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Mates rates: Australians borrow $1.6 billion from nearest and dearest
CommBank Kaching lifts the lid on Australia's Informal Borrowing Network
Embargoed until 00:01 Monday, 24 April: According to a new study released today by CommBank Kaching, the average Australian borrows more than $200 from their nearest and dearest every month, equating to over $1.6 billioni. This billion dollar exchange between friends, family and colleagues is being dubbed the 'Australian Informal Borrowing Network' (AIBN).
The biggest contributor to the AIBN is 'unforseen or emergency situations', with just under half (49 per cent) indicting this is their most common reason for borrowing. However, for others simply 'running out of money before payday' (26 per cent), 'never having enough cash' (24 per cent) or 'convenience' (22 per cent) provide the reasons behind their informal borrowing needs.
Interestingly, the study shows big differences in the value of informal borrowing networks between genders, age groups and locationsii:
- Women borrow almost twice as much as men ($9,830,000 Vs. $5,850,000).
- 18-24 year olds borrow $2,400,000 more than 30-39 year olds ($7,220,000 Vs. $4,850,000).
- Those living in capital cities borrow almost three times as much as those living in regional areas ($1.2 billion Vs. $3,460,000).
When it comes to our preferred informal lenders, the 'Bank of Mum' firmly tops the list with the majority of Australians saying they would be most likely to ask their mum if they needed to borrow $50. Australian mums are also the most likely to be lending money on a regular basis with the average Australian asking to borrow money from their mum 1.72 times a year.
Australians increasing reliance on informal borrowing networks has led to an explosion in the uptake of mobile payment methods, including CommBank Kaching – a revolutionary new mobile payment app – which has seen more than 235,000 downloads in a matter of months. The new smartphone application allows consumers to make instant peer-to-peer payments removing the need for long-term informal loans.
"Our research shows that millions of Australians rely on informal borrowing networks for emergencies or short term loans. Recent innovations in smartphone banking, such as our Kaching application, mean Australians consumers can make instant payments to friends and family using their favourite communication channel," said David Lindberg, Executive General Manager Cards, Payments and Retail Strategy.
"From paying a work colleague for a coffee via their email address, to splitting the cost of dinner with friends via a Facebook® friends payment, CommBank Kaching fuses peer-to-peer payments via text, email and Facebook to give Australians more ways to make safe, secure payments to their friends and family." continued Mr Lindberg.
Getting into debt-iculty with mates
Although it seems Australians are more than happy to lend each other money, when it comes to repaying informal loans the study paints a slightly different picture.
Despite the majority (85 per cent) of Australians claiming that they were brought up to always repay their debts, almost half (49 per cent) have experienced disagreements when it comes to paying loans back and a surprising one in five (20 per cent) Australians have actually lost friends over lending and borrowing money.
However, many disagreements over informal loans may be down to simple human error and lack of access to social banking tools. While the majority (76 per cent) of Australians agree that they would ideally get their cash back instantly, more than half (52 per cent) admit that it's difficult to pay people back if they do not have enough cash on them.
With nearly than two thirds (60 per cent) of Australians now wishing that there was a way to pay people back on the spot without replying on cash, applications such as CommBank Kaching, which enabling mobile payments via Near Field Communication (NFC), email, mobile and Facebook, and the ability to check and transfer money between accounts, look set to become increasingly popular.
"We all know that borrowing money from friends and family can be the cause of disagreements, whether that's over the amount or best way to pay someone back. CommBank Kaching is a significant leap forward in how we pay and receive money from each other. It brings speed, convenience and importantly money to our informal borrowing networks, giving Commonwealth Bank customers more ways to instantly pay and receive money than any other bank," said Mr Lindberg.
If consumers want to find out more about CommBank Kaching, or download the app, please visit: www.commbank.com.au/kaching
Contact us
Sarah Gibbons
For further media information, please visit the Kaching Media Centre
Notes to editors:
About the research:
- The study was conducted amongst 1,193 Australians aged 16 – 39 years
- Surveys were distributed throughout Australia including both capital and non-capital city areas
- Fieldwork commenced on Friday 23 March and was completed on Sunday 1 April
- After interviewing, data was weighted to the latest population estimates sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
About Commbank Kaching
Adoption is simple. Existing Commonwealth Bank customers with a NetBank login can be up and running in minutes following installation of the free app from the App Store. Once the customer has selected an account to both receive and make payments from, Commbank Kaching will enable them to pay anyone via MasterCard® PayPass™, an email address, phone number or Facebook friendship. Depending on the format selected for payment, the transaction will either take place instantly, or generate a unique code for delivery to the recipient, allowing them to access their payment online at a convenient time.
Commbank Kaching harnesses near field communication (NFC) technology, a first for mainstream banks in Australia, allowing payments of up to $100 to be made by a simple tap of a phone in retailers with MasterCard® PayPass™ enabled terminals. Users wishing to activate the NFC functionality of Commbank Kaching will need to use an iCarte cover, which is available for purchase during the app installation process.
i All monetary figures have been calculating using weighted data and the latest population estimates sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
ii All monetary figures have been calculating using weighted data and the latest population estimates sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics


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We created this 15-second advert for a local shop that caters to everything sewing in Geelong. The advert is now playing at Village Cinema Geelong, so keep an eye out for it. We also created a longer version for Facebook and their website, to show off the store and activities.

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Writer: Al Ewing
Art: Kenneth Rokafort
Colour: Dan Brown
Story: Some of the heaviest hitters and biggest thinkers on the planet have taken it upon themselves the nip galactic apocalyptic events in the bud before they have a chance to threaten all life on Earth, and their first mission? Dealing with the Galactus problem once and for all.
Why read it?: Now that the Ultimate Universe has been dissolved, the title of The Ultimates has been absorbed into the Marvel Universe proper but pretty much in name only, so no past knowledge is required to get on with this new and impressive book. The first issue is choc-full of interesting and original ideas thanks to the brain of Al Ewing, who as a wonderful middle-ground of such British writers and Warren Ellis, Kieron Gillen and Si Spurrier is easily one of the top three writers at Marvel along with Jason Aaron and Jeff Lemire. Some of the company's biggest names such as Black Panther and Captain Marvel have been teamed up with equally powerful but lesser known characters such as Ms. America and Blue Marvel to form a team that very well might fold Galactus into its ranks. No less impressive than all of this is Kenneth Rocafort's brilliant artwork, which is minutely detailed and gigantic in scale; Lenile Yu needs to watch his back.


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Proper 8A
Genesis 22:1-14; Romans 6:12-23
Molech was an Ammonite deity who was thought to require child sacrifice. This week's lesson from Genesis (Genesis 22:1-14) about Abraham taking Isaac up the mountain because he has heard God tell him to offer Isaac as a burnt offering reminds us of Molech, first in the nature of the command Abraham hears, and then in the moment when God says, "Do not lay your hand on the boy", revealing God to be very different from Molech and the other lesser gods.
It's worth noticing that the same week our Old Testament lesson brings Molech to mind, we had news about the environment that once again told about the perils we and our children face in the fairly near future.
There was the summary report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) which brought grim news about the deterioration of marine ecosystems. The report predicts that unless a massive effort is made to address the environmental stressors on the ocean, there will be a mass extinction of marine life sometime during this century. This is not good news for us, for our children, or for our children's children, The same sorts of stressors affect the non-marine environment; these combined with the effects of the tragedy unfolding in our oceans do have and will have a profound effect on the world in which we and our children and grandchildren are living out our lives.
An article in Saturday's New Zealand Herald, Toxic tide mankind's next great threat, quotes a recent UN environmental program report known as Yearbook for 2011 describing plastics "lost" in the oceans as "the world's new toxic time-bomb". It seems that plastics floating in the ocean accumulate and concentrate chemicals we don't want entering the food chain, such as PCBs and DDT. And as plastic photo-degrades, it eventually breaks into individual molecules of plastic that, invisible as they are, enter the food chain very easily.
These reports provide further evidence for what we already knew from looking at other forms of pollution and at climate change, its effects, and our failure to address the issue: we have chosen to sacrifice the lives of our children and our children's children in the names of various gods -- gods of convenience and money and laziness and all sorts of sin -- gods too numerous to mention. These gods are today's equivalent of Molech, deities that are not the true god but whom we mistakenly believe have so much power that we will sacrifice our children to them.
In this week's lesson from Romans (Romans 6:12-23), St. Paul tells us "The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Our understanding is that God offers us the gift of true life, ours for the taking, and that when we turn our back on that gift and instead choose to sin, putting all these lesser gods before our relationship with the Living God, the result of that is always death.
This understanding raises questions that should puzzle and disturb us more than the question of how Abraham could ever have set out in obedience to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. Given a God who offers us the good gift of eternal life -- life at its deepest levels -- why do we ever choose anything other than God's freely given gift? Why is it so hard for us to choose life for ourselves and our children? Why do we give everything in the world precedence over ensuring that we leave our children a planet that can sustain human life? Why do we sacrifice our children and our children's children to these lesser gods?


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I've actually just added some new listings to my store that haven't been available before so be sure to follow the link and be sure to check them out.
Im also working on getting all my larger pieces photographed and so they will be available to purchase as prints soon!
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Sour Times
Back in 2003, The Observer sent five established writers – the paper used the word "great", but Sebastian Faulks was one of them – to the top five dining rooms in the world, as recently garlanded by Restaurant magazine. It's a perfect feature, one of the best things done in the name of food by a mainstream British publication. The panel is laughably lacking in diversity by today's standards – four of the five writers are male; all are white – but there is a fascinating range to the perspectives brought all the same, from a chippy Irvine Welsh moping about "Margaret Thatcher's best milk-snatching efforts" as he is conveyed by limo to The French Laundry (he savours the irony as much as he does the food); to Faulks, snootier than any critic, describing non-vintage Louis Roederer as a "dour" choice of house champagne at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. It's a fun time capsule, with a hint of the plus-ça-changes to boot: fine dining then, as now, is revealed to be cosmically up its own arse, even if, these days, it's the chef who does the smoking (of butter, of water, of meat), rather than the customer lighting up a Parliament between courses.
I like Welsh's piece a lot, but the best of the five is Howard Jacobson's, a typically mordant mix of clear-eyed observation and jet-black comedy: Michelin star presentation reminds him of "the battle of Austerlitz viewed through the wrong end of a telescope, all charred remains and choking herbage"; lamb is "obscenely pink, two stumps of nude baby flesh served with pampered young vegetables which make you think more of the nursery than you might wish"; champagne is served "from an ice urn big enough for two small children to drown in". I don't find it especially surprising that I like Jacobson's best – of the five, I like his books best, too. But what to me is extraordinary – given the murderers' row of talent assembled – is how bad so much of the rest of the writing is.
It turns out it is hard to write a good restaurant review – properly hard. Like someone pondering the menu at StreetXO, you can go wrong in so many ways. Mess up, fail to wear your learning lightly, and you sound like a wanker (Faulks: "I would probably have gone further up the Gironde estuary, though in fact I am not convinced that silky Bordeaux is the right thing to drink with very rich food"). Mess up, descend into cliché, and you sound like a hack (we might give Welsh a free pass on his probably-ironic use of "eaterie"; it is hard to let Peter Carey off for his hand-wringing over foam, which as a target of exasperated vitriol was passé even in 2003). Mess up, try and fail to express the familiar in entertaining, novel terms, and you just sound like a Dahmerish creep (Faulks again, on the dangers of gummy overly reduced sauce, talks about "labial self-adhesion" – more like Boaksong, amiright?). Mess up, wilfully misunderstand a restaurant's raison d'être, and you sound like one of those people who crop up in the Graun's own comments section under every Marina O'Loughlin review, saying 30 quid for a bottle of wine is a fucking outrage when you can get it for a tenner in the shops (Rachel Cooke doesn't fare well in this regard, when she raises something fascinating in her exclamation "But food is supposed to taste nice!", but proceeds to use it as a stick with which to beat ElBulli, rather than as a key to unlock it).
Anyway. The main reason I went back to the feature in the first place was the gulf that tragically opened at The Sunday Times in December, and the not-especially-riveting Hunger Games that has played out since in the pages of its magazine. Of the possible candidates that we've swiped through like a horny teenager on Tinder, I quite liked David Baddiel – though his use of "eaterie" was surely not ironic – but it's worrying that that's the most fulsome endorsement I can give. Replacing AA Gill is question of more than finding someone who'll be OK. The on-dit suggests they're looking for A Name (AA Name?), which fills me with fear, since it risks exposing us to everything that was bad about the Observer experiment, Faulks' and Cooke's pieces in particular.
Give the gig to someone unwilling to question the idea of food, and you get Cooke's cheap shots at "a collection of deluded sybarites who would rather chop and sauté their own fingers than admit to bewilderment or distaste"; pure "nose-amputating cynicism before experience", as diagnosed by Gill himself in his own ElBulli review. Give the gig to someone who cares more about self-aggrandisement than the nuts and bolts of the job and you end up with convoluted tripe like this:
The cold foie gras was somehow light, yet still powerful in taste; the truffle cream was a sensation and as for the raw deer - I was just wrong about that. It turns out that I do like raw deer. This fantastic, in both senses, dish came with a glass of sweetish Pinot Gris, which would have been perfect had it been colder.
Clearly, Faulks is not a front-runner. But, Jacobson aside, I can't think of many people who could do the job properly, in a manner that doesn't dump all over their predecessor's legacy. I'm utterly delighted I am not the editor who has to make the call. Nevertheless I'd urge caution with the Big Name hunting. It's easy to forget – because he was so good, for so long – that before he was AA he was just plain Adrian. The brilliant food critic became the name, not the other way round.


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It's all about animal protection and the entertaining ridiculousness and oddities of mankind :d
The name is referring to Julien Offray de La Mettrie. He was philosopher and doctor and a pupil of Herman Boerhaave, the most advanced doctor at his time in the 18th century. And he wasn't known to be the most diplomatic one, too.
La Mettrie had a long history offending people with his thoughts: first his doctor colleagues in Paris, he had to flee. The liberal Netherlands, then. There he published his book L'homme machine ("Machine Man" or "The Human Mechanism") – some say it makes him a materialist, but you can read the book as the first wholistic theory on humans too! He had to flee again. Now he was guest at the court of Frederick the Great, but again, his thoughts got him into trouble (Discours sur le bonheur; 1748). Some say, he might have been helped a bit when he died aged 41 by devouring a large quantity of pâté de faisan aux truffes.
As a great fan of the philosopher, doctor and sensualist Julien Offray de La Mettrie I decided not to just sit at home and discuss those entertaining oddities and ridiculousness of mankind but to get it out somehow 😉 Let's see how that turns out in the long run 😀


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Give Now
Wordsworth obviously was as impressed with this versatile plant as we still are today.
Unless the foliage of other perennials grows up to mask the bulb foliage as it decays, the garden looks a mess.
Each of James Oswald's lovely airs for the flowers of spring, summer, autumn and winter has a distinct and recognizable style.
Corydalis has delicate lacy-looking foliage and racemes of spurred flowers in the spring.
A brief poem by Vita Sackville-West about the growth occurring during the month of April.
A poem for the colors of summer, on this Focus on Flowers.
The American wild flower celandine poppy grows well in shade gardens as well as in the woods.


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Exterion Media is celebrating five of the most creative and innovative campaigns that we've seen across our media over the past year – rewarding those that have made a real impact and helped make ordinary journeys extraordinary for the urban audience.
We want to recognise those who have generated high-impact and engaging campaigns that have helped create inspirational moments with compelling content across our portfolio.
In no particular order, we feel the following campaigns demonstrated some of the very best Out-of-Home campaigns in 2016:
Supercell 'Clash of Clans' London domination
Who knew that the Clash of Clans universe had such a colourful backstory! Clash of Clans dominated the city of London with ads on London Underground and across Westfield to tell London "True Tales of Clash Achievery". From the "day giants learned to fly" to when "the wizard let none pass", the various epic moments brought colour and deeper engagement into what is one of our favourite mobile games. From corridor wraps to platform dominations, the campaign really brightened up what otherwise was a very blue January last year.
Spotify – "Thanks 2016, it's been weird" cross-track domination and Showcase Squares
Anything that can make a commuter smile is a winner in our eyes. Spotify definitely managed to do this with their cross-track domination and Showcase Square campaign. With multiple creatives featuring real playlist names to grab our attention, these two were our particular favourites:
"DO NOT DELETE THIS POOTY OR I WILL END YOU" is a playlist. Be careful Pooty. They seem serious.
Dear 3,749 people who streamed "it's the end of the world as we know it" the day of the Brexit vote,……hang in there.
It was great to see Spotify put its vast collection of data to playful and effective use, brightening up both ours and millions of Londoners' commutes!
Magnum - Release the Beast: Dare to Double up Lenticular Buses
Another clear winner for us was Magnum's 2016 Release the Beast: Dare to Double up campaign – which executed innovation on Bus like never before. Not only did it turn heads, but it also pushed the boundaries of creativity on Bus and became a market-leading campaign - achieving media first status on NRM Bus Wraps thanks to its additional lenticular panels! The animal print was daring and the clever use of lenticular technology had people double-taking the moving creative displayed on the side of the Bus. This campaign epitomised the true meaning of innovation and creativity on Bus!
Gumtree – "Don't worry David" tactical digital Out-of-Home
We really loved Gumtree's tactical and reactive digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) campaign on London Underground following the news of Theresa May's appointment as the UK's next Prime Minister. This was a unique and clever use of the flexibility of DOOH to quickly deliver topical, tongue-in-cheek content to the Capital in the wake of such high-profile news. We loved the quick creative reaction and on-topic content – as did London's commuters!
Marie Curie – "Join Team Amy" immersive station takeover
We are very proud to be able to provide opportunities for awareness-raising campaigns and important charities like Marie Curie. Marie Curie's ongoing immersive and innovative Out-of-Home campaign on our National Rail sites across the UK has created an engaging experience for commuters and drove a huge response – smashing the target of 600 donations in each station! We were delighted to hear that the campaign was such a success – even encouraging one generous donor in Scotland to sign up to £100 a month! We're thrilled to see this campaign continue into 2017.
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Here's 6 tips to make you a better money saver
You can't beat automated savings. We have a separate account for savings and have money direct debited into it. We don't need to do anything and we can watch it grow.
2. Never save your credit card number
When you're on an online shopping site, never tick the 'Remember Me' box. It makes it far too easy to click 'Buy' the next time you're browsing. Having to search for your card and fill in the details gives you important 'thinking time'. I find I often change my mind and scrap the purchase.
3. Try using cash
Cash makes spending (and saving) real. When I was flatting, we used jars for rent, electricity and phone bills and everyone put their cash into the jar each week. So, when my husband and I were travelling in our 20s, we used jars to keep our bill money in. When we knew that all the bills and spending were taken care of, the rest went towards our big holiday around the Mediterranean, in a tent and our old sports car. Now we keep it up by giving ourselves cash spending money. When that's gone, we have to ask ourselves if we really want to EFTPOS it.
4. Get a spending app on your phone
My son uses Westpac Cashnav app, a money management tool, which tracks his spending and puts it into categories so you know how much you've spent on luxuries and treats. He says since he started using it, he now thinks twice before reaching for his card.
5. When you get a pay rise, increase your savings
I like to spend the extra the first month after an increase, as a reward. Then I increase my direct debit amount. If you find you need that extra money, then you can change your payment amount later. Until then, you won't even miss it. I never have. Talking to financial advisers, it appears the more people earn, the more they spend. It's alarming how many people spend more than they earn, sometimes without realising it. Some of these couples are on $100,000-plus each. Which brings me to …
6. Do an audit of your spending
Take a simple spreadsheet and add up what you spent last month. Did you max out at the supermarket? Did you go mad at the mall? Are you eating out every week? It gives a chance to question your choices and it's OK if you want to keep that coffee a day. At least you'll have thought about it. I'm making coffee on my machine at home and taking it to work in a keep cup. That's a saving of $100 a month. Accidentally, I've saved about another $7 a week by not grabbing a yummy brioche while I'm standing at the café counter.
First published 22 August, 2017
By Brenda Ward
JUNO does not contain financial advice as defined by the Financial Advisers Act 2008. Consult a suitably qualified financial adviser before making investment decisions. This story reflects the views of the contributor only. Content comes from sources that JUNO considers accurate, but we do not guarantee that the content is accurate.


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SCT's Mission Statement
We intend to create an artistically adventurous environment that attracts and excites diverse members of the community by providing an expanded understanding of life through the art of quality theatre.
What SCT is known for....
Sierra Classic Theatre emphasizes the "classics" (often Pulitzer-Prize or Tony-winning plays) because they are well-written, beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. They can stand alone in their impact. Our mission as a non-profit theater company is to give the community the opportunity to experience great theater in their own back yard.
Sierra Classic Theatre was founded in 1999. While we are primarily located in Mammoth Lakes, CA, we have also offered shows in the surrounding, Eastern Sierra communities. We are supported with volunteer effort, both on- and off-stage, and our primary financing for our productions is through our annual Murder Mystery dinner (a "local's favorite") in the Fall as well as with our generous donations.
SCT is always looking for new members, actors and volunteers. Visit our Volunteer page, or contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information!
SCT Gives back to it's community....
Part of SCT's mission is to give back to the community that supports us. One of the ways we have done this is to provide Donation Only Shakespeare at Sam's Woodsite for the past 7 consecutive years. This family friendly event invites everyone to attend. Our goal is to share The Bard's work with the masses regardless of socio-economic standing. Like the great Shakespeare festivals around the world this event can be attended for free and we simply ask for a donation to SCT if you can afford it.
On June 10, 2016 SCT gave it's FIRST EVER Scholarship Awards to Mammoth High School graduating seniors that showed a particular passion for storytelling and the dramatic arts. We gave $1500 total and awarded $500 to the following passionate and deserving seniors:
Kimberly O'Connell $500 Daniel Carleton $500 Trinity McKee $500
We continued this tradition in June, 2017 also giving $1500 to the following seniors:
Journey Whitfield $500 Michael Garrett Hallum $500 Victoria Patrie $500
In June, 2018. $1500 was give to the following two seniors:
Melanie Moyer $750 Hope Reeves $750
SCT will continue to support our graduating seniors of the future.
Play Reading Series....
Recently SCT introduced an informal play reading series. Members have an idea to read a new play, or an old play or a yet to be published play and we all figure out a night to read it out loud. Sometimes we will read it at someone's house and sometimes we will cast it, rehearse it and put it on as a staged reading in a theater. This is a great opportunity for actors that cannot commit the time it takes to be involved in a full production. It is also a way of coming together and providing a theater arts experience when a full production is possible. We hope to have these informal reading series on a bimonthly basis going forward. If you would like to be notified for our next reading or have a play you think should be read allowed please fill out the contact form below.
We will be doing a Staged Reading Series at The Edison Theater over MLK weekend.
Where is your theater?
Sierra Classic Theatre does not own a theater space. Rather, our seasonal productions take place at different venues throughout Mammoth Lakes. Be sure to check out information on all of our shows to find out where and when we will be performing.
SCT membership is offered to any person who has been in, involved in, volunteered, or donated to our company. We celebrate our members with an annual membership party in Mid-September, at a Mammoth Lakes Pizza parlor. The pizza and wine is on us.
2017-18 Board of Directors (aka The Court)
President (The Queen) ………. Allison McDonell Page
Vice President (Chancellor) ……….Charles Scatolini
Treasurer (Minister of Finance)………. Lesley-Anne Hoxie
Secretary (The Scribe)………. Liz Rose
Marketing (The Jester) ………. Michael Dostrow
Member of 'The Court' ………. Jim Marcotte
Member of "The Court"............Marlene Piper
Member of "The Court"..........Jarrett Jackson
Member of 'The Court'………Jim Harnagal
Member of 'The Court'………Maurice Cooper


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We Are One feat. Six Rounds
BIFF closes with a powerful collection of short films including the poignant retelling in C'est Moi of the forgotten story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique. Our closing feature, Six Rounds is set against the backdrop of the 2011 LondonRiots.
Voice from 10,000 Miles (short)
C'est Moi (short)
AFRO PUNK GIRL (short)
Six Rounds (feature)


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Pilot policy sparks concern
By: MICHAEL C. UPTON, Staff Writer
Record Express Correspondent
Parents of Warwick School District elementary students recently received a letter introducing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) pilot program.
One parent, Tom Oldham, expressed his concerns about the program during Tuesday night's school board meeting.
According to a district document available on its website, the BYOD program "is an initiative that will allow students who have personal technology devices to bring them to school to use them for educational purposes under the direction of a teacher or administrator."
"Devices" are defined as any privately owned wireless device, such as laptops, pda's, smartphones, tablets, etc.
Oldham, whose son is a 9-year old fourth grader in the district, expressed concern over the security measures that would limit students' access to information. He questioned students' ability to learn from the Internet's myriad of answers, some of which may be incorrect.
"The technology I let my children use does not have a ubiquitous aspect," he said. "I have many controls on my Internet."
Oldham also had concerns about how teachers and administrators would monitor students' learning and other activity on the device. The district document concerning BYOD addresses inappropriate use of a device:
"When students use technology inappropriately while on the school network, the same consequences (of the Acceptable Use and Electronic Devices Policies) apply, regardless of who owns the device."
Oldham was concerned that a student would be able to access another students device to use inappropriately. Also, the security of a device was something that worried Oldham.
"The letter states that the Warwick School District is not liable for stolen equipment. How can anyone make such a claim to us as parents (since) our children are not even allowed to have lockers to secure their equipment. I would strongly ask all of you to consider this aspect," he said.
The online district document addresses security risks with this declaration:
"It is always a good idea to record the device's serial number to have in case of theft. The Warwick School District is not responsible for the theft of a device, nor are they responsible for any damage done to the device while at school. Any time a theft occurs, the student should contact a school administrator to make him/her aware of the offense."
Oldham stated he did e-mail Superintendent Dr. April Hershey about his concerns. He asked the board to reconsider the program. Hershey stated she did reply to his e-mail.
"I do know that the board is going to discuss those specifics. And certainly, both (Lititz Elementary Principal) Mrs. Calendar, myself, and our technology department stand at the ready to answer each of those individual questions," Hershey said.
In other business
? Also during time for public comment, district activist Howard Snoke presented business manager David Zerbe and two random board members with examples of prizes he awards children who most support his can collection program at two elementary schools. Through a random drawing of numbered slips of paper, Snoke awarded board president Dr. Timothy Quinn with a bank in the shape of a skunk, complete with white stripe, and board member Millard Eppig Jr. with a gray squirrel bank.
"There are two schools participating with me, that is Bonfield and Kissel Hill," Snoke said. "I wish the others would too. All the materials that build (the banks) come from Versatek. I just wanted to show you this is what I give to the kids."
? Hershey announced publicly last month's official departure of long time district secretary Jo Anne McClain was due to health concerns. The board approved McClain's resignation last month and Tuesday approved an unpaid leave of absence for the remainder of her term, retroactive to April 12 until Aug. 31. As announced in March, the business manager will fill in her secretarial duties for the board until the end of August.
"It has been a very difficult several months without her," said Hershey. "She is indeed irreplaceable. But, based on our current budget constraints, we have combined her position with another position. Many of her job responsibilities have been broken up. She gave over 20 years of service to this school district and she is sorely missed at this time."
To compensate, the board added to the work load of district public relations coordinator Lori Zimmerman, who will retain her current title along with adding that of special assistant to the superintendent.
? In other administrative restructuring moves, Principal Calendar will be taking the place of Keith Floyd, who left the district earlier this year. Her new position is Director of Elementary Education and Federal Programs, effective July 1.
? Sports sponsorships — Soon, local businesses will be able to show exactly how much pride they have in their Warriors. The district unveiled a pricing program for alternative funding by allowing banners on the tennis court, football stadium, gyms one and two, and baseball and softball fields. At maximum commitment, the district can stand to earn $10,200 for a three-year banner placement at one of three locations. Slots for a single banner for a single year at the same locations run $1,200. The lowest priced locations ($600 per banner, non-exclusive, per year) are the baseball and softball fields and gym two.
Businesses will be able to lock into one-, two-, or three-year exclusivity contracts. Exclusivity is defined as one business type per business category. For example, if a bank or an insurance group wants to lock out competitors on a certain location they can certainly do so. Full exclusivity allows one business to dominate an entire location. Partial exclusivity allows for only one business type per side of one location. Businesses can opt into non-exclusivity deals as well and are not limited to only one banner.
Interested businesses can contact Lori Zimmerman at email@example.com or call 626-3734, ext. 3829. More SCHOOL BOARD, page A16


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I was in the jungle, but the cold sweats and the gnawing had started again. Here I was, standing alongside a long series of ramshackle buildings, odd and ancient machinery; wondering, yet again, what in the world is going on. My Ford Ranger 4X4 had cracked and broken a brake drum and the horrors of trying to get if fixed in a country that seems to never have heard of "Ford" coincided not so nicely with the legwork and prepwork involved in the last two days before opening a restaurant. Anywhere.
Our good friend Olman had a solution, since he always had a solution and dragged us along to the taller (garage) where his brother worked. This was a most unusual taller in that it was housed in the long narrow buildings that had been constructed specifically by Dole, the canning and fruit giants, at the turn of the century (no, not this one) as a workplace for the men who fixed the banana trains that Dole ran through the jungles from coast to coast.
Because it had been constructed to fix the trains of yesteryear, this particular taller had a lot of features not normally found in the garages that we're all familiar (or not familiar in my case) with. One of the more remarkable of these massive tools was a metal press that could be used for fabricating steel parts that had become unserviceable. And so it came to pass that since Ford parts are virtually unobtainable in Costa Rica, George, brother of Olman, was going to use my broken brake drum as a template and make a brake drum for me, right there in the taller.
I was severly apprehensive at at the potential cost of this "new to me" venture and cautiously asked "cuantos" and sort of winced at the same time. George looked at me solemnly and declared, "Ocho mil colones, mas o menos".
Huh? It was going to cost me in the neighborhood of $16 for him to make me a brand new brake drum, on this veryt spot. I was more than happy to do a bit more shopping while this feat of engineering was being performed and when I returned in the proscribed hour, the brake drum was made and on the truck. The work and the price had me stunned; stunned. I got back in the truck with a stll slightly baffled shake of the head and drove back up through the jungles to Ojochal and the Lookout.
Driving back I stressed and sweated and worried and stressed and sweated some more. I was trying to get a kitchen open yes, but there was more to it than that. I had chosen this particular time to try to "do something" about my increasingly problematic and prolific drinking and for some reason thought that the work involved in getting the restaurant open would provide the distraction from, and the channel for, the demons crawling inside my brain and an under my skin. The fact that I already had sweated through two tee shirts and was letting my brain run wild with worry was evidence that distraction was not immediately at hand.
When I backed the truck up the entrance to the kitchen, my entire "crew" was there. The slender and shy Betza; her opposite, the roly-poly and smilyfaced Katya; and enigmatic and stonefaced Randall. Randall was the only one of them with any restaurant experience and had, in fact, worked in our kitchen with previous owners. Randall had ridden up our rutted and steep driveway on his bicycle, appeared at my back door in a short sleeved chef's coat and asked for a job almost two months earlier. I had told him there was no work yet , but he appeared at least twice a week for the next eight weeks, always in his slightly sweat-soaked chef's coat and I couldn't help but admire his dedication. He was definitely going to be my right hand man.
Groceries put away, we set to the food prep. I wanted to get all the basic sauces and dressings made so we fired up the smoker for smoking the tomatoes and hot chiles for one sauce and pulled out the food processor to start making vinaigrettes and dressings. The Cuisinart was a wonder to my two country girls and they oohed, awed and reeled back in fear from its spinning blades. I had put Randall on a longish vegetable cutting task, and had taken it upon myself to attempt to explain the dressings (try describing an emulsion in a foreign language) and the salad and first course set-ups to my two willing charmingly clueless Ticas.
I should probably stop here and explain to my readers who may be as "at sea" as my cute little student cooks, that an emulsion is a cooking technique whereby two things that are "unlike" become one through means physical and/or chemical. A classic example of this is oil and vinegar being bound together to make a creamy dressing (emulsion), with the addition of egg and/or mustard. The vinegar added into the egg forms an acidic base that will hold the oil (when it is added quite slowly) in suspension.. Mayonnaise is an emulsion. Another example of an emulsiton is Hollandaise sauce, in which melted butter, lemon juice and egg yolks come together in a rich, creamy sauce.
There we were, the three of us huddled over the Cuisinart while I wiped away the sweat, the olive oil and the flecks of flying egg yolk. I was well on my way to soaking through yet another shirt and had a good case of the shakes that my rookie helpers couldn't help but see each time I lifted the oil bottle to drizzle the oil into the whirling would-be emulsion. And it didn't get any better when I went into our walk-in refrigerator to take deep breaths and try to slow it all down because my fully soaked shirt was clinging immediately and clammily to my torso,, chilling me to the bone. If I could just get through today, then…
Ah, but onward. I had to finish the sauces and the first truck of the day (hallejuh, the phone calls to those faceless and happy Spanish speaking voices had worked) was pulling in with the dry goods delivery. I checked the smoker where the tomatoes and chiles were getting an even char and a nicely smoky scent permeating. These would be pureed with roasted onions and garlic to make a Spicy Smoked Tomato sauce for grilled fish. It was time for another shirt change and I could feel my stomach, my brain and my entire being calling out for just a short shot (if not a tall shot) of rum and a beer to get me though.
Aside from Randall's heavy chopping, it was me, me, all me doing this necessary prep work. The girls were cute and the girls had nice smiles, but they were otherwise useless. Thank God I had decided to open with a small menu to protect myself against situations exactly like this one. They stood back and stared with what I can only presume was a sense of horror as I sweated, mumbled and cursed through the whizzing and whirring that would yield me four different sauces. My shirt was soaked, my face was red and greasy and my hair, although tied back, was slipping from the rubber band and plastering itself against my forehead.
"This" was certainly not what I had envisioned those ocean view, tall drink, tropical dream months ago. What "This" was was a greasy, disorganized, brainaddled, detox hell. A twisted version of opening a restaurant in a foreign country in a foreign language with a work crew who were certainly foreign to whatever it was I was trying to accomplish. But it was almost done, at least on this, the Day Before, and I'd treat the girls to a coke, Randall to a cold Imperial, slam another quart or two of water myself and try to figure out just what we (I) had to do to keep from deeply embarrassing myself on Opening Night.


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The Ocean View-Merced Heights-Ingleside Senior Center held its annual Lunar New Year celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 27. The full day's program included OMI seniors performing New Year's songs in English and Chinese, dances by the San Francisco Guangchang Line Dancing Group, a raffle, and a sumptuous 17-course lunch. After lunch, a troupe of retired members of the SF Police Department's Lion Dance team entertained the crowd, who happily followed them around the hall. The troupe has been performing for 30 years and certainly knew how to work the crowd, many of whom clustered around the two lions with their iPads and smartphones.
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what In Transit means to me?
:Dori Sumter: Merriam-Webster defines a catalyst as: "an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action". Sean Blackman brings together artists from all over the world, from different belief systems, histories, ideologies, religions, ethnicities and many musical genres. He has created a space for pure collaborative creation to occur. In the process, life-long relationships are built based on mutual respect and honor. And this, my friends, is what world peace would look like. I will be here, documenting this through photography for posterity as long as I can.
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DARK003 - VA - Ra-Con-Teur (Digital) 2008
VA - Ra-Con-Teur (DARKCD003) 2008
Catalogue nr.: DARK003
Media Format: FLAC/WAV/MP3
Release date: October 28, 2008
Distribution: DistElectronic Distribution.
Artwork by: JED-A-R-K.
Compiled by: Pritam Borkar and Yves Thomassin.
Mastered by: Vince Le Barde aka Electrypnose @ Intellinoise.
01-Jam on ZeD - Into The Woods (6:43)
02-Devic - Jungle Mangal (8:09)
03-Distorted Goblin - The Story Teller (7:56)
04-Electrypnose - Life Is A Sinus (9:18)
05-Noisy Pipes - Hopscotch (7:51)
06-iLmush - Dizziness of Hand (7:07)
07-Malice in Wonderland - The Things That Should Not Be (7:05)
08-Brain Panik - Mental Storm (7:37)
09-Troglodytes - Form n Content (9:47)
10-Crazy Ducks - Yaga Baba (7:08)
D-A-R-K is proud to present its third compilation VA - Ra-Con-Teur (DARKCD003) 2008 mastered by Electrypnose. Through this VA compilation, D-A-R-K crew based its idea on the Raconteur, an old form of verbal art essentially practiced in countries to entertain the crowd and gather people in a festive ambience. Ra-Con-Teur, storyteller, ought to make you go back in time even before the beginning of Civilization. You will hear a mixture of fairly new upcoming artists and well established projects as follows: Jam on ZeD, Devic, Distorted Goblin, Electrypnose, Noisy Pipes, iLmush, Malice in Wonderland, Brain Panik, Troglodytes and Crazy Ducks.
VA - Ra-Con-Teur (DARKCD003) 2008, like the two previous releases on CD, is also a conceptual release. For this release, we intended to bring back Goa's origins into today's music style of psychedelic trance in its pure essence.
VA - Ra-Con-Teur (DARKCD003) 2008, D-A-R-K Records - Tribute
Raconteur: [Ra-Con-Teur] in English, Raconteur means Storyteller. We name Raconteur, the ones that tells a story verbally without any other support than his knowledge, his imaginary and his improvisation talents. The art of telling stories differentiates itself from the written stories, read stories and from simple recitation.
The Raconteur, traditional or modern, deploys his talent in public places, meeting places. Exercising a proximity relation with his audience, the storyteller would animate family evenings and nights in rural areas, and subsequently, during afternoons and evenings for larger publics. As anything else, the art of Storytelling evolved and was introduced under the projectors, still keeping an intimate relation with a restrained public.
Storytelling is the ancient art of conveying events in words, images and sounds. Stories have probably been shared in every culture and in every land as a means of entertainment, education, preservation of culture and to instill knowledge and values/morals. Crucial elements of storytelling include plot and characters, as well as the narrative point of view. Stories are frequently used to teach, explain, and/or entertain. Less frequently, but occasionally with major consequences, they have been used to mislead. There can be much truth in a story of fiction, and much falsehood in a story that uses facts.
Traditionally, oral stories were passed from generation to generation, and survived solely by memory. With written media, this has become less important. Conversely, in modern times, the vast entertainment industry is built upon a foundation of sophisticated multimedia storytelling.
This is what you can expect with VA - Ra-Con-Teur (DARKCD003) 2008, a psychedelic story reminding about the origins of the electronic psychedelic culture starting from its foundation, Goa! Each track on this V.A. compilation has been carefully chosen to revive the Goa memories through modern flavors of psychedelic trance. The selected artists are, one after another, telling their own stories, showcasing their musical talent (knowledge), their creativity (imaginary), and their ability to fascinate the audience and perform (improvisation talents).
Set your feet on the dancefloor and let the Ra-Con-Teurs amaze you with their psychedelic stories, each unique in their style!
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diet, Kindness is love made real, Love it a good feeling., Others respond to kindness not love., Promises, Promises to one's self, The intermittent fasting diet, The sixteen hour diet
Debbie and I have been on a new diet for six days, and today I failed. The diet is really easy to do because most of the time we are sleeping. It's called an intermittent fasting diet, and the way we started doing it was by not eating anything caloric from 8 PM to 8 AM. That's a twelve hour fast which we broke at breakfast at 8 AM. It was so easy to do that we upped the ante and now we don't eat between 8 PM and 12 noon. That has proven to be easy to do too and has the advantage that I do feel a little hungry just before lunch, but generally only when I think about it. My friend Fred G, back in Berkeley, used to say, "Hunger is my friend." I don't know what kind of diet he was following but he always looked trim and vigorous. To me, a little bit of hunger just means my stomach, or whatever it is that proclaims that I'm hungry, is sending signals to my fat cells to give up a bit of stored weight.
The diet is so easy to do that when I am home there is no problem because I just wait until the dinner bell rings and then I go sit down and we eat. Today was different. I went to one of my morning meetings and someone had generously brought a beautiful collection of treats — cookies, Christmas candies, and assorted other things including chocolate brownies that were all on a decorative Christmas plate. I was involved in a conversation with D when the plate came to me, and I reflexively took a small brownie and passed the plate on, and went back to the conversation. A few seconds later, after I had eaten the small brownie, I realized that I had broken my diet.
When it came my turn to speak to the group, which was at the time talking about love and personal responsibility as if these were easy things to do if we said the right words occasionally, … I confessed. I said, "If you can't keep a promise to yourself, how can you be trusted by yourself, or by anyone. Can anyone be trusted with a promise? New Year's Resolutions are known for being broken even before the month of January is half gone. So can you trust those people, who can't trust themselves to keep a promise to themselves to be trustworthy to you?" Machiavelli said you can only trust people whom you can punish if they don't keep their commitments. Therefore, following his advice, a New Year's Resolution should be coupled with some form of preplanned punishment for noncompliance. It could be a tiny punishment, but real.
One thing about the concept of love, as it is generally discussed, is that it is a good feeling and that it is wholly personal and internal. My problem with that form of love is that if it isn't expressed externally it is unknowable and thus meaningless to the supposed loved one. I insist that love must be expressed externally in a way that affects the loved one in some tangible way and that when it is expressed that way it is called kindness. Therefore, I call kindness a more satisfactory form of behavior than love.
My failure to keep my diet was because my resolution wasn't yet formed into a habit capable of resisting a challenge. That tiny brownie was a wonderful lesson and an opportunity to learn to be more careful with my promises to myself and to be kinder to other people for their failures to do what they say they are going to do.
A diet is a personal commitment to the health of one's future self and it should be treated as a sacred trust.


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Dawson Reeve: "Circumstance"
By: Travis Ram
December 11, 2017
Are you a lover of James Blake? How about Ed Sheeran? Well, get your singer/songwriter playlist ready for UK based artist Dawson Reeve and his debut single "Circumstance."
Dawson Reeve has a stunning vocal quality on par with our favorite acoustic artists in "Circumstance." Between hypnotic synths and cutting lyrics, Reeve paints a world of when love gets lost in situations of circumstance. This heartbreaking track makes us reflect on the one who got away, or of times when things would have been differently if the smallest detail of our lives was different. Listen below!
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When will the UK pay its way in the world?
The unexpectedly slow growth in the eurozone is bad news all round - unless you happen to be long of US and German government bonds, whose prices have risen (as they tend to do, as putative bomb-proof investments, when the economic news is gloomy).
And it makes more resonant a new analysis by the Bank of England of the UK's poor trade and dire current account deficit - for reasons that (I hope) will become clear in a moment or two.
Just to remind you, the current account shows the difference between money paid to the rest of the world by UK residents and money received from the rest of the world, stemming from trade, income generated by assets and various other transfers.
It is a measure of whether Britain is paying its way in the world, or whether it is having to borrow from abroad and sell assets to finance our way of life.
Now what was a little worrying was that the deficit on the current account reached 5.6% of GDP, or economic output, in the third quarter of 2013 and fell to just a little bit lower, 5.4%, in the fourth quarter.
That 5.6% was - ahem - something of a milestone: it was the biggest quarterly deficit since records began in 1955.
And it explains why the record aggregate indebtedness of the UK has been falling so slowly, and is still not much below 500% of GDP on the Mckinsey measure (though see my previous blog).
Hideous deficits
The point is that we've typically been borrowing from the rest of the world to finance these current account deficits, rather than selling assets and investments.
So in absolute terms it has been impossible for UK debts to fall.
However UK debts have been falling as a proportion of GDP because nominal output has risen faster than debts - so in that sense, the UK's debt burden has reduced a bit.
So why the hideous current account deficits?
Well part of the explanation has been our persistent inability to sell more goods and services to the rest of the world than we buy from the rest of the world: there has been a persistent trade deficit since the late 1990s, and that deficit was equivalent to 1.5% of nominal GDP last year.
As it happens, there has been a mixed underlying performance in trade. Since the Crash of 2008, our exports of financial services, traditionally a UK strength, have been hurt. But the deficit in goods has narrowed, thanks in large part to a weakening of sterling (which has, of course, been partly reversed over the past year).
Here is a nice thing: a survey published this morning by the British Chambers of Commerce of more than 2600 British exporters showed 71% of them expect their sales to increase in the current quarter, which is the second most optimistic they've ever been.
But as you've doubtless deduced, the big contributor to the lamentable current account performance was not our still limp trading performance - since it has been limp for years and years.
What has gone wrong is that the UK has been earning much less from businesses we own abroad, other investments we hold abroad, and our holdings of foreigners' debts.
Here is where we get back to how that poor economic performance in the eurozone relates to our disappointing current account: almost half of the UK's foreign direct investments are in the euro area, where growth, apart from in robust Germany, is almost non existent.
'Wodges of debt'
Even in the first three months of this year, when much of the world was enjoying a reasonable recovery, France's economy stagnated and Italy's shrunk.
What is more, UK residents almost certainly hold wodges of supposedly safe debts - such as German and US bonds (them again) - whose yields became de minimis with all that money creation by central banks that was intended to prevent recession becoming depression.
Anyway the good news is that the Bank of England believes that the UK's net investment income will improve a bit over the coming years, but that it will remain "weaker than its average over the past decade".
That means we are probably in for a prolonged period of current account deficits being rather higher than they have been since the last time we generated a surplus (which, just so that I can spoil your morning, was as long ago as 1983).
Or to put it another way, we will either have to continue to borrow large sums from the rest of the world, or we will have to sell some of our overseas assets.
One rather important question, posed by the Bank of England, is why the rest of the world should continue to lend to us, given that we have been a consistent borrower for more than 30 years.
Surely at some point our creditors might begin to question whether we are good for our debts.
That said, they would not worry about our ability to repay if the value of our assets exceeds our total liabilities, if we have a positive net international investment position, or NIIP.
So what is the value of the NIIP?
Well it tends to swing around a good deal, but right now it is just about in balance, according to the official data, having been negative in 2012.
Impossible British dream?
So the direction of travel is benign.
Even so, on the face of it we don't have a surplus of crown jewels to pawn or flog in extremis.
Except that the Bank of England believes the official position understates the true position, because assets are included at cost rather than market value.
It has attempted a revaluation at current prices and believes that the NIIP at market values is positive to the tune of just under 30% of GDP.
If the Bank of England is right, our creditors can take comfort that we have the wherewithal to pay them back.
But there is of course another way of seeing the positive NIIP value of 30% of GDP.
If the new norm for current account deficits were to settle at 3% or 4% of GDP, we would only have a few years before that surplus were eaten up new additional debts.
So we have not got forever to reconstruct our economy and become a bit more like the European export emperor, Germany.
Which is not to say we will ever become great net creditors to the rest of the world, like our Teutonic competitor, but surely we might one day return to trade and current account balance.
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In this fun yet very practical one-day workshop we'll show you how to walk in the fullness of all that God has promised you, and see the prophetic words spoken over you come to pass. You'll learn how to process and steward the following things
- the promises that God has given you personally
- the prophetic words spoken over you
- the prophetic promises over your church, city and nation
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Come and enjoy a nosy around the polytunnels and a wander around an acre of cultivated rows on this working flower farm in the Surrey Hills with stunning views over Surrey towards Berkshire. Claire Brown, the owner of Plantpassion and an RHS trained horticulturalist, will be on hand to offer tours, tips and advice.
Entry to the Flower Farm is free of charge. Light refreshments will be available (donations to local charity appreciated) and there will be farm gate sales.
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Taking your pontoon boat out for an ocean joyride sounds like a fantastic idea. If you're like me, you love the warmth of the sun and smell of ocean breezes. You love the idea of a fresh seafood catch for dinner.
It all seems so alluring, what could go wrong?
Well, for one thing—the enormous expanse of salt water!
Salt water can be nasty and corrosive, deteriorating your pontoon's structure if you leave her unchecked. So before you pencil in plans for that summer vacation at the beach, a bit of proper maintenance and preparation needs to be considered for this type of marine environment.
Here are eight tips you need to confidently face the great blue without worry.
Pontoons and Saltwater: 8 Salient Tips to Save You from Salinity
1. Check the pontoon's construction quality
If you're in the market to buy a pontoon for mostly saltwater conditions, take a careful look at the hardware and materials used to put the deck together. Unlike some decks that are only screwed to the frame, saltwater pontoon decks should be bolted down!
The pontoon's log tubes need to be capable of handling the swells you could encounter. Part of checking the general construction quality should be to see that the tubes are completely welded to the decking. Some 'toons are welded only every foot or so—and you don't want that.
This doesn't mean that you should only go testing how securely pontoon decks are bolted down. You'll need a boat that's sturdy all around. After all, the ocean has much choppier swells and can rock your pontoon around a lot harder than the average lake waves. For this reason, your pontoon's log tubes should be a minimum of 25 inches in diameter.
When you're unsure about how a boat was made, ask the dealer or manufacturer directly and let them know how you're intending to use the boat.
2. Read over your pontoon manufacturer's warranty
Verify that your pontoon is protected under warranty! Among the intimidating red tape, it may have language that prohibits or even nulls the warranty if you consistently toy around in salt water.
Check under exclusions for verbiage like "damage caused by or related to environmental conditions" and make sure salt isn't listed as one of the said conditions.
You might also look under the warranty for verbiage that suggests the warranty is valid only if the hull has a "proper application of an aluminum bottom paint by licensed applicator."
When in doubt, contact your dealer or manufacturer directly—maybe even by email to get it in writing—in order to clear things up.
3. Consider a Saltwater Series pontoon
You may have noticed a sticker label called the "Saltwater Series" on pontoons. This is a sort of stamp of approval that dealers can add to their models.
But you should be aware this does not guarantee their invincibility in salt water. Instead, what it does guarantee is that the dealer has taken additional measures to make the pontoon's materials salt water resistant.
4. Pick the right locations
Some owners argue that taking any pontoon to the gulf is just plain dangerous, while some argue that it can be done if you're experienced, knowing to the check weather and light wind knots.
The fact that your pontoon is big and sturdy doesn't mean it can be taken out to sea! In fact, I'd really only suggest taking your 'toon into bays and inlets.
Even venturing into a gulf could turn a trip a bit rocky. And if you see whitecaps, don't even think about it! A deeper V-hull might be able to handle it, but a pontoon boat probably can't.
5. Avoid electrolysis deterioration
Okay, so just what's this about electrolysis deterioration?
Well, salt water enhances extra electrical currents. And in turn, it causes any metals to corrode at a faster rate. In order to avoid electrolysis deterioration, you'll need to install zinc anodes.
Zinc anodes—also referred to as sacrificial anodes—act as protective buffers against corrosion. In short, since the salt water is drawn to electrical currents, it gravitates toward the zinc anodes instead, saving your motor. This Martyr Hanging Anode (check price on Amazon) is a great and clever one for boaters.
I recommend giving your anodes and electrical connectors an inspection once a year. Maybe just make a point to add it to your winterization checklist.
6. Apply aluminum anti-fouling paint
As mentioned above, your warranty may prescribe this in an exclusions clause. It's important to just do it anyway. If you have any reason or temptation to venture into salty seas, just have it done!
Per warranty standards, the paint job will likely need to be completed by a licensed professional. Plus, the application should be done with an approved non-copper anti-fouling paint.
I'd check with your dealer to see if this is a service they can provide. If not, I'm sure they can at least get a local recommendation. If you have an older beater boat—and you no longer have warranty worries—then you can apply the paint yourself with this Krypton brush-on anti-fouling paint (check price on Amazon).
7. Give it a freshwater cleanse
Salt deposits can build up anywhere, so it's important to keep your pontoon in ship-shape.
Be sure to clean the space between the bunks and the pontoons. And if you're trailering the pontoon from salt water often, consider rubber trailer bunk glides (check price on Amazon) instead of carpet for your bunks.
Read over this post on deciding on a pontoon boat trailer to get a better idea of the additional things you should consider for submersion in salt water—like aluminum versus galvanized steel frames.
Additionally, just as carpet on trailer bunks can absorb ocean water, so can the carpet on deck! This among many reasons is why some boaters prefer vinyl flooring over carpet. For a great collection of vinyl flooring, take a look at Infinity Fabrics (check price on Amazon).
After your boat is nice and dry, glance over it to check for any areas of scratched or chipped paint where metal is showing through. You'll want to repair these areas and apply a paint touch-up. And I'd even use this Corrosion-X lubricant (check price on Amazon) on the engine as well.
8. Install a saltwater trolling motor (and mount)
The ocean provides a plentiful variety of fish. And for you pontoon anglers out there, you might be tempted to catch a few. So if you want to use a trolling motor, there are a few things to be aware of for saltwater fishing.
If you diligently rinse your boat after a day of play—a freshwater motor will suffice. But keep in mind that saltwater trolling motors are built with stronger metals and tighter seals around things like electrical components.
A well-made mount will have features such as stainless steel brackets, powder coat paint, sealed electrical components (with waterproof tubing) and zinc anodes to protect your circuits.
The same goes for the trolling mount. Whether you have a bow-mounted trolling motor or transom-mounted trolling motor, your mount needs to be just as corrosion-proof as everything else.
Knowing your trolling motor and mount can handle salt water is a bonus, but that's not to say you shouldn't rinse it out with fresh water anyway!
Also check out this buyer's guide to trolling motors for more information on the sizes and styles of trolling motors, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of bow mounts.
Oh, and unless you want to spook fish with a cavitation bubble show, check out this post on choosing the correct trolling motor shaft length.
So long as you take the preventative measures and keep your pontoon in good shape, you won't have to worry about the salt.
Not all pontoons are made to be the adventurous seafaring vessels as our cruiser counterparts, and yours may not be able to withstand choppy swells and waves—but that's okay!
Just take care, and you can enjoy pontoon rides in salt water for many years to come!


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Monday: Fin N' Catty (1943)
A Gruesome Twosome (1945)
Life with Feathers (1945)
Tuesday: The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
Tweetie Pie (1947)
The Bear's Tale (1940)
Wednesday: Daffy Duck and Egghead (1938)
Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941)
Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
Thursday: A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)
A Hick, a Slick and a Chick (1948)
Hold the Lion, Please (1942)
Friday: Hollywood Daffy (1946)
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
Kitty Kornered (1946)
20.30 The Flintstones
Monday: Foxy Grandma (1963)
Fred tries to find a maid so that Wilma doesn't have to do household chores. This turns out to be easier said than done.
Tuesday: Fred's New Job (1963)
Fred wants to ask his boss for a raise and Barney has an idea to get it. However, instead of getting a raise, Fred gets fired.
Wednesday: The Blessed Event (1963)
According to the doctor, any day now, the blessed event can take place. Fred and Barney undertake a rehearsal.
Thursday: Ventriloquist Barney (1963)
Barney asks Fred to go to a wrestling game with him. Fred wants to go, but he promised Wilma to babysit Pebbles.
Friday: The Big Move (1963)
Thinking Barney is a bad influence on Pebbles, Fred decides the Flintstones should move to a more elite neighborhood.
21.00 The Jetsons
Monday: Las Venus (1962)
Lovebirds George and Jane go on a second honeymoon.
Tuesday: Jane's Driving Lesson (1963)
Jane's driving lessons turn dangerous when she gets involved with a gangster.
Wednesday: G.I. Jetson (1963)
George gets drafted into the U.S. Space Guard Reserves at Camp Nebula for two weeks. But George is dismayed to find Mr. Spacely to be his commanding officer!
Thursday: Miss Solar System (1963)
Jane signs up for a beauty pageant and is shocked to find that her husband is one of the judges.
Friday: Private Property (1963)
George discovers that the building of one of their competitors was built six inches onto Mr. Spacely's land.


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Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 429: Three From Cinequest!
While watching dozens of great independent films, we were able to sit down with the crews and casts of Love is All You Need? – a powerful message about bullying and acceptance with an "alternate world" twist, The Phoenix Incident, a UFO invasion story that you probably saw on the news, and finally Friends Effing Friends Effing Friends – a modern comedy drama about relationships between circles of friends in modern society.


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"Food Stamps" is helping as far as food but there are other needs like prescriptions, hygiene and clothes that I cannot afford so I have created a Donate page on this site.
I'm applying for as many as 15 jobs a day.
I am not above begging.
Getting desperate for cash
Well, I am out of unemployment insurance.
"Food Stamps" is helping as far as food but there are other needs like prescriptions, hygiene and clothes that I cannot afford so I have created a Donate page on this site.
I'm applying for as many as 15 jobs a day.
I am not above begging.
Aint this a switch.... NO!
You all know what it's like to call the customer support number and get some guy in India "hello my name is um Bruce, I am in some place in the middle of asome place called america near you please tell me how I may assist you I am sorry repeat that your scrotum itches is that correct you rub lotion on it is that correct fuck you in the ear is tat correct you hope I die of cancer of the penis is that correct Thank you for calling please fill out the customer survey hello hello."
Well I am at the other end. They call me!
Me: Thank you for calli....
"hellow my name is sahid mumblemumblereallyfast I have a problem with my laptop that has been going on for 1 minute and I cannot do my my work with out it working I need it working right now it was working fine a minute ago and it won't load the porn site I am not supposed to be looking at anyway this is my company computer and I cannot do my work with out an internet connection are you there why havent you fixed the problem please did you say something what did you say I am sorryI cannot understand your accent are you there have you fixed the problem why do I have to wait 4 more minutes for the problem to be fixed I need it fixed now hello hello have we lost the connection I have waited 47 months on hold to speak to the help desk so you must help me now..."
Me: Yes sir, im sorry [asshole. If you would shut the fuck up I could answer a question now and then] for the delay. How may I [bend over for] help you?
We may send you a satisfaction survey your feedback would please our management [but I'd rather you sove it up you're ass].
dang, new schedule
Nuts! No more to the door service at work. The bus will be dropping me off and picking me up 10 minutes walk from work starting Saturday. An umbrella will be standard kit from now on and DEET! damned skeeters!
There is an enjoyable bit to the walk; the hawk likes to circle close behind me scolding me for walking through its hunting grounds and scaring away the ground hogs.
On the days the hawk isn't paying attention the ground hogs sit up on their haunches and watch me walk by. I guess good eye site isn't the same as "smrts."
Evoying the view
The cities along the front range are actually on the plains. So Denver and Boulder are not in the mountains as may people imagine. But the mountains do start litterally across the street in many casses.
When I take my lunch on the east side of the buildings here on the IBM campus I get a fantastic view of the mountains. Starting with the foothills I can see 4 or 5 peaks back toward the horizon. Every day, depending on the weather and the time, the hills look noticably different but always amazing. Couple that with the fuzzy bunnies living on campus, the dove calls and the hawks circling 20 feet over my head complaining loudly about me scaring off scaring off the ground hogs; it is a beautiful place to work.
Almost worth the commute.
Ok so this is a bit embarrassing. It seems I have lost about 15lbs over the last year or so. Makes no sense to me since I haven't been as active in my mind.
Anyway, I took the bus to IBM for my orientation. The plant is located in a rural area populated with prairie dogs and raptors. There are no sidewalks. As I stepped of the regional bus (think greyhound) I had an extra long step to the ground. It stretched my torso a bit and my skirt fell. Remind me to wear a belt from now on. Time to buy dresses and new skirts. Damn. Dress code vs. Bank balance.
If it wasn't IBM I wouldn't commute 2 hours each way or run around scrounging new certified copies of all my legal history.
I got a job!
I'm employed! I'll start in a week or two. I'll be working at IBM in Boulder, Colorado doing contract in-house help desk. In other words when a Best Buy store has issues with their computers or computer system they call me at IBM. No public so I will be able to speak directly to, know their system intimately and see their screen on my terminal.
Ouch! It's HOT!
100 degrees F in the shade today.
Of course my sensor is on a black steel support for the external stairs.
I checked on the bus routes to the job fair, compared times to the bike routes. The bike routes estimated 20 minutes savings over the bus so Stupid Me! I rode. I am literally a red neck now. And my thinning hair means I got burned on my scalp too. I thought I would faint before I made the last few blocks to my apartment. I almost did twice.
I am beginning to hate job fairs. The list of companies was twice as long as the companies represented there and half of those were schools looking for students. The companies looking for employees all had the same response, "Go online and fill out the application there."
Well wtf is the point of hauling my butt halfway across the city for that? And anyway I already had for some of them. I have been out of a job for over a year, ya know.
One good point is I got a new water bottle for my bicycle from the insurance company, who told me to go apply at a local office.
Julie Van_Dyck
June 2017 is my 60th birthday. Where did the time go?
My Facebook page is a lot more up to date and inclusive. Follow the link above.
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Be wary of emails and texts that appear to be from your bank if they ask for security information, to call a number or to follow a link.
If the email or text is a scam the phone number they ask you to call may be a premium rate number that goes directly through to them. If they ask you to follow a link then this will not go to your bank's website but to a fraud website that may still look very similar.
Watch Barclays Bank Plc's phishing scams video for more information about staying safe online:
- Never share personal or security information on a website you've reached via a link in an email or text. Genuine emails and text from your bank will not include a link that takes you straight to the Online Banking log-in page
- Never email or text you asking you to verify your account or security details
- Never email, text your card details, PINs or passwords
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The historic James Macbeth House, c. 1846, and charming c. 1790 carriage house are being offered together for the first time in decades. Known as one of Charleston's finest examples of Greek Revival architecture, the exquisite South of Broad main residence embodies Southern living and hospitality at its finest. Steps from the Battery, and in walking distance to all Charleston has to offer, this residence is perfectly located. Having a stately presence on the street, one is drawn to this beautiful home and to the Greek Key etched front door. Once inside you will be entranced with the beautiful mahogany staircase which leads to the main living areas. You will be stunned by the soaring ceilings, grand proportions, heart pine floors,
wonderfully wide piazza, floor to ceiling windows, marble mantles, moldings and etchings steeped in history. You can imagine the parties and life stories that took place in these rooms, as well as sitting on the piazza enjoying the southern breezes and view of the Ashley River. Fortunately, the home has been updated and beautifully maintained for modern day living. The eat in kitchen boasts the finest appliances with abundant storage, finished off with a butler's pantry and wet bar. There are a total of 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths over 6000 sq ft. The ground floor is currently being used as additional living space consisting of family room, wine cellar, laundry room, bathroom and dining area. This could easily be converted to a mother in law suite as it has its own entrance and meter. The new bluestone courtyard, complete with outdoor kitchen, with 2 grills, ice maker and firepit is a private, urban oasis perfect for entertaining. Set back on the property , with its own secret garden sits the 2300 sq ft Carriage House , c. 1790, not only exudes and abundance of charm, but allows for a ton of flexibly. As a guest house or a rental property the possibilities abound. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 4 fireplace, updated kitchen, parking and garden is an oasis all of its own.
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In this amazing journey you will visit most well known places of central and eastern Crete. We will start our morning by visiting the Minoan Palace of Knossos.
Every Sunday.
There, you will learn the history of this legendary place, the myths and mysteries of Knossos and of the Minoans.
We continue east to visit one of the oldest caves of Crete, Dikteon Andron (cave of Zeus), where in accordance to the legends, God Zeus was born. Next stop will be at a pottery workshop, where you will be able to try your skills in this old profession. Lunch will be in a traditional tavern on Lassithi high plain.
On our way back there will be one last stop at "Holy Monastery of Kera Kardiotissa" then we will take you to your hotels before dinner time.
07:30- 19:30
35 €
Early booking 30 €
Children half price.
Extras 15 € for Palace (children free), 6 € cave (children free), 2 € Monastery (children free)


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GOP convention session to be themed "We Built This!"
The GOP is turning what some see as a presidential slight aimed at business owners and entrepreneurs into a theme for a night of the Republican National Convention next week, titling Tuesday night's session "We Built This!"
Speeches from a trio of swing-state headliners will be on the agenda as Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio and Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va. take the convention stage.
An RNC official tells FOX News Tuesday's schedule also includes a speech by Sher Valenzeula, a Latina candidate for Lieutenant Governor in Delaware. Her campaign website notes she and her husband started an upholstery business that makes padding for baseball umpires and military vests worn by members of the Israeli military.
The theme and list of speakers are meant to directly contrast comments President Obama made in Roanoke, Virginia last month. Describing what he noted as the federal government's role in helping the private sector, the president pointed to infrastructure and education.
"Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive," the president said of business owners. "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Opponents have seized on the "you didn't build that" line in television ads, web videos, stump speeches and interviews, while the Obama campaign says the president meant business owners didn't build roads and schools.
Despite that claim, the Romney camp has continued to bash the remarks as indicative of a president who is out of touch with job creators. Romney's surrogates will double down on the attack next Tuesday in Tampa.
FOX News' Carl Cameron contributed to this report.


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As qualified conservation architects (RIAI Grade II), we painstakingly restored our our georgian house to the highest conservation standards, giving us intimate knowledge of the problems which face owners of historic properties and how best to resolve them.
Drake|Hourigan have worked on a wide variety of protected structures including public buildings such as Limerick City Gallery of Art, historic houses Mona Lodge and Curraghbridge House, gate lodges and entrance gates.
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The proposed work will have due regard to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Guidelines and the International Charters ie. ICOMOS.
The general approach will be to retain and repair authentic architectural structure and fabric.
Each building inevitably presents its own set of individual requirements in terms of repairs and future use, but a set of fundamental principles will nevertheless apply which will underlie the approaches to the project and the manner in which it is undertaken.
Respect for the existing integrity of the building is always a priority, and the works must always be carried out with full cognisance of this.
All existing fabric of architectural and/or historical value which is sound is to be fully protected during the works. The approach to treatment of such fabric will place an emphasis on repair, and replacement only of decayed or missing parts, rather than outright replacement.
Any addition whether construction or repair, must not damage existing fabric or features, and must not obliterate any existing authentic work.
In as far as possible, repairs will take place in situ. Materials used will be compatible with, and in as far as possible, match those existing. Work should be carried out using methods and materials which are compatible with the element or fabric being repaired.
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