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mediaman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 222 diseños de 63 diseñadores freelance.
Bardington is a music company focusing on production, promotion and distribution of music (physical and virtual). In earlier days companies like Bardington have been called record labels ;-). Bardington ist focussed on Pop, Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter Music with some Hip/Hop, R&B artists. Heavy Metal and Dancefloor are not focussed.
As the first step in the creation process of our corporate identity we need a high-professional logo design.
* Brief has been complemented on Monday, January 12, 10 a.m. (CET) - a summary of individual feedbacks/guidelines that had to be given often has been added. No impact for designers who already submitted designs. 3+ stars rating designs don't need the information, others have gotten this information on an indiviual basis before. *
The manifold use of visual elements in music business processes demand for very good conceptual skills connected to exceptional creativity from designers being succesful in this contest. A good approach is to think of Bardington as a service company delivering music instead of financial or consumer services.
Please be aware that the logo design is only the first step into the process of our development process. Winning designers who have the skills will have the chance to support us further on.
At the moment we have the idea of an threepart logo:
- stylized "B" or button with "B" in it: This has to work in a one color version without gradient eg. for printing in black only on CDs etc.
- "Bardington" typo: standalone or in combination with "B"
- brand extensions like "Music", "Digital", "Productions", "Multimedia" to be used with brand typo and (optional "B"). * Should be readable on small versions of the logo as well and not be limited in lenght (extensions with two words could be possible in the future) *
We really want designers to understand the use of the logo. As described above a one color has to work for prints on CDs for example, while the next day we'll need the 3D rendered and animated version in a video or DVD trailer. In between there's everthing you can think of: stationery, web, powerpoint presentations, staff clothing, press kits. (Please keep that in mind – although the contest is for the logo only).
Please understand that we won't be able to comment designs that don't meet the requirements in this brief – as we expect quite a lot of submissions. Our goal is to separate the wheat from the chaff as efficient as possible and proceed with the promising submissions. All designers submitting designs that follow this brief will get immediate feedback (except for designs submitted on Wednesday/Thursday - feedback can take up to 24 hrs).
One word on the color scheme: We're currently thinking of a flexible color scheme which could be used to adapt our identity elements to the artists' artwork color scheme (e.g. when used on Press Kits etc.).
- Surprise us and the music business. Amaze us. Show us the most beautiful and appropriate record label logo we've ever seen.
- Highly conceptual and professional designs that show more an identity approach than just a accidental logo design
- * Something sophisticated *
- All final data delivered in professional format (eps)
- Use of professional fonts that come from a font family for use in print designs etc., no free fonts with only one style (if standard fonts are used)
- color scheme if flexible color concept provided
- blatant music symbols like guitars, notes, clef, peak meters or piano keys
- concept that focus a certain musical style
- anything that doesn't meet our quality and concept standards
- anything to balant (as the music we provide is more important than the company itself)
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Today we are making a Trunk Protector Mat! We're finally getting snow in Toronto and the stroller gets pretty messy with the snow and salt.
I'm a Mama who doesn't like to clean. I like to cover things when possible to make my life easier. When Joshie was a baby, I made this stroller liner just so I wouldn't have to clean out the stroller so much. We recently got a new car and said goodbye to our tiny two door car. When we were using my old car, I didn't mind tossing my stroller in the trunk. However, with a new car, it's nice to keep it clean - at least for a little bit.
Here's what you need:
Clear packing tape
Large cardboard
Here's what you need:
Clear packing tape
Large cardboard
Table cloth - waterproof on one side and fuzzy on the other.
How to:
(I didn't take pictures of the "how to" because it's pretty easy to put this together.)
1. Measure your trunk and cut your cardboard to size
2. Wrap the cardboard with your table cloth (water proof side should be facing up)
3. Tape tape tape everything so that the table cloth is firmly attached to the cardboard
4. Pop it in your trunk and don't worry about the mess!


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Disclaimer: This document does not constitute legal advice. It is merely intended to be a starting point regarding your right to complain.
What do we do when obstetricians or other hospital staff treated us rudely, abusively or violently? Do they ever hear from us afterward? Abusive behavior toward women, especially in childbirth, is unacceptable and harmful (can cause Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome). Abusive or unacceptable behavior can include threats, scolding, coercion, yelling, belittling, lying, manipulating, mocking, dismissing, refusing to acknowledge, treating without informed consent, omission of information, over-riding your refusal of a treatment, misrepresentation (of medical situation, of interventions, of reasons they "need" you to do something or not do something), etc. For a raised consciousness on this topic, read: Violence against women in health-care institutions: an emerging problem. by A. F.P.L. d'Oliveira, S.G. Diniz and L. B. Schraiber The Lancet, Vol. 359. May 11, 2002.
The idea is not to complain about things just for the sake of complaining or just to be nitpicking (for example, if overall the care was very good, but one person under unusual circumstances was less than satisfactory, a friendly, informative note to that one person might be more effective than a full-blown complaint). The idea is to put the provider and the Medical Board on notice that these kinds of behaviors are serious and harmful, especially a pattern of them, and are not acceptable even if there have been few complaints in the past. While single complaints probably will be ignored, I think if enough women actually formally complained about abusive treatment of any kind and asked for changes, the medical establishment would have to start listening. Also, by sending copies of the complaint to other potentially interested individuals and organizations, the complaint can also serve an educational and consciousness-raising purpose for more women. Here are steps you can take:
1. Write (handwritten is best) a narrative report of everything you remember from the situation – with dates, what people said and did (including as much as possible names of anyone involved, dates and times), etc., and sign and date that narrative. The sooner you write all of it down, the better. Such a dated, personal, written narrative will stand as evidence in a court of law. Even better, have your statement notarized by a notary public, which will establish the date by which you wrote the statement. Your narrative (and those of others, see #2) help establish the facts and keep your memory fresh. They would be especially useful IF your complaint eventually resulted in some kind of formal hearing or legal action; it may be that you don't use the narratives at all, but if you need them later, you will wish you had taken this step. Your dated, notarized first-person written account is much stronger than someone else's memory months or years later.
2. If you can get anyone else who witnessed the behavior(s) to write a narrative describing the same incidents, that would be very valuable. For example, is there a nurse who would do that? Did your husband, a friend, or a doula come to any of your office visits or to the birth, where incidents occurred? Did you complain to family members or to a friend right after one of these run-ins with the doctor? Ask those people to write down in detail what they heard and saw, or they heard you say at the time and how you were acting (ie, upset? in tears? etc.). DO NOT coach them on what to write. Each one should also date and sign their narrative, and mention that this was their personal experience and memory of the events.
3. Filing a formal complaint:
4. Compose a cover letter explaining briefly why you were moved to complain – ie, you felt so outraged, betrayed, violated, abused, damaged etc. by the doctor''s behavior etc. and how the experience affected you (rage? Loss of confidence? Distraction? Sleeplessness? Post traumatic stress syndrome?) – with cc''s indicated for all the other places and people to whom you decide to send the letter (see #5). Include again what you want to come from this complaint (what you want the Medical Board to do, etc.). You might want to have one or two other people review your draft and make suggestions for your letter and complaint to be as clear and effective as possible. Send that cover letter with the formal complaint to the Medical Board by "certified mail return receipt requested," so you have proof that they received the complaint (also, it makes them take it more seriously).
5. Make copies of your formal complaint and send it (regular mail is OK) with a cover letter (vary the cover letter as needed for the various audiences) to as many other individuals and organizations as you want. For at least some of these, you might want to include a specific request for action on their part, as appropriate. Suggested individuals and organizations:
By sending your complaint to a whole array of people, lots of people know about it, and it is less likely to be ignored. You are also educating women''s groups and others about abuse against pregnant women and in childbirth. If nothing comes of your complaint, you will at least have documentation to use to take any further actions you may feel moved to take (writing to the newspaper, writing an article for a women''s magazine, etc.). If you have a means of collecting such complaints locally, that might give impetus for collective action locally regarding a specific physician or hospital, or targeting hospital policies.
6. Follow up! Bug the Medical Board until you get a response. Follow up with the hospital people. If you are unhappy about the response you get, let them know, let your State Representative know what is going on, tell the hospital people that you are dissatisfied and may take further steps. Depending on the original situation, you can consider a number of possibilities, from consulting with an attorney, to writing an article for the local paper or a Letter to the Editor, to speaking to womens' groups in your town, to deciding to let it go.
Filing a formal complaint is NOT guaranteed to "fix" the situation. However, if enough of us complain, it should get others thinking about changes in the future.
Resources: American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Code of Professional Ethics in Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2002 (go to the last item on the list for a pdf file of the Code of Ethics)
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Ethical Dimensions of Informed Consent in Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2002
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. ACOG Informed refusal. Committee Opinion No 237, June 2000. Not available electronically. Reads in part: "Once a patient has been informed of the material risks and benefits involved with a treatment, test, or procedure, that patient has the right to exercise full autonomy in deciding whether to undergo the treatment, test, or procedure or whether to make a choice among a variety of treatments, tests, or procedures. In the exercise of that autonomy, the informed patient also has the right to refuse to undergo any of these treatments, tests, or procedures. . . . Performing an operative procedure on a patient without the patient''s permission can constitute ''battery'' under common law. In most circumstances this is a criminal act. . . . Such a refusal [of consent] may be based on religious beliefs, personal preference, or comfort." [In other words, women don''t have to have what an obstetrician would consider a good reason. All they have to do is decline.]
Also see: "Midwives Model of Care" Citizens for Midwifery "Rights of Childbearing Women" Maternity Center Association "Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative" Coalition for Improving Maternity Services
About the author: Susan Hodges, a birth activist for more than 15 years, is President of Citizens for Midwifery, a consumer-based organization promoting the Midwives Model of Care and representing consumer interests regarding midwifery and maternity care. Find out more about Citizens for Midwifery at their website: www.cfmidwifery.org.
Copyright © 2003. Susan Hodges. All Rights Reserved


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The four Gospel narratives are filled with examples of Jesus performing miraculous acts. According to Matthew's version, even his life began supernaturally, in that his conception was not the result of a sexual union.
For most Christians, the picture of Jesus working miracles seems to be exactly what one would expect of a divine being -the Son of God. These supernatural acts "prove" that Jesus was no mere man. For many others, though, these miracle accounts are not easily swallowed and deter them from accepting much, if not all, of the Gospels as truth. Probably the most famous of these skeptics was Thomas Jefferson, who went through the bible with scissors and glue, removing all the supernatural accounts. His truncated version, the "Jefferson Bible" is more like a collections of Jesus' sayings than the story of his life, death and resurrection.
I talked with a friend not long ago, an ex-Roman Catholic, now an Evangelical Protestant, who said that the idea of the 'virgin birth' was very important to him, as this underscored the idea of Jesus as God. Without the virgin birth Jesus would be just another man. But is that a fair assumption to make? Do we need miracles to sell ourselves on the idea that Jesus is in some way 'other' than us – that he is divine?
If miracles are the (super)natural by-product of divinity, then Jesus' life must have been full of them. This is suggested in the various apocryphal Infancy Gospels. There the boy Jesus is said to have made clay birds fly and he magically kills a naughty playmate (who he later brings back to life). No serious scholars give these folk stories much credence, although bestselling horror writer Ann Rice has written a novel based upon them. There is something appealing as well as appalling to these tales. (I have a theory that they were the inspiration for that old Twilight Zone episode where the young Billy Mumy uses his awesome supernatural powers to terrorize his family and neighbors.)
Recently our church considered the story in Mark's Gospel where Jesus stilled the stormy Sea of Galilee. While asleep in the boat, a squall rose up and his disciples, who were for the most part experienced fisherman, began to panic and they awakened Jesus. But why? Did they expect Jesus to provide them with nautical advice? He may have been a carpenter, but Jesus was certainly no sailor. Did they expect him to magically calm the storm, as he does before scolding them for their hysteria? Their reaction to this event would seem to suggest otherwise.
Was it the purpose of this miracle account to prove that Jesus was God, or at least in touch with supernatural power? Is that the purpose of all of Jesus' miracles? Because if we look at them in that way, adding them to the pile of evidence needed to make a "case for Christ", then we may risk losing other, deeper meanings hidden within the stories.
Perhaps, as our pastor suggested, the main thrust of this story is to portray Jesus as a powerful presence that can calm the storms that rage within us. Rather than joining us in our stress and hysteria (which we have invited others to do) Jesus projects calmness upon what we often perceive to be the 'perfect storm'.
Isn't this usually what happens when we call upon Jesus for help? Really, how often is it the case where he has literally changed our circumstances, fixed our external problems or calmed the storms we are caught in? Isn't it more likely that he help will help us to find the strength we need to deal with our crises? Jesus gives us a glimpse of things from his infinite perspective, a glimpse that tends to diminish our own earthly struggles.
Do we need to believe in miracles in order to be in communion with God? Are miracles necessary proof that there is a God? Conversely, does a disbelief in miracles, an 'inability' to see them, indicate a lack of faith? When we question the historicity of Jesus' miracles, are we diminishing his divinity? What kind of faith is it that must depend upon evidence of miracles in order to survive?
I don't know. Personally, I don't think it is necessary for me to believe that the miracles actually occurred to hear what God is telling me, something that when put into practice, underscores the divinity of Jesus. Something that Thomas Jefferson might have missed.


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Layer-jump recording (LJR) now provides multisession burning of dual-layer DVD-R media. In other words, data can be added to a disc over several burning sessions, with the sessions appearing in the sequential order in which they were originally recorded. Both Nero and the burner manufacturer's firmware previously only supported disc-at-once (DAO) mode, meaning data could be written to a DVD-R only one time.
Unlike dual-layer recording, in which data is first written to one layer and then to the other, layer-jump recording alternates between both layers during the burning process, thereby evenly distributing the data between both layers. The written area of both layers expands evenly outwards with each burning session. This means adjacent layer areas always contain data, resulting in a reduction in background noise and better signal quality. This, in turn, leads to higher read compatibility, even on DVD-ROM drives, according to Nero.
OEM customers can download an update online through the Nero Web site available mid-June.


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Muriel T. Mongiovi, 90, of Albrightsville, passed away Thursday afternoon March 28, 2013, at Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg.
Born in Verona, N.J. on Aug. 7, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Earl and Catherine (Trebilcock) Griffin. Muriel was raised in the Verona area and graduated from Verona High School, Verona, N.J.
She served her country in the U.S. Army during World War II. Upon her honorable discharge, Muriel optioned a position with the Overbrook Hospital, Cedar Grove, N.J., where she graduated from Nursing School and became a registered nurse. Muriel retired from Overbrook Hospital after 20 years of service. During her retirement, she enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, loved her dogs and enjoyed getting her hair done. Muriel also loved to watch television.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Anthony J. Mongiovi Sr.; infant daughter, Patty Mongiovi and daughter, Barbara King; brother, Richard Griffin; and sister, Ruthie Hook.
Surviving are her children, Carol Grimm of Tafton, Anthony J. Mongiovi Jr. and his companion, Kathy Johnson, of Cherry Hill, N.J., Debbie Nicosia and her husband, James, of Albrightsville; sister, Nancy Dick of Syracuse, N.Y.; grandchildren, Gary Kellstorm and his wife, Tanya, David Kellstorm and his wife, Cathy, Craig Kellstorm and his wife, Gina, Anthony J. Mongiovi III, Jason Mongiovi, Alicia Caldwell and her husband, Tyson, Sharon Hayden and her husband, Chris, Brian King and his wife, Amber, Melissa Rasmussen and her husband, Phillip, James Nicosia and his wife, Jaime, Joseph Nicosia, and Lauren Langdon and her husband, Billy; 13 great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, 327 Cherry Lane Road, Tannersville, with Rev. Fr. Richard Czachor, celebrant. Interment will be at the convenience of the family.
A public visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, April 1, at the Lanterman & Allen Funeral Home Inc., 27 Washington St., East Stroudsburg,
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society atnationalmssociety.org.
Lanterman & Allen Funeral Home
27 Washington St.,
East Stroudsburg
Muriel T. Mongiovi
Muriel T. Mongiovi, 90, of Albrightsville, passed away Thursday afternoon March 28, 2013, at Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg.


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It was a close call to be sure, so it was strange that the play was not reviewed. Not to worry, though. Noted winner Vince Young hooked up with noted former Giant Steve Smith and the Eagles got their touchdown. The two teams bored us to tears for 28 minutes, but brought the heat at the end of the half.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agency. The Corps provides vital public engineering services in peace and war to strengthen the nation's security, energize the economy, and reduce risks from disasters.
Congress provides the Corps with "no-year" appropriations—that is, funds that are available for obligation until expended—so funding may be carried over to subsequent fiscal years. For example, if the Corps obligates $40 million of a $50 million appropriation, the $10 million that was not obligated is available for use in subsequent years.
In fiscal year 2010 the Corps' civil works program received about $5.7 billion to plan, construct, operate, and maintain hundreds of water resource projects. However, the budget presentation does not provide information on the amount of unobligated balances that remain available for each project. Such project-level information would help congressional decision makers make appropriations and oversight decisions informed by the availability of existing resources.
The budget presentation for the Corps lacks transparency on key elements of the President's budget request. Specifically, it does not include information on how much remains available for specific projects that could potentially offset new funding requests for projects. For example, a Sabine-Neches Waterway project in Texas had about $31 million in unobligated balances from its fiscal year 2009 allocation that remained available to offset its fiscal year 2010 request. Consequently, Congress has not been able to consider the full level of resources available for projects when making its appropriations decisions. Corps review boards routinely review whether projects are meeting financial milestones, so unobligated balance information is available. Although a senior Corps budget official told GAO that detailed project-level information-such as remaining balances-would not be available until after budget materials are submitted to Congress, the Corps would be able to provide timely information before final appropriations decisions are made.
To ensure that all relevant information is considered during congressional deliberations, GAO recommended in April 2010—and the Department of Defense agreed—that the Corps provide Congress with information on estimated project-level unobligated balances as a supplement to its budget presentation. GAO expects to follow up at a later date to assess the implementation of this recommendation. Although GAO cannot quantify the potential savings, this information would enable Congress to consider how much of the previous year's funding remains available to offset new funding requests.
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Akashi blended whisky
Update 28.7.2011: Eigashima and LWdM released statements saying the Akashi blend was in line with EU regulations.
Update 22.7.2011: Rival importer La Maison du Whisky commented on the issue.
It has been over a month since I posted the exciting news of a new range of whiskies being imported into Europe by Les Whiskies du Monde. Eagle-eyed readers noticed a loose end in that initial report in which I said cryptically that "other importers into Europe" were raising questions about the contents of one of the whiskies. I got some messages asking what on earth I was talking about.
I can now be a little more specific. The "other importers into Europe" were La Maison du Whisky and the specific whisky they were talking about was the Akashi White Oak blended whisky from the Eigashima distillery. La Maison said the whisky was not a blended whisky as Europeans might understand it and had some quite specific figures on its composition. I decided it was necessary to directly contact Eigashima, a company I have always found to be completely straightforward and honest, before publishing anything about this.
Mikio Hiraishi, who runs Eigashima, has just replied with a very full statement of what is in that whisky. It is not conventional blended whisky.
The first thing to point out is that there has never been any attempt by Eigashima to obfuscate about the contents. They have always been perfectly straightforward. The back of the bottle says in Japanese that the whisky is made of "malt whisky and spirits," (see below) something that makes it clear to Japanese consumers that it does not contain grain whisky, as would normally be expected from a blended whisky where I come (UK). The issue here is in the translation of the Japanese whisky market's rules and norms into the international market. This does not normally come up because most of the big players, like Suntory and Nikka, play by the international rules on their premium products. Eigashima plays by the international rules on their single malts. But this was a blended whisky that was, I suspect, made with a very local market in mind, and which Les Whiskies du Monde's enterprise has plucked out of obscurity.
What Hiraishi-san says it contains is the following: White Oak (Eigashima) malt whisky and imported (ie. non-Japanese) malt whisky which together comes to 34 per cent of the whisky in the present blend. The rest, 66 per cent, is made up of molasses spirit (some of which has been stored in barrels). The malt has been stored for an average of 5.6 years. In 2013, the proportion of malt used will rise to 40 per cent, with the average storage time falling slightly to 5 years.
I will follow this up with comments from La Maison and Les Whiskies du Monde if they want to give them, but I just want to give out the basic facts laid out in the message from Hiraishi-san. From my perspective, this is a classic case of different historic norms for mass market spirits (as opposed to premium whisky, which now has very little divergence in norms) causing possible misunderstandings. I really hope nobody is going to blame Eigashima, who have been totally straight forward about what they are producing throughout this.
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The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950
Crown Publishing Group, Sep 28, 2004 - Antiques & Collectibles - 290 pages
For more than two hundred years, American women have been recording their hopes and dreams, their fears and frustrations in the exacting stitches and exuberant designs of their quilts. The American Quilt shows how these virtuoso textiles, long appreciated for their bold graphic appeal and naive charm, are also a fascinating reflection of cultural and social attitudes, painting an indelible portrait of our nation's history and the remarkable women who lived it.
America of the 18th and 19th centuries developed at a breathtaking pace, and the changes that marked each era were inevitably mirrored in the prevailing quilting styles of the period. The American Quilt marks the first time the evolution of quilting has been traced chronologically, identifying the fabric, design, and construction hallmarks of each period and showing the genesis of beloved patterns and styles. A thorough discussion of America's textile history, complete with a fabric time-line, provides further insight into antique quilts, offering important clues to their age and provenance.
The American Quilt charts the course of quilting in America, from the earliest whole-cloth and broderie perse quilts through the emergence of the block style in all its regional and popular permutations. Special sections are devoted to quilt subgenres, including Amish quilts, Baltimore Album quilts, mourning quilts, and African-American quilts, that are highly prized by collectors today.
Quilt collectors will also find helpful information on displaying, storing, and caring for quilts, as well as an exhaustive directory of dealers and quilt collections that have been updated for this edition.
Filled with more than 250 photographs of rarely seen quilts and delightful evocations of quilting's colorful past, The American Quilt is a thought-provoking and important step forward in our ever-expanding knowledge of this remarkable folk art.
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This is the regular posting of the review of "Expected dividends, current portfolio holdings, (and) actual yield" of the #HYHRD portfolio.
The title reflects expected dividends for next week.
The spreadsheet for each individual account, along with the monthly balances and yearly dividends are now found in the tradelogs workbook. However, only the tradelogs page with all the aggregate information is posted, the individual account pages, etc., are not posted (to save time and space).
This post will examine all those spreadsheets not previously covered for all positions held in the accounts (i.e.; positions not held will not appear on the spreadsheets).
Google Drive has the most recent workbooks accessible, in my public files area.
This MS Excel workbook now shows not only the Expected Dividends from the currently held positions (Excluding Preferred shares) across the HYHRD portfolio ($10,724.63/year), but now I have also added in the Equal Weight spreadsheet that shows the dollar amounts invested in each stock totaling ($81,538.77). This also enables me to calculate the ACTUAL YIELD for the portfolio holdings, and adds another spreadsheet called, amazingly enough, Actual Yield! From this sheet, I can further determine the most 'bang for the buck' by calculating the dividend expected per dollar invested! Um, please don't put too much faith on that and base your investment on it, as I just wanted to calculate how much each stock would potentially earn (This portfolio should be expected to return about 13.152793% in dividends alone, according to the calculations that were just done). This does NOT consider capital gain/loss, like the new 'scoring' procedure does. I now use this new 'scoring' procedure along with all of the other indicators and sometimes my 'gut feeling' as to what and how to invest. Do your homework and do your own due diligence! YMMV!
For our Preferred shares (only shown on the Google sheets under the Real Results tab on my blog), the Expected Dividends from the currently held position(s) across the HYHRD Preferred portfolio are ($9,224.97/year), and the dollar amount(s) invested in preferred stock(s) total ($86,032.63). The ACTUAL YIELD for the preferred portfolio holding(s) is 10.722635% in dividends, according to the calculations that were just done. This does NOT consider capital gain/loss, but will be reflected on the tradelogs if/when shares are either called or sold. Do your homework and do your own due diligence! YMMV!
For all of our total shares (only shown on the Google sheets under the Real Results tab on my blog), the Expected Dividends from the currently held position(s) across the HYHRD portfolio are ($19,949.59/year), and the dollar amount(s) invested in stock(s) total ($167,584.45). The ACTUAL YIELD for the #HYHRD portfolio holding(s) is 11.904201% in dividends, according to the calculations that were just done. This does NOT consider capital gain/loss, but will be reflected on the tradelogs if/when shares are either called or sold. Do your homework and do your own due diligence! YMMV!
The large variations in dividend income each month is due to the 'small month, small month, big month' dividend cycle, when some quarterly paying dividend stocks do not pay a dividend until 1 or 2 months later. At that time, we will witness the 'big month' dividend cycle (usually January, April, July, October).
Mr. Market may have different ideas than you or I, so it's always a good idea to at least have a look each day. I don't like buying when the market is going down, but I don't mind buying so much when the market is going up.
I have recently combined several spreadsheets to make them easier for me to get the info I need. The combined spreadsheets are the HYHRD screening spreadsheet, the Corepicks spreadsheet, and Investment amount spreadsheet. They are all now found in the Expected Dividends workbook. The spreadsheets will show $ Rank, Yield Rank, Score Rank, Avg., and Overall Rank which should help me tremendously in deciding where to invest our money! Previously, investing decisions were harder to make because I had to look at many different spreadsheets and pick the best choice(s) from each sheet and then take an (un?)educated guess as to where I should invest. All the spreadsheets are still there, but the Equal Weight spreadsheet will pull all the data together and show it all side by side.
While we're on the subject of dividends;
Qualified dividends are a type of dividend to which capital gains tax rates are applied. These tax rates are usually lower than regular income tax rates. To this end, I will aim to hold mostly qualified dividend paying stocks in our joint (taxable) brokerage account. Here are the tax brackets for 2014;
Here are the tax brackets for 2015;
As of April 16th, I have decided that no stocks will be DRIPped. Part (or ALL) of the cash in our accounts will be withdrawn each month on an 'as needed' basis. The available withdrawal amounts are shown on the Expected Dividends Part 3 spreadsheet. Preferred shares also will NOT be DRIPped.
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A few weeks ago I went to the RMK counter near me, and Eva Gormoriova, leading RMK make up artist gave me a little facial massage before the make over.
She used the RMK Massage Balm to do the very relaxing and lovely facial massage. I am all into massage as long as I am on the receiving end (well, apart from the cats – the cats get paw massages) and Mr C gets a few massages (bald spot prevention).
I dislike massage oils for home use though – messy, messy, messy. Massage gels are so-so. A good massage balm that isn't too greasy is tricky to find. Ta-Da! I have RMK Massage Balm:
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This massage balm blends in the skin for a glowing, supple touch. By promoting the blood circulation, it unwinds the skin from fatigue and stress, and rids toxins that resulted in dullness and swelling. It awakens and revives the skin's innate ability to restore the firmness and radiance of the skin.
It is SO good…You get a small massage mitt and a clear spatula with the balm. There's quite a detailed leaflet with the product so you can find out the best ways to massage your face with the mitt or indeed, how to give a massage to someone else.
The massage balm contains things like jojoba oil, olive oil, avocado oil, sage extract. I have a big weakness for 'savoury' herbal smells in aromatherapy, such as basil and sage.
To me this balm smells somewhat citrusy-herby. It's not too feminine, not too masculine. It's not at all overpowering (which is how I find a lot of aromatherapy products – they give me a headache) and it's very relaxing.
The balm itself is quite firm then it melts with your body heat. You only need a little scoop – as my skin is quite dry it sucked it up! So 2 scoops for drier skin! After doing the massage, you can leave it on overnight and it really hydrates the skin.
There are lots of different ways to do the massage but I noticed that a lot of it is focused around the chin and jawline and under the cheekbone and of course the temples. It took me about 5 minutes to do the massage – my skin looked brighter and just a bit more perky afterwards.
Mr C is also a fan of this product since I was practising my facial massage skills and he likes it!
You can of course use a cream, balm, oil to do a massage instead if you want.
My skin is dry and sensitive so I can't mess about with too many products because I will break out quickly. So for me this RMK massage balm is worth the price as I had no break outs from it and it's doesn't clog my pores or leave a greasy slick on my skin.
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This sound pack is Part 2 of a two part series, the contents of the first being complimentary to the second. The audio demo contains a mixture of sounds from both parts.
Cinematic Robotics from Studio Wormbone goes well beyond the realm of known science. These sounds are quite unrecognizably alien to us xenophobe humans. They convey the emotions, actions, dramas, and conflicts that define cybernetic culture. These sounds spring from the heart of life and death exoplanetary struggle.
This library is light years ahead of hard science fiction even . . . it's as if it leaked into our spacetime from the multiverse. These robot creatures are so foreign, so viscerally unexplainable to our senses that the sounds herein that describe them seem purely outlandish.
Any producer or sound supervisor looking for a hypertechnological mechanical melange needs this selection. Any musician at the excesses of cutting edge artistry needs this selection. Anyone who simply likes robots needs this selection.
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100 mbits? that's IT? come on guys.
How disappointing to see the FCC set such a low low low goal for our internet speeds in 10 years. even today, we could already have TERABIT per user speeds using a truly optical network. we already have much of the fiber necessary. I'm just sad that they have set the bar so very low. so low, indeed, that the 100mbit speed is already something many other countries have TODAY... and to hope to have that in TEN YEARS? ...more »


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Tuesday the Senate voted 54 to 45 to reject a resolution disapproving of the NLRB decision to speed up union elections. The new rules take effect Monday. This is a victory for working people.
The new rules simplify the process and and put off various challenges that companies have been using to delay elections while they bombard employees with pressure, threats, lies, intimidation, misrepresentations and everything else they can throw at workers to try to get them to vote against unionizing.
In the April 16 post, Little-Noticed But Crucial Senate NLRB Vote Coming, I explained the rule,
Last year the NLRB approved rules speeding up union-certification elections. This rule is needed because companies have been "filibustering" union elections with various tactics like bringing up meaningless and frivolous issues all the way through to the last stages of the process. All the while they saturate the workers with anti-union, intimidation threats and propaganda. ("We'll have to close the plant if a union comes in" "You can't get raises because unions rules don't allow it." "The unions takes more than half your wages, and calls it dues." "Union thug bosses will give your job to their brothers-in-law." — the whole time keeping union reps from having access to counter the propaganda.)
This Senate vote is a victory for working people. It will make a difference, and more people will be able to gain union representation in the workplace.


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1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia
A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985.[1] The worst famine to hit the country in a century,[2] in northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths,[3] but more than half this mortality can be attributed to human rights abuses that caused the famine to come earlier, strike harder, and extend further than would otherwise have been the case.[3] Other areas of Ethiopia experienced famine for similar reasons, resulting in tens of thousands of additional deaths.[3] The tragedy as a whole took place within the context of more than two decades of insurgency and civil war.[4]
The famine of 1983–85 is often ascribed to drought. While climatic causes and consequences certainly played a part in the tragedy, it has been suggested that widespread drought occurred only some months after the famine was under way.[5] The famines that struck Ethiopia between 1961 and 1985, and in particular the one of 1983–85, were in large part created by government policies, specifically the set of counter-insurgency strategies employed and so-called "social transformation" in non-insurgent areas.[6][7]
Before the 1983–5 famine, two decades of wars of national liberation and other anti-government conflict had raged throughout Ethiopia and Eritrea. The most prominent feature of the fighting was the use of indiscriminate violence against civilians by the Ethiopian army and air force.[10] Excluding those killed by famine and resettlement, more than 150,000 people were killed.[10]
The economy of Ethiopia is based on agriculture: almost half of GDP, 60% of exports, and 80% of total employment come from agriculture.[11]
In 1973, a famine in Wollo killed an estimated 40,000 to 80,000, mostly of the marginalized Afar herders and Oromo tenant farmers, who suffered from the widespread confiscation of land by the wealthy classes and government of Emperor Haile Selassie. Despite attempts to suppress news of this famine, leaked reports contributed to the undermining of the government's legitimacy and served as a rallying point for dissidents, who complained that the wealthy classes and the Ethiopian government had ignored both the famine and the people who had died.[12] Then in 1974, a group of Marxist soldiers known as the Derg overthrew Haile Selassie. The Derg addressed the Wollo famine by creating the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) to examine the causes of the famine and prevent its recurrence, and then abolishing feudal tenure in March 1975. The RRC initially enjoyed more independence from the Derg than any other ministry, largely due to its close ties to foreign donors and the quality of some its senior staff. As a result, insurgencies began to spread into the country's administrative regions.[13]
By late 1976 insurgencies existed in all of the country's fourteen administrative regions.[14] The Red Terror (1977–1978) marked the beginning of a steady deterioration in the economic state of the nation, coupled with extractive policies targeting rural areas. The reforms of 1975 were revoked and the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) was tasked with extracting food from rural peasantry at low rates to placate the urban populations. The very low fixed price of grain served as a disincentive to production, and some peasants had to buy grain on the open market in order to meet their AMC quota. Citizens in Wollo, which continued to be stricken with drought, were required to provide a "famine relief tax" to the AMC until 1984. The Derg also imposed a system of travel permits to restrict peasants from engaging in non-agricultural activities, such as petty trading and migrant labor, a major form of income supplementation. However, the collapse of the system of State Farms, a large employer of seasonal laborers, resulted in an estimated 500,000 farmers in northern Ethiopia losing a component of their income. Grain wholesaling was declared illegal in much of the country, resulting in the number of grain dealers falling from between 20,000 and 30,000 to 4,942 in the decade after the revolution.[15]
The nature of the RRC changed as the government became increasingly authoritarian. Immediately after its creation, its experienced core of technocrats produced highly regarded analyses of Ethiopian famine and ably carried out famine relief efforts. However, by the 1980s, the Derg had compromised its mission. The RRC began with the innocuous scheme of creating village workforces from the unemployed in state farms, and government agricultural schemes but, as the counter-insurgency intensified, the RRC was given responsibility for a program of forced resettlement and villagization. As the go-between for international aid organizations and foreign donor governments, the RRC redirected food to government militias, in particular in Eritrea and Tigray. It also encouraged international agencies to set up relief programs in regions with surplus grain production, which allowed the AMC to collect the excess food. Finally, the RRC carried out a disinformation campaign during the 1980s famine, in which it portrayed the famine as being solely the result of drought and overpopulation and tried to deny the existence of the armed conflict that was occurring precisely in the famine-affected regions. The RRC also claimed that the aid being given by it and its international agency partners were reaching all of the famine victims.[16]
Four Ethiopian provinces—Gojjam, Hararghe, Tigray, and Wollo—all received record low rainfalls in the mid-1980s.[17] In the south, a separate and simultaneous cause was the government's response to Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President Mengistu Haile Mariam announced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be allocated to military spending, creating the largest standing army in sub-Saharan Africa; the allocation for health in the government budget fell from 6% in 1973–4 to 3% by 1990–1.[18]
Although a UN estimate of one million deaths is often quoted for the 1983–5 famine, this figure has been challenged by famine scholar Alex de Waal. In a major study, de Waal criticized the United Nations for being "remarkably cavalier" about the numbers of people who died, with the UN's one-million figure having "absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever," a fact which represents "a trivialization and dehumanization of human misery.".[19] De Waal estimates that 400,000 to 500,000 died in the famine.[20]
Nevertheless, the magnitude of the disaster has been well documented: in addition to hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions were made destitute.[21] Media activity in the West, along with the size of the crisis, led to the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" charity single and the July 1985 concert Live Aid, which elevated the international profile of the famine and helped secure international aid. In the early to mid-1980s there were famines in two distinct regions of the country, resulting in several studies of one famine that try to extrapolate to the other or less cautious writers referring to a single widespread famine. The famine in the southeast of the country was brought about by the Derg's counterinsurgency efforts against the OLF. However, most media referring to "the Ethiopian famine" of the 1980s refers to the severe famine in 1983-5 centered on Tigray and northern Wollo, which further affected Eritrea, Begemder and northern Shewa.[22] Living standards had been declining in these government-held regions since 1977, a "direct consequence" of Derg agricultural policies.[23] A further major contributing factor to the famine were the Ethiopian government's enforced resettlement programs, utilized as part of its counter-insurgency campaign.
|E. Tigray
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|N. Begemder
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|November/December 1982
|November/December 1983
|November/December 1984
|June/July 1985
Despite RRC claims to have predicted the famine, there was little data as late as early 1984 indicating an unusually severe food shortage. Following two major droughts in the late 1970s, 1980 and 1981 were rated by the RRC as "normal" and "above normal". The 1982 harvest was the largest ever, with the exception of central and eastern Tigray. RRC estimates for people "at risk" of famine rose to 3.9 million in 1983 from 2.8 million in 1982, which was less than the 1981 estimate of 4.5 million. In February and March 1983, the first signs of famine were recognized as poverty-stricken farmers began to appear at feeding centers, prompting international aid agencies to appeal for aid and the RRC to revise its famine assessment. The harvest after the main (meher) harvest in 1983 was the third largest on record, with the only serious shortfall again being recorded in Tigray. In response, grain prices in the two northern regions of Begemder and Gojjam fell. However, famine recurred in Tigray. The RRC claimed in May 1984 that the failure of the short rains (belg) constituted a catastrophic drought, while neglecting to state that the belg crops form a fourth of crop yields where the belg falls, but none at all in the majority of Tigray. A quantitative measure of the famine are grain prices, which show high prices in eastern and central Tigray, spreading outward after the 1984 crop failure.[25]
A major drain on Ethiopia's economy was the ongoing civil war, which pitched rebel movements against the Soviet and Cuban backed Derg government. This crippled the country's economy further and contributed to the governments lack of ability to handle the crisis to come.
By mid-1984, it was evident that another drought and resulting famine of major proportions had begun to affect large parts of northern Ethiopia. Just as evident was the government's inability to provide relief. The almost total failure of crops in the north was compounded by fighting in and around Eritrea, which hindered the passage of relief supplies. Although international relief organizations made a major effort to provide food to the affected areas, the persistence of drought and poor security conditions in the north resulted in continuing need as well as hazards for famine relief workers. In late 1985, another year of drought was forecast, and by early 1986 the famine had spread to parts of the southern highlands, with an estimated 5.8 million people dependent on relief food. In 1986, locust plagues exacerbated the problem.
Response to the famine
Despite the fact that the government had access to only a minority of the famine-stricken population in the north, the great majority of relief was channelled through the government side, prolonging the war.[3]
The Ethiopian government's unwillingness to deal with the 1984-85 famine provoked universal condemnation by the international community. Even many supporters of the Ethiopian regime opposed its policy of withholding food shipments to rebel areas. The combined effects of famine and internal war had by then put the nation's economy into a state of collapse.
The primary government response to the drought and famine was the decision to uproot large numbers of peasants who lived in the affected areas in the north and to resettle them in the southern part of the country. In 1985 and 1986, about 600,000 people were moved, many forcibly, from their home villages and farms by the military and transported to various regions in the south. Many peasants fled rather than allow themselves to be resettled; many of those who were resettled sought later to return to their native regions. Several human rights organizations claimed that tens of thousands of peasants died as a result of forced resettlement.
Another government plan involved villagization, which was a response not only to the famine but also to the poor security situation. Beginning in 1985, peasants were forced to move their homesteads into planned villages, which were clustered around water, schools, medical services, and utility supply points to facilitate distribution of those services. Many peasants fled rather than acquiesce in relocation, which in general proved highly unpopular. Additionally, the government in most cases failed to provide the promised services. Far from benefiting agricultural productivity, the program caused a decline in food production. Although temporarily suspended in 1986, villagization was subsequently resumed.
International view
Close to 8 million people became famine victims during the drought of 1984, and over 1 million died. In the same year (October 23),[26][27] a BBC news crew was the first to document the famine, with Michael Buerk describing "a biblical famine in the 20th Century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth".[28] The report shocked Britain, motivating its citizens to bring world attention to the crisis in Ethiopia.
In January 1985, the RAF carried out the first airdrops from Hercules C-130s delivering food to the starving people. Other countries including Sweden,[29] East and West Germany, Poland, Canada, United States and the Soviet Union were also involved in the international response.
Buerk's news piece was seen by Irish singer Bob Geldof, who quickly organised the charity supergroup Band Aid. Their single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?", was released on 3 December 1984 and became Britain's best-selling single within a few weeks, eventually selling 3.69 million copies domestically. All proceeds from the single, apart from value-added tax, went to charities working to relieve the famine. Other charity singles soon followed; "We Are the World" by USA for Africa was the most successful of these, selling 20 million copies worldwide.
Live Aid, a 1985 fund-raising effort headed by Geldof, induced millions of people in the West to donate money and to urge their governments to participate in the relief effort in Ethiopia. Some of the proceeds also went to the famine hit areas of Eritrea.[30] The event raised £145 million.[31]
On January 27, 1985, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints participated in a special fast, where members went without food for two meals and donated the money they would have used to buy food. The fast raised six million dollars for the famine victims in Ethiopia.[32][33]
Effect on aid policy
The manner in which international aid was routed through the RRC gave rise to criticism that forever changed the way in which governments and NGOs respond to international emergencies taking place within conflict situations.[1] International aid supplied to the government and to relief agencies working alongside the government became part of the counter-insurgency strategy of the government. It therefore met real and immediate need, but also prolonged the life of Mengistu's government.[1] The response to the emergency raised disturbing questions about the relationship between humanitarian agencies and host governments.[1]
However, according to Peter Gill, in his 2010 book Foreigners and Famine: Ethiopia Since Live Aid, 7.9 million people faced starvation in 1984, resulting in over 600,000 deaths; while in 2003 13.2 million "faced the prospect of a famine and only 300 died."[34]
Aid money and rebel groups
On 3 March 2010, Martin Plaut of the BBC published evidence that millions of dollars worth of aid to the Ethiopian famine were spent in buying weapons by the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, a communist group trying to overthrow the Ethiopian government at the time. Rebel soldiers said they posed as merchants as "a trick for the NGOs". The report also cited a CIA document saying aid was "almost certainly being diverted for military purposes". One rebel leader estimated $95 million (£63 million).[35] Plaut also said that other NGOs were under the influence or control of the Derg military junta. Some journalists suggested that the Derg was able to use Live Aid and Oxfam money to fund its enforced resettlement and "villagization" programmes, under which at least 3 million people are said to have been displaced and between 50,000 and 100,000 killed.[36] These reports were later refuted by the Band Aid Trust[37] and after a seven-month investigation,[38] the BBC found its reporting had been misleading regarding Band Aid's money and had also contained numerous errors of fact and misstatements of evidence:[37]
Following a complaint from the Band Aid Trust the BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit found in its ruling that there was no evidence to support such statements and that "they should not have been broadcast". It also added that "The BBC wishes to apologise unreservedly to the Band Aid Trust for the misleading and unfair impression which was created".[37][39]
See also
- Birhan Woldu
- List of famines
- Tears Are Not Enough
- 2010 Sahel famine
- Sahel drought
- 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis
- Malawian food crisis
- 2011 East Africa drought
- 1 2 3 4 de Waal 1991, p. 2.
- ↑ Gebru 2009, p. 20.
- 1 2 3 4 de Waal 1991, p. 5.
- ↑ de Waal 1991, p. 1.
- ↑ de Waal 1991, p. 4.
- ↑ de Waal 1991, p. 4–6.
- ↑ Young 2006, p. 132.
- ↑ FAO Food Security
- 1 2 de Waal 1991, p. 3.
- ↑ Ethiopia: Economy, CIA World Factbook, 2009
- ↑ "Feeding on Ethiopia's famine". The Independent.
- ↑ de Waal 2002, pp. 106–9.
- ↑ Ofcansky & Berry 1993, p. 43.
- ↑ de Waal 2002, pp. 110–1.
- ↑ de Waal 2002, pp. 111–2.
- ↑ Webb & von Braun 1994, p. 25.
- ↑ Webb & von Braun 1994, p. 35.
- ↑ de Waal 1991, p. iv.
- ↑ https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/Ethiopia919.pdf (pg. 172)
- ↑ Webb & von Braun 1994, p. 29.
- ↑ de Waal 1991.
- ↑ Clay & Holcomb 1986, p. 189–90.
- ↑ de Waal 2002, p. 115.
- ↑ de Waal 2002, p. 113–4.
- ↑ Harvey, Oliver (24 October 2009). "Band Aid saved me but 25 years later my country is still hungry". The Sun. London. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
- ↑ "1984: Extent of Ethiopia famine revealed (Video)". BBC News. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ↑ Dowden, Richard (17 March 2010). "'Get real, Bob - buying guns might have been better than buying food': After Geldof's angry outburst, an expert on Africa hits back". Mail Online. London. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ↑ Horisont 1984 (in Swedish). Bertmarks. 1984.
- ↑ "In 1984 Eritrea was part of Ethiopia, where some of the song's proceeds were spent". Archived from the original on 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ↑ James Montgomery: A Look Back At Live Aid, By The Numbers; MTV,com, 2010 (retrieved 19 July 2015)
- ↑ "Viewpoint: 1985 Fast Marked Beginning of LDS Charities - Church News and Events".
- ↑ "LDS Church News - Country information: Ethiopia".
- ↑ Gill, Peter (2010). Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-19-956984-7.
- ↑ Plaut, Martin. March 3, 2010, BBC World Service, "Ethiopia famine aid 'spent on weapons'". The CIA report is available on the CIA's Freedom of Information Act website, http://www.foia.cia.gov , search for Ethiopia and browse to the 1984/1985 section for the document entitled Ethiopia: Security and Political Impact of the Drought
- ↑ David Rieff (24 June 2005). "Cruel to be kind?". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
- 1 2 3 "ECU Ruling: Claims that aid intended for famine relief in Ethiopia had been diverted to buy arms". BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ↑ "News & latest headlines from AOL". AOL.com.
- ↑ "BBC apologises over Band Aid money reports".
- Abebe Zegeye; Pausewang, Siegfried (1994). Ethiopia in Change: Peasantry, Nationalism and Democracy. London: British Academic Press. ISBN 1-85043-644-4.
- Andargachew Tiruneh (1993). The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974–1987: A Transformation from an Aristocratic to a Totalitarian Autocracy. Cambridge: University Press. ISBN 0-521-43082-8.
- Clay, Jason; Holcomb, Bonnie (1986). Politics and the Ethiopian Famine 1984–1985. New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books. ISBN 0-939521-34-2.
- Finn, James (1990). Ethiopia: The Politics of Famine. New York, NY: Freedom House. ISBN 0-932088-47-3.
- Gebru Tareke (2009). The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14163-4.
- Gill, Peter (2010). Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid. Oxford: University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956984-7.
- Johns, Michael (1988). "Gorbachev's Holocaust: Soviet Complicity in Ethiopia's Famine"". Policy Review.
- Kissi, Edward (2006). Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia. Oxford: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-1263-2.
- Ofcansky, Thomas P; Berry, LaVerle (1993). Ethiopia: A Country Study. Library of Congress Country Studies (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. ISBN 0-8444-0739-9.
- Pankhurst, Alula (1992). Resettlement and Famine in Ethiopia: The Villagers' Experience. Manchester: University Press. ISBN 0-7190-3537-6.
- de Waal, Alex (1991). Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia. New York & London: Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1-56432-038-3.
- de Waal, Alex (2002) [1997]. Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa. Oxford: James Currey. ISBN 0-85255-810-4.
- Webb, Patrick; von Braun, Joachim; Yohannes, Yisehac (1992). Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping Failure at National and Household Levels. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. ISBN 0-89629-095-6.
- Webb, Patrick; von Braun, Joachim (1994). Famine and Food Security in Ethiopia: Lessons for Africa. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
- Young, John (2006) [1997]. Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975–1991. Cambridge: University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02606-2.
External links
- The first Canadian TV report by Brian Stewart, produced by Tony Burman, which inspired famine aid projects around the world (1 November 1984)
- 2002 news story from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Flashback 1984: Portrait of a famine
- Thoughts and photos from Brian Stewart, the first Western journalist to cover the story
- CBC News Indepth: Ethiopia


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LOUIS VUITTON NANO MONTAIGNE, EPI ALMA AND DORA BAGCategories:Louis Vuitton
They're tiny and a bit pricey; they're cute and fashionable. Every iconic bag deserves to shrink at house of Louis Vuitton and that includes the Montaigne and Dora Bag.
Sometime ago, we've announced the shrinking-evolution of the Louis Vuitton iconic bags like the Noe, Alma, W or the Alma Bag. They're available in miniature-size – and they're so cut like little babies.
But here's the story; Louis Vuitton has made more bags in tiny edition and now the Nano Montaigne and Dora Bag are included in the collection. And besides that, the Nano Alma Bag is even crafted in Epi Leather.
These tiny size handbags are ideal for daily essentials – you know, the thing you need to take when you go out like your smartphone, credit cards and keys. And oh, you want to know in real-life what fits inside this bag. Then read this:
So forget about the Wallet on Chain Bags because these are perfect as well – they're light-weighed, versatile and also featured with long strap to carry on your shoulder.
So what do you think?
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Louis Vuitton Debuts a Softer Version of the Dora BagCategories:Louis Vuitton
Since arriving at Louis Vuitton for the Fall 2014 collection, creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere has overseen the creation of a handful of new handbag designs the company hopes will attract luxury shoppers who feel ambivalent about the company's traditional monogram offerings. The Louis Vuitton Dora Bag has been the brand's marquee satchel, and now it's getting a slouchier update.
The Louis Vuitton Dora Ultra Soft Bag MM feels more casual than its stiff-sided predecessor; the original Dora was a bag that you'd want to carry into some sort of high-powered business meeting, and this version, especially in lush burgundy leather, is a bag that could do double duty in the office and on the weekends. It's a bag that reflects how women actually live their lives, which has been one of Ghesquiere's themes at Vuitton.
The dimensions of the original Dora and the Ultra Soft version are the same (14.2″ W x 9.4″ D x 5.4″ H), and the prices are almost the same: $4,700 for the new, single color soft bag in Taurillon leather, $4,650 for the closest equivalent in the original calfskin. If you're already paying nearly five grand for a handbag, I'd wager that the extra $50 doesn't matter.
I've always felt somewhat ambivalent about the original Dora, but I loved the Ultra Soft as soon as I laid eyes on it. The Taurillon leather provides the bag with just the right amount ofgive to make it look like it's not trying so hard, which is exactly the ease and versatility most customers want in a satchel of this size. It was the perfect tweak to expand the Dora's potential audience.
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LOUIS VUITTON DORA MINI BAGSCategories:Louis Vuitton
The Mini Dora is essentially a one-of-a-kind basic piece that's sure to keep some eyes glued on your every move. Why, you may ask? Because it has a super sleek yet feminine design that's worth a second (or third… or fourth…) look! Knowing how LV consistently gives us some iconic leather babies, we're pretty sure that you'll also love the Mini Dora. It may be mini, but it is major when it comes to flair and craftsmanship.
READ: Louis Vuitton Dora Soft Bag Collection
Today, we're going to focus on two variations: The Dora Mini Malletage, and the basic Dora Mini, which are both lovable pieces.
Dora Mini Malletage
Size: 9.4" x 7.1" x 4.3" inches (L x H x W)
Price: $4150 USD or €2800 EUR
The Dora Mini Malletage features a luxe lambskin exterior with calfskin trim that's set to raise the bar in artisan bag design. Where else could you get a bag with a tactile dimensional effect? Thought so, too. It features a removable, adjustable strap with golden color metallic pieces. It even has a leather luggage tag with metallic LV signature, a testament to the quality of this piece. Inside, there are two pockets which add to its functionality.
Dora Mini
Size: 9.4" x 7.1" x 4.3" inches (L x H x W)
Price: $2820 USD or €2000 EUR
Basic as it is, the Dora Mini is never the plain ol' piece in this duo – it features the iconic monogram canvas framed and accented by bright pink leather. How cute can this get? It features the same functionality as the Malletage, with a double zip closure, double inside pockets and a large inside pocket. This piece may come off as a mini, but it could be too much to handle. Mindblown yet?
You can get your very own Dora Mini bags via Louis Vuitton online boutique.
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Louis Vuitton Dora Mini Bag size For Fall / Winter 2015Categories:Louis Vuitton
This Fall 2015, Louis Vuitton introduces new styles, sizes and colors for the Dora Bag. The Dora Bag is one of the creations of Nicolas Ghesquière for his debut collection during the Fall/Winter 2014 runway show. Since then, it has been included in every collection in various styles. This season, Louis Vuitton presents the Dora Ultra Soft which is made of taurillon leather. It has soft and rounded lines with a supple and grainy texture. To keep up with the mini bag trend, Louis Vuitton introduces the Dora Mini, which comes in Monogram Canvas and the Malletage pattern. New colors include Pink and Carmine the blends perfectly with the gold hardware.
For more information on All the Dora Bag Styles, check out the Full Guide Here.
Style, Price and Size
|Louis Vuitton Dora Mini Bag
|Louis Vuitton Dora PM Malletage Bag
|Louis Vuitton Dora Mini Malletage Bag
|Louis Vuitton Dora PM Bag
|Louis Vuitton Dora PM Malletage Bag
|Louis Vuitton Dora Ultra Soft MM Bag
|Louis Vuitton Crocodile Dora Bag
14.2 x 9.4 x 5.9 in
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LOUIS VUITTON DORA ULTRA SOFT BAGCategories:Louis Vuitton
Meet the Louis Vuitton Dora Ultra Soft Bag.
And you're right, it's belongs to the Louis Vuitton Dora Bag Collection, but the style is different and unique. The shape is more round and because of this, it deserves its own page on BRAGMYBAG.
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The sides of the Dora Ultra Soft Bag have the curves like a woman. It's crafted in rich Taurillon Leather, and it adds a happy pop of color to our neutral wardrobes. This is the newest version, which is made soft with rounded lines that highlight the skin's supple feel and distinctive grain.
The MM size has plenty of space for all your essentials and it's the perfect accessory for everyday. Because of the leather strap (which can be removed) and the handles, it can be carried by hand, over our shoulder or even on your elbow.
It comes with a leather luggage tag and with metal LV signature on it, the interior features double pocket and large pocket. Measuring 36 x 24 x 15 cm, priced at $5450 AUD via Louis Vuitton boutique.
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LOUIS VUITTON QUILTED DORA BAGCategories:Other Brands
First-seen on the runway, if you adore Quilted handbags then its impossible to ignore the Louis Vuitton Dora Bag in Malletage.
The print Malletage was introduced by Nicolas Ghesquiere in his first collection for the House. It was inspired by the fine detailing of historic Vuitton trunks. The signature pattern now adorns this sophisticated new version of Dora.
The Louis Vuitton Dora Bag was supposed to be a 'Lady Bag' – simple, soft, gentle yet elegant. The Malletage print changes the whole appearance, it's now strong, ultra-chic and very impressive. It shines to every corner and all-eyes-will be pointing to your accessory when you carry it down-town.
This bag also comes in red and more colors (in case you want something else). Crafted from lambskin, it features a removable and adjustable strap. A leather luggage tag with metallic LV signature is attached to the bag. The interior is made with 2 inside pockets.
Measuring 21 x 21 x 14 (L x H x W) in cm, priced at $4550 USD, €3200 euro, $5250 AUD via Louis Vuitton boutique.
And of course, for the Monogram Prints, presenting the new colors for this season:
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