, but veterinarian Margot McDougal and sheriff Roy Lee Hanson managed to keep their relationship on the sly for months. Margot cares for Roy Lee, but the last thing she needs is to worry about local gossip while she's busy running her clinic and dealing with the loss of her beloved father.Roy Lee can't wait to tell the world that he loves Margot. He respected her decision to keep their affair quiet--until now. It's time for everyone to know Margot is his gal...especially Ryan Martin, her new assistant. He's formed an attachment to Margot and Roy Lee is sure the city boy's unexplained appearance in Pike means he's up to no good.Margot just wants to help Ryan fit in, and Roy Lee's jealousy soon drives a wedge between them. A wedge that only increases when Margot is roped into Ryan's secret, too...37,000 words
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