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Welcome to NIRI Silicon Valley's 2018-2019 Season!
On behalf of the entire NIRI Silicon Valley (NIRI SV) Board, we all look forward to bringing you another outstanding program year, building on the success of last season in which we brought back our IR Roundtables and IR Fundamentals Workshop; hosted our popular and well-attended Spring Seminar, the largest IR educational event on the West Coast; and delivered another outstanding series of our well-regarded educational luncheons. We also conducted the first-ever Bay Area IR Compensation survey in conjunction with NIRI San Francisco to help members know how they stack up versus others in the Bay Area.
This season we are focused on "cutting through the noise" to help our members to differentiate their companies and build their own professional brands. Along these lines, first up in our educational luncheon series is an IR Career Panel that takes place, October 5th. If you haven't registered and would like to hear from fellow IR practitioners how they are shaping their respective IR paths, click here to register, as we would love to see you there!
New in 2018 – 2019
New this season are Senior IRO Events and Networking Happy Hours to provide our members with additional opportunities to learn from and connect with each other. We hosted our first Senior IRO luncheon in August and are planning the second for January 2019. We are also creating a Senior IRO online group. If you're interested in joining, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Look for the first Networking Happy Hour in early December where your colleagues will gather to share IR expertise, swap IR war stories, and drink a few libations. We are planning more such events in 2019.
"Cutting through the noise" will also translate to our communications with members, particularly making it easier to get information and confirmation surrounding our events. To that end, we plan to implement new targeted methods of simple communication, leveraging technologies like SMS and In-App notifications for our NIRI SV App. If you don't have the NIRI SV App yet, please download it from your respective App Store by searching "NIRI SV" where you will see this option below.
We have a broad range of talented investor relations professionals in Silicon Valley – from corporate investor relations officers, to strategic investor relations counselors, to innovative vendors. As many of us live in Silicon Valley and work in San Francisco, or vice versa, we created the Northern California chapter which provides membership to both NIRI Silicon Valley and NIRI San Francisco. Recently the Northern California chapter reached 100 members and continues to grow as people take advantage of both chapters' discounted (or free) events and benefits. Questions or suggestions regarding Silicon Valley or Northern California chapters? Please email email@example.com.
Want to learn more about your fellow members? Click HERE for a Membership Breakdown presentation.
2018 – 2019 Calendar
"Good perspectives, good questions and engagement from the audience"
"Loved the transparency the speakers provided and open dialogue"
"Great turnout - chapter is always ahead of the curve on topics"
That's some of the feedback we've heard on our recent NIRI SV events and we believe our upcoming season of events will be equally valuable and engaging for our members. If you'd like to add an event to your calendar, just click on the date and a calendar invite will automatically appear. We'd love to see you there.
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IRO Career Paths
Crisis Communications: How to Avert, Survive and Thrive
Holiday Party
IRO Roundtables (Date To Be Set)
Automating IR: Tools to Increase Efficiency
Spring Seminar
Inside the Mind of the Buy Side
Strategies to Target the Right Investor
Golf Scramble and Annual Meeting/Member Appreciation (TBC)
Wrapping up, I'd like to thank the NIRI SV Board. I'm on year seven working with the Board and am continually impressed with the knowledge, openness, and camaraderie of my fellow Board members. And, the laughs! Planting a seed here too, as there will be a couple open spots available for the upcoming 2019 – 2020 season…if you're interested in bringing your talents to the chapter and getting to know more of your fellow chapter members, please don't hesitate to reach out to one of us to learn more.
On behalf of myself and the entire NIRI SV Board, I'd like to thank all of our members for their support and engagement and for making NIRI Silicon Valley such a vibrant, vital chapter. We are all looking forward to a fantastic 2018 – 2019 season!
Moriah Shilton
President, NIRI Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Chapter – National Investor Relations Institute
PO Box 5111
Belmont, CA 94002-5111


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This year has been so rewarding, and it has left me more grateful than ever. It has been challenging in ways I never expected, however, it has changed me for the better.
Looking back on 2017 was so much fun as everything has been documented here on the blog! It's amazing how much you can accomplish in just one year. So without further ado, here are my top five moments throughout my entire year, along with the top posts of everything throughout the blog below!!
As always this is my favorite type of post to write up. This year I really explored some new topics, and I loved the response from you all!!
Here were the top three...
Photo styling will forever be my favorite part of blogging, and this year under the beauty category of the blog I can see this area shine the most.
Surprisingly I have a round up of around 6 posts for the year including hair, tutorials, and even makeup! So happy about this improvement you guys.
Back in the summer and during Thanksgiving weekend my family drove up to the Central Valley! Now I just simply wish we lived there, haha. The beaches there are crystal clear and beautiful with all it's cliffs and rocks.
Okay, here were the top posts everyone loved from my adventures this year...
Again I rocked at blogging in this category, haha. Can you tell my theme for 2017? I enjoyed blogging!!
I had the opportunity to explore so many new coffee shops, share more about who I am, home decor tips, start a Sunday reading series, keep up with the book club, & post constant life lately's.
So many outfits to chose from this year too! Yay! I put a lot of my outfits under the lifestyle category, but they count as both, haha!
Here are my top 5...

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Making grantmakers' data useful
Last year, a British foundation called Nesta Trust gave out five grants to support the development of new approaches to understanding the smaller and informal part of the nonprofit sector. It was called "Data Driven Methods for Mapping 'Below the Radar' Activity in the 'Social Economy'". One of the papers was made available last week: Mining the grant-makers - A data driven method for identifying below the radar organisations in data released by grant-makers
Below the radar organisations are small, unregistered, but form a vital part of communities across the country. The nature of below the radar organisations means they are difficult to quantify and measure, and so the assessment of them in NCVO's Civil Society Almanac series has always been a partial one. [...] [Existing a]pproaches to measuring below the radar activity [...] are labour intensive, and without significant resources could not produce a UK-wide dataset for data analysis.
Our approach, outlined in this paper, aims to use data from grant-making bodies (both statutory and private) to identify below the radar organisations. By matching data about who these grant-making organisations fund with data on registered organisations, we hope to identify the remainder as below the radar. This approach, we believe, will enable us to pick up organisations outside the sphere of known, registered organisations.
That approach is similar to the one we developed last year for a report for the Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples. It was Measuring the Circle: Emerging Trends in Philanthropy for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities in Canada. Basically, we took advantage of our world-beating charity tax data to identify funders of aboriginal causes by coming up with a group of organizations working on those issues and then identifying funders who had funded multiple organizations. Those organizations were then contacted to gather further information. This approach is very different from the regular "mapping" exercises conducted manually. While they both have advantages, and further research does need to be done, these new approaches can cover much larger areas and cost much less. Our tool "LANDSCAPE" also demonstrates that.
The "Below the radar" report made one recommendation that we've been attempting to impress upon the grantmakers that we have been advising:
The 360 Giving programme is providing useful data which is of value and offers insights that cannot be found elsewhere. We would encourage the continuation of that programme, and that both greater use of the data and improvements to the quality of data imported will make it a more useful resource. Of particular use would be the inclusion of charity numbers and company numbers which would remove the need for an imperfect matching process. [emphasis added]
Grant data could easily be made much more usable if it included the business number of the recipient. As the writers of the report made clear, that would allow for easier analysis and for linking to external data. The alternative is to match grants based on the name of the recipient. This is cumbersome and prone to errors, since an organization can be referred to by a variety of similar names and spellings.
We hope that large funders of the Canadian nonprofit sector are listening - especially the federal Treasury Department, which sets guidelines for the very comprehensive, very unique, and potentially very valuable data set about all of the government's grants and contributions (example).


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Humans are such right now. Even if given access to a wiring diagram of all the trillions of synapses in your brain, to your own "source code," you would find reading through the first few billion pages equivalent to take more than a little time, let alone understanding and rewriting all of it for arbitrarily high orders-of-magnitude self-modification and self-improvement.Zixinus wrote:Q: Can you create a partial AGI? An AI that can do quite a large number of tasks, can adept and improvise, create new programming but only able to partially modify itself and essentially be an around or even beyond human intelligence?
For example, an AI that can expand its mental toolset and its sub agent-system visual processing AI, but unable to optimize its own intelligence (of course it is still able to backup its memories and learn how to built other AIs (even AGIs) if it learns to?)?
Frankly, making an early AI not able to solo self-modify itself rapidly and indefinitely above its initial intelligence would seem a relatively easy safeguard, if combined with running only on a specialized type of supercomputer hardware, versus having an AI so radically reprogramming itself as for unconstrained orders-of-magnitude self-improvement (while being supposed to never risk accidentally making a far more subtle self-change eliminating friendliness). Some software optimization could be done by third-party AI programs, which might not even be sapient or general AIs, like a psych patient not doing virtual neurosurgery on his own brain but receiving it from someone else.


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Buying a home can seem like a very scary thing. It is one of the biggest investments you'll make in your life, but it doesn't have to be scary to jump in the water when you're prepared. Predictions from market experts say that inventory is on the rise, and buyers are more eager and ready. Now's the time!
Interest rates are on the rise, which is a good reason to go ahead and make your move on that house you've been eyeing. Realtor.com proposes that interest rates will hit 5% at the end of the year. The longer you wait to buy, the higher rates will go. Home prices are also climbing up, but not so much that you should worry. In the Triangle Market where homes are flying off the market quickly, new construction is at the perfect price point, for now. It's predicted that prices will increase, but not as rapidly as they have recently.
The market has in past years experienced an inventory shortage, but 2018 is the year for that to change. Predictions expect that inventory will rise, and new home construction will keep expanding. Coming back from the recession means more availability of homes for first time buyers, so builders can offer a lower price point.


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Vijayakumar S. P., David P. (2006) Taxonomy, natural history, and distribution of the snakes of the Nicobar Islands (India), based on new materials and with an emphasis on endemic species. Russian Journal of Herpetology Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 11 – 40
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Government & Politics
Lobbyist gift ban mulled after audit of Missouri Senate
Ending the free flow of lobbyist gifts to Missouri lawmakers sat atop the legislative agenda heading into the 2016 session. And for a while, it looked destined for success.
The Missouri House passed a gift ban just three weeks into the 2016 session, sending it to the Senate with four months to hammer out the details.
In the end, many think it never really stood a chance. The bill ultimately died on the Senate floor, watered down and mired in amendments.
Now the Senate is facing fresh scrutiny, thanks to a report by Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway that criticized a bank account operated by the Senate outside the state treasury for the purpose of soliciting contributions from lobbyists to pay for meals for senators and staff.
The bank account is unconstitutional, Galloway's office said, and it "gives the appearance of, and may result in, a conflict of interest."
That critique is almost identical to a similar audit prepared in 2013 by then-Auditor Tom Schweich, a Republican.
Senate leaders responded by saying they had no choice but to keep the bank account open. How else, they argued, will they pay for meals when the Senate works late?
Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard, a Joplin Republican, issued a statement focusing on the positive aspects of the audit and noting that "we will continue to seek any recommendations that can help us operate more efficiently and be worthy of the trust Missourians have placed on us."
But to many observers — both Republicans and Democrats — the bank account is just part of a bigger issue within the Missouri General Assembly.
"What's sad is it's not even shocking," said Laura Swinford, executive director of the liberal advocacy group Progress Missouri. "It's symptomatic of what's going on in Jefferson City right now. We have a culture in Jefferson City where our legislature feels entitled to these things."
Lawmakers and their staff collectively accept around $900,000 a year in lobbyist-provided meals, booze, trips and event tickets, although the total has dipped in recent years.
Ryan Johnson, president of the conservative nonprofit Missouri Alliance for Freedom, downplayed the significance of the lobbyist-funded bank account. But he said lawmakers should have long ago put an end to the free flow of lobbyist gifts.
"Late night pizza for underpaid, overworked Senate staff who often work past midnight does not buy their bosses' votes," Johnson said. "That said, ending the practice of lobbyist gifts should have happened this year and it remains one of (Missouri Alliance for Freedom's) top priorities for next session."
Johnson said the fact that a lobbyist gift ban was blocked in the Senate demonstrates some lawmakers "picked the perks of office instead of their constituents' interests."
"If they do not change their minds, then conservatives and their constituents should start looking for alternatives," he said. "We change culture by changing the people who are there. Elections will give us that opportunity. Ultimately, real ethics reform happens when we elect ethical people."
Galloway's audit found that contributions to an outside bank account from lobbyists totaled $6,500 from 2013 to 2015. Schweich's previous audit found the Senate spent $8,689 in lobbyist-raised funds in 2011 for a Senate retirement dinner and retirement gifts.
State legislators receive $104 each day the legislature is in session for miscellaneous costs such as food and lodging.
According to a review by The Star of documents filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission, an additional $6,000 was deposited in the account during the 2016 legislative session.
The biggest contributor was the Missouri Association of Realtors, which donated $4,000 to the fund.
Andy Blunt, a registered lobbyist and son of U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, donated $1,500 to the fund on behalf of the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association and the Missouri Cable Telecommunications Association.
The Missouri Energy Development Association chipped in $500.
"This is exactly the type of cronyism and corruption that Eric will eliminate as governor," said Austin Chambers, campaign manager for Eric Greitens, the Republican nominee for governor.
Greitens, a former Navy SEAL who has never run for political office before, has focused his campaign on ending a "culture of political corruption in Jefferson City." That includes a total ban on lobbyist gifts to lawmakers and their staff.
Chambers said the Democratic nominee, Chris Koster, has ignored the problem and "has contributed to it for decades."
Koster's spokesman, David Turner, said the Democratic nominee has called for "significant reforms since 2014, such as lowering the 48-hour reporting requirement, banning lobbyist gifts, and new disclosures for 501(c)(4) organizations. In his campaign, he's implemented the strictest conflict-of-interest policy in the country."
He's hopeful, Turner said, the legislature will take action when the new session begins in January.
At the close of the 2016 session, House Speaker Todd Richardson vowed that a lobbyist gift ban would be the first bill introduced in 2017. State Rep. Justin Alferman, a Gasconade County Republican who sponsored the 2016 bill, said legislators "shouldn't be receiving gifts in the first place."
"So we're trying to make sure that we alleviate some of the undue influence that lobbyists have on legislators in Jefferson City," he said.
Opponents of a gift ban said it would simply push the practice underground, making it impossible to track who is getting what from whom. Others said it wouldn't represent real reform as long as elected officials can still accept unlimited campaign contributions.
Those arguments, Swinford said, just don't hold water.
"Every time ethics reform comes up, critics say, 'Oh, they'll just figure out another way to do it,' " she said. "Well, make them figure out a way. Try to put some reforms in place, and if folks figure out a way around them, figure out a way to reform the law again."
Rep. Kevin Engler, a Farmington Republican who previously served in the Missouri Senate, said in a recent radio interview that compared to the past, legislative ethics are much improved already.
"They call it a food desert now, because there used to be food everyplace," Engler said. "That's not the way it is now."
Jason Hancock: 573-634-3565, @J_Hancock


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Orbital will feature three levels of achievement that student teams self-select. Prospective teams need to indicate their preferred level of achievement when they express their interest in the programme. The level for each team will be finalized shortly after the workshop/hackathon session, and students will be notified of the outcome.
Восто́к (Vostok) (Easy/Beginner) – Attend at least 12 hours of workshops, complete a basic web application using MeteorJS. Complete the weekly check-ins and monthly peer-grading exercises. Participate in the end of summer showcase. Must score a minimum of 2 stars on feedback given to other teams and on own peer-graded project. Must show evidence of development progress in all three months of the programme.
(Восто́к was name of the series of spaceflight program started by the Soviet Union which was the first to successfully launch a human, Yuri Gagarin, into space, and return him safely to Earth).
Project Gemini (Intermediate) – Completes the milestones for Vostok, and extends it further, completing at least 4 additional extension milestones. Possible extensions include but are not limited to: social integration, mobile client, iterative usability testing, application-specific feature extensions, multiple / administrative frontends, downloading of user data. Must be active on either Slack or the Mission Control sessions. Must score a minimum of 2 stars on feedback given to other teams. Must score a minimum of 3 stars on own peer-graded project.
(Gemini was the second manned spacecraft programme by the USA. It launched ten missions between 1965-1966. Neil Armstrong cut his chops in Project Gemini before returning in the USA's Project Apollo series of missions.)
Apollo 11 (Difficult/Advanced) – Custom project defined by either the student team or the mentoring staff. Must fulfill requirements of Project Gemini while extending further. Strong evidence of project management, data security, user testing and/or source code control. Must render assistance to other teams, by participating on Slack and in the Mission Control (Where possible) sessions. Must score a minimum of 3 stars on feedback given to other teams Must score a minimum of 4 stars on own peer-graded project.
(Apollo 11 was the first mission by the US NASA agency to land a human on the moon, and safely return him to Earth. The distinction of being the first men on the moon belongs to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.)
The selection of the difficulty level is binding in the case of teams opting to do Apollo 11 with external mentorship; i.e., student teams that elect to do A11 and but do not complete the necessary achievements as judged by the mentoring staff may be deemed to have failed the course. This because mentorship involves industry professionals and/or student mentors (i.e., costs manpower to run).
We do encourage inspired students to try for this highest level of achievement, as this will enhance their programming capabilities and inspire a higher level of confidence. Students who complete Apollo 11 or Project Gemini may opt to continue this line of development in future coursework in the School's set of Entrepreneurship modules.
Important Revisions
2017 – Removed PG as eligible for mentorship. 2016 – Added PG as eligible for mentorship. 2015 – Added NOC credits for PG and above.
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With data centres focusing on ways to reduce operating costs, American Power Conversion (APC) is touting an alternative to power hungry air conditioners, with its recently launched row-based cooling systems.
APC's InRow cooling units promise to provide a best-in-breed data center cooling solutions that are self-contained, integrated cooling enclosures that are ideal for network closet and server room environments. They are designed to keep energy costs down while maintaining efficiencies.
APC said its modular row-oriented architecture provides advantages data centers will appreciate, such as flexibility, speed, scalability, reduced power consumption, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), optimum availability, and increased density.
According to APC, air conditioners are the "second-highest consumer of power in the data centre, next only to the IT equipment." And citing a report by Gartner, the company said row-based cooling is touted as the dominant solution in data centre cooling systems come 2011. The design specifically responds to the cooling capacity of specific rows, enabling a row of racks to run a high-density application while another row runs a different application.
APC said its line of cooling systems offers flexibility to be deployed as a fully contained IT environment or as part of a system. With up to 7kW of cooling capacity, a 600mm wide rack enclosure and front and rear containment options, these cooling systems monitor and actively adjust cooling capacity to ensure proper server inlet temperatures.
Some of APC's row-based cooling solutions, such as the APC Airflow Blanking Panels, enable the containment of hot air while cooling the rack and promote proper airflow within an enclosure by occupying unused rack space.


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This is an ink exclusive to the Fountain Pen Network by Noodler's. This is a deep dark blue black ink that reminds me of the night sky. This is a very wet ink which spells bad news for me. There is some shading that's best seen using the 1.1 stub nib. I love the colour of the Starry Night Blue but I do not enjoy the dry time and the inevitable smudges on the paper. Currently it is out of stock on the Fountain Pen Network store but it might be back in stock very soon. Keep an eye open on the forum.
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The CC Lifestyle
Can you say #SQUADGOALS?
The Cuveitier's Closet is a fashion hub. Owner and Head Stylist La'Vonne Alexis has created a brand that offers stylish, trendy and contemporary pieces via shopthecc.com. Aside from the online boutique, she works as a Fashion Analyst and Manager for SoftMoc Shoes, as Stylist on many productions and photo shoots, and as a Designer. Along for the ride is Parris and Rhoxy who serve as Fashion Contributors and Stylists for the brand.
La'Vonne and The CC Style Team keep you posted with TheCCLifestyle.com - the newly revamped blog that explores fashion, travel and lifestyle experiences locally and abroad. It was lovely working with the girls to create images for the blog! Each of them brought out their personalities as they were glammed up by Dario (MUA) and Vuitton (stylist).
Be sure to follow them! Peep the images below!
Serrrrvvingggg: La'Vonne, Parris & Roxan
Makeup: Dario Sanchez (@muadariosanchez)
Styling: Vuitton Bain (@styledbyvuitton)
Photography: Blair J. Meadows


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The Deluxe belts are the best belt available on the market. They are made from hight quality GI material. They are also thicker and heavier than a standard belt and they have a great look and feel to them.
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Wed 7 November 2018 Victor Goodview - Vincent Turturro
Wed 14 November 2018 Hurry Slowly - Anders Emblem
Wed 21 November 2018 Devil (Maupassant's Le Diable) - Kshitij Sharma
Wed 28 November 2018 Man In Camo - Ethan Minsker
Wed 5 December 2018 The Foundation of Criminal Excellence - Oskars Rupenheits
Wed 12 December 2018 Zelos - Jo-Anne Brechin, Claire J Harris
Wed 19 December 2018 Little Tsunamis (BUFF 2018 Best Documentary - Encore Screening) - Toby Clarkson
Wed 26 December 2018 TERROR NULLIUS (Encore Screening) - Soda_Jerk
41 Charoen Rat Soi 1 (Soi Rong Nam Khaeng), Sathorn
7:00pm Let's Have Lunch - Sirada Tritruengtassana (Thailand)
7:07pm The Intersecting Lines - Mingduan Wang (China)
7:26pm Dream of Blue and Sea - Nuttorn Kungwanklai (Thailand)
7:56pm Still Water - Dagne Gumbreviciute (Lithuania)
8:13pm Still Got the Blues - Pakorn Yooin (Thailand)
7:00pm Nuntius - Jori Hulkkonen & Jimi Tenor (Finland) Live Audio-Visual Performance
8:00pm Tabula Rasa - Anthony Farenwald (United States / New Zealand)
8:11pm Midnight Saliva - Jiratha Pongsura (Thailand)
8:35pm Blessed Days - Valentina Casadei (France)
8:48pm White Paper - Panya Zhu (Thailand)
8:58pm Everyone in Hawaii Has a Sixpack Already - Marvin Hesse (Germany / Spain)
Sukhumvit 105, Khwaeng Bang Na, Khet Bang Na, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10260
(Between Soi Lasalle 31 and 33)
13.662726, 100.617830
Google Maps: Dadfa
BTS to Bearing, Exit 1 and motorcycle taxi to Lasalle 33 or walk to Sukhumvit 105 and take the red truck to Lasalle 33
Sukhumvit 105 - Soi Lasalle 33
There is parking available at the venue
7:00pm NOA - Angel Barroeta (United States)
7:14pm Chaloemkiat - Suphawich Aroonwejkul (Thailand)
7:40pm Malady of us - Tanakit Kitsanayunyong (Thailand)
7:51pm Foster Home - Onpreeya Prasertsuk (Thailand)
8:10pm Divine Darkness - Patrick Gregg (United States)
8:16pm Those Who Can Die - Charlotte Cayeux (France)
8:35pm Unexploded Ordnance - Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (Thailand)
9:02pm — Interval —
9:20pm 1st Day & Next Minute - Sara Koppel (Denmark)
9:23pm TERROR NULLIUS - Soda Jerk (United States/Australia)
10:18pm Scarecrow - Liam Morgan & Top Tarasin (Thailand)
10:28pm Gwen - Candace Wise (Australia)
10:39pm Lost in Abandonment - Parin Intarasorn (Thailand)
10:48pm Upside, Down - Natchanon Vana (Thailand)
11:23pm — End —
7:00pm Romantic Conceptualism - Scot Cotterell (Australia)
7:13pm Under the Current - Supapit Chirattikanon (Thailand)
7:37pm Death of the Sound Man - Sorayos Prapapan (Thailand)
7:53pm Ahong, on the other hand - Supanee Limrojnugool (Thailand)
8:23pm So-Khin - Chaweng Chaiyawan (Thailand)
8:41pm — Interval —
9:00pm Little Tsunamis - Toby Clarkson (United Kingdom)
10:20pm The Foaming Node - Ian Haig (Australia)
11:26pm — End —
Selected moving image 'confessions' curated by Liv_id collective will be screened during the Bangkok Underground Film Festival via an interactive installation exhibited on users' mobile devices/screens.
Narathiwat 22, Sathu Pradit 15
Bangkok Underground Film Festival 2018 is organised by emesis & Jam Cafe, collaborating with Liv_id, and with support from Gallery Ver, Tentacles & VS Service. Bangkok Underground Film Festival is a pavilion of the Bangkok Biennial 2018.
Directed by Dan Goldberg
1 hour 26 minutes
English language with Thai captions
This is the story of one woman's crusade against food waste...
Ronni Kahn used to be a contributor to Australia's annual $20 billion food waste bill when she ran a successful corporate events company producing million-dollar dinners.
Then she realised the absurdity of throwing away perfectly edible food and traded capitalism for social activism in 2004 by founding OzHarvest, a food rescue charity.
Now, she's taking on politicians and big business to expose an inconvenient truth: that four million tonnes of edible food is discarded in Australia every year while up to two million Aussies suffer from food insecurity. And to add insult to injury, this food waste ends up in landfill, harming the environment by creating greenhouse gas emissions.
Filmed over two years and across four continents, 'Food Fighter' follows Ronni's crusade as she partners with the United Nations, rubs shoulders with royalty and Jamie Oliver's juggernaut, rifles through dumpster bins and holds government to account.
From the recent death of her daughter-in law to the very recent birth of her first grandchild, Ronni's personal rollercoaster runs parallel to her meteoric rise as the face of food waste.
Conceding she lacked the "courage" to stay and fight the Apartheid regime in her mother country, 'Food Fighter' also follows Ronni's road to redemption, an inspirational woman bidding to make peace with her past.
In the end, it reveals what sort of individual it takes to effect such profound change globally.
Dan is an award-winning producer and director who began his career in newspapers and magazines, ending up on staff at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin. In his TV career, he has tried to shine the light in dark corners of society, or on social issues he cares deeply about, or simply to give voice to the voiceless.
His TV credits include Bushwhacked! series 1, 2 and 3 for ABC3, which has won multiple awards, including the 2014 Asian Kids TV Show of the Year and two Logie nominations (2015 and 2016); Code of Silence for ABC, which won the 2014 Walkley Award for Best Documentary; and Brilliant Creatures for ABC & BBC, which was nominated for a Logie and an AACTA. He directed Passport To Hope for Foxtel in 2010, Pitch Battle for the ABC in 2014 and the 4-part arts series for Foxtel, The Archibald, in 2017. Food Fighter is his first feature-length documentary.
His journalism has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, The Australian, The Age, The Sun-Herald, The Brisbane Times, The Observer, The New York Forward, The Big Issue and Newsweek Magazine, among others.
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
1 hour 36 minutes
Danish intertitles with English and Thai Captions
'Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy are brought to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent achievements of the silent era.'
The 1928 silent French masterpiece, The Passion of the Joan of Arc will be revisited 90 years later with a contemporary live score by 4 Bangkok based musicians, Kijjaz, Yui Cello, Kota Taki and Baby's Breath. The new experimental score will feature heavy improvisation, with traditional instruments as well as electronics, highlighting Joan's intense internal state.
Directed by Danish Carl Theodor Dreyer featuring Renée Jeanne Falconetti as Joan with her acting widely heralded as one of the most outstanding performances in cinematic history. This film is based completely on the actual transcripts of the trials Joan of Arc had to endure after she was captured.
Beyond the historical context of the well known story of Joan of Arc, the young soldier fighting against an occupying power and her torment at the hands of religious fanatics before being burnt alive at the stake, it is a celebration of faith and the struggle against institutionalised state power. With Joan claiming to have direct spiritual access to the creator, however the religious establishment who interrogate Joan believe only they have monopolistic access to the higher power, of course their legitimacy lies in having this mandate.
Kijjaz - Electronics
Yui Cello - Cello
Kota Taki - Guitar
Baby's Breath - Saxophone
Kijjaz (Kijjasak Triyanond, Kijjaz Monotone) is one of the members of a Thai indie/pop group Monotone Group and the founder of Pollen Sound, his music production team and home recording studio. Currently at Pollen Sound, he works as the music producer, composer, arranger, and also recording/mixing/mastering engineer in his music projects.
Most of his projects are mainly pop music. With monotone group, he produced and co-write the songs in Yai Monotone (Bhurich Yai Sukhumalchandr)'s album "Heavenday Afternoon" which introduces Kijjaz to the wider audiences. Currently, he is producing for artists under his company "Pollen Sound": Singto Numchok and Hers band in which he produces, arranges, and engineers all the songs and also co-writes some of the songs.
Except from these projects, he also has special interests in new music technology, for example, computer music, computer programming for music and sound synthesis, designing sounds with analog synthesizers, and also performed some of his works in experimental music events in Thailand or combine them with some of his pop music production.
Yui-Saowakhon Muangkruan is a cellist based in Nakhonpathom, Thailand. She is known as someone who tells her story through her instrument. The Yui Cello phenomenon, as she explains, takes inspiration from society matters, other's life experiences and her life. The text she composes unfolds like poetry while she cajoles her instrument with decisive strikes and loops, bringing out the multi-layered lyricism. Yui was invited to present her ideas at TEDx in Chiang Mai and participated in the Y2K14 International Looping Festival in Bangkok, Asian Meeting Festival 2015 in Japan, FEN 2015 in Singapore, migration music festival 2017 in Taiwan.collaboration with Koichi Shimizu for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's latest film "Samui Song".
Electric guitarist (musical improvisation)/composer/songwriter. Japanese born in 1969. Learnt classic piano since 1974 for 10 years. Composed music since 1984 and started original songwriting since then. A major debut from Victor Entertainment (Japan), signed an exclusive artist contract in 1998. Solo career from 2003 and performed "Dub drawing space musical improvisation" about 1,500 times all over Japan. Immigrated to Thailand in 2011 and started musical activities from 2013.
Formed 2014 in Bangkok, Baby's Breath is the solo, experimental, free improvisation project of Paponpat Weerawit. Baby's Breath, in floral language means 'purity', translated to music, it means to create melodies, harmonies and rhythms from a pure heart. Inspired by psychedelia and absurdism he expresses emotions and what is hidden inside through melodies, harmonies, rhythms, atmospheres, etc. Baby's Breath enjoys experimenting with different musical instruments including conventional ones like guitar and saxophone as well as traditional Thai instruments such as the khim and pi nai. He has previously performed live with noise rock band Ripper Ray and Mahakunchontrisian and was also the founding member of avante garde, drone, noise outfit Acid Moon, recently Weerawit has also been proactively organising experimental music events in Bangkok bringing together seemingly disparate styles of music through Primitive Synthesis.
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BTS to Bearing, Exit 1 and motorcycle taxi to Lasalle 33 or walk to Sukhumvit 105 and take the red truck to Lasalle 33
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We invite you to find a ministry in which you can serve and be about building right relationships with our neighbors. Newcomers tell us that serving as a volunteer in one of these agencies is a sure way of finding a small community within the parish. It is through sharing these experiences that the heart is touched.
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Pikesville Straight Rye Whisky 6 Year Old Reviewed - Excellent Rye, that Makes an Even Better Bourbon/
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Taste score: 95
Category: Straight Rye, 6 Years Old
Whisky Cabinet Score: ★ ★ ★ ★
Pikesville Straight Rye is celebrated amongst whisky enthusiasts. It's been winning many awards since being released in 2015, including coming in second in Jim Murray's The Whisky Bible for 2016 right behind Crown Royal Rye.
It's a barely legal rye, containing the minimum amount of rye in the recipe (51%). The rest is corn with a dab of malted barley. While technically a rye, it can easily be mistaken for a bourbon. In some ways, it's closer to a great bourbon than a great rye.
Pikesville Straight Rye is a product of Heaven Hill, and similar to Rittenhouse Rye in production. It's released by Heaven Hill as a premium rye, and its priced at the suggested retail price of $50 US. The name comes from an old Maryland distillery that closed before prohibition. Like with most Heaven Hill products, it be difficult to trace the historical brand to its current owners.
I was initially bored with the first sip after a just-opened bottle. That quickly changed, and the whisky started to grow. After some time in the glass and a few more sips, it became clear that this whisky the standard whisky review clichés: complex, balanced, layered; it's all those things. Left sitting in the glass, I quickly became enamored with this rye.
Nose: Alcohol soaked cherries, yeast, some hard candy, wonderful floral rye notes, ginger soda, and black tea.
Palate: Like a layered cake, this has many levels of flavours that hit you all at once. The sweet caramel layer is at the bottom, pushing through dark chocolate, butter, and cinnamon spice. There's a smooth creamy middle layer that separates out the high-spice rye. The rye is beautifully shown; bright, grassy, floral, and spicy. It hangs around beautifully. The finish is stunning, and wonderfully layered with a continuation of those flavors.
*Whisky Cabinet Rating Explained:
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Not recommended
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Good whisky, but not a 'must-have'
★ ★ ☆ ☆ Your great regular rotation whisky that'll come and go
★ ★ ★ ☆ Excellent, a near must-have
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Here's what Shirky himself says about the book:
Here Comes Everybody is about why new social tools matter for society. It is a non-techie book for the general reader (the letters TCP IP appear nowhere in that order). It is also post-utopian (I assume that the coming changes are both good and bad) and written from the point of view I have adopted from my students, namely that the internet is now boring, and the key question is what we are going to do with it.
Yes, as I said: woulda been perfect. Because that is exactly the question of my class, and exactly the question that interests my students. So we have all these cool tools. So what? What can we do that we couldn't do before?
Actually, I think the folks in my class are coming up with some pretty good responses to that question. They're just now working on concept maps to think toward their final projects, and a number of their ideas have me pretty excited.


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President Marcon received today at the Elysee Palace in Paris a delegation consisted of Nadia Murad, UNODC GW ambassador, Abid Shamdeen, Yazda director of Government Affairs, Kerry Propper, Yazda board member and advocate for Genocide victims, Grégoire Théry, Executive Director of Cap international and member of Nadia Team, and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, a founding member of Nadia's Initiative.
Nadia briefed the president on a number of issues, including; her personal story and struggle of thousands of women who fell into ISIS captivity in 2014, the situation of Yazidis and other religious minorities in Iraq, the current crises in Iraq and the security needs of all components of Iraq, the humanitarian situation and the need for de-mining and establishing an international fund to rebuild the areas.
The president affirmed that France attaches great importance to the situation of victims of Yazidis and other ethnic and religious minorities who face persecution in Iraq and Syria.
He affirmed France commitment to the Yazidi cause, accountability of ISIS, and the brave struggle led by Nadia Murad. He also affirmed a commitment to take initiatives, including, de-mining of the Sinjar Region and to provide humanitarian support to facilitate a safe return of Yazidis to their homeland. He indicates that France will take concrete actions with partners in favor of protection of minorities in both Iraq and Syria.


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Tagged: data curation
New video: Robin Rice and John Southall discuss The Data Librarian's Handbook
Five ways to love your data
Guest post by Gillian Oliver, co-author of Digital Curation, 2nd edition
As with any love story with a happy ending, a successful relationship with data will take effort and commitment. Here are five practical ways to ensure the course of true love runs smoothly:
1. Data by design
Unlike human relationships you can specify your ideal characteristics and so make sure you're working from the best possible starting point. It's never too early to begin design, project planning should incorporate awareness of data requirements from the perspectives of the stakeholders involved. If you need convincing, remember that up-front awareness and being proactive will greatly assist in reducing the overall costs involved in data curation. The types of features to think about are likely to include choices relating to open or proprietary file formats, metadata schema and workflows, naming conventions and storage requirements.
2. Learn from others
Learn from others. Don't try to go it alone – there's a wealth of experience out there and much of it is freely accessible to make use of. Here are just two examples of websites which can be mined for practical advice: The Digital Preservation Coalition contains many useful reports, especially the Technology Watch series. The Digital Curation Centre has an astonishing wealth of content, ranging from basic explanations of core definitions to very practical tools and guidance.
3. Don't try to reinvent the wheel
This is further emphasising the point above, which can't be repeated often enough. There are many standards available, such as the Open Archival Information System standard which provides ahigh level conceptual model for digital archives, or the Dublin Core schema for descriptive metadata. These standards have been developed by international and cross-disciplinary communities, and are subject to ongoing review.
4. Don't be a loner, get out and socialise
There are plenty of opportunities to collaborate and work together with people grappling with the same problems which can only enrich your relationship with your data. Sharing your knowledge will help continue to build and grow the worldwide community of practice. Socialising can be face to face, if you're fortunate enough to be able to take advantages of the many conferences, workshops and events that take place around the world, or online. The Open Preservation Foundation provides a central hub for tools, advice and knowledge exchange – particularly useful are the blogs which provide insight into current activities, both successes and failures.
5. Never give up
Good relationships can be established at a much later stage, unappreciated and unloved data need not be rejected if there are signs that there is potential for a fulfilling and positive future. But you will need specialist advice if you need to go down this track. BitCurator provides a gateway to digital forensics tools and methods in the cultural heritage context. Brown Dog is a project that seeks to bring the long tail of data into the light – the focus of their efforts is past and present uncurated data.
So, what are you waiting for? Love your data, starting today!
Gillian Oliver is Associate Professor at Monash University and the co-author of Digital Curation, 2nd edition (Facet 2016) and Records Management and Information Culture (Facet 2014), the co-editor of Engaging with Records and Archives (Facet 2016) and a Co-editor in Chief of the journal Archival Science.
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Data Services and Terminology: Research Data versus Secondary Data
Guest post by Starr Hoffman, editor of Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries.
Similar to the confusion between open access as opposed to open source, the terms research data and secondary data are sometimes confused in the academic library context. A large source of confusion is that the simple term "data" is used interchangeably for both of these concepts.
What is Research Data?
As research data management (RDM) has become a hot topic in higher education due to grant funding requirements, libraries have become involved. Federal grants now require researchers to include data management plans (DMPs) detailing how they will responsibly make taxpayer-funded research data 1) available to the public via open access (for instance, depositing it in a repository) and 2) preserve it for the future. Because there are often gaps in campus infrastructure around RDM and open access, many academic libraries have stepped in to provide guidance with writing data management plans, finding appropriate repositories, and in other good data management practices.
This pertains to original research data–that is, data that is collected by the researcher during the course of their research. Research data may be observational (from sensors, etc), experimental (gene sequences), derived (data or text mining), among other type, and may take a variety of forms, including spreadsheets, codebooks, lab notebooks, diaries, artifacts, scripts, photos, and many others. Data takes many forms not only in different disciplines, but in different methodologies and studies.
Example: For instance, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown performs a series of experiments in which he notes the exact speed at which a DeLorean will perform a time jump (88 MPH). This set of data is original research data.
What is Secondary Data?
Secondary data is usually called simply "data" or "datasets." (For the sake of clarity, I prefer to refer to it as "secondary data.") Unlike research data, secondary data is data that the researcher did not personally gather or produce during the course of their research. It is pre-existing data on which the researcher will perform their own analysis. Secondary data may be used either to perform original analyses or for replication (studies which follow the exact methodology of a previous study, in order to test the reliability of the results; replication may also be performed by following the same methodology but gathering a new set of original research data). Secondary data can also be joined to additional datasets, including datasets from different sources or joining with original research data.
Example: Let's say that Marty McFly makes a copy of Doc Brown's original data and performs a new analysis on it. The new analysis reveals that the DeLorean was only able to time-jump at the speed of 88 MPH due to additional variables (including a power input of 1.21 jigowatts). In this case, the dataset is secondary data.
Reuse of Research Data
Another potential point of confusion is that one researcher's original research data can be another researcher's secondary data. For instance, in the example above, the same dataset is considered original research data for Doc Brown, but is secondary data for Marty McFly.
Data Services: RDM or Secondary Data?
The phrase "data services" can also be confusing, because it may encompass a variety of services. A potential menu of data services could include:
- Assistance locating and/or accessing datasets.
o This might pertain to vendor-provided data collections, consortial collections (such as ICPSR), locally-produced data (in an institutional repository), or with publically-accessible data (such as the U.S. census).
o Because this service specifically focuses on accessing data, it by default pertains to secondary data.
- Data management plan (DMP) assistance.
o Typically only applies to original research data.
- Data curation and/or RDM services.
o These may include education on good RDM practices, assistance depositing data into an institutional repository (IR), assistance (or full-service) creating descriptive or other metadata, and more.
o Typically only provided for original research data. However, if transformative work has been done to a secondary dataset (such as merging with additional datasets or transforming variables), data curation / RDM may be necessary.
- Assistance with data analysis.
o This service is more often provided for students than for faculty, but may include both groups.
o Services may include providing analysis software, software support, methodological support, and/or analytical support.
o May include support for both original research data and secondary data.
You Say "Data Are," I Say "Data Is" …Let's Not Call the Whole Thing Off!
So in the end, what does all this matter? The primary takeaway is to be clear, particularly when communicating about services the library will or won't provide, about specific types of data. In many cases this will be obvious–for instance, "RDM" contains within it the term "research data" and is thus clear. Less clear is when a library department decides to provide "assistance with data." What does this mean? What kind of assistance, and for what kind of data? Is the goal of the service to support good management of original research data? Or is the goal to support the finding and analysis of secondary data that the library has purchased? Or another goal altogether?
Clarity is key both to understanding each other and to clearly communicating emerging services to our researchers.
Starr Hoffman is Head of Planning and Assessment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she assesses many activities, including the library's support for and impact on research. Previously she supported data-intensive research as the Journalism and Digital Resources Librarian at Columbia University in New York. Her research interests include the impact of academic libraries on students and faculty, the role of libraries in higher education and models of effective academic leadership. She is the editor of Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries. When she's not researching, she's taking photographs and travelling the world.
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I saw a copy of A Wild Swan And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham at my library and picked it up. Book summary:
A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away―the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder―are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.
Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.
Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.
To be honest, I wasn't too hopeful after reading the book's blurb. Yet another author trying to shock the audience by making fairy tales dark and perverse-by now the concept is the new cliche, yet publishers (or whoever writes book jacket blurbs) try to pass it off as new.
Yet, I really found myself enjoying the stories. Cunningham doesn't just try to twist fairy tales by throwing in extra adult themes, he seems to really understand not only many fairy tale themes, but human nature. While many of the tales are indeed dark (there is sexual content), there's a bittersweetness about them, and almost a refreshing air of truth to them. Cunningham makes minor changes to the fairy tale plots, but really explores certain traditional components. How did the witch from Hansel and Gretel end up in the forest in a candy house to begin with? What was life like for the twelfth brother who was left with one arm and one wing?
Also, isn't Yuko Shimizu's art provokative yet beautiful? (There are more images I would have liked to add, but they aren't necessarily safe for work...) If you look at the cover art at the top, not only are the words formed out of braided hair, but if you look at the background, there's an image of a swan there.


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Robert J. Shiller is one of the most prominent American economists and is one of the 100 most prominent economists in the world.
Shiller recently confirmed two points that alternative financial writers have been making for years:
(1) Mainstream economists don't pay any attention to bubbles – even though bubbles always burst, causing recessions or depressions
( 2) People are in an extend-and-pretend environment, trying to paper over the severity of economic problems and kick the can down the road
At the Buttonwood economics conference a couple of days ago, Shiller said:
"Look up 'bubble' in an economic textbook and it's not there." (Referring to the shortcomings of the traditional economic curriculum.).
People "are living in a 'pretend-and-extend' environment, waiting for the economy to recover." (Referring to the precarious state of the commercial real estate market and the wave of resets coming due between 2011 and 2013.)
While criticism of American economists' blind spot towards bubbles may be news to Americans, even BIS and the head of the World Bank have previously slammed the Federal Reserve for blowing bubbles and then trying to clean up the mess once they burst.
[Quotes and related parenthetical comments are both courtesy of Michael Panzer, who attended the conference].


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The telescope is a very fine six-inch Cooke refracting telescope. It was originally built in 1899 and has been modified with a modern equatorial mounting featuring a remote controlled guiding system. The Cooke is a first class instrument, and suitable for an urban location where light pollution is an ever increasing problem. We can no longer show visitors anything but the brighter deep sky objects. Nevertheless, under average conditions it gives wonderful views of the Moon and planets and is superb for double stars.Scientific - Astronomy
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I actually had this whole elaborate scheme planned to surprise Ross on the Friday before his birthday to go camping. I had outsiders involved in the scheming, I packed up everything in secret, I had a babysitter planned for Ethan. Well. Ross came home from work early that day, (I had planned on picking him up and taking him to the campsite), and therefore saw more than enough clues on the living room floor (a tent, flashlights, marshmallows, etc.) to give it all away. Fortunately we had a good time anyway, and the outsiders involved became a part of the party.
This was a gift and I thought,
"what on earth are we going to use this for?"
well it turned out to be quite handy:
The next day we used the tickets my parents gave us to the K-State game! It was a lot of fun. But K-State lost pretty bad. Which is why we look so sad.
Then for his actual birthday I gave him some presents and we had dinner and cake with my family. The cake was Carrot and Ross's mom gave it to him a week prior so he could save it for his birthday. It was delicious.
Okay, about getting presents for Ross. He is the WORST!! I know pretty much all guys are hard to buy presents for, but Ross is among the top I think. He is way cheap, err... frugal. So he doesn't want me to spend any money on him, unless it's a good deal. Well, I NEVER find good deals, so that was basically out of the question. He wants something practical. Well, I guess that's not too hard, but then we go back to the 'only if it's a good deal!' thing... He doesn't really have any hobbies right now, because of work and school... it's pretty tough. But, I came up with something pretty good I think. He works at a bank, which means he must wear a shirt and tie every day. Well my poor Ross (bless his heart) can't really match a darn thing. He's always coming in and waking me up and asking if this tie goes with these pants, and do they both go with this shirt? So I made him a chart. This is one page of four.
Phew that was long! Sorry. My hubby is 25 years old! He doesn't look a day over 18 though, does he? I know, I know. I don't either.


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This is kind of an off-the-wall blog post, but since February 1st is tomorrow, I thought I'd write it and see if anyone else reading this blog does the "rabbits" thing.
Here's the deal. If the first thing out of your mouth on the first day of the month is "Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits", you'll have good luck for the upcoming month. I'm not sure when I started doing this. I don't think my mom taught me, but somewhere along the line, I heard about it and did it and taught my little sister, Lin, to do it as well. Here we are 50+ years later and we still do it. In fact, we compete to see who will be the first to remember to say it on the first of every month. At present, I have a leg-up since the first of each month currently arrives here in Durban earlier than it does in Boston. Big sister/dateline advantage!
I always wondered if other people did this, too. When I was in university, some of my fellow students were rabbit fans. I met some first-of-the-month rabbit-ers during my working years and I've even met a few yachties that participate in this odd practice, despite the fact that rabbits are considered bad luck on a boat.
I was interested in the origins of the "rabbits" superstition and was surprised (though not really) that Wikipedia had an article on it and there were several more articles as well. Lots of people do this, evidently. "Even Mr. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, has confessed to a friend that he says 'Rabbits' on the first of every month—and, what is more, he would not think of omitting the utterance on any account." – The Nottingham Evening Post. 27 November 1935
Though the origins of the practice aren't clear, there's been reference to it in literature since at least 1909. There are variations on this theme, but basically it's all rabbit-oriented. Perhaps because some consider rabbits to be good luck … like a lucky rabbit's foot?
The White Rabbit Theory (really?) postulates that it might be as old as William I. An article in Yankee magazine mentions possible 13th century British origins. Even NPR did a piece on the rabbit tradition. I'm feeling like I'm in good company.
I'm not really sure I've had good luck each month whenever I've remembered to say it, but I haven't had bad luck either and I hate to tempt fate. So … if you're a "rabbits, rabbits, rabbits" advocate, let me know. If not, tomorrow's the first of the month, give it a try.


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Swedish government fund blacklists Agrium over Sahara imports
A Swedish fund today announced it has excluded the Canadian company Agrium from its portfolios due to "violations of human rights through imports of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara".
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The Seventh AP Fund, managed by the Swedish government, invests in around 2.600 companies globally. That said, approximately 50 of them have been excluded from the investment fund as they "fail to live up the minimum standards of respect of human rights, environment and anti-corruption".
The fund published today 15 December 2014, a revised
list of companies excluded from its portfolio.
Among them are, for the first time, Agrium.
Agrium started the controversial imports from the occupied territory in 2013. See more about that imports in the June 2014 report
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Did someone say vacay? There's nothing better than a relaxing holiday, and cruises are the best way to escape on the ultimate trip of a lifetime. Unfortunately, cruises can be exxy, especially when they include extras like food and booze. Thankfully though, cost isn't an issue here, where you have the chance to win a cruise and sail away on the holiday you've always dreamed of having without spending a penny.
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I get asked all the time about my locations and how I pick them. I have clients who worry so much about that 'perfect' spot and afraid it just isn't good enough.
Well I am here to show you with the help of my little girl just how using your very own neighborhood can make the perfect session for you.
You see after I had to take one of my families from last week (Link Here) and switch things up. We had to move her session to a location very close to home, like walking distance, due to the crazy weather… I found myself inspired to tell you our clients just how to look for the beauty around you.
So this week I grabbed my little beauty and walked around our very own home… Looking for things to use for a photo shoot. (NOTE: As you will see… My little beauty wanted to wear some pink and her cowgirl boots. So since she was Mommies helper… I let her have at it. My little fashionista.)
While scouting our neighborhood we found a little water way with all kinds of sunflowers growing. Here was the start to our first session. From there we found our baseball field and the fence next to it. The way the sun was shinning through was just beautiful.
With these images we want to show you that you don't have to have perfect, big, or over done area to get the images and look you want. Just by keeping your eyes open you can find the perfect place.
Look for nature: The perfect way to make an everyday session look unique is by using the life around you.
Good light: Make sure to shoot in the early hours, or the evening hours. When the sun is high the lighting and shadows will kill your session. Casting shadows on your face that may make you look awful. As we Ladies understand lighting can be cruel and unforgiving.
The perfect light during the day: Watch your neighborhood as you drive around. Do you notice an area that gives beautiful light at a certain part of the day? Keep track of that!
The golden hour: Photographer don't just use this phrase for the fun of it. IT HAS MEANING! The golden hour is a time of the day (evening mostly) where the sun isn't harsh and can be forgiving to it's subjects. The way the sun will play in images can make for priceless moments and images.
KEEP AWAY: Stay away from shooting to close to fences. UNLESS you see wildlife growing, or the golden light shining though. As you don't want to make it look like you are shooting with your iPhone. Sometimes photographers forget that a fence unless there is texture can become very plan in an image.
Open fields: Photographers LOVE open fields! (NOTE: Please make sure you aren't on private property) Having a good open field can allow for the feeling of love, simplicity, and the ideal look most photographers jump for.
Look for parks: Sometimes playing like a child can help bring back that child-like-love we all have for life, and loved ones. After all who doesn't love a kiss on a swing, or the twirling around with someone you love.
Look for edgy: When you can find that abandoned home and dress up from head-to-toe… Giving your session that stylized shoot feel. Now that's a photographers dream!
HAVE FUN: Most of all! Have fun! Don't worry about your session being in that perfect spot, or look. If you love it… It will shine through your session and images.
AND REMEMBER: By picking your home neighborhood you are placing memories there. You are making your neighborhood more of a home. And after all that's what these sessions are meant to capture… MEMORIES THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME !!!
And just think… You can always tell the story "WHEN" to those you love. And have the images to show them that story of how you met, fell in love, built a family, asked her to marry you, built your home, or just because you adored your life.
So enjoy your session!
Get creative!
Enjoy the simpleness!
Make memories to last a lifetime!


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Ron will be leading an information session at Gateway, where he also teaches 6th grade math and science. We've had several campers from Gateway in the past, and are excited to meet more potential youth leaders.
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A railtour is a special train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not available using timetabled passenger services. The 'unusual' aspect may be the route of the train, the destination, specific sections of railway track (for example, freight-only lines), the locomotive hauling the train, the rolling stock (passenger carriages), or any combination of these. Organisers may own or hire locomotives or rolling stock, or tours may be organised by railway management or other bodies outside the railway fraternity.
Destination tours
A 'destination' railtour is often associated with a special event of railway significance.
Locomotive tours
A 'locomotive' railtour focusses on the type of locomotive hauling the train. This may be a preserved locomotive, a type not usually used for passenger trains, or a type of locomotive which normally works some distance from the chosen route.
Nostalgic tours
One type of railtour which is currently popular is the nostalgic excursion using a preserved train, or sometimes a train hired from a railway operator. Train, branding and route are often chosen as to reflect a common theme, sometimes tracing an aspect of railway history. Railtours are organised both on a commercial basis and as a fund-raising method for railway preservation societies.
Track or route tours
A track or route railtour is focused on travelling over sections of railway track that are not used by scheduled passenger trains.
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HOUSEHOLDERS have just days to make their views count over whether a controversial smoking ban is enforced in every workplace across the region.
The far-reaching public consultation closes on Monday and the results are set to shape Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt's crucial decision on the proposed new law.
Readers can now vote in the Evening Mail poll, which will be passed on to Downing Street, or express their views on the official Department of Health website.
Some kind of smoking ban is set to be put before Parliament in October but Ms Hewitt must now decide between two options.
She will either recommend that smoking is banned in:
* All workplaces and enclosed public places including pubs, social clubs and restaurants.
* In enclosed public places and workplaces, excluding pubs and bars, that don't serve food and private members clubs, which also includes working men's clubs.
Paul Hooper, regional tobacco policy manager, said: "This is a law that will affect the health of everyone in the West Midlands now and for generations to come, it is vital that everyone has their say.
"A law is inevitable, but the details of it are still undecided. Many health lobbies and hospitality firms want a total ban as it will mean a level playing field, but private members clubs want to have the choice and let their own members decide.
"The message the Government wants to get out is that if you smoke around other people, you are also affecting the health of someone else."
The new law, which follows in the footsteps of New York and Ireland, is a complex one and the Department of Health is still working through other fine details such as special arrangements for workplaces considered residential, such as prisons, hotels and residential care homes.
Supporters of a total ban include antismoking group ASH, the British Medical Association, Asthma UK, British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK.
Pro-smoking group Forest is against any law to ban people lighting up.
* Vote in the Evening Mail's poll on the issue of a smoking ban by going to www.icbirmingham/mail


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Bay Area artist Courtney Jacobs received her MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has shown her work in several locations, including the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, FL; 79 New Montgomery Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and Dennis Rae Fine Art in San Francisco, CA. Her works have been purchased by many independent collectors, and she has been published in both "The Source", and "Discover Livermore." She has won several awards, including Best In Show at Abstract Exposure.com.
Courtney is represented by Studio 7 Arts in Pleasanton, CA and Ugallery.com.
My paintings represent a personal language created through the use of color, texture, composition, and action. By pushing, scraping, dripping, and throwing the paint I create a visual history of my own response to these complex, chaotic elements. It is an active process, intermingling various elements (line, spatter, drip, brushstroke, and squiggle) into one final composition.
As I paint I forever seek the balance between negative/positive, lost/found, light/dark, thin/thick. For every "yin", I search for the "yang". I juxtapose great sweeping gestures against calm breathing spaces. Every splatter, gesture, and stroke is planned in terms of how it will affect the overall whole and where it can be mirrored elsewhere. I find this harmony of seemingly contradictory visual ideas both beautiful and exciting.
It's an intuitive process that requires as much looking as painting…perhaps more. This intuitive process taps into the purely visual non-language right brain—a meditative unfolding I liken to "speaking in tongues." Also known as "glossolalia," speaking in tongues is "the vocalizing of fluent speech-like but unintelligible utterances, often as part of a religious practice".
For me the painting process has become a visual equivalent of glossolalia. Instead of vocalizing "fluent unintelligible utterances," I let the paint act as my medium of meditation. The titles have been invented as a part of this process and are meant to be spoken aloud by the viewer.
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Designer: Stiles Designs Price: $14.95 Five Easy Pieces is a practical solution for a study/bedroom and storage, all in one room. It includes plans for a storage cabinet, lower bed & drawers, desk unit, loft bed, dresser with drawers, and a ladder for access to the upper bunk bed. This is a great project for the do-it-yourself carpenter. Hand drawn plans include 15 pages of detailed, illustrated instructions with a materials list for … [Read more...]
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Designer: Stiles Designs Size: 4' x 4' Price: $14.95 Instead of building a separate playhouse for each fantasy situation, try creating one with four different sides. Children can move from playing fireman, to shopkeeper, to magician or puppeteer, to mailman. As well as providing different situations for role-playing, the play cube enables children to exercise other skills, such as math and writing. In the "Store", kids can learn to add up … [Read more...]
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Designer: Stiles Designs Size: 8' Diameter x 10' High Price: $14.95 Imagine walking through the woods and coming across a giant acorn suspended in the trees. Wouldn't your curiosity be aroused - especially when you look more closely and see that it's a small house with windows, and stairs leading up to a small door? Fantasy? Not necessarily. This may not be a job for a novice weekend builder but if you're willing to spend time sawing, … [Read more...]
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Designer: Stiles Designs Size: 7' x 7' Plus Balcony Price: $14.95 This 7 ft. x 7 ft. Kids Treehouse, supported by one tree and two 4x4 posts, features cedar shingles on the walls and roof, screen covered operable windows, and a bucket on a pulley to haul up food and supplies. The L-shaped, wrap-around balcony deck on two sides of the structure adds another 41 square feet to the play area of this charming little tree play house. Plans … [Read more...]
Easy-to-Build Treehouse
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In Progress.. North End Residence 2
Located in a historic district in the North End, the clients sought out to make this multi-unit building into a single family residence. At a glance this project is inconspicuously going under a major rehab. All floor plates within the structure had to be replaced to achieve even ceiling heights amongst the various levels. The goal is to highlight architecture of the past with contemporary amenities to include: new master suite, in-law suite, kids study, open kitchen/living space, and elevator .


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